www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, March 9, 2017 | 30 HALTON RANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 www.haltontransmission.com Kevin N agel, Oakville Beaver Sports Editor, knagel@burlingtonpost.com 905-842-0725 iq Sports "Connected to your Community " Late goal sinks Garth Webb in Halton Her 2 boys' championship By Kevin Nagel Oakville Beaver sports editor Four third-period goals, highlight ed by Luke Robinson's winner with 2 :0 9 remaining in the game, gave the Dr. Frank Hayden Huskies a 4 -2 win over the Garth Webb Chargers. With the win came the Halton high school Tier 2 boys' hockey championship, decided at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex last Friday. Robinson' s bad-angle shot from the right side came just moments after the Chargers had tied the game at 2-2. Adam Nowoselski scored for Garth Webb from the slot when a pass from Lucas Georgas was inadvertently deflected to him by a Hayden defender. A Hayden empty-netter account ed for the last goal. Chargers' goalie Jordan Kemp, a key part of his team' s success in this game and during the season, might have been surprised by Robinson's shot that beat him on the short side. "Our coaches have been telling us to put pucks on net and I beat m y guy wide. I just decided to throw it on net and see what hap pens," said Robinson. "I took a couple (puck possessions) wide behind the net during the game and maybe he thought I was going to do that again," he added. Webb co-coach David Del Monte said Kemp shouldn't feel bad about the goal. "I told him we wouldn't have been here without him anyway," said Del Monte. "He can't blame himself for letting in what he prob ably perceives as a soft goal but at the end of the day our guys have to be proud of what they've accom plished -- actually both schools as the newest schools in Halton." Webb opened the game' s scor ing late in the second period when Hayden Coulman deflected Boston Morrison's point shot past Huskies' Garth Webb's Adam Nowoselski (10) attempts to beat Hayden Huskies' Gill Harrison (81) and Nick Simpson (77) during last Friday's Halton high school hockey Tier 2 final. Hayden won 4-2. | p h o to by Kevin N a g el - O a k v ille B ea ve r goalie Ryan Malvaso. Any hopes that a goal scored by a player named Hayden could give Webb a 1-0 victory were dashed 35 seconds into the third period when Huskies' Owen Lawrence tied the score. Kevin McInnis put Hayden in the lead eight minutes later on a powerplay goal after a scramble in front of the Webb net. Nowoselski then tied the score, setting the stage for Robinson's winner. "We have fantastic goaltending and their goalie played really, really well, but in a close game like that everyone has butterflies," said Huskies' coach Ashley Stephenson. "So we just kept saying we gotta put pucks to the net. It' s going to be an ugly goal but they all count. Even our second one that Kev scored was a rebound that he ended up on his back somehow." It was the second win for Hayden in three outings against Garth Webb, with a matchup earlier in the playoff tournament ending in a tie. "They're a really talented team and on the big ice (at Sixteen Mile) they can move so it changes the gam e," added Stephenson. It' s the first Halton championship for the Hayden boys' hockey in the school' s short history. The team fin ished first with an 8-1 mark. Webb achieved success (7-2 regu lar season record) after a pretty dis mal first three years in the league. The Chargers will have to rebuild next season as the vast majority of players were in their final year. Trailblazers again foiled by Notre Dam e in Halton girls' final By Herb Garbutt Oakville Beaver staff Iroquois Ridge's Emma Coulter battles a Notre Dame op ponent for the puck in Friday's Halton girls' hockey final. Notre Dame won 3-0 in a rematch of last year's final. | Jayson M ills - s p e c ia l to O a k v ille B eaver A year ago, the Iroquois Ridge Trailblazers were Halton girls' hockey' s Cinderella story -- a sixth-place team that finished a couple of games below the .5 0 0 m ark going on a playoff run that carried them all the way to the final. But it turned out that playoff run was sim ply a sign of things to come. Back in the Halton high school final for the second year in a row, the Trailblazers were no longer plucky underdogs. W ith a 9 -2-2 record, the Trailblazers entered last Friday' s championship game as a legitimate threat to dethrone Notre Dame. After losing to the defending champs 5-1 in their first meeting, the Trailblazers tied the Irish 1-1 in mid-January. It turned out to be the boost the team needed after losing two of its first three to start the season. "After the break we all pulled together," said Zoe O'Neill, who scored the winning goal with three minutes to play in Ridge' s 2-1 semi final win over Georgetown. "We tied Notre Dame and got some mom entum and just kept going ." The Trailblazers went 8 -0 -2 to earn another shot at the Halton title. Notre Dame refused to surrender its title though, handing Iroquois Ridge a 3-0 loss, the Trailblazers' first since Dec. 14. Though the score may have looked one sided, it was a pretty evenly-matched game. Shots were even in both the first and third pe riod and Notre Dame held a 19-15 edge for the game. "We move the puck really well and that helped us gain the zone," said Marie Guest, who coaches the team with Melissa Snedden. "We just didn't capitalize when we needed to and they scored goals when they had chanc es." The Trailblazers had three power plays in the first 12 minutes of the game and though they set up good chances with their passing, they couldn't beat Notre Dame netminder Ka tarina Smith, who posted a shutout in the final for the second year in a row. With Ridge trailing 1-0, Smith kicked out see Bishop on p. 31 Y O U T H S O C C E R 0? ® 2 OUTDOOR HOUSE LEAGUES AT APPLEBY COLLEGE b ST. 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