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Oakville Beaver, 29 Apr 2011, p. 47

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Tavares, Canada Forgive students for not singing in the rainApril showers bring more than problem. Its been field conditions.A shorter spring season doesntopen IIHF world just May flowers.Every municipality is shuttingjust deprive students of games. ItTheyre also creating serious head-down the fields. Thankfully, our also decreases the credibility of the aches for Halton Secondary Schoolschools own their fields, so they canleagues since there isnt much timetourney todayAthletic Associationplay soccer games. But if for individuals to improve or teamsOakvilles John Tavares and Team Canada will (HSSAA) convener Darrin you dont have turf fields, to jel, diminishing the likelihood Curtis andopen the International Ice Hockey Federations all high schoolits a disaster, Curtis said.that the team that wins the champi-athletes lookingworld championships today (Friday) against to get the(The grass fields) are onship is the best team in the league.spring sports season inBelarus..unplayable, and I agree Rugby seasons could be as short as ThA gold medalist with Canadas world junior team is weeks heavy rain-with (the municipalities) four games before the playoffs begin.in 2008 and 2009, Tavares will be looking to add a fall has wreaked havoc on100 per cent. If we go on It will all come down to playoffs.world championship title to his resumhe HSSAA spring sched-them now, well ruin the If you have one bad game early (inuThough it was a disappointing finish for Canada les, to the point thatfields for the entire year.the regular season) because you some sports havent evenThe nightmarish starthavent been outside playat last years world, falling to Russia in the quarter-ing, youbegun at afinals, Tavares led the tournament with seven ll. Baseball andto the 2011 spring seasoncould drop in the standings and your sogoals.ftball have yet to get a lends some weight to theplayoffs will be a lot tougher, Curtisgame in, while onlyThe first overall pick by the New York Islanders aargument that someadded.handfulin the 2009 NHL draft, Tavares topped his rookie of soccer and spring sports should be Curtis said hed like to condenserugby games have been pseason totals this year with 27 goals and 40 assists. layed.moved to the fall, where OFSAA com-the schedules to make up the post-WHis 67 points put him among the top 30 in the ith only a small window of timepetitions and the end poned games, butNHL.to conclude league seasons beforeof the school yearthere wont beIt's brutal. There's no timeCanada will wrap up pool play with games against the Ontario Federation of School dont shorten theenough fields to at the end of the schedule, AFrance on Sunday and Switzerland on Tuesday.thletic Associations (OFSAA) dead-season.make them all up.and on the front end we've lines, games that are postponed like-Then again, May 9, we alreadyWere putting life-saving AEDslost a whole week for Tier 1 ly wont get made up at all. ThatOFSAA for rugby,have 23 of the 24makes a short sprinin more public places g season even soccer and baseballhigh school fields inteams... What can you do? shorter.are in the spring. Halton being used, There's nothing you can do.in your community. Its brtual. Theres no time at theEven if Halton deter-he said. Theres too end of the schedule, and on the front mined its OFSAA rep- many teams. What HSSAA convener Darrin Curtisend weve lost a whole week for Tierresentatives with a do you do?"1 teams, Curtis said. 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