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www.insideHALTON.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, November 23, 2012 · 32 Skate Oakville synchro gala Sunday at 16 Mile Skate Oakville will hold its Gala of Synchronized Skating Sunday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, beginning at 2:30 p.m. Canadian national team members Kharis Ralph and Asher Hill will be among the feature skaters at the event. Ralph and Hill, who train out of the Scarborough Figure Skating Club, have been representing Canada in international ice dance competition since 2007. Western Ontario novice pair competitors Renata Wong and Henry Su will also be guest skaters at the gala. Representing Skate Oakville at the event will be Merissa Lompart, Daphne Boehmer, Phoenix MillerBush, Jaime Gabbard and the novice team of Nicole Novokowsky and Kaelan Dunker, all of whom were selected as the club's top skaters in DOUG SHELLEY / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER their respective categories. The Gala GALA PARTICIPANTS: Skate Oakville novice dance team Kaelan Dunker and Nicole Novokowsky, coming off a fourth-place finish at the recent Central Ontario sectionals in Barrie, will be performing at the club's Gala of Synchronized Skating Sunday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. of Synchronized Skating will also showcase Skate Oakville's synchronized skating teams who skate under the banner of `Oakville Edge.' Eight teams (beginner I and II, elementary A and B, juvenile, novice, senior and adult) will debut their new programs as they begin their competitive season. Novokowsky and Dunker are coming off a fourth-place finish at the recent Skate Canada Central Ontario Sectional Competition in Barrie. Kaitlyn Chubb and Alexander Moses (pre-juvenile) and Angel Green and Malcolm Kowan (juvenile) also posted fourth-place efforts at sectionals, which featured a clubrecord 30 skaters from Skate Oakville. For more information on the event and how to order tickets, visit Skate Oakville's website at www. skateoakville.ca. Colussi-Pelaez nearly qualified for Olympics Continued from page 31 WINNERS IN WATERLOO: The Oakville bantam B Hornets recently won the Waterloo Ravens Fall Challenge. Bantam Hornets win title in triple OT The Oakville bantam B Hornets edged the Kensington Valley Ravens 1-0 in triple overtime to win the championship at the recent Waterloo Ravens Fall Challenge girls' hockey tournament. Members of the Hornets are Rachel Bolland, Bridget McLellan, Britany Leger, Andrea Wallin, Emma Webster, Kaelan Peterson, Leah Kremer, Meghan Cochran, Hailey Folino, Holly Prestidge, Stephanie Kozdras, Erin Barth, Haley Crawford, Megan Stubbington, Madison Loos, Mariah Johnson and Olivia McKeown. The team is coached by Scott Stubbington, Andrew Barth, Kevin Prestidge and Brad Webster, and Cathy McCrory is the trainer. Novice Hornets earn silver The novice A Hornets went undefeated in their first four games at the Waterloo Ravens Fall Challenge tournament before falling 5-0 to the Cambridge Spanish citizenship, taking advantage of the latter to represent Spain at this year's world championships in Japan. She and the Spanish national team fell just short of qualifying for the Olympic Summer Games in London. Colussi-Pelaez also represented Ontario at last year's Canada Winter Games, tying for first overall and earning bronze on bars. In April 2011, she won the overall provincial senior title, placing first on beam, second on bars and third on floor. "Silvia has a lot of pressure on her because she's got two sisters also practising gymnastics," said Barac. "She knows she's a role model and is trying to inspire other kids. It was a really tough road for her, going to Spain and then coming back and training in a different system. I'm very happy to see she signed a (scholarship) and is good to go." Paterson, an Abbey Park student, is in his eighth year on the Canadian men's national team and will compete in the senior division for the first time next year. He was the Canadian men's 16-and-under champion last year and was the national 13-and-under champion in both 2007 and 2008. Paterson has won more than 30 Canadian individual apparatus titles in his career as well as numerous provincial and eastern Canadian championships. GIRLS' HOCKEYRESULTS Roadrunners in the championship game and settling for silver. Oakville went 1-0-3 in round-robin play, when it played teams from Clarington, London, Etobicoke and North York. Hornets netminder Cassidy Mallette was named the team's MVP in the final. Other Hornets include Alex Crich, Ava Walker, Avery Spence, Breanna Lombardo, Ella Jackson, Kathryn Zuliani, Olivia Hunt, Paige Oliver, Rachel Hamburg, Reese Oliver, Reichen Kirchmair, Stephanie Stainton, Sydney O'Leary, Tatum Martino, Taya Balfour and Taylor Stanford. Brad Arsenault, Jeff Crich, Mike Kirchmair and Jordan Currie coach the team. Ontario Cup acrobatic meet at OGC Oakville Gymnastics Club will host this year's Acrobatic Gymnastics Ontario Cup. More than 65 athletes from across the province will compete in the event, which will be held Dec. 8-9. "This is an amazing and incredibly dynamic sport to watch," said Don Holmes, the OGC's program director of acrobatic gymnastics. "We are so excited to be hosting the competition so that our athletes can showcase what they have been working so hard to prepare for." Holmes and OGC coaches Jane Kirwin and Daniela Petrova are busy preparing the club's teams for the meet. OGC squads recently participated in a training camp with guest coaches Edward Upcott and Doug Fordyce, former world champions and members of `Spellbound', the winner of Britain's Got Talent in 2010. Next month's meet will be the first of two Ontario Cup competitions this season for acrobatic gymnasts, who will also be competing in other meets across North America.