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THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, December 29, 2000 Oakville well represented at nationals Oakville will be well represented at upcoming national figure skating championships. The big one is the combined senior and junior nationals which are being held at Winnipeg Arena, Jan. 16-21. The marquee performer, as always, is Elvis Stojko, and although he's from Richmond Hill and retains his Richmond Hill Skating Club affiliation, he has strong Oakville connections. Ever since his junior days, Stojko has been coming to Oakville to get his skates sharpened by Oakville's Paul Fisher. He is a familiar site at the River Oaks arena and has been spend ing even more time there in recent years since amicably parting ways with his longtime coach last year. But Oakville has more than an adopted skater at the LEFT PHOTO: Sean Rice and Jodeyne Higgins at the `98 Canadians at prestigious senior men's competition as Oakville's Eric Copps Coliseum. BOTTOM PHOTO: regular visitor Elvis Stojko caught in Ritter has made it to the seniors, and will be competing action this past September at River Oaks Arena. right alongside Stojko. Now skating with the Central Ontario Figure Skating Club, Ritter made it to the nationals in the junior category last year, finishing eighth in the 16-team field. Also slated to skate at this year's nationals are the longtime senior pairs team of Sean Rice of Oakville and Jodeyne Higgins of Stratford. They've competed at numerous nationals, making the world championships on two occasions where they fin ished 10th and 14th place, respectively. In the junior dance category, Mississauga's Deborah Allworth of the Oakville Skating Club and her Scarborough Figure Skating Club partner Jon Lane are back for their second straight junior nationals. They fin ished in eighth place last year. JUNIOR NATIONALS The nationals for the youth categories, including novice, pre-novice and juvenile, are being held Jan. 10-13 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex, and Oakville is also well represented. Competing in the novice dance are Oakville's Geoff Deeth and his Scarborough Skating Club partner Laura Stoveld. They finished in fourth place at the Eastern Canadian qualifier. Competing in the pre-novice dance are Denise Fung and Tom Dzamba. They finished in eighth place at the eastern Canadian qualifier. On a m il into the break Photo by Barrie Erskine Photo by Peter C. McCusker The Oakville R angers m in o r atom double-A rep team , spon sored by Kopriva Taylor/Lucent Technologies, headed into the Christmas break with three wins in four games. Game one saw the Rangers edge out the Flamborough Sabres 3-2. Hitting the twine for the Rangers were Josh Ceecarelli, Brian Urquhart and Mike McGillivray. Assists went to Max Mihaichuk, Sam Old, Danny Opratko, David Provost and McGillivray. Game two saw Oakville double the visiting Guelph Storm 4-2. Goals were scored by Josh Ceecarelli (2), David Provost and Max Mihaichuk. Assists went to Aaron Kachkowski (2), Mike McGillivray (2) and David Provost. Game three saw the Rangers lose a close one 3-1 to Burlington Eagles. The lone Oakville biscuit was put in the basket by Connor McMonagle, assist ed by Tyler Schlonies and Aaron Kachkowski. Game four saw the Rangers back in the winning col umn, 5-2 in Ancaster. Scoring for Oakville were Brain Urquhart, Mike McGillivray, Jake Legein, Josh Ceecarelli and Aaron Kachkowski. Assists went to Kachkowski (2) and Urquhart g ff The G eneral M otors 3 & -- H oliday H ate B reak ----------------------------------------------- H urry, limited lime *bffer. Y 2001 Pontiac Sunfire Y 20 01 Pontiac Gland Am y 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix w _____ _ - i 20 01 Pontiac Montana % 20 01 Buick Century The first defeat 2 0 01 Pontiac Aztek The O akville H o rn ets peewee B rep team tasted defeat for the first time on Dec. 16 falling 4-1 to the visiting Vaughan Flames. Things started out good for the Oakville with Ryan Ferguson scoring three min utes into the game, assisted by Giselle Panton and Sarah Grigor. But Vaughan tied it up a minute later and after a scoreless middle stanza, Vaughan broke through with three more unanswered goals in the third period. On Dec. 17, the Hornets, despite missing three players, managed a 1-1 tie against host Clearview. Clearview opened the scoring but Liz Edmunds replied ju st four seconds later, unassisted. Both teams had excellent chances to score but were kept off the board by sharp goaltend ing. BMC 2 0 01 J i m m y See w h a t 0 . 9 % fin a n c in g can m ean fo r y o u . 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