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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
Presents with Area Senior: Scott Rogers
Serving You Since 1937
reached a fairly high level playing the playoffs. “The Colts were really
with high school and travelling good,” Scott recalled. “There was
teams. “You get to an age where some excitement in the city and with
you realize that you’re not going to the Aces on CFLG, we saw some
cott Rogers arrived in Cornwall be playing for the Cincinnati Reds, opportunities to get on board with
Son Jan 1st, 1993, starting a job as which is my favourite team, or the the Colts during the 1994-95 season.
the morning news reader with CJSS. Toronto Blue Jays, so I figured Thanks to some behind the scenes
A graduate of Fanshawe College if I couldn’t play sports, I would work by CJSS Program Director,
in London, Scott had previously
talk about sports. Being a reporter Gord Shaver, Dave Murphy, and I
worked with radio stations in St.
and then a news reader was a way did the last six road games, then the
Thomas, and Sarnia. “CJSS was
to be in the business and create playoffs, and that was the year that
looking for a morning news reader
the potential of branching out into they went to the Fred Page Cup in
which was a little further up the
sports. When I was in Sarnia, I did Joliette. The following season Dave
food chain,” Scott recalled, “so I
a little bit of play-by-play for the and I did all of the Colt road games
applied for it and that brought me community TV station, and when I Photo Submitted and that’s the way it was for the
from one end of the province to got to Cornwall, I got to do some who then moved the team to next four years.” In the summer of
the other.” Scott had been involved Aces games with Fred Pletsch.” Cornwall, becoming the Colts. In 1999, Scott left Cornwall accepting
in various sports growing up, The Massena Americans/Turbines their inaugural season (1992-93), a position as Training manager with
particularly baseball where he
had been purchased by Don Derry the team went to the second round of
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