The Oakville Beaver, Friday August 22, 2003 - 35 Former Olympian in town tomorrow Former marathon runner and current Canadian recordholder Silvia Ruegger will be in town tomorrow (Saturday) to speak at a local store. Ruegger, who finished eighth at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles, will speak at The Running Company, located on Thomas St., at 9 am. Admission is free but seating is limited. Ruegger's time of 2:28:36 at 1985's Houston M arathon rem ains the Canadian standard. Other notable wins in Ruegger's career were at the 1987 Pittsburgh Marathon, the 1984 National Capital M arathon, the 1980 CIAU cham pi onships (over 5,000-metres) and a jun ior national cham pionship (over 3,000m). This marks the third time the 42year-old has appeared at the store. Ruegger spoke at running clinics in 1998 and 2000. For more information, call The Running Company at 905: 815-1952. Oakville athletes go for a summer skate Stephanie van Veen and Adam Dawson grabbed the headlines with their silver medal performance at the North American Challenge Skate. However, they were not the only members o f the Oakville Skating Club to compete in recent events. Many local skaters partic ipated in last week's Central Ontario Summer Skate in Thornhill. Kaylen Shimoda led the way with a second-place fin ish in pre-novice ladies (Flight 3). Denise Fung and partner Ken Langlois finished fourth in senior dance while Cameron M cCann placed fifth in juvenile men. Other Oakville results included Kristina DiClemente (ninth, juvenile ladies), Lauren Shule (10th, novice ladies Flight 4), M onique Lizon (10th, novice ladies Flight 3), Katie Bonar (12th, pre-novice ladies Flight 3), Courtney Andison (14th, novice ladies), Victoria Johnstone (14th, pre-novice ladies Flight 4) and M adeleine McCann (16th, pre-novice ladies Flight 5). ' O akville native and Iroquois Ridge High School graduate Jessica Shepley fin ished 24th at the Canadian Ladies G olf A ssociation National Amateur Championship, held last week in Quebec. Shepley, who is ranked 19th in the NCAA going into her third year at the University o f Tennessee, fired a four-round total of 316 to finish at +28. Ali W right, also of Oakville, missed the cut after the third round. Oakville Little League will hold its championship day tomorrow (Saturday) at River Oaks. Rookieball and `AA' ball consolation finals will be played at 8 a.m. with cham pionship gam es at 10:30 a.m. Junior consolation is scheduled for 10 a.m. and the championship game is slated for 1 p.m. `A' ball and major conso lations will go at 1 p.m. with the title contests to follow at 3 p.m. Photo special to The Beaver Silvia Ruegger, pictured here competing at the 1984 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles, will visit The Running Company in Oakville tomorrow to speak to a running clinic. Photos special to The Beaver Members of the Oakville Little League select nine-year-old (left) and 10-year-old baseball teams show off the trophies they won at the recent Scott Tokessy Memorial Tournament in Ottawa. Both teams were victorious in their age divisions, as was the Oakville 11-year-old squad. Local baseball teams dominate competition at Ottawa tourney Three Oakville Little League Creek 4-1 in the title game. Stoney Del Pozo were the Oakville hurlers teams won their divisions at the Creek rallied to load the bases in during the competition. recent Scott Tokessy M emorial the bottom of the seventh but Evan seventh inning for Oakville. Meanwhile, the Oakville Little Baseball Tournament in Ottawa. McBride, who hit a two-run triple In its other games, Oakville League nine-year-old select team Local nine-, 10- and 11-year old in the top of the frame, caught a edged Pinecrest 3-2, pounded CBG also was victorious, outscoring its squads took home trophies from line drive to right, ending the con 13-2 and got by Syracuse 8-3. Will opponents 55-9 in the process. the competition. test. Oakville beat East Nepean 13-3, Cox homered and Mike Morris hit O akville's Little League 10Dennis M cLeod and Matt a double for Oakville against blanked St. Lazare 10-0, ham year-old select squad scored four Regan each scored a run for Syracuse. mered CFR 20-6 and skunked runt in ihe. finaJ inning i Q lw a V ? .' .o ^ k v jy e irr thqfrnuh v . V . ,* W .Q o h r , eva&me.' . S t p m 'Bums, · G lp b ty l^ ft. »'.*»* *.* >'i * j j , scoreless tie and defeat ` Jonathan* D el'Pozo pitched Ufe' * Chris 'Shfefctfe/, *T>Wr' Dryden and * ' ' Pitcher?! Ev'an Sin'cfair, Nick Baseball Raycroft, Michael Jensen, Dirk Sims, Kyle Hann and Doug Bonar helped Oakville shut its opposi tion's bats down. Other players on the team include M att Lang, Redmond Morris, Michael Dimitroff, Jordan Dryden, Jason Mitchell, Michael Beaudry and Connor Generalovic. · * `Marie Jensen poaches the *qtv*d. ' dssistedby KatHy SRriger.'·