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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday July 24, 2002 - D3 Oakville Little League juniors win district title; kick off provincials today The Oakville Little League junior team (14year-olds) hope to have a long stay in the nation's capital. Having convincingly won the district cham pi onship, capped off by their 13-0 win over Ancaster on Sunday, the Oakville team kick off the provin cial playdowns today (Wednesday) in Ottawa. The winner will remain in Ottawa, which is also hosting the national Little League championships. In Saturday's district championship. Oakville scored early and often, with four runs in the first inning, three in the second and six in the third. Oakville then rode this lead for two more innings until the mercy rule took into effect after the fifth. At the same time, Oakville pitchers closed down the Ancaster hitters. Ryan Tuske chalked up five strikeouts through three scoreless innings and Jordan Dicarlo kept the shutout going with three strikeouts over the final two innings. A highlight reel catch by Brendon Skeetes in centre field closed off any thoughts o f Ancaster get ting on the scoreboard. Travis Smith opened the game with a triple, along with adding two singles and an RBI for a good day's work. Scott DeGroot followed with two singles and an RBI. Not to be outdone, Zack Dickson also tripled, along with a single and two RBI's. Mark Keil and Jason Tuske joined the 'triple' club, Keil with three RBI's, Tuske with two ribbies. The well balanced Oakville attack was further augmented by Daniel Hanley's run scoring single, along with Roger Lambert's double, and singles by Kris Bonnell, Sergio Lujan, and Paul Jurgaitis. The provincial playdowns have to four-team pool playing a round robin. O akville plays Cornwall today (Wednesday), 5 p.m., Kanata on Friday, 7 p.m., and Cornwall on Saturday, 5 p.m. Keep tabs at www.kllba.org. 2002 JUNIOR LEAGUE ONTARIO 01ST 1 CHAM P 1 0 H S O a k ville L ittle L eague ju n io rs w in d istrict title . C O A C H E S : D a v e D ow n er, B ru n o J u rg a itis, D uke D ixon. BA C K ROW : M ark K eil, B rendon S k eetes, Z ack D ick son , Scott D eG root, R oger L am b ert, Ja so n Tuske, Paul J u r g a itis. F R O N T RO W : T ra v is S m ith , Jord an D icarlo, Sergio L u jan, K ris B on nell, D aniel H anley. Oakville A's bantam team wins Whitby tourney; prepares for national qualifier Hopefully peaking at the right time, the m ajor bantam Oakville A's seem to have found a groove. The A's will participate in a 15-team AAA rep district elimination tourna ment in Scarborough in early.August, a show dow n that will see the eventual survivor com pete in the national cham pionships in W indsor in mid-August. A nchored by outstanding starting pitching from Russell Gilroy, Conrad Bach and Anthony A m one, the A's sw ept to five straight victories, en route to winning a w eekend tournam ent in W hitby last w eekend (July 19-21). The A's opened the tourney with a narrow 3-1 victory over West Hill behind seven strong innings from Gilroy, and follow ed that with two m ore victories on Saturday, 12-5 against M arkham and 5-0 against Whitby. In the W hitby gam e, C hris Baluschak entered the gam e with the bases loaded and nobody out in the 5th inning and the A's clinging to a 2-0 lead. He proceeded to shut the door, and did not allow any runs in closing out the contest. Sunday's semifinal m atch-up saw Oakville outlast Ajax 4-3, with Bach pitching six strong innings and Gilroy earning a three-out save in the final frame. Joel P aterson cracked tw o hits, including a key RBI, for the winners. The cham pionship finale against N ew m arket saw O akville ride the strong arm o f A m one, who went the distance in a 6-1 victory. O akville's defence didn't hurt A m one's cause, as outfielders B aluschak and C hris Langlois both threw potential key runs out at the plate with the game still very much in the balance. Catcher Jesse Chiasson was an out standing field general for the A's, behind the plate for three of the w eek end victories. Robbie Bernard played a fine all-around gam e against hom e town favorite W hitby on Saturday and T hom as K arthaus was a consistent offensive threat all weekend long. After struggling early this season, the club, under the direction of m anag er Ed Bartucci and head coach Mel Swinton, began to jell in early June at a tournam ent in Brampton, losing to the eventual champion Brampton Red Sox in the tournam ent semifinal, after upset ting the highly-rated M ississauga Majors club to reach the playoff round. In late June, the A's rose to the occa sion in a major tournam ent in Stratford. One out from elim ination, Chris Baluschak slam m ed a tw o-out, last inning, gam e-tying home run against North York, a game the A's eventually won in extra innings. In the semifinals. Oakville upstaged their traditional rivals from High Park, com ing from far behind to win 7-6, with Robert M ckay and Brad Leeming two o f the hitting heroes for Oakville. The final hurdle in Stratford was one o f the toughest teams in the province, M ississauga North. A gain, effective pitching from A m one and Gilroy made the difference, along with the red-hot bat of lead-off hitter Conrad Back, and som e defensive gems by outfielder Kevin Crompton. (See 'A's' page D4) Hi my name is Clayton Reynolds. I have had my paper route with the Oakville Beaver for ly e a r and I enjoy delivering the papers very much. I'm 12 years old and I go to EJ James Public School. I'm going into grade 8 and my favorite sub jects are Art, Math. I like to watch movies with my friends and play games with my Sony playstaytion and skateboard. But the thing that a like doing best is Skateboarding and climbing the CN Tower for the United W ay and Clayton Reynolds raised $ 2 0 0 ' Winning Carriers receive a large 3 lopping pizza courtesy of: CMS W hitby tourney w inners. BA C K ROW: M el Sw inton (coach), Joel Paterson, Brad L eem ing, Russell Gilroy, A ndrew Bartucci, Ed Bartucci (m anager), C onrad Bach, Kevin C rom pton, R obbie Bernard and Iain C airns (coach). FR O N T ROW: Chris Langlois, Thom as K arthaus, Jesse M ejaski, Jesse C hiasson, C hris Baluschak and A nthony A rnone. ABSENT: Robert Mackay. OHt a y jo 'f # 1 P iz z a ,/ To join our delivery team call 905-845-9742 m l iitflf w em I I Ufa Oakville Hydro Electricity Distribution Inc. is your local electricity distributor. WE DO NOT GO DOOR-TO-DOOR SELLING ELECTRICITY. 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