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42 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday February 8, 2006 Blades finish fourth in the West W ill openplayoffs against Burlington or Streetsville have a similar number of wins and would have split the season series 3-3. Depending on the next tie-breaker, Streetsville might have dropped to The Oakville Blades determined their playoff seventh. positioning last weekend as they closed out their The only certain first-round playoff matchup regular-season schedule. in the West was the conference-leading Milton As of last night, they were still waiting for sev IceHawks against the eighth-seeded Mississauga eral of their Provincial Junior A Hockey League Chargers. division rivals to do the same. Oakville defeated the Derbys 4-3 Friday at Oakville posted victories on home ice. Friday Dominion T\vin Rinks, then pounded Bramalea 9and Saturday, finishing the regular season fourth 2 the following evening. in the West Conference with a 26-17-3-3 record Matt Beca, Joey Piccone, Daniel Calitri and and earning home-ice advantage in the opening Jesse Paul notched the Blades' tallies against round of the playoffs. Streetsville, with Brandon DeFazio collecting a The Blades' first-round opponent, however, was pair of assists. Marc Stuart recorded the win in yet to be determined entering last night's action. goal. The Burlington Cougars were Oakville's likely Saturday, Beca capped off his stellar season first foe, needing only a tie br overtime loss in with a four-point effort, including a hat trick. The their regular-season finale against the 10-35-1-2 19-year-old Mississauga native, recently named Bramalea Blues. West Conference MVP, finished the year with 43 However, if the Cougars were unable to earn a goals and 43 assists in 49 games -- totals that point last night and the Streetsville Derbys .ranked him fifth in league scoring before last defeated the Brampton Capitals, Burlington and night's action. Streetsville would be tied for fifth in the West Luke Moodie contributed four helpers in the with 55 points. Since both squads would have 25 rout, while brother Lane Moodie had a goal and victories, the Derbys would be given the nod two assists. Julian Cimadamore (with two), Kyle thanks to their 3-2-1 advantage in head-to-head Frieday, Trevor Elliott and Calitri also found the play this season. net for Oakville, with David Scamurra kicking out Interestingly, if Streetsville lost to Brampton, 17 of 19 shots to earn the victory. those two squads would be tied for sixth, would Playoffs will likely begin this weekend. BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR By Jon Kuiperij BARRIE ERSKINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER FIVE-YEAR VETS: Paul Dawson {left) and Lane Moodie were recognized Saturday by the Oakville Blades for the five seasons they spent playing w ith the Jr. A hockey club. The team held a cere mony prior to its game at Dominion Twin Rinks to hang the tw o players' jer seys on the arena wall. Dawson is now a member of the M ilton IceHawks, while Moodie is the Blades' captain. B row n h as m o n th to rea d y fo r CW G a m es Continued from page 40 Saturday's Heroes Trinity's 1-8 volleyball record may be misleading Continued from page 41 trying, a layout-layout, and you can't stick it every time," Brown said. "The second day was a really unusual fall for me. I've never really fallen on that skill and then again on the dismount... it was a new element. I guess it wasn't a good beam competition." Despite the falls, Brown intends to keep her routines the same as she pre pares for the Commonwealth Games. After attending a week-long training camp with the newly-formed Canadian team at Seneca College, she'll have a month of training at her home club -- Gymnastics Mississauga -- to iron out the wrinkles in her program. The Commonwealth Games are scheduled for March 15-25. The Oakville bantam BB Hornets were recently selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs to participate in "Saturday's Heroes" -- a weekly television program broadcast on Leafs TV. The Hornets played the Mississauga Chiefs at the Air Canada Centre, a game that was videotaped and w ill be broadcast or. Leafs TV at a later date w ith play-by-play by Oakville resident Rick Vaive. Katy Jonker scored for the Hornets in their 2-1 loss. Pictured are Brian McCarthy, Lynn Eplett, Ashley McCarthy, Bailey Wells, Lauren McLaughlin, Rachel Lewczuk, Katy Jonker, Laura Hagglund, Jacki Mihaichuk, Kim Riddel, Rebecca Shutt, Brooke Johnston, Sam Palo, Heili Palo, Kelley Hadfield, Barry O'Neill, Chelsea Erhardt, Ellen Zurawell, Erica Thorn, Megan O'Neill and Hillary Newman. HORNETS AT THE ACC: finished fourth at their most recent tournament, which included some of the province's best teams. For third-year seniors Alex Micone and Elizabeth Joly, it will be their third all-Ontario Catholic tournament.. "They have been trying to get across to the younger kids what a big event it is." Szpakowski said. St. Thomas Aquinas squares off against white division opponents Catholic Central from Windsor, St. James from Guelph, St. Basil College from North York, St. Mary's from Owen Sound and St. Joseph from Barrie. Holy Trinity Holy Trinity sports a deceiving 1-8 record this season. Take away its two losses against undefeated Oakville Trafalgar and the Titans have lost five of their six matches in three games. After starting the year with eight consecutive losses, Holy Trinity notched its first win in its final game before the exam break by beating the 5-4 Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers. Holy Trinity is in the black division along with St. Joseph's from Windsor, St. Theresa of Midland, St. Thomas Aquinas of London, St. Marguerite d'Youville of Brampton and Bishop Reding of Milton. Appleby headed back to OFSAA hockey Continued from page 41 Correction The Oakville Beaver confused its professional hockey-covering Pierres in a cutline on the front page of Saturday's newspaper. r The man pictured with Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean was Canadian Press hockey writer Pierre LeBrun, not TSN hockey ana lyst Pierre McGuire. The Oakville Beaver regrets the error. in a tie. The previous two matchups were exhibi tion games. "They're an intense, hard-working, wellcoached club," Irish coach Carl Van Landschoot said of the Double Blue. "You can never take them for granted." Brendan Soley had two goals, including a shorthanded effort early in the game, for the Double Blue. Pawel Zurek notched the other Appleby College goal. Poliziani said the team's highlights of the tour nament included victories over St. Joseph's (last year's tournament champion), Lasalle (which he considered the strongest team in this year's event) and Nelson (one of the top Burlington teams participating). The Double Blue, which won silver at last year's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations A/AA tournament, is enjoying anoth er successful season. The team currently sits third in the CISAA independent Tier 1 league and hopes to qualify for the provincial AAA/AAAA tourna ment this year for the first time in school history. If not, Appleby College has already earned a berth in the A/AA championships. -- with files from Jon Kuiperij