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A threeâ€"onâ€"three basketball tournament will be held as part of the upcoming Oakville Waterfront Festival. Home Court Basketball will have four canopied courts in use at the Bronte Village plaza parkâ€" ing lot, June 27. Threeâ€"person teams in six divisions (7â€"9 yearsâ€"old,; 10â€"12, 13â€"15 girls, 13â€"15 boys, women and men) are welcome to comâ€" pete. 3â€"0Nâ€"3 HOOPS Ken Sawchenko‘s team of Stew Galloway, Ken Leach and Mike Doherty captured the men‘s final at the World Lefthanders Curling Championships, held at Oakville Curling club last weekend. CURLERS WIN On the women‘s side, the Nancy Schmidt team from Ayr defeated Rita Cockrane, also of Ayt. Schmidt‘s team has won the title four previous times. Oakville‘s women‘s team of Lessia Parks, Helmie Verver, Norma Black and Natalie Luinburg was winner of the John Bryant Memorial event. Sawchenko previously won the men‘s side in 1986 and 1992. He defeated Clare Robinson of Oshawa for this year‘s crown. The Halton team upset Peel 89â€"87 in openingâ€"round action from the Toronto Star Classic high school regional allâ€"star basâ€" ketball tournament, Tuesday at Sheridan College. Andy Robertson of Oakville Trafalgar played a key role, finâ€" ishing as Halton‘s secondâ€"highest scorer with 16 points. Loyola‘s Steve Bryant and St. Thomas Aquinas‘ Rob Baddeley also played. STAR WARS Steve Madge of Notre Dame was Halton‘s high scorer with 17 points. Ryan Fabi of Lester B. Pearson also had 16 points. Craig Emuss of LBP and Jessie Ogden of Bishop Reding notched 15 points apiece. "Peel has always come into the tournament as two different teams (Peel North and South)," said team manager Vern Lucyk of Pearson. "Now that they‘re amalgamatâ€" ed, you would figure they would be a stronger team." Halton met Hamilton (sepaâ€" rate) in a divisional final yesterâ€" day at Sheridan. Hamilton knocked off Dufferin/Peel in its firstâ€"round matchup. "They (Dufferin/Peel) are probably the equivalent in strength of Peel," Lucyk said. "They have quickness while our strength is shooting and boards." Call $25â€"4117 for information. i AND RECREATION | Argos‘ Ferrone ponders retirement By TOM MICHIBATA Oakville Beaver staff Oakville‘s Dan Ferrone has been battling in the Canadian Football League trenches for 12 seasons. And while the perennial allâ€"star offensive guard considers retirement with each season, he may have gotten the final push he needed on Tuesday, when the Toronto Argos placed him on waivers. The move comes on the heels of Ferrone‘s refusal to accept front office‘s demands that he and several other veterans take payâ€"cuts. The Double Blue is reportedly offering about him $65,000 â€" the amount he made in his fourth season with Toronto and about $25,000 below what the 35â€"yearâ€"old Blakelock High School By TOM MICHIBATA Oakville Beaver staff In some parts, those festivities have been known to degenerate into boorishness and vulgarity. But not so with the Oakville Crusaders rugby club, officials stress. ostâ€"game "beerâ€"ups" and "singâ€"songs" Pseem to go together with rugby like fine wine and a candlelight dinner. After pounding on each other for 90 minutes, there‘s a natural camaraderie between adversaries once the final tackle is made â€" a sort of male bonding if you want to call it something. Approaching its 25th anniversary on July 10, the club has managed to dispel the uglier elements of the senior game by keeping a promiâ€" nent familyâ€"type atmosphere. This bestâ€"ofâ€"bothâ€"worlds mentality is a matter of the club‘s selfâ€"preservation: If the glub‘s 250 members can‘t bring wives and kids to the park, then the commitment to play becomes infinitely more difficult. Not that boys can‘t be boys anymore. But the club believes there is room for both the masâ€" culinity of battling hard and still getting the rest of the family unit involved. Oakville celebrates 25 vears of graduate made last year. In light of the league‘s salary cap of $2.5 milâ€" lion, cutback is the operative word with the team. "I have been contemplating retirement for the last eight seasons but this makes the decision easier," Ferrone said Wednesday. "Mike McCarthy made the offer to me (Monday) and said he has to do this for everybody. I told him I‘m not willing to play for a payâ€"cut. "Maybe if I was a rookie I‘d jump at it. But I‘ve been there 12 years and they want to offer me less money. It‘s not enough for the all punishâ€" ment. "I feel good right now but it hurts having to go back to football. Every year it‘s a swing from always being debilitated to being able to run to the bus without paying for it." "(Boorishness) seemed to be the thing in other clubs â€" I don‘t know if the British brought that hereâ€"â€"but we call attention to it," says Sue Morrison, the club‘s publicity director. "I‘m glad that hasn‘t been passed along." "Being in the suburbs, we‘ve always managed to attract a family atmosphere and stay in good standing," explained Frank O‘Meara, one of the club‘s coâ€"founder and current lifeâ€"time member. "A lot of (carrying on) is overblown, I think. There are some elements of that in every sport ...It‘s a boisterous game, which means you get boisterous people involved, but we‘ve never had problems with it." An indication of the club‘s committment is a planed children‘s playground, which officials estimate will cost between $4,000 and $5,000. "There‘s nothing for the kids to do while games are going on," Morrison said. "We want to make the club where people want to be." O‘Meara says the club‘s tightâ€"knittedness is what keeps bringing people back. Ferrone said it‘s unlikely he‘ll pack up his "The club has meant so much to so many peoâ€" FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1993 PAGE 14 Ferrone says he harbors no animosity towards McCarthy at this point. "It‘s a sign of the times. Everyone is taking payâ€"cuts." suitcases and play elsewhere. He spent one seaâ€" son in Calgary before returning to Toronto. "They have a team in beautiful California (Sacremento)," said a tongueâ€"inâ€"cheek Ferrone. "I don‘t see myself wearing different colors. I‘m an Argo true blue." Ferrone says if he doesn‘t return, fond memoâ€" ries will always remain, namely the two Grey Cup winning seasons in 1983 and 1991. Locally Ferrone is busy doing behind the scenes work for the Oakville Cancer Society‘s charity dinner at Le Dome on North Service Rd., on April 28. Tickets are $150 per couple. All proceeds go towards the Cancer Society and Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. ple," O‘Meara said. "It‘s gratifying to see." Morrison realizes getting youngsters in the club is vitalâ€"â€"but it‘s also a hard sell. "A lot of schools don‘t have rugby (and) you also have to have coaches who know rugby. That‘s why we started out miniâ€"rugby program (now in its ninth year)," he said. Although collisions are inevitable, Morrison says rugby is "as safe as any other sport." "In football for instance kids don‘t back down because they wear the equipment. But when 3 there‘s no equipment, you think twice because when you hit somebody, you‘re going to feel it as much as the other guy." But the camaraderie after doing batâ€" tle is still a strong selling point. "You socialize with other clubs which you don‘t get in other sports. We have good relations with most of them," said Morrison. The club‘s complement of teams include four senior teams, two juniors squads, a miniâ€"rugby team (boys and 6â€"8) and two elder statesâ€" man teams â€" overâ€"35 and overâ€"40. On the pitch last season, the Crusaders‘ first team won the McCormick Cup while the under- 17s were champions in their league. CHAMPS Abbey Recreauon Centre. Peebles team, sponsored by the Disfribution for the title. See Page 15 for more results. STOCK FOR A LIMITED TIME