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26_V1_WAT_Nov02 Celebrate what makes your community great.Celebrate what makes your community great. Sponsored by: The Ontario Junior Citizen Awards celebrate incredible youth. Do you know someone who is involved in worthwhile community service, is contributing while living with a limitation, has performed a heroic act, demonstrates individual excellence, or is going above and beyond to help others? If so, nominate them today! Nominations are open until November 30, 2017. Forms and information are available from this newspaper, and from the Ontario Community Newspapers Association at ocna.org/juniorcitizen. Nominate a Junior Citizen. ONTARIO JUNIOR CITIZEN AWARDS Nadine Carter Stouffville, ON 2016 Ontario Junior Citizen Nadine's efforts to lobby for a forgotten WW1 hero resulted in a weekend- long celebration, historic plaques being placed in his honour, and a new marker being placed on Captain Brown's previously unmarked grave. 26 • WATERLOO CHRONICLE • Thursday, November 2, 2017 Serving your community since 1856 Continued from page 23 "It's been good. We have a good team, rather than just good players," said Grade 11 student Sidney Evans. Abby Beaton scored the lone goal in the game around the 19-minute mark of the first half of the game, which took place at Woodside Park in Kitchener. But Southwood put up a fight. Late in the game, the Sabres had a number of solid scoring opportunities, but hard-nosed forward Evans, who worked hard defensively, and goalkeeper Kayla Desormeau kept Bluevale on top. "We were losing our steam … we just had to put it all out there and push and keep going," said Evans. Evans said the key at OFSAA will be to keep an even intensity throughout the games and continue working for all 60 minutes. Meanwhile, Resurrection Catholic Sec- ondary School, a perennial team to beat at CWOSSA, was eliminated in the semifinals by Bluevale. Youthful field hockey Knights hopeful for this season and beyond adam jackson photo Bluevale collegiate Institute's abby Beaton, the lone goal scorer in the cWossa championship game thursday, battles for the ball with southwood sabres defender Vanessa Fita. Bluevale won the game 1-0 for their second consecutive cWossa championship. Both will go on to oFsaa, starting nov. 2. On the strength of a pair of tries from Bas- tien Demas-Pandraud, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks men's rugby team won their first playoff game in modern team history on Saturday, defeating the Western Mustangs 36-12. Having not won a playoff game since 1999, when team records began being tracked online, Laurier came out strong against West- ern, a team that owned an identical 5-3 record to the purple and gold. Demas-Pandraud opened the scoring just over five minutes into the game with his first try of the game and that was followed shortly after by a try from Nathan Roberts of Waterloo, Ont. That scoreline held up until late in the first half when Laurier and Western exchanged tries but a successful conversion from the Hawks left them up 19-5 at the break. Western looked to begin their comeback early in the second half as Luc Hansen-Boucher of Vancouver, B.C., found the try line and the successful conver- sion left the Mustangs trailing by just seven. However, Demas-Pandraud quickly restored a comfortable cushion with his second try of the afternoon and the Hawks sealed the victory with a pair of late tries to advance to the OUA Semifinals for the first time. Golden Hawks win first rugby playoff game in modern team history