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Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports C D S B C H A M P I O N S H I P S 25 | Friday, June 21, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" H OAK's White earns international bronze Evan White earned a bronze medal at the Mare Nostrum swim meet Saturday in Canet-En-Rousillon, France. Sports Briefs The Oakville Aquatic Club member turned in a near personal-best time of two minutes, 2.56 seconds in the men's 200-metre individual medley to take third place. That was just shy of the 2:02.38 time he posted at the world championship trials in April. "To get near my personal best time when I'm not fully prepared is very satisfying," the 17-year-old said. "My dives were deeper off the start and my stroke rate was higher for the backstroke and freestyle. It's a great experience racing at this competition." The meet included many Olympic swimmers who used it as a tune-up for the world championships. "He's been building toward this," said national junior coach Ken McKinnon. "We were hoping to see another improvement today and he put himself in position to win a medal. There was a significant drop between his morning and night (swims)." White also turned in a 12th-place finish in the 200m butterfly. Shepley close second at CN Tour Ontario stop A bogey-free final round of 5-under 66 was not quite enough to earn Jessica Shepley the victory at this week's CN Canadian Women's Tour Ontario stop in Windsor. The Oakville golfer was edged in a playoff by Alameda, Calif. native Emily Childs, who made birdie on the third extra hole to clinch her first professional title. The two players were tied at 8-under after two rounds. Shepley, who recently returned to golf after a brief retirement, earned just under $7,000 for her runnerup finish. RIT Tigers add Stenason to defence corps The Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers women's hockey team will rely heavily on Oakville players to defend its goal next season. Lindsay Stenason will join Lindsay Grigg on the Tigers' blueline next year in front of netminder Ali Binnington. Grigg and Binnington are both going into their junior seasons. Stenason has played the last two years with the Oakville Hornets of the Provincial Women's Hockey League. She had four goals and eight assists in 36 games with the Hornets last season. After winning the NCAA Division III title in 2012, RIT held its own after making the jump to Division I this past campaign. The Tigers, coached by Oakville native Scott McDonald, finished the season with a record of 16-16-5 and were edged 2-1 in overtime by Syracuse in the semifinals of the College Hockey America tournament. St. Andrew student Lauren Taylor (left) tries to hold off Sacred Heart opponent Arielle Palermo in the bantam/midget girls' 1,500-metre race at last Friday's Halton Catholic District School Board elementary system track-and-field championships in Burlington. Palermo, who set an HCDSB record in the tyke/atom 1,500m last year, won the race, with Taylor placing second.| photo by Steven Der-Garabedian -- Special to the Beaver St. Marguerite top local school at Catholic meet St. Marguerite d'Youville finished second in both the girls' and boys' team standings on the way to a third-overall finish at the Halton Catholic District School Board's elementary system track-and-field championships last week in Burlington. St. Marguerite racked up a total of 79 points at the meet, eight fewer than overall champion St. Brigid of Burlington. Three Oakville entries set records at the meet, which featured the top two finishers in each event from previous municipal meets in Oakville, Burlington and north Halton. Tamia Noel of Mother Teresa threw 9.86 metres in the bantam girls' shot put, eclipsing the previous record by one centimetre. Emmy-Lou O'Neill, already the meet record-holder in the tyke girls' long jump, set a new standard in the atom girls' long jump with a leap of 4.16m. And in relay action, the St. Joan of Arc team of Kali Pocrnic, Brandon Byrne, Victoria Sapeta and Mark Knez posted a record time of 57.61 seconds to win the mixed atom 4x100m relay. Other individual event winners from Oakville were St. Dominic's Melissa Arruda and Isabelle Caruana; St. Joan of Arc's Caitlin Everett, Sapeta and Byrne; St. Bernadette's Helena Soldviar; St. Vincent's Brittany Pan; Pope John Paul II's Ethan Huffman; St. Andrew's student Cameron Aldridge; St. Marguerite's Adam Cherepacha and Nicholas Beaupre; and Mother Teresa's Gonza Soto and Dylan Jackson. Victorious relay squads included St. Marguerite (atom girls and atom boys), St. Andrew (bantam girls and midget boys), Mother Teresa (bantam boys and mixed tyke) and St. Vincent (mixed bantam). Following is a list of Oakville's top finishers in all events: Tyke girls 100m: 1. Melissa Arruda, St. Dominic; 6. Madison Dempster, Holy Family; 200m: 1. Victoria Sapeta, St. Joan of Arc; 2. Emily Elsie, St. Mary; 400m: 3. Marissa Doria, St. Andrew; 6. Alicia Morielli, St. Joan of Arc; 4x100m: 3. St. Andrew; 4. Holy Family; Long jump: 1. Helena Soldviar, St. Bernadette; Madison Dempster, Holy Family; Softball throw: 3. Gabriella Rizzuto, St. Marguerite; 6. Jazcel Balbastro, Holy Family Atom girls 100m: 2. Kali Pocrnic, St. Joan of Arc; 3. Emmy-Lou O'Neill, St. Matthew; 200m: 2. Monir Poorashidi, St. Marguerite; 3. Emily Cross, St. Matthew; 400m: 2. Lauren Lombard, St. Matthew; 5. Megan Dorcich, St. Marguerite; 4x100m: 1. St. Marguerite; 4. St. Matthew; Long jump: 1. Emmy-Lou O'Neill, St. Matthew (NR); 2. Kali Pocrnic, St. Joan of Arc; Softball throw: 3. Bryanna Biffis, St. Vincent; 6. Megan Dorcich, St. Marguerite Bantam girls 100m: 1. Isabelle Caruana, St. Dominic; 3. Rachel Miller, St. Vincent; 200m: 3. Nicole Rivait, St. John; 6. Kennedy Choma, Pope John Paul II; 800m: 1. Caitlin Everett, St. Joan of Arc; 4. Chloe Calitri, St. Dominic; 4x100m: 1. St. Andrew; 4. St. Dominic; Long jump: 3. Nicole Rivait, St. John; 4. St. Andrew; Shot put: 1. Tamia Noel, Mother Teresa (NR); 2. Bola Fayemi, St. Dominic Midget girls 100m: 3. Julia Mahelin, St. Luke; 4. Laura Toth, Our Lady of Peace; 200m: 3. Dia Prijono, St. Marguerite; 4. Thalia Luesterio, St. Matthew; 800m: 3. Rachel Marmen, Pope John Paul II; 4x100m: 2. St. Marguerite; 3. St. Joan of Arc; Long jump: 3. Raquel Pate, Holy Family; 4. Emma Seese, St. Matthew; Shot put: 2. Amanda Coughlin, St. Marguerite; 3. Mary Milicevic, St. Andrew Tyke/atom girls 1,500m: 1. Brittany Pan, St. Vincent; 3. Natasha Melhuish, St. Marguerite; 5. Bola Fayemi, St. Dominic; 6. Amy Ver- see Catholic on p.27