St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Seem B Hockey BACK ROW: T. Dawes, L. Simmons, D. Boult, Mr. Bredin, B. Saywell, B. Spaith, C. McEwen, S. Mundy. FRONT ROW: G. Lawrence, P. Riome, J. Murray, P. McCreath, R. Kennedy, J. Hutchings. This year has been a very successful one from the point of view of the senior B’s” who have ended up in first place in the league. The team as a whole has been much more successful than the midget team of last year. Our record at the end of this season was six wins and two loses; those losses being the results of very bad hockey on the part of S.J.R. The team started very strong with back-to-back wins over St. Paul’s, 4-1 and Juniorat, 6-1. However in the third game we lost to the Assiniboia team 6-4, after leading in the game 3-1 at the start of the third period. The next game against C.S.B. resulted in an easy 4-1 victory. We lost our second game to Juniorat 3-2. I’m sure we could have managed a lot more goals but we just seemed to lack the initiative. The next two games were won 3-1 over St. Paul’s and 4-2 over Assiniboia in perhaps our best game of the season. Our last game against C.S.B. was won very easily, 7-0 over the far weaker team. On the whole the scoring was distributed quite evenly around the team with the three centres McEwen, Saywell and Lawrence playing the best overall hockey. Strong defence work by Hutchings, Kennedy, Lang and Mundy saved many possible goals in tight situations. The goalkeeping by Snake Murray, although weak at times, was very strong in key situations giving him an against goals average of 1.75 and 2 shutouts. Our team looked tremendous at times, bad at other times, but has hope that the momentum we’ve built up at the end of this season remains during the finals which are coming up in the near future. We would like to thank Mr. Bredin for all his quiet words of advice, which he managed to whisper out at various times throughout the season. He made this quite a worthwhile season for us. 57

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BACK ROW: G. Smith, P. Bowes, M. Jackman, Mr. Broderick, B. Williams, D. Kiddell, G. Hill. FRONT ROW: B. McNight, J. Little, P. Leatherdale, E. Myers, P. Sheen. This year, the Senior A” Hockey team, composed Boniface 2-0. However, in the second game, played at of ten players, finished second in the Private School the St. Boniface rink, the game was tied 0-0 alter three Senior A” Hockey League which was composed of periods. The game went eight minutes into sudden teams from Assiniboia, Juniorat College, College St. death overtime before C.S.B. scored and won the game Boniface, and St. Paul’s High School. The team, under 1-0. In the final and deciding game, played during our the patient and able coaching of Mr. Broderick, finished Winter Carnival, S.J.R. got superb goal-tending from with one of its best records in years: 3 wins, 3 losses Paul Leatherdale and went on to win the game 2-1. and 2 ties. The season started with S.J.R. dropping The winning goal of the series was a beautiful passing their first game to Juniorat College, 5-2, and their play between Greg Hill, Peter Sheen, and Doug Kiddell. second game to Assiniboia, 3-1. However, in the third In the regular season’s play three of our players game, S.J.R. played well and thoroughly trounced St. scored 15 of the teams total 20 goals: G. Smith (7), Paul’s, 4-0. In their second game against Juniorat, D. Kiddell (5), and Howie” Sheen who, despite what S.J.R. was scored on late in the third period and the he tells you, got more penalties than he did goals (3). game ended in a 1-1 tie. Throughout the regular season, Paul Leatherdale In the next game against College St. Boniface, S.J.R. played very well in goal and recorded a shutout while came from a 2-0 defecit to tie the game 3-3. In the registering a very respectable 2.75 goals against average rematch against Assiniboia, the Senior ' A’ team lost in the eight league games. In the semi-finals Paul made 5-2. In the succeeding game, the team defeated St. many key saves, registering another shut-out and allow- Paul’s High School 4-3, on four goals by Gavin Smith. ing only 2 goals in three games. In the final game of the season, played on home ice, In the two games against the Old Boys the Senior S.J.R. defeated College St. Boniface 3-2 to finish the A” team split the series, losing the first game 4-0, season in second place and gain a play-off birth. but winning the second game 5-2. In the semi-final series, the team played the league’s The team would like to thank Mr. Broderick for his fourth place team, College St. Boniface, and defeated excellent and worthwhile coaching this year and also them two games to one in a thrilling and sometimes Mr. and Mrs. C. Kiddell who, despite -20 degree rowdy series. In the first game, S.J.R. beat College St. temperatures, attended all our games. 56

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' J MtM A Hockey BACK ROW: Mr. Stewart, D. Donahue, B. Knowlton, S. Shandro, G. Thomas, J. Schoemperlen, M. Gardner, G. Swartz, D. Nicholson. FRONT ROW: G. Thrasher, M. Castling, D. Spaith, M. Payne, D. Mitchell, S. Searle, A. Wiswell, L. Jacklin. ' Bamlm ' 2 Hoduif Statistically, this has not been a very good year for the Bantam B’s. The team, in 12 games, has a record of 2 ties and 10 defeats. We tied Winakwa 3-3 and Tuxedo 2-2. We lost to St. Boniface three times; our best showing was 4-3. We also lost 3 games to Trans- cona, 2 to Tuxedo, and 2 to Windsor. One of the ties and several of the losses stemmed from goals in the last 30 seconds by various opponents. The high scorer on our team was Doug McMurray. All concerned have enjoyed the season immensely, and we hope to have greater success next year utilizing some of the tech¬ niques we have learned and practiced this year. Many thanks are due for the time and effort put out by our coach, Mr. Bredin and our manager, Mr. Wellard. BACK RO W: Mr. Glegg, A. Kiddell, D. Riley, J. Barnes, D. Edwards, M. Milne, K. Turchen, J. Lawrence, Mr. MacKenzie. FRONT ROW: J. Boult, H. Malcolmson, J. Beech, R. Briggs, B. Beaton, J. Saunders, M. Hammond, R. Richardson, S. John¬ son. This year has been disappointing for all concerned. The team began the year full of high hopes and aspi¬ rations. An exhibition game ended with the team de¬ feating Fort Gary which, in Playground A”, beat us 8-0. The team never realized its potential. In every game certain players stood ou t, but never the entire team. In some games our potential showed itself, but these games were either against far superior teams or the flashes of brilliance wore off. A unified team effort was all that was needed to make this year our best. On behalf of the entire team I should like to thank Mr. Stewart for unbegrudgingly relinquishing his spare time to enable our team to function. Inclosing I would like to say to all the next year’s Senior B’s,” better luck next time.” BACK ROW: Mr. Bredin, C. Von Vegesack, J. David, B. Gardiner, R. Woodhead, J. Styffe, D. McMurray, Mr. Wellard. FRONT ROW: J. Hutchingson, P. Squire, M. Lewkin, R. Mc- Knight, J. Bredin, M. Menzies, R. MacDonald. ‘Tlaqqwjtd A Hockaf The Playground A Hockey Team did not have a good season as far as winning is concerned. We did not win a single game on the ice; our two wins coming by default over an even weaker team than ours. There were however several close decisions. David Edwards must rank as the most improved player, as a hard-hitting, thinking defenceman and a strong skater. Other players who did well were Allan Kiddell, who was beginning to think on the ice, and Rodney Briggs, who was always tenacious on attack and defence, well supported by Derek Riley and Simon Johnson. The Turchen — Malcolmson — Milne line improved considerably in the latter part of the season. John Beech and Jeff¬ ery Boult showed signs of turning into good players, and John Saunders should be useful in Playground A again next year. John Lawerence, Michael Hammond and John Barnes worked hard, although all three need to learn to akate better, so that they can concentrate more on the puck and the game, and less on staying upright. Boyd Beaton played some very good games in goal, and with the consistency that comes from practice can turn into a good reliable goal-keeper. If this team will really work at practice on their skating and stick-handling, and make sure of getting fit before the season starts they should do much better in the Bantam B League next year. 58