Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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3RD AND 4TH XV THE 3RD XV Standing: (L. to R.) Mr. N. Coghlan, A. Ostler, B. Carson, R. Purcell, J. Nye, T. McKay, Mr. D. Williams Seated: (L. to R.) H. Shinohara, J. Jung, S. Tardif, I. Esmail, G. Seifriet, J. Roberts, S. Tang Front Row: (L. to R.J M. Seguin, D. Howell-Jones WMSTT; THE4THXV Standing: (L. to R.) Mr. N. Coghlan, R. Nelson, C. Borkenhagen, C. Repen, M. McLennan, M. Sharp, R. Greger, Mr. D. Williams Seated: (L. to R.) S. Yates, R. Meekison, D. Thomas, D. Hunter, D. Frankovich, P. Bryden, M. V Wson Front: (L. to R.) Y. Soetaniman, M. Giordano Although our coaches were hesitant about the future, following our first practice the 3rd and 4th XV emerged with a decent record as well as many fine players. Out of a group of fifty hard working souls, Mr. Williams and Mr. Coghlan selected two squads. The 3rd XV were undefeated at St. George ' s and played St. Michael ' s to a loss and a draw. Our last game of the year was no doubt our toughest, as lyaaz Esmail led us into Brentwood territory for the second time this year. A win would have given us a tie for the Independent Schools; a disappointing loss that will be remembered especially by our seniors who were playing their final game for the School. There were many outstanding per- formances on both the 3rd and 4th XV. Newcomers T. McKay, R. Meekison, J. Nye and M. Seguin worked hard and learned quickly to contribute greatly to our success. The experience of B. Carson, R. Nelson, R. Purcell and R. Boehm certainly settled down the forwards, while both back lines were strengthened by the steady play of S. Tang, H. Shinohara, and Y. Soetaniman and G. Seifriet. The positions of scrum-half, on both teams, were admirably filled by D. Howell-Jones and D. Hunter, neither of whom had played the position before this season. One of the highlights of the entire season had to be the combined 3rd and 4th versus the Old Boys. It was an exciting contest with the Old Boys starting out quickly but the School closing the gap in the second half. The boys learned much from the game, and of special interest was the tackling instruction presented by Old Boy and current staff member, Mr. S. Lane. Stephane Tardif 27

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COLTS RUGBY Standing: (L. to R.) Mr. M.R. Hall, J. Carlow, R. Chickite, S. Flemming, L. Hill, K. O ' Kennedy, M. McPhie, M. Vopni, F. Martin, A. Lambrinoudis, Mr. G. Dickens Seated: (L. to R.) F. Tovstigo, C. Cottrell, G. Friesen, S. Wade, T. Sigf- stead, M. Hunter, R. Paredes Fro ; .- (L. to R.) D. Payne, M. Pomeroy The Colts team started what was to be quite a successful season under the coaching of Mr. Hall and Mr. Dickens. Even though we had a large number of inexperienced players to begin with we did quite well early in the season beating several public schools. After the initial exhibition games we played in the Mid- Island Championship. There were four schools in the tournament, including our rivals, Brentwood College. Our first game was against Cowichan and we won by a fair margin, which put us into the finals against Brentwood. They posted an early lead but we came back to win the tour- nament with a 16 point victory over Brentwood. We were not very successful against any of the private schools except for Brentwood whom we beat 2 out of the 3 games played. After losing our second game with Brentwood we worked up for the last game of the season, against Brentwood. It was our best game of the season with everybody playing to the fullest of their capabilities. The team led by Garth Friesen and myself, was quite small in comparison with some of the other teams in our league, but what we lacked in size we made up for with skill. The backs were very powerful and benefitted greatly from the strong running and tackling of both Florian Tovstigo and Raul Paredes. Todds Sigfstead set up many of the key plays at fly half opening many scoring opportunities for Fred Martin on the right wing. The size of Mike McPhie and Chris Cottrell and the skill of Scott Flemming made some of our rucking the best in the league. Over all it was a very successful season and because of this there will be a tour in May. S. Wade (Grade 11) 29