Irish take aim at top four

Eighth, seventh and sixth place – those are the finishes for Team Ireland, working backwards, from the previous three FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. Based on those three results, the natural conclusion would be that the team finishes fifth this September when the quadrennial championship is held at Langley Events Centre. Head coach Jeff Dowling has the bar slightly higher, however, with a goal to make the medal round and finish top four. “We were pretty close last time and the guys are ready to take the next step and that is what we really want to accomplish, we want to try and get into the medal round,” Dowling said. The coach, who lives in Ancaster, Ontario and has Irish roots through his great-grandfather, is back behind the bench for a fourth time, coaching the team at all three of their WILC appearances (2007, 2011 and 2015) as well as the European Box Lacrosse Championship (2017) when the team placed third. Between the 2015 and 2017 squads, Dowling figu