The Nicola Valley Thunder midget lacrosse team saved its best effort for its final game to wind up seventh out of eight teams in their home tournament on the weekend.
In the ‘D’ final at the Shulus arena on Sunday morning, the Thunder got four goals from Kristian Stead in a 7-4 victory over their league rivals, the North Okanagan Legends. Liam Clinging scored twice for the Thunder while bantam call-up Marcelo Bose had one goal.
An already young Thunder squad had three bantam-aged players in their line-up over the weekend. In addition to Bose, Caleb Loewen and Lane Antoine all saw floor time with the older midget team.
The Thunder opened the tournament Friday night with a 9-1 loss to the Ridge Meadow Burrards, who went undefeated in their four games over the weekend and finished first overall by defeating Chilliwack 4-3 in an exciting championship game on Sunday afternoon.
In their second outing, a 10-7 loss to Kamloops, the Thunder fell behind 6-0 before making a game of it in the second and third periods. Stead and Michael Lund each scored twice for Nicola Valley while singles came from Bose, Curtis Diock and Skyler McLeod.
Scoring proved to be more of a challenge in the Thunder’s final round robin game on Saturday afternoon, a 5-1 defeat to Chilliwack. Only Stead could find the back of the net.
There are just two Thunder home games this coming weekend as the bantams and novices host Kelowna and North Okanagan at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. respectively at the Shulus arena.
The June 9-11 weekend will feature an eight-team, 17-game novice tournament at the Nicola Valley arena.
