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1. The Minto Cup, Canada’s junior box lacrosse national championship, ended Saturday when the Coquitlam Adanacs defeated the Brampton Excelsiors 10-8 in overtime in Calgary.

William Clayton and Ethan Ticehurst scored in overtime. Clayton finished with three goals and four assists to lead the way for Coquitlam, which won the best-of-five series 3-1. Goalie Christian Del Bianco, the rare NLL starter with junior eligibility remaining, made 29 saves and was named Minto Cup MVP.

But the series will be remembered mostly as a flashpoint for officials of all sports who are fed up with verbal abuse from players, coaches and fans.

Game 2 had to be postponed from Wednesday to Thursday when the Minto Cup crew refused to take the floor after the suspension of Excelsiors forward Jeff Teat was overturned upon appeal. Teat and his father, Brampton coach Dan Teat, had been assessed match penalties at the end of Game 1 for reportedly threatening officials. Dan Teat’s suspension was upheld.

According to correspondence tweeted by play-by-play announcer Jake Elliott, an ad hoc committee reinstated Jeff Teat — who said he swore at the official but did not threaten him — based on video evidence and his reputation as a seldom-penalized player with no previously documented run-ins with referees. Additionally, the referees did not participate in the hearing.

Several Canadian lacrosse referee associations stood in solidarity with the Minto Cup officials and refused to send replacements. But the risk of litigation was enough to get the original crew to agree to withdraw from the competition and allow referee-in-chief Greg Hart to assemble a new group of officials to close out the series.

Hart and Ron McQuarrie, the Canadian Lacrosse Association’s Minto Cup convener, issued a joint statement on the matter Saturday.

2. Team USA was honored for its men’s world championship victory in a special pregame ceremony before the second game of a doubleheader Saturday between the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees at Camden Yards. The U.S. contingent included players Paul Rabil and Kyle Hartzell, assistant coach Tony Resch, strength and conditioning coach Jay Dyer and athletic trainer Brad Mountcastle.

3. Move-in week means college lacrosse teams are reconvening on campus for the first time since the spring and introducing freshmen to the scene. Fall ball is around the corner.

4. Kara Mupo is joining the college coaching ranks. Mupo, the former Northwestern star and the WPLL’s top goal scorer in its inaugural season this summer, will join Stanford’s staff as offensive coordinator in 2018. She replaces Chelsea Gamble, who left to become the head coach at Oregon.

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Kyler Francis, a 13-year-old box lacrosse player for the Georgia Swarm’s bantam club team, went viral with this toe drag to one-handed behind-the-back combo during the sixth-annual Junior NLL tournament in Oakville, Ontario. The goal was No. 1 on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” Top 10 Plays on Saturday.

Rob Pannell ices down after a busy summer.

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