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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday December 10, 2003 - D3 The O akville R angers m in o r b a n ta m AAA rep team with th eir second tourney triu m p h . BACK ROW : I.ino L ucciantonio (asst, coach), Robbie L ucciantonio, Spencer M etcalfe, G ra n t K o/lik, Roger C am pbell (asst, tra in e r). P atrick M arsh , Steven G uzzo, A dam DiNlarco, Dan S tothers (coach). M ark Borcsok, Sam O ld and F ra n k W atts (train er). M ID DLE ROW : M ichael B aird. Anthonv Scalia, Tyler S to th ers. C am eron W atts, Jo n a th a n B rand and Scott Benzoni. FR O N T ROW : David C lem ent an d Kevin C am pbell. A BSEN T F R O M PH O TO : Spencer Sgro. They're on a tourney tear The Oakville Rangers minor bantam AAA rep team probably wish their entire regular league schedule was in a tournament for mat. This past weekend, they took top honours at the Chatham tournament. In four tournaments this year, they now boast two championships and one runner-up. And they don't come much more exciting than this past w eekend's tri umph with Adam DiM arco's goal with 58 seconds remaining, assisted by Tyler Stothers and Sam Old. seal ing a 2-1 win over host Chatham Cyclones. Chatham had opened the scoring on the first shift of the game but Oakville got that one back in the middle frame on a goal by Robbie Lucciantonio. assisted by Patrick Marsh and Steven Guzzo. Oakville cruised through the pre liminary round with three wins and a tie. Here's the recap: OAKVILLE 3. Chatham 0: in a preview o f the championship game. Kevin Campbell notched the shutout while goals were scored by Patrick Marsh, Mark Borcsok and Jonathan Brand. Assists went to Borcsok. Brand. Scott Benzoni and Spencer Sgro. O AKVILLE 9. Ann Arbor Wolverines 3: goals were scored by Steven G uzzo (2), Robbie Lucciantonio (2). Tyler Stothers, Patrick Marsh. Scott Benzoni. Spencer M etcalfe and Mark Borcsok. Assists went to Stothers (2). Anthony Scalia (2), Guzzo. Lucciantonio, Marsh. Benzoni. Adam D iM arco and Jonathan Brand. OAK VILLE 4. York-Simcoe Express 3: O akville elim inated York-Simcoe on goals by Tyler Stothers (2). Patrick Marsh and Jonathan Brand. Assists went to Anthony Scalia (2). Scott Benzoni. Steven Guzzo. Robbie Lucciantonio and Spencer Metcalfe. OAKVILLE 2. London Knights 2: Oakville needed great goaltending by David Clement and two late goals, both by Tyler Stothers. to forge the tie. A ssists w ent to ·Anthony Scalia. Spencer Metcalfe. Patrick Marsh and Sant Old. (REGULAR LEAGUE) After four straight losses the Rangers got back on their winning ways with a hard fought 3-1 topping o f the visiting Hamilton Bulldogs on Nov. 30. An early one-goal lead by the home side was short-lived but the persistent Rangers netted two more in the third for their win. Anthony Scalia netted two goals and Mark Borcsok potted the other. Assisting on the plays were Scott Benzoni (2) with singles to Tyler Stothers. Jonathan Brand. Spencer Sgro and Adam DiMarco. On Dec. 2. the Rangers absorbed a tough 7-4 loss to host Guelph Storm, unable to hold a 4-1 lead, heading into the third period. Goal scorers for O akville were Tyler Stothers. Robbie Lucciantonio. Sam Old and Scott Benzoni while assists were earned by Cam Watts (2). Spencer Sgro. Michael Baird. Steven Guzzo, Anthony Scalia and Stothers. Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver M aurice Sm ith (white jersey) is in the thick of the play in recent action against H um ber College. Sheridan became the top ranked team in O ntario with this win over H um ber and then went into the C hristm as break with a win over Seneca on Tuesdav of last week. Bruins head into Christmas on a roll, top ranked college team in Ontario The Sheridan Bruins, now ranked number one in Ontario and fourth in Canada, sleep walked to a 77-60 w in over the Seneca Sting on Tuesday of last week in North York. Other than the win. the only thing noteworthy about the game was that it was coach Jim R ack's 300th career college win, and rather fitting in that it happened at Seneca where he started his coaching career. The Bruins came out in mem orable fashion, firing on all cylin ders for a 41-20 lead but than mailed in the rest of the game. That allowed Seneca to cut it to 41-28 at the break, followed by eight in a row to open the sec ond half to cut the deficit to 4136. Five minutes into the second half, Sheridan finally sunk a bas ket, which was immediately answered back by Seneca (4338). The Bruins, however, man aged a 15-point run (58-38) before both teams closed out the game basically turning the ball over to each other. Bashir Musse led the way for Sheridan with 25 points and six rebounds. Louis Moore and Geoff Proctor added 11 points each. Wayne Jones scored eight and dished out six assists. Andrew Foster and Omari Henry controlled the boards with nine rebounds each. The Bruins raised their league record to 3-0 and will be off until after Christmas when they will host the New Balance Invitational. Also taking part will be #14 Niagara. Sir Sanford Fleming and Lacite. TOURNEY Midgets go through .500 stretch With an opportunity to gain a stranglehold on first place the Oakville Rangers midget AAA rep team ran into the injury bug and a string of highly motivated opponents bent on raining on the Rangers' parade to go 2-1-2 in their past five games. The Rangers sandwiched back to back losses between two o f their finest outings in league play this season. OAKVILLE 1. Brampton 1 (Nov. 19-home): in this battle for first place, once again nothing was resolved as the teams skated to their third tie in three games. Badly out-shot 28-15 by the Battalion, the Rangers rode the spectacular goaltending of Mike Binnington to claim the point. Binnington contributed at both ends o f the ice as he joined Carson Jenkin to help out on Mike Galbraith's lone Ranger marker. OAKVILLE 2, Burlington Eagles 0 (Nov. 21-home): the Rangers came through with a solid effort at both ends of the rink to notch their second victory over the resurgent Eagles. Chris Peebles opened the scoring mid way through the first period on a two-man advantage. Ryan Badham and John Davitskv assisted. Davitsky blasted a drive to the top shelf directly off o f the face-off for an unassisted short-handed goal and his second point o f the game. Matt Pike stopped 15 shots for his third shutout of the season. Halton 4. OAKVILLE 2 (Nov. 23-away): bent on playing lion-killer. the Hurricanes caught the Rangers short of healthy bodies and handed the guys their second defeat of the season. John Fairclough bagged a goal and an assist and then rejoined teammate David Dobrinsky on the injury list with another shoulder injury. Steve Wheeler also found the twine for the Rangers. Connor Farris. David Denino and Chris Peebles picked up the other helpers. Hamilton 4. OAKVILLE 1 (Nov. 27-home): after being on the receiving end of the lion's share of the bounces in a previous 6-0 decision over the Bulldogs, the Rangers were repaid by the hockey Gods with a 3-0 deficit after the first ten minutes. Although the Rangers were short five regulars, they bounced back to blitz the Hamilton keeper with 29 shots over the next two peri ods. Despite the barrage. Mike Turner on a short-handed breakaway, was the only Ranger to beat the red-hot keeper. Dan Ringwald set up the play. OAKVILLE 9. Guelph 2 (Nov. 30-home): following two successive setbacks, the Rangers needed a spirited effort and they came through big time against an over matched opponent also hobbled by injury and illness. The Storm opened the scoring in the opening minute but from then on it was all Oakville as 11 Rangers hit the score sheet. The Rangers led 3 -1 after one period, 6-2 after two and then coasted to victory with three third period goals. John Davitsky and John Fairclough each bagged a pair o f goals while singles went to Chris Peebles. Andrew Antidormi, Carson Jenkin. Steve W heeler, and Dan Ringwald. Ryan Badham and Ringwald added a pair of assists. Singles went to Fairclough. Peebles, Conor Kelly and Shane Jackman. In exhibition action on Sunday. Nov. 30, Sheridan lost to host Rochester University 79-76. The flu bug hit the Bruins with only eight players making the trip. Sheridan trailed 37-28 at the break but came back to make a game of it against the NCAA Division 3 school that won their conference championship last year. Bashir Musse scored 29 of his game high 33 points in the sec ond half. Blades host weekend pair at Ice Sports In the long provincial junior A hockey season, there's bound to be momentum swings. The O akville Blades just have to be grateful they sal vaged an overtim e goal by Ryan Ellis with just nine sec onds left to edge Bram alea Blues 6-5 on Sunday night. The win snapped a m inor spiral o f two straight losses which was preceded by two straight ties which was pre ceded by a six-gam e win streak. The goal also som ew hat erased the sting o f giving up the tying goal to Bramalea with only 19 seconds left in regula tion time. The game started out as a low scoring affair with Bramalea tying things up at 22 less than two minutes into the third period. This started a barrage by both teams with the Blades, replying with a pair within the next minute for a 4-2 lead. A couple of minutes later Bramalea tied it up at 4-4 with a pair a minute and a half apart. Oakville then took a 5-4 lead with less than eight min utes remaining. Ellis opened the scoring, as well as ending it, and single markers were added by Roger Kim, Rico A rnaldo, Steve Pinizzotto and Nick Dodge. Pinizzotto also had three assists to go with his goal. Single helpers were added by Tyler W ooddisse, Ellis and Brad McKenzie. Oakville, who dropped a 4-3 decision in M ississauga Saturday night against the Chargers, were in action last night (Tuesday) in Streetsville against the Derbys. U PC O M IN G The Blades have a pair in Oakville at Canlan Ice Sports, hosting Bram pton Friday at 8:15 p.m . and Buffalo on Saturday at 6:45 p.m. Three road wins in one week Three road games in one week did not deter the Oakville Rangers m inor peewee AAA rep team from a perfect week. H ere's a recap: OAKVILLE 4. St. Catharines 2 (Dec. 1): Oakville forged a two goal lead, both goals by Nicolas Kashty. St. Catharines mounted a comeback but their two goals were immediately replied by Oakville on m arkers by Dylan C ooper and Ricky Bota. Assists went to Brett Lee. defencem an Tyler Shiplo. Erie Jackson, Ryan M cG illivray and defencem an Kyle Dube OAKVILLE 8. Guelph 2 (Dec. 4): Oakville broke open a 1-1 tie with four goals in the second period and three in the third period before Guelph closed out the scoring with three seconds rem aining. G oals w'ere scored by Braeden Corbeth (2). Tyler Badham, Brett Lee. N icolas Kashty, Dylan Cooper, Ricky Bota and Andrew O 'B rien. Assists went to Tyler Shiplo (3), C orbeth (2). Scott W ilson (2). O 'B rien. Badham. Cooper. Lee. Kashty. Bota. Ryan McGillivray and Eric Jackson. OAKVILLE 3. Grey Bruce 0 (Dec. 7): Brandon Lane was full value for the shutout especially in the first period when the homeside outplayed O akville. O akville's goals all came in the third period by Brett Lee. defenceman Mike Scon and Tyler Badham. Assists went to Scott. Eric Jackson. Scott Wilson, defenceman Nathaniel Domagala. Lee and Andrew O 'B rien. PR O V IN C IA L JU N IO R A - west conference W T OTL GP L GF GEORGETOWN 209 33 29 2 2 0 HAMILTON 22 7 1 1 169 31 30 O A K V ILLE 21 7 2 0 125 MILTON 32 20 11 0 1 151 2 MISSISSAUGA 14 31 15 0 143 BURLINGTON 31 11 16 1 91 3 STREETSVILLE 33 9 17 6 1 96 BRAMALEA 34 19 10 2 3 105 BRAMPTON 104 33 9 1 0 23 34 7 89 BUFFALO 23 3 1 Does not include Tuesday niglu game: Oakville at Streetsville GA 87 98 80 111 149 134 128 154 171 166 PTS 60 46 44 41 32 26 25 25 19 18 GAA 2.64 3.16 2.67 3.47 4.81 4.32 3.88 4.53 5.18 4.88 Novice AAA's are in third place at 9-6-3 The Oakville Rangers novice AAA rep team have settled for a split o f their last four games. Here are the results: OAKVILLE 4, Burlington 1: a strong Matthew Kaslik lost his shutout bid with just 11 seconds to go. Goals were scored by Cole Cassels (2), Ryan Toor and Luke Shiplo. H akon 6. O A K V ILLE 2: O akville scored the first two goals and were still up 2-1 going into the third. But the upset was<A A > n 't to be for this game. Halton, who boast ed a perfect 15-0 record going into the game, lied it up shortly into the third and delivered the big blow with just over five minutes left in the game, blasting in four goals -- including two shorthanded -- in a 1:56 span. Goalie Jake Smith was great for Oakville. Oakville goals were scored by Conor McGlynn and C onnor Stack. O A K V ILLE 4. G uelph 2: O akville goals were scored by Luke Shiplo. Connor Stack, C onor McGlynn and Kevin Guzzo. Assists went to Cole Taylor. Danny Beaver. Sean Perichak and Kamil Tkaczuck. Welland 3. O AKVILLE 2: Oakville were edged in a proverbial four-point game for second place, unable to hold a 2 -1 third period lead. Goals were scored by Kristyn C apizzano and defencem an Kamil Tkaczuk. The young Rangers currently sit in third place in their division with a 9-6-3 record. To join oar delivery teem cell 905-845-9742 You could become a carrier of the week? Winning Carriers receive a large 3 topping pizza courtesy of: AA' team was undefeated in November with an impressive 8-0 record Rangers while Paterson Farrell, Brent Stevenson and Mike Morris added singles. O A K V ILLE 8. C aledon 1: Jordan Herman provided the offensive spark with a hat trick while Mike Morris and Jamie A rm strong extended their goal scoring streak to three games as they each chipped in with a pair of goals. Aaron Heffelfinger added a single tally. Jonathan Newhouse had three assists. OAKVILLE 8, Orangeville I: Brent Stevenson was the top point man scoring one goal and adding two helpers, while Mike Morris had two goals and Francesco Stalteri added two assists. Jam ie A rm strong. Jonathan N ew house. Peter Copeland. Adrian Parisotto and Zac Ruys recorded single goals. OAKVILLE 6. Ancaster I: top point man was Paterson Farrell with two assists and a goal. Aaron Heffelfinger netted two goals while Jacob Liptok. Phil Hampton and Mike Morris added singles. OAKVILLE 8. Stoney Creek 6 (Nov. 28): the Rangers blasted out to a 7-2 lead against the league leaders and then held on. This game taught the boys a lesson in the importance of playing three full periods of hockey. Jordan Herman led the way with a five-point night, including a hat trick. Paterson Farrell had a goal and three helpers, and Peter Copeland added three assists as well. Adding a pair o f goals each were Adrian Parisotto and Zac Ruys. O A K V ILLE 7, M ilton 4: Peter Copeland muscled his way to a four-point night while Brent Stevenson added two goals and an assist. Adrian Parisotto, Phil Hampton and Jamie Armstrong added sin gles. The O ak \ille Rangers minor peewee AA rep team had an impressive month of November, as they were undefeated in league play, outscoring their opponents 5620. outshooting them 301-152 and racking up an 8-0 record. H ere's the recap: OAKVILLE 3. Ancaster 1 (Nov. 1): Aaron Heffelfinger led the way with two goals and Paterson Farrell chipped in two assists. Jamie Armstrong had the other Ranger goal. OAKVILLE 10. Guelph 2 (Nov. 2): scoring for Oakville were Mike Morris. Jamie Armstrong. Paterson Farrell with tw o each w hile Jacob Liptok. Adrian Parisotto, Jordan Herman and Aaron Heffelfinger added singles. O A K V ILLE 6. C aledon 4: Jam ie A rm strong netted three goals for the O n t a r i o ' * # 1 P iz z a ,/ , T h e Oa k v il l e B e a v e r ,