20 PENINSULA NEWS REVIEW |

Upcoming events on the Peninsula:
Despite the lack of a home tear to “root,
root, root for” during the seventh-inning
stretch, big crowds are expected as the Little
League Provincial Championships continue
every night this week at Rotary Park.

Peninsula a News Review

The Peninsula Falcons
Intermediate. ‘B’- lacrosse
team may or may not be
playing in the Provincial

Championships this week-°

end in Burnaby.
In fact, the decision by a.
lower mainland league. to

prevent the local.squad of |

17 and 18-year-olds from
_ participating: may result in

complete cancellation of the. 3

weekend tournament as a fo the. tournament,

sanctioned provincial final.
“As of Friday, they were.
a going. ‘That’s. the last J
heard,” said Hugh” Tait,
president — of. ‘the. = B.C.
. Lacrosse; :
= (BCLA)..
“The: 'BCLA's ‘Senior Di

-rectorate has asked . the —
“lower, mainland league who -
are: hosting the: Provincial -
-tournament, to expand the -
event. ‘from: four. teams. toes.
five in order to. ‘accommo--
“date the ‘Falcons. If they

hs don't expand the event, Tait. -

~ said it would. not be. recog:

nized as an official provin-"..
cial championship. by. the.
~ BCLA. As of Tuesday morn-

Bonner -

ing, however, -
Neeve, president of Penin-

sula Falcons Lacrosse, was.
still under the impression a

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that his team would not be

allowed to participate.
“I’m at my wits end with

frustration,” said Neeve

‘shortly before The Review's
- Tuesday press deadline.

“It's on and off, on and off.
As of right now, I’m being

told we won't be playing.”

That could change after
the host lower mainland

-Jeague’s board of directors
- meets Tuesday afternoon. -

| Regardless of what hap-

pens in the days leading up.

‘ the
Peninsula team is planning

to make the weekend trip! to
Burnaby. ©.

oo &We> got: our boys: ‘to- 7
_gether fora special meeting
Friday: ‘and told them what
“was going on,” said Bonner.
ve, the» ‘President: “of

“They: were: “mad. ‘Some: ‘of. to allow Peninsula to play in

them were in tears, but they. ©

said. they. wanted to go an

: who have been competing r
as a-team for just two years, _

won the bronze medal at

‘Jast year’s: provincial tour-

nament.. Neeve — helped
found the program after it

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-Neeve, he said, to make a

if. not to play, then to. :
"Tait. “But they want them to ©
-come to the: Provincials asa
: league champion.” -~ ns
~ Tait said that, to date, the :

Making ‘the ‘dacertaintys"
even | more disheartening iS

became evident
Peninsula team was needed
for older players without the
time or skill to play at the ‘A’

level with either the Victoria _

Shamrocks or Nanaimo
Timberwolves programs.

Tait agreed that starting

a new program is difficult
despite an abundance of in-
terested players. It takes
dedicated volunteers like

new program successful.

-Neeve started the team -

two years ago and this year
there. was.a second inter-.
mediate ‘B’ team added

from the Victoria-Esquimalt

area. Without three teams.

“on the Island, however,
there won't be anew league |
‘added and that is one rea-
gon the league on the lower’ -

3 mainland has so far refused _ _ that kept the Whalley team within one run. ‘Unfortunately. for the mainland visitors,.

Gordon Head shut. the door in the final inning and hung on to. the 3-2 win to ad-.
Mm. The winner

the provincial tournament.
“The league has no prob:
em with them playing,” ‘said

lower mainland is the only

intermediate ‘B’ league in,
‘the province, adding that
the BCLA wants.to ensure ©

lacrosse continues to grow
on the Island.

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‘vance to a semi-final: match-up with Prince George tonight at 6:30 p-
f that game. advances to the final Saturday afterncon: p.m.

n other: ‘action? the host. Sidney North Saanich squad was’ ailminated early ‘after.
dropping their first two games to Gordon Head and Dunbar. The Dunbar team. was
also eliminated. after a loss to Triangle, who needed to win a re-match with Whalley.
+ Tuesday night (after press time) to stay, alive. Beaver Valley is still playing and will
-- face the loser of the Gordon Head — Prince George game on Thursday night at 6:30

p.m. The winner of that game then plays the winner. of the Whalley - ~ Triangle re-

match for a trip to Saturday's finals.

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