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Sports Oakville Beaver The White Oaks Wildcats are becoming a team to watch out for in Halton high school basketball. After winning the junior girls' Division 2 regional title last year to snap a lengthy championship drought, the Wildcats claimed the senior girls' Division 2 crown Thursday at Sheridan College with a 34-30 "All schools go overtime victory over the scrappy in waves and T.A. Blakelock Tigers. "We are getting better at bas- droughts. White ketball," Wildcats coach Ryan Oaks' time McLaughlin said of his school, has come." "and we are getting better at some of the other sports, too. All schools Wildcats co-coach go in waves and droughts. White Ryan McLaughlin Oaks' time has come." The key in the Wildcats' resurgent girls' basketball program, according to McLaughlin and co-coach Allan Marcy, has been a core group of girls that came to White Oaks in 2007. Nevena Aksin, Kaminda Musumbalwa, Ellie Hannaford, Lana Marcy, Gabriela Redelescu and Mira Krunic led the Wildcats go to the junior girls' semifinals two years ago, then won the junior Division 2 title last season -- White Oaks' first appearance in a basketball final in nearly two decades. "They've played really good ball together. They communicate well and they're very dedicated girls," McLaughlin said. Musumbalwa was the key cog Thursday, leading all scor- www.aplushomes.ca Adam Campbell 905-844-4444 I N D E P E N D E N T LY O W N E D A N D O P E R AT E D Broker of Record B R O K E R A G E SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2009 33 Wildcats win another girls' hoops title ers with 18 points -- 12 in the second half -- and outmuscling the Tigers for rebounds. She scored the Wildcats' only two field goals in overtime, including a long shot that went in off the backboard to give White Oaks a three-point lead with 1:40 to go in the extra period. Blakelock had forced overtime with a 7-0 run to end the fourth quarter. Bekkers led the surge, tying the game 29-29 by hitting a three-pointer with less than two minutes left in regulation. "I think we were a little undermanned, but we played with a lot of heart," said Tigers coach Scott Stevens. "I think we just wore down. We had a pretty thin bench. Our girls got tired, but I'm proud of them." Bekkers scored 16 points and Kelly Hannivan added seven for the Tigers, who started off the season 2-2 before winning seven of their next eight games to reach the final. Senior co-captains Alida Carlin and Hannivan played all 36 minutes Thursday. "We came a million miles in the last month. I think we figured out who we are as a team. We realized we didn't have the athletes to compete with some of the other teams so we slowed it down, played smart and played tough," Stevens said. Lana Marcy scored 10 points for the Wildcats, who finished the year with a 12-1 record (including playoffs). Their lone loss of the year was a 44-43 defeat at the hands of the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders Oct. 7. -- Jon Kuiperij MICHAEL IVANIN / OAKVILLE BEAVER TOP CAT: White Oaks' Kaminda Musumbalwa (in blue), pictured with T.A. Blakelock's Alida Carlin, led all scorers with 18 points in the Halton senior girls' Division 2 basketball final. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Oakville Soccer Club Inc. will be held at the Oakville Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, and not at the Pine Glen Soccer Centre as previously reported, on Saturday, 28th of November, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. for the following purposes: