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25 · OAKVILLE BEAVER Thursday, August 20, 2009 OAK's Oldershaw wins six gold at all-Canadian swim meet Marni Oldershaw won six gold medals and two silvers to lead the Oakville Aquatic Club's (OAK) haul of 32 medals at the national age group swim championship in Montreal. Oldershaw won the 14-year-old girls' 200and 400-metre individual medleys and 50m and 200m backstroke. She added two more golds by helping OAK win both the girls' 14and-under 4x100m freestyle and medley relays. She added silver medals in the 100m backstroke and 5,000m freestyle. Julie Calvert and Mika Spencer each brought home six medals from the meet. Calvert took gold in the 15-year-old girls' 200m individual medley as well as silver medals the 200m IM, 50m backstroke and 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke. Calvert and Spencer were both members of the bronze medal-winning girls' 15-18 4x100 medley relay. Spencer joined Oldershaw on both OAK's winning 14-andunder relay teams and added a silver in the 14year-old girls' 100m freestyle and bronze medals in the 200m and 400m individual medley. Mack Darragh was a five-time medalist, winning the 15-year-old boys' 400m individual medley, picking up silvers in the 100m and 200m breaststroke and bronze medals in the 50m breaststroke and 200m butterfly. Oldershaw, Calvert, Darragh as well as Curtis Samuel Tera Van Beilen will represent Ontario at the Canada Games, which begin this weekend in PEI. Vera Johansson won three gold medals, taking first in the 13-year-old girls 50m freestyle and winning the other two on the 14-andunder relay teams. Van Beilen won both the 16-year-old girls 100m and 200m breaststroke and added a bronze with the 15-18 medley relay. Other individual medalists included: Zack Chetrat, silver in the 18-year-old boys' 200m butterfly and bronze 100m butterfly; Annie Harrison, gold in the 15-year-old girls' 400m IM and silver in the 200m backstroke and Michelle Gour, bronze in the 13-year-old girls 50m and 100m backstroke. Relay medals were earned by the 14-andunder girls 4x100m medley and freestyle relays (Oldershaw, Johansson, Spencer and Sharalynn Missiuna) which took gold; the boys' 16-18 4x100m freestyle relay (Samuel, Kent Kikot, Miguel Lozano and Chetrat) who claimed silver and the 15-18 girls' 4x100m medley relay (Harrison, van Beilen, Calvert and Spencer) earning bronze. Making finals were Johansson (4th, 200m fly; 5th, 100m fly; 7th, 100m free, 50m fly); Missiuna (5th, 50m, 100m free); Mika Spencer (5th, 50m fly; 6th 200m free; 9th, 100m fly); Oldershaw (5th, 100m breast; 6th, 400m free); Holly Olsen (6th, 50m, 100 breast); Julie Calvert (4th, 100m fly; 7th, 50m fly; 9th, 50m free); Harrison (4th, 200m IM, 6th, 100m back); Evan White (8th, 400m IM), Mitchell Gour (4th, 200m back, 200m IM); Peter Serles (6th, 50m fly; 7th, 100m, 200m fly); Jack Cavanagh (5th, 200m breast; 8th, 100m breast); Reid Scarrow (4th, 100m free; 8th, 200m free; 9th, 100m breast); Mack Darragh (4th, 200m IM, 100m fly); Kikot (4th, 100m fly; 6th, 200m fly; 7th 50m fly); Brody Dyson (9th, 200m back); Samuel (5th, 200 fly; 7th, 200m free); boys 15-and-under 4x100m freestyle relay (Scarrow, Cavanagh, Serles, Darragh) 4th; boys' 16-18 4x100m medley relay (Dyson, Darragh, Chetrat, Samuel) 4th. Canada Summer Games athletes Six OAK athletes are currently in Prince Edward Island competing in the Canada Summer Games. Tera Van Beilen, Annie Harrison, Marni Oldershaw, Julie Calvert, Mack Darragh and Curtis Samuel are all representing Ontario at the event. JON CURRIE / OAKVILLE BEAVER HOT HAND: Jackson Hulbert had three goals and seven assists at the bantam lacrosse nationals, helping Ontario win gold. Hawks sniper helps Ontario net gold at bantam lacrosse nationals By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Jackson Hulbert has always been counted on to score for the Oakville Hawks. Those goals might have been harder to come by at the Bantam Lacrosse Championship of Canada, but the 14-year-old still showed he could come through in the crunch. Hulbert scored a goal and had two assists in Ontario's 11-7 win over British Columbia in the championship game. "It was a big difference (from playing rep). Everyone there is the best or top two on their own team. We had 18 people who could win a game for us," Hulbert said. Still, he was happy to have saved his best game for the last. "I played hard and I played well when it mattered," he said. Hulbert finished the tournament with three goals and seven assists in eight games as he won his second national gold medal in three years. The experience gained in winning the first one proved to be beneficial en route to the second gold. "I knew what to expect," he said. "I knew how to prepare myself better for two games in a day and I knew what all the teams were about." And that meant knowing Ontario's biggest obstacle in winning the gold medal would be British Columbia, the same team Hulbert and Ontario beat in the peewee final two years earlier. Ontario rolled through its first three games, winning by a combined score of 61-2. After beating Iroquois 7-1 and scoring a lopsided win over Nova Scotia, Ontario finally met its rivals and won 9-3. Ontario wrapped up the round robin by routing Alberta to finish first and earn a bye to the final. British Columbia joined Ontario after edging Iroquois in the semis. "We beat them easily (in the round robin) but they were our toughest challenge," said Hulbert, a Heritage Glen grad who will attend Abbey Park in the fall, "but we didn't want to take things for granted. We were always going to come out and play hard." And as expected, British Columbia stepped up its game for the final, providing Ontario with its biggest test of the tournament. However, Ontario's depth would still prove to be too much for B.C. "It was a good feeling," Hulbert said of watching the final seconds tick off the clock. "It was exciting to have finally won it." Lightning strikes Soccer teams into Ontario Cup semis All three Oakville Soccer Club squads playing Ontario Cup quarter-final contests Saturday posted victories to advance to the semifinal round. Oakville's girls' under-12 A team rallied from a 2-0 halftime deficit to down the Kanata Lightning 3-2 in Kanata, the local boys' U13 A side downed the Niagara Falls Titans 3-2 (prevailing 4-3 in penalty kicks) in Niagara Falls, and Oakville's boys' U15 tier 1 club edged the Mississauga Dixie Lions 2-1 at Pine Glen Park. In the semifinals, Oakville's U12 girls will take on the Vaughan Azzurri, the U13 A boys will face the Ajax Thunder, and the U15 tier 1 boys will battle the Waterloo Hawks. Those semifinal games will all be contested Aug. 29. The other Oakville team to compete in last weekend's Ontario Cup semifinals, the WISLA United men, was eliminated Sunday with a 1-0 loss to Real Toronto at Bronte Athletic Field. Oakville already boasts one Ontario Cup champion this season, the U21 men's team, which clinched the title with a 1-0 win over the Forest City London Reserves earlier this month. GREAT IN GLOUCESTER: The Oakville girls under-13B Lightning won five straight games, including a decisive 6-0 victory in the final, to win the Gloucester International Soccer Tournament.The Lightning defeated the Gloucester Hornets under-13 team 3-0 in the semifinals. Overall, the team scored 23 goals while just allowing one. Members of the team are Jessee Abrahams, Isabella Borea, Janelle Caetano, Jennifer DiMarco, Brittany Grist, Sara Habal,Alex Hayes, Emma Henry, Olivia Imbrogno, Sarah Kozma, Katie MacArthur (not pictured), Meghan Noel, Alex Ratcliffe, Kaitlyn Simpson, Tiffany Turchyn, Amanda Walsh, Arielle Zamdvaiz,Anastasia Zis, coach John Walsh, manager Louisa Spector-Noel and trainer Angie Habal.