Bring on the playoffs

By ROD MAWHOOD

The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League regular season wrapped up Monday night.

That means it's playoff time for 16 teams across the province.

Before we get to that we'll wrap up the leading point getters and goaltenders heading into the postseason.

The Akwesasne Thunder were a perfect (20-0) to top the East, while the Six Nations Rebels were best in the West at (19-1).

The Guelph Regals Ben Morton was the top point getter with 111 including a league best 70 assists. The Thunder's Alex Delormier had the most goals with 58.

As for the Boddam top goaltenders, the Rebels Connor Bishop had a 5.41 goals against average and the Thunder's Xavier Delormier was tops in save-percentage at .863.

Special teams, always a key in the playoffs, saw the St. Catharines Athletics sport the best power play at 49-percent, while the Kahnawake Hunters killed off 82.5 percent of the power plays they faced.

Here are you opening round best of five playoff matchups - all beginning this week.

EAST:
1 Akwesasne vs. 8 Durham West
2 Halton Hills vs, 7 Mimico
3 Kahnawake vs 6 Barrie
4 Orillia vs. 5 Nepean

WEST
1 Six Nations vs 8 Owen Sound
2 Orangeville vs. 7 Hamilton
3 Guelph vs 6 Point Edward
4 St. Catharines vs. 5 Cambridge

Full details can be found on the schedule page.

Stay tuned as the road to the Founders Cup begins now.