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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 46 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Kevin Nagel Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Canadian ChampYoung Oakville boxer wins super welterweight belt with knockout victory By Iain Colpitts Metroland Media Group Sports "Connected to your Community" Fight fans saw a different side of Ryan Young Saturday at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Often regarded as a strong, technical boxer, the Oakville native showed a fierce side as he knocked out Orangeville's Ryan Wagner in the third round to win the Canadian Super Welterweight title. "To get a win in that fashion brought out the emotion in me," said Young, who remains undefeated at 10-0 with eight knockouts. "As far as being a different fighter, I'd like to think every fight I'm a bit of a different fighter because if you're not, you're staying stale and not improving. Hopefully every time out, you'll see improvements in me." The fight was the main event on a card presented by United Boxing Promotions. Young, 31, was excited about being back in the ring for the first time in more than a year. He had a fight scheduled in February that was called off after he injured his hand while training. Wagner, who earned the nickname "The zero taker" for beating previously undefeated boxers like Stuart Ryan Wagner crumples to the canvas after taking a punch from Oakville's Ryan Young McLellan, Cody Riles and Rory Coveney, was looking to (left) in Saturday's Canadian super welterweight title fight in Mississauga. Young won by take care of another unbeaten fighter. He was quite vocal about his chances of victory, which knockout, improving his record to 10-0. | Iain Colpitts / Metroland didn't bother Young, but the newly crowned champion believes actions speak louder than words. "Some people need to talk to pump themselves up and there's nothing wrong with that," Young said. "I'm just more of a quiet, reserved guy and I try not to get into that stuff because karma can come back to get you. I'm just happy I came out on top tonight." Young knocked Wagner down late in the second round and the bell rung seconds after he got back up. Young scored another knockdown early in the third and then one more time for good later in the round. "As opposed to boxing, we stepped inside and went to war because we knew we had him hurt," Young said. "The game plan was to finish him." Seven more fights were scheduled on the card, including the co-main event between Peterborough welterweight Cody Crowley and Argentinian Marcelo Bzowski. Crowley, who now lives and trains in Las Vegas, earned a unanimous decision victory in his second career fight in Canada to improve to 9-0. In other fights at the Hershey Centre, Oshawa cruiserweight Abokan Bokpe scored a knockout over Hugo Casanovas, while middleweight Luis Valdivia and super welterweight Winston Matthews drew against Jesus Ortega and Steve Rainford, respectively. Wyatt runs away with Oakville Half win By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff For anyone who watched Kyle Wyatt run away with the 10th Nutrience Oakville Half Marathon, the last thing they probably want to hear is that he's just getting warmed up. The Toronto resident won Sunday's race by eight minutes and 11 seconds, finishing in a time of one hour, 10 minutes and four seconds. That means that by the time Wyatt was crossing the finish line, his nearest rival, Bill Bentley, still had another 2.2 kilometres to run. To put that in perspective, that would be like Usain Bolt running an 8.95-second 100-metre with the rest of the field failing to crack 10 seconds. The former University of Nebraska crosscountry runner was competing in the Oakville race for the first time as a way to get ready for the Toronto Scotiabank Marathon in three weeks. "The timing worked well," said Wyatt. "I wanted to wait as late as I could (to race before Toronto)." Oakville native Trevor Dickie, who now lives in Toronto, finished third overall in a time of 1:19.10. He said he lost sight of Wyatt about three kilometres into the race. That meant Wyatt spent almost the entire race running alone. "I had a lot of races like that in high school, but not as many recently," said Wyatt, who eclipsed his personal best by 30 seconds. "I was trying to treat it like a workout and was paying attention to my watch (for pacing)." Wyatt was still almost three minutes off the record pace set by 2008 winner Predrag Mladenovic (1:07:12). Dickie competed in cross-country in elementary school at River Oaks and ran a little while going to high school at White Oaks. But it's only been in the last five years that he's got back into running. "This guy," he said, pointing to Wyatt, when asked him what re-ignited his interest. "I started five or six years ago and then got serious about it in the last three or four years. Once you start, it's addictive. I've been training for this and I've had a good group of guys to chase." Trying to chase down Wyatt Sunday helped him take two minutes off his personal best time. As happy as he was with his performance it was returning to Oakville that really made the race a Kyle Wyatt crosses the finish line to take first place at the Nutrience Oakville Half Marathon Sunday morning. It would be another eight minutes before the next runner made it to the finish line. | Thomas Surian photo special one. "To be able to run on the streets of the town where I grew up and have family here cheering me on," he said, "that was the best part." Oakville's Andrew Convery finished seventh overall in a time of 1:22:12 and See Gill on p. 46