Wallaceburg District Secondary School - Actiana Yearbook (Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada)

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YJ! INTRAMURAL SPORTS .... SENIOR BOY'S VOLLEYBALL. . . The first game of the season brought the Plewes Prowlers against the Laing Lovelies. Apparently last year's champions were slow in starting because the ProWlers prowled right over them. The Dickenson Daffodils defeated the Dundas Doddle1's to help the season get under way. The Prowlers dominated the season with such combinations as Beno Ayres and Dave The Babe Domanski. The Dickenson Daffodils stayed in third place most of the season but managed to down every team at least once. The Doddlers doddled along as usual. The playoffs brought the Prowlers against the Lovelies but de- spite the Plewes' attempt to win by bringing in Mac The Track MacKenzie they lost rather poorly to the Laing squad. Soup Campbell, Big Art McFadden and Shorty Ayres starred in the playoffs for Laing. Credit must also be given to Simple Simpson and Field Marshall Prachowny. JUNIOR BOY'S VOLLEYBALL .... The junior division title also went to Laing House who played a hot game throughout the season. Ty Lapointe was the main feature of the winning Laing team. The Little Lovelies went in the playoffs with a spectacular team spir- it. Plewes and Dundas played well but didn't stand a chance. Dickenson was a total loss. Three cheers for Laing! GIRUS VOLLEYBALL .... Every noon except Friday both the P.T. room and the gym were filled with girls' voices cheering their volleyball team on to victory. The senior girls occupied the gym at 3.20 on Thursday and the juniors at 3.20 on Mon- day. There were four teams from each house, two junior and two senior The girls themselves refereed the games and there was keen competition all through the season. Plewes House senior team, headed by Lucinda Ayres came through on top after beating their close rival Dundas House by a score of 54-30. Laing House Juniors under the leadership of Dorothy Pharazyn succeeded in defeat- ing Agnes Johnson's team who was incidentally Laing also, by 40-20 to win the championship. Yea! Laing House. -62-

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SR. BOY'S BASKETBALL .... Practice began very early this season under coach Glen Wallace. There was a large turnout but it was whittled down to eleven players. Several types of defensive and offensive plays were practiced. Although the team has four players over six feet tall, control of the backboard was not always in their hands. The team's shooting was good but there was room for improvement in the long shots and particularly in the foul shots. The first game against Blenheim was a victory for W.D.H.S. at the score of 51-25. Our first defeat came at the hands of C.C.I. when a combination of fast breaks and accurate shooting gave them a 45-39 victory. W.D.H.S. won the next four games, de- feating C.V.S. 42-39, Ridgetown 41-31, Blenheim 34-27 and C.V.S. 37-29. In the next game C.C.I. whipped W.D.H.S. again with a last minute rally by a score of 34-30. The last game of the season was played in Ridgetown. This game was a very inept one and if we had won, which we didn't, we would have captured the WOSSA 'B' district championship and would have gone on to play Amhearst- burg. Since R.D.H.S. defeated W.D.H.S. 33-31 there was a tie. The tie-breaking game was played in Dresden with R.D.H.S. winning once more with a score of 29-27. Thus ended Wallaceburg's dreams of a boys' basketball title for the team. Our team consisted of G. Ayres, centre: J. Glasgow, forward, G. Hender- son, forwardg D. MacKenzie, guard, P. Ayres, guard. Substitutes-D. Daley, G. Cooper, K. Simpson, E. Davies. D. Domanski, N. Labor and our mascot, J. Lumley. JR. BOY'S BASKETBALL . . . The year 1954-55 saw a relatively successful season for the Junior Bask- etball team. The team did not win a championship but it did give a good acc- ount of itself and gained much valuable experience. Of this year's team, only one player had previous experience in inter-school basketball. Thus, the team that carried the laurels of the Wallaceburg District High School into Junior competition this year was a young and relatively inexperienced team. How- ever, time and hard work did much to compensate for the lack of experience. By the end of the season, the team was playing good sound basketball and had scored three victories- one over Chatham Vocational School, one over Bl r 1- heim and one over a powerful Ridgetown club. Next year, all but three of this year's team will be eligible for junior basketball. Thus, we are hoping that next year's team will chalk up a larger number in the win column. A year's exper- ience playing together as a team can make a lot of difference. The players of this year's Junior Basketball team are as follows: Craig Lapointe Ccaptainl, Peter Hensel Cassistant captainb, Gordon Langstaff, Bob Lewis, Gordon Webb, Bruce Hunter, Eddie Dewar, Tom McLaughlin, Terry Milner, Albert Schmidt and John Miller. -61-

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GIRL'S BASKETBALL .... In basketball, as in volleyball, two junior teams and two senior teams represented each house. The senior games were fast and exciting while the jun- ior games were a little slower but no less exciting. The games were refereed by the girls, from the Leaders' Club. Plewes House girls captained by Lucinda Ayres won the senior championship but only after a hard battle with Helen Trella's team which represented Dundas House. It was the best two out of three games that determined the winner and Plewes managed to beat Dundas in the third and final game. In the junior division, Dickenson House team captained by Rosanna Tre- panier captured the championship after beating Louise Lee's team who inciden- tally is also Dickenson. BOY'S BASKETBALL .... The intramural basketball league in the senior circuit was dominated by Plewes House. Dickenson's number one team played a fast-breaking game but lacked the height. The fourth spot was held by the Laing five led by Gerry Ayres, Dickenson Two finished in fifth position having played a rather average schedule. Dundas Three lacked the playing ability of the other teams but did well at the end of the season. Turk VanSpybrooke led his Laing Six off to a good start but the team suffered a rather disastrous finish. Last but not least was Dundas Four who played well but with only four players. The playoffs ended up with Plewes Seven playing Plewes Eight. Plewes Seven were victorious. All who played in the league this year played their best and their hardest which resulted in one of the best leagues the school has had. TENNIS .... On October the nineteenth, a small but happy group of netmen set out for the Chatham Community tennis courts. We were entering for the second time a team in the annual Kent County Tennis Championships. Boys' singles contestants were James Hazzard, Martin Prachowny and Jim Sutherland. Little did these boys know that they were to fall prey to the late Dick Hinnegan of Chatham. Hinnegan beat our boys because he had far more exper- ience in that he had been playing for 5 or 6 years. Our tennis courts haven't even been up two years! Linda and Lucinda Ayres carried the mail for the girls' doubles but were intercepted by a cool duo from Chatham Collegiate Institute. On the whole our team played well for the amount of experience they had. Hazzard, one of the best net stars, was singles runner up while Prachowny and Sutherland were runners-up in the men's doubles. Linda and Lucinda Ayres were runners-up in the women's doubles. I know next year we will do much better after our boys and girls have taken part in some of the Western Ontario tournaments. I believe that if we could hold the next Kent County tournament here at our own courts, more would see just how difficult the game is and I am sure that we would have more contestants for next year's tournaments. -53-