Miles Macdonell Collegiate - Macadonian Yearbook (East Kildonan, Manitoba Canada)

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Front Row: Bob Smith, Dave Confrey, Garth Mitchell, Bob Brickey, Bob Jackson, Jim Gillies. Back Row: Jim Westmacott, John Mellin, Gary McEwan (Equipment Manager), Wayne Zurba, Doug Birt. BOYS ' VARSITY BASKETBALL TOP SCORERS Rene Day 130 pts. Garth Mitchell 92 pts. Doug Birt 60 pts. TOP PERCENTAGES Dave Confrey 38% Robert Brickey 36% Rene Day 35% RECORDS: Rene Day scored 34 pts. against Brooklands as MMC won 78-15 ALL STARS: Garth Mitchell, Doug Birt, Rene Day “Up and at ’em, ruff, ruff, ruff; We’re the team that’s really tough.” These words made everyone’s heart thump at fever pitch as game conditions brought hoarse throats and slaps to the backs of teachers and stu¬ dents. Ron Brickey’s “Buckeyes” travelled to West Kil- donan and returned with a 47-42 squeeze. Garth Mitchell’s no-look jump shot netted him 8 points. Robert Brickey had the crowd gasping with his swishers from center. The three shorties, John Mal- lin, Wayne Zurba, and Doug Birt played well on defense. Dave “the mouse” Confrey’s end zone layups give him 16, top for the night. Norwood left with a 54-48 decision. Smiling Doug Birt scored 25 points for his best game of the season. The experienced Brickey machine swamped the “never-say-die” Brookland Chappies 96-15. Deadly shooting by Glenlawn left MMC at the short end of a 65-32 contest. Rene Day, improved play originator, and Garth Mitchell chained 10 points apiece. Shifty eyes Bob Brickey still remains as “eazel” (cool) man for the team. John Ayotte and his mates provided thrills aplenty as they crept by 75-59. Rene Day, leading scorer, scored 18 while Garth Mitchell and Dave Confrey netted 12 apiece. 51-50 reminds 11 players of the night when their playoff hopes vanished. A large MMC crowd cheered hard, but the fellas couldn’t net the extra points. Team captain, Garth Mitchell did his best with 19 points. Wayne “Pierre” Zurba’s injured heel added anxiety to the night’s excitement. Spirits fell as Norwood squeaked by with foul shots in the last 14 seconds. The season’s largest crowd, and the retirement of coach Brickey, inspired the “Buckeyes” to a de¬ cisive 67-30 bout over West Kildonan. Rene Day scored 19, while Bob Brickey and John Mallin bombed 14 and 13 respectively. Ed Smith had the bench on their feet as he chained his first basket of the season. CONFIDENTIAL CAPERS??? BEST BOOB: The dressing of the team manager in blue shorts and size seven sneakers. EMBARRASSMENT: The cork from the green jug popped and flew across the gym floor. —Gary McEwen XIA 54

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Bob Stalker, Cliff Schmidt, Ed Atwell, Gary Milne (skip). The M.M.C. Bowling Association The M.M.C, Bowling Association had its biggest and best year this season with eighteen teams com¬ peting. The students bowled two nights a week. With nine teams bowling each night, one team was forced to bowl alone on alley nine. Once again the season was split into two parts. In the second half each team of five was given a sixth bowler due to the number of students wanting to bowl after Christmas. The top nine teams played in the roll-offs and Garry Kissuk led his team of Claire Dafoe, Sharon Patek, Connie Matheson, John Hunter, and A1 Fingler to victory. They were awarded the trophy donated last year by Mr. Clay, the former proprietor of Lynwood Alleys. Some of M.M.C.’s outstanding bowlers this year were: Boys ' High Single - A1 Fingler 313 Boys ' High Double Bill Harper 583 Boys ' High Average Dick Birch 194 Girls ' High Single June Hunter 270 Girls ' High Double June Hunter 403 Girls ' High Average Margaret Kovachlik 158 In roll-off competition Janet Smith surprised everyone with a game of 310 and A1 Fingler bowled 316. Again this year M.M.C. was well represented in the Inter-High Bowling Competition with the top 10 girls and boys representing our school. Although the four teams did not place, everyone did his or her best. We would like to thank Mr. Wilson, Len Bugera, and Hugh Andrew for their fine work in organizing and running the Bowling schedule this year. We would also like to thank Mr. Kamrath, the pro¬ prietor of Lynwood Alleys, for his co-operation throughout the season. —Ron Worton CURLING Here ' s to the Spearing’s and Buffie’s, The Simpson’s and Robertson’s too. The Smyrl’s, the Scarrow’s, the Evanses, And “Easy Ed” Parson’s great crew. To the Russell’s, McEwan’s, and Tinling’s, Messrs. Wilson and Nixon too. They all had their day, and Pete had the name, But a southpaw” named Milne came through. —J. Angus McEighl-Ender A year has passed, a princess has married a com¬ moner, and a rookie skipper has carried his rink to the Miles Mac Curling Championship. Gary Milne and his rink of Ed Atwell, Cliff Schmidt, and Bob Stalker breezed through the round-robin play-offs winning three straight games after absorbing only three losses all season. Gary and the boys downed the rinks of Orville Buffie, Dale Grevstad, and Gord Spearing with respective scores of 11-7, 8-6, and 15-6. Buffie had Miss Sparling, Ken England and Dave Horne in front of him; Spearing had Bill Glabecka, Don Bucholz, and Wade Rowland with him, while Mr. Green, Ray Ryan, and Dale Knoll completed Dale Grevstad’s foursome which eventually won the points championship. Congratulations to Ed Atwell, Cliff Schmidt, Mike Maslick, and Alvin Barret for their reaching the final of the Dan Davidson event only to lose out to Litman of West Kildonan. Dale Grevstad’s rink of Orville Buffie, Gary McEwan and Bill Evans were among the eight undefeated rinks, but lost going into the quarter finals after winning five straight. —Dale Grevstad odCK now: Hubert. WolSUTinrSSS- ' k ' R ° n C ° le Ken RobmLn 0 Sick U B g h n L r en W Bu H g°era AMinger ' CHff Bea11 ’ BrUce Norm Flngler JankS 1 Molasky 1 C ° nn ° r HaU ' Le ° n Barchuk, 53

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GIRLS VARSITY BASKETBALL Front Row: Sandra Johnson, Liz Tanner, Gail Scott, Sonia Smerchansky. , -i p Q j Back Row: Nola James, Maureen Dejong, Brenda Witwichi, Diane Bell. Darlene Iwanson, Carole Beard. GIRLS ' VARSITY BASKETBALL The girls’ varsity team has again put away its uniforms after a valiant effort to reach the finals. The team of 59-60 consisted of Sonia Smerchansky, Nola James, Brenda Witwicki, Gail Scott, Liz Tanner, Darlene Swanson, Sandra Johnson, Diane Bell, Carole Beard, Maureen de Jong. The season opened with a game against West Kildonan on their own court. The final score was in our favour 18-11. As the boys met Brooklands the second week the girls had a “bye.” The girls’ next triumphed over Norwood 28-21, but only to lose by 17-10 to Glenlawn on the following Friday. Glen- lawn then travelled to our home court where they met defeat in our only overtime game by a score of 28-26. Again the girls received a “bye” and then went to Norwood only to be defeated 24-12. West Kildonan then played a return game and was handed another defeat to the tune of 19-12. The team thought that this game was the last of the year but found out one week later that they were tied with Norwood for last play-off position. In an after four sudden death play-off game Miles Mac triumphed 24-11. That week four games were play ed in five days, one being an exhibition. On Wednesday St. James paid us a visit and trounced us 46-30. Thursday the team rushed to St. James hoping for revenge only to lose by ONE point with a score of 23-22. The team would not wear their uniforms again this year. The top three scorers for the 59-60 year are Gail Scott, Sonia Smerchansky and Brenda Witwicki res¬ pectively. We would now like to take the opportunity to thank Betty Greschner, a former player of this school, who turned out to coach us. We greatly appreciate her splendid effort and regret that her hard work did not produce better results. Rene Day was appointed by Betty to take our after four prac¬ tices. We thank Rene for all his hard work. We would like to wish the future teams of Miles Mac all the luck to go all the way. Gail Scott Liz Tanner 55