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Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports 23 | Friday, February 28, 2014 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" Pictured from left, Oakville Trafalgar's Logan Hannay celebrates a point during the Halton senior girls' volleyball Tier 1 final last week at Sheridan College; Abbey Park's Victoria Gorrell (in blue) delivers a spike in the same contest against OT; and St. Thomas Aquinas's Julia Celestini attempts a block during the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference double-A qualifier against Lester B. Pearson Tuesday at Aquinas. OT, Abbey Park and Aquinas will all compete in Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations championship tournaments next week, as will King's Christian Collegiate. | Oakville Trafalgar and Abbey Park photos by Graham Paine, Aquinas photo by Nikki Wesley -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Oakville sending four teams to OFSAA volleyball OT coach Abdel Samiky said in explaining his team's slow start to the year. Unfortunately for the Red Devils, that will be the case again at OFSAA, where OT is ranked in the top eight. The team will have a full roster for the opening day of competition, but four of its players will depart for a club tournament in the U.S. on Tuesday. Oakville Trafalgar is pooled with Vaughan's St. Jean de Brebeuf, West Hill's Sir Oliver Mowat and Barrie's Eastview. Abbey Park The Eagles are making their first-ever trip to OFSAA girls' volleyball, clinching their spot with a 25-17, 25-17, 25-8 victory over Hamilton's St. Mary in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference final Monday at Abbey Park. Eagles coach Julie Burr felt her team was still riding the momentum of its come-from-behind five-set victory over OT in last week's Halton Tier 1 final. "They came out ready to play and started strong. That allowed them to relax and just play," said Burr. "The big thing we try to focus on in practice is just enjoy the game. We have a phenomenal group of girls who are great friends and great competitors and who just love to play the game." The Eagles have been seeded second in the triple-A tournament. A Halton team (Burlington's Assumption Crusaders) won OFSAA triple-A gold two years ago, and Abbey Park's resume was also bolstered by the victory over quad-A OFSAA-bound OT in the regional final. The Eagles were 13-0 overall in Halton league play, winning 26 of 29 sets. Four of the starters on this year's team -- left sides Sarah Williams and Nikki Bozinoski, setter Sarah Scott and Penn State University recruit Tori Gorrell -- also played for the Eagles' junior Tier 1 championship team two years ago. The squad was bolstered by the addition of Grade 10 middle blocker Melissa Langegger as well as off-side hitter Onaope Emmanuel, who recently moved to the area. The Eagles' pool includes Ottawa's E.S.C. Franco-Cite, Stouffville, Toronto's Father Redmond and Mississauga's Lorne Park. St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders coach Peter Szpakowski isn't quite sure what to think after his team was seeded fourth at double-A OFSAA. "That was a bit of a surprise. It seems high," said Szpakowski, who expected his team to be ranked between sixth and eighth. "It's deceiving, because No. 7 is Samuel-Genest, which won bronze at the all-Catholic (provincial championships in Oakville), where we didn't win a medal." Aquinas was 9-4 in Halton Tier 1 play but easily defeated Burlington's Lester B. Pearson Patriots, a Tier 2 squad, 2518, 25-8, 25-18 in Tuesday's GHAC double-A qualifier. The seven-player senior team will be supplemented at OFSAA by the addition of seven players from the Raiders' see OFSAA on p.25 by Jon Kuiperij Beaver Sports Editor Oakville will be represented in each of the four Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations senior girls' volleyball tournaments next week. Oakville Trafalgar will compete in the quad-A championships in Barrie, Abbey Park will play in the triple-A tournament in Kingsville, St. Thomas Aquinas will travel to Thunder Bay for the double-A competition and King's Christian Collegiate will vie for a single-A medal in Richmond Hill. All four tournaments will begin Monday (March 3) and conclude Wednesday. Oakville Trafalgar After an average 8-5 regular season that included a threegame losing streak, the Red Devils are hitting their stride at the right time. OT upset 11-2 Holy Trinity and 10-3 Georgetown in the Halton playoffs before extending the 13-0 Abbey Park Eagles to the limit in the regional Tier 1 final, eventually succumbing 3-2. The Red Devils followed that up this week by defeating a pair of Hamilton opponents, St. Jean de Brebeuf and Cardinal Newman, to win the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference quad-A championship and earn a trip to OFSAA. "Most of the games we lost, I didn't have all my players,"