Wolverines open OFC football season on Saturday
The Peterborough Wolverines will kick off the 2018 Ontario Football Conference season this weekend.
The Junior Varsity Wolverines, who won the Ontario championship last season, will host the Scarborough Thunder in a noon contest Saturday at the Thomas A. Stewart Field on Armour Rd.
Meanwhile the Senior Varsity Wolverines and the Bantam Wolverines will travel on Sunday to Mount Joy Park in Markham to open their season against the Scarborough Thunder.
The Wolverines will only play against three OFC teams that they have faced in previous years (Huronia, Toronto and Sudbury) this season. All the remaining games are against new opponents that have joined the OFC this year.
The OFC has expanded to include 20 clubs covering most of the province. There will be 53 teams participating in the three divisions as the OFC season officially begins this weekend.
The Wolverines are in their eighth season in the league.
On Week 2 on June 3 all three Wolverines teams will travel to Barrie to face the Huronia Stallions in the annual battle for the Cottage Cup. The Wolverines have won the cup in the first two years of its existence and are looking to retain it in 2018.
The Stallions will be top contenders in all three divisions in the Ramsay Conference (East) in the OFC and this should be a real test for the Wolverines.
While the Junior Varsity Wolverines won the Ontario championship last season the Senior Varsity Wolverines also reached the finals, losing to the Toronto Junior Argos.
The Bantam Wolverines schedule is: May 27 at 9:30 a.m. at Scarborough, June 3 at 11 a.m. at Huronia, June 9 at 11 a.m. at York Region, June 16 at 2 p.m. hosting Waterloo, June 23 at 11 a.m. hosting the Toronto Junior Argos, July 7 at 11 a.m. hosting Oshawa and wrapping up July 21 at 11 a.m. hosting Brampton.
The Junior Varsity Wolverines schedule is: May 26 at noon hosting Scarborough, June 3 at 2 p.m. at Huronia, June 9 at 1:30 p.m. at York Region, June 17 at 6 p.m. at Quinte, June 23 at 2 p.m. hosting the Toronto Junior Argos, July 7 at 2 p.m. hosting Oshawa, July 15 at 12:30 p.m. in Brampton and July 21 at 2 p.m. hosting Sudbury.
The Senior Varsity Wolverines schedule is: May 27 at noon at Scarborough, June 3 at 6 p.m. at Huronia, June 9 at 4:30 p.m. at York Region, June 16 at 5 p.m. hosting Waterloo, June 23 at 5 p.m. hosting the Toronto Junior Argos, June 30 at 1 p.m. at Cornwall, July 7 at 5 p.m. hosting Oshawa and July 21 at 5 p.m. hosting Sudbury.
The playoffs are July 28 and 29 with the conference semifinals that will involve the top four teams in each division (fourth at first and third at second).
The two winners will meet at the top seed’s home field for the Ramsay Conference Championship on Aug. 4.
The Ramsay Conference Champions (East) will meet the Dittmer Conference Champions (West) for the overall OFC Championship on the OFC Champ Day on Aug. 11 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre in Brantford.