The Olds Stingers were waiting last week to hear whether or not their last games of the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse League junior B season on June 22 and June 23 will be rescheduled at some point and when playoffs will get underway.
The Stingers were due to play in Calgary on June 22 against the Wranglers and in High River against the Heat on June 23.
The games were cancelled due to flooding in those communities.
Gary Gaudette, an assistant coach with the Stingers, said league officials were to meet late last week to decide whether to make up the games that were cancelled, or whether to go straight to playoffs based on the games already played.
“(Playoffs) are going ahead, we just don't know when. They haven't decided. They'll know by the end of the week whether (the teams) will be finishing out those games or whether they'll just go straight to playoffs,” he said.
All eight teams in the league make the playoffs, with the top four having home-floor advantage in the single-game elimination format.
League president Bill Sucha said in a statement on the RMLL website that while the judgment to cancel seven games was difficult, it was the correct decision.
“In the end it was a unanimous decision (of the league's executive) to consider the safety of the RMLL members as opposed to the few that would be inconvenienced by missing a game or two that they felt they could have attended. I hope members unaffected by this tragedy can appreciate the enormity of the situation and will think of others at this time,” he wrote.
The Stingers are in sixth place in the league with a 5-7 record. The team had a 17-goal differential going into the final two games, with 108 goals for and 125 goals against. Gaudette said thus far in the season, he thought the team has played well.
“The team's played really well. A few games were really close, they just couldn't nail it. A good bunch of guys, too,” he said.
