Nanonai vjonicns riocK&y lo g c ju c . Friday, October 3,2003 at 7:15 p.m. a t Ke Sports Oakville OAKVILLE IC E vs TELUS LIGHTNING Editor: Norm Nelson Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: nnelson@haltonsearch.com SPORTS WTll MMKSDAY. (M TOIIKR I. 2<)03 · 1)4 Lang seals key win with spectacular goal Kara Lang is obviously not too anxious to hit the books at St. T hom as A quinas w here the 16year-old soccer player is set to head into her G rade 12 year. H er sp ectacu lar w ell angled, b end-it-likeBeckham shot produced sighs o f relief on the C anadian bench as it provided the insurance in a 3-1 win over Japan in W orld C up soccer action in Foxboro, M assachusetts. It w as a do-or-die gam e for both squads, and w ith the win C anada finished o ff the World C up preliminary' round with a 2-1 record. T h at's good enough for second place in their division and they will m eet up in Thursday nig h t's quarterfinals in Portland. O regon, with China. Check television listings. C hina w on their division with a close 1-0 win over Russia on Sunday. T he pressure w as on C an ad a as they, in essence, started the gam e dow n 1-0 since a tie gam e w ould have left C anada and Japan even in the standings, with Japan having a better goal d if ferential. A nd things got a little m ore tense w hen Japan opened the scoring. Lang got a well deserved rest after her late goal. T h e sam e co uld not be said fo r O a k v ille 's o th e r 're g u la r' on the team . D ian a M ath eso n w h o p la y e d th e e n tire g am e. A c tu a lly , M atheson played every m in u te o f the p re lim i nary round. O v erlo o k ed last y ea r for C a n a d a 's W orld U -19 squad, the 19-year-old so c ce r sta r receiv ed her first cap ea rlie r th is y ea r an d has stuck w ith the team . Blades' unbeaten streak ends in Hamilton against a quality opponent. i t was a big gam e w ith H am ilton. G eorgetow n and ourselves battling for The O akville Blades knew they first place." said the 17-year-old w o u ld n 't go undefeated this season. O akville resident. "W hen you face However, that d o esn 't m ean the them , you've got to com e out with team w asn 't displeased with its first your 'A ' gam e and w e d id n 't do that." loss o f the year M onday night in Chris Koras and Rico A m aldo also Ham ilton. tallied for the Blades w hile Chris Hvk The Blades fell 4-3 to the host Red took the loss in goal. W ings after holding a 3-2 lead Special team s w ere the deciding through tw o periods, snapping factor despite the fact all three O ak v ille's eight-gam e unbeaten run O akville goals cam e with the extra (7-0-1) to start the provincial ju n io r A man. T he Blades failed to capitalize Nick Dodge: hockey cam paign. on a lengthy tw o-m an advantage in 'you've got to A lthough it was the B lades' third the second period, a H am ilton dou b le come out with gam e in four nights. O akville coach m inor in the third fram e and a poweryo u r 'A 'gam e'. Frank C arnevale and captain Nick play late in regulation. D odge w ere disappointed with letting M eanw hile, the Red W ings scored a lead slip away. a pair o f pow er-play m arkers, including the w in "1 d id n 't think we w ere sharp... the team ner midw ay through the final period after a show ed a little fatigue," C arnevale said. "W e're roughing penalty to Hyk. not happy when w e're up a goal going into the "O ur pow er play w as pretty good and so w as third and w e give up a lead." our penalty killing, but (they) let us dow n late in D odge, w ho scored one o f the B lades' three the gam e when we needed (them ) the m ost," pow er-play goals in the contest, felt his squad C arnevale said. d id n 't com e up with a strong perform ance (S e e 'B lades' p a g e D3) OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF By Jon Kuiperij CJ Gunther · EPA Photo special to the Oakville Beaver K ara Lang pum ps he r Fist after a crucial goal for C anada in their 3-1 W orld C up w in over Japan on Saturday. Joining the celebration is fellow O akville resident D iana M atheson (far left). Oakville is now in the grip of the Ice age By Norm Nelson HEAVER S K IR T S EDTIT >R The Ice age has arrived. Both the Oakville Ice senior and junior teams celebrated their home openers at their new hom e at Ice Sports Oakville on Sunday. And everything went as smooth as Ice ... well, except for the final scores. The Oakville Junior Ice opened up their very first league game in the South Western Girls Hockey League with a 6-3 loss to the Cam bridge Fury. The senior Oakville Ice then fell 5-2 to the perennial powerhouse Toronto Aeros, a team that is always heavily laden with Canadian O lym pic gold medalists and national team members. Mind you, the Ice, are also repre sented in those categories, with their O lympic gold medalist Therese Brisson. And they have four additional m em bers invited to the upcom ing Team Canada training camp, and they are Carls Haggard. Kira M isikowetz and both goaltenders -- Allison Houston and Tania Pinelli. In addition, they have three national team members from the U.S. (Kimberly Insalaco, Kristin King and Genevieve Richardson) and one from Germany (Raffi Wolf). It looked for a w hile like Insalaco's superb breakaway goal, set up by team captain Kathy M cCorm ack, might just hold up. But the Aeros finally managed to get on board late in the second period. That opened the floodgates for them for the final period, as they outscored the Ice 4-1. albeit the last goal into an empty net. Captain M cCorm ack scored the sen ior Ice goal, assisted by Insalaco and Peter McCusker · Oakville Beaver T he celebration is on after K im berley Insalaco gave O akville Ice a 1-0 lead over the Toronto A eros on Sunday. Misikowetz. Although it marked the Ice's second straight loss to open the season, having lost their season opener 3-1 to host Brampton Thunder, no one was panick ing in the dressing room after the game, and with good reason. They may very well have played their two toughest opponents to open up the season. Last season. Toronto lost only three o f their 36 regular league gam es while Brampton lost only nine. The Ice were within striking distance at 13 losses. "We would have liked to have been better than 0-2 against the Aeros and Brampton -- but w e're okay," said head coach Keith Murray. We know w e're better than that. "It's going to be a battle every time we play those guys. And we play them 16 tim es -- that's the way it works." That Oakville led 1-0 well past the half way point o f the game and were tied at 1-1 going into the second period was a tribute to the fine play o f goalie Tania Pinelli. "She's a world class goalie." said coach Murray. "A nd someday she will be on the 'A' squad with Team Canada." H e's also confident in the second half o f the tandem. "W e've got Allison Houston out of U o f T. W e're thrilled she wanted to com e here and play with us. She'll get the next start." OAKV ILLE JU N IO R ICF. The Oakville Junior Ice may not have got the result they wanted in their very first SW GHL hockey game -- but coach Bill M etcalfe said he got the effort he wanted. Metcalfe, an Oakville businessman who is well known in local hockey cir cles. is the driving force behind both Ice teams -- in addition to being the coach o f the Junior Ice. His team 's effort was typified in their final goal with less than a second remaining. Indeed, although Cambridge were full value for their victory, the gam e was closer than the final score would indicate as the Ice had an addi tional goal called back, on a quick whistle, that would have made it 5-3. Coach M etcalfe, however, w asn't about to lose sleep over the call. "That could have been a turnaround, but who knows. I thought the ref reffed a good game. "But. hey. unfortunately they don't have video replay. He called what he thought was best. You have to respect that." (S ee 'Jr. Ice' p a g e D3) 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 2 2 O akville Icc Toronto Aeros Toronto Aeros Toronto Aeros Toronto Aeros O akville Ice Toronto Aeros Bram pton Thunder Bram pton Thunder O akville Ice B ram pton Thunder 03:21 15:16 0 1 :5 6 09:43 12:41 13:57 19:37 06:09 17:15 04:03 12:23 O A K V IL L E ICF. S E N IO R - g am e su m m a ries T O R O N T O 5. O A K V IL L E 2 - Sept. 2 8 1 ES #10 Insalaco. Kimberley #20 M cCorm ack, Kathy #17 B ottenll. Jennifer ES # 9 1 Heaney. G eraldine ES #12 Tabb. Jessica # 11 Pounder. Cheryl ES #9 F errari. Gillian #91 Heaney. G eraldine ES #17 Perks. Lara #24 Boyd. Stephanie ES #20 M cCorm ack. Kathy # 10 Insalaco. Kimberley ES #91 Heaney. G eraldine B R A M P T O N 3, O A K V IL L E / - (Sept. 20) PP #27 Zam ora. Kristy #8 H acerm an. Jamie ES #12 D upuis, Lori PP #10 Insalaco. K imberley #6 Brisson. Therese ES #72 Sittler. M eaghan #12 D upuis. Lori #91 Heaney. G eraldine #22 Logan. H eather #27 M isikow etz. Kira #71 M cK ay. Tara #33 W olf. 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