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The past week in lacrosse

The first annual Seats for Soldiers was a resounding success. About 1500 people came out to Queen's Park Arena to watch the Senior Salmonbellies defeat (for the first time this season!) the Victoria Shamrocks. Soldiers, sailors, and military brass were out in great numbers, and we even had a marching band playing the national anthem. I got all teary-eyed, especially since July has seen a record number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

This past weekend, New Westminster and Burnaby co-hosted the provincial championship for girls' minor lacrosse. New Westminster did very well overall: gold in PeeWee; gold, silver, and bronze in Bantam; and silver and bronze in Midget. My daughter's team played their best game of the season in the bronze-medal match against Coquitlam. It was great to see them finally mesh as a team and apply all of the skills they'd learned throughout the season. It makes me wish the season were just a week or two longer...

Labels: girls' box lacrosse, New Westminster Salmonbellies, provincial championship, Seats for Soldiers, Victoria Shamrocks

posted by Barbara K. Adamski @ 12:30 PM 0 Comments

What a game!

Well, the Bellies took the third game in the WLA semi-finals against the Victoria Shamrocks. Despite the fact that the final score was 11-7, the game was extremely close. In fact, mid-way through the third period, we were thinking that the Bellies might just end up losing this one. At that point in the game, they were spending far too much time in the penalty box.

Then, when the score was 6-5 for the Bellies, Cliff Smith scored his second goal of the game, and followed up with two more shortly after that. Ilija Gajic added a couple more goals to bring the team to a respectable win over the Shamrocks.

The Shamrocks are fighting all the way. Game four in the best of seven takes place at Bear Mountain in Victoria. I wish I could be there.

Labels: Cliff Smith, Ilija Gajic, New Westminster Salmonbellies, Victoria Shamrocks

posted by Barbara K. Adamski @ 10:53 PM 0 Comments

The truth

I have to confess: I love watching Cliff Smith fight.

Labels: Cliff Smith, lacrosse, New Westminster Salmonbellies, Victoria Shamrocks

posted by Barbara K. Adamski @ 11:20 PM 0 Comments