Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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1ST XV RUGBY We began the season with three straight losses to the University of Victoria Jutes, Nanaimo R.F.C. (under 19) and St. George ' s, juggling our team around in trying to come up with the best com- bination. The loss, 18-25, to St. George ' s was an excellent game and, despite a certain looseness in defence, gave us confidence for the matches to come. Our next three matches against Brentwood, Magee H.S. and St. Michael ' s resulted in three narrow wins and showed that our defensive play had improved greatly over earlier games. We then lost a hard fought match to Prince of Wales, beat St. George ' s 8-0 at home and lost a heartbreaker to Brentwood. However they had lost a heartbreaker to us earlier so a win each was probably a fair result in our two fixtures. Paul Le Blanc at prop, was an excellent captain both on and off the field and had the respect of both the players and the coaches. He is a fine forward and gave a good lesson in propping to each The most even and interesting Independent Schools ' rugby competition in many years was brought to a sudden end in mid-November by the weather. A heavy snowfall, which blanketed the Lower Mainland, including balmy Victoria, was accompanied by a continuing cold spell and meant that there was no opportunity to fit in the cancelled games later on in the term - a great pity as the competition was curtailed with all four schools still in the hunt. We had won three of our five matches with only our return fixture against St. Michael ' s University School to come. St. Michael ' s and Brentwood had each won two and lost two with two games yet to be played while St. George ' s, with one game remaining, were at 2 wins and 3 losses. We were thus in the driver ' s seat and definitely fancied our chances of winning our final match against St. Michael ' s Respite having only scraped home by a single point earlier in the season.