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Wednesday, March 31,1999 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Sports °AKVIILEEPU 8U C LU B R W 1 2 0 N A V Y S T R E E T 01 - 04W V H .H , o k i , DOES YOUR CAfc*WA9t4 GIVE YOU BETTER PROTECTION THAN YOUR CUT-RATE CAR INSURANCE? Don't trust just anyone to insure your car, see me: John Bauman 627 Lyon's Lane #308, Oakvile 842-2225 An Oakville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON 845-3824 (Extension 255) Fax:337-5567 Photos by Peter J. Thompson TOP LEFT: Blakelock's Matt Ferrone on the dribble in the junior all-star game. His Volpe division team lost 58-57 to the Richardson division. TOP RIGHT: Blakelock's Dee Woodard had a good night even though his senior Volpe division basketball squad lost 90-88 to the Richardson division. Woodard won the slam dunk contest and went on to the all-star game where he was the game-high scorer with 27 points and the Volpe Division MVP. BOTTOM RIGHT: Reynard Bobb of White Oaks shows his stuff in the slam dunk competition. Hatton Classic true to its name% with two close showdowns The Halton Classic all-star basketball extravaganza was held at Blakelock High School on Friday night with two close games. And, unfortunately, the Volpe division, home to all the Oakville high schools this season, came out on the short end of both of them. Volpe fell 58-57 to the Richardson division in the junior match. Ryan Riddle of Iroquois Ridge was the top scorer for the Volpe division with 18 points and he also picked up his team's MVP honours. Joe Chaeban, also of Iroquois Ridge, nabbed 13 points. Jordan Johnston of M.M. Robinson led the Richardson division with a game-high 23 points and he was the MVP. Jeff Hue, also of M.M. Robinson, added 12 points. In the skills competition, the three-point shootout champ was Oakville Trafalgar's Greg Jaqueillo. The slam dunk champ was M.M. Robinson's Jordan Johnston. In the senior showdown, the Volpe division fell 90-88 to the Richardson division. Dee Woodard led the Volpe scorers with a game-high 27 points and he was also named his team's MVP. Also lighting up the scoreboard was Sean-Michael Stephen of Oakville Trafalgar with 13 points and Jermaine Thornhill, also of Oakville Trafalgar, with 10 points. Sean Gligor of Pearson led the Richardson Division with 21 points and he was MVP. Wade Currie of Nelson had 15 points and Ryan Louks of M.M. Robinson had 10 points. Wade Currie of Nelson won the three-point shootout and Blakelock's Dee Woodard won the slam dunk competition. Denied shot at gold medal, Rangers earn well deserved bronze at OMHA finals The Oakville Rangers triple-A minor atom rep team didn't get the color of medal they were hoping for at their Ontario M inor Hockey Association (OMHA) Tournament of Champions in Barrie on the weekend. But with a record of four wins and just one loss, you'll seldom run across a more well-earned bronze medal. In a nutshell, the team missed out on a chance to advance to the gold medal game not on the ice, but by the slimmest of margins off the ice where the calculators had to be brought out to determine the round robin stand­ ings by mathematical equations. And the results proved cruel to the Rangers who lost out in the numbers game by "five one hundreths of a per­ centage point." "This was cruel fate for all their incredible effort," related Vlad Haltigin, the team publicist. Nevertheless they showed their class and went out and won their last game of the season, 2-0 over Welland, to bring the bronze medal back to Oakville. The team is sponsored by Spyral Productions Oakville had finished the round robin with a six of eight possible points, numbers which will usually get you into a gold medal match. But on this weekend so did Richmond Hill and Barrie, and unfortunately for Oakville, they did it with a better goal differential, advancing them to the gold medal match. In the cham pionship match, Richmond Hill earned OMHA hon­ ours by defeating defending champion Barrie 6-3. Another highlight that Oakville can feel good about is that they were the only team to defeat Richmond Hill, 2- 1 in their preliminary round match-up. For the Rangers to qualify for the OMHA championships for the third year running was an amazing accom­ plishment, given a slow start to the season in which they were only 2-7-1 in their first 10 games. Here's the recap: The Rangers came out fast on Friday against Quinte who had quali­ fied with a surprise victory over favoured Peterborough. The Rangers (See 'Bronze' page D3) O M HA champion Oakville Rangers are off to all-Ontarios iiireuR] The Oakville Rangers dou- ble-A atom rep team, spon­ sored by RP Graphics, success­ fully defended their OMHA championship this past week. The Rangers advanced to the championship series by going undefeated through the first three six-point rounds. They accomplished a three- game sweep in the first series against St. Catharines. In the next two series, against Burlington and Milton, respec­ tively, they were not quite as perfect, wrapping up both of them by identical counts of three wins and one tie. PHILTHY'S SPOTLIGHT: the Oakville Rangers dou- ble-A atom rep team won the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) championship. BACK ROW: Karl Wren, Cliff Brown, Blake Hylands, Jesse Mejaski, Jonathon Fairclough, Matt Elia, Norm Kerr, David DeNino, Carson Jenkin and Roy Gringmuth. M IDDLE ROW: Derek Werstroh, Scott Brown, Mike LeDressey, Brennan Kerr, Scott Gringmuth, Andrew Antidormi, Shane Jackman and Nick Dvernechuk. FRONT ROW (goalies): Myles Harper, Oliver Wren and Brad Wagner. - Philthy's Spotlight Teams receive a $50 g ift certificate What they did lose, howev­ er, was one of their two out­ standing goaltenders, Oliver Wren, who suffered a shoulder injury. Going into their OMHA cham pionship series against Barrie, he was replaced by Myles Harper, who accompa­ nied the team on every game, and whose commitment and enthusiasm was appreciated by everyone. The road to the OMHA championship had been identi­ cal to their OMHA champi­ onship run of the previous year. And that deja-vu continued in this year's OMHA champi­ onship series when they (See 'All-Ontarios' page D3) I ATTENTION: LOCAL SPORTS GROUPS We guarantee results... Not on the playing field unfortunately, but we do guarantee your results will be published in The Oakville Beaver, if you follow these tips: Results should be dropped off at the Beaver (467 Speers Road) or faxed to (and take note of our new fax number) 337-5567. Be sure to leave a name and phone number for follow up. Reports should be typed, if possible, or at least neatly hand written. M e s ^ hand written reports are especially hard to make out over the fax and usually result in mis-spelled names. HOUSE LEAGUE House league reports should be submitted as soon as possible after the game, and no later than the following week after a game to ensure publication. The sheer number of players in Oakville's recreational leagues (the Oakville Soccer Club, alone, is almost at 8,000 players this season) makes it impossible to handle out­ dated house league game summaries. There is some leeway in the game reports. Traditionally, for sports like soccer and roller hockey, goals and assists are tabulated. But for some sports, like baseball (or for the younger age groups in soccer), it's easier to pick an MVP or two for each team with a short explanation (such as ' ... pitched a great game' or *... had his/her first multi-goal game' o r '... made a game saving effort'). REP REPORTS Rep reports have traditionally included the scoring summary with most ' teams also giving key highlights. We do get a lot of questions about what size the article should be, and again, there is some leeway. But generaBy, the more prestigious or more important or more note­ worthy the game or tournament is, the more that should be said about it. The reverse is also true. If it's a 9-Q exhibition rout over lightly regarded opposition then a simple, quick game summary will probably suffice. It's a judgement call. Especially with multi-game tournaments, a choice sometimes has to be made about what to highlight because everything can't always get in. Some teams like to do a multi-game highlight package and this works out well as long it doesn't revert into goal by goal accounts that stretch back a month. So good playin' this summer. And look forward to reading about it in the Oakville Beaver... Ed Note: check today's sports section for the latest house league scores... T h e Oakville B eaver S po r t s = J 'J W inner of Best Sports Section in O ntario (OCNA 1997 awards) 1 1 = 7 ■V *