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Sports Oakville Beaver By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2009 25 Reddick rink Making a splash squeezes into Scotties playoff An accountant by trade, Julie Reddick is good with numbers. And yesterday morning, she couldn't have liked her odds of advancing to the playoff round at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Yet, Reddick and her Brant Curling Club rink managed to do so, closing out the round-robin portion of the tournament yesterday afternoon at Oakville Curling Club with a 6-5 extra-end victory over Krista McCarville's first-place rink. The win, coupled with Jenn Hanna's loss to Ashley Miharija, created a logjam of 5-4 teams tied for the fourth and final playoff spot in the tournament. Reddick's rink played a tiebreaking contest with Alison Goring last night (a game that began after the Beaver's press deadlines). If victorious last night, Reddick would take on Hanna this morning in a second tiebreaker, with the winner advancing to play Sherry Middaugh this afternoon (a 2 p.m. start). "It worked out," said Reddick, who needed to win her last round-robin game and either have Julie Hastings or Hanna lose their final contest. "If it was meant to be, then things would fall into place." Reddick, an Oakville native who won three junior provincial titles while curling out of her local club, managed to steal the game-winning point in the 11th end after McCarville missed a tough takeout on her final shot. McCarville, Middaugh and Hastings all finished round-robin play with 6-3 marks, but McCarville and Hastings were the top two teams after tiebreakers. They'll play today at 7 p.m., with the winner advancing to tomorrow's final (a 2 p.m. start) and the loser facing the winner of the third-place versus fourth-place game today (7 p.m.) for the other berth in the final. NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER Jamie Adam of the Oakville Marlins swims the freestyle last weekend at Burlington's Centennial Pool. The Burlington Barracudas hosted a region-wide meet for intellectually-challenged athletes. Abbey Park through to Bur Bear hockey tourney semis As of yesterday evening, the Abbey Park Eagles were the lone Oakville team to advance to the semifinal round at the Bur Bear high school hockey tournament. The Eagles edged Algonquin 2-1 in overtime of their quarter-final contest yesterday afternoon, earning a date with the M.M. Robinson Rams in the White Pool semifinal. That game was scheduled for 8 a.m. today at Appleby Ice Centre, with the championship game set for 1:15 p.m. Appleby College was also still alive going into last night's action, playing a Purple/Gold Pool quarter-final game against London's St. Thomas Aquinas. Semifinals and finals will be played today, also at Appleby Ice Centre. The Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers were knocked out of the White playoffs with a 3-2 loss to the Milton District Mustangs in their quarter-final. The T.A. Blakelock Tigers, Holy Trinity Titans and Loyola Hawks were all eliminated from playoff contention after round-robin play. Atom Hornets claim Bell Capital Cup championship Allison Chan's double-overtime goal lifted the Oakville atom AA Hornets to the championship at the prestigious Bell Capital Cup tournament recently in Ottawa. Chan's marker gave the Hornets a 1-0 win over the hometown Kanata Rangers in the title game. Earlier in the tournament, Oakville defeated Kanata 5-1, tied Leaside 2-2 and edged Gloucester Cumberland 3-2 in round-robin play before easily downing Nepean 6-1 in the semifinals. Oakville captain Kristin O'Neill was named tournament MVP. Kaitlyn Perichak led all tournament scorers, with O'Neill finishing second. The Hornets' success at the tournament was not limited to the games. Oakville players won four of the seven categories in the tournament's skills competition as well. Nikki Cece stopped all six shots she faced in the breakaway competition to earn top goaltender honours; O'Neill and Chan were tops in the breakaway scoring competition with four goals on six attempts; Perichak was the top sharp-shooter; and Taylor McKibbon, Elizabeth O'Hara and Sydney Davison won the slalom race. Other members of the team are Alyssa Chartrand, Brooke Jovanovich, Olivia White, Rachel Albertine, Julia Edgar, Taylor Davison, Jessica Thompson, Paige Strychaluk and Cassidy Miller. Warren Edgar is the club's head coach, assisted by Barry O'Neill and John Perichak. Michele Jovanovich CAPITAL GAINS: The Oakville atom AA Hornets were crowned champions at the Bell Capital Cup tournament recently in Ottawa, a competition that annually attracts more than 450 atom and peewee teams. is the Hornets' trainer.