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Whitby Warriors swept aside by Six Nations
The Whitby Warriors managed to exceed and fall short of expectations all in one fell swoop this summer.
In the end, though, it seems head coach Derek Keenan has the junior A lacrosse team on the right track to become a Minto Cup contender once again in the not-too-distant future.
Having lost about a dozen players from the team that managed just an 8-14 record and missed the playoffs in 2009, the Warriors were hopeful only of a middle-of-the-pack finish with Keenan as the new man in charge.
Instead, the Warriors challenged for second place for much of the season, ended up in third with a 17-5 record and were the only team to defeat first-place Orangeville in the regular season.
The falling short part came in the playoffs, where the Warriors eked out a 3-2 series win over Brampton before being swept aside in four games of the semifinal against the Six Nations Arrows, a team they had beaten in both regular season meetings.
“It was a good year, but we’re not satisfied because the expectations changed as we went into playoffs,” said Keenan. “We thought we were a little bit better than we ended up at the end of it all.”
The main difference in the playoffs, according to Keenan, was the big Six Nations defenders keeping the smaller Whitby skill players in check, not always using legal methods, in his mind.
With only two penalties called against the Arrows Tuesday at the Iroquois Park Sports Centre, the Warriors simply couldn’t get their offence going and lost 4-3, completing the sweep.
Nevertheless, Keenan is optimistic about the future of the team, which will lose five players to graduation next year, but may well get Mark Matthews back after he spent a season in Coquitlam.
Matthews is exactly the type of big, skilled player that would have helped penetrate the stifling Six Nations defence.
Keenan, a highly successful coach in the National Lacrosse League as well, had a hectic summer as he also coached his son’s Whitby midget team.
But, with a strong staff that included Jeff McComb, Jim Dasberg and Dan Ladouceur, he accepted the junior A job with an eye to the future.
“I think I jumped into this a little sooner than I thought I would to be honest,” said Keenan, who relied on his assistants to cover him at times. “We’ve developed that (midget) group from seven, eight years olds to play at the higher levels and think a lot of them will be ready to play junior B next year and eventually junior A.”
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