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w w w . o a kv ill eb ea ve r.c o m O A KV IL LE B EA V ER W e dn es da y, A ug us t 2 5, 2 01 0 2 6 OAKVILLE BASKETBALL CLUB FALL WINTER PROGRAMS 2010-2011 OAKVILLE BASKETBALL WINTER HOUSE LEAGUE for boys and girls ages 9-17 As we begin our 6th year, the Oakville Basketball Club is proud to bring exciting changes to our house league program. OBCs new training facility and skill development staff will play an important part of this years house league. Our ever popular Microballers program for boys and girls ages 5-12 continues to grow. Space is limited for this introductory basketball program. Register now. Come be a part of the excitement! Its not too late to register for the 2010-2011 programs. For more information please visit www.oakvillebasketball.com. or call 905-469-1855 After missing a world championship final for the first time since 2001, Adam van Koeverden bounced back to win a bronze medal. Van Koeverden finished third in the K-1 (kayak singles) 500- metre Sunday at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poland, finishing a little more than half a second off the pace set by Swedens Anders Gustafsson and four one-hundredths of a second behind silver medalist Peter Gelle of Slovakia. I was happy with all my races. All the races were good except for one, van Koeverden said, referring to Thursdays 1,000m semifinal. It was windy and wavy. I dealt with it well in the morning and not as well later. The Burloak Canoe Club member won his 1,000m heat in the morning with a time of three minutes, 31.638 seconds. That time would have won his semifinal, but van Koeverden was two seconds slower on the choppy course, finishing fourth and missing out on a berth in the final by less than four-tenths of a second. You cant get away with being two per cent off at the worlds, he said. Thats the way it goes. Van Koeverden came back to win both his 500m heat and semi- final on Friday and easily won the 1,000m B final on Saturday. In Sundays 500m final, the 28 year old led at the halfway mark but Gustafsson made up more than a second in the final 250m and Gelle just edged van Koeverden at the line. The bronze was the seventh world championship medal of his career. Oakvilles Jamie Andison finished seventh as part of Canadas C-4 1,000m entry, which also included Ben Russell, Thomas Hall and Ian Mortimer. Burloaks Mark Oldershaw finished eighth in the C-1 1,000m and was ninth in the C-1 500m while Brady Reardon finished eighth as a member of Canadas K-4 crew in the 1,000m. Herb Garbutt, Oakville Beaver Van Koeverden earns 500m bronze at worlds Locals help Central West win Ontario Games gold By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF The Loyola Hawks and Holy Trinity Titans have won the last four Halton senior boys basketball titles and given the new recruits on the way, they wont be surrendering their grasp on the championship any time soon. Three Trinity students Anthony Pate, Nick Ernest and Lucas Orlita and one Loyola student Jake Babic helped the Central West basketball team win the gold medal at the Ontario Games. Pate, the tournaments leading scorer, had 24 points as Central West defeated Tri-County 98-81 in the championship game. The Central West squad watched their lead shrink to four points at the half before going on a 16-0 run that clinched the game. We thought, this is our game, we have to win this, said Pate, who was the teams top scorer in two other games, including a 20-point effort in a 91-76 victory over the Capital Region. Central West won all five of its games, advancing to the final with a 96-82 win over Central East. Orlita, who graduated from Posts Corners and will attend Trinity next year, was the games top scorer with 21 points. Though the semi would turn out to be the teams closest game, the shooting guard/small forward said the team performed its best with the gold medal on the line. As a team, the best game we played was the final, he said. That was the hardest team we played. Early wins built confidence Because the teams did not play each other before the tournament, it was hard to determine a favourite. But Tri-County was not expected to be one of the challengers for the title. We knew the other Toronto region (Central East) would be good and Capital and Niagara, said Babic, a point guard who plays rep with the Oakville Vytas. We thought if we could get by those three, we could win. Central West opened with a 101- 39 rout of Huron and then beat Niagara 86-60. We knew it would get harder as it went along, said Ernest, so (those wins) helped out. It gave us some confidence. A teammate of Babics on the Vytas, Ernest said the play at the Ontario Games was turned up a notch from what players were used to ONTARIO GAMES GOLD: Four Oakville players, (from left) Lucas Orlita, Nick Ernest, Jake Babic and Anthony Pate, along with head coach Warren Williams, helped the Central West basketball team win the gold medal at the Ontario Games. See Depth page 27