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See me before you purchase or lease your next vehicle G lenlev en C hrysler CHRYSLER · DODGE · JEEP 2388 Royd Windsor Dc, 905-845-7575 Oakville finally derailed in national championship Showing a real grass roots strength in baseball, Oakville, for the second year in a row, made it to the national Little League baseball final in the junior (14year-old) division. Unfortunately, this year's Oakville Little League junior team couldn't over come a slow start, dropping a 7-1 deci sion to North Langley, the British Columbia representative in Friday's national championship game in Ottawa. North Langley moved on to Taylor, Michigan for the Junior Little League World Series which is on tap this week. Last year, Oakville was also repre sented in the national championship game, in the very same junior division, losing 4-1 to another British Columbia team, Whalley. In addition, another Oakville base ball team came within a whisker of mak ing the national championships at the 15-year-old (bantam) level. In this case, it was an Oakville M inor Baseball Association (OMBA) Oakville A's team that lost a heartbreaking one-run game in the Ontario qualifier championship game (as recounted in last Wednesday's Oakville had a similar problem scor ing runs in their preliminary round game against North Langley, managing only one run. Mind you, they completely blanked the North Langley offence for a 1-0 win and a 4-1 preliminary round record, good enough for first place. All in all, though, a great year, going undefeated though district and provin cial playdowns to get to the nationals. And then at the nationals, they were the best team through the preliminary round (at 4-1) and easily won their semi final game (13-2 mercy rule against Glace Bay) to the get to the national championship game. "Our Oakville boys showed much grit and determination," said coach Dave Downer. "None o f us ever dreamed that we would go this far. "They should be very proud of the way they came together." TEAM: Travis Smith, Scott DeGroot, Zack Dickson, Jason Tuske, Mark Keil, Daniel Hanley, Kris Bonnell, Brenden Skeete, Roger Lambert, A.J. Obrodovich, Paul Jurgaitis and Jordan DiCarlo. 4 Oakville boasts best bantam lacrosse team in Ontario Oakville boasts the best bantam lacrosse team in the province. The Oakville Hawks bantam rep team won the provincial `A' champi onship game 7-3 in Kitchener on Sunday. It was more than sweet revenge for Oakville who lost their final preliminary round game 8-1 to pre-tournament favourite Whitby. It looked early on like Whitby might continue where they left off, scoring the opening goal in the provincial champi onship game. But Oakville got their offence going, paced by a hat-trick from Reggie Traccitto, to build up commanding leads of 3-1 and 5-2. Then, with a minute and change left on the clock, Oakville sandwiched a pair of empty-netters around a Whitby goal. Other Oakville goals were scored by Garett Ince, John Tavares, Sean Gillies and Justin Wilson Kirby. Goalie Marc Nano Thomas continued to show why he was recognized by the Ontario Lacrosse Association as the most outstanding goaltender in the province as he was picked to the tourney all-star team and also named tourney MVP. He pulled off the same double haul two years ago -- but fortunately history didn't repeat exactly, as Oakville lost that peewee final 3-2 to Whitby. markers to Chris Moulson, John Tavares and Jeff Sacerty. Assists went to Moulson, Tavares, Brendan Farrer, Dylan MacDougall, Ryan Tavares and Reg Traccitto. (Preliminary round) Outside of the 8-1 loss to Whitby, Oakville won its other four preliminary round games, 6-4 over Peterborough, 42 over Orangeville, 8-6 over Kitchener and 6-4 over Burlington. 4 (Recap) Oakville qualified for the provincial A ' championships after finishing in a tie for second place in the qualification playdowns with Peterborough, both with 10-2 records. Whitby had finished atop the standings with an 11-0-1 record. Interestingly, Oakville's two losses in the qualifying round were to Peterborough and Whitby. `Horns host NFC final on Saturday ' By Neil Becker SPEC IA L T O TH E BEAVER The Oakville Longhorns will try and cap off a perfect season this Saturday, 6 p.m., at Bronte Field as they host the Mississauga Wolverines in the Northern Football Conference (NFC) championship game. The same two teams met up last, year, with the `Horns winning 36-34 in a gem of a game. The `Horns advanced with a 46-0 win over M ega City M addogs last Saturday at Bronte Field. Mississauga Wolverines advanced with a 34-7 win over the North Bay Bulldogs. The Wolverines had a slow start to the year, but -- after a huge loss to the `Horns, in their regular season encounter, followed by a shock default loss to Markham Raiders -- won their last six games of the regular season to capture second place with a 7-2 record. The `Horns, as usual, were domi nant from the get-go, in forging a 9-0 regular season record to earn their 10th straight first place finish. They will now gun for their 10th straight NFC championship. (Semifinal) ONTARIO'S BEST. The Oakville Hawks bantam A rep team. BACK ROW: Len Ancona, Ryan Tavares. Alan Farrer, "We have a speedy, veteran team, Oakville won its semifinal game 6-4 Sean Gillies, Brendan Farrer, Rob MacDougall (coach), Spencer Taugher, Garett Ince, Steve Maddick (asst, coach), Ed which has helped us in going undefeat over Peterborough. Garett Ince nabbed Follett (manager). 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