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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday A ugust 13, 2003 - D3 Longhorns reach football title contest once again Oakville stampedes Oshawa 64-0, willface undefeated SaultSte. Marie in this weekend' s NFC championship By Jon Kuiperij OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF It will be a battle of the unbeaten in this weekend's Northern Football Conference championship game. The Oakville Longhorns reached their 12th consecutive NFC title match with a 64-0 pounding o f the Oshawa Hawkeyes last Saturday at Bronte Athletic Field. It was the Longhorns' 21st straight victory in postseason play as the team looks for its 11 th league title in a row. Standing in 8-0 Oakville's way are the similarly undefeat ed Sault Ste. Marie Steelers, who ground out a 21 -11 win over Mississauga in their semifinal contest. Due to a quirk in this year's NFC schedule, Oakville and Sault Ste. Marie did not meet in regular season action. The Longhorns and Steelers have met twice before in the champi onship game, with Oakville prevailing 38-3 in 2000 and 3514 in 1996. The winner of this weekend's matchup at Bronte will trav el to Oshawa Sept. 20 for the Canadian final. As it has all season, the Longhorns defence set the tone against Oshawa, forcing several turnovers and scoring a pair o f touchdowns. Leading the way were linebackers Wayne Sliwinski, Vince Rinella, Craig Davoren and Ian Sutherland, who combined to shut down Oshawa's rushing attack. Rinella recovered a fum ble and returned it for a major score. Nose tackle Dwayne Scott recorded a sack, three tackles for losses and two hurries while defensive end Delroy Sutherland collected four tackles, several hurries, a batted ball and an interception. In the secondary, Chris Downs picked off two Hawkeye passes, bringing one back 47 yards for a touchdown. Comerback Kris Aiken made five tackles and returned a punt for a score while David Stipe had six tackles, a sack and two hurries. Offensively, the tandem of Derwin Phillips and Chad Kennedy combined with a solid performance by the Oakville offensive line to rush for 169 yards. Phillips scored a pair of touchdowns and quarterback Mark Demerling threw for 179 yards and three majors. Receiver Theon James, projected by the Longhorns' coaching staff as the NFC's rookie of the year, caught five passes, including a 71-yard reception. The NFC championship game is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Saturday. With a win, Oakville would hold the all-time record for most conference titles. The Longhorns currently share the mark of 13 with the Sudbury Spartans. Chantal Ayotte · Oakville Beaver Oakville L onghorns rookie receiver Theon Jam es looks to elude the tackle of O shaw a defender Jason H inds d u ring S a tu rd ay 's N orthern Football Conference semi-final contest at B ronte Athletic Field. Jam es caught five passes on the day, including a touchdow n reception, as Oakville ham m ered the Hawkeyes 64-0. T he Longhorns will play in th eir 12th consecutive NFC cham pionship game this weekend against the Sault Ste. M arie Steelers. Select squad runs table to repeat as champs at Ottawa ball tournament The Oakville Selects Little League team of 11 -year-olds was only too happy to watch history repeat itself at the recent Scott Tokessey Memorial Tournament in Ottawa. It defended its tournament champi onship -- which it won last year as `tenners' -- with a 5-2 win over Stoney Creek. It capped off an undefeated tourna ment for Oakville as it won their pre liminary round robin games, 6-0 over Kanata, 17-7 over East Nepean and 10-0 over Carlingwood. Oakville blazed out to a 5-0 lead in the championship game. Stoney Creek pushed both of their runs across in the sixth and final frame and were actually threatening more but O akville pitcher Jordan McNamee-Lamb, with two out and one on, struck out the Creek's clean up hitter to clinch the victory. In the previous inning, Stoney Creek also loaded up the bases with two out, but a great catch by Darrel Nunns in centre field ended the threat. Matt Schwann got things off to a great start retiring the side in the first two innings, including four strikeouts. He also helped his cause with a dou ble. Cole Killingbeck brought him in with a RBI single. Nunns' surprising two-out bunt led to two more runs and a 3-0 lead. Bruce Lombard allowed only two hits in his two innings, including three strikeouts. N unns's RBI single brought in Killingbeck to make it 4-0. It was that way until the sixth inniing when catcher Graeme Scott (dou ble) scored on David Venturi's single. Here's a recap of the preliminary round: Oakville 6, Kanata 0: Tyler Shiplo had two hits, two runs scored and a RBI. Oakville utilized an excellent team defence, along with strong pitch ing from Schwann and McNameeLam b, to* shut down Kanata. McNamee-Lamb added two singles and a RBI. O akville 17, East N epean 7: a slugfest, to put it mildly. Oakville was down four runs after two innings, but the local bats came to life in the third with 12 batters coming to the plate, scoring eight runs. They added six more in the fourth and three in the fifth, as Oakville won going away. Killingbeck's three run double was the hitting highlight. Oakville 10, Carlingwood Frank Ryan 0: a mercy in four.innings. Ryan Tobias got Oakville off and runing with a run-scoring triple. Venturi drew three walks and scored three runs to aid the early exit o f CFR. Pitchers Liam Darcy and Will Brandes com bined for the four innings. Players and coaches of the O akville Little League select 11-year-old squad pose for a picture after defeating Stoney C reek to win the recent Scott Tokessey M em orial T ournam ent in O ttaw a. Oakville went undefeated in its four games to win the title, which it also claim ed last year. Local cycling team overcomes odds By Jon Kuiperij OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF You can score one for the proverbial "little guy". The Oakville-based Atlas/Italpasta cycling team, with a miniscule budget compared to many of its competitors, finished second overall at a recent week-long com petition in British Columbia. Canadian national team members Andrew Pinfold and Joe Giuliano teamed up with Jeffrey Hansen, Patrick Shea, Alex Lavallee and David Whyman to win a pair of stages during the event, which featured stops in Delta, Gaston and White Rock. "It's very hard to finish second over all because you have to be extremely consistent," said John Harris, director o f the A tlas/Italpasta professional squad. "There were seven races over there... we did pretty damn good." The strong performance in British Columbia was just one of several solid outings by Atlas/Italpasta athletes in recent competition. Giuliano finished eighth at the Canadian cycling champi onships in Hamilton earlier this year while Oakville resident Antoine Varghese finished third in the 2002 nationals. Although Varghese is the lone Oakville representative, the team meets and trains at Harris' residence on Westview Terrace. "I take a lot of pride in getting guys to train out of here and try my best to promote the team in this a re a " said Harris, himself a former professional cyclist. "We've been here 10 years but four years ago we made a big move to go pro and make a difference in cycling." Members of the team were also in action last weekend in the Montreal to Quebec race, spanning 270 kilometres. Hi my name is Aaron I enjoy delivering the Oakville Beaver newspaper. 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