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Zone 5 Lacrosse players including Sunshine Coast team members, Justin Macey, Gabriel Chamberlain and Jacob Huson, (not shown here) showed off their skills and might at the B.C. Summer Games in Nanaimo. Players, coaches and organizers hope to see the sport grow at home on the Sunshine Coast. Photo Jack Harynuk
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laying at the B.C. Summer Games was an eye-opening and thrilling experience for Weathertight lug 1035 Zone 5 Lacrosse players including Sunshine Coast team members who brought their A game to the provincial matches in Nanaimo. It was also a treat for the other zone teams to see the skillful and dedicated play from the (Sunshine Coast-Northshore-Vancouver) Zone 5 team members, their coach Rob Pearsall observed. “It’s their sportsmanship, it’s their spirit within the game,” he said of the 15 and Aug.team. 30, 2012 16-year-old boys lacrosse The Zone 5 team had key challenges to overcome, having a short bench and a smaller pool of zone players in general, (they had just
15 players and two goalies, and one of their goalies was injured in the first game,) but what they lacked in numbers they made up for in determination and skill. “I can tell you right now the Sunshine Coast players were an amazing, and really integral part of the fabric of our team,” Pearsall emphasized, “great kids, really easy to coach and obviously well coached over there,” (on the Coast, by Bethia Macey and Patrick Query.) The Summer games were super for showing off local talent that athletes have been working hard to hone, the Zone 5 coach, Pearsall notes, adding Coast athlete Gabriel Chamberlain drew a lot of interest from other star players for his ability to take face-offs.
“One of the best face-off kids in the province, asked me, ‘who is that kid in the blue helmet?’ and I said that’s Gabriel Chamberlain,” the coach said. The opposing star player admitted he’d won just two face-offs the whole game. The team kept pace with even eventual championship teams until the final periods, when their team’s size began to take a toll. “But they made these other teams work for (the wins),” Pearsall said. Sunshine Coast forward, Jacob Huson had them on high alert, the coach observed, “(Huson) reads the floor really well and it’s hard to stop him when he goes for the net.” See For more Coast lacrosse continued on page 2
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