New Westminster won a silver medal at the B.C. under-12 Tier 1 youth field lacrosse championships.
Kai George laid a huge open-field hit in New West’s opening game against Victoria that set the tone for the rest of the tournament,” said u-12 coach Daniel Pattison.
“Everyone hopped on board after that. It was the story of our tournament,” Pattison said.
Kirk Bothwell went on to post a shutout in the 6-0 win over Victoria.
The u-12s won their group following a 6-2 win over Pacific Coast runner-up Ridge Meadows thanks to what Pattison said was the “team’s best second half of the season.”
They then advanced to the gold-medal final with a 5-4 semifinal victory over Surrey, the league’s third-place-finishing club.
Ezrah Glanville led the u-12s with a hat trick in every tournament game, including an 8-6 loss to regular season champion Adanacs in the provincial final.
Big stick Kieran Isbister was named the winner of New West’s Fair Play award.
“It was the best coaching experience I have had, watching the kids battle and see how far they could go,” said Pattison.
Pac Coast u-16 league runner-up New Westminster took home a bronze medal at the B.C.s, following a 10-3 victory over Ridge Meadows in the Tier 1 consolation final.
New West’s Parker Johnson was named the u-16 tournament MVP.
Harry Shirley also had what co-coach Mark Negrin described as his “best game of the year,” scoring a goal in the final and a wrong-handed tally in a 6-4 win over PoCo in the opening game.
The u-16s also finished pool play with an unbeaten 3-0 record, but lost their semifinal matchup 9-4 with eventual champion and regular season winner Adanacs.
“We played hard,” Negrin added. “They still wanted to win something and they came through at the end.”
Axel Bernoe was named New West’s Fair Play winner.
New West’s u-14 Tier 1 team, league winners with an 11-2-0 season record, failed to make it to the playoff round, finishing pool play with a 1-1-1 record.
New West’s Johnny Edin took home the team’s Fair Play award.
