Burnaby Lakers’ Robert Church was named the 2014 Western Lacrosse Association’s MVP.
Church, who was also selected to the WLA’s first all-star team, scored 25 goals in 14 regular season games for the second-place Lakers.
Joining Church on the first team were high-scoring Victoria forward Corey Small and Maple Ridge Burrards’ lefthander Riley Loewen of Burnaby.
Small and Loewen were both closing in on milestone scoring in the summer league. Small is approaching the 200 goals and 500 points benchmark, while Loewen is a goal shy of his first century.
Rhys Duch, who shared the WLA scoring title with Small with 76 points, including a league-high 40 goals and three game-winners, was left off the all-first team. Duch was also this season’s three-star standings winner.
New Westminster Salmonbellies Jeff Cornwall, this year’s WLA defender of the year, and Langley’s Brett Mydske of New Westminster were both named all-star defenders on the all-first team.
WLA goalie of the year Frankie Scigliano was also named to the first team.
