Left Coast Lacrosse

Nanaimo Timbermen appoint new Assistant Coach & Director of Player Recruitment and Development
The Nanaimo Timbermen Senior A Lacrosse Club of the Western Lacrosse Association announce the appointment of Mr. Art Webster to the position of Assistant Head Coach And Director of Player Recruitment and Development.

Art Webster is very renowned in lacrosse circles and most recently coached the Victoria Shamrocks to the 2009 WLA League Title. Art is a 2007 Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame Inductee who played 558 games with the Brampton Execeliors and Victoria Shamrocks amassing 621 Points ( 174 Goals / 447 Assists ) as a Defensive Specialist and played on 2 Mann Cup winners and in 7 Mann Cup Finals. He was also a member of the Canadian National Field lacrosse Team in 1976 – 1977.

As a coach Webster served as a Defensive Coordinator in Victoria in the early part of the Decade where he helped the Shamrocks to 5 Mann Cup appearances and 2 Mann Cup Titles ( 2003 & 2005) . In 2002 he shared the WLA Coach of the Year Award with Walt Christianson for his contributions to the Shamrock cause.

Art is currently in his 3rd Season with the Washington Stealth of the NLL as an Assistant Coach in charge of the Defence under Head Coach Chris Hall.

The Timbermen welcome Art and his wealth and experience to join Head Coach Jeff Ranger.

The biggest news in Nanaimo Lacrosse this week certainly has to be the firing of the WLA T-Men coach Bill Hardy along with Assistant Bob Vink. The pair were replaced by Roger Dubyna and Jim Kipp, respectively. Nanaimo, who’ve averaged 18 goals against in their first three starts only allowed 8 against top placed New Westminster Salmonbellies. Nanaimo did lose the game, only scoring 3 goals.

Dubyna will be seen behind the bench Saturday night (7:00pm - Frank Crane) when the T-Men host the Burnaby Lakers. The Lakers are winless in their 4 starts this year and Nanaimo will be looking for their first win under the new coach.

Saturday night also has the Senior B Timbermen playing (7:30 - NIC) against the New West Capitals. Nanaimo have been on a tear of late, having won their last 2 games and will be looking for their 4th win of the year.

The Jr A Timbermen play home Sunday (5:00pm - NIC) against the Delta Islanders. Delta have only 3 wins and this game should be a win for the local boys - who have been playing very well of late - but this is the first contest between the T-Men and Islanders and any win this season will require a full 60 minute effort. The JrA team does play Saturday night in New West.

For the first time this year Nanaimo Lacrosse fans will need to decide between which of the Senior teams they want to play. Saturday night has both playing at home.

Friday night the action starts with Junior A T-Men (2 wins, 5 losses) hosting Burnaby Lakers (6 wins, 2 losses) at the Nanaimo Ice Centre (7pm). During their last meeting Burnaby doubled the T-Men 17 - 8 but Nanaimo played the same weekend as their overtime heartbreak loss to Victoria. With a few more players back from school expect a closer game and stronger effort. Nanaimo are 2 and 3 at home and have outshot their opponents at NIC 258 to 240. No doubt we’ll see a great game this friday.

Saturday is a much busier day. The Intermediatte A Nanaimo Timbermen start the day (1:30pm, Frank Crane Arena, May 24) against the South Fraser Stickmen. South Fraser and currently 1 win and 5 losses and will meet the T-Men (1 win, 3 losses) for the first time this year. Admission is very reasonable ($2 Adults, $1 Seniors and Students, Children 12 and under are free).

At 7pm, WLA action begins at the Frank Crane Arena with the Langley Thunder visiting the winless Timbermen. This will be the Thunder’s 2nd trip to the island this week - they opened their season Thursday in Victoria. Nanaimo will still be playing without a few of their top players but should expect to play well against Langley.

Only a half an hour later at NIC, Senior B lacrosse finds it’s way back to Nanaimo after a 2 week hiatus. 7:30pm sharp the T-Men host perrenial rivals, the North Shore Indians. Nanaimo will look to avenge their play-off loss last year to North Shore and to welcome their fans back after the few weeks off. Nanaimo are 1 win, 2 losses while the Indians have 1 win and 4 losses.

There are no home games on Sunday but the Ferries will be busy with T-Men on this day. At 2pm the Intermediatte A squad play in Burnaby, at 5pm Junior A Timbermen are being hosted by Coquitlam and at 7pm New West plays host to SrB T-Men. With 4 home games to watch and 3 away should be a busy day for anyone watching the scoreboards…

With 3 games this weekend their won’t be too many lacrosse fans without a game to choose from.

The WLA Nanaimo Timbermen will open Frank Crane Arena hosting last year Mann Cup Finalist Coquitlam Adanacs. Nanaimo played their first game last weekend, suffering a 20 - 10 loss to Maple Ridge. That game did see newcomer Tyler Perry score 4 goals in his first game in the WLA. Nanaimo were without Scott Ranger, Matt Holland, Kaleb Toth and Mike Morrison…….their top 4 scorers from last year. Expect a much closer game this night. Game time is Saturday at 6:45 pm.

In JrA, Friday night at 8pm Nanaimo (7th place - 1 win, 4 losses) host South Fraser (8th place, 0 wins, 6 losses) as the home boys look for their 2nd win of the season. Sunday afternoon the Timbermen face Coquitlam (3rd place - 3 wins, 1 loss) play in Nanaimo’s Ice Centre. Nanaimo have been outscored 28 - 10 on the road in two games but have fared much better at home having potted 23 and allowing only 22. Expect this weekend to be much the same as the Timbermen would surprise many winning both games. No matter what the outcome, based upon last weeks 11 - 10 loss to Victoria, all in attendance will be in for an exciting show.

The 1 and 1 Timbermen SrB team play away this weekend - in Burnaby against the Burrards (1 win, 2 losses) Wednesday night. Nanaimo’s last home game was post-poned. Nanaimo host long time rivals North Shore next weekend.

What was to be another busy weekend in local Box Lacrosse action has seen some changes.

In Junior A action, Nanaimo host the Victoria Shamrocks Friday night at 8pm. Nanaimo are off a recent win against Port Coquitlam and should play well at home. They will be looking to avenge an 11 - 2 loss against Victoria in Victoria just last week.

On Saturday, the Senior B Timbermen were scheduled to play Tri-City Bandits on Saturday night but that game has been postponed.

Sunday has the Senior A Timbermen opening the 2008 WLA season in Maple Ridge against the Burrards. This should be a good test for the T-Men who will likely be missing Scott Ranger, Kaleb Toth and Kyle Couling as the Calgary Roughnecks will be entrenched in a playoff battle against Portland (NLL).

The JR A Timbermen play Burnaby Lakers (in Burnaby) on Sunday as well. Burnaby and Victoria are 1st and 2nd in BCJRALL standings and this should prove an exciting weekend.

This week has the Nanaimo Timbermen Sr B Lacrosse team playing their home opener. 7:30pm this Saturday the T-Men host the Valley Rebels. This is the first of 8 consecutive weekends where you can spend two nights in a row watching box lacrosse locally.

On Sunday (5pm), the Nanaimo Timbermen Jr A team hosts the Port Coquitlam Adanacs. Port Coquitlam beat New Westminster Salmonbellies in their only game so far this season.

All in all this weekend should provide great entertainment at the Nanaimo Ice Center both Saturday and Sunday.

Single Game Tickets Sr B:

* Adult: $11
* Senior (55 and over): $8
* Student (13-18 or with a valid student card): $8
* Child (6-12): $5
* Children 5 & under: FREE

Single Game Tickets Jr A:

* Adult: $7
* Senior: $5
* Student (13-18): $5
* Children (12 and under): FREE

2008 WCSLA Senior B Nanaimo Timbermen

President
Pat O’Dwyer

Vice President
Brock Rose

General Manager
Pat O’Dwyer

Assistant Coach
Ken King
Kevin Shires

Trainer
Gene Tait

Equipment Manager
Travis McLeod

Manager
Jodi Rogers

Goalies

63 - Brock Rose
1 - Matt Soulliere
39 - Danny Walters
- Tony Wyse

Runners

22 - Shawn Bamford
- Mike Bedard
15 - Kevin Bowbyes
19 - Joel Cocarell
24 - Joe Diplock
8 - Jaron Dubyna
18 - Jason Dubyna
21 - Andrew Gaudet
23 - Terry Hall
4 - Patrick Johns
13 - Brad Jones
- Julian Kolb
16 - Brad Lytle
2 - Tim Manson
5 - Mike Maughan
- Yiannis Mihalatos
69 - Ken Morrison
12 - Bryan Norby
55 - Travis Preston
17 - Isaac Thomas
10 - Matt Tregear
7 - Garett Van Vaals
20 - Trevor Walton
77 - Pete Welsh
3 - John Younger

2008 Jr A Nanaimo Timbermen Roster

Owner and President
Sean Krause

General Manager
Tyson Leies
Forbes Mitchell

Governor
Forbes Mitchell

Head Coach
Tyson Leies

Assistant Coach
Steve Higgs
Dave Marshall
Paul Meakes
Aaron Vanderhorst

Goaltending Coach
Robin Patterson

Goalies
39 - Sam Corcoran
44 - Drew Dickie
1 - Robbie Pierson

Runners
12 - Nick Agius
27 - Cody Bremner
71 - Colton Clark
7 - Brent Curry (C)
13 - Jon Diplock
17 - Tim Evoy
22 - John Flatters
19 - Ryan Forslund
24 - Steve Higgs
18 - Adam Joinson
10 - Ethan Jones
47 - Andrew Kelly
14 - Sam Kobe
51 - Kevin Lohr (A)
6 - Matt Maughan
88 - Morgan Mitchell
9 - Kyle Noble
16 - Joel Pelletier
20 - Matt Rinas
4 - Russell Thomas
21 - Todd Whittaker (A)
15 - Matt Wray (A)

Alternates
Brent Holness
Tyson Humpherville

This week has the Nanaimo Timbermen Jr A Lacrosse team playing their home opener. At 5pm, Sunday April 27th, New Westminster Salmonbellies come to town. This is the only weekend for the next few months that only sees one game being played amongst the local major teams (JrA, SrA, SrB).

In exhibition games this year Nanaimo lost 7 - 6 to Victoria and New West beat has lost to PoCo (9-4) and, more recently, beat Delta (6-1). Although Nanaimo did not beat New West last year, in the season’s final game, Nanaimo took the ‘Bellies to OT after leading the 1st and 2nd periods.

Single Game Tickets:

* Adult: $7
* Senior: $5
* Student (13-18): $5
* Children (12 and under): FREE

The Nanaimo Timbermen (Senior A) have finalized their schedule. Note that all games are Saturday nights. Only the home games are listed. To view the full schedule please visit their home page.

May 17 - Coquitlam Adanacs - 7:00
May 24 - Langley Thunder - 7:00
May 31 - Burnaby Lakers - 7:00
June 14 - New Westminster Salmonbellies - 7:00
June 21 - Langley Thunder - 7:00
June 28 - Maple Ridge Burrards - 7:00
July 12 - Coquitlam Adanacs - 7:45
July19 - Burnaby Lakers - 7:00
July 26 - Victoria Shamrocks - 7:00