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#21 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 September 2019 - 03:46 AM

Battered, bruised, and injury-depleted the Victoria Shamrocks battled to the very end before finally succumbing to the Lakers by a score of 7-5 in the 5th and final game of the Mann Cup Finals presented by Island Savings.  With the victory, the Peterborough Lakers claimed their 3rd consecutive Mann Cup. 

 

Missing the likes of Jesse King, Rhys Duch, Casey Jackson, and Tyler Pace the Shamrocks certainly entered game 5 behind the eight ball.  Despite all of that, the club battled with an intestinal fortitude that many would have forgiven them if they didn't display it. The Shamrocks turned game 5 into a defensive war and it nearly worked in their effort to extend the series to the weekend. 

 

 

https://www.victoria...-falls-short-as


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#22 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 01 April 2020 - 04:21 PM

It could be a while before Island lacrosse fans hear that familiar squeak of sneakers on the concrete floors of arenas.

 

The Western Lacrosse Association, which includes the Victoria Shamrocks and Nanaimo Timbermen, has joined the long list of sports leagues and events impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

It was announced Tuesday the 2020 WLA season, set to open May 21, has been postponed.

 

“First and foremost, it is about following the provincial guidelines, and keeping everyone safe and well,” said Shamrocks general manager Chris Welch.

 

https://www.timescol...emic-1.24110226


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Posted 16 February 2021 - 08:35 AM

fired their coach.



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Posted 16 February 2021 - 09:25 AM

Victoria Shamrocks part ways with head coach Bob Heyes 
 
FEBRUARY 15, 2021 
 
Bob Heyes got the relationship-type ‘it’s not you, it’s us’ line in being dismissed as head coach of the Victoria Shamrocks after eight winning seasons and four Western Lacrosse Association championships. 
 
“Bob has done a great job but it was time for a change,” said GM Chris Welch. 
 
“Eight years is a long run for a head coach in our league and we felt the time was right for a change. It’s just a reality of coaching in sports that it is a temporary job, and every coach will eventually run their course with a team. I feel we have reached that point.” 
 
 
 


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Posted 18 May 2021 - 08:51 AM

Another lacrosse season will be lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The Western Lacrosse Association announced Tuesday, May 18, that it is cancelling the 2021 season. The WLA said in a press release that the “difficult and disappointing decision” to cancell the season and the Mann Cup national championship was made in partnership with Major Series Lacrosse and Lacrosse Canada.

 

According to the press release, the leagues had been planning a delayed start to the season and had drafted revised schedules with an eye to the Mann Cup going ahead in September. However, “considering directions from government and public health authorities,” the commissioners concluded “it would not be possible or responsible to play this year.”

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.vicnews....ue-to-covid-19/


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Posted 19 May 2022 - 05:23 AM

Lacrosse and baseball are back after two missed seasons. CHEK will broadcast the ­Victoria Shamrocks season opener against the New Westminster Salmonbellies (one of the most underrated names in sports, BTW) on May 27.

 

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Posted 27 May 2022 - 07:03 AM

Shamrock, Salmonbellies face-off to herald return of the WLA

 

The last time a lacrosse ball was fired in anger, or at least with the intent to score, at The Q Centre was in 2019.
 


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Posted 07 August 2022 - 04:01 AM

Shamrocks drop to fourth seed, start WLA playoffs on the road
Thanks to coming out on the wrong end of a four-team tiebreaker, the road to the Mann Cup for the Victoria Shamrocks will start at the Langley Events Centre.
 


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Posted 12 August 2022 - 02:09 AM

The Victoria Shamrocks needed overtime Thursday night in Game 4, but they’ve clawed all the way back into their Western Lacrosse Association semifinal series with the Langley Thunder.
 
After Curtis Dickson disappointed the home crowd with a snipe with just 38 seconds remaining in the third period to force overtime, Jacob Ruest and Chris Wardle scored in the 10-minute extra frame to send the Shamrocks to a 12-10 victory, evening the series a 2-2. Game 5 goes Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Langley Events Centre. Game 6 is set for Sunday at 5 p.m. at The Q Centre.
 
 
 


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Posted 04 August 2023 - 04:02 AM

The regular season is OK for moral victories. But only real ones matter in the shorter ­crucible of the playoffs.

 

The fourth-seed Victoria Shamrocks gave the top-seed New Westminster ­Salmonbellies all they could handle in the first game, won 11-9 by the ­Salmonbellies, of their best-of-five Western Lacrosse Association playoff semifinal series on Wednesday night at Queen’s Park Arena.

 

 

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