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www.insidehalton.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, M ay 26, 2 0 1 7 | 22 It's getting tougher each year for Titans to win Hatton field lacrosse By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Marley Angus took the pass and cut to the middle of the field. Since the Halton high school lacrosse league w as formed in 2014, the Holy Trinity Titans have known no other ending to the season except celebrating a championship. N ow their reign as Halton cham pions was being threatened. One goal could bring it to an end. But with the ball in the pocket of his stick, An gus could bring the Titans a fourth straight title. "The plan w as to w ork it around for a shot, and find where it needs to go," Angus said. Running to his left, A ngus took two steps toward the net, pulled his stick back and unleashed a shot. The ball bounced about 10 feet out from the Oakville Trafalgar goal, skipped past the goalie and into the back of the net. Right where it needed to be. "To win it for the fourth year in a row is pretty cool," said Angus, who scored three times and set up four more in the Titans' 12 11 overtime win over the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils. "I think this is the strongest year we've had yet," said Mike Dobko, who scored sev en times in the final for the Titans. "We're looking forward to OFSAA and if we go play our best, we're going for gold." Holy Trinity's title defence didn't quite start the way it had hoped. Led by Payton Corm ier, who finished the gam e with four goals and three assists, Oakville Trafalgar jum ped out to a 5-1 lead. However, the Titans battled back to tie the game 5-5 by halftime. The second half played out m uch like the regular-season meeting between the teams, which Trinity won 9-8. The teams traded goals back and forth throughout the half and the Titans led 11-10. But the Red Devils scored late to force overtime. It was not the first time Trinity had faced overtime in the final, having needed extra time to win the 2015 cham pionship against Georgetown's Christ the King. Ryan Curran and Robert Proner also scored for the Titans. For OT, Jacob Hosein scored three times and Aidan Child had a pair of goals. Grant Patterson and Liam Kealey also scored while Kyle Kennery had two assists. For now, Trinity will m aintain bragging rights, but it will be a task that will become increasingly harder in the future. The Halton league has grown from six team s in 2015 to 14 this year. Am ong the six news team s in the league this year w as Oakville Trafalgar. "It's building a nice, healthy rivalry," said Trinity coach Robbie Nacevicius. "To see Holy Trinity's Marley Angus battles an Oakville Trafalgar opponent during Thursday's Halton lacrosse final. Angus scored in overtime as Holy Trinity won 12-11 to claim its fourth straight Halton title. | photo by Graham Paine - Oakville Beaver OT in the final in their first year and see the sport of lacrosse grow to 14 teams, that's phenom enal." And even though OT w as fielding a team for the first time, a rivalry already existed with m ost of the players from both teams having played together in either m inor or junior lacrosse. "That gives you more motivation to play even better," D obko said. The rivals m ay still m eet again. Both teams advance to the Ontario Federation of School Athletic A ssociations tournam ent May 31Ju n e 2 in Brantford. Four Oakville players still have chance to hoist NLL Cup this season By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Oakville's Chris Corbeil will be looking to lift the Cham pion's Cup for the third year in a row when the National Lacrosse League final be gins Ju ne 4. The Saskatchewan Rush captain and his teammates edged the Colo rado Mammoth 11-10 Saturday to continue their title defence. Corbeil missed both of Saskatchewan's playoff games against Colorado due to injury but is expected back for the final. The three-time nominee for the league's defensive player of the year, Corbeil had six goals and 19 points this season while scooping up 100 loose balls and creating 25 turnovers. The Rush went to the final in 2012, Corbeil's first year with the team after being acquired from Buffalo, but lost to Rochester. The Edm onton Rush won its first cham pionship in 2015 and then defended its title in 2016 after the team m oved to Saskatchewan. Standing in the way of the Rush's third straight Cham pion's C up is the Georgia Swarm, including's Oakville Jordan M acIntosh, Alex Rush's Chris Corbeil hopes to lift the Cham pion's Cup for the third straight year. | photo courtesy Saskatchewan Rush Crepinsek and Bryan Cole. The Swarm com pleted a two-game sweep of the Toronto Rock with a 13-9 win Saturday. MacIntosh had 12 goals and 34 points in 17 games for the Swarm this season. The two-time NLL tran sition player of the year finished fifth in the league with 153 loose balls and 27 created turnovers. He was also Georgia's top faceoff man, winning 50.4 per cent of 434. Crepinsek had two goals and 10 assists and w as fourth on the team with 76 loose balls. Cole, a rookie, had six goals and five assists and w as third on the team with 15 created turnovers. All three Oakville players are first-round picks of the Swarm with M acIntosh and Cole going fourth overall in 2011 and 2016, respectively, and Crepinsek going 10th overall in 2012. It is the first N LL final for the Swarm, who played in Minnesota prior to the 2016 season. Georgia led the East Division at 13-5 while Saskatchewan finished atop the West with a 12-6 mark. The best-of-three Cham pion's Cup final begins Ju ne 4 in Georgia. 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