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8 ·The IFP· Halton Hills ·Tuesday, May 29, 2012 High school roundup Tyler Hardie's booming triple touched off a 10-run first inning and that was all Christ the King's Jaguars required to earn the local high school's first Halton Tier I championship on Thursday. The 8-1 Jags beat Burlington's Assumption Crusaders 10-0 in a game that was called due to the mercy rule after five innings. CtK pitchers T.J. Baker, Jon Palumbo and Adam Anderson combined to shut the Assumption offence down. Next up for coach Alex Chomyshyn's squad is the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference title game Wednesday in Hamilton against the Steeltown representative at 2 p.m. Nurse, mates Jags crush Assumption for ball title edged by U.S. The difference between the reigning-champion U.S. and Canada in women's 8s rowing is so close, a photo finish was required at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland on Sunday to determine the winner. A major tune-up for the upcoming Summer Olympics in London, England, the Canadians pushed the Americans right to the finish line of the 2,000m race but were nosed out at the line again by the U.S. by .03 of a second for the gold medal. Last year, Canada finished runner-up to the U.S. at both the World Rowing Cup in Switzerland and the World Championships in Slovenia. "This definitely fuels the fires for London," said veteran Canadian team member Darcy Marquardt of Richmond, B.C. Georgetown's Cristy Nurse is a two-year member of the Canadian women's 8s team that has already qualified for the Olympics and the 25-year-old University of Ottawa law student will find out on June 22 whether she has earned a spot in the boat when the final roster is announced by Rowing Canada. The Canuck women's 8s will train in Italy for the next three weeks in preparation for the Olympics. SPORTS & LEISURE Rugby The 5-1 Georgetown Rebels and 5-0 CtK Jaguars are set to clash tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Halton junior boys' Tier II championship match at the Gellert Community Centre beginning at 4 p.m. It's a rematch from a regular-season contest on May 2 in which the Jags prevailed 5-0. In Thursday's semifinals, CtK downed Oakville's St. Thomas Aquinas 29-10 as tries were scored by Noah MacDonald, Colin Bass, Justin Bumanlag, Josh Chappelle and Nick Cunha. Fly half Keiran Smerdon provided the converts. Georgetown thumped Oakville's T.A. Blakelock 35-13. No scoring info was available. Georgetown's Ben Wanless has a dusty landing while competing in the junior boys' long jump at the Halton/GHAC track and field championships held last week at Mohawk Sports Park in Hamilton. Photo by Graham Paine/Metroland Media Group (Mitchell Kreis, Matt Kreis, Aleks Rapp, Justin Dool); Danny Mellace, 5th senior boys' 200m; Natacha Rueda, 5th senior girls' high jump; Daniel Krsikapa, 3rd junior boys' javelin; CtK junior boys' 4x100m relay, 5th (Josh Fera, Ryan Moore, Cameron Debowy, Philip Bath) Georgetown Lauren Rock, 3rd midget girls' 100m; Lauren Brewster, 4th junior girls' 300m hurdles, 5th 800m; Demi Swann, 2nd senior girls' triple jump, 5th 100m, 5th long jump; Marty Burwell, 4th junior boys' javelin; Matt Simpson, 2nd junior boys' 3,000m, 4th 1,500m; Claire Dickson, 4th senior girls' 3,000m; Rachel Inniss, 3rd senior girls' 400m hurdles; Matt Knebel, 2nd midget boys' 1,500m, 2nd 3,000m; Ben Wanless, 5th junior boys' 400m; Braeden Silva, 3rd midget boys' 300m hurdles; Sam Bellman, 4th senior boys' 400m hurdles; Kassidy Veenstra, 2nd senior girls' javelin; Rachel Brent, 4th midget girls' discus, 5th shot put; Lindsay Kirby, 2nd junior girls' triple jump; Kerianne Skea, 5th junior girls' discus; Andrew Allen, 4th junior boys' shot put; Aaron Brautigam, 5th senior boys' shot put. ning toss of 50.70m. Also placing first in their events were: Brittany Webster, CtK, 1st junior girls' javelin; Lauren Rock, GDHS, 1st midget girls' triple jump; Astra Joyce, GDHS, 1st midget girls' shot put; Aleks Rapp, CtK, 1st midget boys' shot put & discus; Oliver Ross, GDHS, 1st junior boys' triple jump; GDHS senior girls' 4x100m relay team. The top five from each division advance to the South Regional meet Thursday and Friday at West Park in St. Catharines. The OFSAA championships are scheduled for June 7-9 in Brockville. Track and field Following are athletes who have Several Halton Hills athletes earned Golden Horseshoe Athletic qualified for this week's South ReConference championships with gional meet after top-five results at their efforts at last week's regional GHAC: Acton qualifying meet at the Mohawk Alex Armstrong, 2nd midget girls' Sports Complex in Hamilton. Dominating performances were javelin Christ the King turned in by Georgetown's Claire Haleigh Baines, 2nd midget girls' Dickson, who won the open girls' 1,500m steeplechase in 6:01:96, 16 1,500m, 3rd midget girls' 3,000m; seconds ahead of the second-place Dondre Palma, 3rd midget boys' 200m, 5th 100m; Nick McKnight, finisher. Christ the King's Tyler Renton was 4th open boys' 2,000m steeplechase; GeorgetownIndependant_Walkers_10.375x1.785_APR12 .ai 1 07/05/2012 9:33:14 AM Rahal, 4th midget girls' 200m; five metres better than the runner-up Arielle in the senior boys' javelin with a win- CtK midget boys' 4x100m relay, 3rd 'Dogs have big `Macs' attack The MacDonald brothers have returned to the lineup of the Halton Hills Bulldogs and the rest of the Ontario Jr. B Lacrosse League should be concerned about their presence. On Sunday night, the Mimico Mountaineers discovered that it's going to be difficult to account for all of the Bulldogs' offensive options through the rest of the season as Halton Hills pounded the visitors 21-4 in front of 400 spectators at the Alcott Arena. Twenty-one-year-old Brendan MacDonald, who just returned from a successful field campaign with the Rochester Institute of Technology, scored five times in Sunday's win to follow up a seven-goal performance in his return to the lineup May 19. Younger brother Michael made his debut against Mimico, netting two goals and two assists after making the NCAA Division I tournament in his freshman year with the Princeton University Tigers. Adding the MacDonalds to a roster than already has the league's fifth-leading scorer, Luke Laidlaw, and his cousins Peter and Seth, along with 24-goal rookie Connor Brown, 'Dogs' head coach Blaine McCauley has plenty of weapons to work with. The 9-2-1 Bulldogs recovered from a slow start in Mimico Thursday to rally for a 10-6 triumph.