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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 · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2007 45 OT sending 20 swimmers to OFSAA meet With five of their students winning a pair of races each, the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils earned a second-place finish at the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference swim championships last week. Katie Fox, Jeff MacSween, Jamie Loh, Jen Wilson and Rachel Petford were double-gold medalists in individual competition for OT at the meet. Karina Sils added a gold for the Red Devils, who earned 719 total points -- 107.5 behind first-place Georgetown -- and qualified 20 swimmers for the upcoming Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships in Etobicoke. Iroquois Ridge's Sam Thrall and Lizzy Bates also won two golds each, as did T.A. Blakelock's Brody Dyson. Rob Kohal, from Iroquois Ridge, was the other Oakville swimmer to place first in an individual race. In relay action, OT won the women's 14-and-under 200metre freestyle and came second in four other races (women's 14-and-under 200m medley, men's 14-and-under 200m medley, men's 15-and-older 200m medley and women's 15-and-older 400m freestyle). The Red Devils added bronze in the men's 14-and-under 200m freestyle. The Abbey Park Eagles won silver in the men's 15-andolder 200m freestyle and bronze medals in men's 15-andolder 200m medley and men's 14-and-under 200m medley. Competitors qualified for OFSAA by eclipsing the provincial time standard in their events, whether in preliminaries or finals. Following is a list of medalists, OFSAA qualifiers and/or the top Oakville finishers in each individual event: BARRIE ERSKINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER GHAC swim championships: Women 200 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 1. Karina Sils, OT (OFSAA), 2. Megan McNevitts, HT (OFSAA); Men 200 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 1. Brody Dyson, TAB (OFSAA); Women 13 & Over 200 SC Meter Freestyle: 3. Vanessa Podlovis, OT (OFSAA); Men 13 & Over 200 SC Meter Freestyle: 5. Brian Orlando, OT; Women 13-14 50 SC Meter Freestyle: 1. Katie Fox, OT (OFSAA); Men's 13-14 50 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 5. James Jones, STA; Women 1518 50 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 5. Carissa Carrabetta, HT; Men 15-18 50 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 1. Sam Thrall, IR (OFSAA), 2. Alex Harris, IR (OFSAA); Women 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Freestyle: 2. Aliya Lipitkas, WO (OFSAA); Men 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Freestyle: 3. Jordan Brown, AP; Women 15 & Over 50 SC Meter Freestyle: 1. Lizzy Bates, IR (OFSAA); Men 15 & Over 50 SC Meter Freestyle: 2. Jason Thomson, AP (OFSAA); Women 100 SC Meter Butterfly Open: 1. Katie Fox, OT (OFSAA); Men 100 SC Meter Butterfly Open: 1. Sam Thrall, IR (OFSAA), 2. Brandon Teteruck, WO; Women 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Butterfly: 5. Erin Radford, AP (OFSAA in preliminaries); Men 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Butterfly: 1. Jeff MacSween, OT (OFSAA); Women 15 & Over 50 SC Meter Butterfly: 6. Vanessa Podlovis, OT; Men 15 & Over 50 SC Meter Butterfly: 2. Andrew Kadwell, OT (OFSAA); Men 13-14 100 SC Meter IM Open: 2. Dylan Kent, OT (OFSAA); Women 200 SC Meter IM Open: 1. Jen Wilson, OT (OFSAA), 2. Lauren Doherty, HT; Men 200 SC Meter IM Open: 1. Jamie Loh, OT (OFSAA), 3. Steven Ritchie, IR; Women 14 & Under 100 SC Meter IM: 1. Rachel Petford, OT (OFSAA); Men 14 & Under 100 SC Meter IM: 1. Jeff MacSween, OT (OFSAA); Women 15 & Over 100 SC Meter IM: 4. Tiffany Assman, IR (OFSAA); Men 15 & Over 100 SC Meter IM: 2. Andrew Kadwell, OT (OFSAA); Women 100 SC Meter Backstroke Open: 3. Karina Sils, OT (OFSAA), 4. Carissa Carrabetta, HT (OFSAA), 7. Megan McNevitts, HT (OFSAA); Men 100 SC Meter Backstroke Open: 1. Brody Dyson, TAB (OFSAA), 2. Dylan Kent, OT; Women 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Backstroke: 1. Rachel Petford, OT (OFSAA), 4. Jillian Bekker, WO (OFSAA); Men 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Backstroke: 4. Brett Jones, AP; Women 13 & Over 100 SC Meter Backstroke: 1. Lizzy Bates, IR (OFSAA), 3. Tiffany Assman, IR (OFSAA in preliminaries); Men 13 & Over 100 SC Meter Backstroke: 2. Naresh Karthikeyan, STA; Women 100 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 2. Rachel Sousa, STA (OFSAA); Men 100 SC Meter Freestyle Open: 3. Ben Lawson, OT; Women 14 & Under 100 SC Meter Freestyle: 3. Adrienne Joaquim, OT; Men 14 & Under 100 SC Meter Freestyle: 3. Bryn Johnson, AP; Women 15 & Over 100 SC Meter Freestyle: 7. Kelty Campbell, OT; Men 15 & Over 100 SC Meter Freestyle: 1. Rob Kohal, IR (OFSAA), 3. Graham Turner, OT (OFSAA); Women 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Breaststroke: 2. Shauna Moore, OT; Men 14 & Under 50 SC Meter Breaststroke: 5. J.D. Middleton, OT (OFSAA), 6. Jordan Brown, AP (OFAA in preliminaries); Women 13 & Over 100 SC Meter Breaststroke: 5. Nicola Morland, OT; Men 13 & Over 100 SC Meter Breaststroke: 2. David Ahn, STA (OFSAA); Women 100 SC Meter Breaststroke: 1. Jen Wilson, OT (OFSAA), 2. Laura Doherty, HT (OFSAA); Men 100 SC Meter Breaststroke Open: 1. Jamie Loh, OT (OFSAA). BATTLE BENEATH THE BOARDS: Brian Delehanty of the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders fights Garrett Olexiuk of the Lester B. Pearson Patriots for a rebound in Thursday's Halton senior boys AA basketball final at Sheridan College. Pearson won 4223 to take the Halton championship. Pearson downs Aquinas for hoops title By Kevin Nagel SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER For the L.B. Pearson Patriots, Thursday's Halton AA senior boys basketball final was the first of three steps to returning to OFSAA. For St. Thomas Aquinas, it was a learning experience. The Patriots, with an 11-point run in the first quarter, breezed to a 42-23 victory in the second of four Halton hoop titles up for grabs at Sheridan College. Patriots' centre Garrett Olexiuk, a future Windsor Lancer come this fall, was double- and triple-teamed by Aquinas, but he dished off to open teammates while collecting six points of his own. Chief beneficiary of Olexiuk's assists was guard James McArthur, who had 19 points, including two three-pointers that disabled Aquinas' zone defence. "Their goal was to stop Garrett inside because he gets a lot of easy buckets," said McArthur. "They put the zone in and went inside out." Aquinas had a couple of brief spurts of momentum, but it wasn't enough against the Patriots. "You gotta play a complete 32 minutes against them to have a chance," said Aquinas coach Rod Esteban. "I thought we had a great opening in the second half, but our youth showed." Pearson had period leads of 15-7, 26-9 and 36-19 on the way to victory. Vikas Sharma contributed nine points to the win, while Brad Holmes added six and Darrin Glaab, two. Pearson coach Joe Barrett said his team was prepared for the final. "We knew there'd be a lot of zone and they'd try to take away Garrett," he said. "But we controlled the tempo. And we hit the shots. You have to in that situation." Aquinas centre Ryan Thompson, who missed most of the season with an abdominal muscle tear, scored 13 points to lead his team in scoring. He has played the past three weeks, but still isn't 100 per cent. Only one teammate had more than two points, that being guard Lars Mueller, with four. "It took time to to form a new identity for our team once (Thompson) came back," said Esteban. "But it wasn't enough." Esteban suggested Pearson will be hard to beat at OFSAA, and is confident about his team's future as well. With four starters returning and the school's junior team competing at the Halton championship Thursday as well, he is optimistic about next year. "We're not rebuilding, we're reloading," he said. L.B. Pearson, meanwhile, will prepare for a GHAC challenge game Monday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. against Hamilton's Bishop Tonnos at the Pearson gym. The winner advances against the Peel representative next Thursday, with a berth in OFSAA on the line.