Canada Day was no party for the Burnaby junior lacrosse team.
The junior A Lakers took another one on the chin following a 16-5 loss to the first-place Coquitlam Adanacs on Wednesday.
Burnaby kept pace with the B.C. Junior Lacrosse league frontrunners for the first eight minutes of the match on goals by Wyatt Pinder and Aidan Milburn, but it was tough sledding after that.
Coquitlam outscored the last-place Lakers 12-3 in the final 40 minutes to chalk up its 17th consecutive win of the season.
Burnaby’s Tyler Vogrig, who was loaned to Coquitlam at the trade deadline for a player and two top-four picks, had a pair of assists against his old teammates.
Graham Husick made 47 stops in the Burnaby net.
Earlier this week, Burnaby fell to Victoria 17-7 at home on Sunday.
Vogrig factored in on all but one of Burnaby’s goals, scoring five and assisting on one other.
“I found myself in the game today,” said Vogrig after Sunday’s loss. “We have to … play the way we can. We’re just not showing it on the floor.”
The Laker juniors are in Nanaimo on Saturday, before finishing off the season at home against the New Westminster Salmonbellies on Sunday.
Game time is 7 p.m. at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre.
League playoff matchups will also be decided on Sunday for Delta, New Westminster and Victoria – all three of which are currently knotted in second place with identical 12-6-1 records.
The best bet for runner-up appears to be the junior Shamrocks, which have back-to-back games this weekend against the 5-13-1 Port Coquitlam Saints.
Delta and New Westminster tied their season series at 1-1-1, following a 6-6 draw last week.
Both also have upcoming league games against Coquitlam to close out the regular season.
Should Delta and New West still be tied at the end of the regular season, the tiebreaker would come down to goals for in the head-to-head meetings between the two teams.
