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November Sports Review 1

14 December 2018
Blake Gage, Director of Academics
A number of teams wrapped up very successful competitive seasons in November. Our Senior Boys’ Soccer team had a thrilling playoff run to end their season. After capturing the Mid-Island league title, the boys advanced to the North Island Championship and ultimately qualified for Islands where they won a thrilling game in the bronze medal match and earned their third consecutive berth to the AA Provincial Championship in Burnaby. At provincials, the boys played excellent soccer but, due to a tiebreak formula, were not able to make it to the quarter-final draw. Nonetheless, the boys responded well and had an excellent win over Island rival SMUS before finally finishing 10th in the province.
At the provincial Cross Country Championships, Suzanna G qualified and represented Brentwood with pride in the Senior Girl’s race while our senior boys impressed, finishing 13th overall with Keaton Heisterman winning silver! In Volleyball, our junior girls showed tremendous growth over the course of the season and captured gold at the Mid-Island Championship and represented the school well at the Islands which was hosted right here at the new Foote Athletic Center (FAC). While the girls fell short of a provincial berth, they hung tough with some very strong 4A schools and made the school proud. Our development volleyball teams also worked hard and had excellent seasons. The highlight was unquestionably our Grade 9 development team winning the Mid-Island Grade 10 tournament that was hosted at the FAC. It was an impressive and historic win for a Brentwood Grade 9 team. The senior girls also had a strong season. They battled through multiple injuries and tough bounces and Ms Fougner was extremely proud of the resilience this group showed all year. They were Mid-Island and North Island Champs and captured bronze at the Island Championships. This earned them a berth to the wildcard tournament to qualify for provincials. Despite being short handed, the girls hung tough against some of the best teams in the province and while they were not able to qualify, they played some excellent volleyball. It was a young and inexperienced group of girls who started the season with our Senior Field Hockey team but it was remarkable to see how much they improved over the course of term. Wins were hard to come by early, but each week saw the girls get stronger with each performance and they played their best hockey at the Island Championship where they won bronze and qualified yet again for Provincials. They continued to play excellent hockey throughout the provincial tournament including a fantastic performance against eventual champion Collingwood. The girls finished the tournament with a record of 3 wins, 2 losses and a tie and proved they could compete with anyone in the province. The girls on our development teams also improved tremendously over the course of the year so the future looks bright for the field hockey program. With December upon us, second term sport gets underway. Already our hockey and basketball teams are off to nice starts. In fact, all six of our basketball teams won their final game before the holiday. The competitive hockey squad has started the year well going 2-1 to start the season. Meanwhile, the Senior Girls basketball team went 2-1 to finish 5th at the ISA tournament, the Junior girls came second at the VIU tournament and the Junior Boys basketball team won the Victoria Tip-Off Tournament in a thrilling 70-68 final. We look forward to watching our basketball, squash and hockey teams in competitive action in the months ahead.

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