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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER ~_SPORTS AND RECREATION | SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1993 PAGE 19 CYCLISTS ROLL High wind, cold temperatures and heavy rain couldn‘t stop Oakville‘s John Powell from lapping the field and cruising to a firstâ€"place finish at the Guelph Classic Criterium cycling race, last weekend. The next day, Powell had to settle for a sixth place in the $2,000 Ziggy‘s Road Race in Kitchener. Racing in the senior I/II diviâ€" sion, Powell and fellow Oakville Cycling Club rider Jeff Wills broke off early in the race. But a strong head wind and very steep set of hills in the backstretch allowed the rest of the pack to catch up with with two laps to go. Wills ended up seventh. Clubmate Leigh Hargrove had better luck: She finished first in the Junior Women‘s Division. Gary Scully was eighth in men‘s Sr. L Meanwhile at Kelso Conservation Area, Oakville‘s Blair Purvis and Simon Holden finished 10th and 13th respecâ€" tively in the Norco Fat Tire Festival. Allâ€"comers adult recreâ€" ational soccer, Sundays (10 a.m. to noon) at Kingsford Park on Sheridan Heights...Home Court Basketball summer league, day camps, 3â€"onâ€"3 Waterfront Tournament. 825â€" 4117....Beach volleyball at Oakville Y. 845â€"3417...Kirton Hockey School (Aug. 6â€"20 at Glen Abbey). 844â€"4006 x TTIL‘KETS‘ | SUNDAY: Final of Oakville midget baseball tournament. 12 noon at Oakville Park. Oakville A‘s vs. Whitby. MONDAY: Halton high school girls softball allâ€"star game. 8:30 p.m. at Trafalgar Park. COBA senior baseball: Oakville White Sox vs. Brampton. 7:30 p.m. at Oakville Park. : Get our Junior hockey in Ontario gets a new look By TOM MICHIBATA Oakville Beaver staff In an effort to upgrade junior hockey in the province, the Central Ontario Junior A Hockey League has undergone a major facelift. The Oakville Blades and their 15 Central League siblings will play in the new Provincial Junior A (Tier II) Hockey League beginning with the 1993â€"94 season. That means the holy grail is no longer the Sutherland Cup, which junior B teams in the province have long coveted. Instead, they become eligible for the venerable Centennial Cup, emblematic of junior A supremacy in Canada. j The move is also a big step towards mending the ways between the Ontario Hockey Federation and the outlaw Metro Junior A League. Under the new format, the champions of the Provincial loop, Metro loop and Northern Ontario Hockey Association will meet in a threeâ€"team roundâ€"robin playoff at North York‘s Centennial Arena, April 8â€"10 next year to deterâ€" mine who will go onto the Central Canadian championships in Timmins. From there, the Ontario representative will go up against Thunder Bay, Ottawa District and Quebec reps. And the winner of that will advance to the fourâ€"team Centennial Cup tournaâ€" ment in Olds, B.C. along with representatives from Western Canada and the Maritimes, plus the host team. Previously, the Metro league was not part of the Ontario Hockey Federation, which governs junior and minor hockey in the province, and therefore did not go beyond its league playoffs. Provincial Junior A League chairman Al Morris, OHF chairperson David Watt and Metro league commissioner Don Linthwaite will meet later this month to solidify the resolution. "I think this is the beginning of the reâ€"organiâ€" zation of junior hockey," said Morris. Blades general manager Murray Walker says the big advantage is that the league is now a "true" junior A league eligible for a Canadian championship. Last year the Central loop joined the Metro league by taking on ‘A‘ statusâ€"â€"even though it still only battled for the Jr. B Sutherland Cup. Morris said another reason for the name change was to revive the old Tier II league that existed through the 1970s and 80‘s. Dixie Beehives, Aurora Tigers, Newmarket Flyers and Orillia Travelways were some of the familiar teams then. "The old provincial junior A league had a very good reputation," he said. See HOCKEY, Page 20 Softball allâ€"stars set to show their stuff P . $ io t f a t ”3"?.nsln.a}-“")j:-o‘ 1 at McDonaId's z2 3 before it‘s hlstory' u}' FEATURING * Triple Cheeseburger Three 100% pure Canadian beef patties with two slices of process cheddar cheese on one of McDonald‘s famous buns. The first ever Halton high school girls softball allâ€" star game goes Monday night at Trafalgar Park. The best players from the Volpe and Richardson divisions will clash to highlight the Halton Secondary School Athletic Association‘s third season of girls fastâ€" pitch softball. Jim Matz of T.A. Blakelock, J.C. Hebert of Appleby College and Brett Dugan of White Oaks will coach the Volpe Division, which was the better of the two if the season means anything. Milton District and E.C. Drury, also of Milton, met in the Halton final Wednesday after defeating the top two Richardson squads in the semifinals. "It‘s good ball," said Dugan, who guided White Oaks to a 6â€"1 record in the regularâ€"season before losâ€" ing to E.C. Drury in the quarterfinals."There are some * Medium Soft Drink in a Jurassic Pari( Collector Cup * Medium Fries strong players in this league." Pitching is, of course, the key to softball and to that end, the Volpe Division is wellâ€"armed. Cathy Rainer of Milton, Karen Steffanoff of White Oaks and Michelle Inglehart from Blakelock are peaâ€" cilled in to each pitch three innings of the nineâ€"inning game. Each school was allowed to send two players. Rounding out the roster are: Alicia Gunn (Milton); Stephanie Coletta and Tracey Tapper (Bishop Reding); Corinn Jeffrey and Shailene Jeffrey (E.C. Drury); Claire Malloch (White Oaks); Jennifer Brooks and Jennifer Yashar (Appleby College); Karen Sloan and Katie Didyk (Oakville Trafalgar); Christy Praft (Blakelock); Leslie McFeeters and Kerri Lane (Queen Elizabeth Park); Lena Ywrlink, France Bastien (Loyola); Karolina Zmirak, Michelle Pellerin (St. Thomas Aquinas). Collect all 6 h Jurassic Park Collector Cups