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Sports Oakville Beaver By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF 37 · Friday, November 27, 2009 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.oakvillebeaver.com SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009 Special season earns Arakgi CFL recognition Jason Arakgi loves the challenge of taking on the Canadian Football League's top return men on a weekly basis. And though Arakgi's second season with the B.C. Lions ended last weekend with a semifinal loss to the Montreal Alouettes, the Loyola grad has one more showdown left. Arakgi and Montreal punt returner Larry Taylor are the finalists for the CFL's outstanding special teams player (The winner was announced last night, after press time). The 24-year-old has to be considered an underdog for the award. Since it was established in 1999, nine of the 10 winners have been kick returners -- the other was a kicker. It's not surprising. The return men are highlight staples. They bring fans out of their seat and add excitement. Arakgi's job on the cover team is to kill that buzz and over the past two seasons, nobody has done it better. "It's kind of cool," Arakgi said of being nominated for an award while playing a position that usually conducts its business in anonymity. "I just did what the coaches asked me to do and they came up with a scheme that allowed me to make tackles." Arakgi used his speed to make so many this year that he was on pace to break the CFL record for special teams tackles (37) until a pulled quad muscle hampered him in the final two games of the regular season. He still finished with 35 tackles, improving on the 31 from his rookie season and also recovered two fumbles. His play made him the first cover man to be named a CFL all-star since 2006. The McMaster Marauder alumni didn't have to go far to get advice on the importance of special teams play. His father, Nick Arakgi, also started off his CFL career on special teams before going on to three all-star seasons as a tight end in an eight-year career. "When I got drafted (in the third round in SPECIAL DELIVERY: Loyola grad Jason Arakgi distinguished himself with the B.C. Lions, making 35 tackles to earn a nomination as CFL special teams player of the year, a rarity for a player on the cover team. See Award page 42 KYLE CLAPHAM / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Oakville Soccer Club Inc. will be held at the Oakville Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, and not at the Pine Glen Soccer Centre as previously reported, on Saturday, 28th of November, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. for the following purposes: