In the Ontario Junior A ranks, eight teams will make the post-season. Of those eight teams, two will travel to Whitby to play for the Minto Cup. One will be the Whitby Warriors, who will play host to the 2012 edition of the championship. That clearly hasn’t stopped them from wanting to win it all. Take, for example, their 13-2 record so far this season. Or their 7-1 record at…
On Wednesday night the WLA action picks up once again as the 5-3 Langley Thunder take on the 1-7-1 Maple Ridge Burrards. Maple Ridge is coming off their first win of the season as they defeated the Burnaby Lakers 9-5 on Sunday night. While the Thunder had their 5 game winning streak broken by the Coqutilam Adanacs as they lost 7-6. Langley will want to win this game as a…
The Peterborough Lakers head into Iroquois Park Arena tonight to avenge Brooklin after they fell to the Redmen 14-12 in overtime last Thursday. John Grant Jr tallied an impressive 7 goals and 2 assists in his season debut for the Lakers but it was out shined by Shawn Williams double digit point night with 2 goals and 8 assists for an incredible 10 points. In the previous match, the Redmen…
On Tuesday night the Kitchener- Waterloo Kodiaks faced off against the Six Nations Chiefs after losing to them 10-8 in their last meeting on July 16. The Kodiaks came into this game wanting to avoid their third straight loss while the Chiefs wanted to continue their winning ways. The Kodiaks got off to quick start as they scored two consecutive goals to open up the scoring and take a quick…
On Tuesday night the Whitby Warriors will be back in action as they take on the Brampton Excelsiors. Whitby has 12-2 record on the season so far and sits in second place in the league. Brampton has a record of 8-5-1 and currently sits in fifth place in the league. This will be an intriguing matchup as this is the first meeting between these two teams this season. Brampton will…
On Tuesday night the 2-2 Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks take on the 3-1 Six Nations Chiefs. Six Nations won the first meeting between these two teams this past Saturday defeating the Kodiaks 10-8. The Kodiaks will come into this game looking to get some retribution after such a close game while the Chiefs will want to see a repeat. The Kodiaks came close to defeating the Chiefs in their game on Saturday…
InLacrosseWeTrust has learned, through sources, of a major trade in the OLA Junior A ranks. Chris Attwood has been traded, along with Jordan Houtby, from the St Catharine’s Athletics to the defending Minto Cup Champions, the Whitby Warriors. Two people close to players involved confirmed the trade but at the time of this writing along with numerous twitter accounts. The Whitby Warriors would later post their own message (@WhitbyWarriors) announcing…
The New Westminster Salmonbellies are coming off a shocking end to 2011, when they fell in the WLA finals to the upstart Langley Thunder. Now in 2012, they have eight points, are 4-4 and are tied for second with Coquitlam. “We’re struggling right now with our consistancy and ability to put teams away.” said general manager Dan Richardson “Discipline at key points of the game has to improve for us…
This past Weekend in the WLA was chock full of action. This weekend 6 of the 7 WLA teams were in action. The action started on Friday night as the Burnaby Lakers faced the Vitoria Shamrocks to kickoff the weekend, on Saturday night the Coquitlam Adanacs faced the Maple Ridge Burrards, on Sunday the Burnaby Lakers faced the Maple Ridge Burrards and the New Westminster Salmon Bellies faced the Nanaimo…
On Thursday night the New Westminster Salmonbellies handed the Victoria Shamrocks their first loss of the season by defeating them 14-12 in overtime. With this win New Westminster ended their 3 game losing streak and improved their record to 4 -3 on the season. While Victoria with the loss fell to 5-1 on the season and suffered their first loss. From the very beginning this game it became apparent that…