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D2 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, August 29, 2001 J 's are having a ball The Oakville J 's Special Olympics softball team had Mother Nature cut short their much anticipated encounter with Hamilton. Rain forced Saturday's match to be scratched in the third inning with Oakville up. Still the J's counted their annual tournament, held at Trafalgar Park, a great success, both on and off the field. On the field, the J's split their first two games, losing to Owen Sound and beating Mississauga. Hamilton won a silver medal at the Ontario Special Olympics Provincial Games held earlier this month. Six of the J's actually competed in the games, winning a gold medal in soccer! The Oakville softball players range in age from 13 to 50 years of age. The dedicated crew practice weekly and attend several tournaments a season. The team is also close off the field, taking in Blue Jay and Raptors games this year. At the Raptors game, they got to shoot some baskets. The team would like to give a hearty thanks to its sponsors -- Investors Group, Ford, Sid's Trophies, Kelsey's, The Bam, McDonalds, Food Basics and Tim Hortons. Athletes are: Kathy Ashwell, Brian Dunn, Brent Fera, Greg Fielding, Cindy Goode, Tim Johnson, Brian Joseph, Jan MacDonald, Steven Muir, Jason Newport, Kim Odbert, Melissa Reid, Mark Rivers, Elizabeth Schaaf, Marie Schrader, Paul Sim, Warren Wright. Manager and head coach is Shari Willis. Assistant coaches are Ann Swartz, Chuck Speight and Blaise Maclijtyre. U-18 Storm: BACK ROW: Gary White, Tanya Dennis, Lvndsay Zeller, Janet Liguori, Katie McCarter, Yola Kolodziej, Melissa Palmieri, Robyn Gayle and Billy McKenna. MIDDLE ROW: Erin Dodorico, Keisha Garrick, Kanisha Campbell and Andrea Phills. FRONT ROW: Jacklyn Singer, Kristi Crampton, Meghan Smith, Heather MacDougall and Diana Matheson. GOALIES: Anne Ogundele and Ashley Glumac. Oakville2-7 in Cup semis It was a good news/bad news sce nario for Oakville in this past week end's Ontario Cup semifinal competi tion. The good news was the sheer num ber o f teams that the Oakville Soccer Club managed to advance to the semi final round of this prestigious competi tion -- one of the oldest sporting events in Canada, first staged in 1901, and operated continuously since that date with the exception of World War Two. Oakville had nine teams in action last weekend, at various venues around the province. The bad news is that only two of the teams will advance to next month's Ontario Cup provincial championship games, in their respective divisions. The complete slate o f cham pi onship games, as usual, will be played at the Ontario Soccer Association Coffee Time centre in Vaughan. First the good news. (U-17, boys) In U-17 tier one boys, Oakville advanced with a 2-0 win over the Woodbridge Strikers. They will meet up with Mississauga Dixie in their provincial championship game on Sunday, Sept. 16, 3 p.m.* Mississauga won their semifinal match 2-1 over Ottawa Capital United. (U-18, girls) In U-18 girls, the Oakville Storm `83 (which supplied several girls to O ntario's Canada Games team) advanced with a 3-0 win over Scarborough Lazors. They will meet up with London Forest United Eagles in their provin cial championship game on Sunday, Sept. 9, 4 p.m. London won their semifinal match 3-1 over Burlington Impact. W ind was a definite factor in Oakville's semifinal game. Facing the wind in the first half, Oakville held the majority of play but weren't displeased at a 0-0 deadlock, to show for it, said coach Billy McKenna. With the wind at their backs in the second half, his charges were able to convert their edge in play to the win ning goal, and then add two late insur ance markers. It's been a banner season, so far, for the team which remains undefeated. They are 10-0 in league play and have now advanced to the championship game in both the Ontario Cup (Sept. 9) and their League Cup (Sept. 29). Oakville's Diana Matheson led the Storm's Canada Games contingent that included Ontario's leading scorer for the tournament, Tanya Dennis, goalie Anne Ogundele and Robin Gayle. OUSTED IN SEMIS Among the Oakville teams ousted were two two-time Ontario Cup provincial champions, proving how elusive it can be to reach the playoff championship, let alone win it. · The Oakville Angels lost 2-0 to London Shooting Stars in an U-16 girls semifinal; · and the Oakville Cobras lost 3-1 to Oshawa Kicks in an U-15 girls semifinal. Here's the other Oakville results ... · Women: Oakville United lose 2-0 to Rexdale Elites; · U-13 girls: Oakville Avalanche lose 2-1 to Mississauga Dixie `88; · U-12 girls: Oakville Hurricane lose 2-1 to Peterborough Panthers. (Boys) · U-19 boys: Oakville United lose 3-1 to Windsor FC Nationals; · U-15 boys: Oakville Strikers lose 2-1 to Mississauga Falcons. Photo by Barrie Erskine Ja n M acD onald serves up the pitch in tournam ent play against H am ilton on S aturday. Vankoeverden at world's in Poland Adam Vankoeverden left junior competition last year as one of the top kayakers in the world. In his first year in senior competi tion, his goal was to make the champi onship final and he did get a nibble of success, as he made one of three finals on the world cup circuit. It was not to be at last weekend's world championships in Poland, howev er, as he had to settle for the consolation `B' final where he finished seventh. "I had visions of making the `A' final," said Vankoeverden. "But I had a very tough draw for the semis. The toptwo guys were Olympic finalists. I felt I had my best possible race. I raced like it was my last event of the season." T h e Oa k v il l e B e a v e r M y name is Susan Hollander and Emily Bruch. More gold at Canada Games Oakville's Canada Games medal haul continued to grow in the conclud ing week. Leading the way was 14-year-old tennis player Ekaterina Shulaeva. It was her goal to win gold at the Canada Games and she was successful with a straight set win (6-2, 6-4) over Bei Er Ko of Quebec. The Oakville resident, who has been playing the sport for seven years, lost her only game in the semifinals, losing 2-1 to Christina Skoda of Alberta. Shulaeva didn't drop a set in the pre liminary round, dispatching opponents from North West Territories, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan. She is already ranked in the top 12 in the country and top three in the province in the U-18 category. She lists her hobbies as swimming, hanging out with friends, watching movies and going to Canada's Wonderland. She lists the retired Steffi Graff as her favourite player. She hopes to one day play on the women's tennis tour. (Melanie Hawtin) Another over-achiever, 13-year-old Melanie Hawtin, continued her string o f amazing results. Despite racing against much older competitors, she picked up a silver and bronze medal, respectively, in the 1500m and 400m wheelchair races, respectively. She will take a well deserved three weeks off to settle back into Grade 8 at Brookdale and then will resume train ing with a goal of making the national team. (Caroline Kaars Sijpesteijn) Caroline Kaars Sijpesteijn, who will enter her OAC year at Oakville Trafalgar High School next week won a bronze medal in sailing (see story). (Murat Sukru) ^ Oakville soccer player Murat Sukru had to settle for winning their 5th/6th place soccer final 4-3 over Saskatchewan. The Ontario boys soccer team were dispatched into the consolation round, losing a close 2 -1 quarterfinal verdict to eventual national champion Alberta. Alberta went on to win the gold medal game 3-0 over Newfoundland, the sur prise of the tournament. (Good showing) The Oakville contingent had con tributed (by themselves or as members of a team) to at least seven Ontario gold medals, including the first week of competition. That's phenomenal when you consider a community like Milton, for instance, had only one athlete at the Games. Not included in this round-up of Oakville athletes was the specific results of our paddlers. We'll have Oakville's final medal tally when we get those on board. Susan and I have been doing the Oakville Beaver together for about a year, I have been doing them for about a year ana a half. We like getting togeth er and doing papers 3 times a week. Susan likes packing papers the most and I like delivering the papers the most, but we each do both and sometimes we do them seperately. We are happy that we know almost everyone on our street just from doing papers. We also got Christmas cards and extra money from some people we deliver to. Susan Emily Sometimes, about once every 2 months we go shopping together using our paper money. It is easierdoing papers withtwo people because when one of us is on vacation the other person does thepapers for them and get paid more money. I think doing the Oakville Beaver makes Susan and I more responsible! Winning Carriers receive a large 3 topping pizza courtesy of: OntM'io's # 7 Pizza,; To join our delivery team call 905-845-9742 Crusaders get back on winning track The Oakville Crusaders got back on track last weekend with an im pressive 61-14 win over Brantford, restoring their 10-point cushion atop the Marshall Division provincial rugby standings. The Cru are also the defending M cCormick Cup playoff champs and, this season, won the provincial sevens title. After a disappointing loss to the Irish, which ended their undefeated season, the Cru traveled to Brantford hoping to restore their confidence. They were good value for their 61-14 victory as the forwards com pletely dom inated the Brantford counterparts and the back line play ers ran riot as they were provided an abundance of ball. The Crusaders now need just one win to successfully defend their league title, with two games remain ing, both at home. Their first opportunity will be Saturday, Sept. 8 with a full contin gent of Balmy Beach teams in town at the Cru's Ninth Line clubhouse. Twilight run (Continued from page D1) Hamilton in a time of 17.44. The following is a summary. MALE 1-19 Kyle Jones, Oakville, 15.17 Ryan Lacquement, Mississauga, 15.56 James Kozak, Oakville, 17.09 MALE 20-34 Kevin Smith, Oakville, 15.29 Michael Brown, Hamilton, 15.33 Michael Bianchi, Oakville 16.20 MALE 35-44 Paul Osland, Oakville 15.05 Gary Roversi, Pelham, 15.57 Ed McColm, Oakville 16.24 MALE 45-54 Brent Hall, Burlington, 19.23 Colin Chappell, Oakville, 20.28 John Toldnes, Milton, 22.26 MALE 55-65 Jimmy O'Brien, Mississauga, 18.55 Koichi Ginnan, Oakville, 19.42 Robert Kidney, Oakville, 23.34 FEMALE 1-19 Jessica Warren, Oakville, 20.08 Leah Weagant, Oakville; 21.46 Katie Whitely, Burlington, 22.02 FEMALE 20-34 Adela Flista, Hamilton, 17.44 Natasha Croswell, Oakville, 22.27 Julie May, Oakville, 23.57 FEMALE 35-44 Sarah Miller, Oakville, 18.38 Jill Lograno, Oakville, 21.16 Joy Kramarich, Oakville, 21.32 FEMALE 45-54 Dorothy Payne, Oakville, 25.42 Carol Murray, Oakville, 26.04 Nancy McPhail, Oakville, 26.56 FEMALE 55-65 Agnes Keenan, Oakville, 30.32 Pat Foord, Oakville 31.39 BE AMONG THE FIRST TO BE FIT BY THE CALLAWAY GOLF CUSTOM FITTING SOLUTION R o c k e ts e a rn a n o th e r s ilv e r m e d a l Great defensive efforts and outstanding goalkeeping by the Oakville Rockers boys U-12 all star team earned them another second place finish. 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