1 7 | Friday A u g u s t 1 1 , 2 0 1 7 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | w w w .in s id e h a lto n .c o m W hittaker excels a t Canada Summer Games Oakville's Dylan Whittaker led Ontario in alm ost every offensive category, but the provincial squad came up one win short of a medal at the C anada Sum m er G am es in W innipeg. Whittaker batted a team-best .347 in eight gam es at the tourna ment while also leading the OntarOakville's Dylan Whittaker fields a ground ball during a game against host Manitoba at the Canada Summer Games. Whittaker led Ontario with a .347 batting average while also pacing the provincial squad in hits, runs and RBIs at the tournament. | Keith Revit - 2017 Canada Summer Games io squad in hits (eight), runs (six ), RBIs (five) and w alks (four). He also led the team in slugging percentage (.391) and on-base per centage (.464). Whittaker w as 1-for-3 and scored Ontario's only run in a 5-1 loss to Alberta in the bronze-medal game. Oakville's Nathan Shute was also 1-for-3 in the game. The third Oakville m ember of the team, Sebastian Santos, was tagged for two hits and three runs in the sixth inning as Alberta added to its lead. Ontario went 5-3 at the Canada Gam es after opening the tour nam ent with four straight wins. Whittaker went 2-for-3, scored twice and drove in a run in a 14-4 win over PE.I. Santos pitched two hitless, shutout innings to earn the save in a 1-0 win over Nova Scotia and Ontario followed up with a 5-1 win over Newfoundland. Whittaker went 2-for-4 and drove in a pair in a 7-0 win over New Brunswick. He doubled, scored and had an RBI in a 3-2 loss to Manitoba. He w as also tagged with the loss after allowing two hits and three runs, all unearned, in three innings of w ork on the mound. Ontario defeated B.C. 3-1 in the quarter-finals before falling 7-0 to the eventual gold-m edalists, Sas katchewan, in the semifinals. Paddler Jillian Perrone wins two more medals for a total of four so far at Canada Summer Games Jillian Perrone has added to her Canada Games m edal count, earn ing four m edals at the Canada Sum mer Gam es in Winnipeg. Perrone won a pair of gold medals Thursday, teaming up with Ottawa's Rowan Hardy-Kavanagh for victo ries in the in the women's C-2 (canoe doubles) 200-metre and 500m events. Earlier in the week, Perrone, who won a gold and silver at the 2013 Canada Games, edged Nova Sco tia's Nicole Jesso p by 5/100ths of a second to take the silver m edal in M onday's C-1 500m final. The next day she added a bronze in the IC-4 (international canoe) in a crew that included her Burloak Canoe Club teammate Kate Pennyfather. The Ontario crew beat the host Mani toba by three-tenths of a second to earn a spot on the podium . Burloak athletes have claimed 12 m edals so far, including five by the Pennyfather family. Kate Pennyfather won a gold medal with Ontario's w om en's K-4 (kayak fours) crew in the 500m. Earlier in the day, the Ontario crew earned a silver medal in the 200m. Sam Pennyfather has earned two medals so far. Pennyfather won a silver medal in the C-1 1,000m on Tuesday. Thursday he added a bronze medal in the IC-4 200m and 1,000m. Also part of those bronze-medal crews was Oakville's Sam Djurfeldt, who paddles out of the Mississauga Canoe Club. In the 200m, the On tario crew edged Nova Scotia by twotenths of a second for the bronze. Burloak's Mitchell Baran earned a pair of bronze medals, taking third in the K-2 1,000m and the K-4 1,000m, where Nova Scotia edged the Ontario crew by half a second for the silver. Softball: The Ontario women's team, including Oakville's Sarah Benn and Nicole Rivait, improved to 6-0 by shutting out Quebec 4-0 Wednesday. Benn is 7-for-15 for a .466 batting average. She went 2-for-2 with a double and a triple and scored twice in a 10-0 win over Nova Scotia. Rivait is 2-for-9 with two runs in the tournament. Volleyball: Laura Madill and the Ontario team opened the women's tournament with four wins without dropping a set before falling to Alberta in four sets. Soccer: Tariq Armstrong and the Ontario went 2-0 to win its pool in the men's competition. Ontario opened with a 3-1 win over P.E.I. and then edged Alberta 1-0. Ontario was set to face Nova Scotia in the quarter-finals. Cycling: Adam Lefebvre finished 21st in a field of 49 riders in the individual time trial and was 23rd in the road race. C O M E JUST AS YO U ARE! W E L L come to your ultimate Girl's Day! Come to The Well -- a day celebrating our successes, discovering passions and empowering fabulous women! With sensational speakers, shopping, creative dining, live music and meditation, The Well is your day to replenish! 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