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D4 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, March 7, 2001 Oakville Rangers hockey... Close series with Halton Hills After an opening loss to Halton Hills in their best of five Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) playoff series, the Oakville Rangers minor atom AAA rep team have bounced back with two wins. OAKVILLE 8, Halton Hills 1 (game two): a close checking game for the first two periods, Oakville blew it open with a five goal outburst, including a quick opening trio, en route to the win. The comforting factor in the game was seven players figuring in on the scoring. Goals went to Jonathon Brand (2), Patrick Chiasson, Adam DiMarco, Anthony Scalia, Mark Borcsok, Steven Guzzo, Tyler Stothers and Patrick Readshaw. Assists were earned by Matt Lorito (2), Patrick Marsh (2), Scalia, Borcsok, Steven Merrick and Stothers. OAKVILLE 7, Halton 4: Oakville again had a big third period with five unanswered goals to turn around a 4-2 deficit. The line of Mark Borcsok, Patrick Marsh and Patrick Readshaw was involved in four goals and nine points on the night. Marsh tallied four of the points with two goals and two assists. Borcsok had a goal and two assists and Readshaw a goal and an assist. Other goals on the night went to Steven Guzzo (2) and Adam DiMarco. Other helpers were tallied by Tyler Stothers (2), Cameron Watts, Anthony Scalia, DiMarco and Matt Lorito. the Ice Expression win the silver medal. BACK ROW: Jennifer Gillies, Emily Ann Matyskiel, Rachel Luzar, Jessica Apap, Brittany Jenkins and Lianne Kerr. FRONT ROW: Nicole Percy, Lauren McLeod, Hayley M cGrath, Victoria Hutchings, Shannon Murray and Vanessa Hutchings. - Philthy's Spotlight Teams receive a $50 gift certificate P H IL T H Y 'S S P O T L IG H T : Brampton series tied at 1-1 The Oakville Rangers novice AA rep team are tied at one game apiece in their fourth round Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) series with Brampton. Oakville were outhustled in their opening match, losing 4-1. The second game seemed to be going in a similar direction but Oakville managed to shrug off a 3-1 deficit and win 4-3. Oakville actually opened the scoring but then Brampton came back with a vengeance and only some brilliant goaltending by Josh Butler kept the deficit to just 3-1. Stefan Thompson was the hero, scoring the winner -- his second of the game -- with only 1:26 left, assisted by Lucas Currah. Other goals were scored by Matthew Feric and Kelly Barchan. Ice Expression pick up silver medal Oakville's own pre-juvenile Ice Expression synchro nized skating team participated in Cupid's Capers competi tion in Fergus in February. This young team of skaters, all under 10 years of age, made their coach Carolyn Hyde very proud by coming away with the silver medal. SportsBoard Toronto's Olympic bid committee held its biggest fundraiser to date on M onday in T oronto featuring Kim Stockwood and a host o f celebrities. Oakville was well represented with Donovan Bailey one o f the featured celebrities. O ak v ille's o th er recent Olympic gold m edalist, Larry Cain (gold and silver in `84), is very much involved with the organizing com m it tee as an athlete representative. Bailey, m eanwhile, hopes to end his stellar career with a blast, at the world track and field cham pionship which Canada is hosting in Edm onton this summer. Wright wins provincial title Patrick Wright of Oakville fell short of capturing gold on the final day of competition, but held on to claim the provincial championship crown at the juvenile (ages 13/14) Ontario Championships held in Ottawa Saturday. Wright, who is a member of the Huronia Alpine Development Team, placed 11th in Saturday's competition, which was enough to secure him the provincial title. Wright will represent Ontario at the Canadian juvenile championships at Mt. Tremblant, Quebec, March 19-26. Tri-county playoff action has begun The Oakville Rangers atom A rep team have opened up their tri-county playoffs with two wins and a loss. The opener was a 4-3 loss in Dundas on Feb. 25. Oakville goals were scored by Patrick Channing, Patrick Christie and Taylor Hodgkinson. Assists went to Adam Kubacki, Marco Rodrigues and Tyson Theaker. On Feb. 27, again on the road, Oakville won 7-2 in Erin. Oakville goals were scored by Jamie M cKeown (2), Patrick Channing, Joey Cicchini, Matt Downer, Taylor Hodgkinson and Tyson Theaker. Assists went to Cicchini (2), Matt Gulliver (2), Hodgkinson (2), Adam Kubacki (2), Channing, Patrick Christie, Downer and Brett Runciman. On March 4, Garrett Mott earned the shutout in a 4-0 win over Acton. Goals were scored by D aniel D esjardins, M att G ulliver, Spencer Jenkin and A dam K ubacki. Earning assists were Anthony Farrow (2), Matt Downer, Taylor Hodgkinson and Marco Rodrigues. Hopedale Youth Bowling Council Hopedale Youth Bowling Council competed at a travel team tournament held at Streetsville Bowl. Hopedale bowlers included Alyssa Cangemi, Brad Myers, Jessica McGaw, David McGaw and Tommy Gaunt. This tournament is a pins over average game and the team from Hopedale, under the direction of first year coach Natalie Talbot, bowled a total o f 273 pins over average for the three games. The single results in last week's provincial preliminary championships will be report ed next week as results weren't immediately available. The following are the March 3/4 results ... Pee w ee (single gam es) Zack MacKenzie 103/128 Ryan W atson 62/98 A lex C angem i 96/77 Katrina Choquette 113/66 C onnor Briggs 104/80 Eric Stevenson 82/64 Laura C hurchill 71/80 Jacob Taylor 56/56 K athleen Loranger 61/64 Kyle A rm strong 99/88 Bantam (triple totals) Tom my G aunt 431 Justus Choquette 283 N icholas K osterm an 309 Will C ator 365 M atthew A uger 299 Steven Davitsky 382 Thom as D uvey 309 D avid A ttridge 413 Stephanie Forrester 263 A lyssa C angem i 379 Brad M yers 379 Shaw n Styles 279 Erin B rew er 253 Brandon Pike 612 Dillon Loranger 217 Trevor Snell 496 D avid M cGaw 242 M ichael M cC allum 382 M ary B rew er 245 Kyle Stevenson 340 Danny M oran 279 Blake Talbot 275 Jessica M cGaw 330 Junior (triple totals) Alysha A uger 547 Hollie Brooks 557 Amy Parps 448 Jodi Parps 478 Jessica C yr 431 M ichelle Pike 548 M ichelle Q uinn 499 M ichelle C ator 328 Senior (triple totals) Chris K usm ider 440 Jeff Turnbull 619 Tom my Ferrone 425 Chris Q uinn 573 Kris Pike 543 C rystal Pickard 488 Ashley Ryan 515 **** The Oakville Soccer Club had one team reach the finals o f the Ontario Cup Indoor championships. In the U -16 girls division, the Oakville Angels lost a 1-0 heartbreaker on overtim e penalty kicks. The A ngels defeated Sudbury C anadians 2-1 in their sem ifinal match-up. O akville had two other team s finish up as sem ifinalists. In the U -15 girls division, the Oakville C obras lost 4-1 to eventual cham pion S carborough U nited Scorpion. B oth the O akville A ngels and Oakville Cobras have won the presti gious outdoor O ntario Cup titles on two occasions. In the U -15 boys division, the Oakville Strikers lost 3-1 to eventual champion M ississauga Falcons. Oakville Hornets hockey... Oakville tourney winners! The Silver Stick tournament for peewee and midget girls hockey was held in Sarnia, Feb. 16-18. The Oakville Hornets peewee C rep team made it as far as the semifinals, los ing to Kincardine. At the Oakville Hornets Tournament Feb. 23-25 it seemed they were headed for a similar fate. Friday's game was a 3-1 loss to Embro, particularly disappointing since the Oakville girls were in the lead most o f the game. On Saturday, another disappoint ment, a 2-0 loss to Buffalo. Sunday morning spectators were treated to a revitalized Oakville team. In the first match Oakville beat the Rochester Americans 4-1. In the afternoon it was a semifinal rematch against Buffalo, with Oakville winning 3-0. The final game Sunday evening was against Embro, and the peewee C team pre vailed 2-0, capturing the gold. Bruins receive call from Magloire (Continued from page 01) **** The H alton C atholic D istrict School B oard held its elem entary cham pionship basketball games at St. A ndrew 's in O akville last night, and it was an all-O akville affair. In the girls match, St. Joseph faced St. M arguerite; in the boys match, St. Vincent faced St. Bernadette. (Public Board) The public board's Halton elem en tary basketball sem ifinals were held last night, having been postponed from M onday night due to the snow storm. The finals are set for tonight at Burlington Central. * * * * O akville hockey fans are in for a real treat on Saturday, March 17, 11:30 a.m. at River Oaks Arena as China's women's Olympic hockey team is set to take on the M ississauga Ice Bears on the N ational W omens H ockey League in an exhibition game. C ost is $5 for adults and $2 for kids. It will be the Ice Bears third game in O akville this season. International Olympic hockey rules apply. Come see the Chinese goalie nick nam ed `the G reat W all', B urlington's Danielle Ashley and other world level w om en's hockey stars. **** O akville A ssociation is Vytis B asketball hosting a NCCP Coaching Certification - Level I Technical Clinic run by Basketball Ontario on Sunday, M arch 18th from 9 a.m. - 5 pm at St. Thom as Aquinas High School. C ost is $78.50/pp. For more inform ation please contact Mary Quinn @ 469-8435. * * * * The Kinsmen M inor Softball League is continuing its registration for its spring league Saturday, M arch 10, 9 a .m .-l p.m . at W hite O aks Secondary School (South C am pus) There are three leagues each for boys (9-11, 12-14, 15-18) and girls (9-11 12-14 and 15-19). There is also a mixed league for 6-8 year olds). Birth certificates required. League hotline is at 464-9551. The league is also looking for vol unteer coaches and sponsors and paid umpires. ket at the buzzer to win it for the Bruins. Passley, who told everyone that morning that he dreamt that he was going to win the game with a school yard shot, described the play: "Humber closed down my lane so I had to pull up and fire. When it left my hand, I thought it had a pretty good chance. All I remember after that was being mobbed by everyone." Hugh Bent and Elvis Dennis led the Bruins with 22 points each. Bent was named a tournament allstar and Dennis was named the tourna ment MVP. "His defence was exceptional," said Bruins' assistant coach Nick Davis. "He's the best in the league." Dennis was also named first team All Ontario. "Overall, we played great defen sively," said Davis. "Since the second half of the sea son, the players bought into our schemes." That in itself probably sums up this season's edition of the Sheridan Bruins' basketball team and why they are sim ilar in many ways to U.S. hockey's Miracle on Ice from 1980. Sheridan struggled early in the sea son and hit rock bottom in January, when they lost at home for the first time in four years to an unranked Seneca team. There were whispers around the ' league that the Bruins didn't have it. There was even talk that they were only good the last few years because they had Shane Bascoe, the three-time all Canadian guard and last year's play er of the year in Canada. That foolish thought is ridiculous as it is false and an insult to not only Ricardo Edwards, Bryan Lewis and Mike Alleyne -- great players them selves from those past teams -- but an insult to the coaching staff of Jim Flack, Leroy Cassanova and Nick Davis, one of the best trios in the coun try. And Bascoe would be the first per son to say that. "I've never felt so low after that Seneca game, but we came a long way," said Bruins head man Jim Flack. "Everyone doubted us but we circled the wagons and came together as a team." All along, the coaching staff had preached to the players about dedica tion, hustle and teamwork and the players finally listened. Hugh Bent summed it up for the team: "I've always heard about defence winning championships but now I believe. Once we com m itted to defending, I mean really committed, everything started to go right." The result was an OCAA champi onship and a big celebration that included a couple of early morning congratulatory phone calls to the coaches and players from Bascoe and Charlotte Hornets centre and Toronto native Jamel Magloire, a friend of assistant coach Nick Davis. In quarterfinal action, the Bruins routed Lambton 97-62. Kevin Dennis scored 15 points off the bench and was named player of the game. Vance King scored 15 points, Elvis Dennis had 10 points and 11 assists and held Lambton star Chris Williams to 8 points. Ricardo Edwards, who was named sec ond team All Ontario, scored 10 points and had 4 blocks. In semifinal action, Sheridan gave a defensive clinic in destroying Fanshawe 73-44. Hugh Bent scored 20 points and grabbed 7 rebounds. Elvis Dennis added 16 points and 5 assists for the Bruins, who dominated the big ger Falcons on the boards and held the best three-pointing team in the province to a couple of treys. Sheridan was so dominate defen sively that even the Falcons were impressed. "How did you know our plays?", said one Fanshawe player. The Bruins simply took them out of their offence, thanks to two Bruin trademarks ... excellent defence and excellent coaching by Flack, Davis and Cassanova. The Bruins will open up their national championship drive Thursday, March 14, at Humber College against an as of yet undetermined opponent. First place already clinched The Oakville Hornets novice A rep team have clinched first place in their league with two games left to play. Over the Feb. 10/11 weekend they entered a four-team atom tournament in Belleville, to prepare for the playoffs, and ended up winning the silver medal. Oakville opened up with a 7-0 loss to the Gloucester atom team which turned out to be the class o f the tournament. That left Oakville needing to win each period of their next game against Belleville. They just managed to win the first period with a solitary goal but then the floodgates opened with five goals in the second period and three in the third peri od for a 9-0 win. Nicole Paniccia earned the shutout. Krysten Bortolotti netted a hat-trick. Meghan Eatough had a pair and single markers went to Libby Burgess, Chelsea Young, Jessica Gagner and Alexandra Saunders. Assists went to Gagner (4), Erin Beaver, Caroline Murdoch, Natasha Fryer, Chelsea Young, Saunders, Dayna Newsom, Eatough, Bortolotti and Ellen Brandt. That wrapped up second place for Oakville and put them back up against undefeated Gloucester who again pre vailed 5-0. (LEAGUE PLAY) In league play, Oakville shutout the M ississauga BB team 4-0 on Feb. 17 with Emma Revell earning the shutout. Goals were scored by Jessica Gagner, M eghan Eatough, E rin B eaver and Krysten Bortolotti. The win improved O akville's first place record to 19-1-3. Oakville Soccer Club indoors... Unbeaten string at 18 games The U-12 girls A soccer team won both games last week to stretch their unbeaten string to 18 games. The Storm solidified their hold on second place winning 2-1 against third place Welland, and then beating 4th place Richmond Hill 3-1 in Richmond Hill. The Storm's last loss came in December in the Thunderhawks Christmas tournament. Against Welland, the Storm gave up a first minute goal and then took control of the game. Katie Mason tied the game on passes from Kristina Pade and Victoria O 'Hara. O 'Hara scored the winner midway through the second half after a set-up by Justine Bernier. In Richmond Hill, the Storm came out flying with an Eden Garry left-footed goal after 30 seconds of play. Katie Mason and Corinne Kandravy scored the other two goals. Assists went to Fiona Clark, Eden, Alison Wiseman and Jenna Manchisi. The Storms next game is this Saturday against the first place Aurora Stingers, 8 p.m. at the Oakville Air Athletics dome. The Storm is made up of: forwards Katie Mason, Alison Wiseman, Eden Garry. Corinne Kandravy, Victoria OiHara and Megan McKellar; Midfielders Jenna Manchisi, Justine Bernier and Carleigh Joyce; defenders Megan Skippen, Kristina Pade, Ali Okihiro, Fiona Clark. Stephanie Ovsec, Jacquelyn Ferguson and Gillian Knap: and goalkeeper Kelly Zinkiewich. The team would also like to thank sponsors Pave-Tar Construction, the Altruists of Oakville, Dan-Mac Plumbing, Craftwell Vinyl Specialties, the Glenbumie School, the Arthur Murray Dance Studio and Bifer Holdings. Hot team wins fourth in a row The Oakville U -ll `A' indoor rep team earned its fourth victory -- and second shutout -- in a row with a 3-0 win over Woodbridge Saturday at the Oakville Air Athletics Soccer Dome. Oakville goals came from forwards Cameron Nicholls, Nick VanGemert and Marcus Traynor. Outstanding goal tend ing by George Foty kept the Woodbridge team scoreless. Syme picks up club's lone gold medal at Ontario Legion Indoor Championships at York University M alcolm Syme, 14, w as O akville's only gold m edalist em erging from the recent O ntario Legion Indoor C ham pionships at York U niversity as he posted a new personal record in the 1,000m race walk, securing the cham pionship w ith a 6:01.7 clocking. This was a m ajor im provem ent from 6:49 last year at the same event w hich garnered him a silver medal. The previous year he had w on gold, but the race was over 1,,500m. Sym e also com peted in the long ju m p w ith his 4.66m flight placing him fifth. Indoor training is available until the end o f April on Tuesday and Friday evenings as well as Saturday mornings. Phone Bruce Burton at 630-8725. H ere's a com plete recap ... C andice Syme, 10, 3rd in race walk w ith P R . (personal record) o f 7:16.4. She also set new P R .s in 50m (8.09) and long jum p (3.25m ). Colleen D ecker, 16, placed fourth in triple jum p w ith P R . (by m ore than 1.5m!) o f 10.24m, only 11 cm shy o f the bronze. She finished eighth in shot put with P R . of 7.22m. Jennifer Pitkin, 14, m issed a medal by 7/10ths of a second in the 400m , setting a P R . o f 1:08.9 over two laps. M atthew Jakubow icz, 15, tied his P.R. o f 1.60m, placing fourth in high jum p. Kathryn M atheson, 14, finished sixth in 1500m with P.R. o f 5:38.6. C ourtney Kirkby, 16, record an 11:28.1 in the 3000m , finishing sixth in an older category. Jam es K ozak, 16, w as sixth in the 400m in 56.8s.