May 30, 20077 -- Two games into the Western Lacrosse Association and already the dozy Coquitlam Adanacs needed a wake-up call.

Colin Doyle sounded the alarm Saturday night.

The biggest off-season acquisition on an Adanacs’ team that has already been targeted as Mann Cup finalists, Doyle was miffed after the A’s were stunned 13-9 by the Maple Ridge Burrards in their home opener Saturday at Coquitlam Sports Centre.

The loss followed an equally shoddy 13-10 defeat Friday to the Lakers in Burnaby. The Adanacs are the only WLA team yet to win in a seven-team loop that surprisingly houses a 4-0 Lakers’ squad and a 1-3 Victoria Shamrocks’ crew.

“Some guys are here physically but their minds are somewhere else,” Doyle said. “I think the energy level isn’t where it should be. We’ve got to understand teams are going to be hungry playing us. I don’t expect to go out and win every game but we definitely weren’t hungry enough these first two games and two hungry teams beat us.”

The Adanacs prided themselves at season’s start as having improved its punchless offence of last season while having maintained its gritty defence. The team was woeful at both ends of the floor in their opening two games.

When ex-Adanac Brenan Day bolted unmolested down the middle and beat A’s stopper Chris Levis cleanly 8:06 into the second period, the Burrards had a commanding 7-2 lead.

The A’s eventually rallied with four straight goals and cut the margin to 9-8 on Coquitlam native Tim Campeau’s five-hole tally seven minutes into the third, but the Burrards replied with the game’s next three goals to put a lid on the victory.

“It felt pretty good,” said Day, a speedy transition player who collected two goals and two assists and was part of a draft-day deal with the New Westminster Salmonbellies two years ago that brought Bruce Murray and Jesse Phillips to the A’s. “As a defender, I don’t expect to score too much. I got a bit of luck. We have a ton of good ball players on our team [but] we didn’t really expect to win this game.”

A’s head coach Rod Jensen figures the goals will come but he’s rankled that his team has surrendered 26 tallies in their first two outings.

“Theoretically, we should have the best defence in the league,” Jensen said. “We have some great defenders on this team, but we’re giving up a lot of goals.”

Jensen’s looking for a much better performance from his players tonight (Wednesday) when they visit the 1-4 Thunder in Langley, and again Saturday when the A’s host the Thunder in rematch, 7:45 p.m., Sports Centre.

“It’s early but you don’t want to fall too far behind,” he said. “You want to jockey for position [in the standings].”

RAG LINE: Jason Wulder paced the A’s Saturday with three goals. Peter Veltman had goal and three helpers in a losing effort, while Graham Palmer scored once and added pair of assists... Friday, Veltman fired in four markers and Doyle had a goal and five assists in Coquitlam’s three-goal loss in Burnaby.