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) THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 19,2001 PAGE 15 Mark Johnson goes through some drills during a recent recent practice as he attempts to impress the coaches with the senior football team at Bow- manville High School. After a lengthy absence, high school football football is returning to Bowmanville. A.J. GROEN/ Statesman photo Football to make a return to BHS dent, credited teachers at the school with continuing to offer extracurricular extracurricular activities last year during the standoff between teachers and the Province over increased teaching time. "Everybody here who has already coached has been good through the whole thing," he says. "Anything that hasn't been run here is because it hasn't hasn't been run elsewhere." Konopka, who played professionally professionally in the CFL for Toronto, Calgary, Saskatchewan and Hamilton before retiring in 1978, is looking for certain characteristics from his players. "They should have the desire and want to learn" the game, he says. ! "Certainly we want to be competitive. competitive. But it would be nice to just develop develop a keen interest in the game and appreciate that football is a different kind of team sport." To help curb the high costs associated associated with starting a football program, BHS will be renting equipment for the season from the Oshawa Hawkeyes. The teams will be doing some community fundraising as well, hoping that local businesses and service service clubs join in the effort. - with files from Jennifer Stone Response warrants school to field junior . and senior teams BY BRAD KELLY Spoi ls Editor BOWMANVILLE - After a lengthy absence, football is returning to Bowmanville High School. Not since the 1980s has the high school fielded a football team, but that is about to change in a big way. There was enough response from students students to not only enter one team in the football loop this fall, but two teams, one in each of the junior and senior divisions. "We put a message on our school announcements and posted a notice and the response was overwhelming," says Rick Konopka, a teacher at the high school who is among the long list of coaches the program has commitments commitments from. Coaching help is also expected to come from other teachers at the school, as well as those involved with minor football programs in Claring- ton and Oshawa. Konopka admits to being, sur prised at the response, which attracted attracted 80 to 85 kids willing to shell out the $150 per player it will cost to field a team. "I was hoping to get enough for just a junior team," says Konopka of his original intentions. "Football seems to be making a resurgence. It fell from grace for a while but now it seems to be enjoying a resurgence." He added that fielding a senior team only wouldn't have helped develop develop the program in its infancy because because many of the players would play only one season before graduating. Combining juniors and seniors to form one team was an option, but not a consideration. "You have to be careful when combining combining junior and senior players because because the Grade 9 and 10 juniors don't have much experience against a senior player who has been playing for four years." Football will join the more mainstream mainstream sports of volleyball, soccer and basketball that will be offered as extracurricular activities are expected to return to full capacity. Bill Todd, the head of phys-ed at the school and former LOSSA presi- KYLE CROUCH 'That was probably stupid on my part.' Celebration ends in ejection for Eagles' captain Kyle Crouch tossed from game ! after taunting Port Hope bench BY BRAD KELLY Sports Editor BOWMANVILLE - Bowmanville Bowmanville Eagles captain Kyle Crouch completed a rarity on the same shift during Sunday's game against the Port Hope Predators. Late in the third period, Crouch scored Bowmanville's sixth goal and was subsequently ejected from the game after skating by the Port Hope bench and taunting the players players during his celebration. "That was probably stupid on my part," said Crouch after the move, which incensed Port Hope players. "Emotions were running high and I probably shouldn't have done it." Crouch was the player involved in the tampering charges that were levelled by Bowmanville against Port Hope during the summer. The charges landed Port Hope co- owner, president and head coach Paul Cohen a 20-game suspension. "It was a tough game for Kyle. I don't think it was one of Kyle's best games but that was understandable," understandable," said coach and general manager Curtis Hodgins. For much of the game, Crouch was the target of verbal and physical physical play on the part of the Port Hope players. "Maybe he celebrated (the goal) the wrong way, but emotions were running high. 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