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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday March 22, 2006 - 33 Brown vaults to Commonwealth silver medal By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Alyssa Brown earned her second medal of the Commonwealth Games on Monday, winning a silver m edal in the vault com petition in M elbourne, Australia. Last week, the Abbey Park High School Grade 11 stu dent helped the Canadian wom en's team claim bronze. Brown finished the vault "It feels amaz com petition w ith a score of ing, my goal was 14.275, second only to England's to make the final. Imogen Cairns, who had a score of 14.325. A ustralia's Naomi I really focused Russell took the bronze with a and tried to go total of 14.137. out there and Brown earned the top score of have fun and do the com petition (14.650) on her my best vaults." opening vault. That gave her a slight lead over Cairns, who Alyssa Brown scored a 14.625 on her first vault. However, Cairns moved ahead of Brown on her sec ond vault, which had a higher degree of difficulty, earn ing a m ark of 14.025, while Brown received a 13.900. Still, the bronze medal was more than Brown expect ed. "It feels amazing, my goal was to make the final. I really focused and tried to go out there and have fun and do my best vaults," Brown said on the Commonwealth Games Web site. Brown also reached the final in the women's allaround and beam. She again showed her skills on the vault in the all-around final, earning the top m ark of 14.750 to help her finish sixth overall with a total score of 54.600. In yesterday's (Tuesday's) beam final, Brown placed eighth. Rangers squads seek OMHA championships A number of Oakville Rangers teams have Ontario Minor Hockey Association championships in their sights as the rep hockey playdowns continue this week. The minor atom A Rangers, who won an OMHA novice A title last year, had a chance to secure another league crown last night (Tuesday), a game that began after the Beaver's deadline. Oakville led Stouffville 4-2 in the first-to-six-points series. After dropping the first game 3-2, the Rangers tied the series with a 5-4 overtime victory and then blanked Stouffville 3-0 in Game 3. The novice AA Rangers lead their final series 3-1, going into tonight's (Wednesday's) game in Aurora, follow ing a 3-1 win <tnd 2-2 tie in the first two games of the series. If Oakville wins or ties tonight, the Rangers would have an opportunity to wrap up the series Friday at Maplegrove Arena, a contest scheduled for a 7 p.m. start. The novice A Rangers will look to close out their OMHA final series tomorrow (Thursday) when they visit Orillia. Oakville won the first game 4-1, then fell 1-0 in Game 2 before bounc ing back for a 2-1 win in the series' third game. Game 5, if necessary, will be played Saturday at Dominion T\vin Rinks, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The atom AAA Rangers will play in the OMHA championship tournament this weekend in Welland. The minor midget AAA Rangers, meanwhile, qual ified for the bronze-medal game in last weekend's OMHA championship tour nament, contested in Markham. DAN GALBRAITH / CONCEPTS TO APPLAUSE SPRINGING TO SUCCESS: Oakville's Alyssa Brown vaults herself into thejair Monday at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. Brown, a Grade 11 stu dent at Abbey Park High School, won silver in the competition to earn her second medal at the Games. 'Dream come true' for Blades forward Continued from page 32 Cunningham scored the game-winning goal in Game 7 against Milton, while DeFazio (12 points in 16 playoff games) and Calitri (10 points, including five goals) have been major offen sive contributors. The team' s young players have come through as well, par ticularly Brendan Taylor. Taylor scored on a penalty shot in overtime of Game 5 against Milton, giving the Blades life, and potted two goals in Saturday' s West clincher. "Honestly, it might sound cliche but it' s been a dream come true," the 16-year-old Taylor said last week. "I grew up watch ing the Blades and always wanted to be a Blade." Marc Stuart and David Scamurra, who have alternated starts throughout the playoffs, have provided Oakville with dependable goaltending thus far. And any discussion of the Blades' postseason success would not be complete without mention of Matt Beca, the conference MVP who leads the league in playoff scoring (14 goals, 17 assists in 16 games). `This is definitely a big accomplishment," Ringwald said, "but now we're going to focus on the next series. We're not sat isfied with winning the West." NOTES: Joey Piccone, Bryan Peters, Paul and Cunningham also scored Saturday for the Blades. Beca had two assists and Stuart stopped 21 of 23 Hamilton shots... Three of the Blades' six goals Saturday came with the man advantage. Oakville scored eight power play markers in the series... Stouffville fin ished third in the seven-team North Conference standings.this season with a 26-10-9-4 record. The Spirit defeated the Aurora Tigers in six games in the North final... The Blades are 12-4 in the playoffs, have won seven consecutive games and are 7-1 on the road... All games of the Oakville/Stouffville series will be webcast on whistleradio.com, a not-for-profit organization founded by Jim Priebe. The Web site has broadcast Spirit games throughout the entire season, with Jeff Cleary, Ryan Fabro and Jim LeMaitre handling the play-by-play. Oakville' s Lyons Asset Management is providing sponsorship, but listeners are asked for a pay-what-you-can donation (suggested amount is $5, which would cover the entire series). For more information, visit www.whistleradio.com. 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