www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, November 5, 2015 | 46 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports High school sports the King Jaguars. Both games are slated for 3 p.m. kickoffs. Friday, Iroquois Ridge will visit Loyola for a 12 p.m. start; and Aquinas will welcome White Oaks for a 2 p.m. clash. Senior girls' basketball There's a strong possibility next week's Halton high school senior girls' basketball Tier 1 final will be an all-Oakville affair. The Loyola Hawks, King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers and Holy Trinity Titans have all advanced to the semifinals, with Milton's Bishop Reding Royals being the only non-Oakville school among the final four. Loyola, King's, Trinity and Reding were the top four teams during the Tier 1 regular season. Holy Trinity, which defeated the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders 45-35 Tuesday in quarter-final play, will visit King's Monday for a 4 p.m. tipoff. Loyola will be home to Reding in Monday's other semi, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The Tier 1 final is slated for Friday, Nov. 13 at Sheridan College. In the Tier 2 playoffs, T.A. Blakelock, Garth Webb, Iroquois Ridge, Abbey Park and White Oaks are among the eight teams scheduled to play quarter-final contests today. Blakelock is at Webb while Iroquois Ridge (Frank Hayden), Abbey Park (Corpus Christi) and White Oaks (Lester B. Pearson) visit Burlington opponents. The Tier 2 final is also scheduled for Friday, Nov. 13 at Sheridan. Senior boys' volleyball The St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders and Garth Webb Chargers will both be at home to Oakville opponents when the Halton senior boys' volleyball Tier 1 playoffs begin today. Aquinas (11-1) will host the T.A. Blakelock Tigers, and Garth Webb (10-2) will welcome the White Oaks Wildcats in quarter-final action. The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils will visit the Georgetown Rebels in the other quarter-final to involve a local team. Tier 1 semifinals will be contested Tuesday. Oakville Tier 2 quarter-finalists include the King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers (who will host the Assumption Crusaders) and the Abbey Park Eagles (who will be home to the Robert Bateman Wild). Those games will be played Monday, with semis Wednesday. Halton senior and junior boys' volleyball finals are slated for Monday, Nov. 16 at Sheridan College. "Connected to your Community" Tigers at OFSAA field hockey The T.A. Blakelock Tigers are seeded eighth in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations high school field hockey championships, which begin today (Thursday) in Peterborough. Blakelock is pooled with No. 1 seed Kitchener Resurrection (who has won four gold medals in the past five years), Saltfleet and Dunbarton. The Tigers' preliminaryround schedule sees them play Saltfleet Thursday at 9:30 a.m.; Dunbarton Thursday at 1 p.m.; and Resurrection Friday at 11 a.m. The top two teams in each of the four four-team pools will advance to quarterfinal play, which begins Friday. Semifinals and medal games are scheduled for Saturday. Blakelock qualified for OFSAA Monday with a 7-0 rout of the St. Thomas More Knights in Hamilton in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference semifinals. The Tigers lost the GHAC final 3-1 the following day to Burlington's Corpus Christi Longhorns -- who also defeated Blakelock 4-3 in overtime in last Tuesday's Halton Tier 1 final -- in a game that determined who would be seeded seventh at OFSAA and who would be ranked eighth. Over the past 15 years, Halton teams have won 10 medals at OFSAA field hockey, including four golds. Senior boys' football The Holy Trinity Titans' defensive unit has good reason to be confident going into the Halton high school senior boys' football playoffs. The defending Tier 1 champions carry a three-game shutout streak into Friday's quarter-final against Burlington's Notre Dame Fighting Irish, a contest that will kick off at 2 p.m. at Trinity. The Titans recorded four shutouts in seven games this season, and also held the Irish without an offensive touchdown in a season-opening 13-9 win Sept. 17 at Notre Dame. Holy Trinity joins five Burlington schools -- Nelson, Assumption, Frank Hayden, Corpus Christi and Notre Dame -- in this year's Tier 1 playoffs after finishing second in the Volpe Division with a 6-1 record. The top three teams in both the Richardson and Volpe divisions qualified for Tier 1 post-season play, with the next four in each grouping advancing to the Tier 2 playoffs. The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils (4-3), Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers (2-4-1), Loyola Hawks (2-4-1), St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders (4-3), T.A. Blakelock Tigers (3-4) and White Oaks Wildcats (1-6) are playing Tier 2 quarter-final games this week. Thursday, OT hosts the M.M. Robinson Rams and Blakelock is home to the Christ Iroquois Ridge High School's Bridget Ball makes her way through the Hilton Falls Conservation Area course during Friday's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference crosscountry championships near Milton. Ball won the junior girls' title, completing the four-kilometre race in a time of 15:30. Oakville Trafalgar was the other local champion at the event, claiming the senior boys' team title by placing four runners in the top 20. | photo by Graham Paine -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Ridge runner, OT team win GHAC gold Oakville Trafalgar won the senior boys' team title and Iroquois Ridge's Bridget Ball claimed the junior girls' individual crown at Friday's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference high school cross-country championships at Hilton Falls Conservation Area near Milton. OT had four runners finish in the top 20, including Robert Lasso (ninth), Ryan Rudderham (16th), Brandon Johnson (19th) and Michael Merrick (20th). Loyola bettered that feat in the senior girls' race, placing four runners in the top 16. However, Georgetown's Christ the King had four runners in the top 11 to secure the senior girls' title, with the Hawks finishing second. Members of the Loyola team were Kristin O'Neill (third), Andrea Wallin (seventh), Lexi Noden (14th) and Kristina Ward (16th). Ball completed the four-kilometre junior girls' race in a time of 15:30, finishing five seconds ahead of second-place finisher Ella Kubas of Milton District. The top two teams in each division, as well as the top five individuals not on one of the top two teams, qualified for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations provincial championships that will be held Saturday near Collingwood. Other Oakville runners to qualify for OFSAA were White Oaks' Ryan Bevington, T.A. Blakelock's Declan Adams and Abbey Park's Liam Hamilton (midget boys), White Oaks' Sandra Guga and Blakelock's Kathryn Schwindt (midget girls), Abbey Park's Ben Curries (junior boys), Holy Trinity's Lauren Taylor (junior girls), Loyola's Daniel Toneguzzi (senior boys) and Holy Trinity's Katja Zbojar (senior girls).