After three straight wins in four days, the Coquitlam Adanacs are back in familiar territory, atop the BC Junior A Lacrosse League standings.
The Adanacs battled back to beat the Burnaby Lakers, 8-7, on Monday. That’s after they thumped the Nanaimo Timbermen, 15-5, in Nanaimo on Sunday and defeated the New Westminster Salmonbellies at home on Friday, 12-8.
Coquitlam now has 23 points in 14 games, three more than the Bellies, who’ve played only 11 times.
In Burnaby, the Adanacs scored three unanswered goals in the third period to overcome a 7-5 deficit.
Chase Scanlan scored four times and added an assist to lead all Coquitlam scorers, while Dennon Armstrong pitched in a pair of goals as well as two assists.
The teams were deadlocked 4-4 after the first period, but the Lakers outscored the visitors 3-1 in the middle frame.
At the Sports Centre in Nanaimo, the Adanacs scored 10 goals in the second period to break open a game they’d lead 4-1 at the first intermission. Will Clayton’s unassisted goal 42 seconds into the second period made it 5-1 before the Timbermen were able to claw two of those back.
But seven straight goals by the visitors put the game out of reach before Matt Odwyer scored for the home team to pause the carnage for all of 15 seconds when the Adanacs scored twice more 31 seconds apart.
John Hofseth had four goals and an assist for the Adanacs, who fired 45 shots at Timbermen keeper Colin Jeffrey.
Friday, in their second game of the season against the Salmonbellies, the Adanacs avenged an earlier 7-5 defeat by scoring five straight goals in the second period to overcome a 3-2 deficit.
The Salmonbellies opened the scoring at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Centre when Taylor Jensen beat Coquitlam goalie Christian Del Bianco less than five minutes into the first period. Thomas Semple tied it just over four minutes late, but a minute after that the visitors were in front again on a goal by Keegan Bell during a power play.
Semple was also in on the tying goal, when he set up Larson Sundown with just under six minutes left until the break.
Bell’s second goal of the game put the Bellies back in front less than a minute into the second period. But that would be the last time they held the advantage.
John Hofseth got Coquitlam even and then a pair of goals by Gabe Procyk put them in front for good.
Scanlan led all the Adanacs’ scorers with five goals and an assist, while Procyk added a pair of helpers to his two goals and Sundown also counted three assists in addition to his goal.
Del Bianco stopped 36 of the 43 shots he faced, and he also contributed a pair of assists.
The Adanacs now get an extended break. They don’t play again until June 20, when they host the Delta Islanders.
The Port Coquitlam Saints, who are coming off an 11-10 setback to the Langley Thunder last Thursday, play the Bellies at New Westminster’s Queen’s Park Arena on Tuesday.
