Saint Michael’s senior football quarterback Zack Keldson didn’t look like he was playing his first regular season game of 2018 Friday.
The 12B student turned in a mistake-free performance to spark the visiting Mustangs to a 23-3 victory over the Lakeshore Catholic Gators in Niagara Catholic Athletic Association play.
Keldson had two long runs for first downs and a 57-yard TD pass to Riley Hart to lead the team’s offence.
“There’s a lot of things I like about Zack,” Saint Michael head coach Keith Bomberry said. “I have coached him for five years and he makes good decisions, especially in this game, holding the ball and not forcing it.
“He throws the ball well and he is really getting a hang of the read option game.”
The Saint Michael’s Mustangs senior football team is eyeing a long ride deep into the Niagara Catholic Athletic Association playoffs.
“I am looking forward to this season because we are finally that team,” 12B player Riley Hart said. “We have a lot of returning 12Bs and a lot of those 12Bs were starters last year.
St. Michael’s football player Riley Hart.
“We have a ton of talent coming back and we have so much talent on the team, that we almost don’t know what to do with it.”
St. Michael co-coach Keith Bomberry also likes where the Saint Michael football program is in 2018.
“We’re on the rise and I think we are trending upwards now,” he said. “We are getting better numbers, guys are committed and we have a number of 12Bs that came back.”
Those returning 12Bs are focused.
“They want to play football, they want to compete at this level; not only against their teammates here at St. Mike’s, but with their friends and foes across the Niagara region and in the city,” Bomberry said.
Saint Michael’s boasts talent throughout its roster.
“We have good group of 12s and right now are 11s are really showing up,” he said. We have five or six Grade 11s that are contributing right off the bat.”
All of the above has the Mustangs feeling much more optimistic than this time next year.
Aug 22, 2018 by Bernd Franke - Niagara Falls Review
R.J. Derhodge's first Niagara District Junior Golf Tour championship this year was three years in the making.
Before getting two birdies and shooting par on 13 others for a three-stroke victory on the final stop on this year's tour, the Grand Niagara endured two winless seasons on the tour.
Not to mention, more bogeys and double bogeys than he cared to count.
However, between all of those strokes that added up on the scorecard were countless shots at practice, on the putting green especially.
Father Stephen Bruzzese has taken a summer sabbatical of sorts from his duties as parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Scapular Roman Catholic Church.
But that doesn't mean he's not continuing his mission to serve.
He's spending his summer as a chaplain at the Blackdown Cadet Training Centre at Canadian Forces Base Borden.
Located in Simcoe County, Blackdown is Canada's largest cadet training centre with more than 3,000 young people participating in training courses each summer.
Bruzzese is part of a team of five multi-denominational chaplains who look after the spiritual and emotional needs of not only the cadets, but also those of the adult staff.
Saint Michael Catholics' own Anna Ly will be working with the professor featured in this article!
Francine McCarthy, professor of earth sciences at Brock University, shows fellow professor Martin Head white lines of sediment from Crawford Lake that each represent a year in time. (Rachel Levy-McLaughlin/CBC) Some scientists believe human activity and technology have pushed us into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. What they still need to figure out is exactly when this turning point began.
A team of researchers from three universities in Ontario is betting the answer lies at the bottom of a lake in Milton, just west of Toronto.
Saint Michael’s senior football quarterback Zack Keldson didn’t look like he was playing his first regular season game of 2018 Friday.
R.J. Derhodge's first Niagara District Junior Golf Tour championship this year was three years in the making.
Father Stephen Bruzzese has taken a summer sabbatical of sorts from his duties as parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Scapular Roman Catholic Church.
Francine McCarthy, professor of earth sciences at Brock University, shows fellow professor Martin Head white lines of sediment from Crawford Lake that each represent a year in time. (Rachel Levy-McLaughlin/CBC)