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Coulthard among WLU elite with 1,400-plus points Oakville's Will Coulthard scored 10 points in a 105-81 loss to McMaster, becoming just the third Laurier Golden Hawks player to eclipse the 1,400-career point mark. The St. Thomas Aquinas grad now has 1,408 career points and behind only Kale Harrison (1,918) and Max Allin (1,745) on the school's all-time list. ol y m p i a n pos e and Daniel Giannotti. Club tradition allowed Alex Giannotti and El Sammak to each receive an ice cream cake for breaking the 50-second mark in the 500-metre race. Alex Giannotti's time was 48.80 seconds while El Sammak became the first 14-yearold girl at the Oakville Speed Skating Club to accomplish the feat when she recorded a time of 49.84 seconds. Andrew Xu also took home a cake for breaking the one-minute mark in the 500m for the first time, crossing the finish line in 57.61 seconds. 41 | Friday, January 22, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Rebels battle flu, win NF tourney With half of the players feeling the effects of a severe stomach virus the day before, the Oakville peewee red Rebels won the Al Boone Memorial House League Classic hockey tournament in Niagara Falls. The Rebels finished the Holiday break tournament undefeated after beating a Welland team 2-1 in the championship game. Members of the Rebels include Nolan Bourdeau, Sebastian Petrilli, Elliot Jansen, Ethan Grima, Connor Gittens, Hayden Munshaw, Cormac Adams, Tyler Paradine, Jack Schiller, Alex Wong, Luke Vincent, Owen Sandell, David Lata, Luca Marques, Arnav Srinivasan and Ben Kim. The team is coached by Kevin Adams while assistant coaches are Steve Gittens, Mark Vincent and Dave Munshaw. Sports Briefs An Ontario University Athletics secondteam all-star last season, Coulthard ranks seventh in scoring in the OUA this season, averaging 18.8 points. He is also averaging 4.6 rebounds and leads the league in free throws made with 52. Coulthard earned the Laurier athlete-ofthe-week award in November following a 35-point game in a 95-81 win over Waterloo. Laurier is second in the OUA West Division with a 4-5 record. Olympian Liz Gleadle has some fun in one of the javelin Technologies' 3D printing labs, flexing her muscles as John Brown, Director of 3D printing. flexes his while holding a 3D-printed dumbbell. Gleadle stopped by javelin Technologies, a sponsor of hers located in Oakville, last week to talk to employees about how to `Aim High'. Gleadle finished 12th at the 2012 London Olympics in javelin, took gold at last summer's Pan Am Games and is now training for this year's Olympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. | photo by Graham Paine ­ Burlington Post (follow on Twitter @halton_photog) L'Africain's basket beats Ravens Oakville's Mike L'Africain hit the shot he had played over in his mind many times. The Loyola grad hit the game-winning shot in the final minute as the Ottawa GeeGees edged the defending Canadian champion Carleton Ravens 75-73 last Saturday and improved to 8-0 on the season. The fifth-year point guard drove into the paint, spun away from his opponent and hit a fade-away jumper with 46 seconds to play to break a 73-73 tie. "As soon as I jumped, I knew it was money. It's one of my favourite shots to take and I was working on it all week in my head," said L 'Africain. "It's a statement win but to us it doesn't mean anything until we get to the last game." Carleton has won five straight Canadian university titles, beating the Gee-Gees in the final the last two years. Carleton was ranked No. 1 in Canada heading into the game while Ottawa was No. 3. L'Africain's basket capped a 9-2 run as Ottawa rallied for the victory. He finished with 17 points and six assists. Burlington's Caleb Agada tied the game with a pair of free throws. He had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Gee-Gees. Agada stole the ball in the final seconds of the opening half and beat the buzzer with a twohanded dunk. dar Rapids to win on a power-play goal with three minutes to play. He followed that up the next night with 23 saves in a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Steel. Blacker is 17-8-1 for the league-leading Roughriders. His 17 wins are second in the league, his .921 save percentage ranks fourth and he has the sixth-best goals-against average, 2.43. Speedsters earn four bronzes More than two dozen Speedsters from the Oakville Speed Skating Club braved bad weather to take part in the third provincial meet of the year earlier this month. Competing in Clarington, Ont., Jan. 9-10, the Speedsters came home with four bronze medals while six more athletes earned topsix finishes. Nicole Vrazinovski, Alexander Giannotti, Tom Watson and Ian Welsby won the bronze medals while finishing in the top six were Mathew Samuel, Dania El Sammak, James Nelson, Nicholas Kothleitner, Tiago Santos Blacker USHL goalie of the week Oakville's Ben Blacker was named the United States Hockey League goaltender of the week after backstopping the Cedar Rapids Roughriders to a pair of victories. Blacker made 35 saves in a 3-2 win over Green Bay last Friday. 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