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D2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, April 19, 2000 Ryan Webb did double duty, w inning silver and c o a c h in g ... ... (left to right) Nicole lantorno, Jessica Brasil and LeslieAnne Whitcomb and (absent) Kristie Stern. The Special Olympics `HoopIt-Up' tournament at St. Thomas Aquinas on April 8 was a big suc cess for Oakville as they went into the final and won. Under the guidance of coach Naveen Poonai, the Oakville Shooting Stars defeated the Hamilton Hawks 45-35 to earn the tournament victory. It was one of several tourna ments that are organized for the players each year. It was the last tournament of the season for the players, but Oakville still has some bounce left in them. The season will be closing out on May 8 when the Shooting Stars will be at their usual practice time playing a split-squad game and enjoying some pizza after. As an added bonus for the players, Vic Juzenas, coach of the girls' basket ball team at St. Thomas Aquinas, will be attending and giving out some pointers. This will take place at White Oaks South Campus in the large gym Monday, May 8, at 6:00 pm. Organizers are attempting to put together a big tournament in the fall because of the number of other teams getting started. Gold, bronze and silver at provincial championships The Oakville Gymnastic Centre power tumblers went hunting for medals at the provincial championships in Etobicoke recently and, together, they managed to bring back the entire set -- gold, silver and bronze. Ryan Webb, while splitting time between coaching and competing, earned three silver medals as he put up a suing of second place finishes right across the board -- in compul sory, optional and overall. He advances to next month's national power tumbling championships May 16th-21st at Humber College. The gold and bronze medals both belonged to Leslie-Anne Whitcomb. She finished third overall after a gold medal in the compulsory pass and sixth place in the optional. In level two, Kristie Stem finished 13 over all. In level one, both Jessica Brasil and Nicole lantorno narrowly missed medals. Brasil was fifth overall (4th in compulsory and 6th in optional) and lantorno was 6th overall (8th in compulsory and 4th in optional). Power Tumbling will be a demonstration sport at the 2004 Olympics and will be granted full Olympic status beginning in 2008. For more info on `the most exciting five seconds in gymnastics' contact the Oakville Gymnastic Centre at 847-7747. The Shooting Stars' Rob Tobin attem pts to get past a Hamilton Hawks player at St. Thomas Aquinas Saturday afternoon. Photo by Peter C. McCusker Zamuner comes up big in battle of Ontario After the first two games of the Battle of Ontario, which the Toronto Maple Leafs won by a combined 7-1 margin, the Ottawa Senators were looking for an offensive spark going into Monday night's crucial third game. And it was provided by none other than Oakville product Rob Zamuner with two goals to help Ottawa back into the series with a 4-3 win. Zamuner scored the second and fourth goals, the latter creating quite the controversy with M aple Leaf goaltender Curtis Joseph literally falling into the ref in an effort to protest alleged interference on the part of Daniel Alfredsson. The goal stood up and eventually won the game for Ottawa. The teams play game four tonight (Wednesday) in Ottawa with the Senators looking to even the series. Nock andMurty win doubles title at tourney M elissa Nock loves to play the spoiler when it comes to badminton competition. This past weekend, Nock com pet ed in her final sanctioned adult tour nament o f the season, the Ontario B C ham pionships, held at D urham College in Oshawa. Nock and her partner Stacy Murty from the Lee's Badminton Club in Toronto won the Ladies' Doubles event, o f w hich they w ere the defending champions although they were only seeded third. But Nock and M urty left no doubt, defeating the top seeds in the sem ifinals and the second seeds in the finals. The more remarkable upset came in mixed doubles where the unseeded Nock and partner Ken Lockhart, both from the Boulevard Club, defeated the the third seeds in the quarterfinals and the top seeds (including her ladies doubles partner M urty and Boulevard Club player Chris Currie) in the sem ifinals. T heir string of upset victories cam e to a close in the finals w hen they lost to M arcus Wong and Janice K aw am oto from Western Ontario. N ock's perform ance helped her Toronto, and district team take the district challenge trophy. HIGH SCHOOL The high school playdow ns are well under way and N ock and dozens o f other com petitors are converging on Loyola today for the H alton high school cham pionships. Oakville pair not resting on their laurels Going into their third and final provin cial qualifier recently in Midland, Oakville gymnasts Tara Koenig and Tori Nixon, representing Gymnastics Mississauga, had already prequalified to represent the Metro-West Team at the Youth Artistic Provincial Championships to be held at the Glen Abbey Recreation Centre, May 5-7. But the pair didn't rest on their laurels, both finishing second, over all. At Junior, Level 2, Tara Koenig's sec ond overall finish was comprised of sec ond on vault, third on bars and floor and fourth on beam. At PreNovice, Level 2, Tori Nixon's second overall finish was comprised of second on vault, bars and beam and fourth on floor. BLUE WATER INTERNATIONAL Nixon recently competed in the Bluewater International Women's Gymnastics Competition against gym nasts from Argentina, Canada, Mexico, the United States, the Ukraine and Australia. Competing in the the level two catego ry, comprised of 30 pre-novice and novice nine and ten year olds, Nixon finished first overall. Her individual marks were a 9th on the uneven parallel bars, third on beam, second on floor and sixth on vault. Her gold medal helped her team to a third place finish. PROVINCIAL 3rd QUALIFIER RESULTS Third qualifier The Burlington Gymnastics Club, with several Oakville competitors in tow, com peted in the third qualifier for the provincial championships recently in Orangeville. The top six athletes in each category represent their region and club at the the provincial championships which are upcoming. Included, here, are the results of the Oakville competitors: A recent story on the Q.E. Park track and field team's trek to Morocco inadvertently left out some sponsors. The team did great with all runners finishing in the top half of the draw. Thanks to the Running Company, New Balance, Fox Whistles, Litzens Sports and Energy Fitness. vlt Provincial Junior 3 Nicole Samuel 1 2 brs bm 1 2 9 5 2 fir 3 3 3 7 O/A 3 3 3 8 2 PT 2 SoortsBoard under), if there's enough interest, which will operate in the Ontario Varsity Football League. Prospective coaches and team officials (and players, of course) should call club director Jack Crawford at 639-5992. 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