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Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports C O Z Y C O N F I N E S 51 | Thursday, November 20, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" Hawks seeded fourth in first trip to girls' AAAA basketball provincials by John Letherby Special To The Beaver Local rep baseball players like Wil Yamka (pictured, above) will now be able to work on their games throughout the offseason at Baseball Oakville's new indoor training facility on Speers Road. The centre, named Corbetts Dugout -- Home of Baseball Oakville (a.k.a. The Dugout), features 10,700 square feet of space and includes high-quality turf, pitching machines, portable pitching mounds and a parent viewing area. | photo by Michael Ivanin -- Special to the Beaver Complaint about offensive hockey team name prompts Oakville league to adopt new policy by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor Walk into any arena where adult recreational hockey is being played, and you're likely to snicker at at least one of the team names displayed on screens that show the dressing room assignments. Some names are innocent and clever, like the No Regretzkies (Oakville Recreational Hockey League), the JagrMeisters (Burlington's Wave Hockey League) or Here 4 Beer (pretty much any league in the country). Others push the envelope a bit more with double entendres and lewd connotations. You might start seeing less of the latter, thanks to a local woman who recently complained to the Adult Safe Hockey League's Oakville division about the fact that one of its team's names was a slang term for vaginas. The complaint led ASHL Oakville manager Rick Jones to immediately change the name of the squad, replace its jerseys with free ones provided by the league and make changes to other team names that also could be viewed as being sexually suggestive or offensive to some people. Jones, who is part of a committee that oversees rule changes for the ASHL organization that runs leagues in 18 communities across Canada and the United States, also said that a new policy on team names and logos will be in place for next season. Currently, the only requirement for team jerseys in the ASHL rulebook is that all players must wear matching jerseys that are uniquely numbered. "(The team the woman complained about) has been here for six years and no one complained," said Jones, who added he and fellow office staff have long been uncomfortable with a number of team names in the league. "All it takes is one person, and we had to stop it immediately. The Beaver Bashers, the Bedroom Bullies, they're all gone. She brought awareness to it and we said, `You know what, these guys aren't going anywhere see Complainant on p.53 Sam Pocrnic and Jaelyne Kirkpatrick have been waiting a while for this chance. In fact, they've been waiting all of their high school basektball careers. This is the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations girls' basketball AAAA tournament, which gets underway today (Thursday) in Guelph. Loyola, the fourth seed in the competition, was scheduled to play its first game this morning against No. 10 Father Michael Goetz. The Hawks technically earned their OFSAA spot with a victory in last week's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference semifinals. But they took care of one more piece of unfinished business last Thursday, defeating the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic champion St. Thomas More Knights 58-49 to win their first-ever GHAC AAAA title. Pocrnic, a fifth-year student who returned to Loyola just to have an opportunity to play at OFSAA, scored 20 points in the win over More. Kirkpatrick, who recently committed to the University of Illinois, added 16. Jaelyne Kirkpatrick "I want to get a feel of what OFSAA Loyola Hawks guard is like and I felt like we would have a good team again. We have a lot of new Grade 9 (players) and they're very good," Pocrnic said. Pocrnic added the Hawks have been so close to making it to OFSAA in recent years, and this season, she didn't want to ask "What if?" in her final year. "We were always so close. We made it to Haltons (the regional championships), then went to GHAC and lost to St Thomas More, who had some very good players." For Kirkpatrick, whose talent has also caught the eye of the Canadian national cadet and junior women's teams, her sole focus right now is to help take her team as far as it can at OFSAA. "I have some goals before I go off to university and there are things that I felt I haven't accomplished yet. I honestly think we have the team to win it all. Girls have stepped up from the beginning of the year and the younger girls are showing leadership now, which is great," she said. Both Pocrnic and Kirkpatrick believe it's the feeling of team, the camaraderie, that has gotten the Hawks into a tournament that had eluded the school for so long. "I think for us, we need to realize how hard we've worked to be there. Not to get there and get all starry-eyed, because these are teams that have consistently made it to OFSAA," Kirkpatrick said. "We just need to keep our focus and we'll do well." Loyola coach Chris Pauletto said last week's GHAC victory over the Knights, the fifth seed at provincials, was a good motivator heading into OFSAA. "We beat them last year even without (current University of Consee Loyola on p.52 I honestly think we have the team to win it all.