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www.insidehalton.com |O AKVILLE BEAVER |Thursday, June 1, 2017 |44 Kevin Nagel, Oakville Beaver Sports Editor, knagel@burlingtonpost.com Sports 5 fourth. After making 10 straight pars, she made a pair of birdies down the stretch, on the 504-yard, par-5 15 th hole and the 166-yard, par-3 17th. Haynes' improved her score each round, opening with a 79 and fol lowing with rounds of 77 and 75. The UIndy Greyhounds, who won the national title in Haynes' freshman season in 2015, finished third. "We never gave up and it obvi ously wasn't what we wanted but we fought to the end," she said. "It wasn't total UIndy golf, how we normally play, but we definitely kept fighting to the end and never left ourselves out of it." Haynes earned an All-Amer ican honourable mention from the Women's Golf Coaches Asso ciation. Returning from an inju ry-shortened sophomore season, Haynes finished with a 75.8 stroke average and earned eight top-10 finishes, including a fifth-place result at the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship. She was also an Academic All-District "Connected to your Community " Haynes finishes fourth in NCAA Div. II championship By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Renaud, Board lead Sr. B Titans to convincing win overVtelocity Eddie Renaud scored three times and Gage Board had six points in the Oakville Titans' 16-7 win over the Kitchener-Waterloo Velocity last Saturday. The Titans scored eight times in the opening period as they improved to 4-1 in Sr. B lacrosse play. Down 2-1, Oakville scored three times in 62 seconds and never looked back. Board had two goals and four assists and Brendan Muise, Keyan McQueen, Tyler Wood man and Nick Rybka also scored twice. Cam Mancini, Chris Lopes and Ben Heidecker had Oakville's other goals. Muise, Ryan Johnston and goalie Craig Wende each had three assists while McQueen, Woodman, Mancini, Lopes and Josh Wright had two apiece. The Titans are in Ennismore Saturday before returning home to play the Brooklin Merchants Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre. Oakville's Annika Haynes matched the lowest round of the tourna ment, finishing with a two-under 70 to earn a share of fourth place at the NCAA Division II golf cham pionships. The University of Indianapolis junior finished the tournament with a four-day total of 301, six shots off the pace set by individual champion Marie Coors. It was the highest finish at the national cham pionships by a UIndy golfer since Lyndsay McBride won the national title in 2009. "I just stayed solid all day," Haynes said of her final round. "I struggled getting off to a good start every other day, especially on the front nine, so I just tried to keep it steady. As soon as I got through the first nine at even, I knew I could make something happen on the back and I did." Haynes bogeyed the third hole in the final round but bounced back with a birdie on the 484-yard, par- honoree with a 4.0 grade-point av erage. "Annika had another great sea son for us. It was so nice to have her back on the course this year after her season-ending injury last Tied for the best round of the tournament with a 70 on Day 4, Oakville's Annika Haynes rose up the stand ings to finish fourth at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II golf championships. | File photo spring," said Greyhounds coach Brent Nicoson. "She dug deep at the national championship and led us with her fourth-place finish. She's a great young lady who is a model student-athlete." Late crash leaves surging Hinchcliffe on the sidelines at Indianapolis 5 0 0 By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff James Hinchcliffe had just worked his way to his best position of the day when the Indy 500 came to a sudden end for him. Hinchcliffe was part of a four-car accident that knocked him out of last Sunday's race in Indianapolis. After running in the middle of the pack in the 33-car field for most of the day, the Oakville IndyCar driver had worked his way toward the front of the pack with 17 laps remaining. However, as Hinchcliffe tried to avoid an accident in front of him, he was hit by another car, sending him into the wall. "We found ourselves in the right place at the end, inside the top 10, with just a handful of laps to go," said Hinchcliffe, who finished the day in 22nd place. "Unfortunately, on a restart, which is where we have been strong the last few times in making up some spots, Oriol (Servia) and James Davison were run ning hard and got into each other. I slowed up to avoid the wreck and unfortunately, Will (Power) lost control trying to avoid everything and just collected us both. Wrong place, wrong time." After earning the pole position for last year's race, Hinchcliffe and his Arrow Electronics Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team were unable to replicate that this year. They qualified 17th and remained around that spot for most of the race. "It was such a back-and-forth day," he said. "At some points we had a really quick car and at some points we were struggling a bit. At some points, we were great in the pits and sometimes we lost a bunch of spots. It was just a clas sic 500-mile ebb-and-flow sort of race." A good pit stop under caution and good restarts following a se ries of yellow flags helped him move up to 10th place. However, the crash on Lap 183 of the 200lap race denied him a chance for his third top-10 finish at the Indy 500. "Gutted for everyone on the team because we didn't have the same pace as last year but we were trucking away and fighting and got ourselves in a good spot at the end," he said. The crash also hurt Hinchcliffe in the driver's standings as he dropped from sixth to 10th. The IndyCar series resumes next weekend with two races in Detroit. Hinchcliffe will be back in Toronto July 17 for the Honda Indy To ronto, where he finished third last year. APPLY NOW. START IN SEPTEMBER. Find a program that fits your interests: Paralegal Personal Support Worker Educational Support Electrical Engineering Technology Heating, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Techniques L earn m o r e a t mohawkcollege.ca/apply II m o H a u j K COLLEGE