Halton Hills Newspapers

Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 23 Feb 2007, Sports & Leisure, p. 6

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Rebel volleyball squads advance to Halton championships Continued from pg. 4 100m backstroke, bronze in 50m free), Jessica Switzer (silver in senior girls' 50m free), Nicole Buchanan (bronze in junior girls' 50m breaststroke). Volleyball Both Rebel girls' teams breezed through their Halton semi-final matches on home court Wednesday and will be at Sheridan College today (Friday) in Oakville looking to add more regional championship banners to GDHS's gym collection. The senior Rebels swept M.M. Robinson of Burlington in two straight sets and will face rival Oakville-Trafalgar for the Halton AAAA title this afternoon at Sheridan beginning at 2 p.m. On the junior side, the defending Halton- champion Rebels defeated White Oaks 2-0 on Wednesday in the semi-finals and look to remain unbeaten this season in their regional championship match against Notre Dame today at 12:30 at the Oakville campus. Acton's seniors completed their run on Wednesday in the AA semis, dropping a tight match to Lester B. Pearson 2-1. Aquinas in the Halton semis on Tuesday. Seb Mena had 13 points for Acton. Assumption registered an upset in the Halton junior boys' quarter-finals by knocking off Christ the King's undefeated Jaguars 48-45 in Georgetown on Tuesday. Hockey Brittany Metcalfe, Brittney Westlake and Brittney Cosmo scored shootout goals while goalie Sonja Bradley made two big saves to boost Christ the King's girls to a 2-1 victory over guest Holy Trinity on Wednesday in the Halton Tier I quarter-final playoff at Alcott Arena. Laura Braga scored in regulation for CtK. The Jaguars, who finished first in the regular season with a 5-0-4 record, now move on to the sudden-death semi-finals against Burlington's Notre Dame Monday in Georgetown starting at 2:30 p.m. Assumption takes on Loyola today (Friday) in the other semifinal. The Halton championship is a best-of-three format that begins Tuesday. CtK's boys tied 4-4 on home ice Tuesday with Iroquois Ridge and were eliminated from further play. Basketball Burlington's Assumption hit its first shot of the game and would never trail in eliminating Georgetown's senior Rebels in Halton boys' hoops AAAA semifinal playoffs on Tuesday night by a score of 60-41. The GDHS seniors finished the season with a 317 record overall and three tournament victories. In the AA draw, Acton's senior Bearcats dropped a 61-49 decision to host St. Thomas Andrews off to strong start in Texas Local resident Kaitlyn Andrews is enjoying a fine freshman year at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas as a member of the track and field team and in the classroom. The 18-year-old Acton High School graduate recently recorded personal-best throws in the shot put to place second on the podium amongst two seniors at the Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at KAITLYN the University ANDREWS of Houston. She earned all-conference honours by improving her distance with every toss of the put-- 14.02m, 14.18m, 14.64m, foul, 14.67m and lastly 14.70m, which surpassed her previous best throw of 14.59m set at last year's Penn Relays. Andrews also made the Dean's List academically in her first semester of the school's kinesiology program. Chandra Massey (6) of the Georgetown Rebels and teammate Megan Shantz (14) were threats at the net throughout their Halton Secondary School Athletic Association senior girls' volleyball semifinal match against M.M. Robinson on Wednesday. The undefeated Rebels rolled to a 2-0 win and will take on OakvilleTrafalgar in today's (Friday) Halton final at Sheridan College, with the first serve set for 2 p.m. Photo by Ted Brown

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