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With wind and rain being prevalent during the Ontario University Athletic championships at the Oshawa Golf and Country Club Monday and mesday. the 20-year-old Ballantrae resident and fourth- year member of the University of Waterloo men's team did not let those elements interfere with his game. He proceeded to capture the individual title and help his contingent of Dylan Cleve. Brandon Pearce. Daniel Wilson and David French claim the. team championship. For many golfers, playing under the influence of wind and rain is not condu- sive to producing good results. Gajzin Sivabalis'mgham seems to thrive playing undex inclement conditions. This was two strokes better than Har- ris Bundy of the University of Western Ontario. Brett Mitchell of Block and Ryan 1‘sang ofTbronto. who were all tied in sec- ond place at two-over 146. During the gruellihg 36-the competi- tion. Sivabalasingham carded rounds of 70 and]4 to finish at even par. ' “it sure feels pretty Sivabalas- ingham’ said. "This (winning the OUA title) was something that I wanted to do for a couple of years and it was nice that our team played well. too. It made it that much better." hi the team event. Waterloo finished at lS-over at 591. four strokes better than the second-place Ottawa. Two titles for OUA golf champ BY MICHAEL HAYAKAWA mhayakawaOyrmg.com “I tend to play better when the weather is bad." he said. "I think it goes back to the days when l was younger and when I played with my dad we played a lot when the weather was cold and wet.” Sporting a playing resume that included winning a junior boys' provincial champi- onship in 2012. the Ontario Order of Merit that same year. the provincial bantam boys' title in 2007 and numerous (lana- dian lunior Golf Association titles during his youth. Sivabalasingham felt his latest accomplishment was extra special. Sivabalasingham said the key for him wasrto stay wam Md dry. While pleased with his opening round 70 in which he was a co-leader. Sivabalas- ingham felt his lead was in jeopardy afler he concluded with a 74’1hesday. "I really didn’t know if my score would be good enough to win." he said. “I left a lot of shots out there on 'IUesday and Ihete’s so many good filayers. I thought for sure someone would ave shot under par. But everything worked out." The last time the University of Waterloo won the OUA team title was in 2011. Siva- balasingham was on that team. “This tournament has a'lot of history behind it. There's a lot of good names on thfs‘tmphy." the math and business major Watérloo gained automatic entry into the Canadian lnteruniversity Span cham» pionships to be held next spring in (Buel. ph. JR. A NOTEBOOK usrweae Saturday: StoulMIIe Spirit 6 vs. Nevrmar~ ket Hurricanes 6. Spirit record: S8113. fifth place in North Division. COMING 01': Friday at Burlington Cougars. 7:30 pm. Saturday: vs. St. Michael‘s Buzzers at Stouflville Arena. 7:30 pm. GAME NOTES: The Stouflville Spirit took a roller coaster ride In their Ontario Junior Hockey league contest against the visiting and archan Newmarket Hurricanes Saturday. In the end though. the ups and downs experi- encedbytheSpiritbalancedcutafterthey battled the Hurricanes to a 66 overtime tie. The Spirit's )ourney began with a quick downward spiral when they trailed 5-1 through the opening 20 minutes. Not helping matters for the Spirit were some untimely penalties they took as the Hurricanes' power play took adiantage and delivered the game's first three goals fromthe sticks of Sam Hu, Jacob Plltzrnaker and Cam- eron NicolI. After the Hurricanes added an even strength marker from Ryan Reynolds. their penalty-killing unit madeacontributionwhenRyanShawscoredtogive them what appeared to be a commanding 5â€"0 lead. But the Spirit capitalized on a power play opportunity when NickThomakos scored withjust 10 seconds remaininginthe period to cuttheirdeficitJust93 sec- on'dsintothesecond period.theHurricanesrestored their live-mi margin on a goal by Nik Coric. Cue the comeback. Buoyed by goals from Robert Clark. Joseph Deveny and Tyson Bruce. the Spirit got back into the game and cut the Hurricanes lead to 6-4 when the two clubs went Into the second intermission. Riding the emotional wave. the Spirit rallied to tie the game with pals from Deveny and Brodie Tutton just past the midway mark to set the stage for their two scoreless overtime sessions. The Hurricanes directed 48 shots on the Spirit. including 21 in the opening period of which Connor McCollum handed nine of 13 shots before giving way to Aaron Tay~ Ior. who finished the game. The Spirit directed 42 shots on Hurricanes' netminder Connor Ryckman. INSIDER: Brad Barton handled the Spirit's head coach» ing duties as Jeff Perriri was away Saturday due to a personal matter. In an effort to jumpstart the club. Spirit director of player personnel Frank Robinson pulled the trigger and made a couple of roster moves prior to Saturday's game. One transaction saw the Spirit trade defenceman Adam Burt nett. 18, to Milton for a player development fee. Logging ice time In 12 games with the Spirit this season. the six- foot. three-inch. 200~pound rearguard had live assists in 12 games. Prior to this season. Burnett played with the Hamilton Red Wings and Buriington Cougars last year. Also sent packing was defenceman Kyler Challis. who was sent to the Pickering Panthers for 20~year~old defenceman Michael Giacometti. A iive~foot. nine~inch. Impound‘Mississauga resident, Giacometti had four goals and two assists in 13 games with the Panthers. A Whitby native. the 18-year-old Challis had one goal and five assists in 13 games while with the Spirit. The Spirit also sent home recently acquired 19-yearold forward Zach Kercz. who is serving a four-game suspen- sion. Robinson is currentiy working on trading Kercz. who began the season with the TIanton Golden Hawks and had one pal and one assist In four games and collectâ€" Ing one assist In four games while with the Spirit. 0n the INury front forward James MenseDletrich missed Sat- urday! pine with an upper body injury which may take a week ortwo to heal. Forward Spencer Roberts was Spirit wheeling, dealing before comeback tie also a scratch with a lower body injury. The Spirit expect the nephew of former NHL player Gary Roberts back for Friday's road tilt against the Burlington Cougars. Nathan Hudgln started skating on Friday but is still around two weeks or so from returning. Former Spirit forward Drake Caggiula earned a pair of assists in the University of North Dakota's 7-2 road wrn over Colorado College Saturday. Stouffville resident and former Spirit forward Chris Porter notched his first goal of the season. a power play effort. in American interna- tional College‘s 3-2 loss to Holy Cross Saturday. GENERALLY SPEAKING: ‘We needed a confident puck- moving defenceman and Pickering wanted some gnt on the back end so it should be a good trade for all." Robinson said in making the trade for Giacomettr. who upon finding out he was going to Stoufi‘ville a few hours before the game. joined the club for their game against Newmarket. “it would be nice to start a game strong,” said Tutton. who added three assists in Saturday‘s tilt against New market 'It all starts in the warrnups and then haying strong shifts early. it's not about scoring first but getting a few hits early and getting into the game.” Reflecting on their comeback to salvage one point in the standings. Tutton was quick to credit the enthusi. asm exhibited by those in attendance at the Stoufhrrile Arena in giving the club an adrenalin rush. ‘lt was exciting to see the crowd get into it,“ he said of his first double overtime game. “We fed off it. it w0uld have been nice to (still) have the shootout. it's hard to tie a game like that.” In looking ahead to their next two outings against Burl ington and St. Michael’s. two teams Perrin described as being up and down so far this season. Perrin said hrs club cannot afford to dig themselves into a deep hole as they did against Newmarket. “Burlington is a young team and they've been up and down. it's important that we have to get off to a good start in their building. ‘St. Mike‘s are a tough team for us to play. They have played well lately and they're pretty skilled upfront. Even when we played them earlier on we got off to a quick start and will have to do that again. “Hopefully we can string a few wins together.“ BRODIE TUTIDN: Veteran has four- point night in emotional tie with Newmarket Hurricanes. ~ Michael Hayakawa