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20 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday August 26, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com HE'S BACK: Oakville resident and real estate lawyer Bob Rose will compete in the World Triathlon Championships next month in Lausanne, Switzerland. The 55-year-old first began competing in triathlons during the 1980s but took a lengthy break from the sport to race mountain bikes, returning to triathlon competition last year. He last raced in a world triathlon championships in 1992, when the event was held in Huntsville. Rose will be joined in Switzerland by Hamilton Hammerheads teammates Tyler Lord and Mat Reid as well as World Cup mainstay Kyle Jones. RIZIERO VERTOLLI / OAKVILLE BEAVER Rose has experience at international events Continued from page 19 also pays extra attention to his diet, returning to triathlons a year ago. consuming plenty of chicken and "I find when I do straight run green vegetables. training I get injured, whereas trainRose doesn't have any plans to get ing for tris it seems you never get out of the demanding sport anytime injured," he reasoned. "You can soon. spread the damage out over the three "I have to do something -- I have sports and nothing really breaks. that kind of personality. If I'm not When you start getting a bit older, doing something, I'm going crazy," that's important." he said. "I don't see any reason to Rose has competed in stop. This is something several notable events in "I don't see any that you don't get old at. his life, including a cou- reason to stop. It keeps you staying ple international This is something young." marathons as well as the that you don't get Rose hopes to crack Ironman Florida. He also old at. It keeps the top 40 in the 55-59 raced in the World division at worlds, which Triathlon Championships you staying will likely feature about 14 years ago in young." 100 competitors. Huntsville, but says this The World Triathlon year's championship will Bob Rose Championships will be be completely different. held Sept. 3 and can be "There will be 3,000 athletes there viewed on the Internet through a live (in Switzerland)," Rose said. "I feed at www.triathlon.org. wouldn't bet there were more than Jones is expected to contend for a 1,000 or 1,200 in 1992." world under-23 title, while fellow The long-time local resident Canadians Simon Whitfield (elite) trains year-round, approximately 15 and Kirsten Sweetland (junior) also hours a week, swimming in the early have legitimate gold-medal chances. mornings while using weekends to -- Jon Kuiperij can be reached at work on his running and cycling. He sports@oakvillebeaver.com. Three players with hat tricks for Buzz in Founder's rout Reed Board recorded a hat trick for the second consecutive game, helping the Oakville Buzz advance to the Founder's Cup national junior B lacrosse championship playoff round with an 18-5 rout of the Saskatoon Smash Thursday in Windsor. Mike Bentivegna and Brian Rea also scored three times for the Buzz, which carried a 2-0 record into last night's final round-robin contest versus the Calgary Shamrocks (a game that began after the Beaver's press deadline). Sean Thomson and Drew Petkoff each added a pair of markers in Thursday's win, with Josh Smyth, Jordan MacIntosh, Alex Crepinsek, Kyle Hagel and Matt Bertrand rounding out the scoring. The Buzz played the contest without its leading regular-season scorer, Brenden Thenhaus, who was scratched because of a nagging upperbody injury. The winner of last night's clash between Calgary (which also won its first two games) and Oakville would win the Founder's Gold Division and earn a bye into the semifinal, while the losing team would be forced to play a quarter-final contest against the Black Division's third-place finisher. Quarter-final games are slated for today, beginning at 11 a.m., with semifinals later in the day at 7 p.m. Tomorrow, the tournament wraps up with the consolation final, bronze- Thank You Oakville for giving us the Gold medal 2 years in a row SPORTSBRIEFS medal game and championship game. The bronze game will begin at noon, with the gold-medal match to follow at 3 p.m. For up-to-date schedules and results, visit the host team AKO Windsor Fratmen's website at www.akolacrosse.com. Open to what others have experienced. your senses Provincial silver for Oakville novice 1 Hawks After dropping their opening game at the provincial novice B lacrosse championships, the Oakville novice 1 Hawks managed to reach the championship match and earn all-Ontario silver. Oakville rebounded from a onegoal loss to Elora by winning its next four games. The Hawks defeated Windsor 13-9, Welland 5-3, Elora 5-3 and Nepean 5-4, but were then downed 7-2 by the host Whitby club in the gold-medal game. Members of the silver medal-winning Hawks are Lucas Zitmanis, Ben Sisokin, Joe Modzelewski, Kyle Pennett, Nathan Maracle, David MacBride, Luke Nicol, Eric Gordon, Joel Matson, Andreas Zbogar, Andrew Kew, Tanner Fabiano, Jake Smyth, Mitchell Andersen, Josh Morton, Ben Heidecker and DJ Eckertt. Glenn Maracle, Jens Heidecker, James Zitmanis and Darren Kew coached the team. Please call for pricing or a quote. 905-844-7110 467 Speers Road Unit #15, Oakville www.plumcatering.ca info@plumcatering.ca