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Opening-day action KEEPAWAY: Pictured from left to right, Red Wings players Blake Thomas and Ethan Cox try to keep the ball away from Senators opponent Owen Mountjoy Saturday at River Oaks Recreation Centre. Last weekend marked the opening of the inaugural season for the Oakville Minor Ball Hockey League. MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @HALTON_PHOTOG Former Argos greats to coach Ocho Bowl The caliber of play in the Ocho Bowl might be a little bit higher this year. Former Toronto Argonauts greats Michael (Pinball) Clemons and Damon Allen will participate as celebrity coaches at next weekend's fifth annual North Oakville Touch Football Association (NOTFA) charity touch football tournament. Current Argos cornerback Jordan Younger and lineman Wayne Smith will also attend the Ocho Bowl, which will be contested Saturday at the Oakville Soccer Club's Pine Glen Indoor Soccer Centre facility on Third Line. Clemons, a longtime Oakville resident, is a natural fit to participate in the tournament. The Ocho Bowl (named in the memory of former NOTFA player Peter `Ocho' Singh) raises money for the Michael Pinball Clemons Foundation. The past four Ocho Bowls have raised a combined total of $23,000 for the charitable foundation, which has led to the building of two schools in rural Africa. The first school that was built with Ocho Bowl proceeds was named after Singh. This year's tournament will begin at 10 a.m., with championship and consolation games slated for 11 a.m. Four teams will be randomly drawn from a hat, with the winners of the first game playing for the championship and the losers playing for the consolation title. Following the game, players will have a lunch, silent auction and raffle draw at The Tin Cup on North Service Road. 37 · Thursday, April 19, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com Hornets won title with overtime goal Continued from page 36 advance to the gold-medal game. But then Lester's worst fears about playing three games so close together began to come to fruition against Cambridge, especially after the Hornets surrendered the opening goal of the game. "The girls were burnt out, no question about it. We didn't know how we'd hold it together," the coach said. But, as they did before provincials began, the Hornets managed to find a spark. Paige Lester tied the game in the second period, and the teams went into overtime before Sophia Lombardo picked off a Cambridge clearing pass 1:26 into the first extra session and beat the Roadrunners goaltender. The goal set off an immediate celebration, though the Hornets coaches and parents might have actually been more PROVINCIAL CHAMPS: The Oakville atom A Hornets won the Ontario Women's Hockey Association championship last weekend by winning all six of their games, outscoring their opponents 15-2. excited about the win than the players were. "I don't think the girls really understand. It's (winning) the province, right?" Steve Lester said. "I think in a little while, they'll figure it out. But right now, I don't think it's really set in." of their first four games to reach the Two other Oakville teams joined the three silvers. Goalies combined for four shutouts atom A Hornets as medalists at last Members of the team are Esmee semifinals, then lost 2-0 to the Whitby Hornets goaltenders Morgan Damery and Sarah DaSilva weekend's Ontario Women's Hockey Jordon, Alex Sacha, Courtney Wilson, Wolves before bouncing back to edge combined to record four shutouts at provincials. Oakville's Association championships. Emma Coulter, Heather Sdao, Britany the Kanata Ottawa Senators 2-1 in the first three wins were 1-0 over the North Halton Twisters, 3-0 bronze-medal game. The peeewee BB and bantam AA Leger, Jaime Brioux, Emma over the Etobicoke Dolphins and 3-1 over the Peterborough Hornets both claimed bronze medals at Schurman, Emily Baxter, Members of the bantam AA Ice Kats. Hornets are Kristin O'Neill, their respective provincial tourna- Hunter Nugent, Amanda Also contributing to the provincial championship and an ments. Tegan Duncan, Nicole Cece, Molyneaux, Sophie Pace, overall 43-9-12 record this season were Mackenzie Calvert, Alyssa McCrane-Chartrand, The peewee BB Hornets scored in Madison Seaver, Sydney Sarah Campbell, Annabel Child, Quinn Kolwich, Sophie double overtime to defeat Temiskaming Morrison, Samantha Urwin Kameron Halsall, Julia Edgar, Lower-Stewart, Taylor Mahoney, Christina McCulloch, Erin 3-2 in their bronze-medal contest. The and Montana Graves. Dave Anastasia Tolfa, Dana Beattie, McPherson, Gillian Miller, Francesca Monte, Katie Reilly, win capped a strong season that includ- Schurman, Dave Coulter and Alexandra Daniel, Samantha Avery Vickers and Olivia Wallin. Steven Monte, Reuben Wallin ed a Lower Lakes Female Hockey Larry Sdao coach the team, Nancy Lombardi, Meghan Gallagher, Taylor and Scott Vickers also coach the team, Alison Child and League (LLFHL) championship, final- Urwin is the trainer and Vicki Sacha is McKibbon, Serena Masi, Julia Rees, Chantal Wallin are the trainers, Rob McPherson is the man- ist appearances in seven of eight tour- a trainer/manager. Allison Chan, Kaitlyn Perichak and ager and Vanessa Lester is the team mom. The bantam AA Hornets won three Breann Gallagher. naments entered, four gold medals and Bronze for peewee BB, bantam AA squads