The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League (OJBLL) is a box lacrosse league sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association in Ontario, Canada. OLA Jr B League Commissioner is currently, Dave Vernon.
History [edit]
The Junior "B" level of the Ontario Lacrosse Association has been around since at least 1964. The OLA Jr B League compete for the J. A. MacDonald Trophy annually at the provincial level. At the national level, the OLA-B has been extremely dominant at the Founders Cup tournament only losing out to other leagues a handful of times in the last 40+ years.
The league has changed formats few times in the last few decades. The league has played with no divisions (1990) and with as many as seven (2005). The league presently has 26 teams with 2 Conferences and 3 Divisions, but is ever expanding. In the past few years, the league has expanded to Oakville, Windsor, London, Cornwall, Hamilton, Niagara, Markham, Orangeville, and Welland. Also, for the 2007 season, the City of Caledon applied to resurrect its old Caledon Bandits franchise, but was offered a spot in the new OLA Junior C Lacrosse League in 2008. Kahnawake Hunters joined the OLA Jr B League from the Iroquois Lacrosse Association in 2009. This past year (2012), saw the return of Brampton Jr B Excelsiors to the OLA Jr B league.
In recent years, the most dominant team recently has been the Six Nations Rebels as they've won the J. A. MacDonald Trophy and Founders Cup five times with four (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012) of the titles coming in the last six years. Clarington Green Gaels had a run between 1998 and 2004 when the Gaels won 4 Founders Cups as Canadian Junior "B" champions and 2 J. A. MacDonald Trophy OLA-B Championships. Of the recent expansion of the league, the Oakville Buzz have been the most remarkable franchise to be built. In 2006, the Buzz team went 19-1 and strolled through the playoffs with little opposition. The Buzz went undefeated at the Founders Cup and crushed the hopes of the host Windsor AKO Fratmen, beating them by a score of 10-4 in the final.
Players from the OLA-B and the OLA-A are often drafted straight into the professional level of lacrosse, the National Lacrosse League.
Champions [edit]
- 2012 Six Nations Rebels
- 2011 Six Nations Rebels
- 2010 Halton Hills Bulldogs
- 2009 Clarington Green Gaels
- 2008 Six Nations Rebels
- 2007 Six Nations Rebels
- 2006 Oakville Buzz
- 2005 Elora Mohawks
- 2004 Clarington Green Gaels
- 2003 Barrie Tornado
- 2002 St. Catharines Spartans
- 2001 Wallaceburg Red Devils
- 2000 Clarington Green Gaels
- 1999 Elora Mohawks
- 1998 Six Nations Red Rebels
- 1997 Orillia Kings
- 1996 Spartan Warriors (St. Catharines)
- 1995 Orillia Kings
- 1994 Orillia Kings
- 1993 Owen Sound Flying Dutchmen
- 1992 Scarborough Saints
- 1991 Huntsville Hawks
- 1990 Orangeville Northmen
- 1989 Orangeville Northmen
- 1988 Kitchener-Waterloo Braves
- 1987 Mississauga Tomahawks
- 1986 Mississauga Tomahawks
- 1985 Scarborough Saints
- 1984 Point Edward Pacers
- 1983 Point Edward Pacers
- 1982 Owen Sound Signmen
- 1981 Niagara Warriors
- 1980 Owen Sound Signmen
- 1979 Point Edward Pacers
- 1978 Point Edward Pacers
- 1977 Scarborough Saints
- 1976 Elora Mohawks
- 1975 Windsor Warlocks
- 1974 Whitby Transporters
- 1973 Niagara Warriors
- 1972 Whitby Transporters
- 1971 Rexdale Warriors
- 1970 Whitby Transporters
- 1969 Mississauga PCO's
- 1968 Elora Mohawks
- 1967 Elora Mohawks
- 1966 Toronto Township Combines
Tier II Champions [edit]
- 2000 Halton Hills Bulldogs
- 1998 Guelph Regals
- 1997 Elora Mohawks
- 1987 Six Nations Arrows
- 1986 Wallaceburg Griffins
- 1985 Spartan Warriors
- 1984 Orangeville Northmen
Former Member Teams [edit]
- Barrie Tornado
- Kahnawake Jr. Mohawks
- Kitchener-Waterloo Braves
- Mississauga Tomahawks
- Onondaga Redhawks
- Orangeville Northmen
- Six Nations Arrows
- Windsor Warlocks
- Brantford Posse
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