Metro Toronto Wildcats - Town Crier Archives

Cats come to life with 3 wins in row
(Posted Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2006)
Rebound from slow start to make drive for OVFL playoffs
By Carmine Bonanno
Five games into the Ontario Varsity Football League regular season and the Metro Toronto Wildcats have played like two different teams.

Wildcats finally tamed in semi-final
Post Date: Friday, September 10, 2004
The Metro Toronto Wildcats magical run has come to an end with a 27-7 semifinal loss to the Mississauga Warriors Aug. 14. The Cats didn’t look as if they’d even make the Ontario Varsity Football L...

Wildcats make play-offs with last-game victory
Post Date: Monday, August 16, 2004
The Metro Toronto Wildcats are on a mission. In their final regular season match, the community-run Ontario Varsity Football League Wildcats shellacked the first place and undefeated Ottawa Myers ...

Cats claw way to win in annual grudge match
Post Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2004
The Metro Toronto Wildcats have finally proved what they’ve believed all along: they are the top Ontario Varsity Football League team in Toronto. At least for the rest of the year. In their annual ...

Local football stars united in title shot
Post Date: Monday, August 9, 2004
Three North York and North Toronto boys, putting their stamp on the Ontario Varsity Football League, have similar if not identical goals: Win a league championship and play at the next level. ...

Cats make play-offs with last-game upset
Post Date: Friday, August 6, 2004
The Metro Toronto Wildcats are on a mission. In their final regular season match, the community-run Ontario Varsity Football League Wildcats shellacked the first place and undefeated Ottawa Myers ...

No animosity in annual football grudge match
Post Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004
The summer football season is in full swing again with Toronto’s two Ontario Varsity Football League (OVFL) teams preparing for their annual battle at Birchmount Stadium. Although both teams recru...

It's been a 'wow' year
Post Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Matt Black didn't expect so much out of his last year of high school. He wanted to come back for his fifth year to work hard and hopefully earn a football scholarship to an NCAA school for a free univ...

Wildcats still looking for a patch of grass to call their own
Post Date: Monday, May 3, 2004
A lot of things happen in a year but for some it’s not quite enough. It’s been a year since these very pages featured a story about a community football program full of volunteers eager and willing...

Junior Wildcats already growling
Post Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Two summers ago the Metro Toronto Wildcats served notice that they wouldn’t be a pushover in the Ontario Varsity Football League. Although their won-loss record wasn’t above board, the Wildcats pl...

Black headed to Houston
Post Date: Thursday, January 8, 2004
Matt Black received one of the best Christmas presents you could think of the night before Christmas Eve. The 5-foot-10, 160-pound defensive back from Northern Secondary was out with his family an...

Black reigns over Midtown
Post Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2003
In polling the local high school and community football coaches for the Mid Town football all-star team, there was one name that kept coming up from most, if not all of the coaches. Many just said obv...

Panthers pounce
Post Date: Thursday, October 9, 2003
They haven’t won any championships recently but the Lawrence Park Collegiate Panthers have been prowling the sideline two straight years watching their opponents receive the TDSSAA junior football cha...

Powerful Panther
Post Date: Thursday, October 9, 2003
In his first year of senior ball at Lawrence Park Collegiate, Jamie Harling looks like anything but a rookie. Following a summer with the OVFL’s junior Wildcats in which he was named the offensive Mos...

Talented!!
Post Date: Thursday, October 9, 2003
One of the lone returning seniors at Northern Secondary, Matt Black has clearly been on another level in the first two games of the season — both wins. The OVFL’s top defensive back award winner with ...

Gretes poised for another successful season at York
Post Date: Friday, September 12, 2003
It’s no secret, football has enjoyed a rebirth in the City of Toronto and the province of Ontario for that matter. In the dark days, high school programs were being cut left and right with few survivi...

Running tough
Post Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Allistair Blair, a student at Central Tech and a member of the Metro Toronto Wildcats, had his way with the OVFL’s top ranked Toronto Thunder this summer. In two games Blair scored four touchdowns...

Roaring Thunder silence Wildcats
Post Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Toronto Thunder head coach Frank Panos believes that championship calibre teams at any level have to overcome adversity. In that case his team might be of that calibre. Following last minute loss ...

North Toronto Athlete of the Month
Post Date: Friday, August 1, 2003
Every team that has played the Wildcats this summer in the OVFL has had to deal with one inescapable reality — whomever crosses over the middle will be run over by the ‘A-train,’ a six-foot-one inch 2...

Thunder and rain can’t stop the Wildcats
Post Date: Friday, August 1, 2003
The showdown is set, two will enter and only one will leave. Following a wildly entertaining and fiercely contested grudge match on July 10, the Metro Toronto Wildcats and the Toronto Thunder, bot...

’Cats caught in a turf war
Post Date: Monday, June 16, 2003
The ongoing headaches for the management, directors and coaches of the Metro Toronto Wildcats of the Ontario Varsity Football League (OVFL) regarding field availability, have multiplied over the last ...

Renaissance man fulfils dream but still in search of fields
Post Date: Thursday, April 3, 2003
If there is one person in the North Toronto area synonymous with amateur football, it would be fair to say he bleeds Lawrence Park blue and gold. Having started the Lawrence Park Football Alumni A...

Northern’s Thomas selected to Team Canada
Post Date: Friday, January 10, 2003
Anthony Thomas finally has something to smile about. In his past two football seasons — one with Northern Secondary and the other with the Metro Toronto Wildcats — Thomas’ presence on the defence ...

Wildcats finish tumultuous season
Post Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2002
The Metro Toronto Wildcats Varsity football team capped off a tumultuous season with two straight losses to miss the playoffs. The final two games were lost by scores of 24-20 and 32-27 to Oshawa and ...

Parks and Rec hurt by walkout
Post Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2002
While city and union negotiators sit at the bargaining table and stare each other down during the city’s outdoor worker’s strike the Parks and Recreation department of the City of Toronto has cancelle...

Thunder take a bite out of Wildcats
Post Date: Monday, June 24, 2002
The Metro Toronto Wildcats found themselves in tough on June 9, losing to the defending Ontario Varsity Football League champions and cross town rivals the Toronto Thunder 20-7 in the dying seconds of...

It’s back to basics for the Metro Toronto Wildcats
Post Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2002
The Metro Toronto Wildcats are back and stronger than ever after taking a year off to re-organize. The team formerly called the Lawrence Park Wildcats is run by the Lawrence Park Football Alumni Assoc...

This time the Wildcats are back for real
Post Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Like a Phoenix rising up out of the ashes the Wildcats football program has gained a new life, and one that is promising to be a successful. This year the Metro Toronto Wildcats (formerly the Lawre...

Lawrence Park Wildcats had a ball in first Season
by Andrew Matte
Toronto Town Crier 1999

Wildcats Happy to be in Game
By David Grossman
Toronto Star Sports Reporter
September 20, 1998

Lawrence Park Squad in `League' of its Own
Labour dispute sidestepped for sake of football
By David Grossman
Toronto Star Sports Reporter
September 20, 1998

ATHLETE OF THE MONTH ALUMNI COACH KEPT LAWRENCE BALL IN PLAY
By Aubrey Silverberg
North Toronto Post
December 1998