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Independent & Free Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 19 SPORTS & LEISURE Chapman celebrates fourth NLL title win league playoff title after three Champion's Cup runs with the Rock, would like to stay with Rochester, Having been jobbed out of home- but the NLL's expansion into Boston floor advantage for Saturday night's next season may mean another National Lacrosse League champi- change of teams for the valuable onship game thanks to a scheduling defender, whose job it is to shut conflict, Acton native Sandy Chap- down the opposition's left-handed man and the Rochester Nighthawks shooter. decided to spoil the party for some Chapman accomplished that effi10,000 fans of the Arizona Sting by ciently in Saturday's finale, in which capturing the Champion's Cup with a the Nighthawks built an 11-6 lead 13-11 victory. early in the fourth quarter, before The Nighthawks finhaving to hold off a Sting ished the regular season rally. Georgetown's Peter with an NLL-best 14-2 Veltman tallied twice for record, then eliminated Arizona yet was thwarted Chapman's former team, by a Chapman team again the Toronto Rock, in the in the NLL championship opening round of playoffs after the Sting lost to before getting through to Toronto in the 2005 final. the final by squeaking past Another local resident, Buffalo in the semis in Brian Beisel, was also on front of a raucous that winning Rock squad Rochester crowd. and suited up for Arizona But because a circus on Saturday. SANDY had been booked into the "I guess it's nice to be CHAPMAN Nighthawks' home base, the king of Halton Hills," the Blue Cross Arena, chuckled the 5-foot-9, 180months in advance and television pound Chapman, whose defensive commitments prevented the game duties limited him to just two goals time from being moved, the 9-7 all season. Sting were named hosts of the One of those goals came in the Champion's Cup match and chose to playoff semifinal against Buffalo in play at the flashy Glendale facility the late stages of the fourth quarter outside Phoenix, rather than at a that keyed Rochester's furious 14-13 neutral site closer to upstate New comeback win, capped by star scorer York. John Grant's overtime marker. "It's too bad that we couldn't have "I don't get too many chances to won it at home for our fans, but it jump up into the offence and it was was a great experience to be a part of just a great opportunity for me to because of the talented team we contribute in some way," he added. have," said the 26-year-old Chapman "There are usually no worries if I from his Burlington residence don't get any points in my mind Monday night. because like it was in the final, I've "There were about 30 or 40 of our been playing strictly a defensive role diehard fans who flew down to and hopefully I've found a niche on Arizona, so it was great to meet with this team. I'd love to go back for them and show them the cup after- another year, but we'll see what hapward. Rochester doesn't get the pens in the off-season." crowds that Toronto does but our Chapman is about to complete his fans are passionate and they'd never Masters degree in hypertension at won it before and it was time to Brock University in St. Catharines reward them for their support." and plans on taking a two-year gradFans in Rochester will have to uate program at the University of wait a couple of weeks for any sort of Toronto's School of Nursing beginpublic celebration, however, as most ning in September. of the team members live in southern Ontario and fly out of Buffalo. (Eamonn Maher can be reached at Chapman, who earned his fourth emaher@independentfreepress.com) EAMONN MAHER Staff Writer Me and my shadow Christ the King's Albert Kuczkowski (right) is tracked down by a Lester B. Pearson player during a Halton Division II boys' high school rugby contest last week. Visiting Pearson scored an early try and stood firm, posting a 13-0 victory over the 0-3-1 Jaguars. The Georgetown Rebels improved to 2-2 this season with a 28-0 triumph over Milton on Friday. Photo by Eamonn Maher High school roundup Bearcats claim consolation crown A 1-0 triumph over Port Credit clinched the consolation title for the Acton Bearcats at a senior girls' high school soccer tournament in Burlington last week. The Bearcats lost 3-0 to T.A. Blakelock of Oakville and defeated Robert Bateman 5-1 to earn a spot in the third-place game. MVP Lindsey Atkinson (3), Tori Petersen, Renee Martineau and Julia Soderholm were the Acton goal scorers, with teammates Emma Jolly and captain Kirsten Lowe controlling the midfield. Goalie Nicole Pitre kept a clean scoresheet for the Bearcats, who have claimed two tourney championships in the last two years. ··· A couple of Halton Hills boys' doubles teams had short stays at the recent OFSAA badminton championships in Waterloo. 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