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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, September 3, 2015 | 42 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Memorial golf tournament raises $350K in five years by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor Oakville Soccer Club keeper Michael Costanzo makes a diving stop in the opening half of Oakville's Ontario Cup under-17 boys' Tier 1 semifinal against the Mississauga Clarkson Comets Sunday in North York. Oakville shot down the Comets 4-1 to advance to the Ontario Cup final. | photo by Justin Greaves -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Two OSC boys' teams advance to Ontario Cup finals An early exit from last year's Ontario Cup tournament has been a motivator this season for the Oakville Soccer Club's under-14 A boys' squad. The team earned a trip to the finals of the provincial playdowns with a 3-2 victory over Glen Shields FC Future Saturday at James Jerome Complex in Sudbury. Raine Lyn, Jovan Bal and Zen Sharifabadi scored first-half goals for Oakville after Glen Shields opened the scoring early in the game. The Future pulled within one late in the first half but Oakville tightened up defensively in the second half to preserve the win. "At the beginning of the year, we said this was our goal... we set out to play in the finals and win the finals. We're not surprised. We are just happy, and we believe we deserve this," said Oakville coach Sinisa Ninkovic, whose team was eliminated from the tournament last year in the preliminary round-robin stage. "(Last year's disappointment) pushed us this year to play seriously from the very beginning of every single game." Oakville will face Epic FC Toronto in the Ontario Cup U14 boys' final Saturday, Sept. 12 at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan. Ninkovic watched Epic FC blank Toronto Yellow 4-0 in Saturday's other semifinal, which was played after Oakville's game against Glen Shields. "They're a very organized, very physical team and are well-balanced. They play certain formations. A 3-4-3 is what I saw," Ninkovic said. "If we can isolate a few of their players, we should be able to beat them." U17 boys also win semi, U13 boys eliminated Oakville's U17 A boys also qualified for the Ontario Cup finals last weekend, downing the Mississauga Clarkson Comets 4-1 Sunday at North York's Esther Shiner Stadium. Mississauga struck first, converting on a penalty kick early in the game, before Oakville replied with four unanswered markers. The Ontario Cup U17 boys' Tier 1 final is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13 at the Ontario Soccer Centre. Oakville's opponent will be Ottawa South United Force Black, which blanked Kitchener U17 A 1-0 Sunday in North York. The OSC U13 A boys were denied in their attempt to be Oakville's third Ontario Cup finalist this season, falling 2-0 to East Hamilton FC in the semifinals Saturday at Oshawa's Civic Stadium. Oakville routed the Kitchener Spirit 5-0 in last month's quarterfinals after winning its preliminary-round pool. OSC is seeking an Ontario Cup boys' championship for the second straight year. Last summer, the club's U16 B team won the Tier 2 division. -- Jon Kuiperij When Ian Mise set out five years ago to organize a charity golf tournament in the memory of friend and cancer victim Chris Wade, his goals for the event raised some eyebrows. "I said, `Let's run it for five years and raise a quarter of a million dollars,' and I think everyone thought we were nuts," said Mise, an Oakville resident and the founder and president of the tournament's presenting sponsor, LeadingEdge Payroll Group. As it turned out, Mise's projections were indeed way off. The Chris Wade Memorial Golf Tournament did not just reach its $250,000 fundraising goal, it shattered it by an additional 40 per cent. Last week's fifth and final tournament at Glen Abbey Golf Club generated a whopping $108,000, bumping the all-time total to more than $350,000 raised for local charities Ian Ian Mise Anderson House cancer Chris Wade tournament chair hospice, the Oakville Hospital Foundation and Hamilton's Juravinski Cancer Centre. "I thought ($250,000) was attainable because of, first and foremost, the Oakville community. I know the Oakville community," said Mise, who served as the tournament's chair for each of the five years. "We only had a very small committee, six people. But we rallied together and reached out to various contacts, whether they were car dealerships or restaurants. I said, `Guys, are you in for five?' and they all said, `Yes.' We pretty much had the same sponsors from Year 1 to Year 5." Wade, who spent his final days in the Ian Anderson House cancer hospice on Winston Churchill Boulevard before succumbing to pancreatic cancer in April 2011 at the age of 59, was known to many people in Oakville as an active, energetic and friendly sports enthusiast. He coached teams in the Glen Abbey Ladies Softball (GALS) league, he played softball and hockey, I thought ($250K) was attainable because of... the Oakville community. see Tournament on p.43