Ontario Jr. A award winners and all-stars announced

August 1st, 2008 by Lauren Ward

The Ontario Junior A lacrosse league today announced the majority of their league award winners as well as first and second all-star teams. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Six Nations Arrows star Cody Jamieson has collected three awards so far in addition to securing his spot with the first team all-stars. This season saw Jamieson put up an incredible 101 points on 59 goals and 42 assists. Through eight games in the playoffs, he’s added 20 goals and 27 assists to his total and has maintained his reign at the top of Paul Tutka’s moneyballers week in and week out as the guy most likely to be winning games for his team. But even with Jamieson snapping up three awards that still leaves plenty of honours for the rest of the league, so for a full list of award winners and all-stars, read on.

Dennis MacIntosh Memorial Award for Most Valuable Player

Cody Jamieson, Six Nations Arrows

Bobby Allan Award for Leading Scorer

Cody Jamieson, Six Nations Arrows

Jim Veltman Award for Most Outstanding Player

Cody Jamieson, Six Nations Arrows

Joey Nieuwendyk Award for Rookie of the Year

Mark Matthews, Whitby Warriors

John ‘Gus’ McCauley Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Defensive Player

Rory Smith, Brampton Excelsiors

Gaylord Powless Memorial Award for Most Sportsmanlike Player

Joey Resetarits, St. Catharines Athletics

Robert Melville Memorial Award for Outstanding Goaltenders

Nick Rose and Dillon Ward, Orangeville Northmen

Jim Bishop Memorial Award for Outstanding Coaching Staff

The St. Catharines Athletics: Head Coach Moe Conn, Assistant Coaches Ian Rubel, Mike Lines and Corey Quinn

First Team All-Stars

Goaltender: Nick Rose (Orangeville)
Defense: Rory Smith (Brampton) and Dan Coates (St. Catharines)
Offense: Cody Jamieson (Six Nations), Corey Small (St. Catharines) and Josh Gillam (Peterborough)

Second Team All-Stars

Goaltender: Tyler Carlson (Brampton)
Defense: Brock Sorenson (Peterborough) Dan MacRae (Burlington)
Offense: Matt McLeod (Orangeville), Kevin Brownell (Burlington) and Kyle Buchanan (Akwesasne)

Awards to be handed out at a later date: Jack Bionda Memorial Award for All-Star Game MVP, Dean McLeod Award for MVP of the Playoffs, and the E.W. ‘Billy’ Evans Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduating Player

Ward began covering lacrosse for The Lacrosse Journal in 2005 and became its editor-in-chief a year later. Email her at lauren.ward@nllinsider.com.

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