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 Junior B Tier 1 | |
| Sport | Box lacrosse |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Commissioner | Heather Davis |
| No. of teams | 5 |
| Country |  Canada |
| Most recent champion(s) | Kamloops Venom |
| Official website | TOJLL |
The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League (TOJLL) is one of two Junior B Tier 1 box lacrosse leagues sanctioned by the British Columbia Lacrosse Association in British Columbia, Canada. The league champion competes for the British Columbia Junior B Tier 1 Provincial Championship. Teams have competed for the Founders Cup, a national tournament which determines the Canadian Junior B lacrosse champion.
History
1999: Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League founded by Dan Wray to provide a quality lacrosse environment for players aged 16 to 20. Wray first launched the concept of organized lacrosse for players in Grades 11 and 12 with an intermediate league in the Interior for three years in the late 1990s.[1]
With a large and talented crop of 1983-born talent coming out of the midget ranks, Wray felt the time was right to launch a junior B circuit for players in the valley.[1]
The new league would begin regular season play in 2000.
2000: The league appointed Phil Reunoff as its first Commissioner.[1]
The Rutland Raiders defeated the North Okanagan Tigers in the final series to claim the inaugural TOJLL Championship.[2]
2001: The league had six teams: Kamloops Rattlers, Kelowna Braves, Kelowna Dragons, North Okanagan Tigers, Rutland Raiders and South Okanagan Flames to play a fifteen-game regular season.[3]
The South Okanagan Flames were forced to forfeit three games due to ineligible player rules.[3]
The playoffs were a best-of-three semifinals and a best-of-five finals.[3]
2002: Cam Morrison became the league's second commissioner.[1]
The TOJLL allowed the Prince George Posse into the league, as an exhibition team, for the eighteen-game regular season. Note: The Posse went on to a perfect (18–0–0) season.[4]
2003: The TOJLL expanded with the inclusion of the Armstrong Shamrocks.[5]
The North Okanagan Tigers are renamed the Vernon Tigers.[5]
The Kelowna Braves had to forfeit seven games due to ineligible player rules, as a result the Vernon Tigers gain two wins for a perfect season (18-0-0).[5]
The Vernon Tigers, represented the TOJLL in the Provincials, losing to the Prince George Posse, 9–7, in the gold medal game.[6]
2004: The TOJLL hosted the Provincials which meant that two teams from the TOJLL would play in the tournament. Those teams were the Vernon Tigers (0–4 in the Provincial round robin), as host, and the Kamloops Rattlers (1–3 in the Provincial round robin) as 2004 TOJLL Champions. The Rattlers went on to play the Peninsula Falcons (2–1–1) for the Bronze Medal, winning 6–5.[7]
2005: The TOJLL was represented by the league champions, Kamloops Rattlers, at the Provincials. They Rattlers came away with a silver medal, losing the final, 16–15, to the Westshore Bears.[8]
2006: Prior to the start of the TOJLL season the Kelowna Braves and Kelowna Dragons amalgamated to form the Kelowna Warriors. With the loss of one team, the league reverted to a fifteen-game regular season.[9]
The league initiated a pre-season schedule by including the Annual Archie Jack Memorial Ice Breaker Tournament, which is played in Armstrong, British Columbia.[9]
The playoff format was changed to that of a (best-of-three) quarterfinals, semifinals and a (best-of-five) finals, the top two teams, of the regular season, got a first round playoff bye.[9]
2007: Ed Kwasniewski became the league's third commissioner.[1]
The TOJLL saw no major changes, maintaining the same regular season and playoff formats as in 2006.[10]
The league created its first online presence, in 2007, with a website through Teamopolis Inc., which has since been disabled, using the domain name www.tojll.com.[11]
2008: The Kamloops Venom became a member of the TOJLL. The TOJLL also welcomed the newly formed West Kootenay Wolf Pack to the league, as an exhibition team, for the now fourteen game regular season.[12]
2009: The Vernon Tigers won the league championship and won a Silver Medal at the Provincials.[13]
2010: The Kamloops Venom won the TOJLL Championship, a Provincial Gold Medal[14] (a first for the league) and a Bronze Medal at the Founders Cup.[15]
The South Okanagan Flames have the dubious honor of being the first team to go winless in a season.[16]
2011: Prior to the start of the TOJLL season, the Kelowna Warriors and Rutland Raiders merged to become the Kelowna Raiders.[17]
The league decided to have a fifteen game regular season.[17]
2012: Dan Wray became the league's fourth commissioner.[1]
The Kamloops Rattlers ceased operations prior to the start of the season.[18]
The remaining teams played an abbreviated schedule due to a league controversy concerning the players of the Rattlers. That issue was resolved by the BCLA... "I am writing to inform you that at an emergency meeting of the Senior Directorate, the 11-member panel voted to uphold point 5.06 in the BCLA Senior Operating Policy," wrote Christine Pollock, BCLA's senior directorate chair, in a ruling. "This allows for any junior age player residing in Kamloops to play for the Kamloops Venom, currently the only junior B team in Kamloops registered with the BCLA."[1]
The league changed the playoff format to that of semifinals and finals, both a best-of-five series.[18]
2013: The TOJLL regular season was increased to sixteen games.[19]
The TOJLL was represented by, league champions, the Vernon Tigers in the Provincial Tournament. The Tigers went 0–3 in round-robin play, then lost the Bronze Medal Game, 13–9, to the Delta Islanders.[20]
2014: The Provincial championships was hosted by the Vernon Tigers. The Delta Islanders won the final defeating Vernon, 14–7.[21]
2015: For the second time in the TOJLL, the Vernon Tigers, had a perfect regular season (16–0–0).[22]
2016: The league switched website providers, from Teamopolis to TeamPages, this resulted in the loss of all statistics for years 2007 to 2015.
2017: The TOJLL and Vernon Tigers hosted the Junior B Lacrosse Provincials.[23]
The Kelowna Raiders became the first team in league history to go pointless for the regular season. They finished the season with a record of 0–16, which includes 3 defaulted games, noted as a, 1–0 loss.[24]
2018: Guy Charron became the league's fifth commissioner, league declares themselves "tier 1" and the Kelowna Raiders folded.[25]
The league once again, along with the league statistics from 2016 and 2017, switched website providers from TeamPages to LacrosseShift (http://tojll.lacrosseshift.com/home).
For the first time in league history there was a non-sudden death, ten minute, overtime games.[26]
2019: The Commissioner steps down after just one year[27] and Jeff Hanley becomes the league's (sixth) commissioner.[1]
The Armstrong Shamrocks take a leave-of-absence for the season.[28]
The playoffs will consist of a best-of-three semifinal between second & third place, the first place team receives a bye to the best-of-five finals.[29]
2020: The league expands to five teams with the re-entry of the Armstrong Shamrocks, mainly with players and coach from Salmon Arm. Another new team ,from Kelowna, called the Kelowna Kodiaks, is operated by the Kelowna Minor Lacrosse Association.[30]
League cancels season due to the covid-19 pandemic.[31]
2021: Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic there was no regular season play. With an ease of covid-19 restrictions though, the league held a two week-end tournament-style playoffs on July 10 and July 24.[32]
Heather Davis becomes the leagues (seventh) Commissioner after Jeff Hanley vacated the office mid-term.[1]
2022: Teams played a 16 game regular season, playing the other teams 4 times, 2 home and 2 away.[33]
The pre-season 17th Annual Archie Jack Memorial Icebreaker Tournament was held on April 23.[33]
The season saw numerous games rescheduled, forfeited, and cancelled out right. The most controversial of these games was the forfeiting of the Vernon Tigers home opener. Citing lack of healthy players the South Okanagan Flames could not make the game to play Vernon.[33]
A game between the South Okanagan Flames and Kamloops Venom required the attention of the British Columbia Lacrosse Association. Kamloops originally won the game 12-4 but, the Flames protested citing an ineligible player. The game was eventually awarded to the South Okanagan Flames as a 1-0 win. The playoffs overall were very straight forward. However the Kelowna Kodiaks had to forfeit game 3 of their best-of-three series due to the arena not having enough staff to operate.[33]
Due to an oversight by the league its Domain Name, tojll.com lapsed some time between July 6 and Sept 21.[34] It has since been taken over by an Asian entrepreneur.
2023: The Armstrong Shamrocks merged with the Vernon Tigers to play as the Vernon Tigers for a one year trial. They will be playing their home games in Armstrong, Vernon and Salmon Arm.
The pre-season 18th Annual Archie Jack Memorial Icebreaker Tournament was held on April 8 in the Enderby Arena. Each team was to have played two games however, the floor conditions were a injury risk so, games were cancelled or ended early. Teams played a 14 game regular season in which the Kamloops Venom had a perfect season.[35]
2024: Armstrong and Vernon will once again play as the Vernon Tigers.
The league adds the Cranbrook Blackwolves which, will be a probationary team for one season, to see if the TOJLL fits their needs.[36]
Current teams
| 2024 - Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||
| Member Teams | Centre | Est. | Arena | |
| Cranbrook Blackwolves | Cranbrook | 2024 | Cranbrook Memorial Arena | |
| Kamloops Venom | Kamloops | 2008 | Kamloops Memorial Arena | |
| Kelowna Kodiaks | Kelowna | 2020 | Rutland Twin Arena | |
| South Okanagan Flames | Penticton | 2000 | Penticton Memorial Arena | |
| Vernon Tigers | Vernon | 2000 | Kal Tire Place | |
Records by season
| 2000 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| North Okanagan Tigers | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 24 | Lost finals |
| Kelowna Braves | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 15 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Dragons | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 14 | Lost semifinals |
| Rutland Raiders | 15 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 13* | Champions |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 15 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 13 | Did not qualify |
| South Okanagan Flames | 15 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 5 | Did not qualify |
Note: * lost points due to ineligible player
| 2001 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Rutland Raiders | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 26 | Champions |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 18 | Lost semifinals |
| North Okanagan Tigers | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 17 | Lost finals |
| Kelowna Braves | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 17 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Dragons | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 10 | Did not qualify |
| South Okanagan Flames | 15 | 1 | 14* | 0 | 2 | Did not qualify |
Note: * – forfeited 3 games
| 2002 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| North Okanagan Tigers | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 30 | Champions |
| Rutland Raiders | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 22 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Dragons | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 17 | Lost finals |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 18 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 12 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Braves | 18 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 7 | Did not qualify |
| South Okanagan Flames | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 2 | Did not qualify |
| 2003 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Vernon Tigers | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 36* | Champions |
| Kelowna Dragons | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 27* | Lost finals |
| Rutland Raiders | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 23 | Lost semifinals |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 15* | Lost semifinals |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 18 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 15* | Did not qualify |
| South Okanagan Flames | 18 | 1 | 16 | 1^ | 6* | Did not qualify |
| Kelowna Braves | 18 | 9** | 9 | 0 | 4 | Did not qualify |
Note: ^ – Point for the forfeit due to ineligible playerv(Raiders) / ** – Points for 7 wins forfeit (and redistributed) due to ineligible player / * – Points added from forfeited games
| 2004 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Rutland Raiders | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 31 | Lost finals |
| Vernon Tigers | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 29 | Lost semifinals |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 26 | Champions |
| Kelowna Dragons | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 19 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Braves | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 11 | Did not qualify |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 18 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 7 | Did not qualify |
| South Okanagan Flames | 18 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 6 | Did not qualify |
| 2005 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 31 | Champions |
| Rutland Raiders | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 28 | Lost finals |
| Vernon Tigers | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 21 | Lost semifinals |
| South Okanagan Flames | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 16 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Dragons | 18 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 14 | Did not qualify |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 13 | Did not qualify |
| Kelowna Braves | 18 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 3 | Did not qualify |
| 2006 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 27 | Champions |
| Rutland Raiders | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 22 | Lost finals |
| Vernon Tigers | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 19 | Lost semifinals |
| South Okanagan Flames | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 8 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Warriors | 14 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 7 | Lost quarterfinals |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 15 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 5 | Lost quarterfinals |
| 2007 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 24 | Champions |
| Rutland Raiders | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 19 | Lost finals |
| Vernon Tigers | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 18 | Lost semifinals |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 14 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 12 | Lost quarterfinals |
| Kelowna Warriors | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 10 | Lost semifinals |
| South Okanagan Flames | 15 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 5 | Lost quarterfinals |
| 2008 Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League | ||||||
| Team | GP | W | L | T | Pts | Playoffs |
| Kamloops Rattlers | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 23 | Champions |
| Rutland Raiders | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 21 | Lost semifinals |
| Kelowna Warriors | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 20 | Lost finals |
| Vernon Tigers | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 | Lost semifinals |
| Kamloops Venom | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 11 | Lost quarterfinals |
| South Okanagan Flames | 14 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 5 | Lost quarterfinals |
| Armstrong Shamrocks | 14 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 4 | Did not qualify |