OakvilleBeaverSportsSPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext.432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com THURSDAY,JANUARY 27,201132Winning routineEight local hockey teamsat this weeks Bur BearA tradition going back almost threetaught at Burlingtons Lord Elgin Highdecades resumed today (Thursday) whenSchool in the mid-80s, figures Iroquoisthe annual Bur Bear High School HockeyRidge, Burlingtons Nelson Lords andTournament began in Burlington.Hamilton Sherwood should be favouritesThere will be four teams crownedto battle for the Gold title.champions this year in the Gold, Purple,Assumption is a nice surprise this year,Silver and Red finals, named after theWaterdown would be a team to look at andcolours of the two host teams, the RobertHoly Trinity looks good, too, he said.Bateman Wild and the L.B. PearsonTournament finals will be decided onPatriots.Saturday, Jan. 29 at Appleby Ice Centre,Tournament co-director Tam Morrisonwith some tournament games played atsaid the late start of the 2010-11 schoolthe Wave Twin Rinks as well.year forced many schools across theThe tournament schedule and resultsprovince to hold exams later than usualwill be available at http://rbh.hdsb.cathis week, forcing a few teams to bow out.Following are the pool and division set-Its a 26-team tournament this year,ups for the tournament (Oakville schoolsdown by six from last year.are listed in italics):There is an extra title available in 2011,as organizers decided to bring back a pop-Bur Bear High School Hockey Tournamentular format from a couple of years ago.Teams in each of the two pools, the FrithFRITH POOLGRANT POOLand the Grant, will advance to Gold (Frith)Division ADivision Cand Silver (Grant) semifinals if they finishNelsonAldershotin the top four, while the next four in eachIroquois RidgeSt Thomas AquinasSherwoodAlgonquinpool will battle for the Purple (Frith) andAppleby CollegeWhite OaksRed (Grant) titles, respectively.Holy TrinityDivision DIroquois Ridge, Holy Trinity, AbbeyNotre DameCorpus ChristiPark, Loyola, St. Thomas Aquinas, WhiteDivision BL.B. PearsonOaks, T.A. Blakelock and Appleby CollegeAssumptionGeorgetownare representing Oakville at this years BurAbbey ParkT.A.BlakelockBearWaterdownDivision E.West FerrisM.M. RobinsonThe usual three-team contingent fromLoyolaRobert BatemanNorthern Ontario Franco Cite ofRiver EastMiltonSturgeon Falls and Algonquin and WestWestdaleFerris from North Bay is back onceRidgewayagain, and the return of River East fromFranco CiteCLAUDIO CUGLIARI / SPECIALTOTHE OAKVILLE BEAVERWinnipeg gives it the title of longest trip Following the preliminary rounds, teams will beSNOWFLAKEMEET: Marie Pier Bisson of Skate Oakville performs her routine at last weekendsto play in the Bur Bear this year.ranked. Teams 1-4 will advance to one pool semifi-MetroWest Snowflake competition,held at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex.Bisson won her division,Teams werent seeded, but Morrison,nal set while Teams 5-8 advance to another.earning one of the 13 gold medals won by Skate Oakville members.See page 33 for full results.who started the tournament when he