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Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports by Kevin Nagel 25 | Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" Titans get the Full Nelson Lords also upset Loyola, Oakville Trafalgar on way to Tier 1 title "It opened our eyes and we came back and beat them by 14 (in the quarter-finals)," said Metroland Media Group Vujadinovic, another huge contributor to the Lords' turnaround, who supplied nine points When Holy Trinity coach Anthony Pugliese to the cause on Friday in addition to her topwas asked what the difference was between a notch defence. After upsetting undefeated Loyola (with regular-season victory over the Nelson Lords and Friday's 64-46 loss to the same team in the Jarvis hitting game-winning free throws in the Halton senior girls' basketball Tier 1 final, he last minute) to advance to the Halton final, Vujadinovic said there was another reason to needed only two words in his reply. "Amy Jarvis," he said, "Whenever they go all out against the Titans. "Amy and I have never beaten needed a bucket..." them in three years," she said. Jarvis, always a leader but Team captain Lauren Jasometimes too generous dishmieson, in her final year of high ing the ball to teammates, led school, was top scorer for Holy the Lords with 26 points in a Trinity with 15 points. dominant display by a Lords Coach Pugliese, who said he team that finished fifth during wasn't surprised to see Nelson the regular season. -- rather than Loyola -- in the "This is my last year so I really final ("It's a very tough league") wanted to make sure our team made special mention of Jacame through," she said at the mieson's efforts, but he felt all Sheridan College gym after celethe players deserved a pat on brating Nelson's first Halton title the back for a good season. since 2006. "These girls mean so Nelson coach Brittany Jackmuch to me and I'm so proud of Anthony Pugliese everyone. We've gone through a Trinity senior girls' basketball coach son was ecstatic over Jarvis's recent outings, suggesting the lot." past two games Jarvis showed The two teams exchanged the lead nine times before the Lords took it and her potential as she decides where to take her kept it for good midway through the second game next year in university. "She's been a leader all season but the last quarter, which ended 32-28 for the Lords. Compounding the Titans' problem of 15 two games she decided to put the team on her first-half points by Jarvis was the fact that any back, become more vocal and not worry about advantage they enjoyed by dominating the of- dishing off to other people and actually put fensive boards was negated by an inability to the ball in the basket," Jackson said. "I haven't seen a shooting performance (from Jarvis) like sink put-backs from those rebounds. "We missed a lot of easy baskets," said Pug- that in the past three seasons." The Lords' reward for winning Halton is liese. "We should have gotten 10 points more representing the region in the Golden Horsefrom those, at least." The turning point in Nelson's season, ac- shoe Athletic Conference AAAA final tomorcording to Ivana Vujadinovic, co-captain row (Thursday) against defending provincial along with Jarvis, might have come in the last champion St. Thomas More, the Hamilton regular-season game, when Oakville Trafalgar Catholic champions. The winner advances to upset the Lords to earn home-gym advantage the all-Ontario AAAA championship tournament in Belle River, Nov. 21-23. in the first round of playoffs. We should have gotten 10 points more (off rebounds), at least. Nelson Lords defender Ivana Vujadinovic (right) blocks the path of Holy Trinity Titans guard Tiffany McNeil during Friday's Halton high school senior girls' basketball Tier 1 final at Sheridan College. The fifth-ranked Lords upended second-seeded Trinity 64-46. | photo by Riziero Vertolli -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog King's Christian settles the score with White Oaks in senior Tier 2 final by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor It took a couple of years, but the King's Christian Collegiate Cavaliers got their revenge. King's defeated the White Oaks Wildcats 34-29 in Friday's Halton high school senior girls' basketball Tier 2 final at Sheridan College, settling the score for a 44-13 loss to the Wildcats in the 2011 junior title game. Neither team appeared to be short of motivation Fri- day, leaving plenty of sweat -- and perhaps skin -- on the Sheridan floor in a game that featured many hard fouls and tie-ups. But the Cavaliers seemed to get the majority of the loose balls, which ultimately made the difference in the defensive slugfest. "It gets aggressive when two teams really want it," said Cavaliers guard Emily Clarke, who led all scorers with 15 points. "But I think we wanted it more today." It wasn't a game for basketball purists. The teams combined to go scoreless for nearly five minutes in the third quarter, a frame in which King's outscored the Wildcats 6-4 to take a 25-20 lead. White Oaks fought back to tie the game on two occasions in the fourth, but King's made seven of eight free throws in the final frame and held the Wildcats to one field goal in the last three minutes. "We work hard, and we play baseline to baseline," said Eric Bulthuis, who coaches the Cavaliers alongside Richard Stewart. "If we miss a layup or a shot, we have four rebounders. If we commit a turnover or they get a fast break, we are beating (opponents) down the floor. Some games have 85 see Poor on p.27