24 Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 2010 Titans reach OFC title game The Oakville Titans junior varsity football team will play for its second league championship in as many seasons. Oakville qualified for the Ontario Football Conference tier 2 final by defeating the Chatham-Kent Cougars 2315 Sunday at Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School. Titans running back Toluwa Fayemi scored all three of Oakville's touchdowns, including a major in the final minutes as the Titans were nursing a 17-15 lead. Calum Rabchuk also came up with a big play in the fourth quarter, intercepting his second pass of the contest. Mike Malo added two converts and a field goal on the afternoon for the Titans, who will meet the Toronto Jr. Argonauts in Saturday's OFC final. That contest will be played at Wilfrid Laurier University's KnightNewbrough Field in Waterloo, beginning at 12:30 p.m. The matchup will feature the top two teams in OFC junior varsity tier 2 regular-season play. Oakville won the division with a 6-2 mark, while the Jr. Argonauts were 5-3. The teams split their two regular-season meetings. Toronto downed the Titans 28-7 June 6 in Toronto before Oakville claimed a 23-22 victory July 4 at St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School. The Titans won the South Central Ontario Football League AAA title last year in their inaugural season. GUSTAVO GRANZELLA / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER GET AWAY: Zsombor Burany of the Oakville Titans stiff-arms a Chatham-Kent Cougars opponent as he carries the ball down the field during Sunday's Ontario Football Conference junior varsity tier 2 semifinal contest at Holy Trinity. Atom Cowboys to play for OMFL title The Halton Cowboys atom squad wrote a little history on the weekend. The Cowboys became the first-ever Halton Cowboys squad to reach an Ontario Minor Football League championship game, surprising the Brantford Bisons 13-7 in Sunday's semifinal. Halton, seeded third in the playoffs, will take on the unbeaten Brampton Bulldogs in the league final this Sunday at Etobicoke's Centennial Stadium. Kickoff is slated for 10 a.m. The Cowboys survived a tough start last weekend in Brantford. After failing to move the ball in its first series, Halton allowed a 50-yard touchdown run on Brantford's third play from scrimmage. Halton quickly recovered, however. Quarterback Garrett Holmes turned a broken play into a 65-yard touchdown run on the Cowboys' next possession, Holmes' 20th major of the season. The Cowboys took the lead in the third quarter on a touchdown run by Raymar Lloyd. Halton's defence set up the score by forcing a turnover inside the Brantford 10yard line. Justin Benoit, Jordan Arruda, Bug Smith, Josh Roberts, "Sully" Ahlborn and Tyler Sharpe had strong games for a Halton defensive unit that held Brantford scoreless for the final three-and-a-half quarters. Whitecaps ousted in provincial semis The Oakville Whitecaps' hopes of winning the provincial Little League senior baseball championship ended Tuesday. Oakville was eliminated from the all-Ontario tournament at River Oaks Park with an 8-4 semifinal loss to the defending national champion Cornwall Black Sox. The Whitecaps, a team of Oakville Little League allstars, trailed 5-0 into the fifth inning before rallying to pull within 5-4. Anthony Rigato, Alex Therrien and Johnny Danielson contributed key hits in the Oakville uprising. Cornwall, however, answered with three runs in the top of the seventh to pull away again. Whitecaps starting pitcher Nick Harma went the distance, throwing 92 pitches over seven innings. "Our kids put in an unbelievable effort," Oakville head coach Nick Rigato said of the Whitecaps' performance at the tournament. "It was the whole team playing as a team. "It's the best I've seen them play all season." The Black Sox met Windsor's West Turtle Club in the tournament final yesterday (Wednesday), a game GRAHAM PAINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER that concluded after the Beaver's press deadlines. The IN THERE: Cornwall baserunner Sean Hickey slides safely under the tag of winner of that game advanced to the senior national Oakville Whitecaps infielder Jesse Taylor Tuesday at River Oaks Park. Oakville was championship tournament in St. John, New Brunswick. eliminated from the provincial senior baseball championships with an 8-4 loss.