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        Local Lacrosse Players, Lukas and Xavier Gault,

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        Play with the Scottish Club at North American

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        Invitational Box Lacrosse Tournament

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                                              Lacrosse Association president, Beth
        By Molly Kett                         Pollock looking for players.  The

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                                              reason  they  reached  out  to  CMLA
             ecently, two local lacrosse
        Rplayers suited up to play for the    was that former Jr. C Celtics captain,
        Glasgow Clydesiders at the North      Ryan Dewar, has been a valued
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        American  Invitational  box lacrosse   member  of the senior Clydesiders
        tournament  held  in  Onondaga,  just   club that competes around Europe.
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        south of Syracuse.                       Although the club  hails  from
                                              Glasgow, the U15 team did not
          Twelve-year-old    Lukas    Gault
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        and thirteen-year-old Xavier Gault,   include any Scottish players. Most
        brothers, got the chance to play with   were  American  with  the  remainder
        the  fifteen  and  under  team  in  what   hailing from Ontario.
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        has become one of the premier indoor     As  the youngest team in the
        lacrosse events in the world.  This  tournament,       the     Clydesiders
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        event is known for attracting dozens  struggled for victories throughout the
        of professional players in the men’s  tournament. They dropped their first
        division and teams from as far as  three games to  The
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        Hungary and Poland. This year was  Woodsmen, Six Nations Brotherhood,
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        the first time they included a youth  and the Philadelphia  Lasersharks.
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        division.                             They  were  able  to  win  their  final   Lukas Gault second from left and Xavier Gault third from the right.
          According to the boys’ dad, Thorin   game, beating the Pittsburgh Kings                                                            Photo Submitted
                                              three  to  one  to  finish  tenth  in  the
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        Gault, the opportunity for the Gault                                        team  and Xavier  for the  Ontario  the fall. Cornwall hopes to maintain a
        brothers  arose  when Clydesider      division.                             silver medalist bantams,” says Thorin  relationship with the Clydesiders and
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        organizer, Brian  Witmer  contacted      “Lukas spent the summer playing  Gault. “They both suit up for the  there is already talk of a European
        their  mother  and  Cornwall  Minor  for the  Cornwall  Celtic’s peewee  Ottawa Capitals field lacrosse club in  tour next summer.”
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