MSL: Redmen and Lakers Should be Classic

August 18, 2013

The Brooklin Redmen won an exciting 7-6 OT victory over the Peterborough Lakers on Wednesday night to force a seventh and deciding game to advance to the MSL league finals. Brooklin surprised most critics after winning the first two games of the series, however, Peterborough won three straight games to take a 3-2 series lead into game six.  On Wednesday night, it was a back and forth affair which saw…

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Shamrocks Strike back taking game two 10-6

August 17, 2013

On Friday Night game two of the WLA championship took place. The Langley Thunder took game one 7-6 as they outlasted the Victoria Shamrocks to take a 1-0 lead in the series.  Going into game two the Shamrocks were hoping to make adjustments to avoid going down 2-0 in the series. Langley wasted no time in taking control of this game as Shayne Jackson scored just over a minute into…

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Lakers, Redmen Head for Seventh Game

August 16, 2013

The Peterborough Lakers and the Brooklin Redmen will need Game 7 to decide which team advances to the Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) finals.   Facing elimination, the Redmen forced a deciding Game 7 with a 7-6 double-overtime win on home floor Wednesday night.   Kyle Aquin opened the scoring to give the Redmen an early lead, however, it would be short lived as Peterborough’s Shawn Evans tied the game up…

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Thunder outlast Shamrocks 7-6 to take game one

August 15, 2013

On Wednesday night the WLA championship kicked off as the Langley Thunder hosted the Victoria Shamrocks in game one of their series. The first period started off quiet with neither team being able to breakthrough. At the eight minute mark Jeff Shattler would take a 2 minute penalty putting Langley on the power play. It would be Victoria though that would score first as Tyler Haas scored short handed to…

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Clash of the Titans begins in game one of the WLA final

August 14, 2013

Tonight in the WLA the WLA final kicks off as the Langley Thunder host the Victoria Shamrocks. Both teams are coming off sweeps in the first round as Langley decimated Coquitlam and Victoria swarmed over Burnaby. These two teams faced off three times this season with Langley winning the season series 2-1. Langley landed the most dominant victory as they beat Langley 11-6 in the regular season. Langley’s offense has…

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Shawn Evans wins MSL MVP

August 14, 2013

Shawn Evans has added the Jim Murphy Award for the league’s most valuable player to the Bucko McDonald award he earned as Major Series Lacrosse’s leading scorer, MSL has announced. Evans won the scoring title by putting up 7 points in the last game of the season to overtake Shawn Williams. Evans wound up with 29 goals and 77 assists for 106 points while Williams finished with 27 goals and…

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Smith Blog: Nationals Come to an End

August 14, 2013

The National Championships concluded this past weekend, after a week of exciting and action-packed lacrosse. Each province who sent a team represented their provinces very well and all teams played the game the right way. The Peewee and Midget gold medal games were between Team Ontario and Team Iroquois, and both games were wild finals, with the Midget game being decided in overtime.     There was a crew of 12…

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