Category Archives: Midget
“NCAFA kicks off football season”
In an earlier post, I stated that local media did not cover last week’s NCAFA Midget games. Turns out that’s not quite true: The Sun had a write-up about the Association’s 2010 opening weekend including the first of the midget games (the second must have been past their bedtime). Here is that level’s blurb in [...]
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Opening Kick-Off, Feb 7th
I recently posted about Google News Archives, and how useful they are for locating past scores and historical data on local teams, even as far back as the mid 1800′s. I’ve used it a fair amount over the past two or three weeks to sort out the history of football locally from about 1881 to [...]
Growing the Midgets
The NCAFA Midget level will be getting the bulk of the attention this weekend. I had been waiting for the final week of the regular season to be included on the NCAFA stats page prior to copying them here. However, the only team that has its full stats on display is the Nepean Redskins (and [...]
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Canterbury / Orleans NCAFA Midget championship match-up
I uploaded a number of pictures yesterday from last Sunday’s Canterbury Mustangs / Orleans Dukes game. This was before I found out the results of the previous night’s playoff games. Both won their respective playoff games, so it just so happens that the same two teams will meet for the NCAFA Midget Championship on Friday [...]
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NCAFA closes the regular season Sunday
When the NCAFA Midget-level schedule was made publically available, the late season contests were still lacking some details. Several did not specify the time of day the game would be played, for instance. I snuck over to the NCAFA site to plug those holes earlier today and found a couple of noteworthy modifications. The two [...]
Catch him if you can!
Time flies when you’re having fun. The local football season seemed to take forever to arrive yet today I looked at the midget standings and damned if the Canterbury Mustangs aren’t already halfway through their regular season. Granted, that’s partially because an odd number of teams makes for an akward schedule (the Dukes have only [...]
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“Riders sacked in OVFL playoffs”
Darren Desaulniers follows up his Ottawa Citizen article from Saturday with coverage of Myers’ 15-03 loss in Toronto yesterday afternoon. It was a very successful return to the Ontario Senior Varsity Football League for the Myers Riders, but it came to an end one week too soon for their liking. The Riders were unable to [...]
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“No shortage of Riders talent now”
Here is a copy of a Citizen article by Darren Desaulniers recapping the Myers Riders varsity season, as well as commenting on the reasons for their success. The Riders play the Toronto Thunder tomorrow afternoon for the conference championship. Win or lose in the Ontario Senior Varsity Football League Wettges Conference final Sunday in Toronto, [...]
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Myers 23, Stallions 20 (OT)
It has been a few days since Myers won the OVFL Wettges Conference semi-final game at Huronia, but I am only now coming across a recap of it. It is from an Orillia newspaper, so I have trimmed off the parts specific to the Stallions. I was hoping for a Cumberland/Ottawa match-up this weekend, but [...]
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Myers Riders 17, Etobicoke Eagles 14
The Myers Riders senior varsity team moved on to the second round of the OVFL playoffs yesterday afternoon by defeating Etobicoke at the Nepean Sportsplex. A few pictures have been uploaded. Look for them by date. The Riders came out aggressively with several consecutive passes in their first drive. The strategy backfired as Adam Davidson [...]
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