by CVKickers | Mar 28, 2011 | Game Reports, Men's News
It was a fired up Comox Valley Kickers team that stepped onto the soggy pitch at Herd Road to face long-time rivals Cowichan. Due to snow earlier in the season, this make-up game was to be the first of two consecutive clashes, with the next one happening at home on Sunday, April 4th. After a very physical contest the visitors walked away with a few bruises, some big smiles and a 25 - 5 victory over the Piggies. “This win will give us lots of confidence and inspiration for next week’s home game.” said tryscorer Steve Hextall. The boys in black started pushing forward as soon as the whistle blew and kept the ball inside the green half until flyhalf Doug Wynd converted a penalty forced onto the hosts. Cowichan tried to drive back but saw their first-half hopes crushed as swift Steve Hextall ran in a beautiful 40m try. The Kickers opened the 2nd half with a try from Ross Mclean at fullback, putting his speedy sidestep to excellent use as he ran past 3 defenders, earning him the Most Valuable Player title. The Piggies answered with one of their own, unconverted. Kicking centre Brandon Huddleston converted another when Doug Wynd powered his way through the Cowichan line for the second score of the half by placing an angled kick right between the uprights. And then the productive flyhalf converted a final penalty for the total of 25. Although the points all came from the Kickers backline, the forward pack deserve much of the glory. Their relentless driving and rock-solid defense kept the hosting team on their heels,...
by CVKickers | Mar 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Chelsea Llewellyn hadn’t played rugby for four years but last Saturday she laced up her boots to join some of her former J.P. Vanier team-mates and help power the Kickers Women team to its biggest win of the season. Chelsea scored a record-setting five tries as the Kickers romped over the visiting Velox Valhallians, 67-19. A player of enormous talent, athleticism and graceful running, Chelsea, who played for Canada at the U-19 level and B.C. at the Senior level, began in the centre for the Kickers and scored her first try near the end of the first half. In the second stanza, playing both centre and scrum-half, she ran in another four tallies, capping a twenty-five point afternoon. “I have been away from the Valley playing at U. Vic. for five years and then I was completing my Sea-King helicopter training with the military — winning my wings in November. When I recently came home for a couple of months before reporting to my first posting in Victoria, some of my former teammates from Vanier days asked me to come out for a game with the Kickers,” says Chelsea. “It was great to be back on the field.” Asked which of her tries she thought best, she offered that the one she took while playing scrum-half was the cream of the crop. “ I don’t think there were a single pair of eyes on me when I took the quick tap penalty and ran in. It’s always nice to get one over on the opposition with a bit of quick thinking.” Not to be outdone, Kicker fly-half Paula Moore...
by CVKickers | Mar 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
When the Naional team coach comes up to you after a trial match, puts his arm round your shoulder and congratulates you on your fine play, there’s a better than even chance you’ll be selected to the team. Canada’s National Team Coach Jim Delaney did exactly that to Comox Valley Kicker’s centre Connor Willis last month and just the other day Connor received word that he has been selected to the Canada U-17 team to tour England this Easter. Never in Doubt! Willis is a fantastic rugby talent who has risen through the ranks of the Investors Group Comox Valley Kickers Juniors, the Lake Trail School XV, the Vanier School XV, the Vancouver Island Tsunami, the British Columbia and the Canada U-17 “B” squads to reach the pinnacle he has now attained. Willis has consistently been the star of any of the teams he has played for, scoring tries, defending assuredly and kicking points with his boot, and it is his awareness of space and his ability to read the field that makes Connor such a promising player for even higher honours in the future. To top it all he is an Honor Roll student as well as a very capable athlete which should see him win athletic scholarships down the road. Last year when he was sixteen, Willis played for the Canada’s U-17 “B” domestic squad on a three-game tour around B.C., but this year won elevation to the Canada “A” squad that made a two-game Christmas tour to California during which Willis scored a try against the U.S. All- Americans in the team’s final game. “It was...
by CVKickers | Feb 13, 2011 | Game Reports
Steve Hextall and Ross McLean both ran rampant on Sunday, scoring hat tricks apiece as the Kickers throttled their cross-Straits rivals the Powell River Otago, 52-0, at Cumberland’s Village Park. For winger McLean, who is new to the Kickers club this year, his three-try effort matched the hat trick he scored two weeks ago in the Spring opener against Saanich, which now gives him six tries in just two games. Despite this exemplary output, veteran centre Steve Hextall notched, not just a hat-tick in the first half alone, but added another try late in the game to give him four on the day, a first for him for the Kickers. Hextall already has a hat-trick from the fall season and twelve tries overall this year making him the club’s overall top try-scorer for the year, however if McLean keeps his pace, Hextall will have reason to worry. “The back-line played well today,” said Hextall after the game. “The ball was really flying around and gaps opened up that you could drive a truck through. It was good to be back. I have missed not playing,” said he on his first game back from the Christmas break. The ten-try win, the Kickers second win of the new year, came at the expense of the Otago club that is going through some lean times this year, however despite being overwhelmed the visitors continued to compete until game’s end and indeed played much better in the latter stages than they did at the beginning of the match, while the Kickers did things the other way round. The Kickers enjoyed total domination in...
by CVKickers | Feb 6, 2011 | Women's Players
Position: #3 Tighthead Prop Name: Ona Thorington Age: 34 Years played: 1.5 Occupation: Field Support Representative / Mom Quote: “I’m waaayyyy too old for...
