Riley Loewen got his Minto Cup ring.

The Burnaby lefthander played a signficant role at the Canadian junior A lacrosse championships.

Loewen, who came over to Coquitlam from Burnaby along with Nick Bilic and Brodie MacDonald in an earlier trade deadline deal, led the Coquitlam Adanacs in scoring in the final two games of the best-of-three Minto Cup final that culminated in an 8-4 victory over the Orangeville Northmen last weekend.

The Minto Cup win was the first ever for the Coquitlam Adanacs.

The victory also prevented the Northmen from joining an elite company of five other box lacrosse teams that have won three or more consecutive Canadian junior A titles.

The last three teams to accomplish that feat were the Peterborough James Gang in the early 1980s, Burnaby Cablevision in 1977 to '79 and the Peterborough PCO's in the early 1970s.

The Oshawa Green Gaels, under the great Jim Bishop, won an unprecedented seven Minto Cups in a row during the 1960s.

Brampton ABC's also won three straight to end the 1950s.

Loewen scored one goal and added three assists in the cup-winning game at the Coquitlam Sports Centre Saturday.

On Friday, Loewen tallied a pair of goals and added one helper to give Coquitlam a 9-5 victory in the opening game of the series.

Loewen finished seventh overall in Minto Cup scoring and fourth among Coquitlam shooters with six goals and six assists.

But more than half of Loewen's points came in the crucial last two games of the series.

On Saturday, Loewen drew assists on Coquitlam's two first-period tallies that gave the host club a 2-1 lead at the interval.

With the game still close and Coquitlam leading 6-4 midway through the final period, Loewen spun off a defender and potted a back-breaking marker by Orangeville keeper Dillon Ward at the 13:30 mark.

He then drew a third assist on Mark Matthews' second goal from outside the circle.

"I'm speechless. It doesn't even feel real right now," said Loewen. "We just kept on battling, even if we were leading. We didn't want to slack off or anything. We wanted to keep it going."

And in a similar fashion to their five-game series win over New Westminster, the Adanacs did it with a full 60-minute effort.

In Game 1 of the series, Coquitlam overcame a 5-4 Orangeville advantage in the first frame to score five unanswered goals through the next two periods.

In Game 2, the Adanacs outscored the Ontario champs by a 4-1 margin.

The victory was as much a triumph for the Adanacs back end as it was for the Coquitlam offense that was led by tournament MVP Robert Church, Minto Cup leading scorer Matthews with 27 points and righthander Ben McIntosh, who had a stellar championship run, including a championship-leading 12 goals.

McIntosh scored a hat trick in Saturday's final game.

Dan Lewis, who was The Record's Minto Cup MVP, won all five games for the Adanacs, while putting up a stellar .843 save percentage in goal for the Adanacs.

Lewis stopped 31 shots to earn player of the game honours for the A's in Game 1.

He was even better in Game 2, stopping 40 shots as the Northmen outshot Coquitlam 44-30 in a gallant effort to tie the championship series.

"Curt (Malawsky) had us working like a machine," said Bilic, who garnered his only point of the Minto Cup in Coquitlam's wild 15-12 win over Orangeville in the round-robin portion of the Minto championships.

"Every game in the tournament was an investment - every game, every shift, every slash. We just gave 100 per cent every shift and it paid off for us," said Bilic, who along with Loewen battled Coquitlam in two great playoff series the 2008 and 2009 B.C. playoffs.

"Things happened. We all meshed real quickly. It was unexpected," added Loewen.

Where they were once bitter rivals, there is now a single family, and with that a common bond among teammates that can never be broken, they both added.

"Even though I have my Burnaby friends, these are my boys from Coquitlam," Bilic said. "This year, we were a team."

And none could be happier than MacDonald, who finished up his junior A career with a Minto Cup ring despite being used sparingly in the championship tournament.

"It feels good, definitely good," said the 6-7 Vernon goalie. "Yeah, I've never won anything before, not even a league championship, so this is a real change."