While the junior Adanacs breathe the rarified air of playoff success, their senior counterparts will miss the Western Lacrosse Association post-season for a fourth straight year.
While a 7-4 win by the Burnaby Lakers over Victoria on Friday night ensured the Adanacs of another August without lacrosse, Coquitlam solidified its status as also-rans by losing to the Nanaimo Timbermen 15-14 Saturday night at the Poirier Sports and Leisure Complex. That dropped them three points behind the fifth-place Timbermen with three games left in the season. Nanaimo has two games remaining. The two teams will face each other in their season finales next Sunday in Nanaimo.
Three goals by the Timbermen in a span of 2:25 late in the third period proved the difference in their game last Saturday. That wiped out a 13-12 lead for the Adanacs in a wild, seesaw game in which each team held a lead six times.
Reid Reinholdt got one of those goals back for the Adanacs with 36 seconds left to play, but they couldn’t get the equalizer past Timbermen’s keeper Peter Dubenski.
Brian Gillis scored three goals and added three assists to lead the Adanacs’ scorers. Cody Adamson had five points.
Before their final game next Sunday against Nanaimo, the Adanacs will also play Langley Wednesday and they’ll host Maple Ridge next Saturday.
