The Lacrosse community has been hit with another tragedy as Six Nations Rebel’s Carney Johnson passed away Monday afternoon. The sudden death has shocked and hit the Six Nations community hard as they not only have lost a team member but a great young man. Comments on Twitter and Facebook described Johnson as someone who always was willing to help out someone in need and kind hearted. On the floor,…
On Wednesday night the Coquitlam Adanacs and Victoria Shamrocks played game 2 of their playoff series. Coquitlam looked to gain another win and take a 2-0 lead in the series while Victoria hoped to even up the series. Coquitlam got this game going early in the first period as Dane Dobbie scored just 45 seconds into the game to give Coquitlam a 1-0 lead. Just a minute later Coquitlam would…
Game three of Burnaby and Langley’s playoff series took place on Tuesday night. Langley was looking to gain their third win in the series and push Burnaby to the edge of elimination. While Burnaby tried to rally by winning Tuesdays match. Langey drew first blood in the game as 5 minutes into the first period Kerry Shusheki scored to make it 1-0 for Langley. The game would then turn into…
Two down, one more to go. This past weekend saw the beginning of the final series of the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League opposing the Kahnawake Mohawks to the Vermont Voyageurs. After one weekend, the Voyageurs are up 2-0 in this best of five series. This post will not be my longest as I don’t want to elaborate on a series that is far from over. The Mohawks are not an…
The WLA Playoffs are now in full swing. So far Langley has defeated Burnaby in the first game of their playoff series as Langley won 9-8. On Friday night Langley and Burnaby were back in action while on Saturday night Victoria and Coquitlam kicked off their playoff series. On Friday night Langley and Burnaby kicked off game 2 of their series. Langley was looking to gain a 2-0 lead in…
The Orangeville Northmen entered the OLA Junior A playoffs on a great run. The streak propelled the Horn Heads to a first round sweep of the Burlington Chiefs, and a hard-fought 4-1 series victory over Whitby. While the second round was a rougher series, Orangeville dominated the Warriors for the majority. The same could be said about the Six Nations Arrows who, before the final round, had yet to lose…
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…