Tonight’s game six is the first chance a team has to be crowned the 2014 Mann Cup champion. The Six Nations Chiefs currently hold a three games to two lead over the Victoria Shamrocks, and if they can wrangle up some more killer instinct, this series won’t need a seventh game. Versus Peterborough in the MSL final, the Chiefs had a 3-1 series lead before losing their momentum to a…
For the first time all series the Victoria Shamrocks opened the scoring but that did little to stop Six Nations on this night as they went on a 4-0 scoring streak the rest of the period to end the first frame up 4-1 in game five of the Mann Cup. Jeff Shattler continued his hot stick for the Chiefs getting 6 points on the night (2G,4A) and Brandon Miller stood…
Tonight the Six Nations Chiefs will attempt to take a 3-2 series lead and build off their game four domination of the Shamrocks where they defeated them 12-6. The Chiefs will look to build on their momentum and try to put the Shamrocks one step closer to elimination. For the Chiefs they fixed the problem they had in game three as they got out to four goal lead but let…
Photo Credit: Tim Prothero Coming into Monday night’s game the Mann Cup was tied 1-1 in the Series as Victoria won game two 6-5 in double overtime to tie the series. Heading into game three Victoria were looking to build on their momentum and take a 21 series lead over the Six Nations Chiefs. The Chiefs took the early lead in this game as Stephen Keogh scored five minutes into…
With the upcoming NLL draft and the Mann cup beginning Friday all eyes will be on the rookies in the Mann Cup. For the Shamrocks all eyes will be on Jesse King and Brandon Bull. King will be a familiar name for any Canadian Lacrosse fan as he had an outstanding Mann cup for Victoria last season. This season King has been even better as he had 13 goals and…
For the second year in a row the Victoria Shamrocks have earned the WLA crown and I don’t think it’s far off to say they did it with domination. After losing in the Mann cup last year to the Six Nations Chiefs in 6 games on their home floor, the Shamrocks wanted to come back bigger and stronger then last year and, well, mission accomplished. After finishing the season an…
Just four teams remain active in Canadian Senior A lacrosse action, as the Western Lacrosse Association (WLA) and Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) finals are both underway. The Maple Ridge Burrards will host Game 2 of the WLA finals Friday, after falling 9-5 in the series opener to the Victoria Shamrocks. A pair of former Kitchener-Waterloo Kodiaks have led Victoria offensively during their playoff run. After spending the early days of…
With the Victoria Shamrocks disposing of the New Westminster Salmonbellies in a series sweep 4-0 and the Maple Ridge Burrards beating out the Burnaby Lakers 4-2 we have our WLA finals set. Coming into this series the Shamrocks took two of three games in the season series (7-4/8-7) and tied the last game 9-9 with Curtis Dickson scoring 7 points for the Burrards in the last affair and what I…
With both series’ getting under way for the 2014 WLA playoffs and the road to the Mann cup tonight, we take a look at the second series being Maple Ridge Burrards versus the Burnaby Lakers. Both teams are coming into the post season on a high note finishing one and two in WLA standing respectively but it’s the big name players on Maple Ridge that I think will really make…
With the regular season over it’s time to look at the road to the Mann cup, with defending WLA champion Langley Thunder not making the post season dance we know we will have a new champion, but, who will it be? Starting with New Westminister Salmonbellies facing off against the first overall Victoria Shamorocks series starting tonight (August 6) at The Q center on the island. The ‘Rocks swept the…