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Sports Oakville Beaver IN TIGHT: Loyola's Katie Fergus (foreground) has a good chance in close against Notre Dame goalie Chelsie Teremy, while Loyola captain Vanessa Savelli (left) and the Irish's Leanne Kack look on. Fergus had a pair of goals for the Hawks as Loyola claimed the Halton high school girls' hockey championship Tuesday with a 43 overtime victory. LIESA KORTMANN / OAKVILLE BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009 27 OT's Armstrong, Ridge relay team break OFSAA swimming records Oakville swimmers combined to set two records and win 13 medals, including four gold, at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championships this week in Etobicoke. Oakville Trafalgar's Clara Armstrong set a new standard in the 14-and-under girls' 50-metre breaststroke, finishing first with a time of 35.50 seconds. Iroquois Ridge's boys' 4x50m medley relay team of John Steadman, Kent Kikot, Ryan Maccarone and Mack Darragh also set a provincial record, winning in 1:53.41. Ridge added another relay gold in the boys' 4x100m event, as Reid Scarrow, Steadman, Kikot and Maccarone completed the race in 3:42.11. Oakville's other first-place finish came from OT's Rachel Petford, who won the 15-and-older girls' 100m backstroke with a time of 1:09.98. Petford, who added a silver in the 100m individual medley, has won at least one OFSAA swimming gold each of the past three years. Appleby College's Annie Harrison and Ridge's Marni Oldershaw also won two individual medals. Harrison collected silvers in the open girls' 200m freestyle and 100m backstroke events, while Oldershaw earned silver in the open girls' 200m individual medley and claimed bronze in the 100m breaststroke. Other Oakville residents to win individual OFSAA silver were Holy Trinity's Miguel Lozano (open boys' 100m freestyle) and Abbey Park's Ali Smith (14-and-under girls' 50m backstroke). Oakville Trafalgar's open girls' relay team of Karina Sils, Veronica Davis-Freeman, Katie Fox and Sharalynn Missiuna won two silver medals (4x50m medley and 4x100m freestyle), helping the Red Devils to a sixthoverall finish in team competition. Halton rival Georgetown won the overall meet championship. Narrowly missing the podium with fourth-place finishes at OFSAA were Abbey Park's Mika Spencer and Calum MacKay as well as Oakville Trafalgar's open girls' 4x50m medley and 15-and-older girls' 4x50 medley relay teams. Appleby's Jessica Botting, McKenzie McCarley, Brock Wootton and Rachel Kurzeja, White Oaks' Jillian Bekker, Abbey Park's Erin Radford and OT's Dylan Kent were finalists in their events. Abbey Park was seventh in the 15-and-older boys' 4x50m freestyle relay. Loyola wins Halton girls' hockey title By Kevin Nagel METROLAND WEST MEDIA GROUP BURLINGTON -- To say the Loyola Hawks' Andrea Zeismann assisted in her team's efforts to win a Halton girls' hockey title would be understating her contribution. Zeismann, a Grade 9 student, set up Meghan O'Neill for the winning goal to give the Loyola Hawks a 4-3 triple overtime win over the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Tuesday at Burlington's Appleby Ice Centre. With the win came the Halton high school girls' hockey championship and an opportunity to advance to all-Ontario tournament play later this month. Zeismann not only set up the winner with a subtle push of the puck through traffic in the slot that sent O'Neill in alone, she picked up an important assist late in regulation time, too. Her pass to the point was slapped into the net by Mia Favretto to send the game into overtime. Loyola sniper Katie Fergus gave her team an early lead with two first-period goals assisted by, you guessed it, Zeismann, on her way to a four-point game. Notre Dame, a league best 8-1-1 during the regular season, rebounded from the slow start Tuesday with three straight goals from Kolbee McCrea, Alexandra Evanyshyn and Joanne Walker. The Irish looked to have a Halton title in the bag until Favretto's heroics with 1:16 remaining in regulation time tied the game. Overtime featured as many 10-minute sudden-death periods as necessary until the end of the scheduled rental time would force a shootout. It was getting close to that time when the winning goal was scored. "To me, it's the perfect way to resolve a game," said Notre Dame head coach Paul Leonard. "We started five-on-five and we finished five-on-five." Notre Dame alternate captain Alicia Page, singled out by her coach as having an exceptional game for the Irish, said both teams played well. "We just couldn't put the puck in the net," she said. Loyola coach David McNamara said that despite the fact he has a young team, the Halton title isn't a shocking development. "It's probably one of the best school teams -- from the goaltender on out -- that I've ever coached," he said. Leonard noted that although Loyola, 5-3-2 heading into the playoffs, was considered underdogs in playoff victories over T.A. Blakelock and Notre Dame, the Irish didn't take the Hawks lightly. "Our league is very balanced," he said. "We knew they were capable of beating us. They're a young, fast, strong team." In two regular-season meetings, Notre Dame won the first game 3-1 but a couple of weeks ago it was a 2-2 tie. To get to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations tournament in Orillia March 23-26, Loyola will have to defeat the Hamilton Catholic school winner in a game that will probably be played Tuesday in Hamilton. "We'd love to go to OFSAA -- it would be a great way for our seniors to finish off their high school career," said McNamara.