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C E N TR A L Wednesday, October 27, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER OAKVILLE PUBLIC LI3RARY MAVY STREET P h il t h y s H a l l o w e e n B a s h Sports The Oakville Aquatic Club hosted its fall invitational meet this past weekend at Centennial Pool (where the accompanying photos were taken) with more than 300 swimmers from several area clubs including North York, East York, Aurora and Variety Village in attendance. $1,0G0 in Prize Giveaways SAT., OCT. 30 · Spin · Wacky Games · Best Individual Costume · Best Group Costume (3 or more) · Game participants An O akville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 8 4 5 -3 8 2 4 (Extension 255) F a x :3 3 7 -5 5 6 7 Oakville Aquatic Club Competitive season kicked o ffat Centennial Pool this past weekend The Oakville Aquatic Club is a swim club on the move, now ranking 11th in Canada and third in Ontario. The autumn classic kicked off the O A C's competitive swim sea son. Local results will be published in a upcoming edition of the Oakville Beaver. A great start to U.S. collegiate career for Tara Nesbitt at RIT Oakville Aquatic Club swimmer Tara Nesbitt had an outstanding colle giate debut this past weekend for the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The freshman set three new school records in the 200m individual medley (2:18.02), 100m backstroke (1:02.68) and 50m backstroke (28.78). She also placed first in the 200m freestyle (2:00.68) and 100m freestyle (55.06). In team events, she swam the backstroke leg of the medley relay and was anchor on the 200m freestyle relay. She led RIT to a third place finish and was named female swimmer of the meet. The sparkling debut earned her the RIT female athlete of the week. Their next swim meet is at Buffalo State this Friday. Photos by Peter C. McCusker The Oakville Aquatic Club hosted its first competitive event of the season this past weekend at Centennial pool and these two photos show some pretty good power generated by Dave Wassenich, 16, of the host Oakville Aquatic Club as he competed Sunday morning in the 400m individual medley event Local results will be published in an upcoming edition, along with m e^photos. Photo by Peter C. McCusker Going indoors By Kathy Yanchus SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER What has 1,456 legs and is grow ing by leaps and bounds every sea son? Those numerous limbs belong to the 728 participants in the Oakville Soccer Club's winter soccer league and there are another 330 pairs of legs on the waiting list. The numbers are overwhelming. "It's twice the demand of the pre vious year," commented Peter Kovacs, the club's new business manager, brought on board to take over administrative duties from a core of overworked volunteers. "Last year, we had two Saturdays of registration and the numbers were big but not taxing on the volunteers. This year, after the first session we were completely booked." The indoor soccer is taking place at the two ClubLink Domes on the North Service Road. It's the brainchild of Air Athletics, now a major tenant of the domes, which are owned by ClubLink (which also owns Glen Abbey Golf (See `O S C page D6) Mike Tarantino (#11) and Mike Porter (#18) of the Oakville Blades have the heat on the Mississauga goalie Friday nighL Blades won this game 7-4, but unfortu nately had the heat applied to them on the next two road stops, losing 6-4 in Georgetown and 5-2 in Buffalo. Road blues for Blades By Matt Nimmo SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The Oakville Blades turned the tables last Friday night with a 7-4 victory over the Mississauga Chargers in Junior A hockey action. Unfortunately they couldn't keep up the m om entum on the road, losing 6-4 in Georgetown on Saturday night, the final goal into an empty net, and then 5-2 in Buffalo on Monday night. Their weekend got off to a good start Friday night. (See 'Blades' page D5) No, the soccer season is not over, it's just gone indoors. This photo is from a recent indoor game in the Oakville Soccer Club's girls U-13/14 division, between the blue and white teams, all sponsored by the Brick. Photo by Christine Smyth SttOgJi0 n e n aT C t t t N S lW [" (" T a 1 f T T > J 7 | r i 1j M I 1 HiOH p fi courtesy ot G lenleven W o to « For all the scores and any team player inform ation visit our w ebsite e e e