Barrie Lakeshores
Barrie, Ontario | |
Arena | Innisfil Recreation Complex |
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Colours | Blue, Red, and White |
Head coach | Dave Ree, Brett Kloepfer, Brandon Ree, Steph Charbonneau |
General manager | Mike Kloepfer |
The Barrie Lakeshores are Junior "A"
History
Founded in 2000 as an Ontario Jr. B lacrosse team, the Barrie Tornado were named after the deadly
The 2000 season, their first season, was a good start but nothing special. Since then, the Tornado have never slipped below a .500 record. Between 2000 and 2003, the team got progressively better. In 2000, they started out with a 5-15-0 record. The next season, the Tornado performed much better with an even 10-10-0 record, making the playoffs. In the first round, the squad faced the Green Gaels, the defending Canadian Champs. The boys from Barrie made quick work defeating the Gaels 3–1. The Tornado moved onto the second round and faced the Scarborough Saints, and eventually fell in a 5-game series. In 2002, Barrie had a 14-7-1 record in an extended 22-game season. Barrie met the Saints again in the first round defeating them 3–0. In the second round, the Tornado faced off against the Gaels yet again. In a back and forth series, the Tornado succumbed to the Gaels in 5 games. (The Gaels would eventually claim the Canadian Championship.)
2003 was the coming out party for the Tornado. By the end of the season, Barrie clinched first in the Eastern Conference with a 15-4-1 record. In the first round of the playoffs, Barrie took on the Oakville Buzz. The series, surprisingly, went the distance. The long series was a sign of the beginning of the growth of a young and quickly developing Buzz team. The Tornado took the series 3 games to 2. The Quarter-finals were against the Mimico Mountaineers. Barrie very quickly went down 2 games to none in the best-of-5 series. To the dismay of the Mountaineers, Barrie pulled themselves back together and won the next 3 games straight to earn a berth to the Conference final. In the Eastern Conference final, the Barrie Tornado took on the Nepean Knights. The Tornado won the series without much trouble, 3 games to 1, to earn a berth into the League final.
The finals determine the OLA's representative at the National Championships. The Tornado's opponent in the Provincial championship was the
2003 Founders Cup
The National Championship opened for Barrie against Juan de Fuca on August 20, 2003. The Tornado dominated their opponents, defeating them by a score of 11–5. The same day, Barrie played their second game against
Day two, August 21, saw Barrie crush
Although the final between Barrie and Coquitlam was a lot closer than their first meeting, the Tornado cruised to a 16–8 win to earn their first ever Founders Cup as National Junior "B" Champions.
Since 2003
Barrie had a pair of rebuilding years in 2004 and 2005, but came back to form in 2006 with a 17-2-0 record. However, the Tornado were upset in the quarter-finals by the
Season-by-season results
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Season | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | PTS | Placing | Playoffs |
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2000 | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 146 | 272 | 10 | 8th OLA-B East | DNQ |
2001 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 209 | 202 | 20 | 7th OLA-B East | Lost quarter-final |
2002 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 253 | 205 | 29 | 4th OLA-B East | Lost quarter-final |
2003 | 20 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 245 | 159 | 31 | 1st OLA-B East | Won League, won Founders Cup |
2004 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 204 | 166 | 20 | 9th OLA-B East | DNQ |
2005 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 215 | 148 | 23 | 6th OLA-B East | Lost 1st round |
2006 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 202 | 119 | 34 | 2nd OLA-B East | Lost quarter-final |
2007 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 176 | 139 | 22 | 5th OLA-B East | Lost quarter-final |
2008 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 160 | 129 | 27 | 7th OLA-B East | Lost 1st round |
2009 | *22 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 188 | 215 | 16 | 9th OLA-A | DNQ |
2010 | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 174 | 279 | 8 | 10th OLA-A | DNQ |
2011 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 187 | 270 | 14 | 10th OLA-A | DNQ |
2012 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 174 | 274 | 6 | 10th OLA-A | DNQ |
2013 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 186 | 191 | 20 | 7th OLA-A | Lost quarter-final |
2014 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 190 | 224 | 16 | 9th OLA-A | DNQ |
2015 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 159 | 175 | 19 | 7th OLA-A | Lost quarter-final |
2016 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 152 | 177 | 12 | 9th OLA-A | DNQ |
2017 | 20 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 131 | 197 | 7 | 11th OLA-A | DNQ |
2018 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 88 | 197 | 4 | 11th OLA-A | DNQ |
2019 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 82 | 247 | 0 | 12th OLA-A | DNQ |
External links
- Barrie Lakeshores Lacrosse Club
- Barrie Tornados (archived)
- Official 2003 Founders Cup Page
- The Bible of Lacrosse
- Unofficial OLA Page Archived 2006-09-08 at the Wayback Machine