www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 10 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Prapavessis is a draft day Star Dallas selects Oakville blueliner in fourth round of NHL draft By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Sports "Connected to your Community" From the time he answered the call just before noon Saturday, Michael Prapavessis' phone was much like his play this season -- impossible to ignore. "I don't think my phone stopped buzzing for three or four hours," the 18-year-old defenceman said after being drafted by the Dallas Stars in the fourth round of the NHL entry draft. The previous week had crawled by for Prapavessis. His nerves kept him up at night as all the possibilities ran through his mind. By the time the big day arrived, he didn't want to be like so many other players his age, Halton Minor Ball Hockey League CONGRATULATIONS! Halton Minor Ball Hockey League has completed its 2014 Season They would like to congratulate the winners in each division. Tyke (Ages 7-8): Tyke Champs - Fitness Firm Penguins Tyke Finalists - Raiders Novice (Ages 9-10): Novice Champs - Questica Novice Finalists - Dairy Queen Snipers Atom (Ages 11-12): Atom "A" Champs - Bandits Atom "A" Finalists - Fitness Firm Atom "B" Champs - Play it Again Sports Atom "B" Finalists - Mantis Red Devils Peewee (Ages 13-14): Peewee "A" Champs -Piranhas Peewee "A" Finalists -S.E. Auto Sales Peewee "B" Champs - Tripemco Insurance Group Peewee "B" Finalists - Silver Bantam/JR (Ages 15-19): Bantam/Jr Champs - Team Vegas Bantam/Jr Finalists - Team Red Junior (17-18) Junior Champs - Silver Junior Finalist - Gold nervously watching TV , or hunched over a computer hitting the refresh button. So Prapavessis and his brother worked off some of the nervous energy at a driving range. "I didn't want to be sitting around waiting," he said. "I just wanted to get my mind off it." He didn't completely shut it out, though. He still answered his phone when it rang. It was his dad, calling to let him know he had been drafted by Dallas. "They caught me by surprise," said the Oakville native. "I had talked to quite a few teams but Dallas was not on the radar at all." But the Ontario Junior Hockey League's defenceman of the year was certainly on the Stars' radar. He had 54 points in 47 games added 15 more points in 19 playoff games as he led the Patriots to the league title. He was again named the top blueliner at the RBC Cup, the national Jr. A championship. After selecting just two defencemen with its nine picks last year, Dallas loaded up this time around. Prapavessis, taken 105th overall, was the third of six blueliners chosen by the Stars. "I try not to read too much into that," he said. "All I know is they like me as a player and I'm going to work hard over the next four years." Prapavessis has committed to RPI and the Stars See Dallas on pg. 11 Oakville's Michael Prapavessis was drafted in the fourth round, 105th overall, by the Dallas Stars in the NHL entry draft Saturday after a season in which he was named the Ontario Junior Hockey League's top defenceman and led the Toronto Lakeshore Patriots to the league championship. | Photo by Andy Corneau -- OJHL Images Trenholme named Ontario youth boxer of the year By Ian Colpitts Congratulations to all of the players and coaches on an excellent season. Thank you to our many sponsors for your ongoing support. We look forward to the 2015 season. This ad is courtesy of & Proud Supporters to her main coaches, Olga and Andrew Heron. "I know they really support how often I'm in here," she said. Metroland Media Group "Olga really cares about me and trains me well and so does Andrew. I know that comes from the respect they have for how Caitlin Trenholme likes to share a story about how she tried to often I'm in here." skip out on her 17th birthday parLast year, Trenholme won the ty last year to train at HUF Gym in provincial and national youth Port Credit. championships and earned a Although everyone close to spot on the youth national team. her appreciated the commitment Earlier this year, the senior nashown by the young boxer, they tional team brought her along urged her to take a day off to enfor a week-long training camp at joy herself. the United States Olympic Train"Me and my friends were spliting Centre in Colorado. ting it, so I said I wouldn't go and Trenholme trains so hard betold them to have fun, but my cause she wants to represent mom said I was going," said TrenCanada at the 2016 Olympics in holme, an Oakville native who has Rio de Janeiro. Women's boxing trained at HUF since 2010. made its first appearance in the "She wanted me to have fun and Olympic program at the 2012 said I could fight another weekGames in London, where Spenend, but I wanted to fight now." cer was the only woman to don It's that kind of dedication that the maple leaf. led to her being named Ontario's Trenholme realizes that womYouth Boxer of the Year earlier this en's boxing isn't taken all that semonth at Boxing Ontario's annual riously yet and she wants to help general meeting. change that perception with her Trenholme feels she's in great actions. company considering the list of pre"I know we don't have the vious winners. Mary Spencer and best reputation right now," she Mandy Bujold, both of whom won said. "A lot of people think we Oakville's Caitlin Trenholme was named the province's youth boxer of gold at the 2011 Pan Am Games to shouldn't be boxing and that's go along with several national titles, the year by Boxing Ontario. The provincial and national youth champion not fair. We train just as hard as hopes to represent Canada at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. the guys and we deserve to be won the award many years ago. | Photo by Iain Colpitts -- Special to the Oakville Beaver Trenholme is quick to give credit there."