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Sports Oakville Beaver By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 25 Weary Titans will their way to OFSAA gold aturday afternoon at Pine Glen Park, playing their third overtime game in 24 hours, it was as if the Holy Trinity Titans' legs and lungs were burning. So too, however, was the Titans' desire to win a provincial high school soccer championship on hometown soil. Tori Edgar ensured that desire trumped fatigue. The Trinity keeper concluded a brilliant Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) quad-A tournament showing in the final, keeping Pickering St. Mary off the scoreboard through regulation and overtime before denying three of six Monarchs attempts in penalty kicks. Edgar's final stop, a diving effort to her right, clinched the Titans' 4-3 shootout win and the school's first OFSAA soccer gold in school history. "I like penalty shots. I've always liked penalty shots," said Edgar. That confident, aggressive mentality was on display throughout Saturday's final as Edgar repeatedly left the confines of her crease to challenge for loose balls or snatch corner kicks out of the air. "No fear," the Grade 12 student said. "If I'm going to come out, I've got to get there. I'm the last one. It's on me." It certainly was, at least after her teammates had drained themselves physically and emotionally earlier in the tournament. The Titans ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @HALTON_PHOTOG cruised to a 3-0 record in the preliminary round, but things got much more difficult WE DID IT: Holy Trinity keeper Tori Edgar (in light blue) celebrates with her teammates after the Titans won the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations quad-A girls' soccer championship Saturday at Pine Glen Park. Trinity won the final 4-3 in penalty kicks after the Titans and Pickering St. when the playoffs came around. In the quarter-finals Friday evening, Trinity Mary's finished regulation and overtime in a scoreless deadlock. faced defending OFSAA champion London Mother Teresa, the very team that defeated the early lead when Emma Mezgec drilled a long -- one shot hit the crossbar and Edgar dove to Titans in last year's provincial final. It took a shot off the crossbar. But then fatigue set in for stop another. scoreless full time and two periods of overtime the Titans, who were on their heels and relied Then, with a chance to put the game on ice, for Trinity to exact revenge on the Spartans, heavily on Edgar throughout most of the Trinity's fifth shooter missed the net. The finally winning the contest on Anna Longrigg's second half and the overtime periods. Monarchs' Cassandra Sribny took full advangoal. "Heart attacks. They're the tage, equalizing the shootout 3-3. Saturday morning's semi- "Heart attacks. They're cardiac kids," Titans head That put a ton of pressure on Trinity's next finals were even more dramatic. coach Peter Bonfiglio, also the shooter, Grade 10 student Kendra Wynter. But 2012 OFSAA girls' soccer the cardiac kids. I The Titans and Mississauga Our tournament convener, said the 15-year-old calmly responded with a wellAAAA champions Lady of Mount Carmel thought I was going to when asked about his emo- placed shot to the bottom-right corner of the Crusaders remained in a 0-0 throw up." Kendra Wynter Tori Edgar tions over the course of net. Courtney Brand Sarah Farano deadlock late in the second OFSAA. "I was thinking we had to score, for the Sarah MacDowell Anna Longrigg overtime period and appeared Holy Trinity girls' soccer "I thought I was going to Grade 12s and the OFSAA gold... actually, I Manuela Montelpare Emma Mezgec Emily Neil Meaghan Perrotta destined for a shootout, but coach Peter Bonfiglio, throw up." really don't know what I was thinking," Wynter Sarah Miocevich Melissa Coulson Melissa Coulson scored with 40 describing his feelings Bonfiglio wasn't feeling any said. Emily Smith Sera Smith Lauren Tucci Jennifer Barsevich seconds left in OT to send during the OFSAA final better after one round of pen"I just felt adrenalin and that I had to put it Dana Chomski Trinity to the championship alty kicks, with the Titans' in." Coaches Rachelle Dinchong game. attempt stopped while St. Mary made good on That tally stood up as the OFSAA winner Peter Bonfiglio Madison Horton Gino Camilletti Jennifer Soehner The toll those two games exacted on the its first shot. But Kira Ricci, Meaghan Perrotta after Edgar stopped the next Monarchs shooter. Lillian Vale Taylor McLean Titans showed in the final. Trinity carried the and Sarah Farano scored on Trinity's next three All of a sudden, those Trinity legs didn't seem Anand Pillai Kira Ricci play in the first 25 minutes, nearly taking an attempts, while St. Mary converted just once See Keeper, page 26 S Holy Trinity Titans