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Wednesday, September 20, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C1 ENTERTAINMENT E ve ry Friday Fri., Sept. 22 L O S T BOYS Fri., Sept. 29 CHRISTA BLONDA Town Centre I Sun, Sept 124- 8 pm D o rvri& Q EW WWF 844-8703 "UNFORGIVEN" A Sports 829-0018 One number. 24 hours a day 2 4 H our Good Neighbor ServiceTM Andrew H eidem an 829-0018 An O akville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com Igh school re p o rt ... No sports for guys at White Oaks By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR If you're a male student at White Oaks Secondary School (WOSS) this September, count out playing sports for your school. The football helmets will gather dust this season and the basketball courts will go squeakless. White Oaks appears to be the worst casualty, this new school year, of the ongoing catfight raging between Ontario Premier Mike Harris, the school boards and the teachers. And to some degree it also comes to down to the availability o f commu nity volunteers. "It doesn't look good," conceded WOSS phys. ed. department head Bev Bemdt. She also wears another hat as president o f the Halton Secondary School Athletic Association (HSSAA). `T h e coaches who are usually responsible for football as well as volley ball largely teach in the academic area and have their .5 (extra class, as mandated by the province) this semester. So they're covering four classes and they don't have time to do it." Not that it's any consolation to the White Oaks guys, but Halton as a whole is comparatively unscathed compared to some other jurisdictions across the province which are in complete disarray. Halton athletic convenor Peter Moore, busy putting together the fall sports schedule which kicks off this week, said the participation rates are about 80 per cent of last year's levels (which were actually far from 100 per cent). But even that appeared to be dropping, as o f our press deadlines. The fall sports schedule includes, for the boys, volleyball and football, and for the girls, field hockey and basketball. White Oaks, to reiterate, has nothing to offer the guys. Last year, in a story recounted in the Oakville Beaver, it won the Halton tier two junior football championship. Graduates of past WOSS football programs include two NFLers, recently retired Tony Mandarich and current Indianapolis Colts place kicker Mike Vanderjagt who has certainly talked fondly about his high school football days. This year it has neither a senior nor a junior football team. Last year, Bemdt noted, there was also no senior football team but because of a lack of players, not coaches. The only sport at White Oaks where coaches are in place are in girls bas ketball although, ironically, as o f Monday o f this week, they still needed more of a player turn out to field a junior team. Girls field hockey will not be offered for the third straight year at W hite Oaks. "We haven't had a qualified field hockey coach for three years. Because it's a high risk sport it requires more than somebody who can just go out and be a warm body, because you've got to make sure to teach the kids the proper progressions and safety and so on." Students can also, by and large, forget about neighbouring schools which do happen to offer a varsity sport they're interested in. They are not wel come to join up with a neighbouring school's team, not even if they transfer to the school. `T h e HSSAA transfer and eligibility rules fall in line with OFSAA (Ontario Federation of Secondary Athletic A ssociations)... and the eligibili ty there is not available for someone who played that sport at a previous school the year before," explained Bemdt. There is one little loophole in that if you didn't happen to play the sport (See 'High school sports' page C3) Photo by Ron Kuzyk OPEN SEASON: th e O ak v ille B lades G eo ff C u rtis , an O akville triple-A m idget g ra d , is in a race fo r th e p u c k , h ere, w ith th e B u rlin g to n C o u g a r 's C o n o r M cD onough in F rid a y n ig h t's season o p en er a t Ice S p o rts O ak v ille. T h e tw o te a m s tie d th is g am e a t 3-3. T h e B lades lost th e ir firs t ro ad gam e M onday n ight, 4-2 over M ississau g a C h a rg e rs , th e fin al goal going in to a n em pty net. In a q u irk of the scheduling th e B lades a re in th e m id st o f a fo u r-g a m e ro a d tr ip w hich c o n tin u e s F rid a y ag a in st the B ram alea Blues, K ingston on S unday (a t M ississa u g a 's H e rsh e y C e n te r a t 1:30 p.m . as p a r t o f the leag u e's an n u al College Show case T o u rn am en t) a n d th e n B uffalo L ig h tn in g on M onday, S ept. 25. T h e y 're n o t b ack a t hom e u n til F rid ay , Sept. 29 ag ain st G eo rg eto w n fo r w h a t sh o u ld also be a ra u c o u s affair. PHILTHY'S SPOTLIGHT: th e O akville R a n g e rs trip le-A rep m in o r b a n ta m hockey team have h a d a g re a t s ta r t to th e seaso n , w in n in g a s ta r-s tu d d e d T o ro n to tourney. BACK RO W : coach Scott M cK enzie, tr a in e r M a rk R ow an, C h a rlie G iffin , C o n n o r F a rris , G ra h a m Tough, T yler D onati, N ick P resco tt, R yan W ilkinson, Nick D odge, D aniel R in g w a ld , a ssista n t coach Tom G iffin, A ndy M acD onald a n d m an ag er Rob R ingw ald. F R O N T R O W : a s s is ta n t co ach J o h n D avis, N ick D avis, Ben H eersin k , C o n lan G assi, B rad M cK enzie, C h ris R o w an , V ic to r O re sk o v ic h , D aniel H an n ig an -D aley a n d J u s tin D onati. - P hilthy' s Spotlight Teams receive a $50 gift certificate Gold at top T.O. tourney The O akville R an g ers triple-A m in o r b an tam rep team , which are the defending Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OM HA) champs as well as all-Ontario final ists (at the pewee level), have already set a pretty high stan dard for themselves this season by taking the championship at the Toronto Red W ing early bird tournament. W hile Tiger Woods was taming Glen Abbey, the home town Rangers were in tough with 30 of the top minor ban tam teams in North America and came out on top. The team is community based with all players and coaches residing in Oakville, and they took on the cream of the North American hockey community and ended up defeating a number o f U.S. and Canadian based `all-star' regional teams. Oakville went undefeated throughout the ardorous four day, seven-game tourney winning six and tying one. P relim in a ry ro u n d ... Game 1 ... Oakville 8, M ississauga Reps 3: game MVP: Justin Donati; Game 2 ... Oakville 2, Toronto Red W ings 2: game MVP: Chris Rowan; Game 3 ... Oakville 6, Rideau St. Lawrence 1: game MVP: Vic Oreskovich; Game 4 ... Oakville 3, York-Simcoe 1: game MVP: Chris Rowan. Q u a rte rfin a ls ... Oakville 6, Detroit Honeybaked 2 The Rangers opened the playoff round bright and early at 8 a.m., facing last year's Quebec City world champion Detroit Honeybaked and quickly fell behind 2-0, some early `nerves' getting the best of them. Last year's captain Nick Dodge got the Rangers going early in the second period setting up Tyler Donati, and then scoring his own unassisted marker, all within a 30 second blast while Oakville was short-handed, to even up the score. This appeared to un-nerve the Detroit team while pro viding all the confidence Oakville needed to take their game up a notch. Game MVP: Nick Dodge. S em ifin als... Oakville 3, Toronto Red Wings 2 After proving to themselves in the opening round that they could outskate and outhustle the Red Wings, Oakville once again played their `A' game to knock off this top notch GTHL club. Keeping penalties to a minimum and tenacious forchecking and backchecking permitted the Rangers to (See 'Borschevsky' page C4) Girls Held hockey results Oakville Trafalgar High School field hockey team geared up for their Halton high school season by reaching the finals o f the Kitchener Waterloo school girls invitational tournament this past weekend. Oakville lost in the final 1-6 to Pioneer High School from M ichigan. The tourney is traditionally used by O.T. to make the always tough final cuts. The team, which is sponsored by the Duck & Firkin Restaurant, are heading to Ottawa this weekend for another tournament. Oakville Trafalgar advanced to last w eekend's cham pionship game with a convincing 5-0 semifinal win over Humberview. Goals were scored by Sarah Dunbar, Katie Zwir, Carolyn Flowers, Lisa Robertson and Erin Maloney. In preliminary round action, O akville Trafalgar went 3-1 ... Oakville 2, St. John's Kilm arnock 0: goals by Katie Zwir and Lisa Robertson). Pioneer High School 2, Oakville Trafalgar 0 Oakville Trafalgar 4, Toronto 0: goals by Sarah Vogt, Katie Zwir, Erin Maloney and Carolyn Flowers). Oakville Trafalgar 6, St. Thomas M ore 0 (goals by Lisa Robertson 3, Laurel Gale, Katie Zwir and Steph Gulledge). 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