WINNING WEEKEND FOR LAKESHOW

By Anna Taylor
Photo Credit By: Anna Taylor

COBOURG, ON – The Peterborough Century 21 Lakers picked up two more wins this weekend to move to 5-0 on the 2025 Major Series Lacrosse campaign. Saturday night the Lakers won 13-10 over the Owen Sound North Stars at Meaford-St. Vincent Community Centre and Sunday evening 13-6 over the Cobourg Kodiaks at the Cobourg Community Centre. 

It wraps up a stretch of three games in four days for the Lakers, who also won 6-5 over Brampton at home on Thursday.

“Three games in three days; my body will be sore tomorrow, but it was a lot of fun,” said rookie defender Frank Coyle, who didn’t play Thursday, but suited up Friday night for the Sr. B Ennismore James Gang. Saturday was his debut MSL game, and he scored his first MSL goal. 

“I got sent out for one offensive shift,” the Jr. A Lakers graduate chuckled. “I set an off-ball pick for (Austin) Hasen and turned around and Taite (Cattoni) had thrown me the ball. I closed my eyes, threw it at the net and it went in.”

Missing a number of veterans to prior commitments, the Lakers floored a lineup two runners short with five Jr. A Laker callups in Owen Sound (Curtis Ward, Seven Gillingham, Carter Frost, Dylan Lee and Grant Ramsey). Several regular came back for Sunday’s game, making Nate Sage the only Jr. A callup in the lineup. Sage scored his first two MSL goals with one assist. 

Saturday, the Lakers had a 7-5 lead after the second period before Owen Sound roared back to start the third with a five-goal run. The Lakers rallied and ended the game with their own six-goal run. Hasen, Mike Robinson, Brad McCulley, Carter Page and Curtis Ward each had two goals. The North Stars were led by Jackson Webster’s nine points (3G, 6A) and a hat trick by Tanner Buck. Kaleb Martin took the loss in goal. 

Sunday, it was a low-scoring affair until the Lakers, leading 6-4, broke the dam open in the third period, once again scoring six goals in the final frame. McCulley, Page, Koleton Marquis and Sage each scored twice. The shorthanded Kodiaks got a pair of goals from captain Aaron Woods and three assists from Alex Marinier. Jackson Brown suffered the loss, making 50 saves. Shots in the arena were 63-51 in favour of the Lakers.

Drew Hutchison played both games on the weekend, with Nick Rose backing up Saturday and Deacan Knott Sunday. Hutchison made 45 saves on Sunday. 

“He’s a great goalie, he makes a D guy’s job easy,” Coyle praised. “You can mess up and rely on him to steal some. It’s pretty easy playing in front of him.”

The Lakers are back at the Peterborough Memorial Centre this Thursday, June 5 at 8 p.m. to host Landon Kells and the Oakville Rock. Tickets are now on sale at the Grant Thornton Box Office.    

Saturday Scoring for the Lakers:

Austin Hasen (2-3)

Mike Robinson (2-2)

Brad McCulley (2-1)

Carter Page (2-1)

Curtis Ward (2-0)

Colton Armstrong (1-1)

Frank Coyle (1-1)

Payton Tasse (1-0)

Cam Milligan (0-6)

Taite Cattoni (0-3)

Sunday Scoring for the Lakers:

Brad McCulley (2-2)

Carter Page (2-2)

Nate Sage (2-1)

Koleton Marquis (2-0)

Cam Milligan (1-4)

Austin Hasen (1-4)

Mike Robinson (1-4)

Dylan Hutchison (1-0)

Matt Gilray (1-0)

Taite Cattoni (0-4)

Cole Begley (0-1)