Lacrosse player Steve Higgs takes a shot on goal with the senior B Nanaimo Timbermen on Sunday at Frank Crane Arena, then passes the ball with the senior A Timbermen, also on Sunday at Frank Crane.

Lacrosse player Steve Higgs takes a shot on goal with the senior B Nanaimo Timbermen on Sunday at Frank Crane Arena, then passes the ball with the senior A Timbermen, also on Sunday at Frank Crane.

Timbermen lacrosse player makes it a doubleheader

Steve Higgs, a senior B Nanaimo Timbermen forward, played a true doubleheader on Sunday at Frank Crane Arena.

Steve Higgs enjoyed winning a lacrosse game so much, he did it twice.

The senior B Nanaimo Timbermen forward played a true doubleheader on Sunday at Frank Crane Arena. In the afternoon he was offensive player of the game in a 20-6 playoff win against the Langley Warriors, then, an hour and a half later, he suited up for the senior A T-men and helped them to a 9-8 win over the Maple Ridge Burrards.

The senior A team was short a left-hander up front due to illness, so coach Kaleb Toth asked senior B general manager Shawn Swanson if any guys might be available.

“Anything to help out the Nanaimo lacrosse community; it’s been good to me,” said Higgs. “So of course I said yes and got in there and it was a lot of fun.”

He scored a goal in the night game, so, along with his two in the afternoon game, it added up to a rare kind of hat trick.

“He gave us a hell of an effort and worked real hard,” Toth said.

Higgs might have a chance to repeat the feat again sometime soon – the Presidents’ Cup national tournament sometimes involves two games in one day.

“It’s good training for that … for hopefully when we go there, which we will, I’m sure,” he said.

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