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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, November 6, 2014 | 44 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports S T I L L pose our kids to that level of competition, but it also helped us in our seeding." The CISAA also commands respect from OFSAA organizers. Waterloo's St. John's-Kilmarnock, one of the association's members, won four straight provincial golds from 200609. "My hope was to be a top-four seed. Our performance in the league was pretty dominant, and we did beat Nelson," Creelman said. "If we play our best field hockey, we can definitely be in the semifinals. At that point, anything really can happen." Kitchener's Resurrection, runnersup last year after winning three straight OFSAA titles, is the top seed in this week's tournament. Appleby's first game at OFSAA was to be a 9 a.m. clash today with Parkside at Nelson. The Blue Dogs and Loyola were then slated to face off at Norton Field today at 12:30 p.m. Appleby will conclude out its preliminary-round schedule tomorrow versus Pickering at Nelson, a 9 a.m. start. Loyola's other games were to be at 10:30 a.m. today against Pickering (at Nelson) and at 9 a.m. tomorrow against Parkside (at Norton). The quarter-finals will begin at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow at Norton and neighbouring Frank J. Hayden high school. Semifinals are slated for 9 a.m. Saturday at Nelson and Assumption high school. The 12 p.m. bronze game and 2 p.m. final will both be contested Saturday at Nelson. "Connected to your Community" K I D S A T H E A R T Appleby seeded third at OFSAA field hockey by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor Things are about to get a lot tougher for the Appleby Blue Dogs, but their coach is confident that they're up for the challenge. Appleby, which won all of its Conference of Independent Schools Athletic Association field hockey league games this season in comfortable fashion, is seeded third in the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations tournament that began today (Thursday) in Burlington. "There's no question, the level of play we're going to see is very strong," said Appleby coach Sharon Creelman, a three-time field hockey Olympian whose team has been pooled with sixth-ranked Pickering, St. Thomas's Parkside and Oakville's Loyola Hawks. "All the teams in our pool are dangerous. Pickering is a perennial power at OFSAA and is pretty seasoned in terms of tournament play, having to play six games over three days. I've been telling our girls it's a test of attrition." Making its first OFSAA appearance in Creelman's 14 years at the school, Appleby isn't very familiar with many teams outside of the CISAA. The Blue Dogs did, however, defeat Burlington's Nelson Lords -- the No. 4 seed which downed Loyola in both the Halton and Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference finals -- 3-1 last month. "That was an important game for us," said Creelman, "not only to ex- More than 40 years after their first road hockey game with each other, former Woodside Public School classmates got together Sunday at Bronte Athletic Field for another game. Pictured taking a break from the action are (back row, from left) Joel Wright, Des Kane, Mike Cooper, Derek Strickland, Jens Pindal, Tim Meyers, (front row, from left) Paul Duxbury and Paul Koven. The group has played an annual game since graduating high school, never missing a year, with players coming from as far away as Sarnia and Lindsay. | photo by Graham Paine -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Sheridan hosting college soccer nationals Sheridan College hopes to make the most of homefield advantage this week as it hosts the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association men's soccer championships in Oakville. The Bruins, ranked seventh in the eight-team tournament, were scheduled to face the secondseeded PACWEST champion Douglas Royals yesterday (Wednesday, after the Beaver's press deadlines) in one of four quarter-final matchups. In other action yesterday, No. 1 Algonquin Thunder -- which overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat Sheridan 4-2 in the provincial semifinals -- was to play No. 8 Keyano Huskies.; No. 4 Holland Hurricanes were to clash with No. 5 Vancouver Island University Mariners at 12:30 p.m.; and No. 3 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Ooks was to face No. 6 Elans de Garneau Elans. Winners of Wednesday's games move into the championship bracket, while losers will be relegated to the bronze playoffs. Quarter-finals in both brackets will be contested today (Thursday), semifinals tomorrow (Friday) and medal games Saturday. Sheridan Stadium, built in 2011, is located at Sheridan College's Oakville campus, 1430 Trafalgar Rd. 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