www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, January 8, 2015 | 30 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Oakville players help Canada win Nations Cup women's hockey title Oakville native Kristyn Capizzano scored a goal and King's Christian Collegiate graduate Victoria Bach collected a goal and an assist as Canada's national women's development hockey team defeated Sweden 4-0 to win the Nations Cup Tuesday in Germany. Capizzano's marker came in the third period and rounded out the scoring for Canada, which also featured Oakville defenceman Hayleigh Cudmore. Bach assisted on Canada's second goal, then provided its third, with both points coming in the second period. Bach finished the six-team Kristyn Capizzano tournament with five goals, scoring twice in a 4-1 win over Finland and twice in a 5-1 victory over Russia. Capizzano and Bach currently play NCAA women's hockey with the Boston College Eagles and Boston University Terriers, respectively. Cudmore a Cornell graduate -- is with the Canadian Women's Hockey League's Calgary Inferno. Debbie Bruce, a Mississauga resident, stands in front of one of the holes at White Oaks Golf Club on Nov. 2, the day the course hosted its final rounds of golf. Part of the course is located on land that is being developed into housing, but Bruce and others are looking for ways to preserve the remainder of the course located north of Dundas Street and west of Ninth Line. | photo submitted Golfers fighting to save an old friend Oakville Blades drop first two games of 2015 It hasn't been the start to 2015 that the Oakville Blades wanted. The Blades are 0-2 in the new year after dropping a pair of Ontario Junior Hockey League games last weekend. Oakville was blanked 2-0 by the Toronto Jr. Canadiens Friday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, then fell 4-3 Sunday in Whitby. Daniel Mannella was saddled with the loss in net for Oakville Friday, stopping 22 of the 23 shots he faced. Toronto iced the game with an empty-net goal with seven seconds left in regulation. The Blades led Whitby 3-1 with 11 minutes remaining in regulation Sunday but the Fury scored the final three goals of the contest, the winner coming with 2:40 to play. Matt Lippa, Brandon Hughes and Jackson Bales scored in a losing cause for the Blades, and Brendan McGlynn made 27 saves. Oakville (22-15-2-1) is in a three-way tie for second place in the OJHL 's South Division, two points back of the division-leading Toronto Patriots. The Blades can pull even with the Patriots this Friday when they are home to Toronto at Sixteen Mile (7:30 p.m.). Oakville will visit the Orangeville Flyers the following night. The Flyers will also be Oakville's opposition Friday, Jan. 16 when the Blades host their annual Pink in the Rink game. All proceeds from the event, which has raised more than $48,000 in the past two years, will go to the Canadian Cancer Society. The evening will feature cancer survivor tributes as well as a puck toss, 50/50 draw, cupcake sale, jersey auction and more. For more information, visit bit.ly/14oPSXU. D Bruce said she understands the value of land in Oakville. The base prices of homes in The Preserve development north Beaver Sports Editor of Dundas Street -- being built by Mattamy Homes -- range from $413,990 to $1,166, 990. Bruce just wishes part of White Oaks could have been incorebbie Bruce may live in Mississauga, but a big piece of her heart resides in Joshua's Creek Valley, north of porated into the subdivision. "It's a community jewel we shouldn't lose," Dundas Street in Oakville. she said. For the past 29 years, that's where White Oaks Golf Club has operated an executive-length Previous attempts to save the course nine-hole course and driving range, priding itGord Cochrane, the club's long-time owner, self on being an affordable venue for golfers of said he saw this coming a long time ago. all ages and capabilities to play the game, caterCochrane, who leased the property from seving particularly to the grassroots level. eral landlords -- including the Town of Oakville White Oaks hosted its final rounds of golf in -- for nearly three decades, said he began apNovember as the course gives way to a large new pealing eight years ago to Oakville Mayor Rob housing development. And Bruce is sad to see Burton and council about saving the golf course. the club go. "We knew (development) was going to hap"I have golfed there with my friends for as pen. We tried to see if the Town would be receplong as I can remember," she said. tive to some form of the White Oaks Golf Club "On any given day, you can look around this continuing, because we felt it was an asset to beautiful course and see the wonderful diversity the community," said Cochrane, a 69-year-old Debbie Bruce of people golfing. I was golfing with my friend, Oakville resident. White Oaks Golf Club activist Marianne (in October). There were two gentle"(Mayor Burton) said back then, `You should men in front of us from Scotland. In front of get about five more years, but the bad news is them were two retired ladies. Behind us was a you will be gone.' He wasn't open to trying to discuss any way mother golfing with her son, and behind them was a young of changing that, so I never really pursued it beyond a letter I family of four." see Mayor on p.31 by Jon Kuiperij It's a community jewel we shouldn't lose.