The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports T E R C H O I ' S C U P 25 | Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" M A S Defending OFSAA champ Red Devils bow out early High school sports cer tournaments that start tomorrow (Thursday) at various locations around the province. The Loyola Hawks are seeded fifth in the senior boys' AAAA tournament in Toronto. Loyola, which got a goal from A.J. Martins to beat Hamilton Cardinal Newman 1-0 in Thursday's GHAC final, is pooled with London John Paul II, Ottawa St. Peter and Mississauga Our Lady of Mount Carmel. King's Christian Collegiate, the 2012 boys' A champion, is the No. 3 seed this year in Timmins. The Cavaliers are pooled with Windsor John L. Forster, Whitby St. Charles-Garnier, Waterford and Kenora St. Thomas Aquinas. Jordan Heritage Christian is the top seed. Aquinas is Oakville's other entry in OFSAA boys' soccer, competing in the AA tournament in Stratford. The Raiders will compete against Sarnia St. Christopher, Toronto St. Mary's, Kemptville St. Michael and Port Hope in round-robin play. In girls' action, the Holy Trinity Titans look to defend their AAAA title in Niagara Falls. The Titans, who won provincial gold on home turf last year, are GHAC's second entry after losing the conference final 2-0 to Bishop Reding Friday in Milton. Trinity, seeded seventh, is pooled with Brampton St. Edmund Campion, Pickering and Ottawa Glebe. King's will make its first appearance at the girls' A tournament, which will be contested in Hanmer. The Cavaliers are grouped with Charlottenburgh and Lancaster District, Windsor E.J. Lajeunesse and Sudbury Confederation. Medal games in all OFSAA soccer tournaments will be played Saturday. The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils won't be repeating as provincial high school girls' rugby champions. OT, the top seed at this week's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations AAA/AAAA tournament in Waterloo, was eliminated from medal contention yesterday (Tuesday) with a second-round 6-3 loss in penalty kicks to Waterloo Bluevale. The teams played to a scoreless draw in regulation. Bluevale was ranked eighth in the tournament, but that seeding might have been deceiving. The Knights knocked off second-ranked Brantford earlier this year and their seeding suffered when, already assured an OFSAA spot as tournament host, they lost to Brantford in the Central Western Ontario regional final. Oakville Trafalgar won its tournament opener Monday, defeating Hamilton St. Jean de Brebeuf 32-7. The Red Devils were scheduled to face 10th-ranked Syndenham yesterday in consolation bracket play. Aquinas ousted from A/AA rugby St. Thomas Aquinas also won't be bringing home a medal from girls' rugby provincials. The Raiders, the No. 6 seed at the A/ AA tournament, lost their second-round game 33-0 yesterday to third-ranked Clinton St. Anne's. Later in the day in consolation play, Aquinas fell to No.4 Grey Highland. Aquinas beat Toronto Blessed Mother Teresa 24-5 in opening-round action Monday. The Raiders were slated to take on Grey Highland yesterday afternoon in consolation play. Five teams at soccer provincials Five Oakville teams are in OFSAA soc- Horizon Taekwon-Do athlete Dasan Brown (left) delivers a kick against Leo Mo during a recent martial arts tournament the club hosted at Iroquois Ridge High School. The 2013 Master Choi's Taekwon-Do Cup drew more than 350 competitors from the U.S., Great Britain, Quebec and southern Ontario, including 80 from Horizon. Master Choi Hung Hwa, the son of the founder of taekwon-do, attended the meet, as did Oakville mayor Rob Burton and councillors Max Khan and Tom Adams. A number of senior masters from across the world were also in attendance, providing spectators with a demonstration during the mid-day break.| photo by Michael Ivanin -- Special to the Beaver OFSAA track and field will mark third provincial appearance of year for Loyola Grade 9 student by Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver Staff Kristin O'Neill is not your typical distance runner. Distance running is about pacing and choosing the right moment to strike. But where's the fun in that? "I like to take the lead at the beginning," O'Neill says. "The coaches always encourage me to hold back but I like being a front runner." "She never looks at anything but first place," says Barb Celestini, Loyola's track and field coach. O'Neill won the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference midget girls' cross-country title in the fall but Celestini said O'Neill wasn't happy with her 13th-place finish at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations meet. "I don't think she realizes how difficult it is to even qualify for OFSAA," Celestini said. You can see why the Grade 9 student might not grasp that concept. In the first nine months of her high school career, she has gone to OFSAA in cross-country, hockey -- where she led the Hawks in scoring on the way to a silver medal at the provincial championships -- and now track. O'Neill has not only been taking the lead at the beginning; more often than not, she has still been there at the end. After sweeping the 400-, 800- and 1,500-metre races at the GHAC meet, she took the 800m and 1,500m titles at last week's south region meet in St. Catharines. She also finished second in the 400m and anchored Loyola's second-place 4x400m relay team. O'Neill had not even run the 800m until GHAC, but won by more than eight seconds, turning in a time of two minutes, 24.99 seconds. At regionals, she knocked another six seconds off her time and won comfortably by three seconds. O'Neill has focused much of her attention on hockey -- "I mostly run to stay in shape," she says. Sister Bridget, who will run the senior girls' 800m and 1,500m and is also a see Blakelock on p.27