Tornado sailing title for Johansson, Stittle Form er Oakville Yacht Squadron m em ber Oskar Johansson and teammate Kevin Stittle won the Tornado North American Sailing Championship earlier this m onth in Biscayne Bay, Florida. SPOKTSBRIEFS The event attracted 21 of the world's top Tornado sailors from nine countries and featured 10 races. Each team's top nine results were recorded. Johansson and Stittle consistently placed in the top five of each regatta, a conservative but winning combination. "We beat the current Olympic silver medalist," said Johansson, who represented Canada at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens. "This is a huge confidence builder for us." Johansson and Stittle, an Orangeville resident, continue to train in Miami full-time and hope to compete in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Five Oakville figure skaters win medals BARRIE ERSKINE / OAKVILLE BEAVER BACKWARDS APPROACH: Oakville Trafalgar student Olivia Theroux propels herself through the w ater at Burlington's Angela Coughlin Pool Thursday during the Winterfest high school swimming meet. Theroux finished third in the girls' 15-and-over backstroke event. The meet, which featured four other schools including Loyola, was the last high school competition before the GHAC meet in Guelph, slated for next week. Fox spry at swimming competition OT, Loyola students prepare for next week's GHAC meet in Guelph Katie Fox appears ready for the upcom ing Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference swimming championships. The Oakville Trafalgar student won four individual races and helped her Red Devils' teammates to a silver in relay at Thursday's Winterfest meet in Burlington, the last high school swimming competition before the GHAC meet in Guelph next week. Competing in the girls' 15-and-over division, Fox earned gold in 200-metre freestyle, 50m butterfly, 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke (the latter in a personal-best time of 1:17.63). The silver came in the 200m medley relay, with help from Jen Wilson, Kirsten Veenhuizen and Kayla Payne. Wilson also enjoyed a fine meet, winning the girls' 15-andover 50m freestyle and 100m intermediate medley events as well as claiming silver in 100m freestyle. Other local swimmers to win two individual races includ ed OT's Jeff MacSween (boys' 14-and-under 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke) and Loyola's Marina McDougall (girls' 14and-under 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly), Curtis Samuel (boys' 14-and-under 100m intermediate medley and 100m freestyle) and Cam McEllen (boys' 15-and-over 100m freestyle and 100m breaststroke). OT also won silver in the boys' 14-and-under 200m freestyle relay and bronze medals in the girls' 15-and-over, boys' 15-and-over and boys' 14-and-under 200m medley relays. Loyola earned silver in-the boys' 15-and-over 200m freestyle relay. B urlington's blotre Dame and Central, along with Georgetown, also competed in the meet. GHAC will deter mine qualifiers for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships, which will be held March 7-8 in Etobicoke. Following is a list of other local top-three finishers at Winterfest: Oakville Trafalgar -- Adrienne Joaquim (second in girls' 14and-under 100m freestyle), Paul Van Roosendaal (second in boys' 14-and-under 50m backstroke), Erin Dodds (second in girls' 14and-under 50m backstroke), Kirsten Veenhuizen (third in girls' 15and-over 50m butterfly), Andrew Kadwell; (third in boys' 15-andover 50m butterfly), Olivia Theroux (third in girls' 15-and-over 100m backstroke, Chris Reinfelds (third in boys' 15-and-olver 100m breaststroke). Loyola -- Megan Kunder (second in girls' 15-and-over 50m freestyle), Andrea Dreznjak (third in girls' 15-and-over 50m freestyle), Matt Dickson (third in boys' 15-and-over 50m freestyle), Michael Frymus (third in boys' 14-and-under 50m backstroke), Linnea Kottke (third in girls' 14-and-under 100m freestyle), Alicia Morrallee (third in girls' 15-and-over 100m breaststroke). Five members of the Oakville Skating Club earned medals at an invitational meet in Uxbridge last month. Madison Thulien won the Preliminary 2B Flight #5, Lauren Zuk placed second in Introductory IB, Sarah Locke earned silver in Preliminary 2B Flight #3, Elena Venalainen placed third in Pre-Preliminary 1A Flight #2 and Sam antha Heard claimed bronze in Introductory I B . Sam antha Heard Lauren Zuk Other club skaters at the meet included Danielle Harris, Igraine Strelley, Jenna Rolland-Mills, Genevieve Harris, Gillian Lockhart, Alex Strelley, Claire Segeren, Anjuli Dabydeen, Meaghan Umphrey, Gabrielle Bernier, Ellen Mays, Lindsay Rolland-Mills, Megan Segeren and Tilda Venalainen. Bantam Vytis earns bronze in Mississauga Christynna Cyrus scored the game-winning basket late in regulation as the Oakville Vytis bantam girls' basketball team won bronze at a recent AAA tournam ent in Mississauga. Cyrus' bucket came with less than 10 seconds left in regu lation and broke a 35-35 tie against the host Mississauga team*. Oakville opened the tournam ent with a 38-21 loss to Blessed Sacrament, then rebounded to down the Brampton Blue Devils 41-28 and Etobicoke Storm 42-30. In the semifi nal, the Vytis fell 41-27 to the top-seeded Brantford CYO, but rallied for the tight win in the bronze-medal game. 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