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www.insideHALTON.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Thursday, February 28, 2013 · 24 Hornets win three divisions at own house league tourney Three Oakville Hornets teams won championships at the Hornets' 17th annual house league girls' hockey tournament last weekend. The novice Red Rockets, atom Silver Stars and ladies 50 Shades of Grey and REDy squads were among the division winners at the event, which drew 130 teams from across Ontario and the United States. Novice The Red Rockets defeated the Flamborough Falcons 2-0 in the novice final. Members of the team are Julia Lupton, Natalie Wilde, Grace Knight, Emma Erceg, Calleigh Wasik, Bridgit Gault, Vienna MoslerPlata, Meghan That, Katie Di Clemente, Kate Prat, Caleigh Johnston, Abby Hennessy, Tara Courneyea, Olivia Green, Lauren Baldin and Olivia Carson. The team's coaches and trainers are Paul Lupton, Andrew Taht, Fabio Baldin, Michelle Knight, Fiona Robertson and Jennifer Wilde. Atom The Silver Stars' title win was their third in as many tournaments this season. Oakville overcame a tournament-opening loss to win its next five games, including a 4-2 victory over the Ancaster Avalanche in the final. Audrey Foster, Caitlyn Nicholls, Emma Hardcastle, Abigail Robitaille, Rachel Marriott, Sara DiStefano, Immy Govan, Ava Hietkamp, Maya Potter, Abigail Kanalec, Grace Stergiou, Lauren Nunes, Hailey Hughes, Nicky Menezes, Isabel Coleman and Hailey Jeffries contributed to the victory. The team is coached by Tony Nicholls, Bruce Hietkamp and Kieran Foster, and Suzanne DiStefano and Patty Fraser are the trainers. Ladies 50 Shades of Grey and REDy edged Oakville's Grape Expectations 3-2 to become the first-ever Oakville team to win the ladies division title. Members of the 50 Shades squad are Larinda Hind-Smith, Sonya Davison, Nancy Pisani-Robinson, Danielle Hastings, Michelle Orme, Darlene Mallette, Kim Tyler, Carolyn Spaetzel, Kelly Robertson, Louise Kemp, Lynn Boucher-Rollo, Carol Aiken, Arleta Kocken and Michele Jovanovich. Jason Storie and Charlie Guy coach the team. Other winners In other division finals, the Mississauga Chiefs edged the Burlington Polar Bears 2-1 in friendship (tyke) play; the London Flying Bananas blanked the North Bay Guardian Angels 3-0 in peewee action; the Windsor Wildcats #2 squad got past their Wildcats #1 rivals 2-1 in bantam competition; and Ottawa 2026 defeated Brampton Sports Unlimited 1-0 in the midget contest. The Hornets' next major tournament is scheduled for September, when they have targeted a 200-team field for the annual Harvest Classic Rep Tournament. HOME SWEET HOME: Pictured clockwise from top left, the novice Red Rockets, atom Silver Stars and ladies 50 Shades of Grey and REDy were the local champions at last weekend's Oakville Hornets house league tournament. Int. Hornets open playoffs Saturday The Oakville intermediate AA Hornets' first-round Provincial Women's Hockey League best-of-five playoff series against the Durham West Lightning will begin Saturday in Ajax. Durham West will also host Game 2 Sunday before the series shifts to Oakville for Game 3 next Thursday (March 7, 8 p.m.) and, if necessary, Game 4 Friday (March 8, 8:30 p.m.). Oakville plays its home games at Joshua's Creek Arenas. If the series goes five games, Durham West would host the deciding game Sunday, March 10. The Lightning is the third seed in the PWHL playoffs, finishing the regular season 25 points ahead of the 14th-ranked Hornets. But Oakville took Durham West to overtime in both meetings between the teams, including a 2-1 victory over the Lightning last weekend in Ajax. Oakville can also be buoyed by the memory of its first-round upset of the London Devilettes last year, when the Hornets were the 13th seed and London was ranked fourth. Sitting out one university season paid dividends for Chetrat this year Continued from page 23 year at the OUA championships. There he knocked almost three seconds off his own record in the 200m butterfly, established another OUA record in the 400m freestyle and contributed to another new OUA mark in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Chetrat's initial reaction upon missing the Olympic team by two one-hundredths of a second was that he had wasted a year of training. He has since come to realize that was not the case, and seeing how much his times had improved since his last university championships was further evidence that the work he put in is paying off. "To improve by three seconds since the last CIS, it bodes well," Chetrat said. MacDonald said Chetrat is just now realizing the full benefits of his year off. "I've seen it happen with a lot of athletes, there's a season delay," he said. "Zack saw benefits last year, but everything we do builds on what we've done before. Now he's still got that in his body and it's helping him now." Chetrat said there is still room for improvement, noting that he wasn't fully tapered for the CIS championships. That's because there are bigger meets ahead for the Oakville Aquatic Club product. His win in the 200m butterfly at CIS qualified him for the World University Games and the first week in April, he'll look to land a spot on the Canadian team for the world championships. And without a doubt, that fire in his belly will still be burning. -- Herb Garbutt can be followed on Twitter @Herbgarbutt