The West Durham Ironheads are Junior "B"
box lacrosse
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team from
Pickering, Ontario, Canada. The Ironheads play in the
OLA Junior B Lacrosse League
The Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League (OJBLL) is a box lacrosse league sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association in Canada. The league features twenty-five teams in Ontario, one in Quebec, and one in the Akwesasne (which straddles the two af ...
.
History
The West Durham Ironheads (formerly the Markham Ironheads) are a relatively new team. The 2006 season was their fifth in the league and they have shown substantial growth, gaining access to the playoffs in their past three seasons.
* Their first-ever OLA Junior "B" game took place on April 20, 2002, against the
Onondaga Warriors Onondaga may refer to:
Native American/First Nations
* Onondaga people, a Native American/First Nations people and one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois League
* Onondaga (village), Onondaga settlement and traditional Iroquois capita ...
(now of the
Iroquois
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league)—a 20–9 loss.
Their first-ever victory came on April 28, 2002, against the
Nepean Knights. In their fourth-ever game, they beat the Knights by a score of 9–5.
They have yet to win a playoff round.
The Ironheads are the Jr. B affiliate of the Toronto Beaches of the Ontario Jr. A Lacrosse League.
In 2010, the Ironheads moved to
Ajax
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Greek mythology and tragedy
* Ajax the Great, a Greek mythological hero, son of King Telamon and Periboea
* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
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and played out of the Ajax Community Centre while retaining the "Markham Ironheads" name. In 2017, the Ironheads officially changed their name to the
West Durham Ironheads and affiliated with the West Durham Minor Lacrosse Association.
In 2018, the Ironheads moved once again, this time to Pickering. The West Durham Ironheads now play their home games at Delany Arena at the Pickering Recreation Centre.
On one hot night in the summer of 2013, the Ironheads equipment manager Sean "Boa" Gillespie invented the "Seannie Shuffle", in which he danced while wiping the floor of sweat and condensation while also getting players and fans to cheer uncontrollably. "Seannie Shuffles" are usually followed by a lengthy towel wave while full sprinting back to the bench.
Season-by-season results
''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''
References
External links
The Bible of Lacrosse
{{Toronto Sports
Ontario Lacrosse Association teams
Pickering, Ontario