The Burnaby Lakers came away with a silver medal at the B.C. peewee minor box lacrosse provincial championships in Kamloops.
The 12-man peewee B Lakers were unbeaten heading into the gold-medal final but hit a wall against a full team from Victoria/Esquimalt following a 9-4 loss.
"We didn't have enough poop on our bench. We ran out of gas," said Burnaby coach Clarke Dreschner. "We were playing the best of the best from the Island."
Thomas Vela and Luca Zilic led Burnaby in the championship game.
Burnaby opened the weekend competition with a 10-1 win over Campbell River. Vela and fair play winner Nathan Chua led the attack with three goals and two assists apiece.
Chua also had a big game for the regular season champs, scoring five times to help knock off Lower Mainland runner-up Delta 11-6 later in the day.
On Saturday, Burnaby needed goalie Jackson Murphy-Johnson to be at his best to hold on for a 6-5 win over Shuswap.
Burnaby also edged North Shore 8-6 on a four-goal, seven-point effort from Vela.
In the final, Marcus Mocharski scored to shave the deficit to 6-4 against Victoria/Esquimalt.
In peewee A1 play, Burnaby had a rough time of it, going down to defeat in all five games.
The peewees opened with a 9-6 loss to eventual semifinalist Juan de Fuca and a 7-4 defeat to eventual finalist Ridge Meadows, both played on July 11.
On the following Friday, eventual champion New Westminster got by the A1 Lakers by an 8-5 score.
