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The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League (TOJLL) is a Junior B box lacrosse league sanctioned by the British Columbia Lacrosse Association in British Columbia, Canada. ==History== Founded by Dan Wray in 2000 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. 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. The Rutland Raiders defeated the North Okanagan Tigers in the final series to claim the inaugural TOJLL Championship. The Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League's 2001 season included a fifteen-game regular season schedule. The playoffs were a best-of-three semifinals and a best-of-five finals. The league had six teams: Kamloops Rattlers, Kelowna Braves, Kelowna Dragons, North Okanagan Tigers, Rutland Raiders and South Okanagan Flames. For the 2002 season, the TOJLL allowed the Prince George Posse into the league as an exhibition team for an eighteen-game regular season schedule. The Posse went on to a perfect regular season (18-0-0). Expansion came in the 2003 season with the inclusion of the Armstrong Shamrocks. The North Okanagan Tigers, now renamed the Vernon Tigers, represented the TOJLL in the Provincials, losing to the Prince George Posse in a very exciting 9-7 Gold Medal game.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2003/2003provincials.pdf〕 In 2004, the TOJLL hosted the Provincials. This 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.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2004/2004provincials.pdf〕 The TOJLL was represented by the Kamloops Rattlers at the 2005 Provincials. They came away with a silver medal, losing the final, 16-15, to the Westshore Bears.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2005/2005provincials.pdf〕 Prior to the start of the 2006 season, the Kelowna Braves and Kelowna Dragons amalgamated to form the Kelowna Warriors. The league expanded its pre-season schedule by including the Archie Jack Memorial Ice Breaker Tournament, which is played in Armstrong, British Columbia. With the loss of one team, the league reverted to a fifteen-game regular season schedule. The playoff format changed to that of a (best-of-three) quarterfinals, semifinals and a (best-of-five) finals . The top two regular season teams got a first round bye.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2006/2006tojllseason.pdf〕 The Kamloops Venom were a new member of the TOJLL for the 2008 season. The TOJLL also welcomed the newly formed West Kootenay Wolf Pack to the league as an exhibition team for the now fourteen game 2008 regular season.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2008/2008tojllseason.pdf〕 The Vernon Tigers won the league championship in 2009 and won a Silver Medal at the Provincials.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2009/2009provincials.pdf〕 In 2010, the Kamloops Venom won the TOJLL Championship, B.C. Gold Medal (a first for the league) and a Bronze Medal at the Founders Cup.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2010/2010provincials.pdf〕 For the 2011, fifteen game, season the TOJLL operated with six teams. The Kelowna Warriors and Rutland Raiders merged to become the Kelowna Raiders. The TOJLL 2012 season was played without the Kamloops Rattlers as they have ceased operations.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2012/2012tojllseason.pdf〕 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." The league changed the playoff format to that of semifinals and finals, both a best-of-five series. The TOJLL was represented by the Vernon Tigers in the 2013 BC Provincial Tournament. The Tigers went 0-3 in round-robin play, then lost the Bronze Medal Game, 13-9, to the Delta Islanders.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2013/2013provincials.pdf〕 The TOJLL regular season was increased to sixteen games. The Provincial championships were hosted by the Vernon Tigers in 2014. The Delta Islanders won the final defeating Vernon, 14-7.〔http://members.shaw.ca/vernontigers/arc/2014/2014provincials.pdf〕 In 2015, for the first time in the history of the TOJLL, a team, the Vernon Tigers, had a perfect regular season (16-0-0). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thompson Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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