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Wednesday, November 3,1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 1999 United Way of Oakville Campaign * ^ 0 » T SO '* THURSDAYS PITCHERS NIGHT R . S' P and Hip Hop Music All Night long! Oakville Town Centre 844-8703 SportsMktecb OUR GOAL $3 .1 m illio n For more info: 845-5571 An O akville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 255) Fax:337-5567 Oakville Blades win weekend pair By Matt Nimmo , SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The Oakville Blades buckled down and played a great defensive game as they defeated the M ississauga Chargers 3-2 in Junior A hockey last Friday night. The Blades, who scored all their goals on the power play, showed great poise as they handled the puck well at both ends of the ice, carrying the momentum for the major ity of the game. "We played well defensively," said Blades' coach John McDonald. "Our goalie (Matt Collaton) played well, making some good saves." The Blades implemented a great penalty killing unit, not allowing the Chargers the opportunity to get the tying, or even winning goal. McDonald felt this was a "key weekend" for his club, which played Mississauga again on Sunday. On Friday, an early goal by the Chargers gave them a quick 1-0 lead. However, late in the first period, the Blades capitalized on a five on three powerplay. A nice passing play around the perimeter of the Chargers' zone finished with a one-timer by Jason Sajko. Rob Kapuscinski scored 25 seconds later on a five on four advantage, giving the Blades a 2-1 lead. Kapuscinski got the puck after a successful face-off and one-timed it into the net. The Chargers scored early in the second period, tying the game up at 2-2. Roughly four minutes later, Mike (See 'Blades' page D4) Photo by Ron Kuzyk The Oakville Blades had a glorious opportunity to score, here, as Mike Lukajic (#16) has the puck a few inches from his stick and an open n et The Blades didn't score on this opportunity but scored enough to win a much needed home and home series over Mississauga, 4-3 Sunday night and 3-2 on Friday night (when this photo was taken). ONTARIO PROVINCIAL JUNIOR A West Conf. GP W L T OTL GF GA Pts GAA Milton 17 12 2 0 3 101 59 27 3.47 Georgetown 17 11 5 1 0 81 63 23 3.71 Brampton 17 9 5 1 2 74 65 21 3.82 Hamilton 16 10 6 0 0 84 67 20 4.19 Burlington 16 10 6 0 0 56 53 20 3.31 Streetsville 17 9 6 2 0 71 71 20 4.18 18 7 9 2 0 75 92 16 5.11 Oakville Bramalea 16 5 10 0 1 43 58 11 3.63 Mississauga 17 4 11 0 2 62 93 10 5.47 Buffalo 17 5 12 0 0 63 81 10 4.76 one point awarded for overtime loss Standings as o f Monday morning PIM 21.67 23.41 26.55 15.51 32.87 27.03 30.62 23.94 17.10 14.13 OSC kicks o ff long road to national cham pionships The Oakville Skating Club (OSC) is home to a sizeable contingent of national stream skaters and they are kicking off their drive to get to the national championships. Some kicked that drive off last weekend at the Central Ontario subsection als while others don't have to make their debut until the Central Ontario sectionals next weekend, Nov. 12-14th at Iceland Arena in Mississauga. Oakville had 10 skaters at last weekend's subsec tionals and one skater, Ashleigh Lockwood, advanced to the Central Ontario sectionals, where she will join a sizeable Oakville contingent, led by Oakville's Sean Rice and File Photo by Barrie Erskine his longtime seniors pairs Veteran senior pairs partners Sean Rice and partner Jodeyne Higgins, of Jodeyne Higgins, seen here at last year's Stratford. The pair have national championships, lead a sizeable con twice skated in the world tingent of national stream Oakville Skating championships, finishing Club athletes. 10th and 14th. Included, here, are the results of Competing in novice dance, the last weekend's subsectionals followed pair finished second in both the long by the complete schedule for the and short programs. upcoming sectionals (Nov. 12-14th). Oakville also had two other skaters Top finishers qualify for the eastern competing in novice dance. Canadian divisionals (slated for Dec. Oakville Skating Club member 2-5th in Laval, Que), which is the final Debbie Allworth and her partner Jon step before the nationals (slated for Lane from Scarborough finished in Jan. 26-30th in Calgary). sixth place. And Oakville's Stacey Last year, the Oakville Skating Vernon and her partner Brian Adams Club qualified three dance partners from the Kitchener Waterloo club fin and a senior pairs duo to the nationals. ished in 14th place. Oakville's Julie MacDonald and Oakville's Sean Rice and his long her Newm arket dance partner, time senior pairs partner Jodeyne Michael Fawcett, collected a silver Higgins finished in fifth place. medal at the national figure skating · fo r subsectional results and championships in Ottawa. schedule for sectionals, see pg. D4. Photo by Peter J. Thompson This unidentified member of the Oakville Crusaders second team (right in photo) makes the tackle. The Cru seconds lost this Toronto Rugby Union first division final 17-13 to Balmy Beach. See story below; more photos, inside ... No storybook ending for Crusaders The Oakville Crusaders rugby club accomplished a rare feat by having each of its top three teams, along with its midget youth team, reach their respective provincial playoff championship games this past weekend at Fletcher's Field in Markham. Unfortunately, the story book season couldn't quite extend to the ending as all four teams did go down to defeat. Nevertheless, it was quite an accomplishment. Here's a recap: MIDGET The midget rugby program started the day off by reach ing the bowl final of the under-16 tournament. Losing a close game to London St. George, the midgets, were able to capture the fair play and sportsmanship trophy. The club would like to once again thank Ian Shore and Bob (See 'Crusaders' page D3) v Fri., Nov. 5 · 7:30pm | OAKVILLE BLADES 1 VS 1 Sun., Nov. 7 · 7:1 OAKVILLE BLADES VS 5TR EFT5VILLE DERBY5 at Oakville ke Sports Centre J BURLINGTON COUEttRS at Oakville ke Sports (Sentrc k ^ ¥ t m . . v 1 For all the scores and any team player information visit our website... W W W .o a k v ille b la d e s .c o m