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Editor: Norm Nelson Phone: 905-845-3824 (ext. 255) Fax: 905-337-5567 e-mail: nnelson@haitonseardi.com SPORTS T/U In-Water LEISURE May 30, 31 & June 1 SHOW Memorable Memorial Cup for McGrath By Rob Andrusevich SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Oakville's Evan McGrath couldn't have picked a better time to get into the scoring column at the Memorial Cup, scoring twice, and adding an assist, in Sunday's championship game before more than 14,000 spectators at Pepsi Colisee in Quebec City. McGrath assisted on the opening goal and scored the third and fifth goals in the Kitchener Rangers 6-3 win over Hull Olympics in the Memorial Cup championship game. He finished with two goals and two assists in the four straight Ranger victories. "I was just in a parade (in Kitchener). It was crazy," said McGrath on Monday night. "1 didn't think hockey was that big here. There were 6,000 people at the victory parade. It was unbelievable! "I'm pretty excited still. Yesterday was a great feeling and I'm still pumped." For the insurance goal. McGrath car ried the puck down the ice on a two-onone and his pass attempt went off the defenceman's stick right back to him. ``It came right back to me, so I fired it. The goalie had started cheating over towards Derek (Roy. the other Ranger player) so my side of the net was open." Kitchener's 3-0 record in the round robin was good enough for first place, giving them an automatic berth in the final. Going back to the Ontario Hockey League finals where they won the final four games against Ottawa 67's after dropping the opener, the Rangers man aged to close out the playoffs with a stel lar run of eight straight wins. Evan M cG rath celebrates one of two goals he scored in the M em orial Cup cham pionship game on Sunday. The team had a w ell-balanced attack, so McGrath didn't feel pressure to produce more offensively. A solid two-way game made him a strong con tributor. "I think everyone was just playing well and on their games. No one was giving up. At limes it was emotional, but we were mostly relaxed. We needed to play calm and stay relaxed and come out hard each period." McGrath had played on the wing ear lier in the playoffs, but was moved back to his natural centre position in the OHL and Memorial Cup championships. His play through to the Memorial Cup was observed and scrutinized by National Hockey League scouts. McGrath is eligible for the 2004 NHL draft, and what he learned this year should translate into better success next year, which could elevate his ranking for draft day. "I'll be more confident with the puck next year and in my abilities. I'll be more relaxed on the ice. You'll see me taking the puck to the net more, being patient with the puck and having more confidence." On top of summer workouts, he will try out for Canada's under-18 team in August which should put him in great shape for Kitchener's training camp. More will be expected of him with two of the Rangers top guns. Roy and Greg Campbell, expected to graduate to the pro ranks in the fall. "We still have good depth," said the 16-year-old Oakville native who starred for the provincial junior A Oakville Blades the previous year, earning league honours for rookie of the year. "I want to come out and have a great year next year with the team and have another run at the Memorial Cup and win again." National bronze with 7-1 record The Bronte Beach 14-and-under boys team settled for a bronze medal at the Canadian national cham pi onships over the V ictoria Day w eek end. . The O akville-based club rolled through three round robin matches, tw o prelim inary round play o ff matches and a quarterfinal match, before finally losing their semifinal game to the Northern Alberta Bears. Bronte Beach was unable to over come the constant attack o f the Bears and lost in a d isap pointing tw o straight sets. Bronte sucked it up and reverted back to their winning ways in the bronze medal final, winning easily in straight sets (25-11, 25-22) over the W innipeg T itans, the M anitoba provincial cham pions. Their overall record at the nationals was an impressive 7-1. Robb Barsevich was named to the tournament all-star team, which was voted on by all of the coaches at the tournament. The team was coached by Drew Donaldson. Andrew Krajewski and Chris M aryonowicz. Peter McCusker · Oakville Beaver B ronte Beach 14-and-under are national bronze m edalists. BACK ROW : A ndrew K rajew ski (assistant coach). M att G runw ald, Sam Sw ain, David Z anchetta, N orm Tosh, M att W ildbore, C h ris M aryonw icz (assistant coach) and Drew D onaldson (head coach). M ID D LE ROW : David M aryonw icz, C hris C heung, Scott Sobolewski an d Jo sh Sponder. FR O N T ROW : R obb Barsevich and Ja so n Field. ABSENT: M att Downer. T his H am ilton Pow er play er gets a lot o f atten tio n in the O akville Coyotes crease in ju n io r A ro ller hockey action on Sunday. Buzz nab home win, hit the road By Neil Becker SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Coyotes drop a pair over the weekend The Oakville Coyotes junior roller hockey team had a tough weekend, los ing Saturday in Sarnia 15-4 and Sunday back home at Oakville Arena 8-4 to defending champion Hamikon Power. The Coyotes are now 1-2 on the sea son. Next action for them is this week end when they play two games at Oakville Arena. On Friday (May 30), 8 p.m., they host the London Fury and on Sunday (June 1) Brantford comes to town for a 1:45 p.m. start. On Sunday, Oakville had a slow start and couldn't recover from a 3-0 deficit. Goals were scored by Kelly Veitch, Ryan Kuri, Jeff Brown and Mike Collier. Assists went to Jeff Brown, Mike Collier, Stu Matheson, Glen Hartwell and Ryan Kuri. Reggie Carson played a strong defensive game for the Coyotes. The Coyotes had a short bench for Saturday's road trip and it showed as they built up an early 3-1 lead only to have host Sarnia clinch the game with an eight-goal outburst. Oakville goals were scored by Mike Reynolds (2), Glen Hartwell and Mike Collier. Assists went to Steve Lewis, Ryan Kuri. Mike Reynolds and Stu Matheson. An optim ist would point out that a win is a win. where a pessim ist could focus on the four short-handed goals surrendered by the O akville Buzz. In a crucial contest against their divisional rivals from Halton Hills, O akville flexed their offensive m us cles as super rookie Dave Brock, notched a h at-trick w hile C hris W arren and Joel Leveille each had two goals in their 10-9 victory. Single m arkers were added by Jeff Brownlee, captain Reid W estmacott and Stephan LeBlanc. " I'm not w orried about the short handed g o a ls," said B uzz coach Derek Forbes. " It happens occasion ally, but we worked hard, had fun and got some solid goaltending and we w on." O akville, which had led most of the gam e, had to stage their own mini com eback in the third period, twice overcom ing one-goal deficits to earn the win. O akville had held a series o f one and two-goal leads throughout the first two periods, but Halton Hills fought back to even things at 7-7 at the end o f two periods, and then went ahead in the third period with short lived leads o f 8-7 and 9-8 before Oakville cam e charging back with the g am e's final two unansw ered goals. "C oach Forbes ju st told us to relax, regroup and have some fun," said speedy Buzz captain Reid Westmacott. "We showed true character fight ing back and Jason LeGree (Buzz goalie), really saved our butts." LeGree also chipped in with the offence with two assists. " It feels really good to win, and everyone is smiling and feeling good about them selves leaving the arena," said W estmacott. U PC O M IN G The Buzz em barked on a threegam e road swing last night (Tuesday) in Scarborough. 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