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38 - The Oakville Beaver Weekend, Saturday April 26, 2008 www.oakvillebeaver.com Tri-County champs MINOR BANTAMS CROWNED: The Oakville Rangers minor bantam AA team defeated Burlington recently to claim the Tri-County Hockey League championship. The Rangers took the best-of-five series in four games. Oakville dropped the opener of the series 5-4, despite rallying from a 4-0 deficit to tie the game. The Rangers rebounded to win the next three games 4-2, 3-2 and 3-2. Team members are Adam Wirkowski, Matt Delmas, Michael Swanson, Taylor Stewart, Doug Bonar, Ross Sloan, Chris Martone, Brad Anker, Josh Dube, Alex Routhier, Matthew Capern, Braden Wallace, Jason Mitchell, Sam Binnington, Bryanna Neuwald, Cameron Farrell, Sam Jakubauskas and Jordan Mosca. The team is coached by Ray Dube, Les Wallace, Norbert Wirkowski and Ray Routhier. Golden year for atom AA Hornets The Oakville Hornets atom AA team might want to permanently change the logo on the front of its jerseys to a gold medal. It might be more practical, considering that's what has been dangling in front of their chest for the majority of the season. Most recently, the Hornets won the Ontario Women's Hockey Association provincial championship. The tournament -- which took place April 11-13 -- included round-robin victories over Mississauga (4-0) and Brampton (2-0), and a 1-1 draw against London. Their record of 2-0-1 in the round robin was enough to earn them a bye into the semifinal, where they upset their neighbours to the west, the Burlington Barracudas, by a 3-0 score. The Hornets captured the championship by defeating the London Devillettes 3-0 in the goldmedal game. They received goals from Kaitlyn McAllister, Kaitlyn Norris and Taylor McMahon in the victory. However, this tournament win was simply icing on the cake for the Hornets, who have won four other tournaments this year, including a league title the weekend prior to the provincial tournament. Other victories included the women's International Silver Stick Tournament in Aurora, as well as at competitions in London and Waterloo. In addition to the numerous gold medals, the Hornets also captured silver medals in a tournament in Willowdale and the Ottawa Bell Canada Cup. Gervais breaks record Plyley set 12 years ago While the country's top swimmers competed in the recent Olympic trials in Montreal, the future elite swimmers competed at the 2008 Pentathlon Meet in Etobicoke. The Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) had its own passing of the torch at the meet. The same day OAK swimmer Kate Plyley retired after competing in her third Olympic trials, the club's Michelle Gervais broke Plyley's in the 200metre individual medley. Gervais' time of two minutes, 55.74 seconds broke Plyley's 12-yearold record by 3.5 seconds. Plyley, 22, retired after 15 years with OAK. She was a member of five straight Ontario University Athletics (OUA) championship teams with the University of Toronto and she was cocaptain for the last two. She also earned the THolders Academic Award of Excellence in each year at U of T. Gervais earned the 10-year-old girls' gold medal in the pentathlon, which combines the times in five races (100m freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly and the 200m individual medley). Gervais won three of the races and finished second in the other two. OAK's Meghan Clark also posted a victory by taking first in the 11-year-old girls' 100m breaststroke. Clark was also seventh in the 100m butterfly. Other top-eight finishes from the meet included: · 12-year-old boys: Connor Wilkins, fourth, 100m fly; Jarrod Baddeliyanage, seventh, 100m breaststroke; Dan Rona, eighth, 200m IM. · 10-year-old girls: Abbey Saunders, sixth 100m fly, seventh, 200m IM; Olivia Sinclair, seventh, 100m fly, 100m back, 100m free; Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba, eighth, 100m free. · 11-year-old girls: Meredith Johnson, seventh, 100m back, eighth 100m free, 200m IM. · 12-year-old girls: Michelle Carrabetta, eighth, 100m back. Bookkeeper Henry's Lawn & Garden Maint. HR Consultant Mortgage Consultant K.A.M. Coproration To place your business logo or name here, call your Classified Sales Representative today! 905.632.4440 www.oakvillebeaver.com