Myles Martin Weekly Report

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Jan 30

The 6 Nations Tournament kicks off this weekend and Balmy Beach Club will be showing every game.

Saturday matches will be shown in the hall on the BIG SCREEN – $20 Entry Fee. All proceeds will help support the Balmy Beach Junior Rugby program.

Friday and Sunday matches will be shown in the bar – No Entry Fee

BBC breakfast served from 8:00-11:30AM Saturday & Sunday. See below for the full schedule.

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Dec 24

BBC Rugby Holiday Market – A special thank you for those who supported the BBC Rugby Holiday Market and Silent Auction We wanted to reach out and thank all of the members that supported the Annual Rugby Holiday Market & Auction. With your support, we surpassed previous years funds raised with a record breaking (at least from 2017 onwards) with $12,000. With these funds we are able to support our athletes with trainers, field access and offsetting costs to make Rugby accessible to as many athletes as possible.

We would also like to invite you to save the date for the 2025 Rugby Holiday Market & Auction on December 6th, 2025.

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and wonderful New Year. Once again, thank you for your continued support and participation. The Rugby Holiday Market & Auction Committee. On behalf of the Alumni Executive Committee, we would like to wish you a very safe and happy holiday. 2025 will be a special year with the 70th celebration and we look forward to seeing you there.

 

BBC is 70! – It’s time to get excited about the club’s 70th in June 2025, if you haven’t started making plans, I suggest you start ASAP. Before you know it June will be here. Check out the attached newsletter for the activities we have planned. More details to follow…

 

 

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Dec 242025-01-31T06:23:48-05:00

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Dec 5

Rest in Peace Fletchers Field – For the past 60 years, Fletcher’s Field—fondly known as “The Square”—has been the beating heart of rugby in Ontario. It wasn’t just a field; it was a home, a stage, and a sanctuary. From regular season games to intense playoff battles, provincial clashes, and unforgettable international showdowns, Fletcher’s became a place where players and fans alike made the pilgrimage to Markham, season after season. But Fletcher’s was more than just a hub for fierce competition; it was a place where friendships were forged, where bonds formed over shared love for the game. It was the soul of rugby in this province—a place where victories were celebrated, losses were consoled, and countless memories were made. Now, the doors to The Square have closed for good. Its future lies in the hands of the City of Markham. But its legacy? That will live on in every tackle, every try, and every story shared over a pint. Here’s a tribute to the iconic field that shaped decades of rugby and brought so many of us together. Fletcher’s Fields Video

Balmy Beach Holiday Auction and Market –  Saturday December 7th from 4-7pm. Hope to see you there. Please click the poster below for more details.

Balmy Beach Old Boys Hockey Team – It’s that time of year again, when the air chills and the Balmy Beach Old Boys reach out to help you make your holiday feast extra special. Our annual Turkey Time Sale is the perfect opportunity to ensure you have a fresh, high-quality, and delicious bird to cook for Christmas dinner. The price is a very reasonable $5.45 per pound and you can order Small (under 16 lbs), Medium (16-20 lbs) or Large (20-24 lbs) size turkeys. To order, complete this online order form, or if preferred you may contact Paul Babich by email at zzivio@bell.net or by phone at (416) 691-2370 to place your order manually. Order deadline is December 16th or until supplies last. Note, small-size turkeys may be in limited supply this year – so get your order in sooner than later or upsize to medium. Turkeys will be available for pick up at the Balmy Beach Club Lawn Bowling clubhouse. The pick-up date is Monday, December 23rd between 9AM and 6PM. We will notify you of your order total at this time and accept payment by e-transfer (to zzivio@bell.net), cheque (to “BBOB”) or cash. As you may know, this program raises funds not only for our hockey club but also for the important work of Centre 55 in our community. We offer the opportunity to add a donation to your turkey order to further support the cause. Please feel free to let your neighbours and friends know about Turkey Time!

Seniors’ Holiday Program Special Request – For four years now, the Club has sponsored the holiday program for the senior residents at the Revera Main Terrace Long-Term Care facility. Many of these residents have no family and our program has become quite meaningful to them. Typically, we provide a gift bag containing a variety of small items (body wash, deodorant, word search books, candy, etc). This year, the team at Revera has a special request: the residents are each asking for a digital alarm clock. We have identified a clock that we could procure in time for the event, but we are hoping that the Sections could assist us with financial support in the form of a donation of $150. Of course, any amount would be appreciated. The gifts are usually distributed at the Holiday Party in early December; this year we are looking forward to the junior girls’ rugby group helping to distribute the gifts and sing Christmas carols. If you have any questions or concerns around this request, please let me know, otherwise I would like to thank you in advance for considering donating to our seniors’ program this year. Best, Jenn Sharp

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Nov 29

Holiday Auction Sat Dec 7th – A reminder that the Balmy Beach Holiday Auction and Market will be held at the club on Saturday December 7th. This is a big fundraiser for the section and all proceeds goes towards jerseys, field permits, goal post pads and much much more. Hope to see you there.

Download a copy of the Donations Letter

Although the rugby season has come to an end, the rugby section is still working hard to produce one of their most important events of the year, the annual holiday market and auction. Here is a note from Kirstin. If you are interested in helping or donating, please feel free to contact her at bonomok@gmail.com.

Hello Alumni – Hope you were all able to make it to the amazing game last week and get an opportunity to see the boys fight to secure a spot in the McCormick Cup Final this weekend. The holidays are fast upon us! What better way to get ready for Christmas and the Holidays then to get your shopping done at our Annual Holiday Auction Saturday December 7th from 4:00 – 7:00. This is one of our key fundraisers for the year. We are looking for support in different ways and hope that one may appeal to you!

1) Donations: Most importantly – right now, we need items donated. This can be a gift basket you make or get donated from a company, sporting tickets, gift certificates, weekend to a cottage, artwork, sports memorabilia, kids baskets, etc.

2) Be or get a local business to purchase a table – at the local vendor’s market. This event will allow them to sell their own items throughout the entire auction during the busy holiday season. The table fee is $125 (please have vendor’s fill out the donation form with applicable info and we will contact them)

3) Donate or Get a Donations for the Booze Basket – (we sell raffle tickets on the night & this is a huge way to raise money on the day of. We typically raise over a $1,000+ from this alone.

4) Promote: – Put posters up in your local businesses, close to where you live. This is an open event to the public – Bring family and friends!

5) Social Media: – Post & re-post on Instagram, Facebook etc. and encourage people to attend the event – we need people to attend the event to buy, buy, buy!

Jerry Declute – It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of Gerry Declute. Gerry’s celebration of life will be Thursday December 5 from 2pm to 5pm at the Balmy Beach Club. A great man who loved Beach Rugby.  Gerry’s Newspaper Notice.

Congratulations to all the Award Winners this year:
Ed Caterer – Chris Shryer
Harvey Jaanusson- Lee Keegal
ORU 1s Most Valuable Forward – Jamie Cain
ORU 1s Most Valuable Back – Jason Park
ORU 1s Most Valuable Back – Josh Bald
ORU 2s Most Valuable Forward – Tariq Popal
ORU 2s Most Valuable Back – Simon McLean Lavado
TRU 1s Most Valuable Forward – Ulises Ornelas
TRU 1s Most Valuable Back – Hugh Berry
TRU 2s Most Valuable Forward – Claude Germain
TRU 2s Most Valuable Back – Grayson Binkley
Men’s Most Improved Player – Diego Dabovich
Men’s Most Dedicated Player – Denzel Borris
Men’s Rookie of the Year – Owen Lee
Women’s Most Valuable Forward – Kim Hunter
Women’s Most Valuable Back – Kristin Bonomo
Women’s Most Improved Player – Amelia Hawthorn
Women’s Rookie of the Year – Maddy Blackmore
Women’s Most Dedicated Player – Laura Armstrong
Volunteer of the Year – Kristin Bonomo
Womens asshole of the year – Kristin Bonomo
Mens asshole of the year – Iain McLeish

 

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Nov 292024-11-29T17:49:20-05:00

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Oct 3

Congratulations to all our Gold and Blue athletes both men and women, on a great season.! – The ones were down going into the final minute of the game but a great play by young Jamie Cain turned the game in our favour and saw us hold up the cup for the last time in Fletchers Field. Here’s the game recap and if you want to watch the game, the link is below:

Wow! Everyone was fiending for a final to send off Fletcher’s Field in style and boy did this game deliver. If someone had said before this game started that we would: have our starting fly half dislocate his shoulder and removed from the game within the first 2 minutes of game play, suffer 2 yellow cards bringing us down to 13 players at one point, play at most 15 minutes of offense with the ball, have two tries called back, and still win on a last minute prop – intercept line out and run 22 m for the try play, I would have said that was impossible. And yet that is exactly what happened. After playing 78 minutes of hard nose defense the score with 1 minute left in game play was 12-15 against Beach with less than a minute left. With a line out on the Brantford 22 looming, Jamie Cain, playing #1, locked eyes with the Brantford hooker knowing he would throw to the first man in the Brantford line out. Having seen this play twice before in the game, Jamie leapt to intercept the throw, tipping the ball up into the air for himself to regather. Securing the ball Jamie then steamrolled 22m into the endzone to put Beach ahead 17-15. The referee allowed the kickoff after the try, and a bold jackle from Kyle Lagasca ended the game with a Beach win. What a game! This win, the last ever at Fletcher’s Fields, finally puts Balmy Beach ahead of the combined Toronto Irish, and Markham to lock down the title of the winningest team in Ontario History 17 cups to 16. These boys bled Blue and Gold all season and nothing could make us prouder than their performance last weekend. However, as we all know, the best cup is always the next one. On to the 2025 season. UTB!

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZdV9wUbr6BI?si=cr_gYseKdetznMkY

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 26th

A note from the rugby section re the finals being played Sept 28, 2024. As you may have heard, a series of wacky events has led to the last Gee Gage Cup to be played at Fletchers to be up for grabs between Beach 2’s and Beach 3’s. I think this is a great throwback to the early years of the Gee Gage Cup, where more than one or two of the finals were also Beach 2’s V Beach 3’s games. The game kicks off at 11:30AM, and a bus will be leaving the clubhouse at 9:30AM. Physio’s, refs, and champagne for after the game are already sorted, and I hear rumors that the smoke machine, and disco ball from previous years will be in attendance as well for post game celebrations.

Everyone; current players, alumni ect… are welcome to play. We will be opening a 48h membership option for anyone, not currently playing, who wants one last game at Fletcher’s Field before it closes forever. If anyone who is not currently a player wants in, just reply to this email and I’ll send you the details. Once the game is over, and appropriate celebrations have occurred, everyone is encouraged to stick around for the 1’s game at 3:30pm. After that game we will be returning back to the club on a Coach bus that will be for players only. Hope to see everyone out on Saturday: Iain McLeish

For those who will not be able to attend the game on Saturday, the finals will be televised on Rugby Ontario’s Youtube page. Here’s the link

John Edwards Celebration of Life – There are roughly 40 spots left and wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to pay their dues. Please register here: https://pp.events/thelifeofjohnedwards

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 18th

What a great evening as we said goodbye to a great blue and gold stallworth Claude “the Dude” Germaine.

We had over 110 in the main hall last night laughing at infamous moments and inside jokes and dirty poems. Big shout out to the roasters, Malency, Brock and Scott Dunham and to Kyle Nichols for MCing the event.

I spoke with Claude and he was super emotional and very drunk but infinitely thankful for the special evening he was able to spend with his family and friends on this very special night.

No game report from last weekend but the Beach 1s were able to squeak out a victory over the Oshawa Vikings 10-6 so they will be playing the last finals on Saturday Sept 28 at Fletchers FIeld at 3pm vs Brantford

The Gee Gage Cup is a little more complicated, the Beach lost to the Scottish last weekend 26-19 but the Scottish forfeited their game against Burlington to play us and played their first team players against us along with some players who were from a different team. We put in an inquiry with Rugby Ontario and the Beach were declared the winner while giving a fine to the Scottish. All this means that the Beach 2’s will be playing the Beach 3’s in the finals on Saturday Sept 28 at Fletchers at 11pm.

No games this weekend, have a great weekend and more info to follow…….

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 18th2024-09-19T16:48:57-04:00

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 12th

This week sees our Blue and Gold athletes back in action at our home pitch. The TRU Mens are in pursuit for the Gee Gage Cup while the ORU mens are eying a trip to the McCormick Cup finals. But first they need to get through some tough competition this weekend

TRU I vs Toronto Scottish – 1pm @ Tubs and Gee Gage
ORU I vs Oshawa Vikings – 3:30pm @ Tubs and Gee Gage

We had a massive crowd last week and the gents are hoping even more can make it out this week to make sure they fully understand what home advantage means.

The Alumni Dinner – This is your last call for you to confirm your spot for the Dude’s Roast on Wednesday September 18th. If you have not received a confirmation email from me then unfortunately you are not on the list and will be denied entry to the dinner. The club has informed us that they will not be allowing walk-ins so please take a moment and let me know if you plan to attend.

Date – Wednesday Sept 18th
Time – Drinks – 6:30pm, Dinner – 7pm
Cost – $100 – Please send an e-transfer to beachalumni@gmail.com

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 8th

Some great rugby this weekend and I hope you had a chance to make to the pitch to watch the Beach take on Burlington

Burlington kicked off with the wind behind them. The battle by the beach was primarily played in the forwards with a lot of pick and goes from the base and driving mauls from lineouts. Knocking on the doorstep of Burlington’s goal line we moved the ball out wide and dotted down in the corner. Beach up 7-0. Burlington then marched right back down the field moving the ball efficiently through their center with runners attacking the gain line until they found a soft spot in the Beaches defense that was quickly exploited. Burlington levels the score 7-7. Both sides score again but neither team makes the conversion so the halftime score is 12-12.

The Beach now had the wind at their backs and used it far more effectively than Burlington. Using the kicking game to strategically place the ball where they weren’t and the Gary Owen to put the Burlington 15 under duress. The Beach were able to use crash ball and move the rock to the wing after several phases to score. The defense held their own and didn’t allow Burlington to score in the second half. The final score was 28-12. Next week the Beach will take on Oshawa as the road to the McCormick cup continues.

Fall Alumni Dinner – Time is running out! If you haven’t confirmed your attendance for the alumni dinner and Claude “The Dude” Germain’s epic retirement roast on September 18th, now is the time to act. Seats are almost gone, and we want YOU there to celebrate The Dude’s 35 incredible years of rugby! THERE IS NO TIME TO WAIT, Please respond to this email confirming your attendance

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Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 6th

A big thank you to Mike Edwards for forwarding me the information regarding John Edwards Celebration of life on October 25 at the club. Please see the link below and if you have any questions please send them to Mike at eddyeddy.edwards@gmail.com. https://pp.events/thelifeofjohnedwards

Sept 7th Fixture – This weekend we have one game on tap as we start the McCormick Cup run for 2024. The 1s will be taking on the Burlington Centaurs on Saturday at Tubs and Gee Gage field at 3:30pm. Time to dig out your blue and gold gear to cheer on the boys.

Alumni Dinner – Seats are filling up fast, so I suggest you respond to this email letting me know that you will be attending the Dude’s Roast on Sept 18 at the club. Tickets are $100 and you can send and e-transfer to beachalumni@gmail.com. DON”T WAIT!!!!!!!!

Balmy Beach Turns 70 – Save the Dates – In 2025 Beach Rugby turns 70!!!! We have formed an “eclectic” group of 14 as a committee to plan events for this special occasion . Jake Lipsett and Gerry Allen are cochairing this group. We have arrived at an agenda for JUNE 04 to June 08,2025. Save these dates!!! Wed, June 04 Gala Dinner @ the Club (8 Originals to be honoured). Thurs June 05, Golf Tourney and perhaps other activities with reception at the Club. Fri. June 06, Alumni Rugby Game followed by Pub Night at the Club. Sat June 07, Club Day at Tubs and Gee Gage Field with participation by all Sr men and women, and Juniors(Beer trucks and food trucks) with informal Social at the Club to follow. Sunday June 08, no formal events but folks can take advantage of Club Brunch to say farewells! Plan ahead and participate. More news to follow

Myles Martin Weekly Alumni Report for Sept 6th2024-09-06T10:20:52-04:00
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