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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 25 Might as well bump Local trio named to NLL all-star squads Three local players have been by helping prevent goals. Edmonton named to the National Lacrosse is the only team in the NLL averagLeague's all-star teams. ing less than 10 goals against per A pair of first-time all-stars, game. Corbeil has played a big part Jordan MacIntosh and Chris in that, ranking fourth in the Corbeil, will represent the West league in forced turnovers. Conference, while veteran Dan Corbeil spent his first two seaDawson will suit up for the East sons in the NLL with the Buffalo Conference. Bandits, the team that MacIntosh, the selected him 15th overfourth overall pick of all in the 2009 draft. the Minnesota Swarm Corbeil helped Canada in last summer's NLL win the gold medal at draft, has five goals and the World Indoor seven assists in three Lacrosse Championships games this season. In last June. addition to his scoring, It will be Corbeil's MacIntosh has also job to try to shut down proven to be a valuable former Canadian teamasset on faceoffs, where mate Dawson, one of Dan Dawson he has won 59.3 per the league's leading cent of his draws to rank third in scorers. the NLL. He has also scooped up Dawson leads the Philadelphia 30 loose balls, the sixth-most in Wings with 21 points and is fifth the league. That total included 19 in the league . The 2009 NLL most in a win over Buffalo, the most in valuable player is on pace for his a single game by any player in the eighth consecutive season with 80 NLL this year. or more points and is closing in The 22-year-old transition on 800 points for his career, curplayer is one of four rookies select- rently sitting at 789. It will be the ed to play in the game. sixth all-star game appearance in Joining him on the West team is Dawson's 11-year career. Chris Corbeil. The Edmonton Rush The all-star game will be played defender has a goal and two assists at the First Niagara Centre in in three games but earned his spot Buffalo Feb. 25. ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER GAME ON: St. Thomas Aquinas player Kaitlyn Brooks (center) bumps the ball while teammates look on during the Raiders' junior girls' volleyball game against the Aldershot Lions Tuesday in Burlington. High school sports resumed this week after a two-week break for exams. Aquinas defeated the Lions in straight sets to finish the A-AA regular season with an 11-1 record. Wilson earns top rookie honour, again Scott Wilson continues to make a good impression on the UMass Lowell Riverhawks. The Oakville native was named the Hockey East rookie of the week for the fourth time this season after scoring twice and setting up three more in a two-game sweep of Vermont. With 13 goals and 13 assists on the season, Wilson leads the Riverhawks in scoring and leads all NCAA freshmen with 1.08 points per game. Wilson assisted on both game-winning goals last weekend. He had a goal and an assist in a 3-1 win, then followed that up with a goal and two helpers in a 6-4 victory. The seventh-round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins previously earned the weekly honour in back-to-back weeks Nov. 7 and 14 and again for the week ending Jan. 23. UMass Lowell is 19-7-1 overall and 13-6-0 in Hockey East, good for second in the conference. The Riverhawks are currently ranked ninth in the NCAA. Basketball, football also restricted By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR High school boys' hockey got the spotlight in an extensive feature story last Friday in the Beaver, but it is not the only sport in which the Halton Secondary School Athletic Association (HSSAA) restricts rep players from participating. Rep players are also not permitted to play for Halton high school teams in boys' and girls' basketball, football and rugby -- when those seasons overlap. Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) executive director Doug Gellatly said any rules that prohibit rep players from playing high school sports are rules of regional associations, not OFSAA. "All our rules, whether eligibility or rules of play, only apply at OFSAA championships," Gellatly said. "The associations... have autonomy to set their own rules. When they come to OFSAA championships, they need to (follow) our rules. "I'm obviously not a part of that decision with hockey or basketball or football out there (in Halton)," Gellatly added. "I don't think it's an easy decision for them. I can see why they would make it, and I can see why people would be upset about it." High school boys' hockey coaches have cited concerns about student safety, education and team commitment as reasons for the rule preventing male rep players from playing high school hockey in Halton. This year's boys' high school basketball season began in December and ends with the OFSAA provincial championships in the opening week of March, though many teams' seasons end earlier if they do not advance through the playoffs. The rep basketball season began with tryouts in September, and teams are free to schedule as many inter-club games and tournaments as they want before the season concludes in mid-May with provincials. "Halton (rep) teams, unfortunately, are precluded from participating in any games until after the high See Fall, page 27