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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax 905-337-5567 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2006 27 Collision course OT student leads way in high school golf Oakville Trafalgar High School student Mike Young leads the 102-competitor Halton high school golf tour field after the tour's first stop, held Thursday at Blue Springs Golf Club in Acton. SPORTSBRIEFS Young shot a first-round 73, good for a four-stroke lead. Corey Evans of St. Thomas Aquinas and Brian Lee of T.A. Blakelock are tied with five others for fourth after firing 78s. Matt Hagglund of Loyola sits tied with two others, including Brad Altenhoff of White Oaks, shooting a 79 to round out the top 10. In the girls' competition, Sarah Grigor of White Oaks shot a first-round 79 to lead the field. Stephanie Secord of Loyola fired a 98 to put her in fifth while teammates Jaclyn Quinn and Stephanie Pastor shot 106 and 110 respectively to put them in seventh and eighth. Sarah Magee of Blakelock is tied with Pastor for eighth place. Oakville Trafalgar is the top Oakville school, tied for third overall in the team standings. Iroquois Ridge is in seventh, Holy Trinity is eighth, and Aquinas sits tenth. The next event on the high school tour is slated for May 16 at Burlington's Hidden Lake Golf Club, with the third and final stop scheduled for May 31 at Glen Abbey Golf Club. Morden dance, cheer teams earn medals W.H. Morden Public School's dance and cheer teams each won medals at a recent competition in Mississauga. The Seahawks dance team finished first at the event, held by the cheerleading company "Flygirl', while Morden's cheer team -- competing in a meet for the first time -- placed third. Teams from the Greater Toronto Area, North Bay and Perth also participated. The Seahawks also won $3,000 for being named the "Flyest" team at the competition, an award presented to the squad that best exemplified true spirit and sportsmanship. Morden plans to use the money to buy new uniforms. RON KUZYK / OAKVILLE BEAVER GETTING DOWN: Andrea Dubravac of the Loyola Hawks (5) makes a sliding tackle against Nelson Lords opponent Maggie Sproule Thursday in Burlington. The Hawks played Nelson, last year's provincial AAA senior girls' soccer champion, to a 1-1 draw. Blue Stars shine on world stage By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF A pair of Oakville Blue Stars got the chance to shine on the international stage, and they delivered. William Hyde and Alex Semenets scored in Canada's final game, a 2-1 win over Switzerland, at the Ballymena International Soccer Tournament in Northern Ireland. The victory gave the Canadian men's Under-17 team a 2-2 record in the tournament and secured a fifth-place finish in the eight-team tournament. Hyde, a left fullback, helped Canada win the Caribbean Youth Cup last summer in Trinidad. Though the Blue Stars play at a high level -- they won the national U14 championship two years ago and the Ontario Cup last year -- Hyde said playing internationally requires elevating his game. "Everything is so much faster," he said. "It's all quality, there are no mistakes." Semenets, who was making his debut for the national team, agreed. "It's a lot more tactical," he said. "A club team, you might have one or two star players that they depend on. At this William Hyde level it's more of a team game. Everyone is equal. There's no room to take anyone lightly, regardless of their national ranking." Canada opened the tournament with a 1-0 win over Scotland but lost its next two, 4-0 to the Czech Republic and 1-0 to Belguim. Matched up against Switzerland to play for the Larne Shield, the Blue Stars duo stepped up. Twenty minutes in, Canada was awarded a free kick. Oliver Lacoste-Lebuis rolled the ball forward and Semenets drilled a shot under the crossbar to give Canada the lead. Switzerland would tie the game late in the opening half but the Blue Stars would team up to provide the winner. In the 69th minute, Semenets broke free and his cross to the far post found Hyde, who put it home for the winning goal. "It's really good to know the way the Alex Semenets other plays," Semenets said of suiting up for Canada with his Oakville teammate. "We had some set plays to break around the defence." Semenets became the fifth player from the Blue Stars squad to play for the national team. He didn't start the exhibition game prior to the tournament but did start all four tournament contests and both players hope they left a good impression to earn them a spot on future Canadian teams. The Blue Stars' national U14 title helped the two get noticed by national coaches and defending the title at the U16 level certainly wouldn't hurt. That's where both players will be focusing their attention in the coming months. 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