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Oakville players on Canada's first junior women's inline team Two Oakville residents will be part of the inaugural Canadian junior women's national team to compete at the FIRS Inline Hockey World Championships. Goaltender Chantal Sputore and defenceman Nicole Collier will suit up for the junior squad at the tournament July 7-13 in Anaheim, Calif. Sputore is a 17-year-old Holy Trinity high school student who plays inline hockey in both the Halton Roller Hockey and Mississauga Roller Hockey systems. She has also played ice hockey since the age of four, and is currently with the Halton Twisters AA team. Collier was the youngest-ever player (14 years old) to suit up for the national inline senior women's hockey team at last year's worlds in Colombia, helping Canada to gold. She will Sports Briefs play for both the junior and senior teams at this year's championships. Lindsay Grigg, also of Oakville, returns to the women's team for her fourth year competing in the senior tournament, which is July 14-20. Buzz locks up home-floor in first round The Oakville Buzz clinched home-floor advantage in the opening round of the Ontario Lacrosse Association junior B playoffs with a 13-7 victory over the host Mississauga Tomahawks Wednesday night. Keyan McQueen had a hat trick and added three assists for the Buzz (12-6), which is locked into fourth place in the East Conference standings with two games to play. Eddie Renaud (two goals, three assists) and Foster Cuomo (goal, four assists) enjoyed five-point evenings Wednesday, and Todd Nakasuji had two goals and two helpers. Troy O'Donnell (two), Nathan Maracle, Mitch Wales and Pat Shea collected Oakville's other markers. The game featured 162 minutes in penalties, 118 of which were assessed to Mississauga. Oakville will be home to South East Division-leading Halton Hills tonight (Friday) for an 8 o'clock start at Toronto Athletic Centre, then conclude the regular season Sunday with an afternoon game in Markham. Atom hockey player in Edmonton tournament St. Vincent elementary school student Tyler Hunt is a member of the Toronto Bulldogs atom squad that will represent Ontario next week at the 24th annual invitational Brick Super Youth Hockey Tournament held at the West Edmonton Mall's Ice Palace. Hunt, a forward, wears No. 88 in honour of his role model -- Chicago Blackhawks sniper Patrick Kane, who received the Conn Smythe Trophy Tyler Hunt this week as the MVP of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Hunt began playing hockey with the Minor Oaks Hockey Association before moving to the Greater Toronto Hockey League's Toronto Marlboros. The Brick Super Youth Hockey Tournament will feature 14 teams and some of the top 10-year-old hockey players from across North America. The Bulldogs, who won all four elite AAA showcase tournaments they participated in this past spring, are the two-time defending Brick champions. International meets will help Smeenk prep for Paralympics continued from p.23 event in the world, I think I would have been overwhelmed and it wouldn't mentally have been a good situation to race in," said Smeenk, who got his first taste of international competition earlier this year at a meet in Switzerland. "This will be my first world championships, it will be the biggest meet I've ever gone to. There will be an athletes village, I'll be away from parents and coaches... The exposure to that much travel and to being in front of an audience that large will be a big aspect I take away from it." Smeenk is currently ranked second in the world in the T34 400m, third in the 200m, fifth in the 100m and 6th in the 800m. The T34 class is a category for athletes with neurological deficits. Smeenk was born with spastic paraplegia, a hereditary disease that causes progressive stiffness and contraction in the lower limbs. 25 | Friday, June 28, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Goaltender Chantal Sputore is one of three Oakville residents who will compete at the world inline hockey championships next month. | photo submitted 200 200,000 PLAYERS PL AYERS O ONE NE R REALLY EALLY FUN GAME BRODY AGE 6 TIMBITS SOCCER With Timbits Soccer, the first goal really is having fun. And with over 200,000 kids playing Timbits Soccer across Canada, that's a whole lot of smiling faces. Tim Hortons is proud to support each and every one of these kids, along with your local Tim Hortons Restaurant Owners who are excited to be a part of this by supporting over 1,500 kids playing Timbits Soccer in Oakville. THE FIRST GOAL IS HAVING FUN ® © Tim Hortons, 2013