Sports Oakville Beaver www.aplushomes.ca Adam Campbell 905-844-4444 R E A L T YC O R P. B R O K E R A G E I N D E P E N D E N T LY O W N E D A N D O P E R AT E D Broker of Record SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010 31 Oakville schools denied medals at rugby, soccer provincials OT girls' rugby team reaches OFSAA bronze-medal game Local teams were held off the podium at last week's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) rugby and soccer championship tournaments. The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils girls' rugby team came the closest to a medal, reaching the bronzemedal game of the AAA/AAAA tournament in Toronto before falling 22-0 to Mayfield. OT opened up the tournament with shutout victories over Scarborough Cardinal Newman (19-0) and Belleville Centennial (12-0), but its medal hopes died with a 6-3 loss to Ottawa Ashbury College and the defeat against top-seeeded Caledon Mayfield. The OT boys did not fare quite as well at their AAA/AAAA tournament in Durham. The Devils won their first game, 28-10 over Ottawa St. Peter's, but were then eliminated with a 32-14 loss to Uxbridge. Appleby College also went 1-1 at its tournament, the A/AA competition in Guelph Lakes. The Blue Dogs shut out Waterford 20-0 in their first game before bowing out with a 43-0 loss to Peterborough Adam Scott. Two soccer teams reach quarter-finals In soccer, the Holy Trinity Titans girls and King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers boys both reached the quarter-final round at their provincial tournaments before being eliminated. Trinity rolled to a 3-0 record in the opening round at the girls' AAAA competition in Hamilton, downing Grand River 2-0, Pickering 3-1 and Waterdown 2-0. The Titans' podium dreams ended with a 2-1 loss to St. Anne, which went on to win bronze. King's went 2-1 in the preliminary round at the boys' A tournament in Windsor, defeating London District 4-1 and Windsor Academie St. Cecile 6-1 while losing 1-0 to Carleton Place Notre Dame. The Cavs were knocked out with a 2-0 loss to Ottawa Ashbury College, the eventual bronze medalist. The St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders boys' and girls' squads were each eliminated in pool play. The Aquinas girls split their four pool play games at the AA tourney in Sarnia. Aquinas defeated Kenora Beaver Brae 5-1 and Mississauga St. Paul 1-0, losing 31 to Sault Ste. Marie St. Basil and 2-0 to Kemptville St. Michael. The Raiders boys went 1-2-1 at their AA competition in Windsor. STA defeated Essex District 1-0, tied Toronto Archbishop Romero 2-2 and lost 2-1 to Barrie St. Joseph and 2-0 to Courtice Holy Trinity. MICHELLE SIU / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER DOUBLE TROUBLE: Sisters Colleen (left) and Kelly Hennessy both won gold and silver medals at last week's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations track-and-field championships in London. Sister act: Two OFSAA champs Hennessy siblings both win gold, silver at provincial track meet T and personality complements their athletic ability," said St. Thomas Aquinas track coach Conrad DiDiodato. "Their overall hey swear they are not competitive. attitude to their school work, their comBut when it's pointed out that Kelly, mitment to the team, complements their standing at the top of a hill, is as tall actual performance. They're winners, as big sister Colleen, suddenly the more than in just an athletic sense." Hennessy sisters are standing on their tip Both are soft-spoken and humble. toes, stretching for every inch they can Aquinas teacher Jean Major recalls Colleen muster. telling her that she wouldn't be in class for "She doesn't like losing to a week. It wasn't until Major me," Colleen Hennessy finally "They're winners, asked why that Colleen told concedes, a fact Kelly doesn't her she was going to be commore than in just deny. peting at the World Irish Colleen, 17, may have two an athletic sense." Dancing Championships. years and a couple of inches in It was Irish dance that led height on Kelly. But at the n Aquinas track coach both Hennessys into runOntario Federation of School Conrad DiDiodato, ning, helping them build Athletic Associations (OFSAA) talking about Kelly stamina for dancing. Colleen track-and-field meet in and Colleen Hennessy started first and Kelly folLondon, there was little to lowed a year later. When they separate the sisters. started to compete -- and win -- at eleRunning in the same long-distance mentary school meets, they decided to join events at the provincial high school cham- a club and pursue running as well as dancpionships, the siblings turned in times sep- ing. arated by less than half a second, each win"Now it's flipped," says Colleen, who will ning a gold and silver medal. attend the University of Toronto next year. "What's remarkable is their character "I dance to help my running." By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Kelly got things rolling on Friday with a silver medal in the junior girls' 1,500metre, narrowly missing out on the gold. The Grade 10 student took the lead on the final turn but Nepean's Emma Galbraith caught her in the final strides to edge her by two one-hundredths of a second. Barely missing out on qualifying for OFSAA last year after a pair of fourth-place finishes at regionals, Kelly saw no downside to coming so close to gold. "It was my first race at OFSAA," the 15year-old said. "It was pretty exciting just to get a medal." Besides, she still had her favorite race to come. "I prefer the 3,000," she said. "The 1,500 is too fast. I like having time to think about what I can do and hang in there." Fifteen minutes later, it was Colleen's turn on the track. A double OFSAA medalist in 2008, she qualified for OFSAA last year and finished 10th in the 1,500m despite running with what turned out to be a stress fracture in her hip. This year, she had a strong start to the season but an off day at the Golden Horseshoe meet planted See Hennessy page 35