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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Wednesday, May 1, 2013 | 26 Oakville players remain in hunt for NLL championship Oakville is well represented in the National Lacrosse League playoffs. Three of the four remaining teams feature local players. In the East Division final, the Rochester Knighthawks will face the Minnesota Swarm. Rochester got four goals and two assists from Dan Dawson in a 10-8 win over Philadelphia while defender Paul Dawson scored the game winner. The Oakville brothers were acquired by Rochester from Philadelphia prior to the season. Jordan MacIntosh scored four goals and set up two more to lead Minnesota to a 20-11 win over the Toronto Rock. Defender Alex Crepinsek scooped up five loose balls in the Swarm win. Rochester will host the division final Saturday. It will be a homecoming for MacIntosh and Crepinsek, who played college lacrosse for the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers. In the West Division final, Oakville's Dan MacRae and the Calgary Roughnecks will host the Washington Stealth Saturday. MacRae, a thirdyear defender with the Roughnecks, had three loose balls in Calgary's 15-10 division semifinal win over Colorado. Evan White broke the 200-metre individual medley long-course Canadian age group record of two-time Olympic gold medallist Alex Baumann, a mark that had stood for 32 years, at the Canadian World Swim Trials. He followed it up at his next meet by setting a Canadian age group short-course record in the 200 IM. He also teamed up with his Oakville Aquatic Club teammates to set four national age group relay records at the two meets.| Scott Grant -- Swimming Canada Halton Minor Ball Hockey League Standings as of May 1, 2013 Team A) Learn To Play 3-6 years old A1-LTP Kings (White) A2-LTP ADT Security Leafs (Blue) A3-LTP Jets (Silver) A4-LTP Julian Dean Photography Flyers (Orange) A5-LTP Esso Bruins (Yellow) A6-LTP BLOMHA Red Wings (Red) A7-LTP Stars (Green) A8-LTP Penguins (Black) B) Tyke 7-8 1 B4-Toronto Marlies (Blue) 2 B3-Tripemco Insurance Thrashers (Red) 3 B1-Hamilton Bulldogs (Black) 4 B2-Play It Again Sports Tigers (Orange) C) Novice 9-10 1 C6-Novice (Black) 2 C7-Novice (Orange) 3 C3-Novice Oakville Hornets Girls Hockey (Yellow) 4 C5-Novice Profile Investigation Inc (Blue) 5 C2-Novice Fitness Firm (Silver) 6 C4-Novice Granite Ridge Golf Club (Red) 7 C8-Novice (White) 8 C1-Novice Dynamic Healing Massage Therapy (Green) D) Atom 11-12 1 D3-Atom Mainway Sports Centre (Red) 2 D5-Atom (Black) 3 D4-Atom (White) 4 D2-Atom Kontek Ecology Systems Inc (Silver) 5 D1-Atom Fitness Firm (Blue) 6 D6-Atom Vacuum Shoppe (Orange) 7 D8-Atom Oakville Beaver (Yellow) 8 D7-Atom (Kelly Green) E) Peewee 13-14 1 E2-Peewee Kontek Ecology Systems Inc (Black) 2 E4-Peewee Vipond Inc (Blue) 3 E3-Peewee Pioneer Energy LP (Yellow) 4 E1-Peewee Burlington Post (Red) F) Bantam/Jr 15+ 1 F5-BT/Jr (Orange) 2 F3-BT/Jr National Sports (Yellow) 3 F6-BT/Jr Olympic Trophies (Black) 4 F8-BT/Jr (Green) 5 F1-BT/Jr Burlington BHL (Silver) 6 F7-BT/Jr (Light Blue) 7 F4-BT/Jr Corpa Investigations Inc (Blue) 8 F2-BT/Jr LavaLife (Red) GP Record Pts GF GA +/- OAK's White tops long-standing swim records by Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver Staff 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-2-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 2-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-2-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-1-0 0-1-0 (W2) (L1) (W1) (L2) (W1) (W1) (W1) (W1) (L1) (L1) (L1) (L1) (W1) (W1) (W1) (W1) (L1) (L1) (L1) (L1) (W2) (W1) (L1) (L2) (W1) (W1) (T1) (T1) (T1) (T1) (L1) (L1) 4 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 13 4 4 1 10 6 3 3 1 0 6 2 6 6 3 4 2 3 3 0 8 6 3 1 5 3 4 4 1 1 2 3 2 7 3 10 6 2 0 1 3 3 10 6 3 3 0 2 4 6 6 3 4 5 3 6 3 2 4 4 1 1 3 5 11 -3 1 -9 4 4 3 2 -2 -3 -4 -4 3 3 3 2 -2 -3 -3 -3 4 1 0 -5 2 1 0 0 0 0 -1 -2 This ad is courtesy of ­ Proud Supporters ­ & When Andrew Ford touched the wall first to win the 200-metre individual medley last month at the Canadian World Championship Trials, he secured a spot on the national team. The second swimmer to touch, Oakville's Evan White, may have accomplished something even more impressive. The 17-year-old may not have earned a spot on the world championship team but he did break one of Canada's longeststanding records. His time of the two minutes, 2.38 seconds eclipsed a 15-17 long course age group mark that had been on the books for 32 years. How long is that? Well, for starters, it was 15 years before White was born. It was seven Prime Ministers ago. There were only two Star Wars movies -- Luke didn't even know Darth Vader was his father. Equally as impressive was who set that record in 1981 -- Alex Baumann, who three years later would set the world record in the event on his way to one of his two Olympic golds in Los Angeles. "I know he's a gold medallist," White said. "And I know he's a legend for Canadian swimmers." White locked his focus on the record of 2:02.78 after earning a silver medal with a time of 2:04.30 at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in January. Knowing he wasn't shaved or fully tapered, White knew he was capable of more. After qualifying sixth at the world trials, White delivered the swim he knew he had in him, taking four-tenths of a second off Baumann's mark, which was the oldest record in the country among swimmers 15 and older. Two weeks ago, the Grade 11 student at Iroquois Ridge High School added his name to the record books again, at the aptly named BDO National Record Challenge in Owen Sound. White shattered the short-course 200m IM record of twotime Olympian Tobias Oriwol. White's time of 1:58.26 cut more than a second off the decade-old record. "It was a little faster than even he really thought he could do," said Oakville Aquatics Club coach Sean Baker. "It was a pretty big jump, but he had been working toward that since the world championship trials." That capped a meet in which he had already added his name to the record books twice. White and his OAK teammates established new marks in 4x50m freestyle relay and the 4x50m medley relay. David Whiteside, Gamal Assaad and Bryce Kwiecien-Delaney joined him to shave .05 of the freestyle relay record with a time of 1:33.17. "We were biting our fingernails on that one," Baker said. With Matthew Mac replacing Whiteside for the medley relay, the fingernails got a reprieve as the OAK team took almost a full second off the record, finishing in 1:42.70. Those two records, coupled with two freestyle relays set at the world championship trials, gives OAK eight of the 10 national relay marks in the boys 15-17 age group. White and Kwiecien-Delaney have been a part of all eight while Assaad has been on seven of them. Whiteside, Omar Mahmoud Afara (three each), Peter Serles, Mac and Mitchell Gour (one each) have also contributed to OAK's rewriting of the record book. "It's pretty fun. It's a bunch of us, guys who have been together and moved up through the ranks together," he said. "We're all good friends and we're pretty tight. We're all working hard and pushing each other." Baker said it doesn't take much to motivate White. "He's always pushed himself," Baker said. "He's willing to do what we ask him to and he rarely, if ever, misses practice." White began with swimming lessons but showed a knack for it and his instructor suggested swimming competitively. He started at the age of nine but didn't immediately set the world on fire. "I was pretty average. I don't think I was amazing or anything," White said. "I just worked hard and got better." White is now representing his countries at international junior meets -- he'll travel to Spain and France for meets this summer but high-profile meets at home will also keep him busy. He'll compete at summer nationals and age group nationals and is one of six OAK swimmers -- Kwiecien-Delaney, Assaad, Annie Harrison, Marnie Oldershaw and Jacqueline Keire will also compete -- to qualify for the Canada Summer Games, where he'll swim four individual events. White says what he enjoys about swimming is that what you put into it, is what you get out of it. "I enjoy the racing and seeing that your hard work pays off," he said. "There's not any luck involved." Seeing members of his club excel at the university level and make it to the world championships and the Olympics only motivates him to work that much harder. It makes him think about following in the wake of not only the Olympians from his club, but of those whose records he is now breaking. "It's pretty much always on my mind," White said. "It's one of my goals."