Category Archives: Junior
Jr Riders 23, Monarx 00
Ottawa Sun – After a heartbreaking finish to last season, the Ottawa Jr. Riders started their 2010 campaign off on the right foot Sunday afternoon at the Minto Sportsplex. The Jr. Riders — who had a 19-point lead before losing 20-19 to Chateauguay in last season’s Quebec Junior Football League championship game — beat the [...]
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“Jr Riders have Manson in mind”
Tim Baines of the Ottawa Sun offered up the following preview of the Jr Riders 2010 season. The Junior Riders have a brand spanking new coaching staff, with Max Palladino replacing the departed Luigi Constanzo (now the special teams co-ordinator for the Gee-Gees). But even with so many changes on the sidelines, the Junior Riders [...]
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Sooners 24, Fratmen 20
Yannick Rickli threw a pair of touchdown passes — one to Pierre Luc Tremblay and the other to Eric Latourneau — and Latourneau also returned a punt for a touchdown to lift the Ottawa Sooners to a 24-20 road victory over the Windsor AKO Fratmen in Canadian Junior Football League action. Andrea Federico added a [...]
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Sept 11th: Junior Football day in Ottawa!
Every season, there’s one weekend in which you’d swear the scheduling has been deliberately set up to feature wall-to-wal in the regionl football. In light of Football Week in Toronto, I’ve wondered if something similar could be promoted locally. This year, what I thought was a conflict was either an error on my part, the [...]
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Sooners 27, Brampton 24
Here is an abbreviated version of Darren Desaulniers’ article about last night’s game. …A second straight fourth-quarter comeback wasn’t enough for the Sooners (2-0) to win Saturday, but it was enough to get them to overtime where they earned a 27-24 win over the Brampton Bears (0-2) at Keith Harris Stadium. Rookie kicker Andrea Federico [...]
Sooners post-game comments
As obtained from Total Thursday, the CJFL’s weekly newsletter. Andy Mcevoy Ottawa Sooners – Give Montreal all the credit in the world they took advantage of our turnovers and deserved to be ahead of us for the majority of game. You are not going to win a lot of games when you turn the ball [...]
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“Sooners will take the two points”
Take it away, Darren Desaulniers: By the time October roles around, very few will remember how the Ottawa Sooners opened their 50th season of junior football. Saturday night, however, all in attendance witnessed an ugly 25-23 win over the visiting St. Leonard Cougars at Keith Harris Stadium in a rematch of last year’s Ontario Football [...]
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Sooner to watch in week one of OFC games
A couple of weeks back, The Ottawa announced their 2010 roster on their revamped (and quite nicely!) website. Pack rat that I am for this stuff, I began to copy it onto my own using the 2009 version to highlight the returnees. It struck me at some point that they did not list a quarterback. [...]
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“A real game-changer”
It was announced a little while back that Ottawa Sooners offensive tackle Alex Mateas had committed to Penn State University. The news came up fairly frequently online on recruiting and fansites, usually questioning the wisdom of giving some Canadian guy a scholarship. How good could he be,right? What more evidence do you need than the [...]
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Ottawa Sooners 25th Anniversary Team
If you’ve been involved in amateur football for any length of time, or a fan of it, you’ll wonder why a 25th anniverary team is being posted for a club that began play in 1960. Simple. I was looking to beef up my Sooners history page some more, somewhat successfully. I managed to find scores [...]
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