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L'Africain, Gee-Gees claim bronze at CIS basketball championships Oakville's Mike L'Africain and the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees defeated Acadia 92-85 Sunday to earn bronze at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport men's basketball championships. 25 | Thursday, March 14, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com Sports briefs L'Africain, last year's Ontario East rookie of the year, averaged 6.7 points, 2.7 rebounds and a steal in Ottawa's three games. The Loyola grad had 13 points in a 82-70 quarter-final win over McGill and had seven points, five rebounds and three steals in a 6662 loss to Lakehead in the semis. Ryan Thomson, a member of the national silver-medallist Lakehead Thunderwolves, missed the CIS tournament with a knee injury. Lakehead pulled off two upsets, over Cape Breton and Ottawa, before falling to Carleton in the final. Chris McLaughlin and the University of Victoria lost the consolation final 80-68 to McGill. The third-year post player averaged 13.3 points, seven rebounds and 1.7 blocks in the tournament, including a 20-point, six-rebound, two-block game in a 7165 victory over the University of British Columbia. pulling down 4.0 offensive boards, and 8.1 overall, this past season. She also averaged 7.5 points per game. Bonsu also coaches at the Titans Basketball Camp at her former high school and at the Golden Hawks camps for girls in Waterloo. She is also a member of the Laurier Students for Learning, which helps promote literacy throughout Kitchener-Waterloo. Fiona Lester, captain of the Laurier women's hockey team, and Carmen Baker, captain of the women's rugby team, are the other finalists for the award, which will be presented March 21. The Oakville minor bantam MD Phantoms won the championship at the recent Bradford Blue & Gold hockey tournament. Phantoms get defensive to win Bradford tournament The Oakville minor bantam MD Phantoms allowed an average of one goal per game to win gold at the recent Bradford Blue & Gold hockey tournament. Tyler Stodulski, Myles Vita-Finzi and Kyle Krebs scored in the championship game and Michael Dipietro earned the victory in goal as the Phantoms defeated the Brampton Snipers 3-2. Also contributing to the win were Dawson Garbutt, David Champagne, Dan Pritchard, Tyler Ellerbeck, Justin Ireland, Boston Morrison, Ryan Stevens, Blaze Cerovcec, Matthew Nielsen, Brett Goold, Andrew Mouchanaf and Jamie Williams. Bob Champagne, Jim Williams and David Nielsen coach the team. Mark Ellerbeck is the trainer. Goodhoofd an OUA all-star Former Abbey Park student Kayla Goodhoofd was named to one of the Ontario University Athletics West Division women's basketball all-star teams. The third-year forward was named to the OUA second team after leading the Guelph Gryphons in scoring, averaging 13.0 points per game and ranking third in the OUA with 3.0 steals per game. Goodhoofd also averaged 4.6 rebounds and 1.6 assists. Guelph finished sixth in the OUA with a record of 7-14. Bonsu finalist for Laurier award Holy Trinity grad Doreen Bonsu is one of three finalists for the Outstanding Women of Laurier Award. The award recognizes a female Wilfrid Laurier University student who combines athletic and academic achievement with a commitment to leadership and the development of young athletes. The third-year history major has been a starter on the Golden Hawks' women's basketball team for the past two years. In each of those seasons she has finished in the top 10 in the country in offensive rebounding, Intermediate Hornets ousted The Oakville intermediate AA Hornets' season ended last Thursday with a 5-1 loss to the Durham West Lightning at Joshua's Creek Arenas. Victoria Medeiros scored the lone goal for the Hornets, who failed to win a game in the best-of-five firstround Provincial Women's Hockey League playoff series. Durham West won the first two games in Ajax by scores of 3-1 and 3-2. Oakville was the 14th seed in the PWHL playoffs after posting a record of 13-17-6-2 in regular-season play. Durham West was third with a mark of 27-6-2-3. Posting five straight wins, including two by shutout, the Oakville minor bantam Bardown Bandits claimed the championship at the recent West London Byron Optimist Cup hockey tournament. Bandits swipe title at West London competition Outscoring their opponents 21-6, the Oakville minor bantam Bardown Bandits earned gold at the West London Byron Optimist Cup hockey tournament recently. Oakville defeated the Pickering Panthers 7-0, Woodstock Jr. Navy Vets 6-2, George Bell Titans Navy 3-2, West London Hawks 2-0 and Vaughan Rangers 3-2 to win the title. Members of the team are Ryan MacKinnon, Jacob Teixeira, Roberto D'Agostino, Riley Coleman, Nolan Drury, Ryley Wells, Josh Ruth, Ethan Diamandas, Connor Kozak, Cody Bertin, Matthew Shimoda, Adam Quesnel, Liam O'Brien, Hayden Coulman, Griffin Cote and Hunter Melito. The Bardown Bandits are coached by Sean Coleman, Tom Coulman, Paul Drury and Nicholas Diamandas.