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w w w .insidehalton.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, July 7 , 2 0 1 7 | 1 8 As pitchers tw o-hit Bram pton in Mississauga North tourney win Brayden Makowich worked five scoreless in nings and Bryson Guy pitched the final two as the pair of right-handers combined on a two-hitter, helping the Oakville As edge the Brampton Royals 2-1 in the final of the Missis sauga North minor bantam baseball tourney. Guy tripled and scored on a Jac k Lam ont ground ball in the top of the seventh for a 2-0 lead and then, with runners on second and third and two out, recorded the final out of the gam e on a called third strike. Christian Stefan, who made three high light-reel plays at shortstop, knocked in the gam e's opening run in the first and the score stayed that way until the seventh. L u cas Cipola, Wil Yamka and Lam ont each drove in two runs as Oakville edged the W aterloo Tigers 9-6 in the sem ifinal. Yamka pitched 3 2/3 innings, allow ing three unearned runs and fanning four for the win. Ju stin Jan g recorded the save, pitching the final two innings allowing one run and strik ing out three. Jan g also doubled in a run, while Stefan had three hits. Yamka, Jan g and Jordan W oods combined and W oods got the the save. M akowich scored the only run of the game in the sixth when he singled, stole second and third and came across on a wild throw. Aidan MacCormack, David Michaud and Guy combined on a four hitter and didn't al low an earned run, as the A's moved to 2-0 in pool play with a 5-3 win over Markham. Woods drove in a run, while Jan g doubled. The other hits went to Mark Schmid, Jang, Cipola, Stefan and Michaud. Playing in the rain, Oakville beat the Ni agara Falcons 8-0 thanks to the pitching of M akowich and Guy. Makowich worked four innings for the win and Guy three for the save. Schmid had two hits and drove in a pair, Jan g doubled and singled and Cipola doubled, plating a pair. Oakville pitchers allowed two earned runs in 35 innings, com bining to strike out 28. M akowich pitched nine scoreless frames while Yamka pitched 7 1/3 innings without giving up an earned run and Guy, six, with zero earned runs. Jan g and Stefan shared the As lead in hits with six, while Cipola drove in four runs. The Oakville A's edged the Brampton Royals 2-1 to win the recent Mississauga North minor bantam baseball tournament. | photo submitted on a two-hitter as Oakville edged the Whitby Chiefs 1-0 in the opener of round-robin play as Nathan Pauley dom inated at second base. Yamka pitched 3 2/3, Jan g 2 2/3 for the win Attawapiskat, Oakville hockey exchange to promote cross-cultural learning By Alex McKeen Toronto Star Gabriel Hookimaw, Gavin Peesker and Blake Cooper have one very important thing in com mon: they are all young, devoted hockey fans. Aside from that, it would seem that the kids lead drastically different lives. Hookimaw, 13, lives in Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, while Peesker, 13, and Cooper, 12, live in suburban Oakville. (They also disagree on which team is the best -- Hookimaw likes the Oilers, Peesker and Cooper like the Habs). But they'll be side-by-side next w eek -- playing hockey as part of am algam ated teams m eant to foster connections and cross cultural appreciation. "We're going to play with them, not against them ," Peesker said. The kids are taking part in Hockey Cares, the brainchild of Oakville's Sue Heddle. For the program , 14 bantam Attawapiskat play ers will travel to Oakville next week. In N o vember, 17 Oakville players will go to Attawapiskat, where they'll play hockey and learn about the local culture. The Hockey Cares committee obtained support from Experiences Canada, and w as awarded funds from The Gord Downie & Chanie W enjack Fund to run the exchange, in addition to private donations. Heddle thought of the idea because she w as struck that Ontarians seem ed to m obi lize more effectively for international disas ters than for troubled com m unities in their own province, like Attawapiskat. "I felt like I needed to do som ething so that Canadians w ould pay attention to what's go ing on in our own backyard," Heddle said, referring to the crises of housing and youth suicide in the northern community. The bantam boys hockey team in Attawapiskat travelled to Oakville yesterday (Thursday) for the first part of the Hockey Cares exchange. One way to do that, she thought, w as to facilitate an occasion for the young people of both places to realize som e com m on ground. Hockey w as a ready-made solution, since its roots in each com munity run deep. "They love sports, that's for sure," said Steve Kataquapit, Hookim aw 's father and the coach of the Attawapiskat team. "But that's one thing that's a shortfall here -- activities." Kataquapit says that the team rarely attends tournaments because it is too expensive to travel from their remote nation. That m akes this program a unique op portunity for the team to connect with other young hockey players, and travel to a com m unity that is different from its own. Hookimaw said that, since he' s never been to Oakville or the vicinity before, he's looking for ward to playing hockey with the kids there, then showing them his own home in November. The participants had an opportunity to connect over Skype a few w eeks ago, when they learned that they shared som e favourite teams and hockey players. "People think there aren't many com m on things with the Indigenous people and the people here," Cooper said. "But there really are lots of things in com m on." The cohorts from Oakville and Attawapiskat are each preparing itineraries filled with activities they'd like to share with their peers. Kataquapit said that he's hoping they'll be able to organize a traditional powwow, and teach the Oakville kids how to prepare geese. These are activities Peesker and Cooper are looking forward to. "I'm really excited to learn about their culture, doing what they do. The traditional things, eating their food," Peesker said. Heddle hopes to register Hockey Cares as a charity so that, once the Oakville and Attaw apiskat crews get connected, the "tem plate" of Hockey Cares m ay be replicated by other communities. "They want to learn. They want to know this stuff," she said of the kids' enthusiasm for the program. Jp JOHN PALADINO L A W O F F IC E Y O U T H S O C C E R agS P OUTDOOR HOUSE LEAGUES AT APPLEBY COLLEGE ft ST. 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