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Oakville Beaver, 15 Sep 2016, p. 53

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Jr. A Blades hit the road after victory in opener Bryce Misley broke a 2-2 tie with his second of three goals, leading the Oakville Blades to a 5-2 win over the Georgetown Raiders Friday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Misley and Ryan Foss, who had two goals and two assists, spotted the Blades a 2-0 lead in the Ontario Junior Hockey League season opener. Georgetown tied the game with a pair of power-play goals but Misley put the Blades in front to stay midway through the second period. Foss added a power-play goal two minutes later, making it 4-2. Misley added an empty-net goal in the third to complete his hat trick. Jackson Bales and Christian Rajic each had a pair of assists. Brendan McGlynn made 30 saves for the win. The Blades played the first of three straight road games last night (Wednesday) against the Toronto Jr. Canadiens. Oakville is in Lindsay on Friday and at St. Bryce Misley (18) of the Oakville Blades celebrates with teammates after scoring during the second period Mike's on Sunday before returning home to play Mississauga on Friday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Sixteen Mile at Friday's season-opening Ontario Junior Hockey League game against the Georgetown Raiders. Oakville won 5-2. | photo by Kevin Sousa -- OJHL Images Sports Complex. Olympic swim medallist is part of TRAC Fun Day Lacrosse won't be the only sport on the minds of visitors to Oakville's Toronto Rock Athletic Centre on Saturday, Sept. 17. The facility handlers have invited Olympic swimmer Michelle Williams, who was part of Canada's bronze-medal winning 4x100-metre freestyle team at the Rio Games in August. Williams will be signing autographs and be available for photos with her bronze medal from 11 a.m.noon as part of Community Fun Day at TRAC, which goes from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Festivities include a community barbecue, the Beaver Trails food truck, and face painting, balloon animal artist, bouncy castle, games and prizes for the kids. Lacrosse fans can test their accuracy in the Rock shooting gallery in the presence of Toronto Rock players and cheerleaders. Toronto Rock legend Colin Doyle, now TRAC athletics director, will sign autographs and answer questions about the new programming offered at the TRAC this fall. "We have a lot of exciting projects that will be rolled out over the coming months, Doyle said. TRAC, located at 1132 Invicta Dr., is the official practice facility of the National Lacrosse League's Toronto Rock. It features two arena playing surfaces (one turf and one concrete), and a FIFA-certified regulation size outdoor turf soccer field, which is also regulation size for field lacrosse. Registration is now on for TRAC Athletics programs. Visit torontorockac.com or call 416-596-3075. A T H L E T I C C E N T R E 53 | Thursday, September 15, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Robbins, Boulton finish 10th in women's triathlon at Rio Paralympics Ottawa's Christine Robbins and her guide, Oakville's Sasha Boulton, finished 10th in Sunday's women's Paralympic triathlon. Competing in the PT5 class, Robbins and Boulton had one of their strongest performances since joining forces last year. Battling extreme heat, Robbins, 38, and Boulton, 22, finished the course in one hour, 22 minutes and 59 seconds. "I feel like that was the best race that I have ever done," said Robbins. "I died a bit at the end, but I feel like everything went great for us all day. We could have likely pushed a little harder, but we were trying to be a little bit cautious with the heat as well." Australia's Katie Kelly and her guide, Michelle Jones, won the PT5 division at 1:12:18. Great Britain's Alison Patrick and Hazel Smith (1:13.20) and Melissa Reid and Nicole Walters (1:14.07) won silver and bronze, respectively. T O R O N T O R O C K Smeenk 6th in 100m at Rio Paralympics Oakville's Austin Smeenk finished sixth in his Paralympic debut Monday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 19-year-old was the youngest finalist in the men's T34 100-metre final. He had a time of 16.21 seconds. Walid Ktila of Tunisia won the race in a Paralympic record of 15.14, cutting three-tenths of a second off the new standard he set the previous day in the heats. "I was hoping for a better outcome," Smeenk said. "Moving forward I am looking at (Wednesday's) 800m. The 100m was a good race for me to break the ice." Smeenk turned in a time of 16.03 seconds to finish second to Australian Rheed McCracken, who went on to take the silver medal in the final, in his heat Sunday. That was just off his personal best of 15.96. The Iroquois Ridge graduate competed in the 800m with heats Tuesday and the final yesterday (Wednesday), after the Beaver's press deadline. Austin Smeenk of Oakville finished sixth at the 2016 Rio Paralympics on Monday, recording a time of 16.21 seconds in the T34 100 metres.| File photo Follow Halton sports on Twitter: @postbeaversport (Kevin Nagel, Burlington Post and Oakville Beaver sports editor) @miltononsports (Steve Leblanc, Milton Canadian Champion sports editor) @herbgarbutt (Post, Beaver, Champion sports reporter)

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