Senior Boys Basketball

List of 20 news stories.

• SB Basketball @ RSEQ Finals: Bringing Our Best

  2/24/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  The stage was set. In an ultra-competitive league with very few easy games, your Stanstead College Spartans had qualified for the RSEQ Playoffs as the 8^th seed with a 6-4 record, pitting us against #1-ranked Du Phare in a do-or-die quarter-final. Having never played them, seen them play or even talked to anyone who played them, we knew only two things about Du Phare: 1) they were undefeated at 10-0, and 2) they could really score, leading the league with 68 points per game.
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• SB Basketball: Heartbreaks and Irony

  2/12/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  Irony.

   

  In the interest of full disclosure, I’m not even really sure what “irony” is. At some point my English teacher colleague told me there are three different types of irony – dramatic irony being one of them. I can’t remember the others. Actually, does anyone really get irony? I’m not so sure. It’s like “the economy.” It’s out there, but no one really knows what it is.
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• SB Basketball: Tables Get Turned @ Claretain

  2/4/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  Coming off our biggest league win vs BCS two days earlier, we were feeling confident, with a four game RSEQ win streak, a 5-2 record in our division, and a rematch against a team that we had beaten handily (59-30) before Christmas. With a win today, we would cement a spot in the playoffs. We were rolling, and we were motivated.
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• SB Basketball vs BCS: This Man's a Fan

  1/30/2025
  By Jeremy Stuart, Class of '05
  If you've been to any of the Stanstead College seniors boys or girls basketball games recently you've probably seen a stranger in the stands and asked yourself the question: "That guy must be Victor's dad." Which I'd like to point out is not actually a question. But true story, someone started talking to me about how well Victor was playing. I assumed he was Victor's father. It wasn't until he said, "You must be really proud of him!" that I realized what was happening.
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• SB Basketball @ BCS Tournament: Struggles and Triumphs

  1/28/2025
  Stanstead College entered the BCS Tournament with high hopes but faced stiff competition and a series of challenges over the course of the three games. Despite showing flashes of strong defensive play and offensive potential, their inability to maintain composure, coupled with turnovers and missed opportunities ultimately led to a difficult tournament showing. Here’s a breakdown of each game and what the team can take away from the experience.
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• SB Basketball: Spartans Respond Well to Adversity

  1/27/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  Things did not exactly line up or go well for your Spartans in last Tuesday’s home tilt vs Triolet.
  

  • We were a little tired, coming off the Fri/Sat/Sun Anderson-Bailly weekend with only one day’s rest.
  • Starting guard Josh was out sick.
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  SB Basketball: Strong Showing at the Anderson  

  1/22/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  Your Stanstead College Senior Boys Spartans participated in the historic Anderson Small Schools Provincial Tournament this past weekend, hosted this year by BCS in Lennoxville, QC. Here is how it went down.
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• SB Basketball: Discipline and Little Things  

  1/16/2025
  By Erik Van Dyke
  A snowy night in Drummondville. L’Ecole Secondaire La Poudriere. The scoreboard reads 17-16 at halftime. We’re down. It’s been a scratchy game. I can’t complain about the effort, the boys are bringing the energy, but we’re a step late to loose balls, we’re fouling too much, we’re visibly upset at the tight whistle, and we’re letting our opponents get into the paint where they consistently wreak havoc. We’re not good with havoc, especially on the defensive end. Havoc creates gaps. It sends opposing players to the line. Havoc gets us in foul trouble.
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  SB Basketball vs. Claretain: Brushing off the Dust

  1/13/2025
  SC kicked off the new year with their first game against Claretain following a well-earned break from academics. After two solid practices to shake off the rust, the team took the court eager to get back into the flow of basketball. However, the opening minutes revealed some lingering effects of the layoff. Defensive hesitancy, a lack of urgency in transition and shaky team chemistry made for a slow start, as SC conceded 12 points in the first six minutes. 
  
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  SB Basketball: The One That Got Away

  12/10/2024
  By Erik Van Dyke
  You could feel the tension, the excitement. From the players, the coaches, the home crowd. Playing the top team in D4, the Richmond Raiders, who’d beaten us handily way back in our first game of the season, the score was tied 40-40. With only 30 seconds left. Your Spartans had made the statement they wanted to make, they’d played their tails off and shown their opponents – and themselves – how far they’d come since that butt-whupping a month ago.
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  SB Basketball: A CAIS of Revenge

  12/3/2024
  By Erik Van Dyke & Andrew Blair
  Your Stanstead College Spartans travelled to St. Catherines, Ontario, this past weekend to take part in the CAIS National Senior Boys Basketball Tournament. Twenty-four teams from across Canada were all looking to compete against the best that Canadian independent schools have to offer. Here is how it went down.
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  SB Basketball: Spartans Dominate in League Opener

  11/25/2024
  By Andrew Blair
  The SC basketball team hit the court last Wednesday night for their league home opener against La Poudriere, delivering a confident and commanding performance. Fresh off a successful weekend tournament, the team displayed the fruits of their hard work, particularly in transition play and defensive discipline.
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  SB Basketball: Season Starts

  11/18/2024
  By Erik Van Dyke
  After a whirlwind start to season – 3 days of tryouts, 4 practices, then 5 days off for November Break – your Senior Boys Basketball Spartans kicked off their 2024-25 campaign barely five days ago, and a lot has already happened.
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• SB Basketball: Exhibition vs Loyola 2

  12/11/2023
  After initial excitement over getting another fixture added to the schedule, it soon turned out to be a little disappointing. We envisioned our long stretch of practice time leading to this exhibition game as a chance to include new wrinkles and show more individual and team improvement. 
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  SB Basketball: At Home vs Salesien

  12/1/2023
  By Andre Simard
  No rest for the weary as the Spartans took on Salesien at 6 pm on Monday in a home game at the Mackay Gymnasium.
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• SB Basketball: Challenges at CAIS

  11/27/2023
  By Andre Simard
  vs Gray Academy – Winnipeg, Man. (CAIS Pool)

  The teams played a back-and-forth first quarter which ended 12-10 in the Spartans’ favour. The stingy second quarter allowed only 10 total points, with Stanstead gaining 8 and Gray merely 3 for a 19-13 halftime score with SC leading. The third quarter saw much more scoring (30 total points with Gray accounting for 17 and the Spartans 13). The third quarter score was SC 32- GA 20. The Spartans, like the AC at LCC, went very cold during the latter part of the third and throughout the fourth. In fact, during that time (from the 32-21 score onward), Gray went on a 17-2 run. Those 2 points were also SC's ONLY 2 points in the entire fourth quarter, while Gray chipped in 13. Final score GA 43 - SC 34.
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  SB Basketball: A Wild One vs BCS

  11/22/2023
  By Andre Simard
  The BCS Bears started the game with a 7-0 run but, after being on our heels until the 10-2 point, we began to compete, resulting in a 14-10 first quarter score in BCS's favour. Stanstead won the second quarter 11-7 despite BCS scoring a buzzer-beater to conclude the half with a 21-21 tie. The third quarter saw the Spartans outscore the Bears 11-8 for a 32-29 lead after three periods.
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  SB Basketball Season Kick Off

  11/20/2023
  by Andre Simard
  Game 1: November 18 - Home vs St Laurent Academy

  Our first game of the season was played on Saturday November 18 morning the first of a two-game exhibition series with St Laurent Academy (SLA) from Ottawa. After scoring the first three buckets of the game (and the first Spartan baskets of the season) the two teams each had a good run to carry the teams to a 16-16 first quarter score and a 32-31 score with SC lead at the half.
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  Athlete of the Week: Chaz Grenier

  11/22/2022
  This student-athlete from Stanstead, Quebec is a leader on and off the court. A member of the senior boys (white) basketball team, Chaz is intense, focused and coachable. Midway through the game versus BCS on Saturday, Chaz was tasked with guarding their best scorer, and, unsurprisingly, held his opponent to zero points for the rest of the game. In the first league game on the road, Chaz dominated the inside posting a double-double: scoring 12 points and pulling down 10 rebounds. 
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  Athletes of the Week: Diego Riveroll Dodero & Gage Larkin

  12/12/2019
  We end December with shared Athletes of the Week in squash and senior boys basketball.
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