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Tuesday, December 21, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 D O E S YO UR C A RW AX G IVE YO UB E T T E R P R O TE C TIO N THAN YO U RC U T-R A TE ,, { £ £ £ £ * C A R INSURANCE' Sfi-2225 Don't trust just anyone to insure your car, see me: c -- fla e s s b s xs ip Sport'titfednesdau e for one lucky person! 9p to 3am ftfllwffli Tw m Ciitn I '2000 ?* 81 0 N o rth S t v ic e R oo d, O R K V IU t (ttW ) M 4 4 M 3 An O akville B eaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 255) Fax:337-5567 OTHS student trying out for national junior team ' our fitness testing results and I've been doing pretty well." He's an active member of both the Oakville Crusaders rugby club, who Talk about a quick study. will actually foot his $1,000 sponsor Oakville Trafalgar High School fee if he makes the team, and also the OAC student Patrick Dessaulles is in school rugby team, of course. Victoria, B.C. this week at Canada's If any school team could transform U-19 national junior rugby training camp. a neophyte in the sport to the brink of joining the national junior team, it Not bad for someone, who before would be Oakville Trafalgar, an entering Grade 9 at OTHS a few short undisputed power house. Put it this years ago, knew absolutely nothing about the sport. way, the last time they lost a Halton championship, none o f the current "I didn't even know rugby existed players on the roster were even bom. before high school," he chuckled. They're at 29 consecutive champi "It's a real big sport there (at onships, and counting. Oakville Trafalgar). To be so good, they practice Former Oakville Trafalgar midget throughout the school year, and that coach Kent Burns, now at Burlington helped Dessaulles prepare for the Central, "got me into rugby," junior national team tryout. explained Dessaulles. "Mr. Burns and Mr. (Greg) "The school rugby team is prepar ing for a tour to Ireland in March so I (the senior coach), they've helped my rugby. They helped get practice twice a week with them." He also has his own training pro onto the Ontario team. gram, on a pretty well daily basis, "Mr. Bums helped me make a which includes hitting the pavement work out program to help get me for a three-mile run and hitting the started on that. gym where he has workouts to "And then I've been playing for Photo by Barrie Erskine improve both upper and lower body two years now for Mr. Sora on the Oakville Trafalgar High School OAC student Patrick Dessaulles has heard from over a dozen U.S. colleges about a strength. senior rugby team." possible football scholarship. This week, however, he's totally focused on rugby while attending Canada's national All this training is not just for The Ontario junior team competed junior training camp just outside of Victoria. rugby. A multi-sport athlete, he has at the national championships in Edmonton in March. heard from more than a dozen U.S. colleges about a football scholarship, so that we're back on the field at 1 p.m. and we play "We came third which was a little unfortu Africa, France, Wales and England, all those will be a huge decision he'll soon have to nate," he said. "We had an unlucky game until 5 p.m." countries that were just in the world cup. We'd make. against Alberta. We should have beat them and be playing against their future teams." The final team of 26 players will be After all, there are not too many rugby announced shortly after the end of the training Either way, though, he expects the national that would have put us in the gold medal game against B.C." scholarships up for grabs. camp, much to Rugby Canada's credit, so the training camp to be a great experience. In football he lines up at fullback and tight team members won't be saddled with anticipa The six-day national team camp will decide "It will be fun," he said. "This calibre of tion over the Christmas Holidays. rugby will really improve my skills, and help in end. Canada's contingent to the 2000 World Junior "We (the Oakville Trafalgar senior football Cup in France next April. The team will also the school season, when you're getting coach Dessaulles should know whether he's made team) had a good season (this fall) but then we the team when he arrives back in Oakville embark on an exhibition tour of the U.K. in ing like this from that calibre of coach." February. lost to Lester B. Pearson in the semis ... we shortly before Christmas. He's confident that he has prepared hard and kind of got massacred. Not a good showing, we Being included on the team, he concedes, can give it his best shot. About 40 players from across the country would be a heck of a Christmas present. "I've been doing quite a bit of training in the came out pretty bad." have been invited to the camp, including a half This winter semester he will suit up for the dozen from Ontario, he said. "If I make it, it would be the experience of a past couple months to get myself in shape to OTHS varsity basketball team and then in the lifetime. It would be amazing to represent your "We're on the field at 9 a.m. in the morning. compete." spring semester, it's rugby season. country against New Zealand, Australia, South We have a break for lunch at noon and then "They've been putting out a form with all BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR By Norm Nelson Photos by Ron Kuzyk The Oakville Hornets Future Logistics bantam rep team ran into some tough luck last Wednesday, losing this game 41 to Durham West In their preChristmas home stand, however, they defeated Leaside 4-0 and Stouffville 1-0. Photo by Peter C. McCusker CLUB COMPETITION! The Oakville Skating Club held its club competition last Saturday, marking the first step in the provincial stream `interclub' series. Competing, here, in junior silver ladies, is Jennifer Vipond. Check future issue for complete results. MOHA hosts a ll-s ta r gam e Natalie Procyk rounding out the scoring. Assisting were Amanda Zaccaria with two and singles going to Chelsey Clay, Andrea Browne, Carrie Laughlin and Tiffani White. Sonja Podealuk kicked out 25 shots to earn her seventh shutout. Game two resulted in a 1-0 victory over Stouffville. Captain Lindsay Cook scored for Oakville, finishing off a perfect set-up from linemate Chelsey Clay. The game was well execut ed by the defensive corps which helped Sonja Podealuk to another shutout. Natalie Procyk scored the lone goal, assisted by Jennifer Alexander and Chelsey Clay. Natalie Procyk scored the lone goal in a 4-1 loss to Durham West. Friday night's triple-A midget all-star game at Oakville Arena was a case of hockey played the way it should be. The fact that the the host central team lost 52 to the south was of little consequence as a good crowd was treated to some excellent tran sitional play by both teams, along with some excellent defensive work. The game was tied 2-2 at the end of the sec ond period before the south pulled away in the final frame. Burlington's Steve Johnson was the central team MVP while Matt O 'Brien of St. Catharines was the south MVP. The game was well attended and a sizeable donation of non-perishable food was collected. Steve Johnson had both central goals with assists to Connor McDonaugh (Burlington) and David Brooks (Halton). Scoring the south goals were Matt O'Brien (St. Catharines), Derek Bachinsky (Windsor), Jeff Chafe (St. Catharines), Bryan McGregor (Niagara Falls) and Josh Moore (St. Catharines). Assisting were Ryan McNorton (Windsor), Mark Gennarco (Stoney Creek), O 'Brien (St. Catharines), and Chris Langlois (St. Catharines). Pre-Christmas homestand nets two wins and one loss The Future Logistics ban tam rep team closed out their pre-Christmas home stand on a mixed note, winning two and los ing one. In game one against a team from Leaside, the Hornets domi nated both offensively and defen sively in a 4-0 win. Amanda Kahnert chipped in her second hat-trick of the season with