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The Canadian Champion, Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - A9 SPORTS EDITOR: STEVE LeBLANC e-mail sIeblanc@miltoncanadianchampiofl.com Another stellar year for local athietes It was another sensational year for athietes in Milton. Local teams and individuals shone throughout the region, province, country and even the world. Here are the top 20 sports stories - in chronological order (as much as possible) - from 2008, with apologies to those who earned distinction but were flot included. Harness racing tramner Blair Burgess and his prized pupil, Tell AlI, won OBrien Awards. Burgess beat out Cambridge's Casie Coleman for Standardbred Canada's Tramner of the Year hon- our, while Tell All - coming off a championship-rich season that included North America Cup and Little Brown Jug victories - took the three-year-old pacing colt award and shared Horse of the Year honours with two-year-old pacing sensation Somebeachsomewhere. Eric Scarffe made his OFSAA swimming debut a golden one, eclipsing Mayfield's David Murray by a lOth of a second with a per- sonal best 27.01s te, win the junior boys 50m freestyle at the Etobicoke Olympium. The . 15- year-old's triumph highlighted Milton Districts largest OPSAA contingent - seven swnnmers - in recent memory. The Madd Dawgs minor ban- tamn girls struck OBA gold for a second straight year, this time gomng undefeated ini the Division 4 ranks. They clixched the title with a 34-18 decision over HamiltonIs Blessed Sacrament. Local wrestlers continued to pin down high-stakes success at every turn. Amsong this year's high- liglts were a silver-medal team fin- ish at OPSAA for the E.C. Spartans - powered by individual golds by Clockwtse from top'left, E.C. Drury wrestlers Kevin lwasa-Madge and Bobby Filman, basketball star Kayla Alexander, field hockey netminder Lexi Kennedy and track and field standout Wayndale Bennett were among Miltons 2008 standouts. Kevin Iwasa-Madge and Bobby Pilîman - a victory at thse world junior championslsips in Turkey for lwasa-Madge, Canadian Interuniversity Sport bronze for Alan Moffat and silvers at the Cadet Pan-Am Championships (in El Salvador) and Commonwealth Youth Games (in India) for Duncan Moffat. Canada's seasoned field hockey netminder, Sarahs Porbes, had a bit- tersweet exit from international competition. While named top goalie at the six-team last chance Olympic qualifier in Victoria, the Canadians feli far short of a berth. Having tasted the agony of NCAA championship defeat one year earher, speedy sophomore left winger Matt Price was part of a Boston College Eagles team that clinched the title« in Denver, Colorado - downing Notre Dame 4-1. Establishing himself as a key part of the Eagles' shutdown unit, the 19-year-old was the first Miltonian to win a Division 1 championship since Craig Brush did s0 with CorneIl in 1970. Milton's power tumblers enjoyed an impressive year. Meghan Hefford delivered golden performances on consecutive weekends - winning the 13-to- 17-year-old Youth Women division at Elite Canada in Kamloops, B.C. and then reigning supreme at the provincial championships in Toronto. Prom there shed lead a local trio with yet amodier gold, this time at the nationals in Calgary Meanwhile, Teja Durante debuted with the Canadian Senior team with a silver-medal perform- ance at the Pan American Championshîps for trampohine and tumbling in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Making an immediate impact on the NCAA Division 3 softball scene, Sarah Prednicks led New York States Keuka College in just about every offensive category en route to grabbing North Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Year honours - quite impressive for a freshman. Joey Melo was named to Canadas Under-20 soccer team for a much-anticipated rematch with six-time PIFA U-20 World Cup champion Argentina at BMO Field in Toronto. A second-year member of the Toronto FC reserves, the 19- year-old midfielder played about haîf of the game and helped the Canadians to a 1-1 draw Closing out a highly-decorated hockey career on a golden note, defensive stalwart Mark Couture helped his Ontario Stars reign supreme at the Canadian Deaf Hockey Championships. This marked the third national title for the 39-year-old Miltomian, who also won two world champi- onships with Team Canada. Making bis third appearance at the high school provincial champi- onships, track and field standout Wayndale Bennett finally reahized his goal of securing an OFSAA medal in Hamilton, out-steppmng Toronto's Dushane Panrier at the line to claim bronze in the senior boys 200m. His 21.95-second fin- ish gave Bishop Reding its first Ontario track medal since 2002. * see NO on page A10 Vi i u n th *Ie tvvv . it n h, s e . o ý or (1-888-247-7001 Y; U iu 2"09-90do niide29axes Oef, 01019hrog 9099ry3,20M9 Enero ne9Ii 81 UUN IIJU ST. N ,M O B Ofuddspoalsa 29 etho e and 3re teis 0 Retirement Announcement Dr. Bob Horn To My Valued Patients, 1 would like to announce my retiremnent from the practice of dentistry Dec. 31, 2008. Dr. Ted Karolidis at 15 Martin St., Milton (905-878-6482) will be taking over my practice. He is well known as a very competent and highly skilled dental practitioner. THANK YOU to Milton and to those patients who have made the last 42 years of practice so enjoyable. Smncerely, Dr. Bob Horn, D.D.S. P0--IR','T