Goals proved to be hard to come by for the Ladner Pioneers in their West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association championship series opener on Sunday night.
The defending champion Tri-City Bandits opened up a 4-1 second period lead and went on to post a 6-3 victory at the Ladner Leisure in game one of the best-of-seven affair. The series resumes on Tuesday at Burnaby Lake Arena at the teams return to Ladner on Thursday at 8 p.m.
The Bandits produced four power play goals and rode the 47-save performance of Chad Miller to victory.
Cam Taylor's third goal pulled the hosts with two goals but they would get no closer. Andrew Gee and Quinn Waddington had the other Ladner tallies. Kevin Hill stopped 35 shots in a losing cause.
Ladner native Jordan Flaman, who played his junior lacrosse in Port Coquitlam, was among the Bandit goalscorers.
