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Kevin Nagel, Oakville Beaver Sports Editor, knagel@burlingtonpost.com Sports T O U R N E Y "Connected to your Community" NLL Rush takes Boushy, l Bandits draft Wallace 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------By Herb Garbutt ______________________________________________________ o r- oakville Beaver staff R eebok Oakville peewee AA rep Hornets' Carley Clugston beats the Philadelphia Flyers goalie to tie the game 1-1 at the Hornets annual Harvest Classic Tournament last weekend. The Hornets went on to win the game 8-1 and finished the round-robin with a 2-0-1 record, but fell 4-0 to the Stoney Creek Sabres in the quarter-finals. Two Hornet teams reached the tournament final. The midget A Hornets won five games before being shut out by Mississauga in the gold-medal game and the bantam B Hornets posted a 2-1-1 record, but lost 2-0 to Sudbury in the championship game. | photo by G raham Paine - O akville Beaver Oakville Blades' Ja co b B u ch 's third-period goal, his second o f the gam e, broke a 2 -2 draw as his team w en t on to earn a 5 -3 v icto ry over the K ingston V oyageurs. The Ontario Ju n io r H ockey League w in cam e last Tuesday in the Blades' first of two games at the G overnor's Showcase in Buffalo. Their seco n d gam e was played yesterday against A u rora after the Beaver' s press deadline. Blades' goalie Chris Elliot m ade 2 0 o f his 3 8 saves in the final period as Oakville pulled away. Jeff Clarke, Spencer Kersten and M athew Kellenberger had the oth er goals for the Blades, off to a 2 -1 -1 start w ith the win. The Blades are in N orth York Sunday, Sept. 2 4 to play the Rangers. B l a d e s v a n q u is h V q y a g a u r s in fir s t o f t w o G o v e r n o r 's Show case gam es Shine Out! Shout Out! tourney supports m ental health The fifth annual Shine O ut! Shout O ut! h o ck ey tou rn am en t held earlier this m o n th raised m ore than $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 supporting m ental health. The m o n ey will go to the Ju s t Be You p eer-to-p eer m en tal h ealth su p p ort p rogram for y o u th ages 1 5 -2 2 . It's the only sou rce o f funding for this program , w h ich is ru n in partnership w ith Support and H ousing Halton. The adult recreational h ockey tou rn am en t was held at Canlan Ice Sports. The first five tou rn am en ts have con trib uted $ 1 5 0 ,0 0 0 in Michele sparling (centre) is presented with a new Markham th und er jersey by Fielding Montgom ery (left) and Kristen richa rd of the cW HL Markham thunder. th e y served as coaches of the top two fundraising teams. | photo courtesy Jessica Grande total to the program . Twenty-two teams featuring 2 7 5 players and about 4 0 0 friends, family m em bers and com m unity leaders were in attendance. A ccordin g to the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, those in the 1 6 -2 4 age group have the highest need -- b u t w orst access -- to m en tal health care in Canada. F o u n d er M ichele Sparling said no one should be m ade to feel alone and in the dark in a crow d ed ro om , w hich is h ow som eone w ith a m en tal illness can feel. "O ur hope through Shine O ut! Shout O ut! and the program s it supports is to give every yo u th a reason to sm ile, to feel co n n ect ed, to know there is hope and to know that they d on 't have to suf fer in silen ce," she said. F o r m ore inform ation, visit w w w .sh ineshout.com o r call Ju s t Be You at 2 8 9 -2 9 1 -5 4 3 4 . Chris B oushy h ad his laptop h ook ed up to the TV and was following the N ational L acrosse League draft online w ith som e friends in K ingston. As the third roun d was w rapping up, he w asn 't paying m u ch at tention. M ock drafts had pegged h im as a fourth-rou nd pick and the team s rem aining in the third h ad little c o n tact w ith him . He was talking to a couple o f buddies w hen an oth er friend relayed the m essage across the room . The Saskatchew an Rush h ad selected Boushy w ith the 3 1 s t overall pick. "It w as really excitin g ," B oushy said. "It w as a sh o ck b u t a real h o n o u r." Boushy had played h ock ey and lacrosse grow ing up. T h ey w ere a natural fit, keeping h im active year round. But as he go t older, he realized he had m ore potential in his su m m er pursuit. His first year o f ju n ior he p u t up 5 0 points in 19 gam es w ith the Jr. A M ississauga Tom ahawks. "I was playing w ith the older guys -- m e n ," he said. "You hear this guy got drafted, th at guy got signed. You know they're bet ter, b u t you start to think, `There can 't be that m u ch of a gap. If I w ork hard, m aybe I can get there.'" O ver the n e x t four seasons, split betw een the C hris Boushy Jr. B H alton Hills Bulldogs and the Jr. A Burlington Chiefs, Boushy es tablished h im self as a prolific scorer, rack ing up 111 goals and 2 4 5 points in 6 9 gam es. In the playoffs, w hen the com p etition is supposed to be tougher, he was even m ore deadly w ith 4 0 goals and 9 5 points in 19 gam es. This season, Boushy's 71 points w ith the Chiefs p u t h im o n the league's top 1 0 scorin g list. He con tin ued to im press at last Sunday's N L L com b in e, though he had to retu rn for classes at Q ueen's U niversity and cou ldn 't stay for M onday's draft. He know s his w ork is n o t done though, trying to crack the ro ster o f a team th at has w on the N LL title two of the last three years. "I w as the first offensive player they drafted, b ut this is only the tip of the iceberg," the 20-year-old said. "There are guys w h o w ere drafted last year and two years ago, and it's a deep roster. T hey have a b u n ch o f guys w ho can play and they're there for a reason ." Saskatchew an co ach and GM D erek K eenan did n o t rule o u t Boushy m aking the team . "B oth B oushy and (fourth-rou nd p ick A ustin) M urphy are rig h t-sh o t forw ards and we're pretty see Wallace on p. 16