The Toronto Shooting Stars had a busy week four in Clax as they faced off with the Barrie Blizzard on Sunday and showed their dominance with an 18-10 win. On Monday night the Stars were back in action as they took on the Oshweken Demons. The Demons came into this game at 4-1 while the Stars were 2-1 on the season. In the first quarter of this game both teams…
After suffering a tough overtime loss in Brampton, the Ohsweken Demons have won two straight and are playing like a team possessed. The Demons sit first in the CLax standings and are four points ahead of the Toronto Shooting Stars, a team they face twice this week. The Demons haven’t lost two in a row since early last season and at times have looked unbeatable. As long as Ohsweken doesn’t…
This weekend in CLAX the 1-1 Toronto Shooting Stars took on the 0-1 Barrie Blizzard. Toronto was coming off an overtime win over the Durham TurfDogs while the Blizzard lost in a gutsy effort to the Oshweken Demons. The Stars were motivated to get their first win at home in this game as the failed in their first attempt this season but a Blizzard warning was in effect for Toronto…
1st Star: Nic Grasby – Durham Turfdogs Grasby had a career game totaling an impressive 10 points en route to a 14-13 victory over the Iroquois Ironmen. The former Halton Hills Bulldog netted a hat-trick while adding seven assists. The double digit night brings Grasby’s total to 15 good enough for ninth league scoring. 2nd Star: Scott Defrancesco – Durham Turfdogs Defrancesco filled the net at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena…
Friday night the defending Creator’s Cup champions Ohsweken Demons served the Niagara Lock Monsters their first loss of the year at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. The game opened with each team exchanging goals until Wayne VanEvery tallied a pair of markers to take a 3-1 lead just under 10 minutes into the first. The Lock Monsters replied with two goals from Dan Williams and Jon Arnold to lock the game…
In clax action this week two teams that have struggled to start the season face off as the Durham TurfDogs take on the Iroquois Ironmen. Both teams have had a rocky start to the season as the TurfDogs are 1-1 after splitting a series with the Toronto shooting stars while the Ironmen are 0-2 after losing to the Demons and to the Lock Monsters. For the Ironmen their biggest problem…
Hello again lacrosse world, or whatever part of the lacrosse world that cares what’s going on with this freshly retired player/ recently hired coach is his transition from the turf to the bench, glad to be back writing another blog for ILWT. So far the new lacrosse season has been pretty amazing. Close games and parity with every team in every league. As far as we go the Durham Turfdogs…
The high powered offenses of the Canadian Lacrosse League clash Friday night as the 2-0 Niagara Lock Monsters travel to the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena to take on the first place Ohsweken Demons on Friday night. The Lock Monsters have scored an impressive 43 goals in their first two games of CLax existence. Leading the way for Niagara is rookie Corey Fowler. The 2009 Canadian University Lacrosse Association scoring leader has…
With week three of the CLAX season in the books here are the three stars of the week. 3. Roger Vyse- Vyse was great for the Oshweken Demons this weekend as he started off the weekend with three goals and three assists against Brampton in a heartbreaking loss. Vyse would then would have a seven point performance against the Barrie Blizzard. Vyse leads the league in points with 30 notching…
On Saturday I had to wake up at the ungodly hour of 9:30am– which I guess is pushing it a bit for a 1pm game on the reserve. However, for a guy that goes to sleep at 4am every night and wakes up at 11am every morning, every Barrie Blizzard game this CLax being an afternoon one is just musician-crippling. I guess whoever scheduled our games never considered that I…