Ontario (Durham): 2011 LOSSA Football Information

Defending Champions

Tier One Senior: Holy Trinity, Courtice (picture)

Tier Two Senior: Port Perry

Tier Two Junior: Donald A. Wilson, Whitby

Tier Two Junior: Eastdale, Oshawa

Changes this year

Ajax, J. Clarke Richardson and Monsignor Paul Dwyer have moved from Tier One to Tier Two.

Bowmanville has reintroduced a Junior Team.

Eastdale Collegiate will not field a Senior team during the upcoming season citing a lack of numbers at practices.

Tier Two Senior will operate with two geographical divisions.

Tier One Teams (Both Senior and Junior) – 4 teams

Donald A. Wilson, Holy Trinity, Pickering and St. Mary.

Senior Tier Two Teams (13)

East Division (6 teams)

Bowmanville, O’Neill, Paul Dwyer, Port Perry, Sinclair and St. Stephen

West Division (7 teams)

Ajax, Denis O’Connor, Dunbarton, J. Clarke Richardson, Notre Dame, Pine Ridge and Uxbridge

Junior Tier Two Teams (11)

Ajax, Bowmanville, Dunbarton, Eastdale, J. Clarke Richardson, O’Neill, Paul Dwyer, Pine Ridge, Port Perry, St. Stephen and Uxbridge

Tier One Schedule

Opening day: Thursday, September 29th

Each team will play each other team once for a three game schedule.

Teams will play every second week and are allowed to set up exhibition games during their bye weeks.

All four teams will qualify for the playoffs (1st vs. 4th; 2nd vs. 3rd).

Winners advance to league championship will be conducted on Saturday, November 12th.

Senior Champion will advance to the Metro Bowl playdowns (Holy Trinity are the defending champions).

Junior Champion will advance to the Ontario Regional Football Championship (Nelson, Burlington are defending champions).

Tier Two Schedule

Opening day: Thursday, September 22nd

Senior

Each team will play each other team within their division once. All teams (with the exception of J. Clarke Richardson due to the late withdrawal of Eastdale) will play one cross divisional game.

Final standings will be based on winning percentage.

Top four teams in each division advance to the quarter final play with a bracket system used to determine match ups (1st East vs. 4th West) etc.

Junior

The eleven team league will operate as one division with an unbalanced schedule as each team will play six or seven regular season games.

Seeding for the playoffs will be based on win percentage with two brackets as follows:

1st vs, 8th and 4th vs. 5th;

2nd vs 7th and 3rd vs. 6th.

Winning teams will advance to play each other in semi-final games within their bracket with the semi-final winners meeting on Friday, November 11th to determine the league champions.

Official League Website: durhamregionfootball.ca

League Conveners:

Tier One Senior: John Kaspar, Donald A. Wilson Secondary School

Tier Two Senior: Chuck Smith, O’Neill Collegiate and Vocational School

Tier Two Junior: Rob Thomson, Donald A. Wilson Secondary School

Tier Two Junior: Ethan Markham, O’Neill Collegiate and Vocational School