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Base and his team of Larry Snow, Brian Bobbie and Ross Scarrow defeated Bill Adams, Vic Peters and Brad Heidt before running into Dacey. The Oakville rink was earlier elimiâ€" nated from the Ontario Tankard. Erica Oberndorfer, a Grade 9 student at Appleby College, will competing in the Senior I division, next month in Sault Ste. Marie, alter capturing first place overall at a qualifying meet last week. A season of close calls continâ€" ued on the weekend for John Base‘s Oak ville Curlinge Club Dacey went on to lose in the semifinals to Paul Savage, who lost in the {inal to Russ Howard, who took home the $60,000 grand prize. An Oakville resident training in Mississauga is going to her first provincial gymnastics chamâ€" pionship. This is Oberndorfer‘s first year at the provincial level. Compceting at the World Curling Tour‘s VO Cup champiâ€" onship in Calgary, Base advanced to the quarterfinals before bowâ€" ing 8â€"3 to Mark Dacey. Competing two age groups higher thiin his own, Alexander establishcd a personalâ€"best time of 31 minutes, 53.10 seconds â€" more than a minute better than his previous PB he established in winning the Ontario Summer Games in August. ERICA SOARS The 14â€"yearâ€"old member of Futures Gy mnastics Club of Meadowvale placed first in beam and bar, was second on floor and fourth in vault. Mart Kaljurand, 15, notched a silver medal in juvenile boys long jump with a leap of 6.13m. Kaljurand was also competing in an age group above his own. OAKVILLE OUT Mike Alexander, 15, of the Oakville Athletiques Track and Field Club captured the junior men‘s 5,000m race walk at the Ontario InJdoor Track and Field Championships at York University, Sunday. . A firstâ€"year member of the Ontario team, Booth posted a time of one minute, 43.80 secâ€" onds in the women‘s slalom, Saturday at Mont Tremblant, Que. The race was won by veteran national campaigner Nancy Gee of Niacara Falls in 1:39.68. WALKING TALL Kylie Booth settled for a 10th place finish at the Canadian Alpine Skiing Championships. OSC held its final registration session Saturday at Queen Elizabeth Park and welcomed another 283 boys and girls on board. Total registration to date is 3,814 â€" 2,097 boys and 1,171 girlsâ€"which is well above the 3,700 total at the same time last year. Oakville Soccer Club, Oakville Minor Baseball Association and Oakville Little League all expect to have record number of participants when their seasons open in May. If you still haven‘t signed up, there‘s still hope. Little League has its final registration date tomorrow (Saturday) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at White Oaks Secondary School, while OMBA and OSC are still taking late registrations over the phone. The latest round of registrations is over and the Town‘s top three summer sports groups are all reporting big gains. The band of Oakville players that claimed the consolation title last Sunday at the Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament were not all homebred to be sure. But that doesn‘t preâ€" clude the fact that 1979 was an exceptional year for hockey players in these particular centres. Traditional hockey centres like Metro Toronto, Detroit and even Oakville have always been known for putting out highly competitive minor hockey teams. But there was something special about the editions conceived 14 and 15 years ago. This edition was different. It wasn‘t so much that the Europeans were any weaker this yearâ€" they are still marvelously skilled â€"â€"it was simply that the Metro Toronto Hockey League and Ontario Minor Hockey Association‘s elite teams were stronger than ever. Sports groups on record pace By TED McINTYRE Special to the Beaver There must have been something in the water back in 1978. Oakville peewees finally put it all together Queen Elizabeth P: ming t OSC publicity chairman Phil Iafrati says the total number should exceed the 4,000 mark. To register, call 849â€"4436. Oakville Little League is anticiâ€" pating 1,100 players, up about 200 from a year ago. OMBA says its will break last year‘s mark of 2,200 players of a year ago. Call 338â€" 6622 to register. Jim Shofner, quarterback coach for the Buffalo Bills, heads a bevy of impressive instructors for the Allâ€"Star Football Coaches Clinic, March 27 in Mississauca. Other instructors include Greg Robinson (New York Jets defensive line coach) and Dick Lebeau (Pittsburgh Steelers defensive back coach). Fee is $55 ($65 at the door). For information, call Ron Dias at (519) 746â€"7101. The oneâ€"day clinic will go from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Father Goetz Hich School. And when you consider the numbers most of the world‘s top teams were drawing from, the Rangers‘ achievement becomes much more remarkable. Moscow selected from five million, Slovakia‘s Bratislava and Poprad squads chose from over two million, the Red Wings and Marlies from three million. And then there was Oakville. From a population of 100,000, head coach Bob Kapustik fashioned a team that probably ranks in the top five on the planet. Naturally forâ€" mer coach George McDonald deserves a huge amount of credit. This was, after all, his baby since minor novice. The two have something in commonâ€"â€"barely a backseatâ€" coaching parent on the team has ever agreed with a decision either has made. Even the players had trouble accepting some of Kapustik‘s choices this year. One player, Kirk Joudrey, never did seem to fit in. But Kapustik played him when it mattered, and Joudrey shone in the final game. Netminder Todd McNaucht was lacking in confidence after FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1993 PAGE 18 playoffs eulatio tmelftd Blades prep for Lt NP NCO O A ith 2:02 remaining in regulation time lifted to a 5â€"5 tie with the Oakville Blades in Tuesday at Oakville A Charlie Lawson‘s goal w the Burlington Cougars in Central Ontario Junior A Hockey League action, Arena. l2 234 #4.9\ winlees streak to four games. 2AE CS ‘The tie extended the Blades The Blades have a chance to Arena. ‘The tie extended the Blades‘ (23â€"23â€"2) winless streak to four games. The Blades have a chance to snap the drought in their regularâ€"season finale tonight (Friday, 8 p.m.) at Oakville Arena against the Brampton Capitals. Oakville had taken a 5â€"4 lead on a goal by Matt Honchar with 13 minutes left. Honchar fired the puck off the side glass in Burlington‘s end. The puck came off on a weird angle and went into the net. Blades coach Greg Treland said his club tightened up compared to its 8â€"5 loss to the same Cougars the previous evening (Monday) in Burlington. Still, giving up five goals a game with playoffs just around the corner is reason for concern. Treland says part of the problem is the lack of practice time because of the team‘s heavy schedule the past couple weeks. Dan Delmonte, Sandy Sajko (powerâ€"play), Jason Ricci (PP) and Mike Roberts had the other Blade tallies. Tom Johnson, T.J. Inglehart, Dave Aussem (PP) and Derek Sebastian collected the other Cougar markers. Oakville outshot Burlington 41â€"39. Depending on this weekend‘ results, Blades will open the playoffs next week against either Caledon, Milton or Brampton. "The coaches made the right moves," observed Adam Richards, the Rangers‘ most proâ€" lific forward. ‘"Every player who was there deserved to be there. They worked 110 per cent and never gave up." Of course, in the final analysis it was those 16 players who went out and did it. They were, according to every one of the last four head coaches who tried to derail them in Quebec, relentless...untiring. a shaky performance in game one. But Kapustik played him in the semiâ€"finals, and McNaught earned a shutout. Some players received more ice time than others, but every one fulfilled their role exceptionally. And in that respect, Kapustik deserves credit. He finally tapped into the well of emotion previâ€" ously unexplored in the hearts of the Rangers this seasonâ€" saying all the right things in the dressing room, challenging the players to give something back to their parents. Fortunately for Oakville, so were Kapustik and his coaching staff. PORTS PREDICTIONS........... (Box 5240) SPORTS TRIVIA........................ (Box 5239) SHERIDAN COLLEGE ............ (Box 5243) OAKVILLE SOCCER CLUB.... (Box 5246) OAKVILLE BLADES ................ (Box 5242)