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Cornwall Lacrosse Players Taking it to the Next
Level
By Thorin Gault Internation College Yellow Jackets
in Springfield, Massachusetts. He
he popularity and quality of is a box lacrosse goalie who has
Tlacrosse, both in Cornwall and played the last two seasons with
the surrounding area, has exploded Gloucester’s Jr. B team.
over the past ten years. It is no Kaleb Malyon is entering his
surprise that the number of local senior year at Newberry College in
players taking their game to the South Carolina. He is a long pole
collegiate ranks has grown along defender for the D2 Wolves. Kaleb
with that surge. graduated from the Akwesasne Jr.
There are nine products of B program where he won a silver
the Cornwall Minor Lacrosse medal at the national championship
Association suiting up for both and has also been a call-up with the
Six Nations Jr. A Arrows.
NCAA (American) and CUFLA
(Canadian University) programs for The NCAA season starts in late
the 2024/25 season. winter and extends into the spring.
Collegiate lacrosse is the outdoor, There are six Cornwall players
ten versus ten version of the game, suiting up in the Canadian University
and all of these players return to Field Lacrosse Association,
eastern Ontario to play box lacrosse distributed evenly between the east
in the summer. The local players and west conferences.
honed their outdoor lacrosse skills
with the Ottawa Capitals and Ottawa In the west, Xavier Gault is a
freshman defender with the Guelph
Nemesis club programs.
Gryphons. He is a transition player in
Thomas Shoniker is currently a the summer for the Cornwall Celtics
freshman midfielder at Manhattan and Gloucester Jr. B’s. Guelph is
L-R Ryder Starblanket, Cam Fraser, Landen Sinfield. Photo Submitted
University in the Bronx. The Jaspers currently in first place in the Western
are a D1 program that finished third conference with a 4-0 record after degree and plays attack for the Matt has tallied 5 goals in 5 games
in the Metro Atlantic conference last defeating the defending national Lakers. In the summer he suits up for the 2-3 Lakers, who sit in 6th
season. Shoniker plays as a defensive champions, the Western Mustangs, for the Ottawa Axemen Sr. B team place in the West.
transition player for the Cornwall 13-7 in their recent match up. and is an assistant coach with the Jr.
Junior C Celtics and Gloucester Jr. B C Celtics. Carter has 3 goals and 7 In the east, the Ottawa Gee-Gees
Griffins in the summer. Both Carter Tait and Matthew assists in 4 games so far this season. have lots of Cornwall flavour. Landen
Lalonde are members of the Sinfield is a freshman attackman
Tommy St. Louis is in his Nippissing Lakers in North Bay. Tait Lalonde is a junior year attackman who is one of the team’s leading
sophomore season as a long pole is in his final year of an education for Nipissing and is coached by his
defenseman with the D2 American university teammate with the Celtics. Continued on page 21