Nepean Knights

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Nepean Knights

City	Nepean, Ontario
League	OLA Junior B Lacrosse League
Founded	1993
Home Arena	Merivale Centennial Arena
Colours	Black, Red, and Yellow
Coach	Chad Fairfoull
GM	Dean Joncas

The Nepean Knights are Junior "B" box lacrosse team from Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The Knights play in the OLA Junior B Lacrosse League.

[edit] History

The Nepean Knights history actually dates back well before its 1993 inception. The original Nepean junior team was the Nepean Lumberjacks of the OLA Junior "C" league in 1975 and 1976. Nepean was virtually a vacant lot for lacrosse until the 1990s, when locals applied for an expansion team in the OLA. In 1993, the Knights and the Mimico Mountaineers were granted expansion into the OLA Junior "B" league. Unlike Mimico, which has seemed to carry rather average results every year, Nepean seems to have more of one extreme or the other. From 1993 until 1997, the Knights only pulled off 19 victories in 110 contests. They failed to make the playoffs each year and were looking much like a failed franchise. But from 1998 to 2004 with the exception of a rather average 2002 seasons, the Knights hit the OLA like a Bat out of Hell. They made the playoffs seven straight year and made it to the semi-finals four times. They even finished first place in their conference in 1998, and made to the semis in their first ever playoff.

Sadly, the 2005 and 2006 season were not so plentiful. Junior A lacrosse came to Ottawa in 2005 and that team drew most of its players from the Knights roster. This resulted in the team having two straight losing seasons, despite coming close to cracking .500 in 2006. The Knights failed to make the playoffs the past three seasons.

[edit] Season-by-Season Results

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Season	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	PTS	Placing	Playoffs
1993	22	3	18	1	175	285	7	12th OLA-B	DNQ
1994	22	4	18	0	169	316	8	12th OLA-B	DNQ
1995	22	4	18	0	179	318	8	5th OLA-B East	DNQ
1996	22	6	16	0	214	262	12	6th OLA-B East	DNQ
1997	22	2	20	0	133	348	4	7th OLA-B East	DNQ
1998	20	16	4	0	219	171	32	1st OLA-B East	Lost Semi-final
1999	20	13	7	0	232	191	26	3rd OLA-B East	Lost 1st Round
2000	20	14	6	0	231	155	28	3rd OLA-B East	Lost Semi-final
2001	20	12	7	1	237	191	25	5th OLA-B East	Lost Semi-final
2002	22	8	13	1	193	244	17	7th OLA-B East	Lost 1st Round
2003	20	15	4	1	229	167	31	2nd OLA-B East	Lost Semi-final
2004	20	12	7	1	203	155	25	6th OLA-B East	Lost 1st Round
2005	20	5	15	0	116	239	10	9th OLA-B East	DNQ
2006	20	8	12	0	182	201	16	9th OLA-B East	DNQ
2007	20	4	15	1	132	224	9	12th OLA-B East	DNQ