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S Sports By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011 25 Wrestling event at Ridge to help take down prostate cancer Anthony Sorgiovanni, Great White North Championship Wrestling and Iroquois Ridge High School are joining forces to lay the smack down on prostate cancer. Ridge will host Great White North's `Movember to Remember' showcase tomorrow (Friday) in what is being billed as the first wrestling event of its kind in Oakville in more than a decade. All proceeds from the evening will go towards this year's campaign of Movember, a program in which men grow moustaches in November and collect pledges for prostate cancer research. Sorgiovanni is an Iroquois Ridge student who wrestles for Great White North (GWN), a not-for-profit entertainment group that raised more than $25,000 for charity this past season. He played a major role in bringing the event to Oakville, as did one of Sorgiovanni's teachers -- Tiffany Olmsted -- who came up with the idea after watching Sorgiovanni wrestle in Hamilton. "Iroquois Ridge does a lot of great stuff for the pink campaign (against breast cancer), and we felt there needed to be a community event for Movember," Olmsted said. "I had a great time when I was at the (Hamilton) event. I thought it was so much fun. I thought about the days when I was a kid and some of the Wrestlemania events. It was very similar to those types of events." That's the same kind of atmosphere, Sorgiovanni said, that GWN will be bringing to Oakville tomorrow. "The wrestling we do is a lot different than you will see on TV. That stuff is just flipping around, it's not good quality wrestling," said Sorgiovanni, who wrestles under the nickname of Rocky `Bam Bam' Giovanni. "We represent the older classic wrestling, the true wrestling." The Grade 12 student suggested there isn't as much acting involved in GWN wrestling as people might think. "It depends on what you define as real. I can basically tell you that falling on your back is as real as it sounds. Everything we do is real," he said. "People like to call wrestling fake. It's not fake. If I'm in a hold and getting stretched, I'm getting stretched. If I just fell off the top rope flat on my back in the ring, I just fell off the top rope flat on my back in the ring. It's as real as it is." Featured on tomorrow's card will be a heavyweight battle between GWN president Donovan Jack O'Shea and `Silverback' Shawn Brown; a commonwealth title bout between `Wildfire' Julia Scott of f Ecole Forest Trail (right) tries to tip the ball past Chris Hadfield opponent Alanna Hampton during the recent Halton elementary Tier 2 girls' volleyball final in Milton. STEVEN DER-GARABEDIAN / SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER READY TO ROCK: Iroquois Ridge student Anthony Sorgiovanni, also known as Rocky `Bam Bam' Giovanni, helped organize Great White North Championship Wrestling's involvement in tomorrow's 'Movember to Remember' wrestling event at Ridge. Tommy Burch and Rocky `Bam Bam' Giovanni; and a ladies GWN championship fight between Kaitlyn Diemond and Jody D'Milo. Olmsted is optimistic `Movember to Remember' can draw a larger crowd than the 200 or so spectators that GWN events typically draw in Hamilton. "We've done a bit more promotion than what they typically do in Hamilton," she said. "Our staff has been very supportive. Two teachers from our phys-ed department will emcee the event, some teachers have taken their classes out to deliver flyers and our principal has supported me from the beginning with this idea. "I would be happy if we could at least raise $500. Anything above that is just gravy." Doors open tomorrow at 7 p.m., and the show gets underway at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door ($5 for students and children, $10 for adults) or in advance by contacting Tiffany Olmsted at olmstedt@hdsb.ca Volleyball title is first for Forest Trail Ecole Forest Trail recently won the first Halton volleyball championship in the school's five-year history. The Coyotes girls' team defeated Chris Hadfield 25-13, 25-23 in the final of the elementary Tier 2 championships at Milton's E.C. Drury High School. "It was a big moment," said Forest Trail cocoach Janet Reesor. "It's certainly been a building process and there were a lot of people involved in it." After going 6-2 in regular-season play this year, the Coyotes dropped their first game of the playoffs to Captain R. Wilson and were relegated to the Tier 2 playoffs. Forest Trail rebounded to qualify for the regional Tier 2 championship tournament, where the Coyotes won four of five round-robin games and then upset Alexander's 25-12, 25-18 in the semis before defeating Chris Hadfield. "Feedback we actually got from a (person not involved with the school) was our team this year showed a really unique level of teamwork from the start," Reesor said. "The whole idea of covering for See Coyotes, page 27