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32 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday November 17, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com Vulic honoured for community service Oakville's Katarina Vulic was recently named the first winner of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) student-athlete community service award. Waterloo winners UNIVERSITYSPORTS On the field, the fourth-year goalkeeper posted eight shutouts and allowed only four goals in 12 games to lead Ottawa to a firstplace finish in the OUA East Confence with a 13-2-1 record. She added two more shutouts, including a 1-0 overtime victory over Laurier in the semifinals, to help Ottawa reach the OUA final, where the Gee-Gees were edged 2-1 in overtime by York. "Kat has had another great year in nets," said Steve Johnson, a two-time CIS coach of the year with the Gee-Gees. "As the season progressed, so did the quality of her play." Despite the loss, Ottawa qualified for its third consecutive CIS championship tournament, where Vulic and her teammates won a silver medal in 2005 and a bronze in 2006. Johnson said Vulic's leadership has been a key in the team's success during that run. "Kat's empathy, selfless manner and humble demeanour inspire unqualified affection from her teammates," he said. Earlier this year, Vulic was a member of the Canadian team at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Thailand. Off the field, the biopharmaceutical science student has the highest GPA (9.5) among all University of Ottawa varsity athletes. Vulic has earned an undergraduate research scholarship and has been a research assistant the past three summers. She volunteers at the school's annual University 101 move-in weekend to help first-year students, and tutors junior students. She is also a fouryear member of the university's student-athlete council. CUP CHAMPS: The Oakville atom BB Hornets earned their second tournament win of the girls' hockey season earlier this month, going 5-0 at the Waterloo Ravens Fall Challenge Cup Tournament. Oakville defeated London 5-0, West Northumberland 8-1, Waterloo 6-2 and Durham West 3-2 to reach the finals, where it downed the Sudbury Lady Wolves 3-1. Members of the team, sponsored by Studio H and Street Cars Automotive, are Sarah McDonnell, Kelly Ann Perioris, Charlotte Aziz, Olivia White, Taylor Mair, Chloe Eidlitz, Julia Edgar, Katherine Slattery, Haley Foster, Allison Chan, Charlee Grace, Julia Rees, Paige Strychaluk, Kaitlyn Perichak, Cassidy MacPherson, Dana Beattie and Nicole Collier. Cathy Collier, Ian Collier, Mike Collier and Jim Court coach the team, while Sandra Rees serves as trainer. Plenty of OAK medals at fall meets Oakville Aquatic Club athletes won 103 medals and set seven club records at the recent Harvest Invitational swim meet in Etobicoke. Mack Darragh led the way with a 10-medal effort, including seven gold. Kent Kikot (five gold), Marni Oldershaw (four), Mika Spencer (three) and Zack Chetrat (two) were other multiple-event winners. Establishing new club standards were Oldershaw (13-14 female 50metre backstroke, 100m back and 200m back), Chetrat (17-and-over male 800m freestyle, 100m fly and 200m fly), and the team of Erin Assman, Tera van Beilen, Oldershaw and Spencer (13-14 female 4x50m medley relay). Other OAK athletes to win gold were Michelle Gervais, Clara Armstrong, Mitchell Gour, Evan White and Curtis Samuel. Emily Hunt, Bridget Jordan, Jennifer Wilson, Jaret Etobicoke. There, OAK swimmers combined to win 69 medals, including 19 gold. Steven Ritchie had four gold and a silver, Ellie Symes earned three gold and a silver, and Conor Joynson brought home two gold, a silver and a bronze. Olivia Sinclair, Anne-Sophie Laramee, Nicola Taccone, Holly Ducharme, Kiersten Locas, Kirsten Morris, Dragan Poposki, Cameron Byrne, Robert Plata and Marc Ovsec also won events. Earning silvers were Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, Hayley DuncanSnobel, Briar Tedesco, Paola Vega, Dana Silvestri, Kaelan Chambers, Alison Senyk, Dan Andrei Rona, Owen Scarrow, David Whiteside and Joel Pearson. Erin Jordan, Milan Bowie, Kristina Mazalica, Kenzie Morris, Julia Ritchie and Carter Yeudall added at least one bronze each. Muldoon named to women's all-star squad Oakville's Stephanie Muldoon was named an Ontario University Athletics (OUA) soccer second-team all star. The fourth-year midfielder was the only member of the Nipissing University Lady Lakers to make the women's all-star squad. Three local men on soccer all-star teams Oakville's Murat Sukru was named to the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) second all-star team after helping the Cape Breton Capers win the AUS men's soccer title. The third-year midfielder had three goals in 12 games as Cape Breton finished the season with an 8-1-4 record and then went on to defeat St. Mary's 2-0 to win its first AUS title. Also named as a second-team AUS all star was Oakville's Jeff Dortmans, a fullback for Acadia. Sukru and the Capers played in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) championship tournament last week in Vancouver (won by UBC). He was joined there by Oakville's Steve Meaghar of the Western Mustangs. Meaghar, a third-year defender, had two goals for Western in 14 games and was part of a Western defence corps that allowed only three goals in the regular season, on its way to a 9-1-4 record. Western lost the OUA final 3-2 in overtime to York but still advanced to the CIS tournament. Matthew Smith of Oakville, a second-year defender with the Laurier Golden Hawks, was named to the OUA men's soccer all-star second team. Charbonneau, Jack Cavanagh and Miguel Lozano all earned at least one silver. Meghan Clark, Meredith Johnson, Julia Sinkovits, Annie Harrison, Alana Boffa, Connor Wilkins, Michael Seifert, Peter Serles and Brody Dyson had bronze-medal swims. The Harvest Invitational featured many of the top swimmers from across the province. Autumn Invitational winners Most of the OAK competitive swimmers that did not attend the Harvest Invitational were instead competing at the Autumn Invitational that weekend, also in Little League participation continues to rise Participation in Oakville Little League baseball increased by 21 per cent this past season, the league announced recently. More than 1,030 players participated in the 2007 campaign, which featured more than 90 house league teams and six All-Star squads. "We're obviously very pleased with the participation numbers in our league," said Oakville Little League president John Sweeney. "It's not possible to pinpoint one or two reasons for the upsurge in participation, but it reflects the continued global trend Little League International has been experiencing in recent years. It is probably a combination of factors." Sweeney pointed to the league's emphasis on balancing recreation with competition, equal playing time, parity in house leagues, convenient game times and venues, and increased interest in the Little League World Series as possible reasons for the increase. "With our new Fieldhouse at our showcase diamonds on Cornwall Road, we will be able to continue expansion of our programs," he said. "We are looking at using our new facility to provide special events throughout the summer, such as baseball clinics and summer camps, house league and AllStar tournaments, and some family-oriented activities." More than 500 players have already signed up for the 2008 season. 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