Cats Get Venom:

This is in todays Morning Star Newspaper:

Cats get Venom

Published: July 14, 2009

The Vernon Re/Max Tigers were expecting to open the Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse championship series in Kelowna Tuesday night.
Instead, the Tigers hosted the upstart Kamloops Venom in the best-of-five final series. The fifth-place Venom stunned the first-place Warriors 8-5 Saturday night in Kelowna to win the semifinal series 2-1.
“We were surprised the Venom beat Kelowna,” said Vernon co-coach Rich Zecchel. “They have a really good goalie in Stu Ford, who has had a few Junior A stints. Doug Clark has coached Team B.C. at various levels at the nationals so they are well coached.
“They also have one of the best players in the league, Riley Donahue (ninth in scoring with 16-17-33). They’re smaller than us and they don’t like to get hit. They’re not as quick as Kelowna which is good for us. We match up well with them.”
The Venom’s top scorer in the regular season was Quinn Smith, who finished fifth with 17 goals and 41 points.
The Tigers won the season series 2-1, winning 11-4 on June 24 in Kamloops, the last time the teams met. Vernon finished at 8-4-2, while the Venom went 6-6-2, knocking off the fourth-place Kamloops Rattlers in first-round playoff action.
Game 2 in the championship series goes Thursday night in Kamloops, while a third game is Saturday night (7:30) at Wesbild Centre. A fourth game, if required, is scheduled for Monday night in Kamloops. Game 5 would go Wednesday, July 22 in Vernon.
The winner advances to the provincials, July 31-Aug. 3 in Victoria.