On Saturday night the Victoria Shamrocks and Coquitlam Adanacs kick off their playoff series. The two teams met three times this season with Coquitlam winning the season series 2-1. All three game between these teams were close so it will be a great battle between the two teams in this series. The Adanacs are the surprise team of 2012 after finishing in last in 2011 they have rebounded and have…
The semi-final matchups are set for Major Series Lacrosse on the road to the Mann Cup. After waiting and watching, both the Six Nations Chiefs and Brooklin Redmen – top seeds in the West and East divisions respectively – will now begin preparing for the Brampton Excelsiors and Peterborough Lakers. While the official final schedule has yet to be decided at the time of this writing, the two series will…
Last night was the first night of the Western Lacrosse Association playoffs, and it was game one between the Langley Thunder and Burnaby Lakers. The Thunder won the game, 9-8, on a goal from Lewis Ratcliff with 35 seconds left in the game. The score was tied 6-6 in the second period after a couple of two goal runs from each team. The third period did not see any scoring…
The WLA playoffs kick off on Wednesday night as the fourth place Burnaby Lakers take on the first place Langley Thunder in the first round of the WLA playoffs. Langley won the season series between these two teams 2-1. Langley beat Burnaby 13-7 and 8-7 while Burnaby won the first game between the teams 6-4 in overtime. This will be a closely fought series and will be no easy win…
After the Six Nations Arrows sent the Peterborough Lakers home from the OLA Junior A playoffs on Sunday night, the Whitby Warriors returned home to host the Orangeville Northmen for game five of their best-of-seven series. On Sunday night Orangeville hosted game four and despite a three-goal run in the first by Whitby and a late third period marker, the Northmen held on to win 5-4 and lead the series…
The Orangeville Northmen stormed into Iroqouis Park Arena looking to down the defending Minto Cup champions and advance to the Ontario finals against the Six Nations Arrows. The Northmen hit the floor flying and hit found the scoreboard early and often. Jordan Critch ripped an underhand bounce shot past Whitby netminder Alexis Buque 52 seconds into the contest. The Warriors struggled to get their offense set up early as the…
The Vermont Voyageurs defeated the Montreal Phoenix to get to the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League finals, where they will take on the Kahnawake Mohawks. “Kahnawake has a deeper roster with more experience than Montreal has.” said Chad Fairfoull, the coach of the Voyageurs. “Kahnawake also has a very creative style of offence that is more about reading the play and reacting to it. Â Kahnawake will make tou pay for any…
Both the Kitchener/Waterloo Kodiaks and the Brampton Excelsiors won games in their first round MSL playoff series by coming from behind in the final period. In game one, it was Kitchener who rode a 7-2 third period to victory, while game two saw Brampton score five unanswered goals in the final frame to take the win. The talk before game was definitely on playing a full sixty minutes. Before focus shifted to…
Photo Credit: Devyn Gallagher After three long and grueling series, the stage has been set for the 2012 OJBLL finals as the Six Nations Rebels will take on the Akwesasne Indians. The Akwesasne Indians found their way to the finals by beating the Clairington Green Gaels in 4 games. The Indians received a little scare in game 3 in Bowmanville when the Green Gaels won in dominant fashion to a…
This past Friday night the Voyageurs swept the series against a very tough and competitive team in the Montreal Phoenix. After playing a very difficult first game in Montreal with only 11 runners on a Tuesday night and managing to get away with a 13-12 win, we were back in Essex with a much deeper bench but with a bigger challenge as well. Our coach warned everyone that the swept…