Blades l d products d in running f for prestigious NCAA hockey award Former Oakville Blades stars Chris Haltigin and Scott Greenham are among the 20 finalists for the prestigious Lowe's Senior Class Award in NCAA Division 1 hockey. Chris Haltigin, now at the Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.), and Scott Greenham, a student at University of AlaskaFairbanks, are up for the award that recognizes NCAA Division 1 seniors for notable Chris Haltigin achievements in four areas of excellence -- community, classroom, character and competition. Haltigin, a defenceman, and Greenham, a goaltender, were members of the Blades 2007-08 squad that won the Dudley Hewitt Cup central Canadian championship and advanced to the RBC Royal Bank Cup national tournament. Haltigin is the second player in R.I.T. history to be a finalist for the Lowe's Senior Class Award, with former Blade Dan Ringwald being the first in 2009. 33 · Thursday, October 13, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com HOCKEY YBRIEFS at the University of Michigan with two goals. The former Oakville Blade matched his career best with three points in a 5-0 win over the Niagara Purple Eagles. With Michigan up 2-0, Sparks picked up the puck after stepping out the penalty box and went in alone and scored with six minutes to play in the second period. He scored again on a Wolverines power play 65 seconds later. Sparks also picked up an assist on Michigan's fifth goal. The Oakville Trafalgar grad had four goals in each of his first two seasons at Michigan. Members of the atom AA Hornets are Mikayla Hanson, Catherine Trevors, Julia Baumann, Tara McInnis, Chloe Saxton, Megan Harley, Laura Cote, Hannah Rettinger, Emily Wilson, Emmy Lou O'Neill, Rylee Davison, Meghan Grouix, Karley Merkley, Isabelle Hardy, Hayley Lahn, Andrea Fausto and Jenny Schwichtenberg. Dave Wilson, Greg Lahn, Dominick Hardy, Thom Harley and Andrea Grouix are the team's coaches and trainers. No sophomore jinx for Cieslowski Alex Cieslowski scored in each of the Queen's Gaels first two games as the defending Ontario University Athletics women's hockey champions opened the season with a split. The second-year left winger scored 1:10 into Queen's opener, a 2-1 win over Brock last Thursday. She also had the game's first goal in a 3-2 loss to Guelph the next night. Cieslowski had four goals and nine points in 27 games in her rookie season with Queen's. Former Blade pots pair for Michigan Lindsay Sparks opened his junior season The Oakville midget A Hornets feature Nathalie Mihalek, Kate Barkley, Bridgit O'Neill, Allison Kula, Cassidy Feeney, Victoria Albertine, Annie Nasato, Emma Wingrave, Hailey Saxton, Paige Saunders, Sam Cussen, Sara Habal, Jamie Godber, Sasha Guay, Evelyne Guay, Caroline Innes and Sarah Kozma. Bert Barkley, Ken Habal and Chris Innis coach the club. Contributing to the Oakville bantam AA Hornets' win at the Harvest Classic were Nicole Collier, Jamie Watson, Mackenzie Stamper, Rhiannon Ford, Laura Crowdis, Jessy Geddes, Charlee Grace, Jessica Desautels, Sarah Hine, Jacinta Kennedy, Taylor McMahon, Cassidy MacPerson, Claire Merrick, Emily Schnarr, Mackenzie Sutherland, Sarah McDonnell and Kaitlyn Simpson. Lou Merrick, Andy Geddes, John Kennedy and Chris Stamper coach the team, Heidi Grace and Barb McMahon are trainers and Paula Schnarr is the team manager. g Hornets tournament results Continued from page 31 3-3, beat Sudbury and Belleville by 3-1 scores, hammered Windsor 7-0 and blanked Waterloo 2-0. Other divisions In other divisions, the bantam A Hornets won their first three games before being eliminated in their first playoff contest with a 2-1 loss to Sudbury; the ban- tam BB Hornets were 2-0-1 in roundrobin play but dropped their semifinal game, 1-0 to Sarnia in a shootout; the midget AA Kendrick and Currie Hornets both did not advance from pool play; the peewee A Hornets went 2-2 in round-robin action; and the peewee B Hornets went 2-1 in the preliminary round and downed Orangeville 5-0 in the semis before their loss to Sudbury in the final.