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w w w .insideH A LT O N .com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, M a rc h 2 4 , 2 0 1 7 | 2 6 Hornets have home-ice advantage in bid to win their first PWHL title The Oakville Hornets will be looking to win their first Provincial W om en' s Hockey League title this weekend. After finishing first in the league with a record of 3 1 -3 -4 , the Hornets will host the league's championship at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex with games beginning to day (Friday). Also vying for the title will be the thirdplace Toronto Aeros (2 6 -8 -4 ) and the fourth-place Durham W est Lightning (2 4 6 -8 ). The Mississauga Chiefs earned the final spot in the championship by rallying from a 2 -0 series deficit to beat second-place W hit by in five games. Oakville advanced by beating Burlington and Stoney Creek, taking each best-of-five series in four games. The Hornets open the championship weekend with a 9 a.m. game today against Mississauga. They face Durham W est at 6 p.m. and wrap up the round-robin at 2 p.m. Saturday against Toronto. After the round-games, teams will be ranked first to fourth. The third- and fourthplace teams will play for the bronze medal at 11 a.m. Sunday. T he first- and s e c o n d -p la c e team s w ill play for th e ch a m p io n sh ip at 1 :3 0 p .m . Oakville made its first appearance in the PWHLs championship weekend in 2 0 1 5 , beating Toronto to take the bronze medal before going on to win the Ontario W om en' s Hockey Association title. M i N 0 R P E E W E E A A A Nicki Lardis of the Oakville minor peewee AAA Rangers scored the winning goal in the goldmedal game of the OMHA hockey championships in Oakville last weekend. The Rangers edged Barrie 3-2 in the final to capture the five-team tournament. | photo submitted Rangers win second straight OMHA title The host Oakville Rangers edged Barrie 3-2 to win the Ontario Minor Hockey Associa tion minor peewee AAA championship last weekend. It's the second OMHA title in a row and the third in four years for the group of 2005-b orn players. Nicki Lardis scored the winning goal for the Rangers, who also had tallies by Matthew Soto and Tyson Rowan. The two finalists qualified for the champi onship games by finishing first and second in the tournament round-robin. Oakville had eight points and Barrie totalled six. Thirdplace Niagara and fourth-place Southern Tier played for the OMHA bronze medal, with Ni agara winning 4-1. Quinte was the fifth team competing in the tournament. The OMHA title caps a season in which the Rangers finished first with a 2 8-3-5 record in regular-season play. Overall, Oakville was 6 1 9-6 and won the Richard Bell Memorial tour nament as well. Other members of the team include Sawyer Luik, Mason Zebeski, Calum Ritchie, Luke Misa, Quaid Beaudry, Jacob Reigate, Owen Pagniello, Bronson Ride, Ben McKenna, Andrew Brown, Jacob Crisp, Cody O'Neill, Brayden Gillespie and Cole Stevens. The team staff includes head coach Jaan Luik, assistant coaches Aaron Jarc, Bob Zebeski and Pat Ritchie, goalie coach Jeff Allen, trainer David Gillespie and manager Mike Lardis. Reeves scores two including winner for Blades continued from p. 25 games of the series scheduled for Oakville tomorrow and Monday, March 27. All three have 7:30 p.m. start times. Wednesday, the Cougars held the lead for all of 97 seconds after Philip Lagunov scored on a power play midway through the first period. Peyton Reeves of the Blades didn't take long to even the score. Two minutes after the Cougars' Tyler Riter was stopped on a penalty shot at tem pt by Brendan McGlynn, the Blades took the lead for good at the 1 0 :3 3 mark of the second period on Reeves' second goal of the night. Bryce Misley upped the Oakville lead 11:12 into the third period to end the scoring. McGlynn stopped 3 0 shots in the Oakville net for the win while the Cougars' Mario Cavaliere blocked 3 4 shots in a losing cause. Ifyou'd like to advertise your place ofworship in this feature please callJE N N IF E R G O U LD 2 8 9 '2 9 3 '0 6 8 3 PENTECOSTAL PRESBYTERIAN PRESBYTERIAN Knox Presbyterian Church warmly welcomes you to grow with us in faith this Sunday SUNDAY Bible Teaching & Worship Service, 12:30-2:30pm (SOUTH RIDGE ROOM) IROQUOIS RIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE 1051 Glenashton Dr. Glenashton & Eighth Line FRID A Y Teaching & Youth Service 7-8:30pm Tel: 416-892-8123 Fax: 1-866-281-5983 Pastor: Elder M.J. Brissett Email: mjbrisse@yahoo.ca JESUS IS LORD Sunday, March 26th We have two services 9:00 and 10:30 Join us W ednesdays for our Lenten lunch series that continues to m id .April. Jo in us Friday March 31 Fo od, Family andFun for "The Last Supper" Messy Church style. Ah welcom e and doors open at 6:00! New life grow ing. Sundays at 10am & W ednesdays 7pm Trafalgar PRESBYTERIAN trafalgarchurch.ca 905-842-2800 I O A K V IL L E Knox Lakeshore & Dunn 905.844.3472 354 U pper M iddle Road E. ( a ccess from Litchfield ) KnoxO akville.com