The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League (OJBLL) is a box lacrosse league sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association in Canada. The league features twenty-four teams in Ontario, one in Quebec, and one in the Akwesasne (which straddles the two aforementioned provinces and New York) that annually play a 20-game schedule and four rounds of playoffs for the J. A. MacDonald Trophy. After the conclusion of the playoffs, a league champion represents the OJBLL at the Founders Cup National Junior B Championship.
History
The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League of the Ontario Lacrosse Association has been around since at least 1965. The OJBLL compete for the J. A. MacDonald Trophy annually at the provincial level. At the national level, the OJBLL has been extremely dominant at the Founders Cup tournament only losing out to other leagues a handful of times in the last 40+ years.
Players from the OJBLL and the Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League are often drafted straight into the professional levels of lacrosse, the National Lacrosse League and Canadian Lacrosse League.
The league has changed formats few times in the last few decades. The league has played with no divisions (1990) and with as many as seven (2005). The league presently has 26 teams with 2 Conferences and 3 Divisions, but is ever expanding. In the past few years, the league has expanded to Oakville, Windsor, London, Cornwall, Hamilton, Niagara, Markham, Orangeville, and Welland. Also, for the 2007 season, the City of Caledon applied to resurrect its old Caledon Bandits franchise, but was offered a spot in the new OLA Junior C Lacrosse League in 2008.[1] Kahnawake Hunters joined the OLA Jr B League in 2009 after not fielding a team in the OLA or Iroquois League for five years.[2] In 2012, the Brampton Excelsiors joined the OJBLL.[3]
Clarington Green Gaels had a run between 1998 and 2004 when the Gaels won 4 Founders Cups as Canadian Junior "B" champions and 2 J. A. MacDonald Trophy OJBLL Championships.[4][5] Of the recent expansion of the league, the Oakville Buzz have been the most remarkable franchise to be built. In 2006, the Buzz team went 19-1 and strolled through the playoffs with little opposition. The Buzz went undefeated at the Founders Cup and crushed the hopes of the host Windsor AKO Fratmen, beating them by a score of 10-4 in the final.[6]
Currently, the league is dominated by the Six Nations Rebels, winners of five of the past seven league championships and Founders Cups (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013).[7]
Teams
(*) denotes division leader, three per conference.
2014 J. A. MacDonald Trophy Playoffs
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Conference Quarter-final
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Conference Semi-final
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Conference Final
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Final
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E1
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Clarington
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3
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E8
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Nepean
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0
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E1
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Clarington
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1
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E4
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Halton Hills
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3
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E4
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Halton Hills
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3
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E5
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Gloucester
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0
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E4
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Halton Hills
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3
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Eastern
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E3
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Akwesasne
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0
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E2
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Oakville
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3
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E7
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Newmarket
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1
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E2
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Oakville
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2
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E3
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Akwesasne
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3
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E3
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Akwesasne
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3
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E6
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Kahnawake
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0
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E4
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Halton Hills
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0
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W1
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Six Nations
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3
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W1
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Six Nations
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3
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W8
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Welland
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0
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W1
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Six Nations
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3
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W4
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Niagara
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0
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W4
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Niagara
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3
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W5
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Elora
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0
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W1
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Six Nations
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3
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Western
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W2
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Orangeville
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1
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W2
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Orangeville
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3
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W7
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St. Catharines
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1
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W2
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Orangeville
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3
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W3
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Windsor
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2
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W3
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Windsor
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3
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W6
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Wallaceburg
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2
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Champions
Overall champions are
bolded. In three-division years, the
italics denote finals runner-up. Champion moves on to the
Founders Cup national championship.
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Year
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West
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Central
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East
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Series
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1969
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Mississauga PCO's
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1970
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Niagara Warriors
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Rexdale Warriors
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Whitby B&R Trans
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CC*
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1971
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Hamilton Bengals
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Rexdale Warriors
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Cornwall Celtics
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3-1
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1972
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Hamilton Bengals
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Whitby B&R Trans
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Cornwall Celtics
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3-1
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West
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Central
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East
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Series
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1976
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Elora Mohawks
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Ennismore TWS
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Nepean Timbermen
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3-1
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(*) denotes that OLA championship was awarded through a superior record at Founders Cup/Castrol Cup tournament.
Former Member Teams
References
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^ http://www.thewhig.com/2008/11/26/junior-lacrosse-to-make-return
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^ http://www.hunterslax.com/our-team.html
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^ http://www.bramptonguardian.com/sports-story/3071669-junior-b-lacrosse-is-back-/
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^ http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/archives/2002/2002founderscup.pdf
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^ http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/archives/2004/2004founderscup.pdf
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^ http://www.insidehalton.com/sports-story/2910986-oakville-buzz-wins-national-lacrosse-title/
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^ http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/08/27/rebels-simply-dominant-in-founders-cup-victory
External links
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OLA Official Website
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The Bible of Lacrosse
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Unofficial OLA Website
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Current Teams
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Former Member Teams
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Senior
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Professional
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Major
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Semi-Pro
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CDN Senior B
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CDN Senior C
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Canadian Junior
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Defunct Leagues
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