2014 Festival Snapshots
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2014 FESTIVAL SNAPSHOTS The 11th annual Ontario Lacrosse Festival was hosted in Durham Region August 1st–10th. The Festival was host to 34 provincial championships and three nationals in 2014. The following pages include Festival Snapshots; Championship Review; List of Champions; a Champions Photo Wall Gallery and complete provincial tournament results. For more Festival info, visit www.ontariolacrossefestival.com 92 Ontario LACROSSE | 2014 Yearbook Edition >> PHOTOS BY VINTAGE LAX www.ontariolacrossemagazine.com Fall 2014 | Ontario LACROSSE 93 CHAMPIONSHIP REVIEW Vandommelen and Owen Rice solidified the first period to take the lead 7-2. Matthew Mohawksvictoryinan8- -5finalscore. Poitras scored two of his three goals, and The Tyke D final took off between the Ethan Lee scored his first of two, and assisted Oshawa Blue Knights 2 and the Nepean on three goals through the period. The War- Knights 2, ending in a close 4-3 win for the Blue riors shut the Northmen out of the second, Knights 2. Holden Ranta opened the scoring collecting another goal to go into the third for the Blue Knights 2, scoring 5:30 into the with an 8-2 lead. Though Orangeville’s Liam first period. Miller Kay responded for the Matthews logged another goal for his team, Knights 2, to tie the game 1-1 at the end of the Lee and Poitras scored one each to solidify the period. Oshawa shut out Nepean in the Warriors’ 10-3 championship win. second period, and scored another goal to The Kahnawake Mohawks battled the stretch a 2-1 lead. The Blue Knights 2 scored Niagara Thunderhaws for the Novice B title, again early in the first, but the game was tied the club’s second victory of the 2014 Ontario up by Kay who scored his second goal of the Lacrosse Festival. Though the game stayed WHITBY WARRIORS DEFEND game with 2:17 left. Dylan Waduck logged his close in the first period, Trey Deere edged the TYKE A TITLE FOR THIRD YEAR second goal of the game with 41 seconds left Mohawks ahead, 4-3, in the last minute of IN A ROW to play, breaking the tie to give the Blue play with his third straight goal of the period. The Warriors opened the scoring with a goal Knights 2 the game winning 4-3 lead. The Mohawks scored another three unan- by Captain, and scoring leader for the game, The Toronto Beaches 2 came from behind swered goals in the second period to extend Jack VanVolsen. The Braves responded with in the third period to win the Tyke E Provincial their lead to 7-3. The Thunderhawks broke one of their own, but the Warriors scored four final against the Gloucestor Griffins, 6-4. The through the Mohawks defense in the third more to end the first period with a 5-1 lead. The teams tied the first period 1-1, and the Griffins period, with two goals by Kris Wilson, and Warriors logged another goal in the second pulled ahead in the second with an early goal one by Mitch Berg, but their efforts were too period, but the Braves battled back with three by Rowan Toner. late. The Mohawks matched the Thunder- goals, diminishing the Warriors’ lead to 6-4. The Griffins scored again early in the third hawks three goals in the third, pulling further VanVolsen reinforced the Warriors lead early period, but the Beaches 2 pulled ahead 4-3 ahead to take the match 10-6. in the third period with his third goal of the with three goals in just over three minutes. The Novice C final was played between the game, which was followed up by two more Zachary McLean logged his second for the Innisfil Wolfpack and the Northumberland goals from Keegan Bernier and Aidyn Urback. Griffins to tie the game, but the Jensen Nemesis, both teams who went undefeated The Warriors took their third straight Tyke A Richards and Alex Pho scored their second in round robin play. The teams remained tied Provincial Title with a 9-5 win in the final. goals of the game for Toronto, to bring home 2-2 in the first period until Northumberland’s The Six Nations Warriors took on the the Tyke E provincial title with a 6-4 win. Dalyn Wakely struck with four seconds left, Orangeville Northmen, who went undefeated scoring his first of five goals in the game. The in round robin play, for the Tyke B Provincial Wolfpack was unable to make a mark in the Championship title. Orangeville took the lead second period, while Wakely notched two in the first period, logging three goals to the more goals to stretch Northumberland’s lead Warriors’ one. The Warriors staged a come- to 5-2. Logan Palomaki scored one goal for the back in the second period, however, tying the Wolfpack in the third, but Northumberland game 5-5 with goals from Kamren Powless, scored three more goals to take the game 8-3. Dayton Martin, and two from Andrew Ver- The Six Nations Warriors 2 took on the meulen. The Warriors shut the Northmen out Hamilton Bengals in the Novice D Provincial in the third period, with Vermeulen scoring Championship final, ending the first period in his third and fourth goals of the game to push a 4-4 tie. The Bengals struck first in the second his team ahead for the 7-5 victory. period with a goal from Jayden Harrison, and The Kahnawake Mohawks faced the Clar- the Warriors’ 2 Nicholas Thomas responded ington Gaels 2 for the Tyke C Provincial NOVICE FINALS with the team’s only goal in the period. The Championship title, looking to redeem two SHOWCASE DOMINANT PLAY Bengals’ offense was not finished, however, years of losses in the Tyke C final. BY CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS scoring three more in the period to end the Though the Gaels 2 took a 3-2 lead after the The Whitby Warriors 1 fought back after a second in the first period, the Mohawks foughtback with four heartbreaking loss in the 2013 Novice A final lead, 8-5. Ryan Hess Jr. diminished the lead goals in the second period to make the score 6- to win the 2014 title over the Orangeville to8-6, witha Warriors2 goalearlyin the third, 4in their favour.Trenton Bonneveld struck early Northmen, 10-3. but the Bengals reinforced their lead with two in the third to bring the Gaels 2 within one point The Warriors made their presence known goals of their own to win the game, 10-6. of the Mohawks, but goals by Shatekaienthon right off the bat, scoring seven goals in the The Oshawa Blue Knights 3 faced off 94 Ontario LACROSSE | 2014 Yearbook Edition against the Akwesasne Storm 2 in the Novice offense was stifled in the first two periods, first, logging four goals while the Storm man- E final, a rematch of an earlier round robin only scoring one goal by Marcus Keleher in aged two. The Crush ran away with the game game in which the Blue Knights 3 won 6-3. the third. Thomas Richardson and Winston in the second period, scoring five more goals They continued their dominance in the final, Bashford notched two more for the Bengals and shutting out the storm. Aidan Vitucci and shutting the Storm completely out until the in the last half oftheperiod,solidifyingtheir6- Hunter Oakley logged their third goals each. last five minutes of the game. The Blue 1 Provincial Championship win. Awkesasne’s penalty minutes also began to Knights 3 took an early 3-0 lead in the first After struggling through the round robin build in this period, combining for a final total period, with goals from Mason Carley, Liam play with a 1-1-1 record, the Peterborough of 37 to Lincoln’s eight. Treyton Sunday scored Prior-O’Dette, and Colby Dowdle. Lakers 2 battled for the Pee Wee C Provincial his second goal in the third period, but the Nathan Hutchings extended the lead to 4- titleagainstthe2-0-1Mimico Mountaineers 2. Crush was too far ahead to catch. Chase Cuth- 0 with a goal early in the second period. The Lakers took the early lead, scoring two in bert snapped in his third of the match for a Akwesasne 2 captain, Camrin King- -Gorman the first period to the Mountaineers’ one. final score of 11-3. retaliated near the end of the final period with Though Owen Simpson briefly tied it up with a goal assisted by Dawson Lazore. The Blue a goal one minute into the second period, the Knights 3 were too far ahead to catch, as they Lakers responded with one of their own to logged another goal with 1:46 left in the make the score 3-2. Mimico collected another game for a final score of 5-1. goal, but Shane Cooligan and Frank Coyle The Lincoln Crush struggled to work around extended the Lakers lead 5-3 at the end of the their team’s 52 penalty minutes in their final second. Merrick Sands poked his second past match against the Orillia Kings 2 for the Novice the defense, and Reagan Martinell his first, to F Provincial Championship title. Jackson Gerrard finish the game 7-4 and collect the team’s Pee opened the scoring for the Kings, snapping off Wee C Championship. his first of three goals in the game to take the Kahnawake staged a third period flurry in lead 1-0 going into the second period. The Kings the Pee Wee D Provincial Championship 2 continued to assert their dominance, scoring against the Northumberland Nemesis, to take four more in the second period.