Venom showed heart

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The six Strathmore Venom lacrosse teams that participated in the annual Canada Day tournament in Calgary all played hard and really enjoyed the hype around the biggest event of their lacrosse season.
Strathmore Lacrosse President, Chris Iversen, has nothing but great things to say about his team’s work ethic in such a massive tournament with many unfamiliar foes.
“Our bantam B is doing really well, they’re probably going to make the playoffs,” said Iversen.
“All the teams I’ve seen so far, they’ve been playing well, they didn’t get the scores they’ve wanted on the scoreboard.”
He added that the competition was tough, especially with several teams at the tournament being tiered at a certain level that gave the Venom teams different attacks to work against.
“I think our kids, they play up to that level and it makes for a more entertaining game. I think they have more fun at it,” he said.
The Strathmore teams looked forward to the different competition, as they do not see many of them in the regular season.
“The style of play is different, depending on where they play too,” said Iversen.
“A lot of the American teams come from a big field background and field players are amazing stick handlers. But not so much in the corners, guys that play box like to play a physical game in the corners, they like to beat them up a little bit.”