Oakwood Collegiate Institute - Oracle Yearbook (Toronto Ontario, Canada)

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SENIOR BASKETBALL SEATED: Pat McCabe, Greg Swaluk. Ed Bobot, Gus Falcioni, Bert Williams, George Cervoni. STANDING: Mr. McKinney (coach), Chip Harper, George Dubinsky, Joe Hauth, Jim Grant, Jack Arbus, Warren Pidhirny (manager). This year ' s senior squad was one of the most well-balanced clubs Oakwood has ever fielded. With offensive stars Ed Bobot and George Dubin- sky, and defensive ace Gus Falcioni, it is no won- der that Oakwood romped to the city finals as the only undefeated team. In our first league game against Humberside, the Blues unleashed a crushing full-court press to trounce Humberside 84-64. George Dubinsky and Ed Bobot led the scoring. Against Central Tech, Ed Bobot notched 36 points to lead Oakwood to a 86-52 victory. In the game against last year ' s city champs, Harbord, Chip Harper scored the winning basket with 8 seconds left in the game as Oakwood edged Harbord 55-54 in one of the most exciting games in basketball history. With first place clinched, Oakwood easily de- feated Parkdale and Bloor by one-sided scores of 67-53 and 74-38 respectively. However, an in- spired Humberside squad came within a basket of defeating Oakwood. The final score was 56-55 for Oakwood. Oakwood continued its domination over Cen- tral and Western Tech with convincing 80-63 and 65-40 victories. Oakwood ' s scoring was too much for Bloor as Bobot and Dubinsky scored 26 and 25 points to lead Oakwood to a 92-46 win. By the end of regular season play, Oakwood had outscored its opposition 725-492. In the two game quarter-final total point series, Oakwood outscored Malvern 140-105. The seniors won the first game with an impressive 64-43 vic- tory. Ed Bobot played outstandingly as he scored 29 points. Eddie netted another 20 points in the second game as Oakwood breezed to a 76-52 decision. In the first game of the semi-final series, Oak- wood trounced Parkdale 81-37. With a 49 point cushion, Oakwood breezed to to a 78-62 decision to win the total-point series 159-109. The final game at Jarvis, however, proved a disappointment. Last year ' s champs, Harbord, were able to control the court against the weaker performance of the Oakwood squad to win the game and the championship 72-57. Congratulations to Mr. McKinney and all the players for a brilliant season. 92

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■fc (ft jE, B «|f f Bi i H JI K J KJIBI jjfell jgiffifltf fcyBII ' HOCKEY Except for a 4-2 victory over Central Tech, this was a very dismal year for Mr. Bell and Oakwood ' s Hockey squad. Pete Winnel played very well in goal. However, there was ab- solutely no scoring punch to compliment his fine work. Better luck to Mr. Bell and the team next year. SEATED: Chris Evans, Paul Winnel, John Swanson, Steve Turvey, Rick Matier. STANDING; Mr. Bell (coach), Pete Sellito, Steve Relyea, Glen Matthews, John Gibbin, Dave Hustler, Bob Turkington. ABSENT: Dan Waterfield, Tim Turner, Mike Wolfe, Ivan Morten. 91

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JUNIOR BASKETBALL Although Oakwood ' s junior squad failed to win their division, they proved to be one of the pleas- ant surprises of the year. Fielding a squad of rookies except for AI Hedderwick, Mike Seguin and Ken Shulman, it was expected the squad would have to struggle to make the playoffs. This was not the case. Mr. Wilson and his juniors were in con- tention for first place until the last game of the season against Western Tech. The oakers ended regular season play with a respectable 7-3 won-loss record. Hedderwick scored 21 and 25 points respectively to lead his team to convincing 49-22 and 51-42 victories over Humberside and Central Tech. After dropping a 33-23 decision to Western Tech, Ken Pratt put Oakwood back on the win- ning track by scoring 14 points to a close 40-36 victory over Central Commerce. Al Hedderwick scored 15 points as Oakwood edged out Harbord 35-33. Ken Schulman led Oakwood to a 46-42 decision over Parkdale as he scored 15 points in two quarters. Oakwood ' s defensive squad sparkled in Oak- wood ' s victories over Bloor and Humberside by convincing scores of 44-30 and 47-36. Oakwood was on the winning end of a 39-38 score against Central Tech. In the final game of the regular season, Western Tech ' s superior ball handling was too much for our squad as the junior Oakers lost 48-36. In the quarter-final series against Northern, Oakwood dropped a 45-29 decision in the first game. However a fighting Oakwood squad came back to defeat Northern 42-38 to end the season on a winning note. Congratulations to Mr. Wilson and all the players for a great season. FRONT ROW: Mr. Wilson (coach), Ken Shulman, Ray Kitt, AI Hedderwick, Mike Seguin, Ned Judge (mgr.). BACK ROW: Ted Carey, Ron McNab, Ken Pratt, Gene Pankewich, Kevin Judge. 93