Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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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

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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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as many as 7 wickets on two oc- casions. Then came an overwhelm- ing defeat at the hands of the Lakefield 1st Team. Our bowling and fielding held them to 84 runs, but our batting had fallen to pieces. Seven batsmen were ducked, and only Baiz, Lewis and Kay were able to score any runs at all (a miserable 11). We then drew to U.C.C. and beat them the next day. Our second game against T.C.S. was a draw, and the team slipped well below its potential. Then, sweet revenge! Lakefield Firsts, confident of another vic- tory, went down to defeat as we hammered out 97 runs for 7 wic- kets and then held them once again to 84 all out. With this lift, we trounced U.C.C. in our final match, scoring 122 runs for 7 wic- kets, while allowing them only 57 runs. This gave us a 7-2-1 record and a solid hold on first place. I would like to thank all the members of this year ' s team for their effort and enthusiasm, and on their behalf, Mr. Revill, for his continuing patience and support. His almost limitless knowledge and strategy were a great help to me, and his constant cheerfulness made the game that much more enjoy- able. Thanks again for a season I shall long remember. Chris Lewis, Captain tl Appleby at TCS won vs. UCC won at Ridley won at SAC won at Lakefield lost at UCC won vs. UCC draw vs. TCS draw vs. Lakefield won vs. UCC won