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* Wednesday, February 9, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D3 Filane: Oakville a home away from home (Continued from page D1) O a k v i Li k M i n o r S u m m e r H o c k e y L e a g u e M ay - August Schedule Including "vacation week" to assist w ith holiday planning. So you start using the combina O N o n -co n tact O D ivisions for boys O 14-gam e schedule & girls ages 5-15 tions when it's available to you rate risers but it's definitely not O T rophies & awards O N o w eekends o r Fridays or when it's the opportune time. a magic potion for elite ath O Prim e tim e evening games O C ertified officials "Right now, age isn't really letes. O Games on brand new Olym pic O C o ach in g & sponsorship size River O aks surface p o sitions available s coming into play because if I "I make sure I sleep," he O N o fu n d raisin g | O B alancing o f team s fought myself when I was 20, said "I'm in bed at 11, 12 A p p l ic a t io n s a v a il a b le a t R iv e r O a k s , G l e n A bbey, M a in w a y & A p p le b y C o l l e g e a r e n a s . F o r i n f o r m a t io n o r t o r e c e iv e a n a p p l ic a t io n today, I'm pretty sure the guy p.m... Sleep is probably the (905) 510-1447 today would win, just because I most important part of training T h is is n o t affiliated w ith the M O H A was smarter. I would be able to and people don't understand. A staff w ith se ve ra l ye a rs of c o a c h in g , officiating & le a g u e a d m in is tra tio n e xp erie nce g ua ra n te es a w e ll-o rg a n iz e d & q u a lity le a g u e for y o u r c h ild . out manoeuvre myself. They think, `he's in bed again'! Registration: Sunday. February 13th 1:30-3 p.m . at River Oaks Community Centre "In our division internation But if you don't rest, you can't ally, in the smaller weights as recuperate." well as the heavy and super heavy weights, it's all older Oakville has become a fighters, the 30's, 32's." home away from home for At the same time, the end of both Domenic and his brother his boxing career is very much D on't m iss out on playing Gerry, himself a noted boxer. A CAN AD A'S N ational Su m m er Sp o rt in sight, in fact it's imminent former national team member, "We had planned to retire he is the provincial champion in his weight class but finally after the 2000 Olympics whether we go or we don't go. saw his own Olympic dream "The fa s te s t gam e on tw o f e e t " That is the time we set." end when he lost in the nation He would like nothing better al `box-off' round to the even than to close final chapter with tual winner. is on: a third Olympic games appear Part of a big family of six P h o to by B arrie E rskine ance. brothers and two sisters, Gerry and "It's an experience of a life and Domenic, almost a decade Domenic Filane has turned down offers to turn pro. time just being there. ago, were in the Toronto area Competition wise, you have some "Our governing body should have pursuing their amateur boxing careers at the good things here, you do some good stepped in. We knew about this guy when they just happened to take a trip Glen Abbey Recreation Centre, Meeting Room A (near arena) two years ago so I mean it was nothing things there, but most of all it's just a in to Oakville with their brother, Sal, 9 KX) a .m . - 1 : 0 0 p .m . new to us. confidence builder that you're able to who was enrolled at Sheridan College Fgg: "We knew he was trying to fight in compete with these guys. at the time. Peanuts: $45 Tyke & up: $150 "You're not getting blown out of the Ontario. He went to court in Ontario. "He was commuting in from All registrants must bring a photocopy of He got the injunction to fight. He beat water. It just makes you go back to the Toronto every day and we came with them in court so many times, they just gym and say, hey, let's work a little him one day and we said, well, this is a Birth Certificate and Health Card wouldn't go to court with him any harder and let's get this done." pretty nice little city. It's like a town, more. but still it's a city so then we ended up "So then he got to the Canadian While the days of stepping into the getting an apartment here and we've at St. Tho m a s Aquinas H.S. ( c o r n e r o f R e b e c c a a n d D o r v a l amateur boxing level, and they just sort ring may be numbered, Filane will loved it every since." Sa t., February 26, 2000 Sa t., M arch 18, 2000 of, you know the old school, we'll likely always remain in the comer, So much so, that they've now Saturday, M arch 25, 2000 worry about it when it comes. Ah, bought a building on Kerr Street, offering his help and expertise. don't worry. He's not going to come. `There are always other options to which has room to expand their busi 1 2 :0 0 - 4 :0 0 p .m Just taking it for granted. Then he stay in the sport and give back to it. I ness into as well as an upstairs apart Peanut - 12:00 p.m . T y k e - 1:00 p.m . came and dropped a bombshell. I was ment. work with some of the boxers here in N o vice · 2:00 p.m . Peewee and u p - 3:00 p.m . $3.00 per child upset on that fact." The Kerr Street storefront will (See 'Filane' page D6) Sticks will be available for purchase or loan! Boxing is one of those sports in allow them to store product from their which the competitors train to peak for Schreiber-based spring water company a particular fight or competition, and to which they call Filane's Canadian have it suddenly postponed for a Springwater. month did affect Filane's readiness. They've had it since `92, and they "I think we just seen that affect with have a well and a production facility, The Oakville Soccer Club is hold me losing the national championship. employing about a dozen workers ing open registration Mentally you're prepared to do a job, (mostly family members), about six for all new players physically you're ready, and with a miles outside of Schreiber. and returning players high performance athlete, you can only "Now it's a matter of distributing it (who did not meet peak so many times during the y e a r... up into the Oakville/Toronto area. " the mail-in deadline of Friday, Jan. 21). "So mentally you drop, physically Their sportswear embroidery busi The second of two you drop. And then to bring it back up ness employs four at another facility in registrations will be Schreiber where they also have an a month later to that same level, it just held this Saturday threw my system off. It may have upstairs apartment as well as a boxing (Feb. 12), 9 a.m. to 1 worked for the guy that eventually beat gym in the back. p.m., at the Town of Lessons for The sportswear business, called Oakville Office on me in the end, but for a guy that's been 2 p e o p le Trafalgar Road. Hollywood Filane Sportswear, now on the team 10 years, it was kind of includes a lot of Oakville/Toronto like throwing a shoe into the wheel and Private The Oakville the wheel's going to stop, sort of accounts. Minor Lacrosse Lessons thing." "With networking and stuff, whoev Association is hold Small G rou p er you meet you end up talking ... and ing the second o f two registrations this The 30-year-old Filane swears it's they say `what do you do' and I tell Lessons Saturday (Feb. 12) not age, either, that's creeping up on them, and I find out what they do, and at the Glen Abbey usually we can work hand in hand. So him. It's the age-old question for an | Expires Feb.29/00 J Rec Centre, Meeting I have a lot of customers in the Toronto elite athlete when they finally reach a Room A (near arena), area, the Oakville area, whether it be a point where the ever increasing curve 9 a.m.-l p.m. All registrants o f experience cannot compensate for sports team or be a little business that must bring a photo wants hats for their business and stuff." the effects of dwindling youth. copy of birth certifi Filane figures he spends more than Filane, however, said he hasn't · N E W ! G lo w in the cate and health card. half his time in Oakville. reached that point, and that he's confi Lacrosse clinics Dark Rock Clim bing "Right now I'm in between both. dent he could defeat any earlier version will follow on three · C o m e challenge yourself! Saturdays (Feb. of himself. Schreiber has been very good to me 26/March 18/25) at and so has Oakville. Oakville has taken "When I was 20-23 I had not a lot St. Thomas Aquinas. of skill. I just went in there with all me in as their own, so I'm a dual citi Sticks will be avail zen." heart and just threw punches in bunch able for purchase or Which is what the Oakville Beaver es and things went my way. loan. tagged him with during the 96 "As you get older, you get smarter, Olympic Games coverage. you start knowing more combinations. "That's where I've been using the term from," he said, chuckling. " I did n't come up with it on my own." Oakville Minor Lacrosse Association LACR O SSE -REGISTRATION-- Saturday, February 5, 2000 Saturday, February 12, 2000 L A C R O S S E C L IN IC S Sports Briefs f r e e "r e g i s t r a t i o n INCLUDING UNIFORM ! $ 100 Value each. Fitness/ROCK CLIMDING H |$ 3 0 y d u e e a c h . F £ & j FM EM O NTH1 & Having won 10 straight national championship titles, Filane must have wondered if he would ever lose. "Well," he said, chuckling, "that's a very good question. I've been asking myself that. "But the way I look at it, when you go to a crap table and you start shoot ing craps, after seven or eight passes, you know, you're doing well and something's bound to happen, after nine or 10 passes, craps is going to come up. So I think that's what hap- . pened." The controversy with the Sikh boxer didn't help matters, he conceded. "It was a lot of controversy, it put a lot of us guys in the middle of it because we were ready a month ago to get this all over with and do what we were trained to do. We got there, and all the sudden they said, no, you can't box. So it's like a sh o c k ... it just threw everybody mentally off our games for a month. "It was a situation that should have been dealt with before he got there and got it all over with." Everyone, he said, knew the issue would come to a head, except, appar ently, the national association. 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