Although the picture shows the smiling faces of the members of the winning blooperball team, Ronald McDonald House was the big winner at the 2^nd Annual Charity Blooperball Tournament hosted by Confederation Secondary School on Wednesday, May 16^th.  Each year the students of the OAC Physical Education class, with the guidance of their teacher, Ms. Laura Aubertin, organize a special event to raise money for a specific charity. This year, the chosen charity was the Ronald McDonald House.  The members of the class are Vikki Healey, Melanie McCann, Kristen Sturgeon, Kristina Rossi, Jessica Gervais, Aaron Pike, Christine Hardy, Stephanie Linney, Lindsay Lemieux, Andrew Ellerton, Audrey Kenwell, and co-chairs Jodie Merrill and Katie Edmunds. 

The day was an enormous success thanks to the diligent work of the entire class, the volunteers and the local sponsors.  This year the class raised $1 177.36 which will be presented to the Ronald Mcdonald House at Confederation’ Year-end Awards Assembly.

Six teams, consisting of 10 to 15 Confederation students, paid $50 to play.  The Confederation teachers added to the money raised by setting an amount of money to be donated by each of their classes.  When the class reached their predetermined goal, the students were allowed to watch and cheer for the teams in the tournament. 

On the day of the tournament, the OAC Physical Education class arrived early to begin setting up the fields.  The students were responsible for the barbecue, selling refreshments, and selling tickets for door prizes.  Other tasks included score keeping, posting the results and keeping the games on schedule.  The class would like to thank the volunteer umpires and scorers: Paul Simon, Remington Huneault and Braydon Carbone, Bryce Babcock Remore, Taylor Shonwise, Tyler Samson, and Shawna Rowlands.

Congratulations goes out to the members of the Chiefs who won the championship by defeating the Baby Jays in the final game: Tom VanDrunen, Brent Verdiel, Travis Babe, Stephane Ethier, Scott Ransom, Wade Verdiel, Eric Goode, Mark Mayotte, Steve Wuksinic, Caleb Friday, Amber Tucker, Lisa Jones, Sarah Radunsky and Jen Zymantas.

A special thanks goes to all the sponsors: Cambrian Ford Superstore, Canadian Mortgage Housing Company (CMHC), Kelsey’s, Val Caron I.D.A pharmacy, Val Caron Tim Horton’s, Garson Foodland, and McDonald’s Corporation.  Part of the event included door prizes which were donated by these local sponsors.  A great amount of money was also raised through the sale of hotdogs, drinks, and freezies, which were donated by Moncion’s Independent Grocer.

The class would also like to thank Valley East Slo-Pitch for donating all of the equipment and the Greater City of Sudbury for providing us with prepared fields at the Confederation diamond and on the school soccer field.