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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009 17 WINNING FORM: Oakville Trafalgar's Jeff MacSween manoeuvres his way through the White Oaks Pool Thursday during a swim meet hosted by OT. MacSween won the senior boys' 50-metre butterfly event, helping the Red Devils to the overall meet title. NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER OT girls lead Red Devils to swim meet championship Oakville Trafalgar High School was the overall winner at its own five-school swim meet Thursday at White Oaks Pool, a tuneup event before next week's Halton championships. Led by 179 points from their girls, the Red Devils earned 282 points to finish 42 points ahead of runner-up Iroquois Ridge. Georgetown's Christ the King was third with 230 points, followed by White Oaks (147) and St. Thomas Aquinas (16). Individually, Iroquois Ridge's Marni Oldershaw was the top local athlete, winning the open girls' 100m freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and individual medley. OT's Clara Armstrong won the junior girls' 50m butterfly and 100m individual medley, teammate Rachel Petford won the senior girls' 100m back and individual medley, and White Oaks' Jillian Bekker won the senior girls' 50m free and 100m free. Other girls' individual event winners were Ridge's Evelyn Nelson (junior 50m free), OT's Sam Mehltretter (senior 50m fly), White Oaks' Jessica Jin (junior 50m back), OT's Tori Rooke (junior 100m free) and OT's Shauna Moore (senior 100m breast). In boys' individual action, Iroquois Ridge's Ryan Maccarone (open 100m fly), Mack Darragh (open 100m back), Michael Ramsey (junior 50m breast), Reid Scarrow (open 100m breast) and John Steadman (open 100m individual medley) all won events. OT's Jeff MacSween (senior 50m fly), Erik Veenhuizen (senior 100m back) and Davie McNaughton (junior 100m individual medley) also won gold, as did White Oaks' Rowan Henderson (senior 100m breast). OT won five relay races, claiming the senior girls' medley, 200m open medley and 200m senior freestyle relay as well as the boys' senior medley and freestyle relays. Ridge took the girls' open 200m free, boys' open 200m medley and boys' open 200m free medley relays. The Halton championships will be held Wednesday at McMaster University in Hamilton. Keep away Dickenson, Schneider to join U20 rugby tour Two Oakville residents have been selected to represent Canada as part of the Rugby Canada under20 tour of New Zealand next month. Chris Dickenson and Grant Schneider, both student-athletes at McMaster University, were invited to join the trip, scheduled for March 6-14. Dickenson is a second-year fly half on the Ontario University Athletics champion McMaster men's team. He played in five conference games and two playoff contests last season, scoring seven points. Schneider is a first-year wing. He played in six conference games and two playoff games last season, scoring five tries. MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER SPORTSBRIEFS ment as she prepares for this year's high school track-and-field season. The 14-year-old has made major strides from last year as she trains with Athletiques International, posting a pair of fourth-place finishes at the recent Ontario Legion Indoor Championships. Segeren set a personal best in the 14-and-under girls' 3,000metre run, finishing the race in 11:46.98. For much of the race, she led Havergal College's Ali Wooley -- the fourth-place finisher at last year's provincial cross-country championships -- before being overtaken near the end. Segeren then completed the 1,500m race in 5:17.86, chopping 17 seconds off her time from two weeks earlier. She made a move from fifth place to fourth in the final 40 metres, nearly grabbing a bronze. Tori Freeman of the Eastview Eagles (left) holds the ball away from the Heritage Glen Huskies' Jessica Ferko during the championship game of a elementary school basketball tournament hosted recently by Falgarwood. Freeman's Eagles won Iroquois Ridge student Claire the girls' title, while Post's Corners downed Joshua Creek in the boys' championship game. Segeren is showing rapid improve- Segeren ahead of pace