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SPORTS OFSAA record highlights 3-medal performance oa) £ 39 A pp leby College photo Appleby College's Bora Tlabar holds his gold medal after setting an OFSAA record in the junior boys' 100m freestyle. Tlabar won three medals at the meet, earning a silver in the 50m breaststroke and then helping the Blue Dogs' junior boys' medley relay team win gold. HERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@burlingtonpost.com Prior to the provincial high school swimming championships, Bora Tla­ bar looked up the record for the junior boys' 100-me- tre freestyle. It wasn't even his best event - breaststroke is his specialty - but a personal best time of57.94 seconds at the Conference of Indepen­ dent Schools champion­ ships left him wondering how close he was to the pro­ vincial record. The time to beat was 57.25. Having taken a sec- ond-and-a-half off his per­ sonal best all season, an­ other 7/10ths was going to be a lot to do in one meet. "He's the perfect combi­ nation of desire and tal­ ent," said Appleby College coach Shelia Kuyper. "When he believes he can do something and he's got it on his radar, he's going to do what he needs to do." After finishing second to Riverside's Wyatt Alba- no in the preliminaries, Tlabar stormed out to the lead in final, making the turn in 26.71 seconds. Over the final 50 m Albano, could only keep pace, not close on Tlabar. The 14-year-old touched the wall in 56.80 seconds to take close to half a second off the OFSAA record. "He looked up and he didn't even have the energy to lift his arms in celebra­ tion," Kuyper said. "He was completely spent." It was the third medal of the meet for Tlabar, who had helped Appleby's ju­ nior boys medley relay claim gold the previous day and followed that up with a silver in the 50 m breast­ stroke. "I kind of dreamed of winning three medals, but it turned out to be a reali­ ty," Tlabar said. The relay set the tone early on the first day of the meet. Jonathan Shiang led off relay and gave Appleby an early lead. Tlabar wid­ ened the lead in the breast­ stroke leg and Matthew Wilk maintained it in the backstroke. That left Nhan Phan to bring it home. "His first length was crazy fast and then he just seemed to find another gear," Kuyper said. Appleby finished in 2:05.13, more than 2.5 sec­ onds ahead of its nearest ri­ val and two seconds better than its previous best time. Two relay members would go on to win individ­ ual medals later in the day. First it was Shiang, who took the silver in the 50 m backstroke. His time of 31.06 was second only to St. Joseph's Charles Marcial (29.87). Shiang also turned in a fourth-place finish in the 100 m individual medley. Six races later it was Tlabar in the 50 m breast­ stroke where it took an OF­ SAA record (31.94) by St. Andrew's Tyler Chan to beat Tlabar for the gold. The Appleby swimmer turned in a personal best of 32.32 to beat Marc Gar- neau's Alex Guo by a hun­ dredth of a second for the silver. "Even though I didn't win, I was really happy with that swim," Tlabar said. "I dropped 0.6 off my best time." St. Andrew's College edged Appleby 258-252 for the junior boys' champion­ ship. Oakville had two more double medallists at the OFSAA meet. Loyola's Katie Ivancic took the silver medal in the senior girls' 200 m freestyle with a time of 2:22.54. The following day she turned in another silver medal per­ formance, again finishing behind York Mills' Joana Ceddia, with a time of 1:03.07. Oakville Trafalgar's Cameron Montague earned a pair of bronze medals. Montague won his first medal in the 50 m free­ style where he edged Al­ dershot's Josh Selway by .03 to claim the final spot on the podium with a time of 24.81 seconds. He picked up his second bronze in the 100 m free­ style with a time of 54.03 seconds. C Abbey Park's Ambrose 3 Chin earned a silver medal i in the junior boys' 50 m ^ freestyle. His time of 26.29 k was second only to Albano, a who won in 25.98 seconds. Z He also reached the fi- ^ nal of the junior boys' 50 m § backstroke, where he fin­ ished sixth. Three other swimmers just missed the podium. Oakville Trafalgar's Ava Sergio was fourth in the se­ nior girls' 100 m individual medley. She also made the final of the 50 m freestyle, where she was eighth. Sebastian Krewdel was fourth in the senior boys' 100 m backstroke and White Oaks' Jacob Tam was fourth in the junior boys' 50 m butterfly. Other OFSAA finalists included: Leah Creelman, Holy Trin­ ity (sixth, senior girls' indi­ vidual medley); Kyle Grabke, Thomas Verth, Montague and Ayden Cau- chi, Oakville Trafalgar, (sixth, 4x50 m medley re­ lay); Shne Joachim, Apple­ by College (eighth, open girls' 50 m freestyle); Ben Currier, Michael Collins, Andrew Vu, Chin, Abbey Park (eighth, senior boys' 4x50 m freestyle relay). Burnes, OT earn bronze at OFSAA skiing Louise Thayer photo Oakville Trafalgar's Matthew Barnes earned a bronze medal in the open boys' giant slalom at the OFSAA alpine skiing championships. Bramwell's OT winner sends Blades into second roundHERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@burlingtonpost.com Sitting one-tenth of a sec­ ond out of the medals after the first of two runs, Mat­ thew Burnes found the frac­ tions of a second he needed to earn a spot on the podium. The Oakville Trafalgar (OT) skier turned in a sec­ ond run of 45.38 seconds to earn the bronze medal in the open boys' giant slalom at the OFSAA Alpine Skiing Championships in Colling- wood. Barnes first run of 45.65 seconds left him in fourth place, but cutting more than a quarter of a second on his second run was just enough to get him on the podium. His combined time of one minute, 31.03 seconds giving him a .07-second edge on Collingwood's David Bram- brough for the bronze. "Being on the podium as a Grade 10 student is quite an accomplishment," said OT coach Kyle Pope said of the Grade 10 student. "He's a very nice skier. He's got that combination of strength, ag­ gression and technique." OT narrowly missed out on a second team medal in the giant slalom. With strong finishes by Eric He- rauf, (19th) and Peter Bre- mermann (38th), OT fin­ ished tied with St. Andrew's College, which took the bronze with a better com­ bined time. Oakville Trafalgar would not be denied in the open boys' slalom. Led by Herauf s 10th place finish, it earned the bronze. Burnes was right behind Herauf in 12th and Peter Bremermann was 25th. OT also got strong showings from Jack Thayer (27th) and Duff Paisley (38th). Although Herauf and Paisley will graduate this year, Pope said the team still has a promising future with Burnes, Bremermann and Thayer all in Grade 10. King's Christian Colle­ giate's Robert Doman also turned in two strong finish­ es, placing fifth in the open boys' slalom and sixth in the giant slalom. Oakville Trafalgar's An­ na Bremermann turned in a 16th place in the open girls' giant slalom. Elsley Griffin, a Grade 9 student at OT, fin­ ished 19th in the high school boys' slalom and was 26 in the giant slalom. Iroquois Ridge's Sophie Mayer was 26th in the high school girls' giant slalom and with a 28th place finish in the slalom, along with Brooke Eyram (31st) and So­ phie D'Aurora (36th), helped the Trailblazers finish sev­ enth. Zach Bramwell scored in overtime to give the Oakville Blades a 4-3 win Sunday, clinching their se­ ries with Toronto Jr. Ca- nadiens. Minutes after the Blades killed off a too- many-men-on-the-ice pen­ alty, Oakville got its own chance with the man ad­ vantage when Toronto was called for interfer­ ence. It would take just eight seconds into the power- play for the Bramwell to capitalize, giving the Blades a 4-2 series win. Oakville will now face the Toronto Patriots. The Patriots finished with the best record (40-8-6) in the Ontario Junior Hockey League. The Patriots won three of the four meetings with the Blades this sea­ son, including a pair of one-goal decisions. The schedule had not been set as of press time. Bailey Newton and Cal- lum Jones scored as the Blades overcame a 3-1 def­ icit in the third period in Sunday's win. Thomas Maia had Oakville's other goal and Mack Graham had two assists. Chris El­ liot made 29 saves for the win. Friday, Elliot stopped all 34 shots he faced and Jack Ricketts scored twice as the Oakville Blades took the series lead with a 6-0 win. Andrew McIntyre, Mat­ thew Kellenberger, Mack Graham and Eric Uba also scored. Garrett Pyke had three 5- assists for the Blades and s Trevor LeDonne and J Spencer Kersten each had B a pair. o mailto:hgarbutt@burlingtonpost.com mailto:hgarbutt@burlingtonpost.com OFSAA record highlights 3-medal performance