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th e Oakville Beaver, W ednesday January 18, 2006 - 27 Kicking Vanderjagt around is unfair fter missing a potential gametying field goal in the dying seconds of Sunday's NFL play off game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Vanderjagt hasn't received an awful lot of sympathy. To the contrary, most newspapers, television networks and radio stations have revelled in the local native's inabil ity to come through when his Indianapolis Colts needed him the most. Three-year-old footage of his crit icism of Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and coach Tony Dungy has been aired repeatedly, as have any major kicks the 35-year-old Vanderjagt missed in the past. He brought it on himself, people rea son. In the minds of most, to borrow an analogy from author George Eliot, Vanderjagt is the rooster the R u n n i n g c lin ic p o s t p o n e d The Running Company's new clinic on distance running will begin this weekend at the store, located at 118 Thomas St. The series, titled 'Recreational Running -- A Fresh Approach1 , is designed to illustrate the joys and benefits runners can experience when completing a long-distance course. It was initially scheduled to begin last weekend but organizers were forced to postpone the clinics to Saturday due to icy conditions. Saturday's first session is the first of 18 Saturday clinics in the series. All sessions will start at 9 a.m. A complete running manual and a t-shirt will be given to each clinic participant. Many of the sessions will feature guest speakers who will lecture on various aspects of dis tance running. For more information, call The Running Company at 905-815-1952. A ago, when he-was in the midst of his record-setting streak of 42 consecutive made field goals. "If not, you don't have a lot of confidence in yourself. I have to talk the talk or I won't be able to walk the walk. I'm very confident in what I do, but I'm not outward ly cocky... I'm telling you only because you asked, and I think that's the dif ference. It's self-confidence I feel I need to have at such an individualized position." It' s the same mindset as Adam van Koeverden, the local kayaker who won gold and bronze medals at the 2004 line perceived to be the Is he the best NFL has ever seen? Ask you he is. The stats back him up. At 87.5 per cent, Vanderjagt has the highest career success rate in the history of the league. "Cocky is a negative term. I would hope that all 32 of us (kickers in the NFL), when asked if we're going to make every kick, would say yes," the White Oaks grad told me a couple years i c i u a i i u i i g 1 1 1 u i c \_ /u iu 5 0 1 i u c i y i i l g 21-18 loss to Pittsburgh Sunday. He shanked it. From the second his right foot con tacted the football, the kick never had a chance, winding up in the endzone stands about 20 feet wide of the uprights. "Extreme disbelief," Vanderjagt, who slammed his helmet to the artificial turf following the kick, told reporters after ward. "I was very much surprised where it ended up. I would have bet a lot of money it was going through." He wasn't the only one to feel that way. "Mike has been so awesome," Manning said. "He' s such a clutch kicker. People are sur prised (when he misses) because he's such a great player. There's nothing he has to apologize for. made so many kicks for us." course, that's diffi cult to remember right now, even for Vanderjagt. An unrestricted free agent, it is quite possible the former Argo's final in an Indianapolis jersey was also his worst. To his credit, Vanderjagt isn't pulling a Ray Finkle and blaming anyone else for his miss -- even though the Colts had plenty of time and opportunity to gain more yards and give him a shorter attempt. There were no comments resembling "laces out, Dan" in his som bre post-game interview session. "I'll take it as bad as anybody in this locker room," Vanderjagt said. "I'm dis appointed I didn't get it done. I should have made it." BMFA D a te : J a n u a ry 2 5 ,2 0 0 6 T im e : 7:00 PM L o c a tio n : B u rlin g to n L e g io n (Legion Road) A G M reserved for M em bers only. Non-M em bers must h a ve permission from BMFA President. S a tu rd a y J a n u a ry 2 1 ,2 8 a n d F e b ru a ry 4 ,2 0 0 6 T im e : 9:00 a m to 1:00 p m L o c a tio n : BMFA C lu b h o u s e E q u ip m e n t D a te : Centre (B e h in d N e ls o n H ig h S c h o o l o f N e w S tre e t) Peewee Hornets capitalize at Ottawa tournament A dramatic victory over the Durham C IR L S ^ O C W Lightning gave the Oakville peewee AA Hornets the championship at the recent Woodstock Wildcats girls' hockey tournament, finishing second to earn Ottawa Bell Capital Cup tournament. Evelyn McLean scored the only goal silver. The novice house league team went of the title contest, taking a pass from Hannah Bale and beating the Durham undefeated in its three round-robin goaltender just before the buzzer games to reach the final, where the sounded. Since the game was televised, Silver Stars fell to the Hamilton Hawks the referee actually reviewed the goal in a shootout. The championship game was score with video replay before awarding the goal and tournament championship to less through regulation time and an the Hornets. Jenna Zurawell recorded overtime period, thanks in large part to the play of Oakville goaltender Lara the shutout for the Hornets. Oakville reached the final with a 4-0 Werbowski and defenders Laura upset of London in the semifinal. Hornets England, Natalie Hazineh and Claire goaltender Brianna Piper stopped 20 Cordeiro. The Hawks outscored Oakville in the shots to earn the shutout, while Courtney Power led the Oakville offence with two shootout, 2-0. In earlier play, the Silver Stars goals. Lindsay Grigg and Gaby Leonard whipped the Burlington All-Stars 8-3, also tallied for Oakville. In round-robin play, Oakville tied Hamilton 2-2 and played to a score downed Durham 2-0, fell 2-1 to less draw with the Cambridge Gloucester and blanked Brampton 4-0. Roadrunners. Scoring goals for Oakville in roundHornets goal-scorers included Grigg robin action were Emily Schnarr (four), (two), Lauren Swant, Sara Stewart, Jessica Desautels (four), Jensen Maddie Warner, Power and McLean. Cornwall and Vanessa DiNunzio. Also contributing to the champi Schnarr and Desautels both had hat onship win were Courtney Grano, tricks against Burlington, while Fiona Nicola Earl, Mia Favretto, Laura Venneri earned the shutout against Medlock, Lesley ^shby, Robin Schneider Cambridge. and Andrea Zeismann. Other players on the Silver Stars squad, sponsored by Tim Horton' s, are Silver Stars silver medalists .Sarah McLaughlin, Nicole Pickford, The Oakville Silver Stars lived up Sydney Whitney, Allison Chan, Alyssa to their moniker at the recent Bordin and Anna Raponi. 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