W efPSllverj 1 BUY I I I r g 4 " V ) ^ · < B£FO R E I MAy 15 SAVE I I m $ 1 0 . i LO N TO FttQ S O D ^ ^ - 1 9 1 5 j Editor: Norm Nelson Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: nnelson@haltonsearch.com SPORTS Lawnmower Service DO IT NOW! (cpni'N > $79 from I Wfparts CURRENT POWER MACHINERY INC. 1661 Lakeshore Rd. W. Mississauga A 044 (2 b lo c k e a s t o f S outhdow n - Q O O Road in C larkson) Former CFL vet, Pat McNerney, takes over reigns of the Longhorns By Neil Becker SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver MOMS week runs until Saturday The Hockey M O M S house league championship and awards week continues until Saturday at River Oaks, `B ' pad. The annual week is totally paid for and organized by the volunteer Hockey M O M S volunteer group, and, as is tradi tional, it brings the Minor Oaks Hockey Association (M O H A ) house league season to an official close. The remaining schedule is included here. It's a busy time for these Hockey M O M S as it's also the time of the year for one of their biggest fundraisers which helps pay for this busy week of hockey. Their annual dinner/dance is on tap Saturday, April 5 at the Oakville Conference Centre on Bronte Road (Holiday Inn). At this point there are some tickets remaining for this always popular function which traditionally sells out. Part of this fundraiser is a silent auction and. as always, the M O M S arc always appreciative of any donated items. "It's the bfggest fundraiser we have to support the M O M S for the awards week." said Hockey M O M S volun teer Nancy Brooks. Phone Nancy Brooks at ihe M O HA hockey office at 3389220 for more info. The Hockey MOMS House League Championship and Awards Week al River Oaks, remaining schedule ... WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 ·6:20-7:50 p.m.: Minor Bantam White ·7:50-9:20 p.m.: Minor Bantam Red THURSDAY, MARCH 27 ·6:20-7:50 p.m.: Pecwcc White ·7:50-9:20 p.m.: Peewee Red FRIDAY, MARCH 2# ·6:20-7:50 p.m.: Minor Peewee White · 7:50-9:20 p.m.: Minor Peewee Red SATURDAY, MARCH 29 ·9:20-10:50 a.m.: Novice White · 10:50-12:20 p.m.: Novice Red · 12:20-1:50 p.m.: Minor Atom While · 1:50-3:20 p.m.: Minor Atom Red · 3:20-4:50 p.m.: Atom White ·4:50-6:20 pjn.: Atom Red The M OM S cham pionship week kicked ofT iLs schedule last Sunday, including this tyke red cham pionship game. It was won by the Eagles, as you can tell by the reaction of Eagles goaltender Elliot W ebster (left photo), who was later mobbed by team m ates (right photo). Move over Blades: new junior team Move over Oakville Blades. Oakville has a new junior hockey club in town -- only this one is for the gals. B ill Metcalfe, who owns the Mississauga Ice Bears of the National Women's Hockey League (N W H L ), confirmed that the Oakville Jr. Ice w ill begin play this coming season in the Southwestern Girls Hockey League. Oakville w ill play out of Ice Sports Oakville, he said. Ice Sports also houses the Oakville Blades junior hockey club for the guys which plays in the provin cial Junior A hockey league. The Southwestern Girls Hockey League also includes Rochester. Michigan (Detroit), Bluewater (Windsor), Cambridge and London. Metcalfe said the Oakville Hornets girls hockey association has been a tremendous help by allowing the team to associate with them. In return, he said, the Jr. Ice will aim to give the Hornets' up and com ing stars plenty of opportunity to practice with and make the team. In turn, he said, the Junior Ice w ill be a direct w ill go for a distinctly local flavour with at least half the players from Oakville. Recruiting, he said, starts immediately. Although the age lim it is officially 20. he expects his team and the league w ill be distinctly younger this coming year, directly because of the double co-cohort year in which both the current crop of Grade 12 and O AC students are heading to university. The bulk of his team, he said w ill be Grade 11/12 with some younger talent also cracking the line-up. And like the Blades, the Junior Ice w ill hope to help aspiring hockey players achieve college and university scholarships. O f course, Metcalfe's aims aren't entirely altru istic. He. of course, hopes that after playing universi ty or college hockey, the players w ill come back and lace up for the Ice Bears in the N W H L. Not only does player recruiting start immediate ly but so does the hunt for community and corporate backing for this team which w ill provide elite hock ey opportunities for the area's best youth players. feeder team to the N W H L's Mississauga Ice Bears. Metcalfe, who is currently coaching the Hornets bantam A A rep team, w ill take on the coaching reins of the Jr. Ice for their inaugural year. A lot of the supporting staff and coaches, he said, w ill come from the Ice Bears. Sim ilar to the Oakville Blades, he said the team Ice Bears host key playoff game against Brampton Friday The Mississauga Ice Bears are coming back to Oakville, their home away from home, for a key playoff game Friday night, 7:15 p.m. at Ice Sports Oakville. It should be a dandy with the Ontario champion and national silver medalist Brampton Thunder in town for the second game of a best-of-three opening round playoff series. It may be opening round, but because of the tough cen tral division these teams are in, one of these very good teams is going to have an early playoff exit. The opening game of the series is on tap tonight (Wednesday) in Brampton. The winner of the series takes on the defending N W H L champion Beatrice Aeros in the second round. A ll three teams sport Canadian Olympic gold medal team members in their line-ups. GP Beatrice+ Brampton+ IC E BEA RS+ Telus 36 36 36 36 W 32 27 19 0 NVVHL C EN TR A L D IVISION - final L T OTL PoinLs G F 3 9 13 34 1 0 3 1 0 0 65 54 42 2 201 152 122 54 GA 54 71 1 11 236 Last 10 10-0-0-0 8-2-0-0 5-4-1-0 0-9-1-0 1 1 Oakville Butterflies Special Olympians host friendly competition The Oakville Butterflies Special Olympians will be hosting a friendly rhythmic gymnastics competition this Saturday (March 29) at the Calvary Baptist Church. 1215, Lakeshore Rd., Oakville, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. At last count, there should be at least forty gymnasts in attendance. The sport has come a long way since its start up 2-1/2 years ago. Back then, the Oakville club for Special Olympians was the only rhythmic gymnastics club on the Niagara peninsula and its success has generated at least four new clubs in this part of southern Ontario. Gearing up for their upcoming campaign in which they will seek an unprecedented 1 1th straight Northern Football Conference (N FC ) playoff championship and a fourth straight Canadian Senior Football League (C S F L ) national championship, the Oakville Longhorns held a press con ference on Thursday night to formally announce their head coaching change. They bid a fond farewell to Tony Molnar, who in his latest two and a half year stint with the club, merely guided the club to all the cookies available on the plate -- three nation al championships and two NFC cham pionships. He will be replaced by one of his former and now just retired players, longtime C FL veteran and Burlington native Pat McNerney who is currently living in Hamilton. "Pat is a perfect choice because he played the game and he thrives on challenges, and this will be a chal lenge for him." said Oakville native Dana Segin who did double duty last year, kicking for the Longhorns as well as the Hamilton Tiger Cats where he was a surprise late-season call-up, filling in for two games in replace of injured veteran Paul Osbaldiston. Segin's belated but memorable C FL debut saw him contribute five field goals and two point-afters for 17 points in a win over the Montreal Alouettes. Segin has been resigned by the TiCats for this season. "Pat, who was an all-American tight end. is a team guy who is unselfish and has great organizational skills and is surrounded by great coaches who have been here for years." McNerney, who went through a Chicago Bears training camp, will be taking over from a local legend. In his total nine year tenure with the `Horns, Molnar amassed a 11 8-4 record. "Pat definitely has the full support of all the players," said veteran fortysomething Longhorn quarterback Mark Demerling, also of Burlington. "He has to use what worked best with coach Molnar and add his own ideas to that." McNerney went on from the Chicago Bears training camp to a five-year C FL career. He has played the last two years for the `Horns, under former coach Molnar. in addition to intermittent stints in the 90's between pro training camps. In addition, McNerney was coached by Molnar as a youth for many years in the Burlington Stampeders youth football organiza tion. Molnar, who described his succes sor as being "a hell of a ball player", feels there will be a seamless transi tion. "The coaching staff is in place, and the players who are so talented are in place, to once again have a winning season," the former coach said. McNerney, who also had former Weber State teammate and current Hamilton Tiger Cat Trevor Shaw pres ent during the official conference at the Whistling Mountie. admitted that it w ill be a learning process. " I'm going to make some mis takes," said McNerney. . " I'll be relying 150 per cent on my coaching staff, and w ill be talking to Tony, who is my mentor and second to none ..." "I don't feel any pressure, and I don't expect to lose with this talent. I haven't lost in football for a long time, and there is no prize for second place." Canadian Tire's Athlete of the Week Canadian Tire and Oakville... A W in n in g C o m b in atio n ! DUNDAS & TR A FALG AR ROAO 40 0 D u n d a s S t. E a s t · 2 5 7 -T IR E I STORE HOURS: Mon. Fri. 8:00ain-9pm · Sal. 8:00am-6:00pm Sun. 10am-6pm j.Y Alex Bijelic '* * * W t iiP " j f f f i p iM f Blakelock's Alex Bijelic scored nine points in the senior boys Halton Classic basketball game Friday t ` night. 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