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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e s d a y July 2, 2003 - C7 Harrison Smith · Oakville Beaver ON THE BALL! the annual Oakville international soccer tournament wrapped up with the cham pionship games on Monday. See upcoming edition for tournament wrap-up. These photos feature action from Saturday's pre liminary round. In the left photo, the Oakville Strikers (white jerseys) played the Burlington Lightning in the U -Il division. In the right photo, the Oakv ille Gunners hosted one of the farthest flung teams. Lac St. Louis from Quebec, in the U-13 division. Pair are provincial champions In sports you never take anything for granted, just ask the Toronto Argos. But there was definitely no surprise at the gold medal brought home from the recent provincial rhythmic gym nastics championships by Oakville's Kirby Palkovic and her good friend and partner Karah Klodt of Burlington. The pair, who were competing in the 9 / 10-year-old duet category, also won the gold medal in the provincial qualifier and in all the tune-up meets they competed in. Palkovic. a 10-year-old. Grade 4 student at River Oaks Public School, also added to her hardware in the indi vidual category. She won the bronze overall with a silver in her free routine and a bronze for her hoop routine. It was a step onto the podium for Palkovic who was fourth overall at the provincial qualifier. The Oakville resident, who trains 13 hours a week, will move up an age category next year and is working hard to become a national level athlete. Oakville's Kirby Palkovic and Burlington's Karah Klodt (right photo) dominated their rhythmic gymnastic pairs competition. Palkovic (left photo) also made the podium in the individual competition. `Horns improve to 5-0, host Tri-City this Saturday, 6 p.m. at Bronte Field The Oakville Longhorns are after And one thing, for sure, is that the their 11th straight National Football two teams with the poorest records in Conference title and fourth straight the NFC weren't going to stop th e m -- Canadian Senior M en's Football even on their own home turf. championship. Thus, last Friday, the `Horns defeated Markham Raiders 51-0. The result extended both teams records to five straight wins/losses, respectively. The previous week, the Horns had defeated the winless Sudbury Spartans 55-0. T hat's 106-0 in two successive weeks over the league's bottom feeders. The scary thought is that this week the Horns are at home against one of the league's new franchises. Tri-City Outlaws. Tri-City sports a 3-2 record. Game time is Saturday, 6 p.m. at Bronte Athletic Field. Buzz open series with first ever playoff win The O akville B uzz's first ever post season game was a m emorable one as they kicked off a best o f five series in Barrie on Sunday with an 11-9 win. Jason LeGree played a great game in net and the defence in front o f him was awesome. O akville was up 3-1 after the first period, but down 6-5 going into the third period. sealed their win. Buzz goals were scored by w ere scored by M organ T henhaus (3), Brendan Thenhaus (2). Steph LeBlanc (2), Trevor Colm , Joel Leveille, David Brock and Josh Smyth. U P C O M IN G The Buzz hosted their first ev er hom e playoff gam e on Monday night at M aplegrove. B ecause o f C anada Day on Tuesday, that gam e went beyond this w eek's W ednesday dead line. The Buzz play game three Thursday night in Barrie. If necessary, gam e four would be back in O akville on Saturday night, 8 p.m ., at M aplegove and game five would be back in Barrie on Sunday. National team makes first ever appearance in Oakville on Sunday O akville's Double Blue Basketball is back with much more than their annual C an/A m challenge this weekend. They have scored a rem arkable coup in attract ing C anada's national team for a gam e against an A m erican NCAA all-star team, tentatively slated for this Sunday at 6 p.m. It's the first ever appearance by C anada's national team in Oakville. All action takes place at Sheridan I.T.'s JM Porter gym. The touring American all-star team will also play a local all-star team, play ing under the O akville M addawgs banner. Those two gam es will be held on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday at noon, the latter one serving as a lunchtim e m atinee for Double B lue's sum m er cam p kids. The M addaw gs will be led by form er Sheridan Bruins all-tim e college great Shane Bascoe and h e'll be joined by a host o f form er NCAA division 1 and CIS all-stars. Double Blue and the M addawgs program is led by O akville's Dave Ferencina, the head coach of the Iroquois Ridge High School team. He said the team rosters will be released today (W ednesday). The annual Can-Am challenge between the M addawgs and an NCAA all-star team was kicked off in 2000. The NCAA won both gam es last year. For information call: Dave Ferencina, president and head coach at (905) 844-4166 or email: dferencina@ cogeco.ca. The Buzz had a great third period and an empty net goal w ith tw o seconds rem aining Sheridan grad on national junior team staff Oakville resident Joe Coccimiglio, the head athletic trainer for the Toronto St. Michael's Majors, has been select ed as a therapist for the 2004 Canadian junior world squad. The announcement was made by Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League. Coccim iglio, who graduated from Sheridan College's athletic therapy program after a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at McMaster University, has spent the past five seasons with the Majors. This will be Coccimiglio's sec ond international position. Previously, Coccimiglio served as head athletic trainer for Team Ontario, which won a bronze medal, at the 2000 World Under17 Challenge. The Sault Ste. Marie native has also served as an assistant trainer at training camps for the 2000 sen ior m en's national team and for the 1999 under-18 national team. Also in 1999, the Majors' head athletic trainer handled duties at the prepa ration cam p for the Canadian world junior squad. Mario Durocher. head coach of the QM JHL's Lewiston M AINEiacs (formerly the Sherbrooke Castors), has been named head coach of Canada's national junior team. The 2004 World Junior Hockey Championship will be held over the Christmas Holidays in Helsinki and Hameenlinna, Finland. Joe Coccimiglio, St. M ichael's Majors head athletic trainer, will help out Canada's world junior team this winter.