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F A S T B A L L F I N A L Rugby teams go out early continued from p.18 finals. Justin Cardoso scored all the Aquinas goals in 1-1 ties against St. Mary's and St. Michael as well as a 3-1 loss to St. Christopher. Alex Kupisz tallied in a 1-1 tie with Port Hope. Rugby The Oakville Trafalgar boys blanked Lindsay 13-0 in their first game of the AAA/AAAA rugby championships in Ottawa, but a 17-5 loss to Bill Crothers in their second game spelled the end of the Red Devils' medal hopes. OT's girls, the defending AAA/AAAA champs, were upset 6-3 by Bluevale in their second-round game in Waterloo after opening with a 32-7 rout of St. Jean de Brebeuf. Relegated to the consolation bracket, OT beat Syndenham 19-7 and Pickering (a score was not listed on the OFSAA website) to reach the consolation final, where the Devils lost 12-5 to St. Peter's. St. Thomas Aquinas downed Blessed Mother Teresa 24-5 to open the A/AA girls' championships, also in Waterloo, but was eliminated the next morning with a 33-0 loss to St. Anne. The Raiders were later blanked 19-0 by Grey Highland in consolation action. 19 | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers batter Brooke Thomson follows her hit during Thursday's Halton girls' fastball final at Glenashton Park. Ridge avenged a loss to the Christ the King Jaguars in last year's final with a 14-4 rout of the Jaguars.| photo by Nikki Wesley -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Trailblazers rise to occasion in Halton final by Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver Staff Several Iroquois Ridge players found themselves playing different positions in Thursday's Halton girls' fastball final at Glenashton Park. By the end of the game, the Trailblazers found themselves in a familiar place, capping an undefeated season with a 14-4 win over the Christ the King Jaguars. "This meant a lot to us, especially the ones in Grade 12," said pitcher Kelly Boxer. "We put a lot of our heart into this team." Among those thrust into new roles was Kayley Coish. The Grade 12 co-captain donned the catcher's gear for the first time in her life, subbing for Amanda Kartick, who was sidelined with a wrist injury. Coish hardly looked out of place as she took a relay at the plate and slapped a tag on the Jaguars' runner in the fourth inning. "She will do anything for you in a heartbeat," said Iroquois Ridge coach Tim Coe. Coish, usually the Trailblazers' shortstop, set off a chain reaction with her move. Celine Trapnell stepped in to play short and others shifted around the infield. Coe said the team had a couple of days of practice to prepare once it realized Kartick wouldn't be available for the final. And Coish was unfazed by stepping behind the plate at the last minute. "It was a different experience," she said, "but I trusted my pitchers." Kelly Boxer and Emily Vella had done plenty to earn the trust of their teammates this season. They surrendered just 12 runs -- less than half as many as their nearest rival -- in the Trailblazers' 6-0 regular season. Half of those runs came in an 8-6 win over Christ the King in the second week of the season. But if Christ the King had any designs of ending Iroquois Ridge's unbeaten season, the Trailblazers put those to rest early, jumping on the Jaguars for seven runs in the first inning. They added four more in the second inning to avenge last year's loss to the Jaguars in the final. "Our bats were better than ever," said Boxer, who belted triples in each of the first two innings. "There was no panic at the plate." Led by a group of Grade 12s in the heart of the order, Coish, Boxer and Vella combined to go 12-for-14 and score eight runs. Tristan Vella and Erin Federovich came home twice each for the Trailblazers while Trapnell and Brooke Thomson each scored a run. Boxer has pitched for nine years and Emily Vella also has a wealth of pitching experience at the rep level. The one-two punch proved to be too much for their opponents. "We made a pretty good duo," Boxer said. "It was nice to have someone there to back me up." Having two strong pitchers has become a rarity in high school fastball. It's the main reason the league has shrunk to four teams, with many schools instead opting to field a slow pitch team, where they can compete without the need for high-level pitching. Iroquois Ridge coach Tim Coe is in the process of requesting that the rule limiting pitchers to 12 outs per game be removed, hoping it will draw more schools back to the sport. And even though both his pitchers will graduate this year, Coe is not entertaining the thought of a switch to slow pitch. "One hundred per cent we are staying," he said. "We're glad to be part of fastball." Turns out Iroquois Ridge is a fastball champion in more ways than one. Halton Minor Ball Hockey League Standings as of June 10, 2013 Team GP A1-LTP Kings (White) 8 A2-LTP ADT Security Leafs (Blue) 8 A3-LTP Jets (Silver) 8 A4- LTP Julian Dean Photography Flyers (Orange) 8 A5-LTP Esso Bruins (Yellow) 8 A6-LTP BLOMHA Red Wings (Red) 8 A7-LTP Stars (Green) 8 A8-LTP Penguins (Black) 8 B) Tyke 7-8 1 B4-Toronto Marlies (Blue) 7 2 B3-Tripemco Insurance Thrashers (Red) 7 3 B1-Hamilton Bulldogs (Black) 7 4 B2-Play It Again Sports Tigers (Orange) 7 C) Novice 9-10 1 C3-Oakville Hornets Girls Hockey (Yellow) 7 2 C6-Mantis Attack (Black) 7 3 C7-Tigers (Orange) 7 4 C8-Novice White Demons 7 5 C1-Dynamic Healing Massage Seahawks (Green) 7 6 C5-Profile Investigation Lightning (Blue) 7 7 C2-Fitness Firm (Silver) 7 8 C4-Granite Ridge Golf Club (Red) 7 D) Atom 11-12 1 D4-Ice Hawks (White) 7 2 D2-Kontek Ecology Silver Hawks 7 3 D3-Mainway Sports Centre (Red) 7 4 D5-Atom (Black) 7 5 D7-Atom (Kelly Green) 7 6 D6-Vacuum Shoppe Snipers (Orange) 7 7 D8-Oakville Beaver (Yellow) 7 8 D1-Fitness Firm (Blue) 7 E) Peewee 13-14 1 E2-Peewee Kontek Ecology Inc Goons (Black) 7 2 E4-Peewee Vipond Inc (Blue) 7 3 E3-Peewee Pioneer Energy LP (Yellow) 7 4 E1-Peewee Burlington Post Just Because (Red) 7 F) Bant/Jr 15+ 1 F7-BT/Jr Light Blue Bombers 7 2 F3-BT/Jr National Sports Penguins (Yellow) 7 3 F4-BT/Jr Corpa Investigations Inc (Blue) 7 4 F5-BT/Jr (Orange) 7 5 F2-BT/Jr LavaLife Heartbreakers (Red) 7 6 F6-BT/Jr Olympic Trophies (Black) 7 7 F1-BT/Jr Burlington BHL (Silver) 7 8 F8-BT/Jr Green Goblins (Green) 7 Record Pts GF GA +/- 6-0-1 4-3-0 3-3-1 0-7-0 5-1-1 4-0-3 4-2-1 3-3-1 2-2-3 2-4-1 2-4-1 0-6-1 6-1-0 6-1-0 4-2-1 4-2-1 4-3-0 3-4-0 0-7-0 0-7-0 6-0-1 2-4-1 2-4-1 2-4-1 6-0-1 5-2-0 4-2-1 4-3-0 3-4-0 2-3-2 1-5-1 0-6-1 (W4) (L1) (W1) (L7) (W1) (W1) (W2) (W1) (L1) (L1) (L1) (L3) (W2) (W4) (W1) (L1) (W1) (L1) (L7) (L7) (W1) (L2) (W1) (L1) (W6) (L1) (W1) (W1) (L1) (W2) (L5) (L6) 13 8 7 0 11 11 9 7 7 5 5 1 12 12 9 9 8 6 0 0 13 5 5 5 13 10 9 8 6 6 3 1 50 26 23 8 27 29 34 31 20 13 20 13 40 53 31 36 24 31 24 5 29 19 14 8 31 24 29 30 17 16 12 11 11 32 22 42 18 21 17 30 22 21 23 35 19 25 24 19 19 46 49 43 14 20 17 19 18 17 14 21 20 18 27 35 39 -6 1 -34 9 8 17 1 -2 -8 -3 -22 21 28 7 17 5 -15 -25 -38 15 -1 -3 -11 13 7 15 9 -3 -2 -15 -24 Jr. B Buzz rallies late to avoid defeat against winless Orillia The Oakville Buzz scored five unanswered goals in a five-minute stretch to erase a third-period deficit and defeat the winless Orillia Kings 10-8 Friday in Ontario Lacrosse Association junior B play at Toronto Rock Athletic Centre. Troy O'Donnell recorded a hat trick and added an assist, with Mitchell Bolduc and Sam Neeb each striking for two goals and two helpers. Andrew Kew, Ryan Sullivan and Eddie Renaud also tallied for the Buzz (10-8), which trailed 5-4 after two periods and 8-5 with 12 minutes remaining in regulation time. Oakville remains in second place in the South East Division, five points behind the 11-0-1 Halton Hills Bulldogs. The Buzz leads Nepean and Kahnawake by six points for fourth place in the East Conference standings. Oakville will visit the 12-1-1 Green Gaels tomorrow (Thursday) in Clarington, then will travel to Orillia Saturday for a rematch with the Kings. This ad is courtesy of ­ Proud Supporters ­ &