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46 - The Oakville Beaver, Friday March 28, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Minor midget white honours memory of Cal Egan By Melanie Cummings SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER This win is for you, Cal. There's something fitting about a team in purple jerseys winning the newly-created James Callum `Cal' Egan Memorial Trophy. It is the same colour adopted by Epilepsy Ontario. Minor Oaks Hockey Association house league player Cal Egan had nighttime epilepsy and the disease claimed the teenager's life suddenly, while he slept, on July 12, 2007. The brand new elegant silver cup brandishing Egan's name was handed to Minor Oaks midget white champions, Data Repro Com Ltd., Tuesday after their 1-0 win against the team in gold that is sponsored "It's a privilege to by ABC Driving School. be the inaugural Dennis Dos Santos, who was Egan's coach last year when he minor midget white played bantam, spearheaded the team to be awarded idea for the memorial. this trophy. Its He handed the trophy to 15significance to all of year-old Data Repro goalie us will only grow Lucas Kokot after the championship game at Joshua's Creek with time." Arenas Tuesday. Data Repro Com Ltd. As the players hoisted the award high in the air, they coach Tony Stillo cheered as much in honour of the friend they lost as they did for their win. "It's a privilege to be the inaugural minor midget white team to be awarded this trophy," said the winning team's coach, Tony Stillo. "Its significance to all of us will only grow with time." Earlier this season, Dos Santos and league convener Rosemary Paquette circulated an email requesting support for the trophy memorial, from each of the 10 teams in the midget division. Egan's is the first and only trophy for the division, which previously did without. With a collective `yes' from every team, the pair chose a trophy befitting its namesake. The two-handled silver cup mounted on two pedestals also has engraved on it a line from Egan's favourite Five for Fighting song: `Hey 15, There's never a wish better than this.' Dos Santos' wish is that every midget player from here on after exemplifies Egan's unwavering attitude -- to just play hockey and have fun. MICHAEL IVANIN / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER IN MEMORY OF CAL: Dennis Dos Santos (centre) presents the James Callan `Cal' Egan Memorial Trophy to Data Repro Com Ltd. goaltender Lucas Kokot while Minor Oaks Hockey Association vice-president Wayne Moorehead stands by Tuesday at Joshua's Creek Arenas. The trophy is in memory of former MOHA house league player Cal Egan, who passed away last year from nighttime epilepsy, and will be awarded to the minor midget white playoff champion each season. "Cal was a quiet nice young man who loved his sports and always put out his best effort in, no matter if it was hockey or a soccer game he played in," said Dos Santos. "He came out to each of his games, gave it his all and knew what was expected of him in each of the positions he played." Egan played in the MOHA league for more than five years. Richard Davis, whose company sponsors the team and whose son is among the 15 newly titled champions, said this was an especially emotional win because of the memorial trophy. "We're fortunate to have healthy boys playing hockey today, and for that we are all lucky and very grateful," he added. Egan had nighttime epilepsy and, as a result, died from `Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy' (SUDEP). It's a situation in which an otherwise healthy person with active epilepsy dies suddenly, unobserved, while in bed. There is no known cure for it. Among other efforts, supporters don lavender bracelets to raise awareness and funds for Epilepsy Ontario. Great Gators Knockout victory for "PrimeTime" Post Oakville boxer Mike "PrimeTime" Post picked up his second straight win of the year last weekend in South Bend, Indiana. Fighting in front of a packed house at the Army/National Guard Armory, Post was sharp from the onset of his bout with veteran pugilist Anthony Cobb. Post first established his jab and then worked on the body of his Cincinnati opponent. Forty-five seconds into the fight, Post suffered a three-stitch cut on his eyelid due to an unintentional headbutt, but was unfazed, dropping Cobb for a sevencount in the second round with a solid 1-2 combination. In the third round, Post floored Cobb with a hard body shot and then knocked him completely out of the ring with a four-punch combination. Despite landing on the scorers' table, Cobb managed to beat the count and get back into the ring, only to be knocked out in the fourth round by a devastating three-punch combination. With the knockout, Post improved his professional boxing record to 15-1-1, with 12 of those wins coming by knockout. He is scheduled to make his Canadian debut May 31 at the Brantford Civic Centre, where he is expected to face Indiana native Ruben Galvan in a six-round comain event. BASKETBALL CHAMPS: Six straight wins, including an 18-2 triumph over St. James in the final, earned the St. Luke Gator Girls the championship at the recent St. Thomas Aquinas associate schools basketball tournament. St. Luke defeated St. Joseph, St. Vincent, St. James and St. Dominic's in the round-robin, then downed St. Vincent in the semifinal. Members of the team are Laura Medlock, Abbey Jagodkin, Samantha Turchyn, Deanna Spagnuolo, Jessica Demello, Megan O'Donnell, Jasmine Zanussi, Michelle Denley,Victoria Szablowski, Isabella Triolo, Marisa Parsons, Sara Habal, Alysia DaSilva, and Tiffany Turchyn. Mike Sloan, Christina Schroeder and Melanie Gazzola coach.