Hornets take on Steelheads in the 2024/25 Southern Box Lacrosse (SBL) Winter Box League men’s tournament final on Sunday with both teams looking to lift the trophy for the first time.
Hornets have reached this year’s final winning all three of their round robin games, scoring the most goals (35) and conceding the fewest (19), while Steelheads go into the final day having won two and lost one of their three games, tasting defeat against Hornets 7-15 last week.
England’s Ollie Allsop and Ming Trinh who are in the Hornets team for this year sit in first and fourth place in the points-scoring table having netted 20 goals and assisted three between them this year.
In the women’s competition, Ravens topped the round robin table scoring 24 and conceding 14 as they won all four of their games but will be made to wait to find out their final opponents as Jaguars play reigning champions Blaze in the play-in game earlier in the day.
Two of the top four points scorers in the women’s competition sit in the Ravens team with Torz Anderson and Laura Beaman jointly scoring 16 goals and assisting three in the three game days so far.
Blaze will be desperate to follow up last year’s inaugural women’s Winter Box League title with another, but they’ve got it all to do having lost all four of their round robin games this season, including two games against Sunday’s play-in game opponents Jaguars.
The men’s third-place game will see two-time Winter Box League winners Knights play Capitals hoping to win their first game in the 2024/25 competition.
With just one win between them this season and a close two-goal game in Capitals favour last time out, the men’s third-place game is set to be another tight one as SBL’s 2024/25 Winter Box League comes to its conclusion.
So far at this year’s Winter Box League, almost 200 men’s and women’s players have played in seven teams, scoring 198 goals over three weekends at the dedicated box lacrosse facility at the Oxford Academy 3G Dome, making it the biggest Winter Box League to date.
Fore more information about Southern Box Lacrosse and their Winter Box League, click HERE.
Watch all four games on finals day at the Winter Box League on the Lacrosse Live UK YouTube channel HERE.
Game Day 4 Fixtures | Sunday 12 January
11:30am | Capitals v Knights | Men’s 3rd Place
1:30pm | Jaguars v Blaze | Women’s Play-in
2:15pm | Hornets v Steelheads | Men’s Final
4:15pm | Ravens v Play-in Winner | Women’s Final
Game Day 3 Results | Sunday 5 January
Steelheads 7-15 Hornets (1-7, 2-4, 1-2, 3-2) | Men’s
Knights 10-12 Capitals (1-3, 3-3, 2-4, 4-2) | Men’s
Jaguars 7-10 Ravens (2-1, 2-3, 0-4, 3-2) | Women’s Friendly
Game Day 2 Results | Sunday 15 December
Hornets 12-4 Capitals (5-0, 2-2, 1-1, 4-1) | Men’s
Steelheads 8-7 Knights (2-2, 3-3, 2-2, 1-0) | Men’s
Jaguars 4-4 Ravens (3-1, 1-3) Ravens won penalty shootout | Women’s
Blaze 1-8 Ravens (1-5, 0-3) | Women’s
Blaze 4-8 Jaguars (3-4, 1-4) | Women’s
Game Day 1 Results | Sunday 8 December
Knights 8-8 Hornets (2-1, 1-0, 3-5, 2-2) Hornets won penalty shootout | Men’s
Capitals 12-12 Steelheads (3-4, 2-4, 4-3, 3-1) Steelheads won penalty shootout | Men’s
Ravens 9-7 Blaze (4-3, 5-4) | Women’s
Blaze 6-8 Jaguars (4-3, 2-5) | Women’s
Jaguars 2-5 Ravens (1-2, 1-3) | Women’s