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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, October 31, 2014 | 24 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Loyola qualifies for OFSAA field hockey The Loyola Hawks are headed to their first-ever provincial high school field hockey championships. Loyola qualified for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations tournament with a 2-0 win over Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic champion St. Thomas More Knights Wednesday in Hamilton. Jade Thompson, a former member of the Ontario provincial team, scored both goals for the Hawks. Thompson and Katie Zonatta tallied for Loyola in Monday's Halton senior final, but the Hawks fell 3-2 to the Nelson Lords at Bronte Athletic Field. Loyola and Nelson were scheduled to face each other again yesterday (Thursday, after press deadlines) in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference championship game. The GHAC contest was strictly for seeding at OFSAA. The conference has two berths at provincials because it is hosting the tournament, Nov. 6-8 in Burlington. "I told all my girls that we come from a league with 26 teams that start playing in the second week of September," said Hawks coach Amanda Treacy, whose team was 6-2-1 during the regular season but upset the Burlington Central Trojans 3-1 in the semifinals. "It's a tremendous feat to be one of the last two still standing." Loyola Hawks player Jade Thompson (left) tries to get past a St. Thomas More Knights opponent Wednesday in Hamilton. Thompson scored twice as Loyola blanked the Knights 2-0 to qualify for the provincial high school field hockey championships. | Eric Riehl -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Skate Oakville sending largest-ever contingent to Central Ontario sectionals A club-record 37 Skate Oakville members, including five dance teams, will compete at the Skate Canada Central Ontario Sectional Championship this weekend in Georgetown. Skaters in the pre-novice to senior age levels will be attempting to qualify for the Skate Canada Challenge, which is scheduled for Dec. 3-7 in Montreal, Que. That event serves as the national championship for the prenovice level and as the last chance for skaters from novice to senior to qualify for the Canadian Tire Figure Skating Championships the following month in Kingston. Many Oakville skaters recently competed in invitational events in preparation for sectionals. Last weekend, Madison Shaw (juvenile under-14 group 3) won gold at the Octoberfest meet in Barrie, one of the largest invitational competitions on the local skating calendar. Angel Green (pre-novice group 7) earned silver, and top-five finishes were added by Lauren Birchenough, Eugene Zhang, Emma Skate Oakville will send 37 competitors to this weekend's Central Ontario sectional championships in Georgetown. | photo submitted Dinda and the dance teams of Shelby Sondej/ Keith Dinda and Gina Cipriano/Bradley Keeping-Myra. Emma Dinda (novice group 2) and Tatem Mackey (pre-juvenile under-14 group 4) claimed gold at the Isabelle Henderson Memorial Skating Competition last month in Paris, Ont. Tessa Sjolander (pre-novice group 6) and Jesse Dalby (pre-juvenile U14 group 1) collected bronze. Tayler Mackey, Natasha Beaudoin, Julia Wang, Melodie Grafton and Sondej finished in the top five of their divisions. Others who will compete at sectionals this weekend include Celine Dubroy-McArdle, Alaine Chartrand, Elisa Guliani, Timuray Gokdemir, Mackenzie Firth, Mina Mircetic, Phoenix Miller-Bush, Alexander Moses, Yasemin Zeki, Kaitlyn Chubb, Evangeline Liao, Julianne Li, Michelle Laplante, Kayley Monks, Isabella Del Villar, Sarah Shelley, Jaime Gabbard, Kristina Guatto, Shannon Bowman, Victoria Toscano, Lisa Morkovina and Matthew Snowdon.