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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, November 13, 2015 | 22 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports S T W O R L D C U P G O L D "Connected to your Community" F I R Skating sectionals at 16 Mile Skate Oakville is hosting the Skate Canada Central Ontario Sectional Championships this weekend at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. More than 200 skaters from the Central Ontario region will compete in free skate, ice dance and pairs at the meet, which Sports Briefs begins today (Friday) and concludes Sunday. Top performers at sectionals advance to the Skate Canada Challenge, which is a qualifier for the national championships. Skate Oakville will be well represented at sectionals, with 26 skaters ranging from juvenile to junior competing in singles and ice dance disciplines. Three other locally-trained skaters will be attending sectional competitions in Eastern Ontario, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. For details of how local skaters prepared for sectionals, as well as a link to the full schedule of the Central Ontario Sectional Championships, visit bit.ly/1HKlCUE. Sainte-Trinite among four local Halton volleyball finalists Each of Monday's four Halton high school boys' volleyball finals will feature a different Oakville school, including a first-ever appearance by E.S. Sainte-Trinite. Sainte-Trinite, which opened two years ago as a Grades 7-9 allFrench school on Grand Oak Trail, will play in the junior boys' Tier 2 championship after defeating the King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers 2-0 in Wednesday's semifinals. Les Loups (Wolves) will take on Burlington's Lester B. Pearson Patriots at 10 a.m. at Sheridan College. Monday's other boys' volleyball finals at Sheridan include the Garth Webb Chargers against the Georgetown Rebels (junior Tier 1, 11:30 a.m.), King's against Burlington's M.M. Robinson Rams (senior Tier 2, 1 p.m.), and the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders against Georgetown's Christ the King Jaguars (senior Tier 1, 3 p.m.). Blades burned by last-minute goal in Cobourg The Cobourg Cougars scored with nine seconds remaining in regulation time to defeat the visiting Oakville Blades 3-2 Monday in Ontario Junior Hockey League play. Oakville had rallied from an early 2-0 deficit to tie the game on goals by Josh Kosack and Bryce Misley. Cobourg's Matt Watson scored the winner, shortly after the Cougars killed off a minor penalty. The loss was the second in three nights for the Blades, who were blitzed 7-3 by the Burlington Cougars Saturday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Christian Rajic had a goal and an assist for Oakville, with Kosack and Misley providing the Blades' other markers. Friday , the Blades earned a 3-1 win in Milton over the Icehawks. Kosack scored twice, including the winner midway through the third period, and Tyler Rollo also tallied for Oakville. Brendan McGlynn earned the victory in net, making 24 stops. The Blades (13-8-1-1, second in the South Division) will visit the Orangeville Flyers tomorrow (Saturday). Their next home game is slated for Friday , Nov. 20 against the Stouffville Spirit. Blakelock a quarter-finalist at OFSAA field hockey The T.A. Blakelock Tigers reached the quarter-finals of last week's provincial high school field hockey championships in Peterborough before being eliminated with a loss to the eventual silver medallists. Eighth-seeded Blakelock went 2-1 in round-robin play to advance to the playoffs, then fell 4-1 to the Goderich Vikings Friday afternoon. Katie Lynes scored for the Tigers, who trailed 2-1 at the break. Lynes finished the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations tournament with four goals in four games. She scored twice in Blakelock's 4-2 win over the Saltfleet Storm, and also tallied in a 4-1 victory over the Dunbarton Spartans. Torie VanSickle had a pair of goals against Dunbarton and added a single against Saltfleet. Kaleigh Jeffrey and Julia Scott also scored for Blakelock in round-robin play. The Tigers' loss in the preliminary round was a 5-0 decision against Kitchener's Resurrection Phoenix, which later defeated Goderich 4-2 in the final to claim its fifth OFSAA gold in the past six years. Oakville Speed Skating Club product Patrick Duffy leads the way during a 500-metre heat at last weekend's International Skating Union World Cup short-track speed skating meet in Toronto. Duffy finished second in that heat and eventually placed sixth overall in 500m competition, but won his firstever World Cup gold medal Sunday as he helped the Canadian relay team beat out South Korea by 28 one-hundredths of a second. "I can't think of a better way to finish off the weekend here at home for me," said Duffy, the lone Ontarian on the senior national team. Duffy added he was appreciative of the many past and present OSSC members who attended the event to support him. "It was cool to see," he said. For more on Duffy and Canada's performance at the meet, visit bit.ly/1QxVFPt. | photo by Nikki Wesley -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog New soccer program offers female players female coaching Organizers of an all-girls soccer program in Halton believe they're addressing a nation-wide issue. "This is (a problem at) every soccer club, not just in Halton, but across the whole country. Females make up two per cent of the coaching population, whereas their participation is 50 per cent," said Kim Brassor, operations facilitator for Future Girls Soccer. "Female athletes are motivated differently than male athletes, and female coaches understand how to motivate the female player. That's not to say there aren't great male coaches out there, because there certainly is. It's just a different atmosphere, a different motivation that they need." Future Girls Soccer targets girls across Halton aged 7-14, running training sessions each Sunday morning at Haber Community Centre in Burlington. The organization is founded by former Canadian women's national teamer and Oakville Sports Hall of Fame member Michele Houchen. Also on Future Girls Soccer's coaching staff are Heather MacDougall (the Atlantic 10's top goal scorer in 2004 with St. Bonaventure), Vita McKenna (former captain of the Maryland Terrapins, where she was the university's first international player) and Ciara Gaizutis (a two-time Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-star at York). "We've walked the walk and talked the talk, for lack of a better word. We want to give (female players) that firsthand experience and relate to them the way that some other coaches, male coaches, can't," said Brassor, noting the association's program is meant to supplement area soccer clubs, not compete with them. Brassor said this fall's inaugural program features approximately 50 players. Participants in Sunday's session were treated to a visit from Oakville Soccer Club product and national team veteran Diana Matheson, whose goal lifted Canada to Olympic soccer bronze in 2012. Matheson was once coached by Houchen, and is a former teammate of MacDougall's. "One girl was crying because (Diana) has been her favourite player for years. She brought her soccer boot in a Ziploc bag. She had Diana sign it, then put it right back in the Ziploc bag," Brassor said. Houchen stressed the importance role models play in the lives of young athletes, particularly girls. "Unfortunately, young female soccer players don't get to see enough of them," she said. "When players of Diana's calibre come out and encourage the girls, it ignites their motivation and cultivates their passion to continue to play soccer." For more on Future Girls Soccer, visit www.futuregirlssoccer.ca. -- Jon Kuiperij