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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, May 14, 2015 | 38 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports A / A A F I N A L P R E V I E W ? "Connected to your Community" Blue Devils 2-0, still yet to allow goal in League1 by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor OT student wins OFSAA badminton bronze by Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver Staff Over the past couple of weeks, Duncan Wilde has dealt with a flooded basement in his home, a daughter moving to the west coast and a gum infection that moved into his blood stream and left him with a severely swollen knee. When it comes to soccer, however, the Oakville Blue Devils head coach is feeling no pain. Two games into their inaugural League1 Ontario campaign, the Blue Devils not only sit in a four-way tie atop the league standings with a 2-0 mark, they haven't even surrendered a goal. Oakville followed up a season-opening 5-0 rout of the Sanjaxx Lions with a 2-0 win Sunday in Vaughan over a Woodbridge Strikers squad that finished second in League1 last year with a 10-3-3 record. "Yeah, a little bit," Wilde said when asked if he is surprised by his team's strong start. "I really didn't know as much as I'd like to have known about the league (going in) because it's our first time. You know about the coaches and the players but until you play yourself, you don't know (how you will fare)." Eduardo Filice scored Oakville's first goal Sunday, converting on a penalty kick in the 22nd minute after the Strikers were carded for a foul away from the play, and Anthony Doran added another goal shortly before halftime. Daniel Voci, who backstopped Sheridan College to a Canadian college championship last season, recorded the shutout in his first League1 start. "Karman (Saini, Oakville's starting keeper in the opener) hadn't done anything wrong, I just wanted to get both goalies into the league," said Wilde, who also inserted Adrian Butters and Al James into the Blue Devils backfield due to the unavailability of two opening-day starters. "Three of our back five didn't play (in the first game). It was great to get a win while getting three more people onto the field... We defended very well in the second half." Roster turnover is something Wilde will have to deal with throughout the season. Butters will leave the team in a couple of weeks to play for the Guyana senior national team, and Filice is headed to Europe this week to pursue other soccer opportunities. All teams in League1 will soon receive an influx of players returning home from university, and most of those players will be gone again by the time the season winds down in October. "It's a long season," Wilde said. "The good thing is that it's just one game per week to work on things and put things into place." The Blue Devils will host ProStars FC (0-1-1) this Sunday at Sheridan College. Kickoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers player Samantha Vertolli (in white) tries to fend off a challenge from Lester B. Pearson Patriots' Briar Parkinson Tuesday in Burlington. The Cavaliers dropped a 1-0 decision -- their first loss of the Halton high school senior girls' soccer A/AA season -- and fell one point behind 5-1-2 Pearson for top spot in the league. The playoffs begin next week. For an online photo gallery from the game, visit bit.ly/1Je6e6D. | photo by Riziero Vertolli -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Late goals help Buzz avoid winless weekend The Oakville Buzz scored twice in the final three minutes Sunday to defeat the Gloucester Griffins 9-7 and salvage a victory in one of the three home games it played last weekend at Toronto Rock Athletic Centre. Dalton Follows scored with 2:16 remaining in regulation time to snap a 7-7 deadlock, and Austin Redding added an insurance marker for the Buzz, which improved to 2-4 on the Ontario Lacrosse Association junior B season. Follows, Eddie Renaud and Kyle Marr each scored twice and Oakville goaltender Bailey Brown earned his first junior B victory. Jaden Walcot and Julian Guay added singles. The previous evening, the Buzz dropped a 10-7 decision to the Nepean Knights. Renaud scored four goals, with Jake Nyhuis collecting four assists. Nate Braniff (two) and Michael Dobko provided the other Oakville markers. Friday, the Buzz suffered a heartbreaking 9-8 loss to the Brampton Excelsiors, who netted the game winner as time expired. Renaud scored three times and added two helpers in a losing cause. Patrick Gamble, Lacrosse Kyle Kolwich, Yvon Bolduc, Matt Pogue and Dobko also tallied. The Buzz is scheduled to visit the Clarington Green Gaels -- who have already handed Oakville one of its two one-goal losses this season -- tonight (Thursday). Sr. B Titans defeat Owen Sound Jon Mason scored three goals, Todd Kozak collected four assists and the Oakville Titans shot down the Owen Sound North Stars 10-6 in provincial senior B lacrosse action Sunday at Toronto Rock Athletic Centre. The Titans scored the final five goals of the second period to carry a 9-3 advantage into the second intermission and coast to the win. Mack Abbott, Eric Wales, Jordan Godin, Dan Hamlett, Reed Board, Travis Bland and Gage Board provided Oakville's other goals in support of winning netminder Craig Wende. The Titans (1-1) will visit the St. Catharines Saints tomorrow (Friday) and won't play at home again until May 31 versus the Six Nations Rivermen. In a sport that requires quick reflexes and fast movement, the nickname bestowed upon Sommer Chou might make you think twice about her chances for success. "We call her Turtle, because she's not too quick at the beginning of her matches," says Oakville Tr- Sommer Chou afalgar High School badminton coach Stephanie Adams. "But then that competitive side kicks in around the 11th point and she gets the job done." At the recent Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) badminton championships, there was very little to slow Chou down as she won five of her six matches on her way to the A flight bronze medal. The Grade 12 student hadn't played singles since going to the provincial high school championships in Grade 9. Since then, she opted to compete at the national club championships, which conflicted with the OFSAA tournament. This year, Chou, who will study integrated science at McMaster next year, cut back on her training to concentrate on her studies. She decided to skip nationals and play for the high school team again. "I hadn't trained in a while, so there was no point in flying to Winnipeg just to get knocked out in the first round," she said. Chou earned silver medals at both the Halton and Golden see Chou on p.39