D4 Junior: CDDHS Royals For Real!

The (junior) Shelburne Centre-Dufferin District High School Royals have been quietly going about their business with little fanfare.

The Royals, who were a semifinalist in the junior AAA CWOSSA championships last season (defeating #3 Waterloo-Oxford 50-47 in the first round), play in District 4---a
league that doesn't get a lot of attention (especially this year with only four teams in the league --- Norwell, Wellington Hts, CDDHS and Westside SS). So far, the Royals have blown away the opposition. Their average margin of victory thus far? 43 points. Yes, that's their margin of victory, not their average points scored per contest. Yikes.

The Royals are led by Carlo and Marco Zanette (Carlo currently leads our 20+ club with a 37-point outburst against the second place Westside SS Thunder).

Interestingly enough, the internet message boards are abuzz with recent results. According to a hoop-la poster, the Royals have split exhibition games with Guelph Lourdes. Lourdes is currently my #2 junior team, so I may have to update those rankings and apologize to the Royals in the process.

In fairness, there isn't a lot out there on CDDHS in the Orangeville/Shelburne news sources, so there isn't much more we can pass along at this time. We will, however, have some more results to pass along soon --- the Royals have scheduled a few home exhibition games over the break, including one against a to-be-determined AAAA Guelph school and today's tilt at home against current #5 Kitchener Resurrection.

Update: As per a blog comment, Centre Dufferin beat Resurrection today by about 25 points.