The Maple Ridge Burrards won their third game of the young WLA season Sunday at home, 8-6 over the Burnaby Lakers.
The Burrards led 3-2 after the first period, but the score was 5-5 after two. The Maple Ridge senior men’s lacrosse team outscored Burnaby 3-1 in the final frame to improve to 3-1 overall.
Curtis Dickson paced the Burrards with four goals and two assists and fired 18 shots in the game. He now has a league-leading 18 goals and 26 points in four games.
Lance Andre, general manager and president of the Burrards, said the team got off to a slow start Sunday, but had a great thrid period, back by great goaltending and a dominant performance by Dickson.
“He’s arguably the best player in the world,” Andre said.
“He’s happy to be a Burrard, and he’s key to us returning to the Mann Cup.”
The Burrards fell in five games to the Six Nations Chiefs in the 2016 national championship series.
The Burrards came second in the 2017 WLA regular season, then fell in the first round of the playoffs to the New Westmisnter Salmonbellies, without Dickson.
Dickson, known as ‘Superman’ for his aerial goal-scoring moves, rejoined the Burrards in March after three seasons back east with the Peterborough Lakers, the 2017 Mann Cup champion.
Andre said the Burrards are expecting seven more players to join the team in the next several weeks.
One is Kyle Marr, a free agent signed in the off-season. He’s a left shot from Albany, N.Y. who led the Johns Hopkins University field lacrosse team in goals.
Chase McIntyre, from Jacksonville University in Florida, is an offensive transition player set to join the Burrards by next weekend, while Alberta products Garrett McIntosh and Dan Taylor will return by July 1.
Andre is optimistic about the team’s chances of advancing to the Mann Cup just four games into the regular season.
“Very optimistic.”
Adam Dickson, Mike Mallory, Mitch Wilde and Colton Porter also scored for Ridge against Burnaby.
Frank Scigliano stopped 32 of 38 shots for the win. Ridge outshot Burnaby 49-38.
• The second-place Burrards host the Coquitlam Adanancs at Cam Neely Arena next Sunday, June 10, 6:45 p.m.