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www.insideHALTON.com | O A K V IL L E B E A V E R | Thursday, December 1, 2 0 1 6 | 4 0 Milton club tno in Montreal Three Oakville girls who train at the Milton Skating Club will be representing Central Ontario at the Skate Canada Challenge. Abigail Leinweber, Madeline Schizas and Natalie Walker, all 13, are headed to Canada's national hgure skating semihnal. Leinweber, who will compete in the pre-novice category, qualihed through the recent Central Ontario Sectionals and hopes to end up in the top 10 in the country. "I have been working on m y per formance skills all year," she said. "This will be my opportunity to re ally impress the judges." Schizas and Walker will both compete in the novice category. The top 18 skaters in their group of 6 0 will then progress on to the Canadian Tire National Figure Skating Championships in Ottawa in January. Both girls plan to be there. "I would love to have my first shot at nationals" said Schizas, who plans a technically-difficult pro gram including four triple jumps. Walker, who won a bronze med al at the recent Central Ontario Sectionals, echoes her teammate's sentiments. "W e have been training hard," she said, "and now I am just Hornets fire 4 0 shots in vain vs. Lightning Brooke Jovanovich scored with 1:09 remaining in the game to pull the Oakville Hornets within a goal of Durham West, but the Light ning held on for a 2-1 win in Pro vincial W omen's Hockey League action last Sunday in Ajax. The Lightning scored 4 :0 8 into the second period and added its sec ond goal 17 seconds into the third. Sarah Fillier assisted on Jovanovich's goal, the only time Dur ham W est goalie Allison Small was beaten while facing 4 0 shots. Oakville, 1 7 -2 -2 -0 for 3 6 points, leads second-place Nepean by three points. The Hornets' next game is in Etobicoke on Dec. 10. They don't play at hom e until Friday, Dec. 16 when Barrie pays a visit. lum M acPherson each won three events. Other first-place finishers were Thomas Clinton, Jam es Hume, Christina Ji, Anton Kaploun, So phie Nguyen, Grace Raymond, Sydney Shemilt and William Zhou. The Oakville club also sent naments earlier this month. Both teams went undefeated on the way to the titles. The junior teams face some big challenges throughout the day before defeating Newton's Grove School by one point in the Tier 2 championship. The senior team scored 59 points throughout the day in Tier 1 play, allowing only 12 points. OCS defeated Mentor 7-4 in the championship game. The teams were coached by Kyle W heaton and Emily Roberts (se nior) and Tina W heaton (junior). S p o r t s B r ie f s more than 4 0 swimmers to the 2 0 1 6 Burlington Open hosted by Burlington Aquatic Devilrays. Maeve Bailey placed first in three events and Timur Devyatykh, Adil Quettawala, Kayla Sapir, Ernst Scholtz won two events each. Laura Burgess, Arda Dumanli, Kyle Grabke, Sean Lee, Connie Lopez, Vivek Madhu, Dylan Patrascu, Jade Leigh Sinclair, So phia Tran and Jasm ine W ang also picked up medals. From left, Abigail Leinweber, Natalie Walker and Madeline Schizas will represent the Central Ontario Section at this week's Skate Canada Challenge. | Photo courtesy Abbey Lenardon excited to compete." Earlier this year, Schizas and Walk er were named as two of the top 10 skaters in the country by Skate Can ada and were included in the `Next Gen' pool of those being watched for international competitions. Although both also qualified through sectionals, they had also previously received byes to the Skate Canada Challenge. All three girls attend W I. Dick middle school in Milton and train under head coach Nancy Lemaire of the Milton Skating Club. V-ball officiating clinics Halton residents interested in a volleyball officiating certification clinic can attend upcoming clinics in Burlington and Hamilton. The theory clinic will be held on Saturday, Dec. 3 at Burlington's Haber Recreation Centre while the practical session will be held at Hillfield Strathallan College in Hamilton on Saturday, Dec. 17. The clinician will be Trevor Llal, the Ontario Volleyball Asso ciation Region 3 official chair. Those interested can register or find information at bit.ly/2gpFBoe. Multiple wins for OAK swimmers in Toronto Five members of the Oakville Aquatic Club were multiple win ners at a recent NYAC Cup swim meet at the Pan Am Aquatic Cen tre in Toronto. 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