Mountie Case Study

In the National Rugby League competition, the South Sydney Rabbitohs were playing their most important match in decades back on September 6th 2013 – against their fierce rivals, the Sydney Roosters – in a bid to secure their first minor premiership since 1989.

In a heartbreaking loss in game one, Centenary rallied from an 8-2 deficit to take a 9-8 lead in the bottom of the eighth. However, Trinity scored two in the ninth for the thrilling 10-9 win. With Centenary down 8-2 in the fifth, the Maroon and White erupted for five runs to cut the deficit to one. Quintanilla walked and Schimpf singled to put runners on the corners. With one out, Crowder singled up the middle for an RBI. Russell singled to load the bases, and a bases-loaded walk with two outs plated the second run. Junior Ian Graham delivered the big blow, doubling down the leftfield line to clear the bases. However, he was thrown out trying to take third

In addition to taking the Cape Breton championship that year, the Post Bombers captured the provincial and Maritime crowns. However, Verbeski believes that Glace Bay, and not Sydney, could just as easily have been the winners of the whole shebang. “They got a break and capitalized. We had two super players, captain Harvey Ellsworth and Port Morien’s Rodney MacIntosh, and they had two glorious chances in the third to either tie it or win it but they were foiled by Mike Novak, a tremendous little goaltender. Our goaltender, Billy MacMullen, played extremely well, too.”

Game one started easy enough when junior Ian Graham was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the first. However, Centenary exploded for 17 runs in the bottom of the third – believed to be the most runs scored in a single frame by the Gents in team history. Senior Michael Schimpf walked and scored on junior Chris Zapata’s home run down the

Belmont's offense was back at work at the 3:37 mark of the quarter with Young running for eighteen-yards. Young would be sacked on the drive by #17(not on either roster I have)for a short loss at the 1:36 mark of the quarter. The drive ended on a 39-yard pass from Young to a wide-opened Ja'don Rucker-furlow with :52 showing on the clock. This time it would be Dorrick Conner converting the conversion run to make this a,48-6

The next game was a little closer at a score of 12-6 win over the York B team

Warney hits both giving Stony Brook a 1 point advantage with 42.5 seconds remaining. Albany would bring the ball down to the Stony Brook end and take a timeout with 38.9 seconds remaining.

A kick from Anderson started the game, not long after, QB Lucas Smith runs a 18yd touchdown, starting the game out with a 7-0 Turpin lead. The Redskins’ Kyle Blaha soon persevered through the unforgiving Turpin defense and ran a 2 yd touchdown, evening out the score out 7-7. “Our offense and defense did well, but there’s always room for improvement.” Coach Kenter explained after Turpin gave up 21 points in the first half. “But I think this was one of better games of the entire season, the team really brought it.” Second quarter brought both the Spartans and Redskins 2 new touchdowns each and an exciting 65 yard pass Turpin touchdown, Smith to Will Hausfeld. Halftime stopped the intense game at a suspenseful score of 21-21.

At this point, the wheels came off of the Panthers wagon and GSU scored 16 unanswered points. GSU got things going and the momentum changed in their favor. Kincade connected with Chad Williams on a 13 yard passed to make the score 16-7 with PAT by Jonathon Wallace with 2:42 in the first quarter. At this point, both teams were going back and forth. Several turnovers occurred. Until, Kincade and GSU got their groove on with an 11 yard run for pay dirt. Jonathon Wallace successfully completed the PAT to make the score 16-14 in favor of PVAMU at the 10:39 in the second quarter. GSU would score again before the half when PVAMU’s Lorin Winston couldn’t handle a high snap and push the ball out of the back of the end zone for a safety. That tied the score at 16-16 all with 2:00 minutes left in the half.

Granby came out in the 1Q with a heavy dose of Giovanni Jones, and it was making Jamestown sick as they had no answer. The Wang twins were not able to find the basket in this period, maybe the next, but until then Diamante Brown and Jason Schmidt, This gave the Eagles an opportunity to stay in the game with not much time left in this 1Q. Granby would close out this quarter strong leading 23-14.

At the start of the 2nd quarter, the score was 8-16, Wellington in the lead. One of the impressive skills that Wellington has

A bit of magic from the Bears halves in the opening minute of the second half led to a Nicholls try, which immediately increased their lead to 28-12.

A 43-10 victory over the Warriors last week gave Mounties the week off into the preliminary finals, and that was largely thanks to a two-try effort from Lynch.

North Sydney Bears and Mounties drew for the second time this season, this time with the final score being 34-all. Mounties trailed by 12 with five minutes remaining, but two late tries and a Mitch Cornish sideline conversion secured that both teams shared the points. Kirisome Auva’a returned for the Bears with a try and two try assists.

Wentworthville Magpies head into round 14 as the new competition leaders of the Sydney Shield, in what is an unbelievable feat considering they have played one less game than every other top eight side.