by CVKickers | May 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Both boys and girls are welcome to join the Comox Valley Kickers RFC for developmental rugby for children ages 6 - 12. Practices to be held at the Fallen Alders Community Hall, home of the Kickers. Contact kickersrfc@gmail.com for more...
by CVKickers | May 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Comox Valley Kickers ended their 2010-2011 season on Sunday losing the Island 3rd Division Final 24-5 to the league leading Velox-Valhallians in Victoria. Centre Steve Hextall, the Kickers top scorer ran in his team’s lone try, his seventeenth of the season. The loss left the Kickers with a 10-6 overall record for the year and marked the team’s second loss to Velox having lost to the Victoria club 45-10 in the Fall play-offs. “ It was a tough day at the office,” said Kickers coach Aaron L’Arivee after the game. “We were without some of our reliable regulars Leigh Burley, Doug Wynd and Brandon Huddleston because of injury, and they had some really experienced guys like Kevin Wirachowski in the front row, who gave them a lot of power and experience in the pack.” Former Canadian International Wirachowski won 17 caps for Canada over eleven years from 1993to 2002 and was recognized as one of the best set scrummagers in the game and though he will celebrate his 48th birthday this coming December he continues to be a formidable force in every facet of forward play. Right from the opening whistle, the home team used their forwards to effect making the visiting Kickers defend for 80% of the game as it enjoyed an enormous amount of possession, The home team held a 12-5 lead at half-time. Just before the break, the Kickers managed a phase of possession that saw its forwards pick and drive to near the Velox line and when scrum-half Greg Merchant passed the ball out to his backs centre Hextall found a way over the...
by CVKickers | Apr 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
KICKERS AWARDS DINNER May 14, 6.00 p.m. @ Fallen Alders Upstairs Hall. AGM and election of Executive for 2011/2012 season will take place at 6.30 P.M. with Dinner (7.30) with Guest Speaker, Awards Presentations and Dancing to follow. Cost $20/person. Senior Men, Senior Women, Juniors and family and friends all invited and welcome. Wear club colours if you have them or dress “Smart Casual”. Guest Speaker: Mr. Gary Dukelowformer Canadian International prop winner of 14 caps and a member of the 1991 Rugby World Cup squad to France. Captained U. Vic. where he was twice named MVP and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2007. Captained Cowichan R.F.C. and the Crimson Tide. One of Canada’s first professional players when he played for Kobe Steel in the 1980s. Served as General Manager of Canada’s Senior Men’s team. Teaches Economics at Shawnigan Lake School where he also runs its External Programs. Sign up on a sheet in the clubhouse or e-mail kennedyi@uniserve.com so that we can monitor numbers and arrange for the proper amount of food. The AWARDS DINNER AND DANCE will be a fantastic night at our FALLEN ALDERS facility.- last year’s dinner was a huge success. Come for a great dinner, listen to a superb inspirational speaker and find out who will win the MVP, Green Jockstrap, Best Forward and Best Back, Best Rookie, Most Improved etc. in all of our teams. It will be a great night. Be There!! REMEMBER: to RSVP: Sign up in the clubhouse or e-mail...
by CVKickers | Apr 16, 2011 | Men's News
It isn’t just the Canucks that are caught up in play-off fever. So too the Comox Valley Kickers. Finally, after a week of indecision as to who they would play, the Kickers will take on Castaway Wanderers on Sunday April 17 at Cumberland’s Village Park at 1 p.m. in the first round of play-offs. Due to weather related problems the Kickers did not play C-W in leage play this Spring. The Kickers ended in second place with a 5-2 record while C-W finished with in fourth place with a 4-3 record. The clubs met once during the Fall season when the Kickers traveled to Victoria where they eeked out a 15-5 win last November. It should be quite a game on Sunday. Be...
by CVKickers | Apr 10, 2011 | Men's News
An old rugby adage exhorts: “Get there the fastest with the mostest and good things will happen,” and the Comox Valley Kickers certainly did that on Saturday when they defeated the Powell River Otago, 43-10, in Pulp Town to earn a berth in next weekend’s Vancouver Island playoffs. Following a slow start, the visiting Kickers clicked into high gear proving themselves to be fitter, more committed and more aggressive at the breakdown, and in using their speedier and craftier backs to better effect than the home side. In the end the Kickers ran in seven tries and kicked four conversions in a 43-10 romp that leaves them in second-place with five wins and two losses in this Spring’s Vancouver Island competition. The Kickers stood back in the early going allowing Powell River to use their heavy forwards to muscle their way over for the game’s first try with Mark Bradley touching down. Slowly the Kickers shrugged off the ferry voyage and began to play the kind of rugby they are capable of, cleaning out the rucks and mauls and providing quick ball for their fleet-footed backs. At fifteen minutes centre Brandon Huddleston fielded a deft chip kick by fellow centre Eli Cummins and romped into the in-goal unmolested. He converted his own try: 7-5. Speedster Ross McLean, playing fullback, claimed the next when his blistering pace took him past all tacklers. Huddleston converted: 14-5. Now the tries kept coming with Huddleston adding another, McLean his second and lock Shayne Stuchbery, who played his usual rugged game, claiming two more. Eli Cummins danced over for one of his own late...
