Barrie Tornado

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Barrie Tornado

City	Barrie, Ontario
League	OLA Junior B Lacrosse League
Founded	2000
Home Arena	Barrie Dunlop Arena
Colours	Blue, Red, and Yellow
Coach	Kenny Hamilton
GM	Cathy Kloepfer

The Barrie Tornado are Junior "B" box lacrosse team from Barrie, Ontario, Canada. The Tornado play in the OLA Junior B Lacrosse League.

1 History
- 1.1 2003 Founders Cup
- 1.2 Since 2003
2 Season-by-Season Results
3 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 2000, the Barrie Tornado were named after the deadly 1985 tornado that put the Canadian City on the map.

The 2000 season, their first season, was a good start but nothing special. Since then, the Tornado have never slipped below a .500 record. Between 2000 and 2003, the team got progressively better. In 2000, they started out with a 5-15-0 record. The next season, the Tornado performed much better with an even 10-10-0 record, making the playoffs. In the first round, the squad faced the Green Gaels, the defending Canadian Champs. The boys from Barrie made quick work defeating the Gaels 3-1. The Tornado moved onto the second round and faced the Scarborough Saints, and eventually fell in a 5 game series. In 2002, Barrie had a 14-7-1 record in an extended 22-game season. Barrie met the Saints again in the first round defeating them 3-0. In the second round, the Tornado faced off against the Gaels yet again. In a back and forth series, the Tornado succumbed to the Gaels in 5 games. (The Gaels would eventually claim the Canadian Championship.)

2003 was the coming out party for the Tornado. By the end of the season, Barrie clinched first in the Eastern Conference with a 15-4-1 record. In the first round of the playoffs, Barrie took on the Oakville Buzz. The series, surprisingly, went the distance. The long series was a sign of the beginning of the growth of a young and quickly developing Buzz team. The Tornado took the series 3 games to 2. The Quarter-finals were against the Mimico Mountaineers. Barrie very quickly went down 2 games to none in the best-of-5 series. To the dismay of the Mountaineers, Barrie pulled themselves back together and won the next 3 games straight to earn a birth to the Conference final. In the Eastern Conference final, the Barrie Tornado took on the Nepean Knights. The Tornado won the series without much trouble, 3 games to 1, to earn a birth into the League final.

The finals determine the OLA's representative at the National Championships. The Tornado's opponent in the Provincial championship was the Six Nations Red Rebels. The two teams split the first two games of the best-of-5 final series with Six Nations winning 15-8 and Barrie taking game two 15-10. Barrie won a hard fought 8-6 win on the Six Nations home floor only to have the Rebels return the favour in on the Barrie floor with a 12-5 win to force a game 5. The thrilling series came to an end with Barrie Tornado claiming an 11-8 victory to win the Ontario title and the J. A. MacDonald Trophy to earn a birth into the 2003 Founders Cup tournament in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia.

[edit] 2003 Founders Cup

The National Championship opened for Barrie against Juan de Fuca on August 20, 2003. The Tornado dominated their opponents, defeating them by a score of 11-5. The same day, Barrie played their second game against Coquitlam. The result was indicative of a team playing their second game of the day, as they squashed Coquitlam by a score of 17-3.

Day two, August 21, saw Barrie crush Edmonton by a score of 13-3. August 22, had Barrie play their last game of the round robin against Winnipeg, defeating them 18-7. The victory clinched first place in Pool A, and a birth into the Semi-final against Prince George. In the end, Barrie pulled out a squeaker as they defeated Prince George by a close and low scoring 7-6 decision. In the other semi, Coquitlam defeated Port Coquitlam by a score of 10-8 to meet Barrie in the final.

Although the final between Barrie and Coquitlam was a lot closer than their first meeting, the Tornado cruised to a 16-8 win to earn their first ever Founders Cup as National Junior "B" Champions.

[edit] Since 2003

Barrie had a pair of rebuilding years in 2004 and 2005, but came back to form in 2006 with a great 17-2-0 record. Sadly, the Tornado were upset in the quarter-finals by the Mimico Mountaineers, cutting down the dream of a second Founders Cup.

[edit] Season-by-Season Results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS	Placing	Playoffs
2000	20	5	15	0	146	272	10	8th OLA-B East	DNQ
2001	20	10	10	0	209	202	20	7th OLA-B East	Lost Quarter-final
2002	22	14	7	1	253	205	29	4th OLA-B East	Lost Quarter-final
2003	20	15	4	1	245	159	31	1st OLA-B East	Won League, Won Founders Cup
2004	20	10	10	0	204	166	20	9th OLA-B East	DNQ
2005	20	11	8	1	215	148	23	6th OLA-B East	Lost 1st Round
2006	19	17	2	0	202	119	34	2nd OLA-B East	Lost Quarter-final
2007	20	11	9	0	176	139	22	5th OLA-B East	Lost Quarter-Final