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1st Girls' Basketball
By Mr. Derek Doucet3.3 seconds left in overtime... Up by 1... Bayview Glen's best player is at the foul line for 2 free throws...
On Wednesday, October 30, the 1st Girls' Basketball team travelled to Toronto to take on the Gryphons in a semi-final game at 4 p.m. After a long bus ride, the girls came out of the warm-up ready to play! We got off to a great start, our strongest start of the season in fact. We moved the ball quickly and we ran up and down the floor with purpose and effort which allowed us to score 14 points in the first quarter. Our best quarter of the season!
The score was close for the rest of the game and as is the case with basketball, runs are often followed by droughts. The girls were able to keep a positive attitude and stay strong mentally in withstanding the drought in order to get on another run.
Fast forward to the 4th quarter where Bayview Glen is pushing hard they go up by two baskets with 3 minutes left. We stay strong. We believe in our team. We believe in one another. We continue to push, and, with one minute left, we drive to net and sink a basket to tie the game at 30. On the defensive end, we lock them down and rebound strong, we control the ball, and time runs out... we are going to overtime!
Bayview Glen starts the overtime period with a flurry of baskets, quick passes, and strong execution, which puts them up four points early. Again the girls showed strong mental fortitude and did what was necessary to stop the run. Now it was our turn. After some strong defense, we pushed the ball out like lighting and ran down the floor to score and easy layup... we were within two. Another stop on defense resulted in another push, swinging the ball around for a jump shot, we missed but we rebounded well on the offensive boards and got the put back, and just like we were tied. The energy in the gym was frenzied and it felt like we were in a Coke bottle that someone dropped a pack of Mentos into. A game that can be best referred to as a Barn Burner.
Now we're in it... On our next possession, we bring the ball in, we move it around quickly and drive to the net getting fouled and sinking the basket. We are up one with under a minute left! After missing the free throw, we go back to work on defence. After a great defensive stand, we push the ball as we had all game, but it results in a turnover and as we scramble to stop the dribble, we are called for a foul. Already in the penalty the Gryphons' player steps up to the line with 3.3 seconds left in the game to shoot two free throws with her team down by one.
She takes a deep breath collects our thoughts executes perfect shooting form on her first three throw and the ball circles the rim and miraculously skirts out left. They have a chance to tie and send us into the second frame of overtime. She follows her same routine, good rhythm, line, and extension but the ball rebounds off the back of the rim. All of the girls crash the boards and we control the ball, we hold on to it as the final buzzer sounds. LCS 35... BVG 34.
The 1st Girls' Basketball team will be playing the undefeated Holy Trinity Hawks in the semi-finals on Friday Movember 1st. We achieved so many of our goals, primarily, we wanted to click for the first round of the playoffs, and click we did! We couldn't be more proud of this group of athletes and all that they have accomplished this season. We look forward to doing our best to upset the first place team on their home court.
Cross Country Running
By Mr. Rory Gilfillan
Well before the fifth ambulance arrived, it was clear that the 2019 OFSAA Cross Country Championships held in Sudbury on Saturday, November 2, were going to be different. Inundated with 25 centimeters of snow in the days leading up to the race and an additional ten centimeters the night before, the event lived up to the Lakefield College cross country team’s refrain:
Well before the fifth ambulance arrived, it was clear that the 2019 OFSAA Cross Country Championships held in Sudbury on Saturday, November 2, were going to be different. Inundated with 25 centimeters of snow in the days leading up to the race and an additional ten centimeters the night before, the event lived up to the Lakefield College cross country team’s refrain:
Cross Country is never cancelled.
Ever.
Throughout the day it became not uncommon for racers to collapse in the snow until spectators assisted them to the aid station. One runner from a Toronto area high school hit his head so hard against a tree that he temporarily lost his sight and insisted on trying to continue to run before being gently restrained by his coaches. Another athlete was carried through the finish line by a search and rescue volunteer.
Cross country running, despite its simplicity has always been an outlier as a sport. Resilience and grit aren’t axioms that are occasionally demonstrated by athletes but are the defining features of a sport that reveres stoicism, sportsmanship, high mileage and suffering. Athletes regularly limp through the finish line assisted by other runners, sometimes they are covered in blood; other times they are without shoes on their feet. Snow, cold, ambulances and injuries aren’t obstacles, they’re reasonable expectations in a pursuit that seems intent on going in the opposite direction of moderation and ever-increasing understandings of safety.
This past Saturday wasn’t an extreme manifestation of the sport, it was the sport.
For Lakefield College School athletes Evan Armstrong, Thomas Larson, and Anna Harris, it was a historic performance, who placed 68th, 40th and 85th in the province.
It was also the start of a new chapter in Lakefield College Schools’ signature programming that includes Nordic Skiing, Musical Theatre and Sailing. Indicators of this shift have been evident throughout this season with wins at the Durham Classic and Lakefield Invitational and podium finishes at the Fast Cat Relays and CISAA Championships but it was strong performances at OFSAA that may have solidified Lakefield’s arrival as a contender.
Nordic begins next week.
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We respectfully acknowledge that Lakefield College School is located on the Treaty 20 Michi Saagiig territory and in the traditional territory of the Michi Saagiig and Chippewa Nations, collectively known as the Williams Treaties First Nations, which include: Curve Lake, Hiawatha, Alderville, Scugog Island, Rama, Beausoleil, and Georgina Island First Nations. Lakefield College School respectfully acknowledges that the Williams Treaties First Nations are the stewards and caretakers of these lands and waters in perpetuity and that they continue to maintain this responsibility to ensure their health and integrity for generations to come.
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