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34 Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2009 Gold rush for swimmers at Summer Games Oakville athletes continued to pile up the medals at the Canada Summer Games this week. Swimmers Tera Van Beilen and Sinead Russell had been the big winners. Through Wednesday's action, Van Beilen had earned three gold (50-metre breaststroke, 200m breaststroke and 4x200m freestyle relay) while Russell had earned five medals (two relay golds, silvers in 100m freestyle and backstroke, bronze in 400m freestyle). Fellow swimmers Curtis Samuel and Aimeson King also won gold, teaming to win the 4x200m freestyle relay. Samuel added silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay and bronze in the 200m butterfly. King notched bronze in the 400m and 800m freestyle. Another swimming medal came from Annie Harrison (silver, 400m individual medley). Oakville Aquatic Club teammate Marni Oldershaw narrowly missed out on bronze in that race, finishing .03 seconds out of third. Runner Kate Ruediger won Oakville's other gold medal this week, finishing first in the 400m. Lizzy Bates, Mariane Fraser and Nicole Wong earned medals in paddling. Bates was second in the kayak singles 500m and joined Fraser to claim bronze in the K-4 500m. Wong finished third in the canoeing quads 500m. The Canada Summer Games conclude tomorrow (Saturday). Getting ready for some football GRAHAM PAINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER WEST VIRGINIA BOUND: The Holy Trinity Titans senior football team has been practicing for the past two weeks in preparation for an exhibition game tonight (Friday) in West Virginia. Trinity will take on Wheeling Catholic Central, the second straight season the Titans have started off with an exhibition game against an American team. Trinity fell 52-31 to the Mogadore (Ohio) Wildcats last fall. Pitcher delivers at nationals Boxer top hurler of tournament's preliminary round Feeling pressure to perform well for the Mississauga North Tigers at the national peewee girls' fastpitch championships, Kelly Boxer delivered. The 14-year-old allowed only one run in 14 innings of round-robin play and was named the top pitcher of the tournament's qualifying round. Boxer, who played for the Brampton Blazers this past season, was one of several players the Tigers were allowed to pick up for the Canadian championships, which were contested recently in Guelph. Coming to a new team at the most important time of the season meant instant pressure. "It can get really stressful," said Boxer, who will attend Iroquois Ridge High School next month. "You almost feel like you have to do well because they called you up. At the same time, you know they called you up for a reason." The Tigers didn't enjoy the same level of LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER success as Boxer, finishing fifth, but that ARMED AND DANGEROUS: Kelly Boxer, a product of the Oakville Angels rep system, was named top didn't diminish the signifigance of the pitcher of the qualifying round at the national peewee girls' fastpitch championships, held recently in Guelph. award in Boxer's eyes. "It's not just your pitching that takes you a certain distance," she said. "It's still amazing." Boxer had never received a pitching award at any tournament in the past. Receiving such recognition gives her a confidence boost as she looks to progress in the sport as far as possible. "I love the game," she said. "Hopefully it will take me far." Boxer came up through the Oakville Girls Softball Association's house league and rep systems. This was the first season she did not play with the Angels, opting to suit up for Brampton instead. "They fielded five pitchers, which was a lot easier on my arm," Boxer said of the reasoning for the change in teams. Boxer credited former coaches Peter Boxer (her father), Frank Marchiony and Ian Allingham for helping her develop as a pitcher. Allingham, coincidentally, was a coach with the North Tigers this season. -- Jon Kuiperij