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Weyburn hosts 'Christmas Sixes Lacrosse' tourney as Olympic preview

Lacrosse players from across Saskatchewan converged on Weyburn's Credit Union Spark Centre on Dec. 29, for a day-long Christmas Sixes Lacrosse tournament.

WEYBURN - Lacrosse players from across Saskatchewan converged on Weyburn's Credit Union Spark Centre on Dec. 29, for a day-long Christmas Sixes Lacrosse tournament, brought by the Saskatchewan Lacrosse Association.

The tourney was to show up-and-coming lacrosse players the style to be used in the 2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where lacrosse will be an Olympic sport for the first time.

The style to be used is Sixes, a form of field lacrosse where there are five players and a goalie on a team, on a shortened field.

As this was a demonstration event where lacrosse players from various age levels came to try it out, the players from around the province, including a number from Weyburn, were mixed together on U11, U13, U15 and U17 teams to play each other throughout the day.

Games alternated with the U11 and U13 teams playing each other and the U15 and U17 playing each other.