The Burnaby Lakers dropped its second game of the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League season to Victoria on Sunday.
The junior A Lakers fell 11-6 to the first-place Victoria Shamrocks at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre.
Burnaby jumped out to an early 2-0 on goals by Kris Liset and Dale Mushinski's first of the year.
But the Shamrocks responded with two goals in a 12-second span at the 10-minute mark and another pair half-a-minute apart later in the period to take a lead it would never give up.
Liset potted his second power-play goal of the game to start the middle period. Team captain Jaeden Gastaldo also potted his second of the season to close the gap to 7-5 heading into the final frame.
But Victoria got on the scoresheet first, tallying a shorthanded marker from intermediate call-up Dane Sorensen.
Older brother Jamie then scored at even strength to extend Victoria's lead to four.
Off-season acquisition Trenton Matsuzaki scored his first goal as a Burnaby Laker midway through the period, but Victoria finished off the stanza with two more scores, including Casey Devon's hat-trick marker.
Burnaby's next game is Sunday at the Bill Copeland centre against the winless Nanaimo Timbermen.
Game time is 5 p.m.
