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30 Sports Oakville Beaver TRANSMISSION WADE SEYMOUR HALTON SPECIALIST www.aplushomes.ca from 559 SPEERS ROAD, UNIT 3 2 .4% ·Full MLS ·Full Service Call ADAM CAMPBELL Broker 905-844-4444 905-842-0725 SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax 905-337-5567 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2007 OT ruggers continue to make it look easy But Devils work hard for success, players say By Herb Garbutt are working on their individual skills." "Winning makes it all worth it," he added. Oakville Trafalgar wasted little time BURLINGTON -- The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils can relate to the showing it would win again. David adage that it takes years to become an Slattery got OT rolling with a try just three minutes into the game and by overnight sensation. While the Devils certainly don't fall the 10-minute mark Tom Labenski had into that category -- their domination increased the lead to 10-0. Notre Dame, the only of Halton senior boys' team to interrupt OT's rugby dates back almost "We're almost reign when it won the four decades -- they expected to win 2000 final, didn't simply know that to those look- every year, but not pack it in, though. It ing in from the outside, a lot of people pushed into OT territory everything appears to know how hard for the first time in the come just a little too easy we work at it." game but came up empty for them. when Connor Downs' Nothing could be farpenalty kick struck the ther from the truth, Grant Schneider upright. Given a second according the team that won the school's 36th Halton champi- chance moments later, Downs split the onship in the past 37 years yesterday uprights to make it 10-3. For a team that had only surrenafternoon. "We're almost expected to win every dered eight points in five league games, year, but not a lot people know how it served as a bit of a wakeup call. "It's a little weird when teams start hard we work at it," said Grant Schneider, who scored three trys to scoring points on us," Schneider said. Within a minute, Chris Dickenson pace OT's 41-15 victory over Notre Dame in the Halton final at Sherwood faked a pass and then shoveled the ball Park in Burlington. "There's a lot of to Schneider, who carried it in for his effort that goes into it. Even when first try. Three minutes later, the same See Irish page 32 we're not practising, a lot of the guys OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF RON KUZYK / OAKVILLE BEAVER CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: An Oakville Trafalgar ball-carrier (left) evades Notre Dame defenders during OT's 41-15 rout of the Irish in yesterrday's Halton high school senior boys' rugby final in Burlington. The Halton crown is OT's 36th in the past 37 years and qualifies the Red Devils for the provincial AAA/AAAA championships. OAKVILLE SOCCER CLUB TORONTO FC vs COLORADO RAPIDS SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM SHELL PARK RANGERS FC CAMP 07 OFF TORONTO FC VS. NEW YORK RED BULLS SEE WEBSITE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS JUNE 6, 2007 7:00PM KICK OFF Oakville Soccer Club www.oakville-soccer.on.ca A Proud Sponsor of Oakville Soccer Club Sponsored by: