Left Coast Lacrosse

Nanaimo Timbermen Senior B Lacrosse team open the season May 1st in Ladner. Their first home game will be two days later against the Valley Rebels at the Nanaimo Ice Center. Note that all home games are Saturday night at 7:30pm. The home schedule is listed below. For full Nanaimo schedule please visit their official home page.

Sat May 3 - 7:30pm vs Valley Rebels
Sat May 10 - 7:30pm vs Tri City Bandits
Sat May 24 - 7:30pm vs North Shore Indians
Sat May 31 - 7:30pm vs New Westminster Capitals
Sat June 7 - 7:30pm vs Burnaby Burrards
Sat June 21 - 7:30pm vs Ladner Pioneers
Sat June 28 - 7:30pm vs North Short Indians
Sat July 5 - 7:30pm vs Tri City Bandits
Sat July 12 - 7:30pm vs Valley Rebels

The Nanaimo Timbermen Jr A lacrosse team plays their first home game next weekend against the New Westminster Salmonbellies. Note that all Saturday/Sunday games start at 5pm this year with Friday night games a bit later at either 7pm or 8pm.

All games are at the Nanaimo Ice Centre and only the home games are listed below. To view the full schedule visit Nanaimo’s official site or the for full league info the leauge site.

Notes: Nanaimo has recently traded Tom Wray to Burnaby for Burnaby’s 3rd round draft pick in 2009 and 3rd round draft pick in 2010.

Sun. Apr. 27 - 5:00pm vs New Westminster Salmonbellies
Sun. May 4 - 5:00pm vs Port Coquitlam Saints
Fri. May 9 - 8:00pm vs Victoria Shamrocks
Fri. May 16 - 8:00pm vs Surrey Stickmen
Sun. May 18 - 5:00pm vs Coquitlam Adanacs
Fri. May 23 - 7:00pm vs Burnaby Lakers
Sun. June 1 - 5:00pm vs Delta Islanders
Sun. June 8 - 5:00pm vs New Westminster Salmonbellies
Sun. June 15 - 5:00pm vs Port Coquitlam Saints
Sun. June 29 - 5:00pm vs Surrey Stickmen
Fri. July 4 - 8:00pm vs Victoria Shamrocks

As you know, we were snowed out for our original date of March 29, for our inaugural Mac Maude memorial Golf Tournament. After some negotiating with Cottonwood, we have come up with a new date for our first annual Mac Maude memorial Golf Tournament. Saturday April 26th @ Cottonwood golf course.

With April being much sunnier, and a much better time for golf, we’re expecting a better turn out for this event. The same rules will apply, shot gun start, cart, dinner, and silent auction to follow the tournament. This is a great way to get involved and help with the fundraising for the Mac Maude memorial scholarship fund, and also help out the Intermediate Timbermen. Fun to be had by all, as we’ll have long drive challenge, putting competition, and as always trophies for first place, and last place.

So come one come all, this is an event for a good cause, and a great way to kick off the start of everyone lacrosse schedule.

Registration is taking place now, and you can register on-line @ www.nanaimotimbermen.com.

Hope to see you all there!

Pat O’Dwyer

The newest Senior C lacrosse league on the Island is looking for players. League organizer Pat O’Dwyer said, “We are getting a great registration and turn out for Sr. C, but to achieve our goal we need more participants. The more players we get to register, the cheaper the cost for floor time will be. We already have uniforms, and we already have balls, and a good influx of registered goaltenders.”

O’Dwyer also mentions that the league will be playing under Masters Lacrosse rules - “which means no direct contact.”

With Ice coming out in less then a week and games continuing through July, the hope is that “teams can play 1 game per week, and have 1 throw around/practice per week.” O’Dwyer also highlights that the league is willing to work with anyone interested “if it’s a matter of money and cost, a payment plan can be worked out, if we get enough bodies and participants it could be less as $150 per player. This is a great opportunity to get the Sr. C league off the ground we’re hoping that this year a few teams, next year more teams, and in the near future a full Sr. C league just like hockey is done in this community. Register online @ www.nanaimotimbermen.com“

Thank you all for your patience. We recently moved and had some hardware fail when we set back up. We had to find alternate hosting and should be stable again from here on out.

We still expect it to take a few days to get the forum back up and still hope to be able to restore all of the data. Several modifications were made to the forum coding so we can’t get the databases restored until we get the code changed as well. This may prove difficult but worse case scenario, we’ll have the forum back up without restoration by mid-week.

Thank you.

Lefty

The Nanaimo Timbermen Masters Lacrosse Club are hosting an open house at the Nanaimo Ice Centre, Tuesday April 8th from 7:30pm to 8:30pm prior to their first practice of the year which will begin at 9:00pm.

The purpose of the open house is to provide a forum for those new to lacrosse or who haven’t played in while to come back and check out Masters Lacrosse. Current and soon to be retired Masters players will be on hand to explain Masters rules, equipment needed and any other questions that might come up.

Our goal for this program is to provide former players, minor lacrosse coaches and lacrosse dad’s a place to play. The team created will compete in the Canadian Masters Lacrosse Championships June 28th -30th at a venue on the lower mainland yet to be determined.

While tournament playing eligibility is limited to players who are older than or will turn 35 years of age in 2008, younger players are welcome at practices if there is room. The Nanaimo Masters will hold practices every Tuesday & Thursday at 9:00pm beginning April 8th at the Nanaimo Ice Centre. Exhibition games are scheduled throughout the season.

Those interested in attending the open house and would like to participate in the practice are welcome provided they have their own lacrosse stick, gloves, slash guards helmet and facemask. Specific Masters Rules and equipment information will be available at the open house.