40 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday September 20, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Lancers big part of title reply to that was it's not as much fun The Lancers can take pride in the winning by those sorts of numbers. It Knights' championship, however. The becomes a situation of where's the Lancers were the Knights' stiffest com- glory? It's literally a whitewash and petition in league play all year, falling that's not what we're after. The aim is to 12-7 in their lone meeting, as the develop the sport." Members of the Knights are Wylie Knights steamrolled all of their other Malcolm, Jacob Zawisa, Eduardo Perez, opponents. "The Knights could not be where Kilian Johnson, Oliver Lauder, Chris Woodhead, Johnnie they are today without Scrivo, Djustice Searshaving the Lancers as, "The Knights could not Duru, Thomas essentially, crash-test be where they are today Edwards, Toby dummies," Amm said. without having the Sharland, Joey Scrivo, "Next year, watch the Sawyer Herron, Bobby Lancers. They're going Lancers as, essentially, O ' S h a u g h n e s s y, to be the team to be crash-test dummies." Andrew Hall, Alex reckoned with." DeLecqMarguerie, Some of the Crusaders coach Roy Amm Conrad Farr, Connor Knights' other results this year included a 106-5 drubbing of McCann, Grant Maxwell, Willem Sande, Brantford and a 78-0 blanking of Liam McLean, Josh Morton, Blake Stratford. While such one-sided scores Beaty, Cole Rutherford, Jack Blackwell, are obviously not fun for the opposition, Cory Taverner, Dylan Meredith, Kris Amm said the Knights did not particu- Kovacevic and Dregus Prodea. Phil Edwards, Paul Johnson, Derek larly enjoy the routs either. "Arguably the biggest challenge (the McCann and Ken Lauder assisted Amm coaches) had this year was keeping this season. Any individuals or businesses interthese kids motivated. It would have probably been a good thing to have ested in sponsoring the under-14 some real close shows, but they didn't," Crusaders' trip to England next year are said Amm. "A comment was made last invited to contact Amm by e-mail at year at our junior meeting that it's no crucoach@gmail.com or by phone at fun being beaten by cricket scores. My 416-436-3253. Continued from page 39 RUNNING WILD: Above, the Oakville Crusaders Knights' Djustice Sears-Duru (with ball) breaks free and heads for the try line, with plenty of teammates in support. Below, the Knights celebrate their under-14 provincial championship. Presented By: A Fam ily Than ksgiving Monday LIVE WHEN: October 13, 2008 WHERE: Heritage Square, Oakville WHAT: 9:30 am - 5K Run* 9:35 am - 5K Power Walk* *OTFA Certified 10:45 am - Officer Ellie's 1K Run/Walk PLUS: Corporate/Team Challenge for 5K Run & 5K Power Walk Presented by State Farm Agent Stacey Sutherland New strategy brings same result as Hennessy wins season-opening meet S TA I L Colleen Hennessy used a strong finishing kick to become the Ontario high school junior crosscountry champion. While she still has that weapon in her arsenal, she has added another in the senior ranks. The St. Thomas Aquinas runner pulled away from the field from the starter's gun at the season-opening Bishop Tonnos DREAMS meet at the Christie Conservation Area. When the time came to turn it on for the finish, she had already built an 11-second lead on Loyola's Alicia Knox. Hennessy, who was undefeated last season, went on to a 33-second victory, finishing the fivekilometre course in 18 minutes and 28 seconds. That knocked almost half a minute off her winning time (18:57) in last year's event. Knox, the only runner to finish within a minute of Hennessy, was second in 19:01. In addition to the faster start, the timing of Hennessy's finishing kick has also changed. Last season she would kick it up a notch with 150m remaining. This year she is looking to distance herself from her rivals over the final kilometre. Loyola's Paulina Maher finished fifth. Lindsay Bryant, 12th, and Courtney Heffernan, 19th, helped Loyola finish second in the senior girls' division. Blakelock's Berkin Cetin was narrowly edged for first place by Iona's Juan Bernal in the midget boys' race. Both finished in 18:29. Kyle Klassen of King's Christian Collegiate was sixth. In the junior boys' race, Patrick Queenan of King's Christian Collegiate turned in a third-place finish. Loyola's Cameron Sayers was 12th. Erin Queenan of King's Christian Collegiate finished fifth in the junior girls' race. Jackie Kurgan of Appleby College was seventh and Erin Champion of Loyola was ninth. Aquinas' Kelly Hennessy was sixth in the midget girls' race and Blakelock's Sasha Boulton was 12th. Ramsey Franklyn of Appleby College was sixth in the senior boys' race and teammate McKenzie Parsons was 12th. Senior girls basketball Katy Moes scored a game-high 10 points but King's Christian Collegiate fell 45-29 to Burlington Central in the opener of the senior girls basketball season. Gretchen Moller had seven points for King's while Kristina Marra had six. Oakville Trafalgar and Holy Trinity each began the year with two wins. OT defeated Robert Bateman 46-25 and Bishop Reding 42-24. Holy Trinity topped Loyola 63-49 and Iroquois Ridge 57-19. 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