Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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First Hockey As the ' 7 7- ' 78 hockey season began, the team had its sights set low. Few people believed that we would win a game. But when the season was over, we had proved all our sceptics wrong. After two dismal exhibition games, the team started to show some promise even though we lost our next two by small margins. In our first two games of the I.S.A.A. season we put forth a halfhearted effort losing both. Next game we overwhelmed Ridley, winning by a romping 6-0. With a bolstered team we met L.C.C. from Mon- treal, vanning 7-4. In the next game we tied 3-3. For the second time we met Lakefield, a grade nine team, and again we fell easy prey to them. Next it was S.A.C. where we won 2-0 with goals in the late stages of the game. Ashbury was our next foe and in two thrilling games we proved ourselves the better, winning 2-1 in both games. In probably our best game of the season we lost to T.C.S., again a grade nine team, but not without battering them up severely and forcing them to score in the dying minutes of the game. We defeated Ridley once more and tied S.A.C. in a game where we did everything but score. We failed to live up to the task against U.C.C. in our next game losing 6-0 to a much better team. We ended the season on a high note, riding to easy victories over a poor Crescent team and a slightly over- confident L.C.C. Our record ended up 8 wins, 5 losses, and 2 ties - not bad for a team that was not ex- pected to wrin a game. I am not going to mention any one person for playing out- standing hockey. The key to our success was a team effort and I believe that ' s the way it should stay. Greg Fournier - Captain ■ FRONT ROW: Moffat, Mann, Fournier, Freeman, McNab. MIDDLE ROW; Guthrie, Piasecki, Barr, Bruce, Appleby, Vernon, Senst, BACK ROW: Mr. Singer, Petersen, Rogers, Benson. f

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It has been a very good year, in many respects a vintage year! This is not only because the teams have been successful, but because the boys have been very willing to train. Much of this has been due to Christopher Martin; his determination has exerted a positive influence on the others. As usual the competitions were packed into a short period at the end of October. First came the Brock High School race in which we came seventh out of thirteen schools, our best-ever performance. Toby Bronson was our first to finish in thirty- first place just two seconds ahead of Christopher Martin. Our next two were FRONT ROW: Mann, Martin, Bronson. MIDDLE ROW: Williams, Genereux, Thompson, Nightingale, Mr. Nightingale. Nicholas Nightingale and Michael Genereux. Stephen Mann and Kevin Thomson also ran bravely vrithout much training behind them. Two days later, on a balmy Saturday, we hosted the Independent Schools ' Meet. As in previous years we were convincing winners in both the under-12 and the under-14 divisions. Christopher Martin, Michael Genereux, Toby Bronson and Stephen Mann, well-supported by Kevin Thomson and Greg Williams, all ran well to give us a clear victory in the under-14 over Crescent and Ridley. The under-12 race was almost embarrassing, for not only did our ' A ' team win easily, but our ' B ' team almost came second, just beaten by Crescent. Nicholas Nightingale won the race and he was strongly backed by Christian De Josselin De Jong, James Mairs and Duncan Ross. The ' B ' team led by Todd Cooper, included Richard and Robert Archer and Ian Batty. The inter-tribal competition was dif- ferent this year, because there was one meet in which every boy competed, and a second in which only selected tribal teams took part. The overall winners of the first meet were Cayugas followed by Oneidas and Senecas with Mohawks trailing. Mohawks, however, can take comfort from the fact that their juniors led by Peter Mann, Wayne Morris and John Becker were clear winners in their division. The senior event saw a very good race for first place between Christopher Martin and Toby Bronson. Toby won convincingly although his time was considerably slower than the record. The final event of the year was the inter- tribal team race. Once again Cayugas proved that they were the best, but Mohawks and Oneidas tied for second and the Senecas brought up the tail. Although there was great interest in all the races with John Dovimie winning the Junior and Nicholas Nightingale the Intermediate, it was the Senior race which was the most interesting because of Christopher Martin ' s determination to outrun his old rival, Toby Bronson. Theirs was a cagey duel over the first lap, but Toby showed his strength, stamina and determination to pull away on the second lap to victory in a new record beating the old mark by eight seconds. In coming second Christopher had run his fastest race of the season, a triumph for him even in defeat. Few were surprised when Christopher and Toby were awarded their colours. Thus the season ended, but the future looks promising for there are many up-and- coming runners, Nicholas Nightingale, Greg Williams. Christian De Josselin De Jong and James Mairs among them, who should continue to provide the school with strong teams next year. Mr. Nightingale

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U13 Hockey FRONT ROW: Krane, Moffat, Senst, Fournier, Guthrie, Crawford. BACK ROW: Schooling, Easson, McNally, Bruce, Nicholson, Nightingale, McCarter. Size was our biggest problem, especially when we played teams that did not or would not meet our age level. So we tried to outskate them. This worked quite well considering the speed that our Captain, Scott Millar, and team- mates Follows, Mull, Bascombe, Merry, Peter Mann and George Mann were able to muster. Defence was the next biggest problem though lots of good ef- forts and improvement came from Wood, Mairs, and Jaworski. Fortunately we had two goalies of good calibre - Petersen II and Henderson - who made spec- tacular saves when they were needed. As a team, we got along very well and our spirit and deter- mination was always visible, even in defeat. Mr. Boyd This season the Under 13 hockey team had its share of ups and downs. At the beginning of the season, Mr. Millar coached us to four straight convincing vic- tories over M.O.H.A. teams. However, Mr. Miller was unable to coach us in the middle and the FRONT ROW: P. Mann, Petersen, Millar, Henderson, H. Mann. MIDDLE ROW: Mr. Boyd, Mairs, Evans, Mull, Dawood, Bascombe. BACK ROW: Wood, Cooper, Hughes. Third Hockey latter part of the season, so Stuart Smith took over as the man behind the bench. At this time the team became overconfident and dropped two hardfought games to Ashbury. Paul Petersen played splendidly in goal holding off attackers, while many of our best players were playing for the first team. Stu did show our team quite a few good playing tips, and he should be congratiilated for his hard work and dedication to the team. Special mention should go to Greg Fournier (our captain and leading scorer), Peter Senst, Scott Guthrie, Lawrence McNally and Mark Barr for supplying us vnth hustle in the corners, goals and a few penalties! Finally the team started to look like a team again at the end of the season thanks to Stuart ' s good coaching, and we broke even in vdns and losses. On behalf of the entire team I would like to thank both Stuart and Mr. Millar for a truly educational and fim season. M. Moffatt