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The defending Founder’s Cup National Champion Six Nations Rebels will open their fourth consecutive season as defending league champions and the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League will feature a divisional re-alignment when the 2015 OJBLL regular season opens on Friday, April 17. The 250-game regular season, 20 games per team, concludes on Sunday, June 21, with the 2015 OJBLL playoffs starting later that week.

Opening night will see the Welland Generals visit the defending champion Six Nations Rebels at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena at 8PM on Friday, April 17. This will mark the first game for the Rebels since they defeated the ILA’s Seneca WarChiefs in the Founder’s Cup National Championship by a score of 14 – 7. Also on opening night, Mid-West division rivals, the Elora Mohawks and Guelph Regals will square off at 8PM at the Victoria Road Recreation Centre, marking Regals new Head Coach Wayne Burke’s first game behind the Guelph bench.

The busiest day of the season is also the last day of the season, as 9 games take place throughout Sunday, June 21. With so many games taking place, along with 7 games on June 20, there are sure to be plenty of nervous fans checking to see if their teams will secure their playoff positions on the final weekend of the season.

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Some notable games on the schedule include:

The Wallaceburg Red Devils and Windsor Clipper rivalry gets renewed very early in the 2015 season, as the teams will face off at Wallaceburg Arena on April 18 at 2PM for the first game of the regular season for both teams. Last year, the Clippers and Red Devils met in the first round of the playoffs in a very heated series that went a full five games, and saw the Clippers come back from a 2 games to none deficit to edge the Red Devils in game 5 by a score of 13 – 11 to move onto the second round.

The Brampton Excelsiors will play their first game as a member of the Eastern Conference’s South-East division when they host their nearest rival, the Halton Hills Bulldogs, on Saturday, April 25 at Victoria Park Arena.

On Wednesday, June 3, the Mississauga Tomahawks and the Newmarket Saints renew acquaintances at 8PM at Port Credit Arena. Last season, in the two games these two squads played, they put up 244 penalty minutes between them. There is some obvious bad blood there, and it remains to be seen if that will carry over into the 2015 season. The second game of the season between these two teams may have playoff implications as the Tomahawks will visit the Ray Twinney Recreation Complex on the final day of the regular season, Sunday, June 21 for a 7PM start.

The Six Nations Rebels will host the Orangeville Northmen on Friday, June 5 in a rematch of last seasons OJBLL Western Conference Championship. The Northmen were the only team in Canada to defeat the Rebels record in 2015, winning game three of the Western Conference series. They will look to avenge the series loss in their first game against Six Nations since the 2014 playoffs.

The Halton Hills Bulldogs travel to the Akwesasne Indians A’nowara’ko:wa Arena on Saturday, June 13 for a 7PM start. This marks the lone matchup between the two squads that took part in the 2014 OJBLL Eastern Conference Championship, which saw the Bulldogs take the series 3 games to none.