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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, M ay 31 ,2 01 8 | 56 OSC Smile Moment of the Week Week Two Photo Contest Winner Photographer: Palma Petrilli Sponsored by: The Oakville Beaver Age Division: BU11 ADP Presented by: The defending provin- cial AA lacrosse champi- ons, will get their shot at the AAA title. The Abbey Park Eagles defeated Holy Trinity 11-9, denying the Titans a trip to the OFSAA tournament for the first time in fivefor the first time in fivef years. Holding a 3-2 lead, Ab- bey Park scored five straight goals to pull away. Justin Sykes scored four times for Abbey Park and set up another, and Ethan Staton had a pair of goals. Eagles goalie Chase Strychaluk held Trinity without a goal over the middle two quarters. James Carroll, Harrison Rees and Chris Dong each had a goal and an assist, and Lucas Hucal and Owen Coyne also scored for Ab- bey Park. Abbey Park went 5-0 in league play and after de- feating Georgetown in thefeating Georgetown in thef quarter-finals, needed a 9-8 victory over Garth Webb to claim the Halton champi- onship. Holy Trinity, which had won the previous four Hal- ton titles, won the inaugu- ral Halton Catholic Athlet- ic Association champion- ship with an 11-4 victory over Notre Dame. Holy Trinity went 3-0 in the reg- ular season, outscoring its opponents 34-10. The Ti- tans then blanked Loyola 3-0 in the quarter-finals and edged Christ the King 3-2 in the semis. The OFSAA lacrosse tournament will be held June 4-6 in Ottawa. HIGH SCHOOL Abbey Park chasing second OFSAA title Abbey Park goalie Chase Strychaluk stretches to make a save in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference AAA lacrosse final. Abbey Park won 11-9 to advance to the OFSAA tournament. Graham Paine/Metroland HERB GARBUTT hgarbutt@metroland.com Halton had swept all three of its preliminary round matches, including a 25-20, 25-21 win over Defen- sa, and then knocked off Mississauga's Pakmen in four sets in the quarter-fi-four sets in the quarter-fi-f nal. After the scare against Leaside, the Hurricanes looked to be back on track after a 25-16 victory in the opening set of the final. Defensa rallied to take the next two 25-23, 25-21. "It was a long, long day. We were exhausted. OurWe were exhausted. OurW legs were dead so we had to find it within ourselves tofind it within ourselves tof bring the energy we need- ed," said Madill, who was named to the provincial all- star team along with team- mates Biamba Kabengele, Josie Heeney and Burling- ton's Danielle Allen, who plays for Pakmen. Since taking the silver medal in November at the Provincial Cup, the Hurri- canes had won gold at their previous three tourna- ments in Ontario. That's why Delaney wanted to take the team to Michigan. The Hurricanes had turned in three top 10 fin- ishes at tournaments in the U.S., including a second-U.S., including a second-U place finish in the Gold Open Division at the Las Vegas Classic, but heVegas Classic, but heV thought facing a little ad- versity wouldn't be such a bad thing. "We had some tough matches (in the States), but those set us up well for those games in provin- cials," he said. Halton tied the match with a 25-20 victory, setting up a one-set showdown for the provincial title. "I think mostly it was ex- citement. It was stressful in the last set, but really we just wanted to go out and kill it," Madill said. Though Defensa pushed them to the limit, the Hur- ricanes completed their comeback with a 15-12 win to claim the provincial ti- tle. "For us, it came down to execution," Madill said. "We made a lot of mistakes (in the second and third sets), but we bounced back really well. There was a lot of positive energy." The Hurricanes fol- lowed up their provincial title with a fifth-place fin- ish at the national champi- onships. After dropping on- ly one set while going 6-0 in pool play, the Hurricanes were beaten by B.C.'s Thunder Blue 25-23, 25-17 in the quarter-finals. Thunder Blue went on to claim the national title by beating the Scarborough Titans in three sets. Other members of the Hurricanes' championship team are: Liliana Paroski, Maggie Greenfield, Mimi Dunda, Abbey Zanatta, Ar- ielle Palermo, Aleiah Tor- res, Meira Morphet and coaches Doug McBride and Connor Thompson. It may have seemed like a daunting task if the Hal- ton Hurricanes hadn't faced the same situationfaced the same situationf less than 24 hours earlier. Trailing two sets to one against Burlington's De- fensa in the provincialfensa in the provincialf gold-medal match, the Hur- ricanes needed a repeat of their semifinal, in which they rallied from the same deficit with 25-19, 15-4 wins to claim their spot in the fi- nal. "For a lot of us it was our last provincials. It was our time," said Hurricanes set- ter Laura Madill. "We were ranked No. 1 in the prov- ince and we wanted to show why that was the case." At the same time, Steve Delaney was starting to second guess his decision to take the team to a high- level tournament in Michi- gan the week before pro- vincials. There were cer- tainly benefits. "Any time you face good competition, it's going to make you better," the Hal- ton Hurricanes U18 coach said. A change in format meant the Hurricanes wouldn't need to play as many matches at provin- cials, so the exposure to tough competition seemed to outweigh any concerns of fatigue. Of course, he wasn't really anticipating back-to-back five-set matches to close the Onta- rio championships. Hurricanes win U18 provincial volleyball title SPORTS Halton follows up with fifth-place finish at nationals