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        You’re invited: Join the fastest game on two feet.



        CMLA looking to boost numbers.



                                                 “We plan to try and work our
        by Jen Halsall
                                              house teams and try and have rep
                                              teams at every level,” he says. For
             his    summer       will    be
        TCornwall’s year for lacrosse.        eager  players  looking  to  boost
                                              their  skills,  the  CMLA  winter
        At least, that’s the hope of Roy      skills clinics begin February 4.
        Ledoux,      the     newly-elected
        president of the Cornwall Minor          The Junior C Celtics, last year’s
        Lacrosse Association.                 provincial champions, will have
                                              an opportunity to take their shot
          Ledoux took over as president
                                              at  defending  the  Meredith  Cup
        in  December,  and  says  his  first   –a feat Ledoux warns is “hard to

        priority  is  getting  more  kids     repeat”.
        involved in the game.
                                                 But  for  Ledoux,  just  seeing
          “It’s  a  well-kept  secret,”  says   players  enjoy  the  game  is
        Ledoux.  “We  have  to  reach  out    enough.
        and  make  sure  people  know            “You  see  the  kids  that  start
        lacrosse is a viable option for the   when they were seven and eight
        kids.”
                                              years old and now some of them
          Ledoux  claims  the  numbers  are  twenty-two    and  twenty-
        haven’t  progressed  since  he  three,”  he  says.  “Seeing  these
        stepped down from his last term  kids  having  something  they
        as  president  in  2005,  but  he’s  like  doing  that  will  open  doors

        confident  the  Celtics  will  pull  and  opportunities?  That’s  very       Veteran Lacrosse executive Roy Ledoux (left) has returned as President
        through.                              satisfying.”                          of the Cornwall Minor Lacrosse Association                (supplied photo)


















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