STA, Abbey Park runners win two events each Continued from page 22 summer. Abbey Park's Evelyne Guay also spots at OFSAA secure, the four posted a pair of victories at the remaining decided to call it a day. Having needed the fewest South Region meet. A two-time attempts, Mackenzie was awarded GHAC cross-country champion, first while the others settled for a Guay initially resisted a switch to middle distances last tie for second. Even year but earned OFSAA more importantly than silver medals in the the victory, Mackenzie 400m and 800m. is thrilled to have anothShe'll compete in er chance to compete at both events again this OFSAA. year after her victories "I'm excited," she in St. Catharines. She said. "I love the compewon the junior girls' tition and being in that 400m in 57.85 seconds atmosphere. I'm going and the 800m in to work out this week 2:19.48. and see if I can get a Kelly Hennessy Holy Trinity's personal best (1.60m) at Brandon Cyrus won the junior OFSAA." Mackenzie was a high jumping boys' high jump with the only sucnovice when she won OFSAA cessful attempt at 1.71m, bettering bronze last year. Now with a year his GHAC-winning jump of under her belt as well as additional 1.65m. Oakville also had several athtraining at York University, she letes qualifying for multiple events. feels she has come a long way. "I've gained a lot of experience," Loyola's Bridget O'Neill will compete in the junior girls' she said. "I have a really 800m, 1,500m and good coach at York and 3,000m. Blakelock's I've learned a lot and Brandon Tyrell will run I've gotten better at the both the junior boys' basics." 100m and 200m and Oakville also prowill be a part of duced a pair of double Blakelock's 4x100m winners at the South relay. Bryanna Samuels Region meet. of Iroquois Ridge qualiSt. Thomas Aquinas fied for both the midget student Kelly Hennessy girls' 100m and 200m. won both the senior Evelyne Guay Also qualifying were girls' 1,500m and 3,000m races. Hennessy edged Max Stewart (Oakville Trafalgar) in Westdale's Phoebe Cseresneyes by the midget boys' 400m; Khaleel half a second in the 3,000m, finish- Griffiths (Blakelock) in the junior ing in 10 minutes, 25.30 seconds. boys' 400m; Rachel Bronzovich Hennessy had an easier time in the (Holy Trinity) in the senior girls' 1,500 where she beat Cseresneyes 800m; Pamela Sanchez (Loyola) in to the line by almost two seconds, the midget girls' 300m hurdles and Aidan Challis (Blakelock) in winning in 4:46.08. An OFSAA gold medalist in the the midget boys' 300m. 3,000m in the junior ranks in -- Herb Garbutt can 2010, Hennessy represented be followed on Twitter Canada at the World Youth @Herbgarbutt Championships in France last 23 · Thursday, June 7, 2012 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @HALTON_PHOTOG DEAD DUCK: Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers catcher Tim Leve tags out Corpus Christi runner Eli Geha at home plate during Tuesday's Halton Tier 2 baseball final in Burlington. The Longhorns defeated Ridge 14-2. Ridge falls in Tier 2 baseball final "It's definitely a good win for us. We did well enough to make it this far, and have a real good group of guys going forward," Corpus Christi head coach BURLINGTON -- The Corpus Christi Longhorns Bernie Deore said. The Longhorns feature many Grade 9s and 10s, concluded a dominant high school baseball season by defeating the Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers 14-2 in a meaning they will have almost every single player mercy rule-shortened Halton Tier 2 final Tuesday at returning next season. Deore says that is key for the group as they have become close this year. Burlington's Millcroft Park. "We have almost every player coming back, so that The Longhorns jumped on the Trailblazers early as will bode well for us next year," he Marshall Kouacs hit a bases-clearing said. double in the first inning, followed by "We have had some The Trailblazers had to fight an RBI single by Matt Sigurdson that guys hurt, especially through a number of key injuries, gave them a 4-0 lead. some of our rep players. including the loss of starting second The Trailblazers began the top of basemen Humza Patel -- who broke the next inning with two men on and But we still managed to his arm after getting hit by a pitch in one out, but solid Longhorns defense put together some wins a tournament just before the champiprevented any runs from scoring. and have done well in onship game. Coach Nancy Anstett In the bottom half of the frame, tournaments." says that she is still pleased with how after Brandon Arsenault stole home her team played all of this year. for the Longhorns, Eli Geha scored a Ridge coach Nancy Anstett "We have had some guys hurt, two-run single to make the score 7-0. especially some of our rep players. But Kovacs added another RBI single as the Longhorns would eventually score eight runs in we still managed to put together some wins and have done well in tournaments," she said. the inning, heading into the third with a 12-0 lead. The Trailblazers have a total of 10 rep players who The Trailblazers chipped away in the top of the fourth inning on run-scoring hits by Taylor Kurk and are committed to their other respective teams now Ryan Kosmynka, but the margin was far too large. that the season is finished. Anstett said she is happy Longhorns starting pitcher Daniel D'Andrade went with the whole group. "We have some skilled guys who showed up this four innings, striking out four and walking two batyear and played for Iroquois. Our rep players will now ters. The Longhorns finished the regular season with a focus on their own league," she said. The Longhorns will now be qualified to be in Tier 1 7-0 record, outscoring their opponents 82-12, then defeated the Milton Mustangs 3-2 and the M.M. starting next season, and after going undefeated all Robinson Rams 12-1 in the playoffs before downing year long along with the majority of the team returning, the future of the Longhorns looks bright. Ridge. By Lucas Casaletto SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER Abbey Park rugby boys eliminated Unfortunately for members of the Abbey Park Eagles boys' rugby team, they won't be able to match this year's accomplishment by the Oakville Trafalgar girls (page 22). Abbey Park was eliminated from the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations (OFSAA) AAA/AAAA championships yesterday (Wednesday) in Hamilton with a 25-19 loss to Uxbridge in the second round of the tournament. The Eagles were the third seed in the OFSAA tournament, while Uxbridge -- traditionally a strong rugby program -- was ranked sixth. Abbey Park had won its opening game of the tournament, routing Upper Canada College 35-7 Tuesday. The Eagles won the Halton and Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference championships earlier this season.