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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday June 7, 2006 - 33 Three locals win OFSAA track medals Continued from page 30 Having accepted a four-year scholarship offer from Boston College in November, Bailey will study biology and run track at the Division 1 school this fall. Michael Trnkus Michael Trnkus came close to a gold of his own in the junior boys' 400m, leading down the stretch before being edged at the line by St. Mary's College's Richard MacLennan. Still, Trnkus' time of 51.31 seconds -- 16-hundredths of a second behind MacLennan -- earned the Grade 9 student OFSAA silver. "I'm very pleased with my performance," Trnkus said. "I thought it was going well around the third corner but I got passed in the last stretch." Trnkus' winning time was just slightly behind the 51.29 he ran at regionals. Trnkus also reached the final in the midget boys' 200m, placing sixth. After earning the silver in the 400m, Trnkus said it would take a low 23-second time to win the 200m. He was right. Toronto Western Tech's Dmitry Issajenko won in a time of 23.25 seconds, while Trnkus ran a 23.78. Patrice Wright Patrice Wright aggravated an old knee injury at the OFSAA meet. Fortunately for the 15-year-old, it was a day after she placed third in the midget girls' 100m. "It hasn't been paining me a lot lately, but I guess I just rolled it when I was running close to the end (of Saturday's 200m)," said Wright. "It hurt but I continued running. I don't know if it impacted my (200m) race." It obviously didn't bother her in the 100m dash as Wright was one of three runners to eclipse the OFSAA record in preliminaries. Wright qualified third with a time of 12.68 seconds, seven-hundredths faster than Robert Bateman's Danielle Lyte ran last year, and completed Friday's final in 12.88 seconds to earn the bronze. Running down the track with her eyes directly focused on the finish line, Wright was pleasantly surprised after crossing the line when she heard she was an OFSAA medalist. "I had no clue. I didn't know where I was," she said. "I was just like `wow, I came third in Ontario. That's pretty good.'" Good enough to make her decide to take track a little more seriously in the future, something her mother has advocating for a while. "I guess I need to look into it more," Wright said. "Before, I didn't realize it was so serious. I just did it because it looked like fun." Wright has run competitively since Grade 3, but only with school teams. She will likely join a club in the near future, where she hopes to work on her technique and learn how to use starting blocks. Other notables Loyola's Ashlie Tracey finished sixth in Friday's junior girls' 100m. After run- ning the race's second-best qualifying time (12.68), and the 4x100m relay preliminaries in the morning, Tracey said her legs began to tighten up. She ran a 12.94 in a closely-contested 100m final. Though Toronto Birchmount Park student Chanelle Kellyman ran away with the victory in 12.78 seconds, the next five runners were bunched between 12.88 and 12.94, leaving Tracey just six-hundredths of a second out of the medals. Not wanting to risk injury, she withdrew from Saturday's 200m. In other action, Abbey Park's 4x400m relay team of Brad Amos, Jimmy Tat, Michael Trnkus, Kevin Cox and Mike Sebben placed fifth. The race featured plenty of drama and controversy as Toronto's Cardinal Newman appeared to win in a photo finish, only to have the gold taken away because its lead runner was ruled to have run out of his lane. Loyola's 4x100m junior girls' relay squad of Chandail Brandis, Alex Pecar, Kacy Gray, Christina Shaw and Tracey reached the final and finished eighth, while the Abbey Park 4x100m senior boys' team of Sterling Holm, Kevin Cox, Brad Amos, Jimmy Tat and Trnkus came ninth. Other Oakville competitors at OFSAA included Abbey Park's Preet Dhillon (ninth, senior girls' discus), Cox (10th, junior boys' 400m; 12th, 800m), Rochelle Malley (10th, senior girls' 400m hurdles), Danny Francis (12th, open boys' 2,000m steeplechase; 14th, senior boys' 3,000m), Stephanie Piper (12th, junior girls' 300m hurdles; 16th, 80m hurdles) and Amos (16th, senior boys' 200m), Iroquois Ridge's Stephanie MacNeil (15th, junior girls' 3,000m), Loyola's Paulina Maher (15th, midget girls' 1,500m; 16th, 3,000m) and Holy Trinity's Gerald Morris (17th, senior boys' javelin). -- with files from Herb Garbutt, staff OT rugby girls run out of time at provincials By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Time was not on the side of the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils. Although the Devils' girls rugby team posted its best-ever finish at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championship, it was little consolation following an 8-5 loss to T.A. Stewart in the quarter-finals Tuesday in Burlington. The Red Devils were in the process of wearing down the tournament's third seed. After threatening to score throughout most of the game, Kirsten Passmore finally punched in a try with five minutes to play, cutting Stewart's eight-point lead to three. However, with tournament games limited to 20-minute halves, instead of the 30 minutes played during the regular season and playoffs, OT ran out of time. "If we play a full game, it's probably a different outcome," said OT coach Jacquie Bale-Pece. "We were all over them. They crawled one in and the rest of the time we were on their door step." Stewart built its 8-0 lead in the opening half, making the most of its few scoring opportunities. But OT continued to battle through the second half. "That's the tradition at OT," Bale-Pece said. "Play to the end. We've won Halton championships on the last play of the game." This time, though the effort was there, the victory that would have advanced the Devils into the semis was not. The Devils won their opening game of the tournament, downing Marshall McLuhan 12-5. With a roster 62 players deep, OT will have plenty of experience returning for next year. With the commitment the players showed, Bale-Pece said the team, which has made it to four of the last six OFSAA tournaments, has a bright future. "I'd go into a practice and give them a hard speech -- tell them they had to run five (kilometres), that they had to work every bit as hard as the boys, and they would do it," she said. "Then they'd come back the next night and give me more." HERB GARBUTT / OAKVILLE BEAVER MEDALISTS: Michael Trnkus (top) and Patrice Wright also won medals at last weekend's OFSAA track-and-field championships. G OL F Dine and 9 & Dine (after 5pm). . . . . . . . . . $44.99 18 & Dine (after 3pm). . . . . . . . $59.99 Dinner Only................... $19.99 TUESDAY Hi! 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