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

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122 THE COLLEGIATE JUNroR BASKETBALL TEAM XV. Teskey CCapt.J, O, Fleet, I. Fraser, F. R. Ewener, K. McMillan. Mollitor, D. Kelley, I. Houston, G. Fraser, W. Carter, such rapid improvement., Unfort- unately the juniors were grouped with tlhe strong Strathroy, team and it was not surprising that they were eliminated. w-v Strathroy 18-S.C.l. 10 S The S.C.l. juniors met- our old rivals Strathroy, on Friday, jan- uary 31. The game was fairlyhfast but Strathroy dominated the play throughou-t, not only because of their superior shooting and passing but because of their greater exper- ience. Don Wri1gh't of Wes'tertn Uneiversity refereed the contesft. Strathroy's defense was impreg- nalble, all the Sarnia field goals be- ing score-d from well out. It would be impossible to pick out individual stars on either team as an me boys p-layed good basketfball and were un- selfish with the ball. T s.c.1. 5-strafhmy 14 On Friday, February 7, the S.C.l. juniors played their return game with the Strathroy team, and were forced to take the short end of a I4-5 score. Although outscored from the stiarrt our juniors never gave up and were battling as hard at the last as at the beginning. De- spite the fact that Sarnia garnered only five points their team work was on a par with that of Strathroy youngsters, but the latter players took advantage of their scoring op- portunities and kept well in the lead. HOCKEY Hockey was rather a dead issue in the school this year, and it was rather surprising that they entered a team alt all. Ice was unavailable until two days before the 'first game and this accounts a good deal for Sarnia's elimination. Nearly all of last year's team had left tlhe school and consequently the' team was composed almost entirely of untried material. Added to this was the fact that they were grouped witih Watford which had one of the stron- est teams in years. S.C.l. l-Watford 4 . The team played their opening game in Watford late in january. Although they put up .a good fight the more experienced Watford ag- gregation 'had little trouble in de- feating them 4-I. The ice was in good condition and a large crowd was on hand to see Wa-tford ru-n up a 3 point lead. Sarnia resorted al- most entirely to indiviflual rushing

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THE COLLEGIATE 121 SENIOR BASKETBALL TEAM Standing-H. Lockhart, A. Hayne, XV. Reid CCapt.D, Mr. Meudizabal, B. lllillman, B. Prcutt, I. Lewis. Kneeling-S. Austin, R. O'ticld, P. James. wards. Hutton was perhaps St. Thomas' best although Vicary and Ioliffe were the main factors de- fensively. The Sarnia team, on the whole, were off form and although everyone tried hlard, the basket could not be reached. Paul Hatch of the VVestern University handled the game and did so very credit-ably. St. Thomas 43-S.C.I. 22 The return game with St. Thomas was played in the school gym on Friday, February 7, before a large crowd. The St. Thomas team Won by a score of 43-22 and consequent- ly eliminated Sarnia from the VVO. SSA. race. Although Sarnia pen- etrated the St. Thomas defense for points, they could not stop the Saints from scoring at Will. The score was quite even at half-time, but in the last half t.he Saints dis- played some brilliant baskeftball which sent them far into the lead- For Sarnia, Ofield played good bas- ketball and led the scorers, while Reid and Millman played good de- fensive games. For the winners Saunders led in points scored with fourteen to his cred-it, but it would be impossible to pick an individual star. Paul Hauc-h again refereed. JUNIOR BASKETBALL This year, Mr. Mendizabal decid- ed to enter a team in the boys' jun- ior basketball race. It was the first time the school had been represented by a junior team and consequently none of the play-ers had previous experience. Mr. Mendizabal took charge of the juniors as Well as the seniors and it was due to his un- tiring efforts that the team sho-wed

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THE COLLEGIATE 123 eii .' a ' si 1 af., ' S fl. L ,, 2 . I I . 1 i 1 i 1 HOCKEY TEAM H Standing-Ix. Burden, B. Proutt, W. Claxton CCapt.J, T. Doherty, A. East, Ix. McMillan. Kneeling-R. O'f1eld, W. Croxford, Z. Watsoli, H. Haines. and in this style of playing Levan- ovitch and Ofield stood out, the for- mer getting the S.C.I's only counter. Claxton and Prout't did some nice checking for the losers, but could not hold Stapleford, VVatford's ace, who accounvted for three of the win- ners' goals, Bruce getting the other one. s.c.l. 0-Watford 1 ' In the return game at Sarnia Wat-- ford gained a 110 victory and as a result t'he round 5-1. The game was played under difficult condit- ions, the ice being very soft due to a recent thaw. Good hockey was impossible and t'he game was rather listless. Claxton, Haines, and Lev- anovitch were the best for the S.C.I. Watford resorte-d to a defensive game at which Stapleford and Mc- Intosh shone. SWIMMING AND Swimming is a recreation to which a great majority of the stu- dents in the school take advantage of the av-ailable opportunities which our school offers in aquatic sports. Besides the regular swimming clas- ses in gymnasium periods, the girls it-..-C,..Li.4 ., ' LIFE SAVING are allowed the use of t'he pool after school two days a week and the boys the remaining days. This year, of course, the success of the Aquatic Meet ffar eclipsed all other water sports. Through the generosity of Mrs. Hanna who of-