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Wednesday, September 19, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 APPLE AutoGlass t/o r UPHOLSTERY... 8 4 2 -6 0 6 0 SEATS, BOAT TOPS, CONVERTIBLE TOPS... 1 0 3 3 S p e e rs R d . SportsWatetia/ G len lev en C h rysler CHRYSLER · DODGE · JEEP 2388 Roval W indsor Dr., 845-7575 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com % % f 1 (, H 1 Photos by Peter C. McCusker Such was M ississauga D ixies' dom ination, that Oakville goalie G raham Belovay was his team 's best player in a 6-0 O ntario Cup cham pionship final loss on Sunday. Journey was all the fun By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR O akville's U-17 boys rep soccer team had their amazing Ontario Cup run come to an abrupt end in S unday's cham pionship gam e, losing 6-0 to M ississauga Dixie. They say half the fun is getting there. But for Oakville it pretty much accounted for all o f the fun. Needless to say, there was not too much about Sunday's Ontario Cup championship game they will want to file away in their memory banks -- save perhaps the ceremonial marching on to the field. Such was M ississauga's dom ination, that Oakville goalie G raham Belovay was his team 's best player. Their Ontario Cup run, on the other hand, was as memorable as it was improbable, and that's what coach Phil Iafrati hit upon after the game. "I told them they deserved to get to the final. It looks like they didn't deserve to be here but they did. They played well enough to get here. They deserve to be going up there and getting their (sil ver) medals." The team was in turmoil even before the season began with the original coaches leaving and many o f the players following suit. Iafrati, a respected and longtime coach at theOakville Soccer Club -- who this year was hon oured with a lifetime membership by the club as well as being inducted into the Oakville Sports Hall o f Fame -- agreed to take on the team, along with co-coach Bob Iarusci. This, despite the fact that Iafrati -- a veteran of many Ontario Cup finals and national champi onship tournaments -- continued to honour his commitments to his own U -l 1 Blue Stars team. The U - ll Blue Stars, unlike the U-17 team, · * were highly favoured in their League and Cup campaigns -- and they came through. But more on that team later. The U-17 team 's tribulations continued as late as June when their two strikers decided to spend the summ er in Europe. "So from June, on, w e've really had no strikers on the team," said Iafrati. "W e've gone through the season with 14 play'ers -- that's all I had try out for the team, basical ly " They were good enough to com pete in the province's top league -- but, not surprisingly, ended up in last place. But from out o f all this, they arose, Phoenix like, for their remarkable Ontario Cup run, with wins over Woodbridge Strikers, 2-0, in the semifi nal; over W indsor Nationals, 1-0, in the quarterfi nals; and over North York CS Azzurri, 5-1, in the preliminary round. M ississauga Dixie, by contrast, until the cham pionship games, had rung off three consecutive slim 2-1 victories over O ttawa Capital United, North York CS Azzurri `84 and North York Hearts. "They (Oakville) major over achieved to get to the Ontario Cup final," agreed coach Iafrati. The turning point in the game seemed to be at 2-0 when Oakville bounced one off the crossbar. "If that would have gone in, it would have given our team a big lift," agreed coach Iafrati. "They came dow n five minutes later and made it 3-0. A nd that w ouldn't have happened. It would have been 2-1 and we would have been playing a little bit harder." P L A Y E R S : Graham Belovay, M ark Bemardi. B rett C hem ey, M ike de Vaal, Shaun Dunn, Solomon Ikhuiwa, Warren Kean, Peter Kuchta, M ajic Laczny, M ark Misiak, Filip Prostran, Chris Reeves, Imran Shah and M att Turner. Aidoo surpasses ex-NFLer O a k v ille 's K o jo A id o o retu rn ed to action fo r the first tim e since break in g his fib u la w hile film ing a foo tb all scene during a m ovie shoot this sum mer. A nd it w as m em orable retu rn as h is n a tio n a l s e m ifin a list M c M a ste r M a ra u d e rs c ru sh e d W indsor 52-1. A idoo, a L oy o la grad, posted m odest num bers in his retu rn -- nine ru sh es fo r 32 yards, and one reception. B u t tw o o f those runs resu lted in to u ch dow ns -- the 34th and 35th o f his u niversity ca reer -- b reak in g the O ntario U niversity A sso c iatio n (O U A ) rec o rd fo r m ost career touchdow ns. T h a t m a rk h ad p re v io u sly been set at 34 by T im T indale w ho su ited up fo r the U niversity o f W estern from 1990-93, and then w ent on to take the not m u ch tra v e lle d ro u te fro m C anadian u niversity fo o tb all into the N FL w here he w as a m em ber o f the B uffalo B ills from `95 to `97. A fourth y ear g eo g ra p h y /p sy chology m ajor, A idoo scooped tw o m a jo r n a tio n a l u n iv e rsity aw ards fo r last season -- top m ale a th le te (H o w a rd M ack ie A w ard) an d m o st o u tsta n d in g fo o tb a ll p la y e r (H ec C rig h to n A w ard). L ast year's career y ear saw him rush fo r 20 touch d o w n s and 1,329 y ards -- bo th m arks set File Photos ting new O U A records. Special to the Beaver N ex t w eekend's tilt should be a d andy w ith #4 ran k e d M ac Loyola grad Kojo Aidoo hosting #5 ranked U n iv ersity o f caught in action for the M arauders last season. W estern. Slo-pitch champs East Side M arios upset the first place Corbetts squad 14-4 to win the m en's division cham pionship in the G len Abbey Slo-Pitch Association. K eying the offence was Bob Turner, w ho drove in seven runs with two dou bles and a triple. Rob Davies added a pair o f triples and a single to cash three runs w hile Frank D uyvelshoff and M ark Huffman contributed three hits and two RBIs apiece. Huffman also scored four times. W inning pitcher M ario Delle Donne was outstanding, holding the potent Corbetts attack hitless until the 5th inning while adding two hits, two walks and three runs scored at the plate. Delle Donne was backed by solid defence led by 2nd baseman Kas Bis and shortstop Hal Whitcomb. 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