Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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wickets during our innings until Seenath and Chin settled in and brought home a win which took a good two to three hours to get despite the fact we only needed 47 runs for the win. Marigail loomed next and our win over T.C.S. put us in third place behind Ridley and the leader, U.C.C. Our chance had come as we were to play U.C.C. in the first round. They were undefeated and had settled upon their thrones for yet another year. But even the greatest of them fall and fall they did, one by one, until we had got- ten them all out and they were well short of our 78 runs. These games were different in that each team only gets 20 overs to make as many runs as they can and each bowler could only bowl 4 overs. Ridley defeated T.C.S. and so we were in the final for the second year in a row. But again it was not to be as Ridley hit everything we bowled and ended up with 110 runs in 25 overs. Our batting was nothing to talk about until Pat Bates and Gerald Baiz, known as the second team slugger made 29 and 38 not out respectively. The score was a respectable 88 but Ridley is bound to feel our revenge next year as only our Captain, Keith Chin, is leaving us this year. We did not have the greatest of seasons this year, but we had a good time and a great deal of the credit for that should go to our coach Mr. Dickens. He put up with our very inconsistant batting as well as our sometimes erratic bowling and usually managed to stay on the calm side of things and for that the whole team would like to thank him. Glenn Wright

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At the beginning of this season, it appeared that some rebuilding would have to be done. We had lost three of our top four batsman from the graduating class as well as some very necessary experience. The weather was not much help as many a day was spent in the gym working with tennis balls and mak- ing sure the shots were still there after a long winter. Yet in the gym it became obvious that, with some of the southern new boys and the younger talent, we had a genuine shot at any of the teams in the I.S.A.A. Especially since the games were changed to 40 overs an innings and each bowler could only bowl 8 overs. We felt that that was where our strength lay, for we had four excellent bowlers, any of whom could open. We played some exhibition games against Oakville, Toronto and Gracechurch Cricket Clubs and faired reasonably well against them, although the Toronto side did outclass us in the batting end First Cricket FRONT ROW: P. Henriques, Bales, Chin, Wright, S. Henriques, Durst, Bonfield. BACK ROW: Mr. Larsen, Ryan, Hughes, Seenath, Bailey, Hueton, Hickling, Mr. Dickens. of the game. But what counted were the I.S.A.A. games and Ridley was our first opponent. We batted first and although our open- ing bat, Glenn Wright hit 41, the team managed to be all out for 113. Two cricketers of the future, Joe Ryan and Pat Bates, both in Grade 10, had a good day at the bat as well. Yet when Ridley went in to bat we had trouble with their opening bats as they picked, away at us until we went down in defeat only taking four of the wickets. St. Andrews was a different story altogether. They fell for only 40 runs in a matter of little more than an hour and a half, thanks to some excellent bowling by Iain Hueton and Tom Hughes. Keith Chin led the batting that day with 25 and we came home with our first win in the I.S.A.A. and pre- pared for our next match against U.C.C. Again we batted first and we just put it down as a bad day at the bat, as we were all out for 68 although Keith Chin had 38 not out. Yet U.C.C. had a hard time getting their runs and at one point we had 8 of their wickets for 40 runs as our fielding had never looked better. They finally beat us, but not after most of our team had vowed revenge. T.C.S. was next as we warnied up for the Tournament at Marigail. Andrew Seenath and Ian Hueton both had a good days bowling and we had them out half an hour before tea. We lost three

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2nd - U-16 Cricket FRONT ROW: Stewart, Kay, Meredith, Lewis, Hickling, Johnson. SECOND ROW: Forsyth, Richards, Marshall, Lloyd, Graham, Durdan. BACK ROW: Mr. Revill, Baiz, Goddard, Turnbull. This year ' s 2nci XI had a very good season, due largely to high team spirit and a ood amount of talent. The wicked spin bowling of Jeff Goddard was surpassed only by Peter Meredith, (whose deadly accuracy took 40 wickets this sea- son) and Paul Stewart. Don Johnson was our ace reliever , and even Chris Lewis managed to get in a few overs. Our batting soon proved to be as good as our bowling. Again, Peter Meredith ' s uncanny skill shone through, accounting for 20 Vo of our total runs. Richard Hickling, Paul Stewart and Barry Kay also paced our attack with good batting. Keen fielding by Don Hamilton, Mike Forsyth, Gord Richards, Barry Kay, and Peter Meredith kept the scores down and the spirits up. In all, 43 wickets were taken as a result of our good field- ing. Our first four games were easy wins against T.C.S., Ridley, U.C.C., and S.A.C., winning by