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Sabers varsity top Fossils...again.

12/13/2013

 
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On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, the Sabers boys varsity basketball team defeated long-time friendly rivals the Fossils, 48-44, on the Sabers court. The Sabers took a commanding 32-12 lead into halftime before the Fossils (pictured left), led by the dominating play of Coach Routh, outscored the varsity 16-0 in the 3rd quarter to close the gap to 4 points. The Fossils continued to outscore the Sabers in the 4th quarter, tying the game with a few minutes to play. The Sabers then put on their vaunted Aussie trap and were able to get some key steals late in the game to seal the victory.

History
Each December since 1995, the Sabers boys basketball varsity team has played an exhibition game against a collection of teachers, staff, parents, graduates, and other members of the greater SOIS community. This older group of players are infamously known as the Fossils. For about the first 10 years or so of this friendly rivalry, the Fossils, believe it or not, easily won all games. This Golden Age of Fossils basketball featured many young and skillful SOIS teachers such as Steve Bonnette (former band teacher), Brian Combes (former humanities teacher and DP coordinator), Josh Berg (former English teacher), Mark Pekin (former AD), Marvin Zulauf (former science teacher), Gary Rust (former business manager) and Jim Schell (former business manager), among many others. These early Fossils squads also included a young John Searle and a springy Stephen Lewis. Even Coach Heimer and Coach Ray used to be younger.

By about the year 2005, though, many Fossils greats had moved on and the rest got old. The Sabers varsity . notched its very first win over the Fossils around this time and has never looked back, dominating the old guys year to year. Wednesday's game was the tightest in recent memory. Heimer, Ray, Routh and Mecklem are not getting any younger and the Sabers are not getting any older, but that doesn't stop the Fossils from believing "maybe next year."

2013 Fossils: Mr. Routh, Mr. Mecklem, Mr. Ray, Mr. Heimer, Mr. Yamamoto (parent), Toshinori Matsuo (graduate), Naoto Takahashi (graduate), Makoto Honda (graduate), Takumi Honda (brother), and another Honda brother.

Successful Sabers WJAA weekend

12/8/2013

 
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Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7, 2013: Excellent weekend for Sabers teams competing in WJAA championship tournaments...
MS girls soccer: At Canadian Academy in Kobe: A team - champions. B team - champions. C team - 2nd place. Clearly the Sabers are the class of WJAA MS girls soccer. Congratulations to Coach Frater and Coach Namba and the 40+ Sabers MS girls soccer players. (Next up for MS girls - basketball starting in January.)
MS boys basketball: At Marist Brothers International School in Kobe: Make that 2 years in a row as WJAA champions as the young Sabers cagers handily repeated as champions, defeating most opponents by the 30-point mercy rule. Well done, Coach Ray and Coach Mitsuhashi. (Next up for MS boys - soccer starting in January.)
HS girls basketball: At Canadian Academy in Kobe: The Sabers girls won 1 game on Friday, avenging an early season loss by beating a strong EJ King (Sasebo) team, to put them in Saturday's semifinals. But two losses on the second day left the Sabers in 4th place in the 6-team tournament. Still, a strong effort from the Sabers and coaches Sagara and Hirai.
HS boys basketball: Hosted by SOIS in the Sabers gym: On Friday, the Sabers boys (pictured above left) lost to EJ King by 6 points, a marked improvement over a 25-point defeat earlier in the season. The Sabers then dispatched AISA rivals Yokohama International School to advance to the semifinals, where the Sabers defeated tournament favorites MC Perry (Iwakuni). This put the Sabers into the finals, a rematch against EJ King, where the Sabers fell short, figuratively and literally, to the much taller and stronger Cobras. Regardless, it was a great tournament for the Sabers - congratulations to first-year head coach Michael Routh and assistant coach Heimer. WJAA all-tournament team members for the Sabers were seniors Shaw Iyama, Coe Lee, and Kai Stewart. Click to see tournament results.

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    Coach Heimer, SOIS AD

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