Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The fight for the Mann Cup

Allsports article on the Major Series Eastern Lacrosse final between the Brampton Excelsior's and the Peterborough Lakers. The series is tied at one game each. Who will go on to play the West for the Mann Cup.

Amplify’d from allsportsontheweb.com

The last time I wrote I mentioned that Brampton had just defeated Brooklin to move on and that the Peterborough Lakers could do the same against Six Nations. Well they did, taking out the Chiefs 10-3. So now the Brampton Excelsiors will be fighting it out with the Peterborough Lakers to see who will have the right to represent the East in the Mann Cup.

Peterborough lakers
Brampton Excelsiors logo

These two teams are pretty evenly matched and the series should go at least six or seven games. You have the youth and young legs of the Excelsiors against the veteran savvy of the Lakers. These two teams are very strong and would give any of the teams in the NLL a run for the money.  The Lakers have the home floor advantage and will get the seventh game if it is needed. The Lakers won the first game of the series at home 9-8 in double overtime and Brampton countered in game two with an 8-5 home win of their own.

Read more at allsportsontheweb.com
 

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