Allsports and the Minto Cup

It has been a while since I have written some sports on the web and this time it was not due to Lacrosse commitments with my daughters. No I took a few days off up at the cottage to recharge the old batteries before the Minto Cup.

Up at the cottage the signal strength is pretty poor so you can’t get internet access there. Half the time you are lucky to even get a strong enough signal to make a cell phone call or receive one.

Anyway our fare City of Brampton is the host for the Minto Cup this year. What is the Minto Cup, you may ask. Well it is the cup awarded to the best Junior “A” box Lacrosse team in Canada. The action started last night with our host team, The Brampton Excelsiors opening with a convincing 14-3 win over the Edmonton Eclipse, while the Orangeville Northmen took care of the Coquitlam Adanacs by a score of 16-8.

It is allsports opinion that the Alberta based clubs are not quite ready to compete for the Minto Cup. I understand that they are trying to grow the game out in Alberta but you have to walk before you run and the teams from the province are not at the level of the teams from Ontario and BC.

Early indications would be that the two teams from the east are the strongest and should fight it out in the final. Brampton lost the eastern championship to Orangeville, loosing 4-3 in the best of seven series. Brampton had been up 3-0 at one point but just could not finish off the Northmen who deserve credit for not giving in. Now the Northmen are in the Brampton boys heads a bit instead of the other way around. We will see what happens tonight as the two teams square off at 8 PM at the Powerade Center. If the officials let the boys play good tough lacrosse I like Brampton’s chances, but if they call a bunch of cheap penalties, Orangeville has the advantage because they have more guys that can finish and score.

All in all it should be a good week for some entertaining lacrosse. The tournament runs from Saturday August 22nd until Sunday August 30th. All of the games are at the Powerade Center. Click Here for the schedule. Allsports friend Dennis Pellerin will be looking after the action photo’s and pictures for my game posts will be courtesy of Pellerins Photography.

“No Guts No Glory”

Walt Webb

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