Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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The Second Cricket XI 1 FRONT ROW: Baiz I. Gaskin, Suchanek, Beasley, Lytle. BACK ROW: Strudwick, Webb II, Morrison II, Cameron, Harrigan, Burke I, Mr. Revill. The improved standard of cricket throughout the school was much in evidence at the Second Team level. Under the capable leader- ship of Dave Suchanek and Rob Strudwick we were able to have an enjoyable season. The bowling was the strong part of our team, having more bowlers than we really knew what to do with. Cameron, Morrison, and Suchanek, well assisted by Beasley, McLaughlin and Baiz took their wickets in turn. They had good length and consistency throughout the season. Our fielding this year showed great promise, with some un- believeable catches by Suchanek and our improving wicket keeper Steve Harrigan. RESULTS OF GAMES Appleby 94-9 (dec; Ridley 77 Appleby 78 Appleby 73 Appleby 52 London XI 67 U.C.C. 95 for 8 Appleby 79 for 5 U.C.C. 72 T.C.S. 27 Ridley 53 for 4 Appleby 68 for 7 Lost by 2 wkts. Won by 6 wkts. Won by 6 runs Won by 46 runs. Lost by 6. wkts. Won by 3 wkts. 108

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is vanity! We gave a hint of our fallibility against a weak St. An- drews team by scraping only 61 runs. Fortunately the bowlers, especially Ian Mann, aided by some great catching by Wet- more, rose to the occasion to give us a win. Then came the big game U.C.C. On a very hot day we fielded first and did very well to get a strong batting team out for 110. Then against wild, fast bowling from one end and ac- curate bowling from the other, we proceeded to disgrace our- selves. Only Merritt got double figures, the rest threw their wickets away. At T.C.S. all the bowlers bowled well as we got them out for 81, but now we had to rely on batsmen whose vulnerability on big occasions had been demonstrated. The im- portance of a good start was clearly shown as this time Wet- more dug in and gave a fine determined display to make 44 not out and so give us a win. When we faced Ridley, we needed only a draw or a win to give us second place in the ISAA, so we elected to bat first, intending to pile up the runs. But our batsmen revealed great ingenuity in getting out against very ordinary bowlers, so that our later batsmen had to scrape and scratch to put our score at 68 af- ter three hours. Our bowlers tried very hard but in a close game small mistakes make all the dif- ference, so that two dropped cat- ches lost the game in the final over. Looking back, it is apparent that this was a very successful season, in which we did not rely on one or two stars but had talent all the way through the team. To a few, special awards: for the unluckiest bowler - Ian Mann; biggest hitter - Chris Merritt; biggest range (from superb to awful) - Jim Wetmore; most stylish - Roland To; most im- proved - Ross Large; and greatest potential to go from 12th man to best bowler - Ed Dickens; and to an excellent captain, good all-rounder and fine young gen- tleman - Wayne Sims. The future looks good. Although we will lose six of this year ' s team, we have some good players coming up. With a tour to England in 76 to aim for, we must concentrate on eradicating those fundamental batting faults that caused our players to get out to poor bowling, and make it a tradition to come through - each one of us - in the big games. RECORD Played Won Drew Lost 12 5 4 3 BATTING Runs Innings Not Out Average Taylor 149 12 3 16.6 Sims 157 12 1 14.3 Merritt 134 10 13.4 Wetmore 136 12 1 12.4 Jamieson 144 12 12.0 BOWLING Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Dickens 8 3 6 4 Merritt 77 35 102 22 Sims 99 23 269 28 Mann 114 24 221 17 Large 38 7 133 10 Morgan 96 29 188 13 Average 1.5 4.6 9.6 13.0 13.3 13.9 The two awards by the Oakville Cricket Club: 1. To the best batsman - Peter Taylor 2. To the best bowler - Chris Merritt 107

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The ground fielding and throwing was excellent, with special mention to McLaughlin, Lytle and Strudwick. Batting seemed to be the weakest part of our performance, but potentially we should have done much better in this depart- ment. Suchanek, Morrison, Webb, Harrigan and Lytle flat- tered to deceive. Lytle and Gaskin, our opening batsmen did well in tiring out the opposition ' s opening bowlers, but were slow in scoring. Overall there was a great im- provement in the team ' s per- formance and with a little more experience and sense of pur- pose, we would have gone through the season undefeated. Most of all we would like to thank our coach Mr. Revill for the time he spent in developing the The Third Cricket XI FRONT ROW: Reid, Stafford I, Peart II, Harnden, Dekovachich, Day, Toles I. BACK ROW: Lewis, Thomson I, Stuart IV, Wilson II, Burchmore I, Mr. Large. second cricket team. Indoor practises of early April finally gave way to outdoor sessions in late April and we then thought we were ready for Ridley. However with a much stronger batting side against us, in spite of our opening score of 92, Ridley amassed 112 for 4. A few days later, against a much weaker Lakefield team, we won by 8 wickets. On a sunny Wed- nesday afternoon in Aurora we more than met our match at St. Andrews. They had a first class team composed of many West In- dian students who played strongly all day. S.A.C. - 108, Ap- pleby - 56. The best was yet to come! Upper Canada by 7 wickets and T.C.S. by 132 for 6 declared, were in- deed results to be proud of. In fact we held U.C.C. to 23 runs and T.C.S. to 38. Some superb bowling against U.C.C. by David Burchmore, who took 6 wickets and by Mark Wilson against T.C.S. with 7 wickets while he peronsally added 63 runs to our count, gave us decisive victories. Our last match of the season was a return engagement with the strong Ridley side. Results: Ridley 124 for 3 while we fought valiantly for adraw with 58 for 9 as time ran out on Ridley. Well done to a spirited and en- thusiastic third team and thanks to our captain, Brad Thomson for his help during the Season. Results: Won 3 Lost 2 Drew 1 109