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The Oakville Beaver W eekend, S a tu rd a y J a n u a ry 7, 2 0 0 6 - 31 Storm, Blue Stars, Blue Devils win soccer titles Left, members of the Oakville Storm women's soccer team embrace after w inning an Ontario Cup championship. The under-15 tier one Blue Stars also w on a provincial rep title in September. Right, Darren Baxter (in white) and the Oakville Blue Devils claimed the Canadian Professional Soccer League crown in their first season in the league. Swimmer Marco Monaco and rower Doug Csima are also multiple medal-winners at the event, held in Regina. SEPTEMBER Continued from page 30 girls' team and the ul7 girls' Wild. OCTOBER · The Burloak Canoe Club wins an unprecedented 23 races at the Canadian Canoe Championships in Montreal. Burloak's male kayakers win eight events, the men's canoe squad claims nine gold, and the club's junior canoeists are victorious in seven races. · Four Oakville Soccer Club squads -- the under-10 Hurricane, ul3 Redgales, ul5 Demons and u 16/17 Wild -- win their divi sions at the club's annual OSCAR girls' tour nament. · A pair of Oakville Soccer Club teams win Ontario Cup championships and another two reach the final. The .Oakville Blue Stars ul5 tier 1 boys' squad, national champs the previ ous year, earn the 2005 provincial title with a 1-0 win over the Caledon Fireballs, while the Oakville Storm women's team blanks St. Catharines 2-0 in its final. Also reaching title matches were the Oakville Phantoms ul4 · In a storybook finish to their inaugural season in the Canadian Professional Soccer League, the Oakville Blue Devils win the league championship with a 2-1 victory over the Vaughan Shooters at North York's Esther Shiner Stadium. Local resident Ryan Gamble is the hero, scoring the game-winning goal in extra time. The championship caps an emo tional couple weeks for the Blue Devils, who appeared to win the Western Conference regular-season title but were penalized for using an ineligible player earlier in the year and fin ished second to the Hamilton Thunder. · Star Mazda series auto racer James Hinchcliffe finishes the 2005 season third in the championship points race. The Oakville Trafalgar student, Formula BMW USA Rookie-of-the-Year in 2004, posts five Top-3 finishes, including three victories. · Alyssa Brown impresses Canadian gym nastics team coach Alex Bard with a twomedal performance at the Pan American championships in Brazil. The Abbey Park stu dent helps Canada to a third-place finish in team competition, then wins bronze in indi vidual beam. · Highly-touted high school basketball player Scott Brittain a scholarship offer from Division 1 schoql " Boston University. The sixfoot-eight small for ward, an honours stu dent at Iroquois Ridge and captain of Ontario's gold medalwinning team at the Scott Brittain Canada 'Summer Games, considers offers from 19 NCAA Division 1 schools. · The. Oakville Crusaders reach the Ontario Rugby Union championship game before dropping a 27-19 deqsion to Balmy Beach at Markham's Fletcher's Fields. Balmy Beach fly half Simon Rogers, a former national team player, boots four penalty kicks, a try and a drop goal to down the Cru. NOVEMBER The Red Devils win all three of their roundrobin games, then win two of three playoff matchups, their only loss coming against the eventual OFSAA champion Saunders Sabres. · For the first time in his 21-year Canadian Football League career, Toronto Argonauts quarterback Damon Allen is named the league's most outstanding player. The 42-year-old Oakville resident passed for more than 5,000 yards, tossed 33 touchdown passes and led the Argos to an 11-7 record. DECEMBER Star Mazda series driver James Hinchcliffe finished third in the 2005 championship points race. · In what she describes as a "break through performance", 21-year-old Diana Srebrovic wins the women's crown at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's national indoor championships in Ohio. The University of Florida student, ranked 34th overall among NCAA Division 1 players at the beginning of the season, defeats Stanford's Theresa Logar in the final. · The Oakville Curling Club rink of John Epping, Julie Reddick, Scott Foster and Leigh Armstrong overcomes a slow start at the national mixed curling championships to claim the title. After starting 0-3, the rink wins its next 10 contests, including a 11-6 rout of Manitoba in the gold-medal game. · Oakville Trafalgar's senior boys' volley ball team earns bronze at the provincial high school AAAA championships in Mississauga. · Thanks in large part to a clutch recep tion by Dante Luciani, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks edge the Saskatchewan Huskies -24-23 in the Vanier Cup national university football title game at Ivor Wynne Stadium. Luciani caught a pass on a thirdand-17 play to extend the Golden Hawks' final drive, setting up the game-winning field goal with 19 seconds left. Paul Ferri, Shawn Gow and Steve Turner are also part of Laurier's championship team. · Long-time friends and Minor Oaks Hockey Association products Evan McGrath and Victor Oreskovich join forces once again with the OHL's Kitchener Rangers. Oreskovich leaves the University of Diana Srebrovic Notre Dame to join the Rangers and McGrath, who sits fifth in league scoring at the Christmas break. · Abbey Park High School student Neha Kumar wins the Canadian open under-19 squash championships in Niagara-on-theLake. She then wins<the U.S. open junior championship in Connecticut the following week. Both finals victories come against Amanda Siebert, Kumar's teammate-to-be at Princeton University next season.