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T Sports £ "' i Oakville Beaver ^ CDHDTC m i T H D - JON IH M KUIPERIJ l/IIID H D II D h n n < 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax 905-337-5567 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2006 SPORTS EDITOR: Phone Is it my turn yet? Local swimming duo leads U of T to victory Monaco, Plyley combine for 11 medals By Herb Garbutt gold-medal threat." A St. Thomas Aquinas grad, Marco also won a silver medal in the 400m The University of Toronto Blues individual medley and a bronze in the continues to rule the pool, thanks in 200m IM. large part to a pair of Oakville swim Despite his Ontario victories, mers. Monaco will face some stiff competi . Marco Monaco won six medals and tion in the breaststroke at the Kate Plyley claimed five at the Ontario Canadian Interuniversity Sport chamUniversity Athletics swimming cham pionsftips at the University of Laval pionships in Sudbury last weekend. February 24-26. Among his competi Those performances helped U of T tors will be the University of British sweep both titles for the second year in Columbia's Scott Dickens, a member a row. It was the sixth consecutive 0UA of Canada's national team. Monaco, title for the U of T women's team and isn't ruling anything out, though. the fifth in six years for the men. "I would like to hold on to second, Monaco, with two individual golds become an alLCanadian, second team," already in his pocket, saved he said. "Maybe first, who his best performance for "Marco (Monaco) knows?" last. With all six of his is very key to the It wouldn't surprise events scheduled for the future of the his coach. first two days of the three- team... he'll take "He earns every medal day event, Monaco could he gets. Everybody says up the mantle as have been forgiven if he he's the hardest working wasn't at his peak for the 4 our gold-medal guy on the team." x 200-metre relay. threat." Plyley will also be Swimming the anchor leg, heading to the CIS cham Monaco hit the water in U o f T coach Byron pionship after collecting a third place. But by the time McDonald i .raft of medals in Sudbury. the race, was over he had : Plyley earned three indi narrowly beaten his vidual medals and added McMaster rival to the wall, giving U of T two more in the relays. a victory by six one-hundredths of a sec "I'm pretty satisfied," the 20-yearond. ": old said. "I've got a good feeling going "I had to really dig down for that," the into the Canadian championships." 19-year-old said. "I had to find that extra Plyley turned in a personal best to bit of energy to score some points for the win the silver medal in the 400m team because we really needed them." freestyle, finishing second to Guelph's Despite being the defending cham Laura Kendall. pion, U of T was not expected to beat "That was exciting," Plyley said. "It the University of Western Ontario. But was a good fight. I had the lead for a on the strength of its relay results -- while, but in the last 50 metres I was a Monaco also helped the Blues win the little frustrated because I got passed." medley relay -- U of T beat Western Plyley is hoping to improve on her 961.5 to 884. sixtH-place finish at nationals in what The second-year political science she considers her strongest event. and history student also won a gold Plyley also earned a pair of bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke in a medals in the 200m freestyle and the time of 1:04.26 and followed it up with 800m freestyle. A third-year ethics, victory in the 200m, posting a time of society and law major, Plyley also 2:19.55. helped U of T's relay teams. She was a "Marco is very key to the future of member of the gold-medal winning the team," said U of T coach Byron 4x200m relay and narrowly missed McDonald. "He's one of the two guys another victory in the 4x100m relay, who wins the lion's share of the medals with the Blues finishing just two oneand the other (Ian MacLeod) is gradu hundredths of a second behind ating so he'll take up the mantle as our McMaster. OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER PUT ME IN, COACH: Nathan Theobold peers over the boards at River Oaks Recreation Centre, awaiting his next shift in a recent game of Timbits hockey. For more photos from the game, see page 34. CANLAN rra -, i ! -i LA C A N L A N ICE S P O R T S - O A K V IL L E Y O U T H 3 o n 3 H O C K E Y LEAGUE 90% FULL!! * G ET Y O U R S P O T T O D A Y ! THE BEST S U M M E R H O C K E Y L E A G U E A R O U N D 9 0 5 - S 4 5 - 6 9 S 9 w w w . ic e s p o r t s . c o m