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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday March 27, 2002 - C3 TOP PHOTO: Oakville members of junior team include Melanie Silber, Allison Simpell and Sarah Collins. BOTTOM PHOTO: novice team members Lisa Taylor, Sarah Holden, L aura Collins and Madeleine O 'Shaughnessy. Bronze at nationals in Kitchener The Gold Ice junior and the Gold Ice Infiniti novice synchronized skat ing teams both earned podium appear ances at the their respective national championships in Kitchener earlier this month. Both teams collected the bronze medal. The Gold Ice Junior team is in its second year and is coached by Wendy DeGraaf and Stephanie Klein. Oakville skaters on the Bramptonbased team include Melanie Silber, Allison Simpell and Sarah Collins. As well, M elissa and Alicia Visconti from Milton are also alumni o f the Oakville Skating C lub.. Here's how Skate Canada described their performance on their website: "Gold Ice ... skated to third place with an intense and dramatic perform ance highlighted with a wheel incorpo rating splits by some team members and an innovative element circle with a wave of back shoot the ducks. A dou ble line back drag intersection near the end capped a technically difficult per formance. This was a come-back per formance for Gold Ice who finished off the National Team last year." It caps off a stellar year that includ ed first at sectionals, first at Tri-State invitational, fourth at Winterfest, first at Gold Medallion and first at Heritage Classic. The Gold Ice Infiniti novice team, based out o f Streetsville-Meadowvale arid Brampton, is coached by Wendy D eG raaf and Nita Patel. O akville skaters include Lisa Taylor, Sarah Holden, Laura Collins and Madeleine O 'Shaughnessy. Here's how Skate Canada described their performance on their website: "Gold Ice Infiniti finished third with their stirring rendition o f Gladiator. The team performed a clean skate featuring many difficult transi tions and varied footwork skated with commitment and passion beyond their years." It caps off a stellar year that includ ed first at sectionals, third at Tri-State invitational, fourth at W interfest, fourth at Gold Medallion and fourth at Heritage Classic. The two teams will close out the season with several exhibition per formances ... · On Sunday, March 24 for the Stephanie Gaetz (Barbara Underhill's daughter) Keepsafe F o u n d a tio n s the Brampton Entertainment Centre; · On Friday, March 29, during the two intermissions for the WTN NWHL Cham pionship Series 2002 at the Brampton Entertainment Centre; · On March 3 1 during an intermis sion for the Old Timers Hockey Game at the Air Canada Centre (junior team); · the Streetsville/M eadow vale Carnival, April 5-7 (novice team). `This is the best team I've ever coached' - Gringmuth (C ontinue d from pag e C 1) by Jenkin to put the Rangers up 5-1 heading into the third fame. Sentiment throughout the hometown arena was that the Rangers had the championship all but wrapped up. But an early surge by the Tigers cut the lead to 5-3 with just over 10 minutes to play. Thanks to outstanding goaltending by Oliver Wren and strong defensive play by Scott Emberely the Rangers were able to hang on for the victory. "After the two quick goals the guys chatted me down," said Wren. "We all pulled together as a team and everything paid off in the end. I'm extremely happy right now." Head coach Roy Gringmuth, who was doused with Mountain Dew after the game, said the win, is a "fabulous feeling." "I knew the boys would come through," he said. "After the third Tigers goal we really worked hard to shut down their offensive gam e." W ren's stellar netminding and the team's all around defensive play in the third period preserved the win and gave Gringmuth his third championship in his last five years as head coach. "This is the best team I've ever coached," he said. "Throughout the entire playoffs we never lost a game." When asked what he plans to do after the game, Gringmuth smiled: "there's going to be a party somewhere tonight." Also scoring for the Rangers was Cory Martin. David Delzotto scored twice for the Tigers while Jordie Ofield netted the other. McMurrich netted shutout in Tuesday night's 40 win Take six single A's, seven AA's, and three AAA's from the pee wee ranks o f 2001, and what have you got -- the 2002 Ontario Minor Hockey A ssociation (OM HA) minor bantam AA champions ... Coach Roy G ringm uth's team claim ed the title Thursday evening with a third straight win over a 'shocked' Aurora Tigers team who were last year's peewee AA champs. The minor bantams, with a regular sea son record o f 22-4-2, were undefeated in OM HA play, disposing o f Burlington in three straight, St. C atharines in four gam es (including one tie), and Chatham in three straight. Backed by the stellar netm inding o f M ike McMurrich and O liver W ren, the dynam ic duo in the regular season had a goals against average o f 1.18. Sensational! For most o f the boys, it was their first brush with a gold medal opportunity, and coach Roy Gringmuth flashed a couple at them before the third game against Aurora. "This was a team w in," he said. "The boys played a team game the whole season long. The M itron system , used by all O akville team s, helped make the differ ence." McM urrich, Oakville moved ahead in the first period on Mike M aganja's goal, assisted by Carson Jenkins. A power play opportunity in the second saw Jeffrey Sebben make it 2-0, assisted by Mike LeDressay and Nicholas Dvernechuk. Oakville sealed the game with late goals by Bryce Dakin and Jesse M ejaski. Assists on those goals w ere garnered by Eric Murray, Dakin and Shane Jackman. Gringmuth paid tribute to his 'm ucker and banger' line o f centre Mike LeDressay and wingers Derek Westroh and Jeffrey Sebben. "They make things happen out there. They ju st make our team that much better overall". Correction: the w inning goal in M onday's 3-2 victory was scored by Carson Jenkin. Our apologies. BALL HOCKEY P ' /b c / iv t? 6 t/te (GAME TWO) The Oakville Rangers m inor bantam AA rep hockey team took a 2-0 lead in the OM HA cham pionship series with a 4-0 win on Tuesday o f last week. "It's not over yet ", rem arked coach Roy Gringm uth, following Tuesday's win, "but we're in good shape." O utshooting Aurora 38-19, and backed up by the shut-out goalkeeping o f Mike Halton BHL stats, weekly awards, safe play, Ontario & Canadian championships. Games at Kinoak Arena for Men's 18+ team registration NEPEAN 4, OAKVILLE 2 Gene Falsetto scored the game-winner 8:26 into the third period to lift the Nepean Raiders (2-0-0) to a 4-2 win over the Oakville Rangers (1-1-0) to open the second day o f play at the 2002 OHL Cup in Brantford. Falsetto's winner came just 31 sec onds after Oakville's Justin Donati tied the game with a powerplay goal. Matt Cowie, Geordie Michie and Patrick Sweeney, into an empty net, also scored for Nepean. Nick Dodge also scored for Oakville. SCORING SUMMARY... NEPEAN 0 2 2 -4 OAKVILLE 0 11-2 First Period (No scoring). Pen: Michie NEP (Roughing) 11:33; Tough OAK (Roughing) 11:33; Chereshnevsky OAK (Roughing) 13:03. Second Period 1. NEP: Cowie 1 (Deszcz, Bottiglia) 01:00 2. NEP: Michie 3 (Sullivan, Sweeney) 08:10 3. OAK: Dodge 1 (Donati, Pamanzone) (pp) 11:45 Pen: Michie NEP (Boarding) 02:48; Michie NEP (Cross Checking) 11:35; McMillan OAK (Hooking) 14:43. Third Period 4. OAK: Donati 1 (Giffin) (pp) 07:55 5. NEP: Falsetto 1 (Marier, Mather) 08:26 6. NEP: Sweeney 2 (en) 14:39 Pen: Presz NEP (High Sticking) 05:52; Marier NEP (Interference) 06:11; Michie NEP (High Sticking) 08:52; Giffin OAK (Holding) 09:58; Sweeney NEP (High Sticking) 12:20. Goaltenders: Robbie Sibbald for Nepean. Matt Pike for Oakville. PP Conversions: NEP: 0/3; OAK: 2/6. Bantams faced T.0. last night The Oakville Rangers bantam AAA rep team split their opening two games at the all-Ontario provincial championships which are on tap all week in Brantford. Oakville was set to play the third game of the championship Tuesday night against Toronto Red Wings. Earlier in the day, Oakville, which is the second ranked team in the province, was edged 4-2 in a battle with the number one (905) 568-4522 for Junior (under 18) teams ranked team, Nepean Raiders. Association. Unranked is host Other ranked teams making it Brantford 99'ers of the Alliance. through to the provincial champi Oakville opened with a 5-3 Member of Ont. Ball Hockey Assoc. onship include Sault Ste. Marie win over Huron-Perth. Thunder (3#) from CL IP & SAVE! 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