by CVKickers | Apr 5, 2012 | Coaching, schedules
PLEASE NOTE: SPRING 2012 RUGBY RASCALS – REVISED SCHEDULE Beginning Tuesday, April 10th, practices will take place at the following 3 locations each week: Tuesday – Old Brooklyn School on Noel in Comox Friday – Lake Trail Secondary, Lower Field, 805 Willamar in Courtenay Sunday – Village Park, Royston Road, Cumberland The Sunday Jamboree schedule has also been revised Sunday, April 15 - Cumberland Cancelled Sunday, April 22 - Campbell River Sunday, April 29 - Cowichan...
by CVKickers | Apr 2, 2012 | Club Events, Men's News
In last weekend’s match against the Powell River Otagos, the younger members of the AFC Comox Valley Kickers shone in a win that put the club back on track after two recent losses. The club had traveled to Victoria the past two weekends losing 32-28 to the Castaway-Wanderers and 35-7 to the Velox-Valhallians, but the win over Powell River leaves the Kickers in second place in the standings with two weeks to prepare for the playoffs. They will face Cowichan at Cumberland’s Village park on April 8th @ 1p.m. This spring season has seen an influx of eager young players to the club, some of them like eighteen year-old Vince Bennett, still a student at Mark Isfeld school, electrified the crowd with a hat-trick of tries against the Powell River visitors on Sunday. Bennett who stands 6’ 2” and weights 215 pounds, plays #8 for his school team and lock for the Kickers, and when he gets the ball in hand and works up a head of steam he is difficult man to stop. His sidesteps and jinks would make any back-fielder proud. “ I love running with the ball in hand,” comments the talented youngster who looks forward to his second game of the week playing for his school side on Thursday. Nineteen year-old Curtis Parker graduated from Isfeld last year and can play anywhere in the backs. Though he has only been playing the game for a couple of years, he enjoys the contact and running with the ball in hand. He has notched a couple of tries this Spring season and is looking more...
by CVKickers | Mar 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
The first jamboree of the season was a good one for the Rascals who joined up with Nanaimo and Cowichan to ensure that every child had ample game time. Aurora McLauchlan ran strongly while her brother Caleb played really well defensively. Young Gage Hennicke-Nasadyk played well and was busy throughout chasing down the ball. Despite playing his first game and joining a team of new faces from Nanaimo, Jackson Dyke played strongly on both defense and the attack (including a try) in all 4 games. Next jamboree will be hosted by Cowichan at Shawnigan Lake, Sunday, April...
by CVKickers | Mar 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Eli Cummins of the Comox Valley Kickers Rugby Club epitomizes why rugby, and indeed any sport, is so important to a community like the Comox Valley. Eli, 28, a product of Oak Bay High School in Victoria, came to the Courtenay in 2004 to work at Mt. Washington and has been playing for the Kickers ever since. Over that time he has matured as a rugby player and has grown to become an exemplary young man and a genuine leader in the Kickers club, a club that is growing by leaps and bounds with an influx of young players who are turning out to play for it. Hopefully they too will develop in the same way Eli Cummins has. Not so many years ago Eli was a bit of a tear-away who partied heavily and often showed up to play rugby on Sunday in a state that showed he was burning the candle at both ends. Tough economic times here in the Valley often forced him to leave home and seek any kind of employment anywhere. He worked as a surveyor’s “chain man”, as a deck hand on a tuna boat, as a bartender and caterer, as a labourer, indeed at any kind of work he could find. When he returned home the first place he always headed was to the Kickers club looking for a game and a party. A few years ago he realized that the kind of life he was leading needed to change so he took a big leap and started his own business: Cummins Fencing. “I started the business in 2008 and built five...
by CVKickers | Mar 11, 2012 | Game Reports, Men's News
Last weekend the CV Kickers received trys from the Hextall brothers (4), Troy Mader(2), Eli Cummins(1), Vince Bennett(2), & Brandon Huddleston(1) coupled with 6 converts supplied by Konrad Nikkel on their way to a 63 point victory over Saanich Peninsula RFC. Mader looked as though he hadn’t missed a beat after being away for most of the the Spring season. It appears that Brandon Robertson has found his niche at the prop position. However Isfield high school student, Vince Bennett stole the show from the number eight position as he ran in 2 trys and almost snagged a third. No doubt he will be a force whenever his school plays throughout the...
