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Wednesday, November 15,2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 Sports!W ednesday By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR The Q.E. Park senior boys football team have proven to be quick studies, and as a result they're at Ivor Wynne Stadium today at noon, putting their undefeated season on the line for the tier two Halton championship against Burlington Central. The Q.E. Park Eagles were 6-0 throughout the regular season and this past Friday they won their semifinal game, 18-0 over Aldershot. Q.E. Park led 12-0 at the half. Ryan Smith got the only points his team would need with a tackle in the end zone for a two-point safety. Jason Lyall then kicked a field goal for a 5-0 lead. Raza Bashir got Q.E. Park's first major on a three-yard rush, which was converted by Lyall, for the 12-0 half time edge. Q.E. Park added an unconverted major in the second half, off a 10-yard rush by Matt Higginson, who "had his best game," said coach John Skinner. A ctually H igginson, B ashir and another running back, Jason Lyall, were responsible for m ost o f the offence, noted coach Skinner. "We didn't throw, the wind was so bad. We just ran. So those three guys did the majority of the ball carrying." Despite not going to the air, he said Q.B. Ross Corley "really controlled the game -- he called a nice game." With no points allowed, the defence was obviously outstanding. "Our defence absolutely played a great game," he agreed. They were led by the likes of Greg Carr, Jason Lyall and Ryan Smith, the latter with two fumble recoveries and the two-point safety. They're expecting a super competi tive game at Ivor Wynne, given that Burlington Central has had almost as good a season. In fact, the only blem ish on their 6-1 record was their regu lar season loss to Q.E. Park, 25-13. `T h ey have a quarterback that's a bit mobile," said coach Skinner. `T h ey have a really tough kid, who is their full back and middle linebacker, who is just solid. So they like to run the ball." With two evenly matched teams, he 829-0018 One number. 24 hours a day 2 4 H our Good Neighbor ServiceTM A ndrew H e id em an " tiisarttCTiisr 829-0018 An O akville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com Quick study Q.E.P. team in Ivor Wynne final Photo by Peter C. McCusker Matt Higginson (#4) was a workhorse lugging the ball in Q.E. Park's 18-0 semifinal win over A ldershot Looking on is teammate Greg Carr (#53) who had a great game on defence. Q.E. Park plays the tier two Halton senior boys football championship today (Wednesday), at noon, at Ivor Wynne Stadium. said it could boil down to the old adage of fewest penalties and turnovers. Coach Skinner had no idea, at the beginning of the season, that his team would be marching into the champi onship at Ivor Wynne Stadium with an undefeated record still on the line. Actually at the beginning of the sea son, he was still more worried about fielding a team, let alone one of high quality. "We only had 15 (players) to start with at our first practice. I just said you get a group of 24-25 kids that want to play and we could be competitive ... So they kind of cruised down the hall and roped in some volunteers. Experience they did not have. When the dust settled, there were only seven players from last year's team, including only four starters. And there was no junior team to graduate any players. The other 22 players filling out the 29-player roster had basically not played football before. `T hey have come together really well," understated coach Skinner. "We've got some good athletes, just not a lot of football experience. It's kind o f neat." * The kids and the school are excited to have achieved the ultimate goal of making the Ivor Wynne championship. And, actually, so is John Skinner. Yes, he's been coaching for 27 years and has taken a Q.E. Park team to the big game at Ivor Wynne eight times before (as far as he can remem ber), stretching back to the seventies. But this will mark his fourth decade pacing the sidelines in a championship game at Ivor Wynne. And he's pumped, too. M omingstar contingent at U.S. meet A deleg atio n from O ak v ille's M orningstar Taekwon-Do traveled to New Haven, Connecticut to com pete in the General Choi Cup, a major international T aekw on-D o to u rn a ment. The com petition is held in honour of General Choi Hong Hi, the founder of Taekwon-D o and the International Taekwon-Do A ssociation (ITF). It is an elite com petition, only open to black and red belts. T his y e a r's com petition, which was held on Oct. 27, was th£ largest General Choi Cup ever held, with more than 400 com petitors represent ing 6 o f the 7 continents (only A ustralia was not represented). Delegates traveled from as far away as M ongolia and South Africa. The Canadian team had members from across the country, including 15 athletes from Oakville. General Choi Hong Hi founded Taekwon-Do on April 11, 1955, after many years of planning and develop ment. As a child, he had studied the ancient Korean art of foot fighting (Tae-kyung) and also had become a black belt in K arate. In 1955, Taekwon-Do was officially unveiled and became the national martial art of Korea. In 1966, the ITF was founded as the ruling international body of Taekwon-Do. Since then, the ITF has spread to more than 60 countries and has more than 40 million practition ers worldwide. In the com petition itself, Canada placed a very close second to the United States for the overall title. O akville's representatives all acquitted themselves well. Medal winners in the junior divi sions were: Jessica Klassen (2 gold m edals), Allen Huen (gold) and Michael Vella (silver and bronze). In the adult division medallists included Errico Lucia (bronze), Kristina Makxam (bronze), Roland Klassen (bronze), Rajinder Singh (sil ver) and Dan Liakos (silver). The next major international com petition on which Oakville has its sights set is the 2001 World Championship in Italy. M omingstar Taekwon-Do has two members that are part o f the team that will represent Canada at this event. Espo hoping for thirsty Canucks The O akville-based K elsey's restaurant chain, this week, has kicked off a six week `H ungry for H ockey' prom otion in which they will be selling six lim ited edition NHL A lum ni C ollectible Glasses. A portion o f the money (50 cents from each glass), then, goes back to minor hockey in the restaurant's home community. The lim ited edition auto graphed glasses will include six NHL Hall of Fam ers -- Frank M ahovlich, Guy Lafleur, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito, B rad Park and M arcel Dionne. "Supporting minor hock ey is som ething that the NHL A lum ni A ssociation strongly believes in and our association with K elsey's allow s us to have some national impact," said Rene Robert, executive director o f the NHL Alumni A ssociation and well known former NHL star. "Our two organizations share the same philosophy in helping kids achieve their dream s and since hockey is a sport that we profoundly believe in, giv ing back to the kids is what this is all about." Added Phil Esposito: "I am honoured to be a part of this special promo tion that will help young hockey players. The sport of hockey has given me so much and I am fortunate that I had the opportunity to live my dream. Anything that I can do to help out children is worthwhile to me and this promotion is something I am very proud of. I hope Canadians will be very thirsty over the next six weeks so that they can stop by a Kelsey's, buy a glass and help out minor hockey." PHILTHY'S SPOTLIGHT: the minor novice triple-A rep team won gold. COACHES (L-R): Steve Wilson, Ray Dube, Michael Provost and Perry Badham. BACK ROW (L-R): Patrick Feric, Nat Domagala, Tyler Shiplo, Brett Lee, Dylan Cooper, Tyler Badham, Brandon Alderson and Braeden Corbeth. MIDDLE ROW: Michael Scott, Matthew Provost, Scott Wilson, Zach Ruys, Brent Stevenson, Conrad Hansuld and Kyle Dube. FRONT ROW (L-R): Jacob Liptok and Chris Miniaci. - Philthy' s Spotlight Teams receive a $50 gift certificate Gold medal in seven-team Hamilton tournament The Oakville Rangers minor novice triple-A rep team earned the gold medal in a seven-team tourney in Hamilton. The Rangers got off to a great start with a 7-2 win over St. Catharines. Goals were scored by Tyler Badham (2), Brandon Alderson, Brent Stevenson, Dylan Cooper, Brett Lee and Braeden Corbeth. Picking up assists were Patrick Feric, Zach Ruys and Scott y'ilson. In one of their best performances of the season, in game two, Oakville doubled Barrie Iceman 4-2. Oakville squandered an opening 2-0 lead (on goals by Tyler Badham and Tyler Shiplo) but then man aged to earn it back (on goals by Brandon Alderson and Matthew Provost). Conrad Hansuld and Kyle Dube assisted. A great performance by goaltender Jacob Liptok. The semifinal game was the most nailbiting with Oakville needing an overtime penalty shootout to edge Whitby 4-3. The game went into the shootout tied at 3-3 on goals and assists by Dylan Cooper, Scott Wilson, Brandon Alderson and Michael Scott. Chris Miniaci stopped all three shots in the overtime shootout while Cooper and Alderson connected for Oakville. The fingernails were spared in the championship game as Oakville rolled to a 5-1 win over Welland, avenging an earlier regular league loss two weeks previous. Scott Wilson and Zack Ruys led the offence with a pair of goals while Tyler Badham added a single marker. 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