Essex District High School - Argus Yearbook (Essex, Ontario Canada)

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BOYS ' INTER-SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL This year, after much practice, the Essex High Junior and Senior Boys ' Volleyball team took part in a District Tournament held at Wallaceburg in December. This tournament was well attended with teams from Chatham Vocational, Chatham Collegiate, Wallaceburg, Petrolia, and Essex competing. Our senior boys displayed very good ability and placed third in the top-notch competition. Several disputes over irregularities in rules and regulations arose, and Essex filed an official protest with W. 0. S. S. A. officials. However, the protest was not allowed to stand and the tournament was won by Wallaceburg. Roger Ellis and Gordon Geddes were co-captains for this year ' s team. Some of the other outstanding players were Dale Collins, Bill Lozinski, Roy McMurren, John Cichon, Don Batten, Sybren Wassenaar, and Art Mass. The Essex Junior boys had an excellent team and were just barely edged out of first position. They met a strong team from Wallaceburg •in the subsequent play-offs for the championship. Again they played excellent ball but were beaten twice by ' their more experienced opponents. The starring players for Essex were Roger Crane, Bill Keane, Don O ' Neil, Nelson Willis, Jim Douglas, and David Blythe. INTRAMURAL VOLLEYBALL In Grade. 9, 9A, the undisputed football champs, again displayed their proficiency by repeating their conquests and capturing the Volley¬ ball title from 9D. Don Plant, ' Wayne VJatson, Ralph Wills, Garth Brown, Dave McKenzie, Ron Gignsc, Cecil Dutot, Mac Kennedy, again led their class to victory. Grade 10A captured the Grade X Volleyball Championship by virtue of a furious struggle in which they defeated IOC. The winners were led by W. Greenwood, S. Graham, J. McAuliffe, B. Taylor, M. Andrews, and R. Brown. The Upper Grades Championship ' was wrested from some strong, deter¬ mined 11CD representatives by a beleaguered, at times bewildered. Grade 13 team. The 13 champions were led by Jack Vicary, J. Milne, V . Brid- gen, G. Geddes, B. Mann, T. Pettypiece, A. Wass, J. Cichon and E, O ' Neil. SENIOR BOYS ' VO LLE Y,-XL TEaM SEATED: Dale Collins, Roger Ellis (Co-Captain), Don Batten, Roy McMurren. STANDING: Mr. R. Battagello, Art Wass, Bill Lozinski, John Cichon, Missing--Gordon Geddes (Co-Captain). JUNIOR BOYS ' VOLLEYBALL TEAM SEATED: David Blythe, Jerry Bol, Bill Keane, Gary Gurblt; Ron Kettle, Jim Douglas. STANDING: Ray Chajkowski, Don Pettypiece, Mike Lozinski, Donald O ' Neil (Captain), Mr. G. Meuser. Left to right: Left to right: