rv y Sunday, August 20, 2000 5H7* 3q n 1 | I f IT Oakville Beaver Weekend M 15 Sports An O akville B eaver F eature Editor: N O R M N E L S O N Phone:845-3824, e x t 255 Fax:337-5567 E -m ail:n n e ls o n @ h a tto n s e a rc h .c o m Oakville will boast three Olympians Oakville will be well represented at the Sydney Olympics with three athletes. Canada will send a total of 309 athletes with Ontario's contingent o f 111 representing about 36 per cent o f that total -- the same percentage as the 1996 Atlanta contingent. Ontario will also chip in 34 coaches. O akville's contingent includes: · defending O lym pic 100m and 4x100m champion Donovan Bailey, 32 · Oakville Trafalgar student Andrew Hurd, who just turned 18, in the 1500m swim event · and rower Chris Davidson, 28, in light weight coxless fours. A t the last O lym pics in A tlanta in `96 Oakville boasted a four-member contingent, led by Donovan Bailey and including canoeist Gavin Maxwell, boxer Dominic Filane and cyclist Eric Wohlberg. And actually Wohlberg is also going back for a second consecutive Olympics but the Northern Ontario native has since moved to Burlington from Oakville. Filane, a 10-time Canadian boxing champion in the light flyweight class (106 pounds, or 48 kilos, if you prefer), was in the running to make his third Olympic games. He secured Canada's Olympic berth in his division but could not make it out of the regional qualifier (which included the Americas). Maxwell did not contest a spot at the Sydney Olympics. O akville L ittle League team s m e e t w ith success in O tta w a ... ... Majors defeat host Kanata 9-0 The August long weekend saw the Oakville Little League major all-star team head off to the 5th Annual Scott Tokessy Memorial Tournament to try and win it for an impressive third time, having already won it in the Minor A and Major B divisions. They did not disappoint as they defeated the host Kanata team 9-0 in the presti gious Major A championship. v It was an impressive display of the kind of baseball which this team has become known for -- great pitching, stellar defence, speed and clutch hitting. In the preliminary rounds, Oakville defeated East Nepean 3-1, Orleans 5-0 and Knapp Station (NY) 13-3. The toughest game of the tournament came in the semifi nal against a hard hitting team from Massena, NY. The see-saw battle ended with Oakville winning the game 7-6 in extra innings, squeezing in the winning ran in the seventh inning. ... Minors blast High Park 10-1 Baseball teams enjoy tournaments. It gives them the opportunity to test their skills, against teams they haven't played before. The Scott Tokessy Memorial Tournament in Kanata, which was held this year over the Aug. 4-6th weekend, is a special one. It commemorates a young Little Leaguer who collapsed and died after hitting a home run. His death was due to an irregular heartbeat. So it was a happy bunch of Oakville Little League Minors (11 years) who, after winning their first two games of the tournament against Massena, N.Y. (4-0) and Kanata (11-0), knew that they would be in the final for the Scott Tokessy Memorial jackets. Wouldn't you know, though, that the title game would be against Oakville's nemesis High Park, who were just itch ing to get back at the Minors for two early season defeats Oakville hung on them. But Oakville persevered to make it three in a row, 10-1. With pitchers allowed only two innings in each game, it all came down to who had the most and better hurlers. Starter A.J. O'Brodovich adroitly kept the Parkers off the score sheet in his stint. Meanwhile, Scott DeGroot's double, Alden Black's single and Ryan Mallough's sacrifice/RBI scored DeGroot for a 1-0 lead after two. That lead stood up until the fourth inning when a weird play went in Oakville's favour and turned the game around. Daniel Keresteci was caught in an extended run down between third and home when Chris Stewart decided to leave his perch on second and head to third. This apparently distracted the third baseman as he dropped the ball, allow ing Keresteci to make it home with the second (and, ultimately, winning) run. Oakville brought in two more runs that inning for a 4-0 lead -- Stewart scoring on Roger Lambert's sacrifice, and Downer on Scott DeGroot's single. With Stewart holding High Park scoreless for his two inning stint, the Minors jumped on a new High Park pitcher in the fifth to extend their lead to 8-0. Adam Davidson, - Marko Dordevic, Sergio Lujan and Alex Camall all had singles; RBI's were recorded by Camall (2), Dordeviif; Lujan and Keresteci; and runs were scored by Mallough, Davidson, Patch Channing and Dordevic. High Park got one back in their half of the fifth, but the Minors in the top of the sixth added two more runs on a sin gle by O'Brodovich, scoring Lambert who had walked, who in turn scored on DeGroot's RBI. Black did a 1-2-3 bot tom of the sixth with 4k's for his two innings. Game 1 -- vs. Massena, N.Y. proved a tough foe, with Downer breaking a 0-0 deadlock in the fourth on O'Brodovich's single. Channing added to the margin on Davidson's hit. He scored on Ryan Malhotra's single who, in turn, scored on DeGroot's sin gle, 4-0! Pitching the shut-out O'Brodovich, Stewart and Black. Game 2 -- The team from Kanata was 'mercied' 11-0. RBI's by O'Brodovich (3), Mallough (3), Black, Channing, Malhotra, and Downer were the main reasons. Shut-out by Stewart and Dow. Game 3 -- Pincourt, Que. who had already lost to Kanata and Massena, upset a relaxed Oakville squad 4-2. Shepley is second at national juniors Jessica S h ep ley did not achieve her goal o f winning the C anadian Ladies G olf A ssociation ju nior cham pionship which w rapped up in Fredericton on Thursday, but she certainly proved herself to be a m odel o f consistency. H eading into Grade 12 at Iroquois Ridge this fall, Shepley had to settle for second place at the nationals with a three-round total o f 222 (7T-77-X4), three shots behind L isa M eldrum , a m em ber o f Royal M ontreal, who shot 217 (72-73-72). Ironically, Shepley also finished second at two earlier prestigious tournam ents in O ntario -- the O ntario ju n io r cham pionship and the O ntario am ateur cham pionship. Tim e to lace up the skates for M inor Oaks Hockey Association The Minor Oaks Hockey Association is getting geared up for the upcoming season with the Mitron Pre-Season Hockey School in session at Glen Abbey arena, beginning Monday. Five of the six sessions are already filled, and there are a limited number of open ings in the technical development program for 7-10 year-olds. Contact Keith Murray at 825-5635. COACHES All of the coaching positions are now filled with the announcement by head coach Keith Murray that Roger Campbell has signed on as coach of the minor atom A's. The first workouts for all teams commence on Saturday, Aug. 26th (see announcement ad in today's Beaver). Plustix © 2 0 0 0 McDonald s Restaurants ol Conodo lim ited, fo r the exclusive use of McDonald's Restaurants of Canodo Limited ond its franchisees. EVERYDAY.