Thursday November 27 2014
The
Leader
▲ Music, lights and plenty of elves ring in the Christmas season in Surrey 3
FROM CLOVERDALE TO THE GREY CUP
RICK KUPCHUK
No matter who wins Sunday’s Grey Cup game in Vancouver, history will be made at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary. A pair of graduates from the Cloverdale school are playing in the game at BC Place, meaning either Adam Berger of the Calgary Stampeders or Kyle Miller of the Hamilton
Tiger-Cats will earn Grey Cup rings, which would be a first for the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers football program. “You could see it coming, and when it happened, I was pretty excited,” said Kurt Thornton, head coach of the Panthers since the program began roughly a decade ago. “Now it’s guaranteed. A Panther is going to have his name on the Grey Cup.”
Berger and Miller were teammates with the Panthers, each playing their final season in the fall of 2007 when the team was ranked number one in B.C. for much of the season before losing in the semifinal round of the playoffs. Along with Matt McGarva, currently with the B.C. Lions, the trio graduated in the spring of 2008 and eventually turned professional in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Berger and Miller likely won’t be facing each other on the field, as each is listed as a back-up at the defensive back position. But they will be on opposite sides of the field, as opposed to sharing the same sideline as they have done at the community, high school and university levels.
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▶ LORD TWEEDSMUIR HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI LINE UP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL THIS SUNDAY
After playing together at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary and Simon Fraser University, Kyle Miller (left) of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Adam Berger (right) of the Calgary Stampeders will be on opposite sidelines for Sunday’s Grey Cup game in Vancouver. PHOTOS COURTESY HAMILTON TIGER-CATS/CALGARY STAMPEDERS
MAYHEM ON SURREY ROADS
▶ THREE SEPARATE ACCIDENTS RESULT IN ONE FATALITY KEVIN DIAKIW
Police are continuing to investigate the mayhem that occurred on Surrey
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