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Wednesday, March 3, 1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C7 Photo by Peter J. Thompson These Oakville Skating Club members have all earned berths at this weekend's Central Ontario Section (COS) interclub championships. BACK ROW: Jessica Hudson, Melanie Vipond, Peter Ponert, Vikki Belchers and Jennifer Court. FRONT ROW: Adam Dawson, Stephanie Van Veen and Eric Von Hagen. ABSENT: Tommy Dzamba and Lauren Sule. Oakville skaters qualify for Central Ontario finals The Oakville Skating Club has advanced several skaters to the Central Ontario Section (COS) interclub championship. The skaters earned their berths with top-two finishes at the recent Metro West interclub com­ petition. The COS championships are being held this weekend (March 6/7) at the Downsview Arena. And here are the Oakville Skating Club mem­ bers who have earned their way there: Dance: Jennifer Court and Tommy Dzamba; Stephanie Van Veen and Adam Dawson. Both in juvenile compulsory dance. Ladies: Vikki Belchers (gold freeskate), Jessica Hudson (junior silver freeskate), Lauren Sule (juvenile freeskate) and Melanie Vipond (senior silver freeskate and gold artistic). Men's: Peter Ponert Jr. (preliminary freeskate) and Eric Von Hagen (pre-juvenile freeskate). Photo by Peter C. McCusker The Oakville Rangers triple-A minor novice rep team has a rather famous sponsor in Scott Goodyear, and during a recent visit he stepped in for a team photo. BACK ROW: Mark Borcsok, Patrick Chiasson, Adam DiMarco, Connor McMonagle, Tyler Stothers, Scott Goodyear (sponsor), Steven Guzzo, Spencer Metcalfe, Brian Urquhart, Scott Tanski and Jordan Bortolotti. BOTTOM ROW: Ian Paradis, Andrew Neuwald, Matthew Quigley (goalie), Peter DiSalvo (goalie), Anthony Scalia and Patrick Marsh. Sheridan opens up defence o f provincial crown Thursday The Sheridan Bruins men's basketball team begin defence of their provincial crown Thursday as the final-eight tourney gets under way at Mohawk College in Hamilton. The Bruins certainly have a good shot. They wrapped up first place in the very tough central division and are the highest ranked team in the Ontario playdowns, slotted third in the country. No one, however, has to remind coach Jim Flack that the post season is a new season. "It was nice to win the division but that means absolutely nothing now," said Flack after last Thursday's regular season finale, a 91-62 win over Centennial. The Bruins had already locked up first place going into the game. As of press time the playoff puzzle was almost complete with seven of the eight teams accounted for. The opening game for Sheridan was already set, slated for Thursday, 4 p.m., against St. Lawrence, who finished second in the east divi­ sion. The winner of that game moves on to the semifinal match Friday night at 6 p.m. (followed by the other semifinal at 8 p.m.). The provincial championship game (between the semifinal winners) is on Saturday night at 8 p.m. (preceded by the bronze medal game between the semifinal losers at 6 p.m.). The other Thursday opening round matches that are set are as follows: 6 p.m., Mohawk vs Algonquin; 8 p.m., St. Clair vs Humber. Thursday's other opening round game, at 2 p.m., had George Brown taking on the winner of a preliminary round game between Centennial and Loyalist which was held last night (Tuesday). Here's how the playoff system works. The top two teams from each of the three divisions advance directly to the final eight, and they are (last week's national rankings are in, boldface) ... Central: Sheridan (#3) at 12-3 and Humber (#4) at 11-4. East: George Brown (#11) ar 12-0 and St. Lawrence at 10-2. West: Mohawk (#13) at 10-2 and St. Clair at 10-2. The remaining two spots come from a small preliminary playoff round involving the third and fourth placed teams from the central divL sion -- Algonquin (#9) at 10-5 and Centennial at 7-8 -- which is considered the toughest divi­ sion, and the third placed teams from each of the east division (Loyalist at 7-5) and the west divi­ sion (Fanshawe at 8-4). The first preliminary round game went Monday night with Algonquin defeating Fanshawe 75-67. The second game was held last night between Centennial and Loyalist (it went beyond our press deadlines). MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Central Region) final Team P W L PF PA TP Sheridan 15 12 3 1182 1051 24 Humber ■ 15 11 4 1106 1004 22 Algonquin 15 10 5 1207 1106 20 Centennial 15 7 8 1054 1119 14 Seneca 15 4 11 1034 1141 8 Durham 15 1 14 1032 1194 2 It's also post season time for... ... Separate elementary It's post season time for the Halton separate elementary basketball loop. Here's a recap. GIRLS Final Standings... Oakville: St. Dominic, St. Marguerite and St. Joseph. Burlington: St. Timothy, St. Raphael and St. Mark. North: Holy Rosary and Holy Cross. Single elimination quarterfinals (March 2): Holy Rosary vs St. Joseph; St. Raphael vs St. Marguerite; St. Dominic vs St. Mark; St. ... Public elementary The Halton public elementary schools are into post season for basketball. The east (Oakville) district finals are slated for tonight (Wednesday) at Blakelock for the tier one championship and Thursday night at White Oaks for the tier two championship. Action begins at 7 p.m. with the girls game, followed by the boys game. Halton semifinals and finals will be held on March 9/11, respectively at sites to be deter­ mined. Here are the semifinal results. Timothy vs Holy Cross. BOYS Final standings ... Oakville: St. Vincent, St. Luke and St. John. Burlington: St. Timothy, St. Gabriel and St. John (B). North: Holy Rosary and Holy Cross. Single elimination quarterfinals (Thursday) At St. Brigid ... Holy Rosary vs St. John (O), 4 p.m.; St. Gabriel vs St. Luke at 5 p.m. At St. Timothy ... St. Vincent vs St. John (B) at 4 p.m.; St. Timothy vs Holy Cross at 5 p.m. TIER ONE Boys: R IVER O A K S 32 (H arjeev B ra r 13, Noah Gataveckas 9, Adam Fieldhouse 6), NEW CENTRAL 16 (R ichard K inder 4, Anthony Pucillo 4); FALGARWOOD 47 (Andrae Sutherland 19, Tyler Moe 10 and Mike Samardzich 9), E.J. JAM ES 42 (Yasser Hasseeh 21, Matt W ilson 13 and Asim Saeed 6). Girls: NEW C ENTRAL 30 (Leslie Martin 10, Sarah Dillon 4), EASTVIEW 16 (S tephan ie Anderson 16); PILGRIM W OOD 24, E.J.JAMES 21. TIER TW O Boys: M ONTCLAIR 41 (Lane Moodie 19, Jeff Bentley 16), HERITAGE GLEN 35 (Adam N icholson 14, Ken Kearney 11); APPLEBY COLLEGE 38 (Paul W eatherhead 18), Q.E. PARK 36 (C arter Dum ont 12) O.T. Girts: results unavailable Triple 'A' team has a Goodyear The Oakville Rangers triple-A minor novice rep team opened up their central division semifinal series with an exciting 1-0 home win over Halton Hills on Monday night. It was Oakville's first play­ off game, as they had a first round bye which they earned through their first place finish (as recounted in last Friday's Beaver). Scott Tanski was the first game hero, scoring with 39 seconds left. Ian Paradis assisted. Game two is Thursday night in Halton Hills and game three is Saturday, 3 p.m., in Oakville at Maplegrove Arena. The team has a rather famous sponsor and he not only covers a portion of their costs, like all sponsors do, but he was out at a recent prac­ tice. We're talking about one of Canada's best known race car drivers, Scott Goodyear, who started the year off in pretty good fashion with a second place finish at the season's inaugural IRL (Indy Racing League) race in Orlando. Goodyear has twice fin­ ished second at the Indy 500, including the closest ever fin­ ish, 43/1000th behind winner A1 Unser Junior. He actually almost won it one year, only to have a heartbreak­ ing, controversial late disqualification for passing the pace car. His association with the young Oakville team, which he has sponsored since its inception two years ago (as select sixes and then last year as tykes), is through the Oakville coach, Bill Metcalfe. "We've been good buddies since 1979," said Metcalfe. Besides handing out auto­ graphed photos and other sou­ venirs, Goodyear also talked to them about "being kids and enjoying it and having fun." "He's got three young boys and they're just starting out in hockey in Indianapolis," said Metcalfe. All-star soccer team hosting fundraising dinner in Oakville An all-star team of 11 -year-old Ontario soccer players are busy this winter preparing for the Dallas Cup, one of the most prestigious youth soccer tournaments in the world. It's the brainchild of longtime Oakville Soccer Club coach and executive Charlie Sciberras. Following the Dallas Cup, which gets under way at the end of the month, the 16 players will return to their respective community clubs for the outdoor season. Besides coach Sciberras, at least two Oakville soccer players will suite up for the team -- Kyle Dulmage and Ryan Tuske. Practices were held indoors in Oakville during the winter but are now outside at Lamport Stadium in Toronto. Sciberras plans on bringing the team together again each fall, at the completion of the summer soccer season, to train and com­ pete each year in the Dallas Cup. They are starting at the earliest age group offered in the world tourney and Sciberras hopes to take the team back each year ending only when they hopefully make the U-19 Super Group. A fundraising dinner and dance will be held this Saturday (March 6) at the Galaxy Club in Oakville and tickets can be obtained by calling Sheila Dulmage at 338-5747. 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