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FALL RIVER<\/strong>: The sport of box lacrosse is returning to the 2022 Canada Games–and it’s the first-ever time that women’s box lacrosse will be played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sport of women’s and men’s box lacrosse return to the games is a pilot project connected to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action in the sport sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2022 Canada Summer Games website indicates that lacrosse has been played by Indigenous people for thousands of years. It is actually Canada’s national game, not hockey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fall River’s Halley James will be among the N.S. women lining for the sport they love for the first time ever in such a high skilled competition against others across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n James played this past season with the Jr A Wolves program in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the men’s box lacrosse side, there is Ethan Muir of Fletchers Lake; Wesley Donnelly of Fall River and Jack Dulong of Fall River suiting up in the Bluenose colours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”95″] FALL RIVER: The sport of box lacrosse is returning to the 2022 Canada Games–and it’s the first-ever time that women’s box lacrosse will be played. The sport of women’s and men’s box lacrosse return to the games is a pilot project connected to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4010,4011,2,4012,48],"class_list":["post-30511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2022-canada-games","tag-box-alcrosse","tag-fall-river","tag-halley-james","tag-n-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}