Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School - Collegiate Yearbook (Sarnia, Ontario Canada)

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THE COLLEGIATE 107 i GIRLS' SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM Back Row-M. Reeves, R. Forbes, M. Paterson, Miss Scott, V. Kearns, D. Rintoul, D. Rainsberry. Front Row-H. Brown, M. MacGregor, P. Palmer CCapt.j, E. Kilbreath, M. Hall. INTERF ORM BASKETBALL The Interform Basketball was or- ganized early in -lanuary, under the supervision of Miss Scott, and con- tinued until 'the middle of February, when the final games were played. The schedule drawn up at the be- ginning of the year was successlfully carried out, each team taking part, until it was eliminated. There was a keen competition between the dif- ferent forms, and in the Senior div- ision the fina-1 game was between Special Commercial and Fifth Form, the winners of last year's finals. The Fifth formers could not keep their success of the year before, and lost to the Commercial girls by n ffl: seven points. The Junior Finals were awarded to Collegiate 2B, after a hard fought game against Commercial IB. Both teams showed excellent knowledge off the game and ia spirit of good sportsmanship prevailed through- out the contest. The personnel of the Teams: Senior-A. Lee, A. McLellan, G. Steele, D. Cooper, F. Wellington, J. sheddon, E. Knight, D. Mefcuriio C. Smith. P' . Junior-M. Steele, E. Sadler, H. Dickson, H. Patterson, M. Pearson, B. Lee. g ' . '

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106 'THE COLLEGIATE , SWIMMING , ,This year quite a large number of'girls are taking an interest in swimming and life saving work. A prize is being given to the girl who makes the greatest progress during the year in swimm-ing. A Girls' Swimming Meet was held in the school just before the Christ- mas vacation. Much enthusiasm was aroused and some excellent swimmers were discovered in the school. Prizes were awarded to those who were succesful in the events. Beginners: iWalking Race-M. Curry Cork Scramble-M. Curry, ,firstg r M. Craig, Second. Collecting Bottle Tops- H. Symington. Senior: ' C-ork Scramble-M. McGib-bon Towing Race- Marjorie MacGregor. Candle Race- Mary MacGregor. Side Stroke- 1 Milli-cent MacGregor. Dive for Bottle Tops-E. Knight. Rope Relay- Marjorie MacGregor, Mary Mac- Gregor, Millicent MacGregor, An- na Marsh. Free Style RHCC-fl, P. Palmer, fzj E. Knight, Q35 I. Holloway' f4j V. Ferris. 1 FREE THROW TOURNAMENT This competition is held to devel- op accuracy in free shots for basket- ball. A large number of entries were received from both the Junior an.d Intermediate gir'ls. In the fun- ior even-t the competition was very keen and in some cases ties had to be broken. The winners were: Intermediate : IST, Velma Kearns, 2nd, Patricia Palmer, 3rd, Mary Butler. junior: ISt, Elsie Sadllerg 2nd, Anna Marshg 3rd, Madeline Reeves. BASKETBALL This year the school had three teams, the Midgets, the Juniors, and the' Senior: so that over thirty girls played with outside teams. The first tfwo teams named played in the City League, while the Seniors en- tered the W.-O.S.S.A. Competition. The Juniors, which included Helen Finch, Del Smith, Jean Crabb, Dor- othy Simps-on, Betty Wriaght, Mamie Cruickshanfk and Laura Lapham, also played a home and home series of exhibition games with Strathroy, winnin-g their home game 26-413 and losing by one basket in an over- time contest iI1'Strathroy. Again..

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108 THE COLLEGIATE WOISSA BASKETBALL . . The Senior and Junior teams practised together this year and both teams received a good work- out. After the examinationqresnlts at Christmas, we found that Dor- othy Williams, star forward of last year, missing from the ranks. Those playing in W.O.S.S.A. Competition this year were: Pat Palmer CCaptainj, Velma Kearns CManagerj, Dorothy Rin- toul, Millicent Hall, Hazel Brown, Marjorie Paft-erson, Ruth Forbes, Madeline Reeves, Mill-icent Mac- Gregor, Doris Rainsberry, Evelyn Kilbreath and Helen Finch. Sarnia girls for the last few years have been grouped with the strong London and Windsor teams, but this year the arrangement was more favourable. Group 2-faj Sarnia, Ridgetown. Chatham. , ' fbj Tillsonburg, St. Thomas. 1. gig fi SN I N 'TV :JN N. Sarnia and Tillsonburg won their divisions and in the pllayoff Sarnia was successful in defeating Tillson- burg and qualified for the finals which were held in Windsor. The season' opened with an ex- hibition game here with the St. Thomas team. In this contest the Sarnia gir'ls won by a wide margin. During the Christmas holidays the annual game with the Old Girls was held. The latter, playing a consis- tent game, came out on top. Sarnia at Ridgetown 46-18 The first Wossa game was played at Ridgetown on Friday, January Nth, 1930. The S.C.I. had the up- per hand throughout the game, holding their opponents to a score of 25-3 in the first haflf. Pat Pal- mer and Pat Paterson led in the scoring with I5 points each. The final score was 46--I4. Q 2 Ridgetown at Sarnia 7-40 In the return game played in Sar- nia, the Blue and White, displaying a good brand of basketbill in every way, were able to keep their oppon- entls score to 7 points, while they registered 40 points. Sarnia at Chatham 25-16 On Friday, February 7th, the S.C. I. met the C. C. I. in Chatham. Chat- ham playing for the first year in Wossa Competition gave Sarnia a good battle. Elma Proutt, scoring II of the I6 points for the losers, kept the Sarnia guards worried. VVhen the whistle blew, Sarnia led with a score of 25-16. Chatham at Sarnia 8-45 On Saturday, February 8th, Chat- ham trave'lled to Sarnia to playgthe return game. Both teams were feeling the strain of the travel, but put on a good performance. Again the fast littl-e Chatham forward managed to drop in 6 points. But this time the score wast45-8 for Sarnia. The S.C.I. have now won part of their group with four wins and no losses.