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Oakville's Kendrick, Cartwright excel at World Dwarf Games Two short-statured Oakville kids who usually like to compete and play hard with their average-size neighbours got the chance to face similar sized athletes at the recent World Dwarf Games in Guelph. Justin Kendrick, 14, and Lucy Cartwright, 13, were teammates on the JRB Team Canada (12-15-yearolds) that won gold medals in soccer and floor hockey and silver medals in volleyball and basketball. They competed against four other teams in their age bracket, three from the United States and another from Great Britain. Team Canada had athletes from Nunavut, Newfoundland, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. In individual events the Oakville pair competed against representatives from 19 other countries. Kendrick won gold in doubles badminton and bronze in singles, SS6 category for para-badminton. He has already competed internationally in Colombia and is planning on attending the Canadian para-badminton championships in Vancouver in September. Cartwright won gold medals in three track and field sports -- the 60m dash, 4x60m relay shuttle dash and the shot put. She added silver-medal wins in the javelin and 100m dash. She combined with a friend from Tillsonburg, Ont. to earn a silver medal in badminton and finished fourth in singles badminton. Another love of Cartwright's in competing for Oakville's Cheerforce cheerleading squad. Last spring she contributed to Cheerforce winning a national title. She also plays in the Halton Cowboys flag football league and at Montclair Public School plays volleyball and basketball. Cartwright and some of the other competitors at the WDG in Guelph are being recruited for the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2020 as T-40 and T-41 competition for short-stature athletes. WDF 2017 was the largest sporting event in history held exclusively for athletes with dwarfism. The goal was to attract athletes from around the world to participate in more than a dozen sports. Athletes also participated in special events to celebrate international understanding, promote awareness of the dwarf experience worldwide, provide on-site clinics for athletes and sports professionals and introduce participants to elite athletes with dwarfism, many of whom have participated in international competitions such as the Parapan Am Games and Paralympics. 25 | Friday September 8, 2017 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insidehalton.com Pam Damoff (left), MP Oakville North-Burlington and Oakville councillor Dave Gittings (right) present World Dwarf Games medallists Justin Kendrick and Lucy Cartwright with awards of achievement at Oakville Town Hall for their efforts at the World Dwarf Games in Guelph last month. | photo submitted and in the pool he was a silver medallist in the 25-metre backstroke. Kendrick, whose favourite sports are hockey and badminton, has been training to compete in the Hosts win two of three titles at fifth annual Toronto Rock Jr. NLL Champion's Cup The fifth annual Jr. National Lacrosse League tournament ended in a similar fashion to last year's tournament, with Toronto Rock Jr. NLL Champion's Cup wins at the peewee and bantam levels. The Midget Jr. Rock came up just short, losing in the final. Semifinals and finals were played Sunday. Thirty-two teams competed during the three-day tournament at the Toronto Rock Athletic Centre and Glen Abbey Community Centre in Oakville. The bantam Jr. Rock, which averaged almost 18 goals a game through a 4-0 round robin, faced the Jr. Edmonton squad in the semifinals. Edmonton played tight defence and kept the Rock under 10 goals, but the Rock prevailed 9-4 to move on to the final. The offence was back to shooting the lights out in the final against the Jr. Vancouver Stealth. Leading 5-1 at halftime, the offence found its groove as the second half played out. The two teams traded goals to open the second half, but a 6-0 run by the Jr. Rock iced a 12-2 win for the defending Jr. NLL champs. Rock's Jake Dawick ran away with the division scoring title with 11 goals and 20 assists for 31 points in just six games. After a 3-1 round robin record that included a tiebreaking win over the Jr. Colorado Mammoth, the Jr. Rock peewees came out firing with an 11-3 semi-final win over Edmonton. Ty Jesso added to his team-leading goal total with another two in the victory. In the final, the Jr. Rock met up with the Jr. Mammoth. After falling behind 2-0, the Rock scored its first goal of the game with just 14 seconds left in the first half. That goal sparked a five-goal run that continued through the second half. Jesso again scored a pair of goals in the 7-4 win and also earned tournament MVP honours for the second consecutive year. Jonathan Preshko paced the midget Jr. Rock in Sunday's opening game with a threegoal effort in an 8-2 semifinal win over the Jr. Saskatchewan Rush. In the final, a close first half was broken open with a pair of late goals from the Calgary Jr. Roughnecks, giving them a 3-1 lead at the half. The Jr. Rock tied the game 4-4 midway through the second half, but it was the Jr. Roughnecks with three goals over the final 8:19 to seal a 7-5 win and the Midget Jr. NLL Champion's Cup. This year's tournament was the largest in the five-year history of the event. For the first time all nine current NLL teams were represented. Former NLL cities with players from Edmonton and Philadelphia also competed. Visit torontorock.com/tickets or call 416596-3075 for information on 2018 Toronto Rock season tickets. 9 0 % S O LD O U T, RE G I ST E R T O D AY ! 905.845.6989 ashl.ca/oakville