Plum Coulee Collegiate - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Plum Coulee, Manitoba Canada)

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f L-r: Stuart Braun, Kelvin Penner, Dennis Buhlin, (captain), Alvin Toews (assistant captain), Steve Dyck, Jim Reichert, Henry Penner. Second row, l-r: Frank Wiebe, Gordon Peters, Bernie Penner, Jack Harder, Bob Friesen, Frank Harder, Mr. Rietze (coach). Third row, l-r: Ernie Penner, Ken Wiebe, Bill Enns, Allan Braun, Garry Toews. At the beginning of the 1965-66 school term the surrounding collegiates once again formed a football league con¬ sisting of Morden, Altona, and Plum Coulee. ' jH After the regular schedule Plum Coulee led the race, not having suffered a single loss, followed closely by Morden Alton a failed to win a game and remained in last place. With five championships in as many years, the Coulee team, was once again the team favoured to win the play-offs. However, Morden was determined to win the honours this year. The play-offs consisted of a two-game total point series between Morden and Plum Coulee. The first game was ■ played in Morden and the Plum Coulee squad “bit the dust” as they fell in defeat by the score of 25-13. The Morden team, now with a 12-point edge going into the second game were indeed eager to win. Morden led throughout the game until the dying moments of the game when Coulee found a hole in the opponents’ defence and took advantage of it by scaring two quick touchdowns to win the series. 1 The entire football team would like to extend their thanks to Mr. Rietze who took the time to coach this group. 27

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ommittee L-r: Enid Wiebe, Dennis Buhlin (chairman), Susan Harder. Second Wiebe, Jack Harder, Lois Wiebe, Mr. Falk (staff advisor). l-r: Kelvin Penner, Valorie Mitosinka, Ken I feel that although this committee may not be the most important in our collegiate, it does give the students a more enjoyable school year by planning a year-round sports program. The committee arranges sports such as baseball, volleyball, basketball, and football during the warmer months and curling, table tennis, and badminton in the winter months. All the winter activities take place during the noon hour with curling continuing up to the end of the activity period. This period is used as such to replace the summer P.T.’s This year the committee has been kept busy at all times. Teams have been drawn up and a regular schedule of games has been posted in every sport to encourage all students to take part in the sport of their choice. Because of the good participation and fine co-operation, all has gone well. Although we didn’t com¬ pete against other collegiates in every sport, we did sho w our ability to win in football, volleyball, and in curling. The curling league has been the best in some time and because of the new playing time few games had to be postponed. Participation has also been good in out-of-town bonspiels held during the week-ends. Our col¬ legiate has managed to receive the honours at some bonspiels, while in others we came home empty-handed. There is still truth in the saying, “You can’t win ’em all!” In our local bonspiel held annually, the number of teams was high compared to the number of students we have in high school. I might add that both the girls’ team and the boys’ team won the right to represent this division at the Morris Zone Flaydowns by defeating Winkler in the best of three series two games to none. Both teams did exceptionally well. This shows how well a collegiate can perform in sports if it has the desire to win. Dennis Buhlin 26

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r: Susan Hard er, Judy Hildebrand, Valorie Mitosinka. Second row, l-r: Doreen Rempel, Neufeld (captain), Mr. Froese (coach), Betty Falk, June Mitosinka. This year the girls’ volleyball team, coached by Mr. Falk and Mr. Froese, displayed some fine teamwork and sportsmanship. Continual practice and tremendous effort on the part of the team and coaches resulted in many achievements. We won first place in the High School Volleyball League and a win against the Winkler team gave the Division Championship to the Coulee Girls’ team. As Division Champions, we set out for the zone play-offs held in Morden against teams from all over Southern Manitoba. Here we won five games out of eight, losing two to the Miami team. However, we scored more points against them than any other team. Miami made some of the better teams look small when they used their expert spiking methods. But they found tough com¬ petition in the Coulee Girls’ team and lost some of their confidence. For our efforts we came in second in the zone play-offs. It is evident that this year’s team has put out a real effort, and has fought hard to achieve almost complete success. Although we were hampered by inadequate facilities for good practice sessions, this did not affect our deter¬ mination, but rather stimulated it. We are all proud to say that we did the best we could. June Mitosinka. 28