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Oakville Blades’ road win on Sunday (see page 40) over the Whitby Fury extended the team’s winning streak to five games in Ontario Junior Hockey League play. Oakville has scored at least six goals in each of those games and has 36 goals dur- ing the streak. Friday in Oakville, two of the league’s highest-scoring teams met, with the Blades and Buffalo Jr. Sabres delivering the offence. Oakville got goals from six different players and overcame a 3-1 deficit to edge Buffalo 6-5. Oliver Benwell, Payton Reeves and Bryce Misley scored second-period goals to give the Blades a 4-3 lead. Buffalo tied the game 1:24 into the third but Tyler Rollo and Ryan Foss scored to put the Blades up 6-4. The Sabres got one back but Oakville held on for the win. The Blades again host Buffalo at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex tomorrow (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. Oakville Speedskating Club brings home six medals Oakville skaters won six medals at the recent Western Regional Meet No. 5 in Milton. The 34 Oakville Speedsters athletes who attended the meet were led by sil- ver-medal performances from Hudson Strople, Helios He, Aaron Xie and Ab- bey Little. Michael Morca and Daniel Kim added a bronze medal each to the haul. The Mil- ton meet was Kim’s first as a member of the Oakville Speedskating Club. Six more Speedsters — Lee Deluca, Ivan Worona, Izabella Zakatsiolo, Da- mian Becker, Liz Lee and Daniel Song — finished among the top six in their respective races. The Oakville club also had three cradle (under-6) skaters — Samuel Brennan, Emilio DeSousa and Sam Deluca — com- pete in Milton. MVC 16U takes silver medal at Cambridge volleyball tourney Oakville’s Talia Loreti helped the Moun- tain Volleyball Club 16U Maroon team gain a silver medal at the recent Mc- Gregor Cup Trillium B volleyball tour- nament in Cambridge. The Waterloo Tigers Apex ended the Maroons’ gold-medal hopes in the final, winning 25-12, 18-25, 15-4. MVC advanced to the final with a 26- 24, 18-25, 15-4 over the Etobicoke Titans after sweeping the Waterloo Tigers Sum- mit in the quarter-finals. OT win gives MOHA Grizzlies peewee white tournament title The Oakville Grizzlies defeated their Mi- nor Oaks Hockey Association rivals the Wolverines 1-0 in overtime to win the Jayden Elmore hockey tournament in London recently. The Grizzlies are a peewee white divi- sion team. Members of the team in the photo be- low include (back row from left) Thomas Diamandas, Thomas Heim, Griffin Jef- frey, Andrew Szlagowski, Kasey Lea, Ty- ler Larsen and Declan Rondeau; (front row) Alex Girard, Ben Choy, Ben Poirier, Daniel Parro, Jacob Mazze, Parker Zapp, Gregory Hukowich and Dylan Nogueira. The coaching staff includes head coach Jeff Poirier, trainer Joe Mazze and assis- tant coaches Sylvain Girard and Derek Zapp. February 19 -21 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE • MISSISSAUGA Golf Pros Rob Bernard Martin Chuck and more $10,000 Hole-In-One Challenge Details online It’s Back Spring Into Golf 5, 000 Green Fee Giveaway GENERAL ADMISSION 1964: $15 SENIORS 65+: $12 UNDER 18 FREE Compliments of Georgian College For more information call 289-293-0718 torontogolf show.com 41 | Thursday, February 11, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Some of the best A and AA high school senior boys basketball teams in the province are competing in the Small School Showcase (SSS) tournament this weekend in Burlington and Oakville. Lester B. Pearson of Burlington and Oakville’s King’s Christian Collegiate are hosting the event, which is scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) and Sat- urday, Feb. 12. Those two schools along with Burlington Cen- tral are the Halton teams competing in the 16-team event. Only schools with a population of 950 or fewer can participate. While the defending Halton champion Pearson Patriots are sitting at .500 in league standings during a rebuilding year, KCC, 7-4 in Tier 1, and Central, at 10-1 in Tier 2, are seeded No. 4 and 12, respectively, at the SSS. Teams from Ottawa, Timmins, Belleville, Barrie, Guelph, Orillia and Mississauga round out the list of participants. “The tournament has a tremendous pedigree,” said tournament organizer Corey Trodd of Pearson. “The last few AA and A champions and medallists have all played at the SSS. We are a premier tourna- ment on any team’s resume.” The Patriots, seeded 15th, play their first game at KCC at 4 p.m. Friday against No. 2-seed Bishop MacDonnel. KCC takes on No. 13-seed E.L. Crossley at 11:30 a.m. at KCC while the Central Trojans face No. 3-seed Ste. Famille at KCC at 1 p.m. The No. 1-seed Ashbury College begins play at 10 a.m. at KCC against No. 16 Holy Cross. The other eight teams’ first games include No. 8 Lourdes against No. 9 Nicholson at 10 a.m. at LBP, No. 5 Timmins and No. 12 Port Colborne at 11:30 a.m. at LBP, No. 6 Glendale and No. 11 GBSSA Aqui- nas at 1 p.m. at LBP and No. 7 Twin Lakes and No. 10 McGregor at 4 p.m. at LBP. All teams are guaranteed three games, with the consolation championship set for 2:30 p.m. on Sat- urday at LBP. The championship game follows at 4 p.m. at the same gym. King’s Christian co-hosting Small School Showcase High-scoring OJHL Blades on a winning streak Sports Briefs “They were fast-paced games so when I came back, it wasn’t that it was easier, but I was used to playing at a faster pace,” he said. Those exhibition games also lim- ited Rollo’s playing options, though, making him ineligible for college scholarships unless he sits out a year. So for a guy who loves being on the ice, the trade to the Petes was a hockey lifeline. It’s been, well… “it’s been complicat- ed,” Rollo said of his double duty. “But I’d take what I have in a heartbeat.” continued from p. 40 Rollo says double duty has ‘been complicated’
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Oakville Blades’ road win on Sunday (see page 40) over the Whitby Fury extended the team’s winning streak to five games in Ontario Junior Hockey League play.
Oakville has scored at least six goals in each of those games and has 36 goals dur-ing the streak.
Friday in Oakville, two of the league’s highest-scoring teams met, with the Blades and Buffalo Jr. Sabres delivering the offence.
Oakville got goals from six different players and overcame a 3-1 deficit to edge Buffalo 6-5.
Oliver Benwell, Payton Reeves and Bryce Misley scored second-period goals to give the Blades a 4-3 lead.
Buffalo tied the game 1:24 into the third but Tyler Rollo and Ryan Foss scored to put the Blades up 6-4. The Sabres got one back but Oakville held on for the win.
The Blades again host Buffalo at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex tomorrow (Friday) at 7:30 p.m.
Oakville Speedskating Club brings home six medals
Oakville skaters won six medals at the recent Western Regional Meet No. 5 in Milton.
The 34 Oakville Speedsters athletes who attended the meet were led by sil-ver-medal performances from Hudson
Strople, Helios He, Aaron Xie and Ab-bey Little.
Michael Morca and Daniel Kim added a bronze medal each to the haul. The Mil-ton meet was Kim’s first as a member of the Oakville Speedskating Club.
Six more Speedsters — Lee Deluca, Ivan Worona, Izabella Zakatsiolo, Da-mian Becker, Liz Lee and Daniel Song — finished among the top six in their respective races.
The Oakville club also had three cradle (under-6) skaters — Samuel Brennan, Emilio DeSousa and Sam Deluca — com-pete in Milton.
MVC 16U takes silver medal at Cambridge volleyball tourney
Oakville’s Talia Loreti helped the Moun-tain Volleyball Club 16U Maroon team gain a silver medal at the recent Mc-Gregor Cup Trillium B volleyball tour-nament in Cambridge.
The Waterloo Tigers Apex ended the Maroons’ gold-medal hopes in the final, winning 25-12, 18-25, 15-4.
MVC advanced to the final with a 26-24, 18-25, 15-4 over the Etobicoke Titans after sweeping the Waterloo Tigers Sum-mit in the quarter-finals.
OT win gives MOHA Grizzlies peewee white tournament title
The Oakville Grizzlies defeated their Mi-nor Oaks Hockey Association rivals the Wolverines 1-0 in overtime to win the Jayden Elmore hockey tournament in London recently.
The Grizzlies are a peewee white divi-sion team.
Members of the team in the photo be-low include (back row from left) Thomas Diamandas, Thomas Heim, Griffin Jef-frey, Andrew Szlagowski, Kasey Lea, Ty-ler Larsen and Declan Rondeau; (front row) Alex Girard, Ben Choy, Ben Poirier, Daniel Parro, Jacob Mazze, Parker Zapp, Gregory Hukowich and Dylan Nogueira.
The coaching staff includes head coach Jeff Poirier, trainer Joe Mazze and assis-tant coaches Sylvain Girard and Derek Zapp.
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Some of the best A and AA high school senior boys basketball teams in the province are competing in the Small School Showcase (SSS) tournament this weekend in Burlington and Oakville.
Lester B. Pearson of Burlington and Oakville’s King’s Christian Collegiate are hosting the event, which is scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) and Sat-urday, Feb. 12.
Those two schools along with Burlington Cen-tral are the Halton teams competing in the 16-team event.
Only schools with a population of 950 or fewer can participate.
While the defending Halton champion Pearson Patriots are sitting at .500 in league standings during a rebuilding year, KCC, 7-4 in Tier 1, and Central, at 10-1 in Tier 2, are seeded No. 4 and 12, respectively, at the SSS.
Teams from Ottawa, Timmins, Belleville, Barrie, Guelph, Orillia and Mississauga round out the list of participants.
“The tournament has a tremendous pedigree,” said tournament organizer Corey Trodd of Pearson. “The last few AA and A champions and medallists have all played at the SSS. We are a premier tourna-ment on any team’s resume.”
The Patriots, seeded 15th, play their first game at KCC at 4 p.m. Friday against No. 2-seed Bishop MacDonnel.
KCC takes on No. 13-seed E.L. Crossley at 11:30 a.m. at KCC while the Central Trojans face No. 3-seed Ste. Famille at KCC at 1 p.m.
The No. 1-seed Ashbury College begins play at 10 a.m. at KCC against No. 16 Holy Cross.
The other eight teams’ first games include No. 8 Lourdes against No. 9 Nicholson at 10 a.m. at LBP, No. 5 Timmins and No. 12 Port Colborne at 11:30 a.m. at LBP, No. 6 Glendale and No. 11 GBSSA Aqui-nas at 1 p.m. at LBP and No. 7 Twin Lakes and No. 10 McGregor at 4 p.m. at LBP.
All teams are guaranteed three games, with the consolation championship set for 2:30 p.m. on Sat-urday at LBP.
The championship game follows at 4 p.m. at the same gym.
King’s Christian co-hosting Small School Showcase
High-scoring OJHL Blades on a winning streakSports Briefs
“They were fast-paced games so when I came back, it wasn’t that it was easier, but I was used to playing at a faster pace,” he said.
Those exhibition games also lim-ited Rollo’s playing options, though, making him ineligible for college scholarships unless he sits out a year. So for a guy who loves being on the ice, the trade to the Petes was a hockey lifeline.
It’s been, well… “it’s been complicat-ed,” Rollo said of his double duty. “But I’d take what I have in a heartbeat.”
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Rollo says double duty has ‘been complicated’
