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Wednesday, September 29, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 a" OtHwl Sports IS YOUR GARAGE PROTECTING YOUR CAR BETTER THAN YOUR BARGAIN-RATE CAR INSURANCE? Don't trust just anyone to insure your car, see me: W ayne M cGill 2345 VlVtooS Rd.« I. Oakvik 847-5671 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 255) Fax:337-5567 Photos by Peter C. McCusker The Blades picked up three of four points from their weekend home stand, including this 6-6 draw with Streetsville on Friday night TOPPHOTO: the Oakville Blades Stu MacCrimmon gets polk checked by Derbys Terry Lenyk. BOT­ TOM PHOTO: Mike Lukajic lets a slapshot fly at the Derby's goalie. Final frame let-down against Streetsville costs Blades a chance at weekend sweep By M att Nimmo SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER The Oakville Blades carried a 6-2 lead into the third peri­ od, but ended up squandering it, settling for a 6-6 tie with the Streetsville Derbys in provincial junior A hockey action last Friday night. Blades' assistant coach Peter Seesle felt it was a learning experience for his team: "It's early in the season, these things happen." Added general manager George McDonald. "It was a case of everyone letting down after a nice lead. Everybody want­ ed to play by themselves." The Blades obviously learned from their experience, pre­ serving a 4-2 win at home on Sunday night against Bramalea. The Blades allowed a 2-0 lead to disappear early in the third period but dug down deep to record the winning goal before adding an empty net insurance marker with one sec­ ond left. Seesle is pleased, overall, with his team building up an early season 3-1-1 record but was expecting a tough battle tonight (Wednesday) in Milton. In last Friday's 6-6 draw, coach Seesle thought that Mike Lukajic stood out with his continuous scoring chances and aggressiveness on the ice. He picked up player of the game honours. Oakville got off to a very fast start, scoring three goals in the first 1:42. Mike Porter got it all started 18 seconds into the game, followed by tallies by Rob Kapuscinski and Perry Ryerson. Mike Tarantino scored a goal on a delayed penalty on a great pass from the comer by Marc Pinnizotto. The Blades carried most of the action in the first period, supplying almost all the shots on goal, and were hitting hard­ er and more aggressive. With the Blades leading 4-0 into the second period, the Derbys finally appeared on the scoreboard. Oakville put two more on the board, making it 6-1. The game was becoming a one-sided match. Streetsville added one more before the end of the period, shrinking the Blades' lead to 6-2. The third period featured the Derbys comeback. A power-play goal about four minutes into the game closed the gap to three. A beautiful deke on a breakaway made it 6- 4. Then, if things couldn't get worse for Oakville, a shot from the neutral zone fooled Blades' goalie Matt Collaton, deflect­ ing off his glove, into the net. With one goal being the differ­ ence late in the period, Streetsville pulled their goalie for an extra attacker. The strategy worked as a slapshot from the point tied the game with 36 seconds left in regulation. UPCOMING The Blades hit the road with a game in Milton tonight (Wednesday) and then play a home game against Buffalo this Friday, 7:30 p.m. at their Ice Sports Oakville home. The Burloak Canoe Club earned bronze at the recent national club championships in Ottawa. Here's the con­ tingent that represented the Oakville-based club, one of the tops in the country. Bronze for Burloak The Burloak Canoe Club fin­ ished up four days of paddling at the Canadian Championships in Ottawa in third place. Coming in to the competition as national champions in '97 and '98, Burloak had their work cut out for them. Every member raced to per­ sonal bests and the club was very pleased with the results. Adam Vankoeverden led Burloak's medal haul with five golds. Adam won all three of his juvenile kayak races -- the 200, 500 and 1000 metres. He joined Adam Oldershaw, Graham Cobb and Greg Redman to win the Senior K-4, 1000 metres and teamed up with Adam Oldershaw to win the Juvenile K-2, 200 metres. Adam Oldershaw went on to win his third gold in a K-4 crew that included his father Scott, as well as Redman and Cobb. This is the sec­ ond consecutive year that the father and son team has won gold racing together in the same boat, setting Canadian history. Mark Oldershaw added to the family's medal haul by winning the midget canoe 1000 metre race with a record breaking time and the 6000 metre race. He teamed up with Sean Coghlin to win a silver medal in midget C-2 (See 'Burloak' page 03) Oakville Aquatic Club members attended a special I CAN SWIM kick off event in Toronto with national team members. Oakville Aquatic Club mem­ bers are in italics. BACK ROW: Marianne Limpert, Mark Versfeld, Joanne Malar, Marco Monaco, Carey Swift, national team coach Dave Johnson. MID­ DLE ROW: Kimmi Labbett, Scott Samuel, Jessica Plata, Laura Schubert, David Landry, Kevin Jones, Laura Connor (hidden) and Laura MacKay-Case. FRONT ROW: Shamek Pietucha. Young Olym pic hopefuls meet with national team members Several Oakville Aquatic Club swimmers made some waves recently, as they participated in a kick-off event at the Etobicoke Olympium. The event was hosted by Swim Ontario to promote National Swim Week and the new Sears Canada I Can Swim program. Oakville Aquatic Club swimmers, Laura Connor, Kevin Jones, Kimmi Labbett, David Landry, Marco Monaco, Scott Samuel, Laura Schubert, and Jessica Plata, joined other Toronto area young swimmers under the age of 12 who are peaking for the 2008 Olympics. National swim team members M arianne Limpert, Mark Versfeld, Shamek Pietucha, emerging national (See 'aquatic club' page D3) Sports By Matt Nimmo SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER