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D2 - The Oakville Beaver, W ednesday September 29, 2004 At the `Septemberfest' Fencing Tournament at the RIM Centre in Waterloo, four gold medals were won by fencers who train at the C u n a d ia n P w neing A c a d a r o y V - Q akA alle Swwde-frTTCtn^-Club. Fifteen year old Duncan Legere, a Blakelock student, won two gold medals -- first in both cadet (U-17) and m en's foil. Oakville resident Alexandra Lyn earned gold in cadet and bronze in adult women's foil. Experienced club member Kirsten Ball took home the gold medal in women's adult foil. The event was part of the Ontario Challenge Circuit. This weekend, several club members will be traveling to Montreal this coming weekend to take on Canada's best fencers at the Canadian Selection Circuit #1 event. All those interested in the highly enjoyable recreational or competitive sport o f fencing can contact the club at www.oakvillefencing.ca. Oakville fencers triumphant at Waterloo Ice win on road, gear up for home openers \ * Duncan Legere and Kirsten Ball Alexandra Lyn Donati brothers overtime heroes for Oshawa Justin Donati had a hand in the OHL's fastest overtime goal ever as the Oshawa Generals edged the defending eastern con ference champion M ississauga IceDogs 2-1. The winner came four seconds into the extra frame as Generals centre Justin Donati won the draw and fed captain Brett Trudell. With the IceDogs nap ping, Trudell walked in unob structed and beat IceDogs netm inder David Shantz for Oshawa's second straight win. "You could tell they weren't ready off the draw," said Trudell. "I just told Justin to throw it out front. He did and it worked out." Trudell set a CHL record for fastest goal to start an overtime period, surpassing the five-sec ond mark set by Brad Clements of the Kingston C anadians in 1978, according to the Canadian Hockey League website. Justin's brother Tyler Donati -- both are form er longtim e Oakville Rangers players -- was the overtime hero on Friday as the Oshawa Generals won 3-2 over the Peterborough Petes. Justin wasn't quite as fast as his brother, though. It took him 2:57 to score. Ryan M clnerney got his first assist in his first OHL game for Sault Ste Marie, a 3 - 1 loss to Erie on Friday night, and then got his first goal in his second game, a 74 loss to Ottawa 67's on Sunday. Rob Hisey, E rie's leading scorer for the last two years got an assist in the game and Josh Disher got the save. Disher was in goal for Erie's second game 6-1 loss to host Sudbury on Sunday. Evan McGrath got an assist on the weekend as his Kitchener Rangers had the misfortune to open with a home and home against London Knights, the number one ranked team in the country. Kitchener lost the home portion 4-3 on Friday night and the return engagement in London on Sunday 5-2. - with file s from TorStar News Service Still time to lace up skates with Oakville Ice Expression Conditioning, hip-hop, ballet, nutrition, sports psy chology were all topics covered at the O akville Skating C lub's first annual Ice Expression Synchronized Skating Camp. The participants took o ff their skates for the first half of the camp and then practiced on-ice synchro skills dur ing the latter half. The club is offering four team s this year at the pre juvenile, juvenile, pre-novice and novice levels with a Christmas gala in Decem ber and a busy com petitive sea son beginning in January. Ice Expression is recruiting for all four teams, but in particular the pre-novice which requires skaters to have completed or be working on junior bronze tests. Anyone interested in trying out for this team, or any of the other teams, can contact the coaches directly: · Jayda E verett (juvenile and pre-n o v ice) at jayda_everett @ hotmai 1.com; · or C arolyn Hyde (pre-juvenile and novice) at chyde@ sym patico.ca. Olympian due in town today St. M ildred's-Lightboum School is welcoming Canadian rower and three time Olympic gold medalist Mamie McBean to the school this morning (Wednesday) for the opening of a new soccer pitch. " Mamie will talk about the impor tance of sport in our lives and the life lessons we can learn through physical activity," said Jane Wightman, Head of School for SMLS. The official opening o f the new soc cer field marks a highlight for SMLS. "Our girls will benefit tremendous ly from this new facility," said Wightman. Construction o f this new playing field began in 2003 and the SMLS community has been eagerly awaiting its completion. "Our soccer field opening is an important step in the exciting plans for further enhancing the school's facili ties. These include the new drama and art facility as well as a new double gymnasium, with a fitness centre and a health and wellness centre." The opening ceremonies coincide with the annual Terry Fox walk/run. On hand to w elcom e M cBean, along with O akville M ayor Ann Mulvale, will be the school's own O lym pic gold and silver m edalist, physical education teacher Larry Cain. Veteran Kathy McCormack had a pair of goals to lead the Oakville Ice to a 5-1 win in their National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) season and road opener last Saturday in Ajax over the host TELUS Lightning. Single markers were added by Tasha Noble, Lindsay Vine and Jennifer Goulet. Assists went to Michelle Lorion, Kimberley Insalaco, Carly Haggard, Christine Brownlee. Jennifer McRae and Val Hall. Tania Pinelli had her shutout broken with less than five minutes left in the third period. Altogether, she turned away 25 of 26 shots. Her teammates peppered 34 shots on Ajax goalie Mandy Cronin, turning the red light on five times. The Oakville Ice now get set for their opening weekend and it should be an exciting one as they play, arguably, the two top rated teams in their conference and in the league. The Oakville Ice official home opener is Friday night, 7:30 p.m. at Ice Sports Oakville against the Toronto Aeros. On Saturday, less than 24 hours later, they host Brampton Thunder at 3:30 p.m. Both games, as always, are at Ice Sports Oakville. Saturday's game is a `double header', preceded at 1:15 p.m. by the Oakville Junior Ice home opener against the Mississauga Jr. Chiefs. For the senior Ice, the past couple of years, they have fin ished in third in their four-team conference, ahead of TELUS but behind Brampton Thunder in second and Toronto Aeros in first. The opening weekend certainly gives an early indication that the Ice have maintained their edge over TELUS. This weekend should give us an early indication on how they're going to stack up against the perennial front runners. If you want to see the best hockey in the world, including Olympic and world champion gold medalists, catch the NWHL in Oakville this weekend. Oakville's NFLers both had winning weeks. Steve Christie was successful on both his shots at 43 and 25 yards as the New York Giants won 27-10 over the Cleveland Browns. Mike Vanderjagt was successful on his lone kick, a 45 yarder, as the Indianapolis Colts defeated Green Bay Packers 45-31. This Sunday the Giants are at Green Bay and the Colts at Jacksonville, both I p.m. starts. So far on the young season, Vanderjagt is 3/4 and Christie 5/7. Bruins bid for '05 nationals Sheridan College Athletics has sub mitted a bid to host the 2006 men's national college basketball champi onships. "We have no opposition from with in Ontario, so we hope that the formal announcement will come in early December," said Jim Flack, director of. athletics and basketball coach. The national championship, which Sheridan last won in 1990 is the show case event for the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association (CCAA). The last time it was held in Ontario, it was a thrilling final which host Humber won over Sheridan in front of a sold-out crowd o f 4,000. "We are throwing our full support behind this bid, and the event itself," said Rob Till, director of student serv ices. "We take great pride in our basket ball team, and in our college. This will be a chance to show both of them off." Perennial contenders for provincial and national championships, the Bruins, last sea son, earned provincial silver and lost the national bronze medal game by one point in over time. L O O K FOR In his first year as a professional tennis player, Andrew Piotrowski of Oakville claimed his first pro title earlier this month at the Mexico F10 futures in Mexico city. The 6th ranked Canadian junior in 2003 defeated 3rd seed Bruno Echagaray of Mexico 7-6(6), 6-4. En route to the final he also defeated the No. 3 and 4 seeds including fellow Canadian Sanjin Sadovich 6-3,4-6, 6-1. W A fR H lY PACKAGERS BOO! Halloween 4 Page Flyer in Sophomore Laura Richards, a White Oaks grad, has three goals in nine games for the University of Alabama Blazers (4-4-1). Freshman Karen Zmirak. a St. Thomas Aquinas grad, has three goals and one assist for Georgia Bulldogs, all off the bench. With a tough schedule, the Georgia Bulldogs are 2-5-2 to start the season. The two met up in an exhibition game with Richards get ting the only goal in a 1-0 win. 1 BERTIN STABLES 3 indoor riding arenas. 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