St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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BACK ROW: G. Smith, P. Bowes, M. Jackman, Mr. Broderick, B. Williams, D. Kiddell, G. Hill. FRONT ROW: B. McNight, J. Little, P. Leatherdale, E. Myers, P. Sheen. This year, the Senior A” Hockey team, composed Boniface 2-0. However, in the second game, played at of ten players, finished second in the Private School the St. Boniface rink, the game was tied 0-0 alter three Senior A” Hockey League which was composed of periods. The game went eight minutes into sudden teams from Assiniboia, Juniorat College, College St. death overtime before C.S.B. scored and won the game Boniface, and St. Paul’s High School. The team, under 1-0. In the final and deciding game, played during our the patient and able coaching of Mr. Broderick, finished Winter Carnival, S.J.R. got superb goal-tending from with one of its best records in years: 3 wins, 3 losses Paul Leatherdale and went on to win the game 2-1. and 2 ties. The season started with S.J.R. dropping The winning goal of the series was a beautiful passing their first game to Juniorat College, 5-2, and their play between Greg Hill, Peter Sheen, and Doug Kiddell. second game to Assiniboia, 3-1. However, in the third In the regular season’s play three of our players game, S.J.R. played well and thoroughly trounced St. scored 15 of the teams total 20 goals: G. Smith (7), Paul’s, 4-0. In their second game against Juniorat, D. Kiddell (5), and Howie” Sheen who, despite what S.J.R. was scored on late in the third period and the he tells you, got more penalties than he did goals (3). game ended in a 1-1 tie. Throughout the regular season, Paul Leatherdale In the next game against College St. Boniface, S.J.R. played very well in goal and recorded a shutout while came from a 2-0 defecit to tie the game 3-3. In the registering a very respectable 2.75 goals against average rematch against Assiniboia, the Senior ' A’ team lost in the eight league games. In the semi-finals Paul made 5-2. In the succeeding game, the team defeated St. many key saves, registering another shut-out and allow- Paul’s High School 4-3, on four goals by Gavin Smith. ing only 2 goals in three games. In the final game of the season, played on home ice, In the two games against the Old Boys the Senior S.J.R. defeated College St. Boniface 3-2 to finish the A” team split the series, losing the first game 4-0, season in second place and gain a play-off birth. but winning the second game 5-2. In the semi-final series, the team played the league’s The team would like to thank Mr. Broderick for his fourth place team, College St. Boniface, and defeated excellent and worthwhile coaching this year and also them two games to one in a thrilling and sometimes Mr. and Mrs. C. Kiddell who, despite -20 degree rowdy series. In the first game, S.J.R. beat College St. temperatures, attended all our games. 56

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BACK ROW: D. Wood, D. Donahue, R. Hutchings, Mr. Stewart, K. Manziuk, D. Edwards. FRONT ROW: P. Squire, J. Bredin, B. Spooner, D. Spaith. This year, for the first time, boys from Grade Eight and Nine were able to play in the newly-formed Junior High Volleyball League consisting of teams from Pem¬ bina Crest, Viscount Alexander, General Byng, Rich¬ mond Park, and S.J.R. Although we did not win any UoUktflxd BACK ROW:]. Barnes, C. Smith, J. Styffe, Mr. Stewart, J. Cam¬ bell, S. McPherson, G. Morris. FRONT ROW: R. Alms, R. Briggs, M. I.ewkin, C. Stevenson, H. Malcolmson. games, our spirit was high and next year the team will be strong contenders as several games were lost by only a few points. Many thanks to Mr. Stewart and Mr. Harding for their efforts. ' fcukdalL i XmlL f A ' - f m 1 1 A 11 1 % 3- JPf BACK ROW: Mr. McKenzie, G. MacKenzie, K. Sherman, P. Wyatt, F. Verner, D. Wood, G. Wright, W. Finlayson. FRONT ROW: D. Glespie, G. Morris, R. Alms, B. Spooner, M. Thomas, G. Morris, D. Allison. This year an independent school league was formed for the first time on a junior level. The league consisted of St. Paul’s College, Juniorat, St. Boniface College, St. John’s-Ravenscourt and The Mennonite Brethren College. As this article is being written the regular schedule is completed and the team finished in first place with five wins and three losses. The season termi¬ nated with a fine sixty-one point effort and we are looking forward to the play-offs and a new trophy for our school. At the present time our fiercest rivals, St. Paul’s, are playing St. Boniface College in a two game total point contest. The winner plays S.J.R. in a best of three series for the championship. With continued determination and a team effort we will bring S.J.R. the trophy. The team wishes to thank Mr. Leonard the league convener and Mr. McKenzie, our coach, for their time well spent. 55

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Seem B Hockey BACK ROW: T. Dawes, L. Simmons, D. Boult, Mr. Bredin, B. Saywell, B. Spaith, C. McEwen, S. Mundy. FRONT ROW: G. Lawrence, P. Riome, J. Murray, P. McCreath, R. Kennedy, J. Hutchings. This year has been a very successful one from the point of view of the senior B’s” who have ended up in first place in the league. The team as a whole has been much more successful than the midget team of last year. Our record at the end of this season was six wins and two loses; those losses being the results of very bad hockey on the part of S.J.R. The team started very strong with back-to-back wins over St. Paul’s, 4-1 and Juniorat, 6-1. However in the third game we lost to the Assiniboia team 6-4, after leading in the game 3-1 at the start of the third period. The next game against C.S.B. resulted in an easy 4-1 victory. We lost our second game to Juniorat 3-2. I’m sure we could have managed a lot more goals but we just seemed to lack the initiative. The next two games were won 3-1 over St. Paul’s and 4-2 over Assiniboia in perhaps our best game of the season. Our last game against C.S.B. was won very easily, 7-0 over the far weaker team. On the whole the scoring was distributed quite evenly around the team with the three centres McEwen, Saywell and Lawrence playing the best overall hockey. Strong defence work by Hutchings, Kennedy, Lang and Mundy saved many possible goals in tight situations. The goalkeeping by Snake Murray, although weak at times, was very strong in key situations giving him an against goals average of 1.75 and 2 shutouts. Our team looked tremendous at times, bad at other times, but has hope that the momentum we’ve built up at the end of this season remains during the finals which are coming up in the near future. We would like to thank Mr. Bredin for all his quiet words of advice, which he managed to whisper out at various times throughout the season. He made this quite a worthwhile season for us. 57