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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, July 17, 2015 | 28 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" OAK's Bouchard adds to local medal haul Dominique Bouchard became the latest athlete with Oakville connections to win a Pan Am Games medal, claiming silver in swimming Wednesday in Scarborough. Bouchard, a North Bay native who trains in the U.S. with her University of Missouri team but represents Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) in international competition, was second to Canadian teammate Hilary Caldwell in the women's 200-metre backstroke with a time of 2:09.74. "It's my third- or fourth-best time this season, so it's still pretty good for me," said the 24-year-old Bouchard, who will compete at the FINA World Championships next month in Russia. "Hopefully, I can look at the video of my performance and see where I need to improve in order to be a lot faster in a couple of weeks." Bouchard and OAK product Tera Van Beilen will race again tonight (Friday). Other local athletes who already won medals at the Pan Am Games include Burloak Canoe Club's Mark Oldershaw (silver in men's canoe 1,000 metres) and Adam van Koeverden (bronze in men's kayak 1,000m), Oakville resident KC Fraser (gold in women's K-4 500m) and former OAK swimmer Zack Chetrat (bronze in men's butterfly 200m). Coverage of those medal wins appeared in yesterday's (Thursday's) edition of the Beaver. Squash Oakville's Hollie Naughton and her Canadian women's squash team were scheduled to play a semifinal game last night versus Mexico. The winner would play for gold today at 5:30 p.m. on the CNE grounds in Toronto. Soccer The medal chances for Oakville soccer players Adam Bouchard and Kinley McNicoll looked slim going into last night's (Thursday's) action. Bouchard and the men's team were scheduled to face Panama last night in Hamilton, looking to even their record after dropping a 4-1 decision to Brazil in its tournament opener last Sunday. Canada will conclude its preliminary-round schedule Monday versus Peru, and needs to finish second in its group to advance to the semifinals. McNicoll played a full 90 minutes in the women's team's 5-2 win over Ecuador last Saturday but did not see playing time Wednesday in a 2-0 loss to Costa Rica. Canada likely needs a victory over Brazil Sunday to keep its medal hopes alive. Sailing Oakville sailor Lee Parkhill enters today's action fourth in the laser fleet. Parkhill won three of his first seven races, adding a second- and third-place showing, but dropped in the standings yesterday after posting two eighths and a fifth. The medal round of men's laser, which will count for double points, will take place Saturday near Toronto Island. Softball Oakville resident Steve Mullaley helped Canada win its first four games in men's softball competition in Ajax. The first baseman drove in six runs and scored five times in those games. Canada concluded the opening round last night versus Venezuela. Semifinals are today and medal games are tomorrow. Volleyball T.A. Blakelock high school grad Dan Lewis and the Canadian men's volleyball team will play their first round-robin game tonight in Toronto versus Mexico. Canada will also face Puerto Rico (Sunday) and the United Former Oakville Yacht Squadron sailor Lee Parkhill (left) races in Pan Am Games laser competition near the Toronto shoreline yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Parkhill was second in the laser fleet standings going into yesterday's action, but dropped to fourth after posting a pair of eighth-place finishes and a fifth in yesterday's three races. Pan Am laser sailing concludes tomorrow (Saturday). | photo by Nikki Wesley -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Abbey Park grad wins national junior track title exercise. "It was a long process," Guay said of her rehabilitation from Beaver Sports Editor the leg injury. "We were going through some family stuff as well, my mom had cancer, I was graduating from (Abbey She's a distance runner, not a hurdler. But Evelyne Guay had Park) high school. There was just a lot of stuff going on, so to overcome her share of obstacles on her way to betrack took a little bit of a back seat. coming a national track champion. "Then (at Iowa State) things started off kind of The 19-year-old Oakville resident recently claimed rough, a little bit of a slump at the beginning. But the junior women's 800-metre title at the Canadian once we figured out (she had anemia), things startTrack and Field Championships in Edmonton, posted to go up from there... my coach is a Canadian ing a time of 2:10.15 to finish 31 one-hundredthsfemale, and she's been absolutely great with the of-a-second ahead of Ottawa's Erinn Stenman-Fahey. physical training and the mental part of the sport." "A couple of weeks prior to nationals, I ran a race Guay's second season at Iowa State promises to in B.C. and I got a huge personal best, four seconds be much better, both for herself and her team. Stenahead of my high school personal best," Guay said. Evelyne Guay man-Fahey will join the Cyclones this fall, meaning "That was a huge confidence boost." the top two junior women's 800m runners in CanAnd Guay was in need of one, coming off several frustrating ada will be training together, often on gravel roads adjacent to seasons. corn fields. In 2013, a year after winning the Ontario Federation of Guay's future with the national team appears to be just as School Athletic Associations junior girls' 800m championship, bright. Her win at nationals qualified her for the junior Pan Guay's campaign was derailed by a tibial (leg) stress fracture. Ams later this month, again in Edmonton, and puts her She returned to provincials in 2014, but was kept off the squarely on Athletics Canada's radar when it comes to identipodium in both the 400m and 800m, events she had placed fying potential Olympians. second in as a midget competitor in 2011. "(Olympics) would definitely be an ultimate goal. As long Iowa State University still saw potential in Guay, award- as I've been running, wearing `Canada' on my jersey has been ing her a track-and-field scholarship that began last fall. But my goal," Guay said. "The Olympics would be a dream come Guay's freshman season with the Cyclones was hindered by true." a bout with anemia, a decrease in the amount of red blood -- Guay photo courtesy TrackTown Canada/ cells which often results in fatigue, weakness and inability to Rob Hislop Photography by Jon Kuiperij