B.C. minor lacrosse teams managed just bronze medals at the Ontario Lacrosse Festival in Whitby, Ont. last week.
The provincial midget boys, including Jordan Gabriele, Trevor Peters and Cory Sinclair of Burnaby, defeated Alberta 8-7 in the consolation final at the national midget championships last Saturday. B.C.'s peewee team, including New Westminster's Noah Armitage, Nikhal Dhandwar, Kip Guthrie and Ben Stewart, also defeated an Albertan team 8-2 for the bronze.
The midget boys lost their semifinal matchup to round-robin runnerup Team Iroquois 10-3 on Aug. 9. B.C. lost 8-1 to eventual champion Ontario and 8-7 to the Iroquois Nation in the preliminary rounds.
Ontario eked out the gold medal in the midget final, narrowly defeating Team Iroquois 7-6 in overtime in the gold-medal match.
The provincial peewee team also finished up third overall after round-robin play following a 4-1 loss to
Team Iroquois.
The two teams met in the semifinal with the outcome an identical 4-1 scoreline for the Six Nations team.
Ontario defeated the Iroquois 9-2 in the national final.
B.C. lost to Ontario 6-5 on Day 2 of the week-long competition.
At the bantam box lacrosse nationals in Winnipeg, Team B.C., including New Westminster runner Erik Maas, was forced to play second fiddle to Ontario in the championship final on Aug. 7. Ontario defeated B.C. 9-1 in the gold-medal final.
The win was Ontario's sixth consecutive national bantam title. Iroquois Nation won the inaugural event in 2007.
Earlier in the competition, B.C. also lost 9-6 to Ontario, which finished with an unblemished 7-0 record, including a combined 102 goals for and just 11 against.
The West Coast boys advanced to the championship final following a 5-3 win over Iroquois Nation on Tuesday.
