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MacHattie video in national semifinal The video story of Oakville Speed Skating Club member Scott MacHattie has reached the Eastern final of the ING Speed Skating Challenge national contest. The story of MacHattie -- an athlete with Down syndrome -- has become a trailblazer for special needs athletes, encouraging them to get involved in the inclusive sport of speed skating. His video is up against the video of Quebec's Bruno PettersenCoulombe, who was inspired to take up speed skating by the Nagano Olympic Games and whose three siblings followed his lead. British Columbia's Tori Spence and Alberta's Sam Wilson are the Western finalists. Online voting was used to determine the Eastern and Western finalists, and will again be used to decide the national finalists. Votes from previous rounds will not be carried over. Semifinal voting began Monday and will conclude Sunday at midnight. In order to vote, visit www.INGSpeedSkatingChallenge.co m. The final two video stories will be announced March 9, with the winner being crowned March 21 at the ING Video Awards Party, during the season's final weekend of competition at the ING Finale in Calgary. 27 OAKVILLE BEAVER · Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Three local skaters win gold at Ontario Cup The Oakville Speed Skating Club's Hal Malcolm, Patrick Sullivan and Patrick Duffy each won individual events at the Ontario Cup #4 Challenging Age Class Meet recently in Gloucester. Joshua Sullivan added a silver and Ian Welsby, Katie Quesnelle and Samuel Chin-Cheong earned bronzes for Oakville at the meet. Emma Hobson had a fourthplace finish, while Eli St. James, Anaka Will-Dryden, Sean McAnuff, Ben Heidecker and Sara DEVILS ON FIRE: The Oakville Hornets atom Red Devils celebrate their Clarington Flamefest Challenge championship. McNamara each finished fifth in their divisions. Sydney MacDonald was sixth. Two Oakville skaters joined the Laura England's shootout goal lifted the Oakville drew assists on the equalizer, which took place with Allen `sub club' by skating the 500Hornets atom Red Devils to gold at the recent Clarington on the bench in favour of an extra attacker. metre distance in under 60 secFlamefest Challenge girls' hockey tournament. Oakville's victory in the final avenged a 6-0 loss to onds, a significant milestone in England's marker stood up as the winner after London during the tournament's round robin. speed skating. Joshua Whibbs and Oakville goaltender Rachel Allen stopped all three Other members of the Red Devils, sponsored by ITS Amanda Tickner accomplished the London attempts in the shootout of the championship Jobs, are Cassandra Bedford, Laura Afelski, Daniela feat. game. O'Neill, Sydney Wales, Dominique Daniels, Sara In other recent club news, Piper Thompson was the other heroine of the game Dickson, Ellie White, Adelaide Henstock and Isabel Ryan McAnuff and Blake Sullivan for the Red Devils, forcing overtime and the subsequent MacFarlane. both secured a spot in Montreal at shootout by tying the game 1-1 with 4.7 seconds remainMark Thompson, Tim White and John Daniels coach the prestigious Espoir Meet, and ing in regulation. Monika Sitas and Meghan Cochran the team, and Sandy England is the trainer. Emma Hobson achieved personal bests in the Elite Senior Meet in Drummondville, Que. Antoine Parent and Stephen Oakville's Miana Griffiths, a fresh- 7.50 seconds, three-hundredths of a Athletics Ontario Open. Van Gemert won gold, Daniel man at the University of Guelph, second behind the meet record of Griffiths will try for an even faster Giannotti and Graeme Tickner won gold at last weekend's Ontario 7.47 seconds. time this weekend at the OTFA earned silver, and Connor Millar, University Athletics track-and-field It was the second consecutive Junior Championships. She is also Reaves Christie and Malcolm colchampionships in Toronto. week that Griffiths posted a time of currently preparing for the Canadian lected bronze at the most recent The St. Thomas Aquinas grad 7.50 seconds in the 60m dash. She University Championships, which Western Regional meet in won the 60-metre sprint in a time of ran a similar time in winning the will be held in Windsor. Brampton. 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