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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e sd a y M a y 7, 2003 - D3 Glen Thiessen · Oakville Beaver G LO RIO US O P P O R T U N IT Y ! this unidentified Blakelock sniper has a point blank shot on Q.K. P ark goalie B rett Edw ards. Q.E. P ark defenders are L uke T resham (#13) and Alfred Lee (#00). Q.E. Park fends off furious comeback to win inaugural title The first ever high school roller hockey tournam ent in O ntario may have been small, with only four team s com peting, but it was definitely big on excitem ent, with Q .E. Park w in ning the all-O akville affair 5-4 over Blakelock. Mike C ollier was the hero, com pleting his hat-trick on a spectacular end-to-end rush with ju st 28 seconds remaining. His goal put an abrupt halt to a furious Blakelock com eback that saw them score three goals in the last five m inutes to tie the gam e at 4-4 and put overtim e on the horizon. A crew from Leafs T V. filmed the final. The tournament at Oakville Arena drew four team s. L oyola from Oakville was also represented, along with RMC from Kingston. In the prelim inary round. Q.E. Park was also tops with a perfect 3-0 record to secure first seed for the playoffs. RMC also looked strong, taking the second seed with a respectable 2I record. Blakelock had a 1-2 record to grab the third seed and Loyola was w inless through the round robin to settle for fourth seed. The sem ifinals showed how close all the teams were by the end o f the weekend with both being decided by only one goal as QEP beat Loyola 2I. and Blakelock won 3-2 over RMC. In the cham pionship game. Taylor Jenkin gave Blakelock the early lead just 18 seconds into the game on a pretty feed by Rob Enns. QEP finally netted their first o f the game when Kelly Vietch shot one past the tabbies netminder. assisted by Mike Collier and Luke Tresham. QEP closed out the tight defensive first half with a goal by Collier, set up by Tresham and Brandon Lee to take a 2- 1 lead into the half. In the second half, the teams con tinued to give little room for offence until Alfred Lee dangled his way past the Tabbies to extend the QEP lead to 3-1. assisted by Chris Vietch and Tresham. QEP seemed to cement the game with a marker at 5:10 of the second half, off the stick o f Collier, his sec ond o f the game. leaving the Tabbies with a daunting three-goal deficit late in the game. The Blakelock crew dug deep and with 4:17 rem aining in the game. Taylor Jenkin started the com eback with an unassisted tally. Then team C aptain Rob Enns made it interesting w ith a pretty play with Carson Jenkin and Eric Murray at 1:24 to put the Tabbies w ilhin one. The com eback was com plete at 1:02 when C arson Jenkin filled the net on a perfect set up by brother Taylor and a young grade nine roller hockey phenom Ali Robitaille. Oakville has a lot to cheer about Oakville has a lot to cheer about! At the Power Cheerleading Athletics national champi onships at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga this past weekend. Oakville schools combined for no less than three national medals. Leading the way. in the eight-team junior division (grades 6-8) was H eritage G len who capped off a perfect season with a gold medal. They had also won gold at the previous week's provin cials and earlier at the regionals and at a tune-up com peti tion they entered at White Oaks. W hat's more, this team never trailed once in any compe tition. Just an awesome year. River Oaks also competed but fell just short. Although Oakville was denied the gold medal in the 19team high school competition, they did cart away the rest of the medals. Perennial powerhouse Blakelock (see adjacent photo) gained some consolation with a national silver medal, after struggling at last week's provincials. And W hite O aks proved they were no flash in the pan. after winning the provincial championship the previous week, as they finished with the bronze medal. All in all. a great showing by Oakville schools. Sabrina Byrnes · Oakville Beaver T he national silver m edalist Blakelock cheerleaders at the Oakville Buzz gam e M onday. BACK ROW : H eather W heeler. A lanna Tobia. A m anda Higgins, T.A. Blakelock T igers m ascot, G illian Glasspoole. Ashley Payne, Elyse Curley and Trish M uldoon. FR O N T ROW : K ristina Sm ith and Danielle Kingston. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is the most common of all cardiovascular diseases. It is the leading cause of stroke and a major cause of heart attack. ii *4 Are you at least 18 years old? Do you have high blood pressure? Buzz at home Sunday against Nepean (Continued Irom page 25) Spring season openers The high school sports spring season is off and running. Here are the results, to date ... SOCCER Senior boys: Oakville Trafalgar 2. Iroquois Ridge 0; Aquinas 1. Loyola 0 Senior girls: Loyola 6, Holy Trinity 1: Iroquois Ridge 3, White Oaks I Junior boys: Holy Trinity 2. Iroquois Ridge 1; Loyola 2, Aquinas 1 Junior girls: Iroquois Ridge 3, White Oaks 1; Holy Trinity 1, Loyola 1 BASEBALL Boys: Blakelock 3. White Oaks 0: Loyola 3. Milton 0: Bishop Reding 12. Holy Trinity I: Q.E. Park 3. Oakville Trafalgar 2; Milton 9. Blakelock 6: Iroquois Ridge 6. Q.E. Park 3: Loyola 17. Bishop Reding 0; Oakville Trafalgar 11, Holy Trinity 3; White Oaks 12, Loyola 3. Eligible study subjects will receive study-related medical exams, study medications, and laboratory tests at no cost You may also be reimbursed for your time Buzz desperately needed a game like this not only for points, but also to start believing in themselves. "We really needed this win for our confidence and hopefully we'll have that com e Friday (away game against Wallaceberg), and throughout the sea son." said Buz/, head coach Derek Forbes. "The guys were moving the ball up the floor quickly and young Dave Brock was our best offensive player and we got some exceptional goaltending." Brock led the scoring parade with five goals. Joel Leveille, Stephan LeBlanc and Josh Smyth each had a pair of goals while single markers were added by Thomas Metcalf. Mike Hardy. Chris Butt and captain Reid Westmacott. "All night long we worked a lot bet ter and we got the results," added coach Forbes. Buzz goalie Jason LeGree set the tone early in the first period with some head scratching saves as he went an astounding 27 minutes and 43 seconds without allowing a goal. "I had no idea that it was that long." he said, after the game. "I try not to think about it and just play my game and hope for the best. "Our coach really motivated us to play a strong game. "We didn't take stupid penalties and we showed what we can do on the floor." London managed their two lone goals when they were down 3-0 and 11 I. respectively. 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