D4 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday March 13, 2002 Bruins win Ontario title; off to nationals in Truro The Sheridan Bruins won their fourth O ntario m en's college basketball title in the last five years this past w eekend with a co m e-fro m -b eh in d 8 0-69 w in o v er A lgonquin C ollege in the provincial final. . The Bruins advance to the national champi onship which runs March 21 -23 in Truro, Nova Scotia. Last year. Sheridan settled for a national sil ver medal, losing in the championship game to Humber who were the hosts. ; Ironically. Sheridan had defeated Humber to win last year's provincial championship. At this year's provincial championships, Sheridan ended up winning all three games by double digit margins, including a previous 8565 win over St. Clair in Friday's semifinals and a 67-41 win over Sault College in Thursday's quarterfinals. ! The championship game started out in a similar vein. Just not for Sheridan! Indeed, Sheridan found themselves behind by double digits before they even scored their first basket, with Algonquin jumping out to a J4-0 lead. Add to that, Sheridan had a couple of starters already in foul trouble. The Rolling Stones' song Start Me Up aptly described their plight at that point. But start themselves up they did, and, boy, did they lay some rubber. Helping in no small way, was the Sheridan bench. In about the same period of time as it takes to play Start Me Up. Sheridan already had Algonquin in their rear view mirror, up 29-20, thanks to a 29-6 run. And 17 of those points came from the Sheridan bench. Freshman point guard Jerome Robinson played his best game for the Double Blue with five points and five assists in the first half. Two other freshmen also chipped in. Ian Robinson hit two treys and Dwayne Ramirez hit a couple of baskets and grabbed four boards. Secondyear man Brian Laundry drew a couple of charges and stole the ball for a basket. Algonquin, which had fashioned an impres sive 17-point comeback to win their semifinal 75-68 against defending national champion Humber, closed the gap to within five points early in the second h a lf-- but that's as close as they would get. Sheridan, then, revved up again and squealed off another impressive run. 25-9, to lead it 71-50 with seven minutes to go. "We never lost our composure," said tour nament MVP Hugh Bent. "We stuck to our game plan and came back." Bent was outstanding, to say the least, in leading the come-back. He had a triple-double -- 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. David Martin scored 13 points with three steals, Vance King had nine points and Jordan Morrison had seven points. But the talk after the game was still the Sheridan bench which capped out the game with 23 points, compared to seven by their Algonquin counterparts. Nine Bruins scored at least five points. "Our bench came up huge," agreed Bruins head coach Jim Flack, who, fittingly, received OCAA coach of the year honours at the tour ney. Algonquin coach Trevor Costello was impressed. "We were up 14-0 and were happy but sur prised. "I mean, this is Sheridan. But they came back. "They showed why they're a high level pro gram and we're at a lower level." The Bruins dominated all weekend with double digit wins in every game. Sheridan won its semifinal 85-65 over St. Clair. Vance King led the way offensively and defensively with 23 points, six rebounds and eight steals. Bent added 21 points and six rebounds. David Martin scored 15 points and Morrison finished with nine points. Sheridan opened with a 67-41 romp over Sault College. Hugh Bent was a one-man wrecking crew in this one with 19 points, six rebounds, five blocks and five steals. Vance King chipped in with 12 points and five rebounds. Elvis Dennis added eight points, seven assists, five rebounds and five steals. "We're very happy to win the Ontario's but w e've got three more games left to play," said Dennis. "That's how many we need to win the Canadians." Hugh Bent, pictured in this file photo, stepped it up at the provincial cham pi onships and was nam ed tournam ent MVP. Peter McCusker · Oakville Beaver Atom AAA's suffer first post season defeat The weather was chilling but the S toney C reek Icebreakers w ere far from cold as they handed the O akville AAA atom s th eir first defeat in post season play on Sunday in Stoney Creek. This gam e follow ed the sam e blueprint as the first two gam es with sw ift play, tight checking and great goaltending. D espite finishing on top in reg u lar season play, the Icebreakers have their hands full in what is often term ed the second season. O ak v ille's lone m arker cam e on a M ark Borcsok hard w aist-high shot from in front, assisted by Patrick Readshaw and Adam DiM arco. G am e four is slated for O akville Arena on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. O akville still leads the series 2-1. Curling seminar on tap this Saturday G arth M itchell and his foursom e o f Stu Moir, Jim Crowe and Ian Coutts from the O akville Curling Club won the `A' side o f the Interm ediate men zone com petition. Team M itchell will now com pete at the regional playdow ns this w eekend at the Bancroft Curling Club. Wes Johnson and his team o f Laura M anderson, Bill F rancis and M elissa M acAuley from the O akville C urling Club won the `A' side o f the bantam mixed zone play dow ns last w eekend. Jo h n so n 's rink now m oves on to the regional playdow ns that will be played at the O shaw a G olf Club on March 23/24. Sebastien Robillard and his rink o f Julie R eddick, K evin Flew w elling and Leigh A rm strong won the `A' side o f the zone junior mixed by acclam ation. They will com pete at the regional play dow ns at the O shawa G olf Club. March 23/24. Both R edding and A rm strong are the defending three-tim e ju n io r O ntario .la d ie s cham ps, a title they've won three times. BUSINESS W O M E N 'S B O N SPIEL Colleen M adonia's team won the Business W omen's Invitational Bonspiel held recently at the Oakville Curling Club. Madonia, playing out o f the Oakville Club, had Janet Murphy, Cindy Thistle and Jacquie Ramier as teammates. The runner-up rink from the Oakville Curling Club was skipped by Cathy Parker. Included on her team were Megan Adderley, Laura Manderson and Amberle Boscy. The third-place team, also out o f the Oakville Curling Club, was Mary Susan Snow's foursome that included Janet Scarrow, Mary Lou MacDonald and Alison Watson. FR E E C U R L IN G C L IN IC T he O akville C u rlin g C lub is inviting any one interested in cu rling to visit the club this S atu rd a y (M arch 16), 1-3 p.m. At this tim e, qualified in stru cto rs will be on han d to show prospective c u rlers how to throw a cu rlin g stone. If anyone is interested, please call the club a t (905) 844-6982 to register. T h ere is no charg e fo r the clinic. A good run, but novice A's are ousted The novice A Oakville Rangers finally met their match in the O ntario M inor Hockey Association (OM HA) semifinals, losing in a tough three-game series to the Owen Sound Rattlers. The boys battled hard, but couldn't find an answer for the outstanding play o f the Owen Sound captain, who did most of the damage on the scoresheet. Owen Sound won by scores o f 3-2, 6-1, and 6-4. In the third game, the Rangers showed their true colours as they battled back from a 3-0 deficit to hold a 4-3 lead, but a late rally meant that the Rattlers would move on to the OMHA finals. Goal scorers in the series were Ryan Procunier (2), Jamie Armstrong (2), Willie Smyth, Carmine Chiappetta and Daniel Tavares. Assists went to Tyrone Maguire (2), Josh Wiley, Scott Kruse and Smyth. 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