www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, February 7, 2014 | 16 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Iroquois Ridge student Daniel Xia won the open boys' 16-and-over 100-metre breaststroke at Tuesday's Halton high school swimming championships in Hamilton. | photo by Nikki Wesley -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Georgetown dominates team standings at Halton swim meet But Oakville entries combine to win 25 individual or relay gold medals Only a division win by St. Thomas Aquinas prevented Georgetown from sweeping the 10 team titles up for grabs at Tuesday's Halton high school swimming championships at McMaster University in Hamilton. St. Thomas Aquinas won the open boys' division, with Georgetown claiming the rest of the girls', boys' and overall titles in the junior, senior and open divisions as well as the overall meet crown. Oakville boasted the other top-five finishers in the team point standings. Oakville Trafalgar (726 points) was a distant second to Georgetown (1,546), followed by Aquinas (616), Iroquois Ridge (590.5) and T.A. Blakelock (497). Abbey Park was seventh (401), Garth Webb was ninth (312) and White Oaks was 10th (249). Though Georgetown dominated the team point standings, Oakville entries combined to win 25 individual or relay events. Quincy Brozo (women's 50-metre free, 100m butterfly), Panos Papangelakiws (men's 100m free, 200m free) and Jess Oswald (women's 16-and-over 50m fly, 100m individual medley) led Aquinas with two individual golds each. Philip Mirek (mixed 100m freestyle para) won the Raiders' other individual gold, and Aquinas added a relay win in the open men's 200m medley (Tyler Wisner, Eric Hopkins, Panos Papangelakiws, George Papangelakiws). Garth Web's Khalid Askar (open men's 100m butterfly, 100m individual medley) was Oakville's other swimmer to win two individual gold. Also finishing atop the podium were Oakville Trafalgar's Scott Love (open men's 50m freestyle), Albert Nguyen (boys' 15-and-under 50m butterfly) and its men's 16-andover 200m freestyle relay team (Eugene Mech, Andrew Armstrong, Geoffrey Hawkswell, Alex Hayman); Iroquois Ridge's Rachna Dhanjal (girls' 16-and-over 50m freestyle), Jeffrey Wang (boys' 15-and-under 50m breaststroke), Daniel Xia (open boys' 16-and-over 100m breaststroke), Paige Lavergne (open women's 100m individual medley), its boys' 16-and-over 200m medley relay team (Chris Brennan, Matt Brennan, Xia and Wang) and its open men's 400m freestyle relay team (Justin Min, Clark Norris, Matt Brennan and Xia); T.A. Blakelock's Madeline Jeffrey (girls' 16-and-over 100m breaststroke), Mert Sehri (open men's 100m backstroke) and its girls' 16-and-over 200m medley relay team (Chrissa McDonald, Meredith Johnson, Charlotte Paterson and Jeffrey); Abbey Park's Osborn Zhang (open men's 100m breaststroke) and Caroline Lauder (girls' 16-and-over 100m freestyle); and White Oaks' Nicholas Pinney (boys' 15-andunder 50m freestyle). The top 14 finishers in each event at the Halton championships advanced to the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference meet, scheduled for Feb. 18 at McMaster. Qualifying spots for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations provincial championships must be earned by meeting specific time standards, which vary by the event. OFSAA will be March 4-5 in Brantford. MOHA announces AAA rep coaches for 2014-15 season The Minor Oaks Hockey Association recently announced the selections of six of its nine AAA rep coaches for the 2014-15 season. Coaches announced include Fab De Rango (novice), Jaan Luik (minor atom), Richard Holder (minor bantam), Roy Gringmuth (bantam), Tom Daley (minor midget) and Mike Bentivegna (midget). De Rango, Holder and Gringmuth will be moving up an age division with their current teams. Luik is coaching the minor peewee AAA Rangers this season, and Daley is working with the minor midget AAA Rangers. MOHA vice-president of rep Graham Burton said coaches of the atom, minor peewee and peewee AAA teams will likely be announced next week. A teams in same divisions will be balanced The MOHA also recently announced it will once again feature two rep teams in many A divisions of the Tri-County Minor Hockey League next season. However, unlike this year's pilot program when the Red team was selected before the Blue team, a draft process will be used to ensure the two teams are balanced as much as possible. "Oakville Red vs. Oakville Blue games were, arguably, some of the best hockey played this season," stated an MOHA release. "However, with one team being selected prior to the other, perhaps the only negative of the programming pilot was the animosity between the two teams. This worked contrary to our stated goal for agegroup coaches to create a strong working see A on p.17