Skate Oakville hosting synchro skating gala Sunday Kaitlyn Chubb and Alexander Moses, who won gold in juvenile dance at sectionals earlier this month, will be among the skaters participating in Sunday's Skate Oakville Gala of Synchronized Skating at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. | photo courtesy of Danielle Earl Photography 29 | Friday, November 28, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Canadian national team member Alaine Chartrand will be a special guest at Skate Oakville's Gala of Synchronized Skating event Sunday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Chartrand, who recently won a bronze medal at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Moscow, will be joined at the gala by Oakville EDGE synchronized skating teams as well as several local figure skaters who competed at the Skate Canada Central Ontario Sectional Championship and Pre-Juvenile/Juvenile Invitational earlier this month in Georgetown. The gala will take place from 2-4 p.m. In addition to the on-ice skating action, a silent auction and bake sale will also be held. Sectional competitors who will skate at the gala include pre-novice skater Julianne Li, novice Emma Dinda and the dance teams of Kaitlyn Chubb/Alexander Moses and Gina Cipriano/Bradley Keeping-Myra. Chubb and Moses won gold in juvenile dance at sectionals, while Cipriano and Keeping-Myra earned bronze in novice dance and will represent their club at the Skate Canada Challenge next month in Montreal. The pre-novice dance team of Angel Green and Matthew Snowden finished fifth at sectionals and earned a wild-card entry into the Skate Canada Challenge. Other Oakville skaters to win medals in Georgetown were Lauren Birchenough (bronze in pre-juvenile under-14 women) and Tayler Mackey (bronze in juvenile U14 women). Adding top-five finishes were Yasemin Zeki (fifth, pre-juvenile U11 women), Eugene Zhang (fourth, pre-juvenile U11 men), Jaime Gabbard (fifth, juvenile U11 women), Sarah Shelley (fourth, juvenile U14 women), Madison Shaw (fifth, juvenile U14 women) and the team of Shelby Sondej/Keith Dinda (fifth, pre-juvenile dance). Oakville Soccer Club receives excellence award from OSA The Oakville Soccer Club announced Wednesday that it has been awarded a Gold Ontario Soccer Association Club Excellence Award for 2015. The award, presented on a two-year cycle, recognizes those that have met the standards for Ontario-based excellence among member clubs. The OSA's Club Excellence Awards are a province-wide recognition program for effectively-run soccer clubs, offering safe, healthy and enjoyable environments for all involved. The award is made up of criteria at three different levels (Bronze, Silver and Gold). Clubs are able to achieve any level of the Club Excellence Award, provided evidence of the criteria has been achieved from the preceding level. Achievement of the Club Excellence Award is a combined effort from the club, district associations, leagues and the OSA. "We are very proud to receive this award," OSC executive director Dave Harris said. "It is a credit to the club's volunteers, staff and board of directors who, collectively, ensure that the club is meeting the expectations of its membership each and every day. This is an award that shows we are amongst the very best in the province. "OSC congratulates all other OSA member clubs who have received the Gold, Silver and Bronze Award for their collective efforts". www.oakvillebeaver.com Oakville Indoor Golf Centre Oakville's BEST Indoor Golf Facility Now Open for a 10th Season! Indoor Play, Practice and Instruction in 5 PGA Tour Simulators Exceptional Regular and Corporate Pricing in a unique showroom setting Great Gifts for Golfers: - OIGC Gift Card Golf & Fitness Products at exceptional OIGC prices!! Undefeated Hornets host Toronto Saturday Nikki Cece came within 39 seconds of her fourth straight shutout as the Oakville Hornets defeated the Aurora Panthers 3-1 Wednesday to remain unbeaten in 21 Provincial Women's Hockey League games this season. Wednesday's contest was scoreless through two periods, but Jazz Kennedy, Olivia Atkinson and Loren Gabel scored to give Oakville a 3-0 lead less than seven minutes into the third. Oakville should be challenged to keep its undefeated mark intact tomorrow (Saturday) when it hosts the 14-2-1 Toronto Aeros at Joshua's Creek Arenas. Game time is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. TO A Game Based LearninG Soccer Player Development InnovatIve technIques to Develop InDIvIDual skIll Brain Based LearninG soccer player Development Both NoW IN oAKVILLE! 905-467-2775 Learn more anD register at POWERED BY aPeXFootYLaB.com XFootYLaB.com Program Director: Dino LoPez www.oigc.ca 461 N. Service Rd. #20 & 21 (Just East of Fourth Line) 905-469-3535