A24 - The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Soorts sieblancOhaltonsearch.com Mlfonlan Dusti Rokamn of th1e llafon Althl CIubsa 18fand"ndur1samt divs bock 10 firat base, I Jue ad of an attmpt.d pick off, durlng Saturdays second garns of a doubletwador wlth "h Canadian Thunderbirds Whlte 16&. HAC - whlch al»o lncludee fellow local players Ryan Baue and WI Hunter - to0k th. firet garm. 5-1 but the l001 th. second onte 4-3 Marauders upstage 'Horans in heated rematch By MURRAY TOWNSEND Special ta The Champion The War of the Worlds is due out in theatres next week, but for sheer mntensity it will be difficuit to mautch Saturday's Baffle of Halton. The Milton Marauders prevailed over the perennial powerbouse Oakville Longhomns 30- 21 in the trasb-talldng, body-smasbing, head- basbing clash of the titans that left Milton as the lonte undefeated îeamn in the Northern Football Conference at 3-0. Oakville felI to 2-t and now ails in a three-way tie for second. Since the start of tbe 2001 season, the Longhomns bave played 44 gamres and won 41 of them. The lhree basses bave alI been 10 Milton, tbe second coming in last year's NFC chamnpi- onship. The Marauders jumped out 10 a 7-0 lead on a Steve Lubin touchdown on their second posses- sion, which was aided by a slew of penalties by the Longhoms. On Oakville's first play after the major, pres- sure forced Longhorns quarlerback Jeremy Mussche îo îhrow up a desperation pass that was picked off by Rayon Walker near midfield and returned to the one-yard line. Josh Spanik then found Andrew Taylor wide open to make il 14- 0. Oakville bounced back witb a touchdown on tbeir next possession and that was it for scoring until the fourth quarter, with both teams baltling it out in the trenches and making their opponents pay for every yard. The Longboms put together a drive early in the final quarter for a toucb- down. but the extra point was blocked by Peter Hummel - a key play at that stage of the gamne with time running down. With less than fOve minutes remaining, George Psofimis, in bot pursuit of tbe Oakville quarter- back. caused a fumble whicb be calmldy scooped up and ran into the end-zone. On Oakville's next possession, the Marauders defense came up witb a pivotal play once again wben Wayne Sliwinski intercepted a first down pass, resulting in a John D'Ovidio field goal. 'Mat was promptly followed by a Mike Bartello interception that be retumned 50 yards to the Oakville nine-yard line. Slippery Steve Lubin, witb his cuslomary second, third, and fourth efforts took it over the line to make it 30-13 with 54 seconds left on the dlock - essentially icing the mucb-anticipated cbainpionsbip rematch. Oakville finished the scoring wiîb a long bomb to former Marauder Damien Hannaford with tinming running out. Former longtime Longbom Wayne Sliwinski was once again a major factor in defeating bis former team. "You can't gel up for anyîhing il you can't get up for these gamnes. At the end of sec GREAT on page A25 Milton capitalîzes on Oakville penalties to remain undefeated in NFC play AQUAPURE WATER SYSTEMS 3153 sTEELES AVE., WEST, MILTON ON L9T 2V4 NOSALT WATER SOFTENER 1500-15000 gaiday PURE WATER for WHOLE HOUSE or INDUSTRY The "ECONOZONE' ultra filtration removes dissolved solids, bacteria, and organic matter in water. Systems designs have max. capabilities of 3000 tds, 10 ppm as FE, 100 gpg as CAC03 Cali 905-693-9313»THE UNIQUE SOLUTION TO W10ATER PROB3LEMS»