The Kamloops Venom will be intending to secure the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League title on Saturday at Memorial Arena.
The Kamloops Venom will be intending to secure the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League title on Saturday at Memorial Arena.
Kamloops knocked off the home town Vernon Tigers 6-4 on Wednesday to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five champion series.
Game time on Saturday is 7 p.m.
Cailen Hamilton (2), Landon Lockwood, Caleb Campbell, Seamus Bankier and Miller Renaud scored for Kamloops in assistance of netminder Robert Gerow, who made 60 conserves to get the success in between the pipelines.
Tye Krause (2), Caden Peters and Waylen Stowards had objectives for the Tigers, whose goaltender, Ryley Lockhurst, permitted 6 objectives on 35 shots in a losing effort.
The two-time provincial champ Venom won the TOJLL title in 2015 and failed versus the Coquitlam Adanacs in the Tier 1 Junior B B.C. Lacrosse Championship.
Coquitlam controlled the two-game aggregate series in Kamloops, winning 11-5 in Game 1 and 17-6 in Game 2.
This year, the provincial champion will once again include the TOJLL champ and the winner of the B.C. Junior Tier 1 Lacrosse League.
Kamloops is competing to reach the nationwide junior B champion, the Founders Cup, which will this year be hosted by the Port Coquitlam Saints from Aug. 14 to Aug. 20.
The 2023 Venom are the first string considering that club creation in 2008 to publish an ideal routine season record — 14-0.
Kamloops swept Kelowna in 2 video games in a best-of-three series in Round 1 of the playoffs to reach the last.