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26 Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012 Golden A's repeat as national Sleep-rocking? oldtimers baseball champs By Ryan Glassman SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Games are seven innings in length and every squad's batting lineup features at least 12 hitters. Rutherford says Oakville's ability to keep The Oakville Golden A's 44-plus team has proven two things over the last two years: its opponents off the scoreboard in the first they can pitch, and they can win champion- two innings of games played a large part in the team winning five of six overall. ship games. "We'd usually go through the top of the After claiming the Tier 1 national oldtimers baseball title in Burlington last year, the other team's order pretty quick," he said. "By the time we're in the middle A's captured the championof the game in the third ship once again this season, "It's a pretty big deal inning, they're still heading defeating the Tracadie-Sheila because there haven't towards the bottom of their Eagles 8-1 recently in been a lot of teams that lineup. We're a couple of runs Charlottetown, PEI. ahead and they're playing "It's a pretty big deal have repeated." catch up now. because there haven't been a "That's how we won (the lot of teams that have repeat- Oakville Golden A's tournament). We got ahead ed," A's shortstop Greg shortstop Greg Macdonald and we stayed ahead." Macdonald said. Oakville managed to do just that in the During the four-day tournament, Oakville shut down the opposition offensively, allow- championship game, scoring three runs on ing one run or less in four of its six games and two hits in the bottom of the fourth to break a 1-1 tie. just 10 runs in total. Al Ogaki sparked the rally with a walk and "Our pitching was unbelievable," A's manager Rich Knight said. "We really got some two stolen bases. A's second baseman Greg great efforts from our guys. Al Rutherford McEachern scored Ogaki with a single to left started most of the games, J.P. Soucie came and would later come around on a single by on in relief and Kevin Cook closed it out at Kevin Greener. "They started walking guys and made the end." The Canadian National Oldtimers Baseball some errors... the wheels basically fell off for Federation (CNOBF) championships features those guys," MacEachern said. The A's bullpen took it from there and the over 30 teams from across the country. The clubs are spread out through three divisions team added four more runs in the sixth to (35-plus, 44-plus and 50-plus) and there two make it 8-1. However, the outcome could have been far different for Oakville had tiers for each division. Rutherford, the club's starter, not got out of a first-inning jam with Eagles runners on the corners and just one out. The pivotal play began when Rutherford threw over to first base, Halton Men's Men's Halton catching the Tracadie-Sheila runRecreational Recreational ner in a rundown. When the ball Hockey League Hockey League was thrown to shortstop Macdonald, ( Our 55th Season! ) the runner from third base tried to Fall/Winter score and was thrown out by six (Our 55th Season!) steps. A groundout ended the Divisions For: Divisions For: inning moments later as the Eagles Oldtimers (30+) Masters (40+), Oldtimers (30+) Masters (40+) Classics (47+) failed to score. Classics (47+), Intermediate (18+) "I think they were totally deflat· Non-contact play and Women's recreational Rec /Comp(18+) ed after that," Rutherford said. · Prime times · Non-contact recreational play · Uniforms provided While strong pitching is an · Prime times · Excellent officiating essential part of Oakville's success, · Uniforms provided · Team balancing A's players say it is Knight who has · Excellent officiating · Individual / Group entry laid the foundation for the team's · Team balancing back-to-back championships. Also division for 3 on 3 Continuous Play · Individual /Team Entry team entry (20+) "Richie is great, we all love him," Information and/or Registration by Phone: McEachern said. "He has the per- ERIC RIEHL / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @HALTON_PHOTOG PYJAMA PARTY: Claire Stoll sweeps a rock Friday during the Oakville Curling Club's annual junior camp. Curlers ages 9-15 dressed in their pyjamas for the camp's final-day bonspiel. Oakville Non-Contact Hockey Local athletes earn medals at Ontario Summer Games Several Oakville residents earned gold medals at the Ontario Summer Games, which concluded last weekend in Toronto. Bronte Harbour Yacht Club member Dayna Hellmann finished first in women's radial sailing, Sam Pennyfather was part of gold-winning entries in the canoeing doubles 1,000-metre and canoeing fours 1,000m events, and Evan O'Dell, Ryan Bekker and Jasman Gill helped their Central West team win the boys' basketball championship. Silver medals went to Jillian Perrone (women's canoeing singles 1,000m and 3,000m, and canoeing fours 1,000m), Michelle Olson (women's kayaking fours 1,000m), Simran Rai (karate 14-17 team kata) and Dominic Neukom (individual prone rifle international class men's 17 and older). Olson, Perrone and Noah Djurfeldt also earned silver in paddling relay events. Bronze medals were earned by Sheila Merhvar (women's canoeing singles 1,000m and 3,000m), Rob Andison and Djurfeldt (men's canoeing fours 1,000m), Perrone (women's canoeing doubles 1,000m) and Tyler Hipple (men's kayaking doubles 1,000m). In team competition, Halton Field Hockey Club players Anna Jiang, Elizabeth O'Hara, See Oakville, page 31 905-849-9712 or: www.hmhl.bizland.com See A's, page 31