Peterborough Lakers Release Gift Certificates For Sale In Time For Holiday Season

The gift of lacrosse can be given this holiday season as the Peterborough Century 21 Lakers have released $100 gift certificates on sale for $90, announced on Tuesday evening.

Photo courtesy of the Peterborough Lakers.

The gift certificates can be used on either season tickets or single-game tickets during the 2025 season.

Tickets are available at the Grant Thornton Memorial Centre Box Office on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by phone at (705) 743-3561.

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Peterborough Lakers Announce Pete Dalliday As New Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships

A familiar face is joining the Peterborough Lakers as Pete Dalliday becomes the team’s new Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships, announced on Wednesday morning.

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In this role, he will help expand the Lakers' footprint in the local sports landscape, Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) and across Ontario.

“We are excited to have Pete join our team in this capacity,” said Len Powers, Chairman of the Board. “His connection to the community and understanding of the Lakers' values make him a perfect fit as we strategically grow our presence and engage more deeply with our fans. Pete's enthusiasm will be key as we build the future of lacrosse here in Peterborough.”

Dalliday has been well-known for his game commentary on YourTV for the Lakers and Peterborough Petes and with local radio and TV.

According to a press release, with his extensive experience in broadcasting, Dalliday will help elevate the Lakers' marketing strategies, driving new sponsorship opportunities and increasing awareness of the sport throughout the region. The Lakers believe that his leadership in this new role will contribute to growing lacrosse in the area and beyond.

“I’d like to thank the board for this opportunity to help lead such an iconic franchise,” said Dalliday. “As someone who has always felt a deep connection to the Lakers—whether as a fan, former player, or from the booth—this role feels like a natural fit. I’m excited to build relationships and strengthen community ties here in Peterborough to support our team, players, fans, and families, continuing to make the Lakers a true part of our community.”

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Three Peterborough Lakers Capture Gold at World Lacrosse Box Championship

Peterborough Lakers’s Matt Gilray, Jake Withers and Zach Currier helped Team Canada defend their title by winning the men’s World Lacrosse Box Championship and a gold medal, defeating Team USA 13-7 at the Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, N.Y. on Sunday evening.

(From left to right) Matt Gilray, Jake Withers and Zach Currier. Team Canada remains undefeated throughout the entire tournament’s history. Photo by David Tuan Bui.

Team Canada outlasted 27 other teams en route to a sixth-straight championship. Canada was ranked number one heading into the tournament. They were placed in ‘Pool A’ against the following three top-ranked teams: Haudenosaunee, USA and England, respectively.

They handily defeated England on their first day of action on the 21st, 19-4 at the Utica University Nexus Center. The following day, Canada was victorious again, beating Haudenosaunee in a close game, 13-10 at the Adirondack Bank Center.

They capped off their pool play by beating their rivals, the USA, 14-10, at the Mary C. Winder Community Center at the Oneida Indian Nation. According to World Lacrosse, it had been almost a decade since the international lacrosse game was held on native land.

After being undefeated for three straight games, Canada was named the number one seed and advanced to the quarterfinals. They drew Japan and routed them 22-4 on Thursday.

Canada met a familiar foe in England in a rematch in the semifinals and achieved a better result, winning 20-3 to advance to the finals.

The win saw a longstanding rivalry for the finals, as Canada had a rematch against the USA for the championship. Fellow Lakers Joe Resetarits and Drew Hutchinson played for the Americans as foes in the final matchup of the tournament.

Canada scored three straight goals to begin the game. USA was able to claw back, making it a one-goal deficit at the half. Canada held a 4-3 lead into the half.

Coming out of the half, the Canadians went on a six-goal run to pull away from the USA. While the Americans played valiantly, Canada had another three-goal run after allowing two consecutive goals to pull away 13-5. USA tacked on two late goals, but it was too little, too late and Canada remained undefeated to capture the world championship title.

Currier scored one goal in the championship, his third in the tournament. With Gilray and Withers not registering a point in the finals, the former had three goals and one assist in the tournament while defenceman Withers scored one goal overall.

Peterborough’s Erica Evans played for Team Canada in the first-ever Women’s World Lacrosse Box Championship and her team’s undefeated run ended in the gold medal game. They lost 10-7 after USA had a five-goal run in a comeback after being down 7-5 almost halfway through the fourth quarter.

Evans was also named to the inaugural Women's All-World Team.

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Hometown PTBO: Ted Higgins Involved In 70 Years of Lacrose and Fundraising For Parkinson's Disease

This week on Hometown PTBO, David Tuan Bui talks with Lakers president Ted Higgins about being involved in lacrosse for 70 years, how Peterborough became invested in the sport and his fundraising efforts for the Parkinson SuperWalk Campaign on Sept. 7.

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Peterborough Lakers Comeback Bid Falls Short, Eliminated By Six Nations Chiefs In 11-8 Loss

The Peterborough Lakers' season ended the same way it did last year, eliminated by the Six Nations Chiefs in the MSL final, as the former lost 11-8 in Game Six at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Tuesday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

The Lakers started the night in a huge hole, allowing the first five of six goals for a 5-1 deficit. Joe Resetarits scored a late powerplay goal to round out the period.

The second period was a low-scoring affair but did not favour the Lakers. Thomas Hoggarth opened the period with a score but that’s all Peterborough could muster. Cody Jamieson and Lyle Thompson scored for Six Nations and the Lakers dug an even bigger hole going into the third with a 7-3 score.

Peterborough tried to mount a comeback in the third, scoring the first four of five goals. A pair from Turner Evans, Owen Hiltz and Hoggarth contributed for a 8-7 game, trailing only by one.

Six Nations kept with Peterborough step-for-step as Jamieson to break the Lakers’ run. Hoggarth immediately responded to keep it within one but Six Nations was able to pull away with two more goals and end the comeback bid for the 11-8 win and MSL title.

Hoggarth was named the offensive player of the game and Eric Shewell as the defensive player.

Warren Hill made 44 saves for Six Nations and shared the Johnny ‘Shooter’ Davis Award with Doug Jamieson as playoff MVPs. Each goaltender was 4-1 in the postseason.

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Two Peterborough Lakers Named to Team Haudenosaunee For World Lacrosse Box Championships

Peterborough Lakers’s Koleton Marquis and Thomas Hoggarth have been named to Team Haudenosaunee for the World Lacrosse Box Championships running from Sept. 20 to 29 in Utica, N.Y.,

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

Marquis was drafted by the Lakers fourth overall in this year’s MSL draft on Jan. 21 while he was a sophomore at Johns Hopkins University. The Kahnawake forward has appeared in 10 regular-season games and two playoff contests for the Lakers this season. He had nine goals and 17 assists during that span.

Hoggath joined the Lakers as a rookie during the 2016-17 season. He won four Mann Cups with Peterborough and also named Top Transition Player in 2018 and 2019.

In eight regular-season games, he scored 22 goals and 15 assists for 37 points. In 11 playoff games, he added another 20 goals and 14 assists.

The World Championships has 28 teams in the men’s competition split into seven pools.

In the men’s competition, pool play will take place over five days. The top eight finishers will advance to the playoffs while the teams ranked ninth through 16th will compete in a play-in round for the remaining four positions.

The quarterfinals, semifinals and medal rounds for both championships will occur from Sept. 26 to 29. The bronze medal on the 28 and the gold medal the following day.

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Six Nations Chiefs Puts Peterborough Lakers Season In Jeopardy With 8-5 Win and 3-2 Series Lead

The Peterborough Lakers are on the brink of elimination after taking an 8-5 loss to the Six Nations Chiefs from their four-goal second period and down 3-2 in the MSL series final at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena on Sunday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

The Lakers had the start they wanted with Rob Hellyer drawing first blood. While last year’s MSL MVP Lyle Thompson responded with a goal, Peterborough got two more from Joe Resetarits and Carter Page to make it 3-1. In the last 15 seconds of the frame, Travis Longboat cut the deficit to one and it was 3-2 going into the second.

Longboat continued the scoring, making it a tie game less than three minutes into the stanza. Thompson, Shayne Jackson and former Laker Eli McLaughlin also scored for Six Nations to snag the lead. Hellyer was the lone goal scorer for Peterborough as they find themselves trailing 6-4.

Peterborough scored first in the third on the power play. Hellyer got a hat trick to pull the Lakers within one. Longboat responded with a hat trick of his own to restore the two-goal lead for Six Nations. Nonkon Thompson scored another for the Chiefs and Peterborough could not find the back of the net and fell 8-5.

The loss puts the Lakers at a series deficit for the first time this playoff season 3-2 and are one game away from elimination. Game Six is at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Tuesday night.

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Peterborough Lakers Fall In Close Game to Six Nations Chiefs In 13-10 Loss, Series Tied at Two

The Peterborough Lakers made it a game with the defending-champion SIx Nations Chiefs but eventually fell 13-10 in Game Four of the MSL finals at the Peterborough Memorial Centre (PMC) on Thursday.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

The teams traded five goals apiece in the first period. Joe Resetarits had Peterborough’s first two goals while Jake Withers, Thomas Hoggarth and Colton Armstrong got on the scoresheet.

Adam Thistlethwaite opened the scoring for Peterborough in the second period to give them the lead, 6-5. It was short-lived as Six Nations went on a four-goal run to pull away from Peterborough. The Lakers got one on the power play with 34 seconds left as Resetarits got a hat trick to cap off the period, 9-7.

Six Nations extended their lead in the third with two goals to open the frame. The teams alternated between scores including Resetarits’s fourth goal of the game while Owen Hiltz and Taite Cattoni each found the back of the net. The Lakers could not outscore the Chiefs in the third and wind up seeing the series evened at 2-2 with the 13-10 loss.

“We played a good 50 minutes of lacrosse but they’re such a talented team that in that 10 minutes we got lackadaisical, they made us pay,” said Jake Withers, Lakers defender. “That was the difference down the stretch. We play every game to win so we were hoping for a sweep but anyone who has any sense of logic would probably tell you that wasn’t going to happen.”

Game Five will be back at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena on Sunday, and Game Six will be back at the PMC on Tuesday.

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Peterborough Lakers Held Scoreless Last Two Periods For 12-3 Loss Against Six Nations In Game Three

It was not the best night for the Peterborough Lakers who were held off the scoresheet in the final two periods of a 12-3 Six Nations Chiefs win at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena on Tuesday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

Six Nations started hot as former Laker Eli McLaughlin scored the opening goal. It was followed up by three more Chiefs goals for a 4-0 lead with 8:34 left to play. It was a game of runs as the Lakers’s special teams got them on the scoreboard. Turner Evans and Joe Resetarits had power-play goals while Thomas Hoggath scored shorthanded for a 4-3 game.

Unfortunately for Peterborough, that was all they could muster as Six Nations goalie Doug Jamieson shut the door for the last 44:16 of the game. Travis Longboat scored in the last 1:49 of the period for a 5-3 Six Nations lead after one.

The Chiefs scored seven unanswered goals including five in the second period. McLaughlin burned his former team with a hat trick to cap off the second, and Six Nations held a comfortable 10-3 lead.

In a low-scoring third period, Dhane Smith and Longboat were the lone scorers as they extended the Chiefs lead and put an exclamation point on Game Three for a decisive 12-3 win for a 2-1 series in favour of the Lakers.

The Lakers will try and rebound in Game Four at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday.

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Lakers Score Late to Propel Peterborough Over Six Nations For 2-0 Series Lead

Three goals in one minute gave the Peterborough Lakers an 8-5 win over the Six Nations Chiefs for a 2-0 series lead at the Peterborough Memorial Centre on Thursday night.

Photo courtesy of David Pickering and the Peterborough Lakers.

Similar to Game One, Six Nations opened the scoring with two straight goals from former Laker Eli McLaughlin and Randy Staats. Dylan Hutchinson responded for the Lakers to cut the lead in half for a 2-1 game after the first.

Steve Priolo restored Six Nations’s two-goal lead just under four minutes in. Refusing to fall behind, Peterborough had a three-goal run thanks to Taite Cattoni, Owen Hiltz and Turner Evans to get the first lead of the game, 4-3. Dhane Smith evened things up for Six Nations under one minute later and both teams were even after two periods, 4-4.

Halfway through the period, only one goal came from both sides as Rob Hellyer and Justin Martin scored for Peterborough and Six Nations respectively to make it a 5-5 game.

With 3:07 left in the game, Matt Gilray pickpocketed Cody Jamieson at centre floor and passed it to Colton Armstrong for a breakaway. The former Cobourg Kodiak did not disappoint as he beat 2019 President’s Cup MVP Warren Hill up top for the 6-5 lead.

“Matt Gilray made the big strip on Cody Jamieson and I saw a clear path to the net,” explained Armstrong. “He threw the ball up to me and I had some time. Usually I go really fast but I took my time and put the ball in the net. Got some air off the end boards there, I didn’t know when I was going to come down but it was a really cool experience and this arena blew right up. I wanted to give the guys a spark and right there we had a three-goal run. I don’t think these fans sat down for any of those.”

The goal excited the crowd and Armstong was equally as pumped up, dedicating the score to a special someone in his life.

“My wife is having a baby soon so that one was for her,” he said. “I tried to jump into the stands to give her a hug.”

It only took 17 seconds for Peterborough to strike again as Thomas Hoggarth shot against the grain on Hill’s opposite shoulder up top to beat him for a two-goal lead with 2:50 left to play. The Lakers were not done yet as Joe Resetarits snuck a low shot past Hill 43 seconds later. Peterborough had scored three goals in one minute during that span.

The Lakers held strong for the next 2:07 of regulation and took Game Two of the best-of-seven for a 2-0 series lead.

Game Three is back at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena where Six Nations will look to win their first game this series.

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