Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Seconds FRONT ROW: Merrill, Smith I, Large, Peart I, Rosseel, Wetmore, Durrant, Green II, Mr. Manbert. BACK ROW. Mckenzie II, Gaskin, Sutherland, Keates I, Bateman, Stuart IV, Moffat, Suchanek, Fournier, Lytle, I was somewhat skeptical as this year ' s hockey season began, not because I was only losing a few players to the Firsts and after last year ' s success, this was en- couraging, but I realized that the Northern Campus and sickness (which are bound to occur) might possibly negate a promising season. We had only a week ' s practice before our first game against T.C.S. which we won quite handily and it appeared, af- ter tying Lakefield and beating them soon after, that we were off to a good start. I thought that a good test of our strength would be U.C.C., our last game before the Christmas holidays. We were behind going into the third period, after a rather rough beginning. Nevertheless, we bore down and won the game 5-3. Af- ter Christmas, we continued on our winning way, by beating Hillfield 6 - 4; however, the roof was about to fall in! Our record to date was 4 to 1. Over the next 11 games, we only won two, tied 1 and lost the rest. We were hit severely by flu, the Northern Campus, improved play by our opponents and generally a lack of scoring power on our part (we were outscored 64 - 53 on the season). At one point, in a game against Ridley, we had a grand total of seven players - hardly enough to play the game. I don ' t like the idea of sharing goal tenders, as it never gives a team a feeling of unity, but un- fortuantely there was nothing we could do. To both Stuart Smith and Steve Harrigan

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team should have no problem by the time next year rolls around. To conclude, I would just like to mention that the first Hockey Team has worked hard through a long season, and has come up with some very good results. They have been the best that I have seen since I came to Ap- pleby. Having been on the team for a while, I was able to notice a certain change in the team. This year, in particular, all players and the coach worked well together, both on and off the ice. This surely exemplifies the right attitude of a true team . One final note to say a word of thanks, and appreciation to our Managers, Paul Crosbie and Graham Kolle, and to our Coach, Mr. Abbott. He took us through one of our longest seasons ever; and to his and our delight it was also one of our best seasons ever. LEADING SCORERS Lomas Hammill Kacan C. Stuart 60 points 49 points 35 points 33 points v GP W L T 33 19 12 2 in

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I thank you for a job well done under trying circumstances. On defence we found a new body every game which can often have disastrous results. John Rosseel (our captain), Mark Gaskin, David Suchanek, Fraser McKenzie, Mike Sutherland, John Peart, Paul Bateman - a cast of thousands on defence - this was part of our problem. A constant juggling of forward lines consisted of Tom Lytle, Don Green, Lang Moffat, Barry Durrant, Lyndon Fournier, Ross X-«3 « w Large, Graham Stuart, David Gib- son, Jim Wetmore, Bruce Peart, John Keates, Dan Hebert and some who also played defence. We never played two games with the same personnel - a factor which is bound to hurt. I have purposely not singled anyone out for being out- standing, principally because our season was not! I would like to thank Bruce Gibson, Frank Merrill, our managers, and Ashley Kishino, our alternate goaltender for their unselfish ef- forts. To the whole team, thank you for what turned out to be an interesting season. D.M.