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12 Independent & Free Press, Tuesday,November 1, 2011 SPORTS & LEISURE High school report Runners on course for OFSAA Several athletes from Georgetown will be heading to Ottawa for Saturday's Ontario high school cross-country running championships thanks to their performances at last week's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference meet at Hamilton's Christie Conservation Area. The Georgetown Rebels won the junior boys' team title as four runners placed among the top 11 finishers, headed up by Matt Simpson's runnerup result. GDHS teammates Ben Wanless (4th), Max Wanless (7th) and Jordan Toth (11th) qualified for OFSAA, as did Christ the King's Andrew Pundsack (3rd). GDHS's midget boys' team also earned a trip to the nation's capital this weekend with a second-place overall finish in the 5-km race. Matt Knebel (2nd), Owen Bahen (16th), Liam Carson (23rd) and Jake Payne (24th) contributed points to the effort. Haleigh Baines of CtK qualified for the provincials with a runner-up result in the midget girls' 3-km event and the Jaguars were fourth in the team standings. In the junior girls' 4-km race, Georgetown's Lauren Brewster made the OFSAA grade by placing fourth, while CtK's Irene Kiroplis qualified in sixth spot. No local senior runners qualified, although Caitlin Watson (9th), Mitchell Krafczek (9th) and Nick McKnight (10th) placed in the top 10. FIELD HOCKEY: Two Christ the King players and two more from GDHS have been selected to play in the Halton girls' high school senior allstar showcase today (Tuesday) at Notre Dame in Burlington. Jaguar midfielder Julia Holland and forward Natalie Wright, along with Rebel netminder Ashley Penrice and midfielder Tearney JohnstonJones, will represent Team Halton in matches against Team Burlington and Team Halton on Tuesday evening. Raiders drop pair Matt Knebel of Georgetown District High School's Rebels was runnerup in the 5-km midget boys' race at the Golden Horseshoe crosscountry meet in Hamilton last week. Knebel qualified for this Saturday's OFSAA championships in Ottawa with that result. Eric Riehl/Metroland Media Group For the first time this season, the Georgetown Raiders lost in consecutive games this past weekend in Ontario Junior Hockey League action. The 11-6-0 Raiders were upset 4-2 at home by the Milton IceHawks Saturday, then dropped a 4-3 decision Sunday afternoon in Stouffville. Milton netminder Paul Favaro made 46 saves to stymie the home side on Saturday as the 5-12-0 IceHawks matched last year's win total. Jacob Bauchman and Manny Gialedakis scored for the Raiders. Tyson Fawcett, Brendan Woods and Gialedakis tallied Sunday against the 12-3-3 Spirit. Head coach and general manager Greg Walters will be away from the team for two-and-a-half weeks as he's serving as an assistant to Team Canada East bench boss Curtis Hodgins at the World Jr. A Challenge in Langley, B.C. from Nov. 7-13. "Our coaching staff of Dan Currie and Terry Richardson are more than capable of holding down the fort and I feel comfortable leaving them in charge while I'm away," said Walters. In player moves last week, the Raiders dealt veteran forward Mike Charbonneau to the Guelph Jr. B Hurricanes for cash. The Raiders will face rival Oakville in back-toback games this week starting Friday at the Sixteen Mile Creek Sports Complex at a revised time of 8:30 p.m. Georgetown hosts the back end Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Alcott Arena. T-Bird Pavlopoulos puts boots to Alberta Local resident Bilkicked field goals of ly Pavlopoulos was 20, 24 and 47 yards named Canada West and added a stunning player of the week 77-yard fourth-quarter thanks to his kicking punt that helped the prowess as a memThunderbirds clinch a ber of the University 32-22 victory over Alof British Columbia's berta. varsity football squad. The 6-foot-3, 200BILLY Pavlopoulos, a PAVLOPOULOS pound placekicker Christ the King graduearned Canada West ate who is in his third special teams player year in UBC's arts program, of the week. Pan-Am gold for Hill Canada won its first-ever major international baseball tournament at the senior level at the Pan-Am Games in Mexico last week with a 2-1 triumph over the U.S. in the gold-medal game. Georgetown's Shawn Hill earned the win on the hill for the Canucks in the semifinal, recovering from giving up a three-run homer in the first inning to allow just two baserunners over the next four innings, striking out three batters in a 5-3 victory over host Mexico. Photo by Gail Knecht GEORGETOWN JR. A GEORGETOWN JUNIOR "A" RAIDERS vs Player and Fan of the Week! OAKVILLE GAME OF THE WEEK Saturday, November 5, 2011 7:30 pm Mold-Masters SportsPlex (Alcott Arena) www.georgetownraidersjra.com Player: Brendan Woods, #11 Jr. Fan: Ethan Osborne Ellard