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Pair of weekend wins for Blades
Beat Milton, Bramalea to push season record to 7-1 injunior A hockey action
By Sarah Elliott
eran Geoff Aselstine.
“The team is doing so well because
we have a solid core of veterans, as well
akville Blades assistant coach as a great group of rookies,” said Rob
Gary Hill summed things up Tarantino, who is leading the Blades in
best for the hockey club this scoring this season with 19 points. “We
weekend when he said, "There ain’t no know there is no one person on the team
who can do it by themselves. We all
quitting in the Oakville Blades.”
The Blades had another exciting work together to make the team suc
weekend in Provincial Junior A hockey cessful, and have one goal: to win. The
action, adding two more wins to their only people who can beat us right now
tally, making their record for the season are ourselves.”
The Blades who came out strong
7-1 to date.
It w asn't an easy weekend for the during the first period of Saturday’s
game against the Blues. The Oakville
Blades either.
skaters piled in four goals in the first 20
They faced off with the
minutes.
M ilton M erchants on
But during the second
Friday night and the
period,
the Blues really
“The
team
is
doing
Bramalea Blues Saturday.
put
the
heat on the
Friday was a battle for
so well because we
Blades, who took too
first place between the
have a solid core of
many penalties.
Merchants and the Blades
veterans
as
well
as
a
Bramalea capitalized
and as the clock ran
on
their man-advantage
great group of
down, it looked like the
opportunities,
scoring
game was going to be
rookies”
three
power-play
goals
in
taken by Milton.
• Rob Tarantino,
the
period
and
cutting
In fact, Oakville didn’t
Blades ’leading scorer
O akville’s lead to 4-3
make it onto the score
after 40 minutes.
board
until
midway
The Blades, however,
through the third period,
got
two
more
goals
before the game was
when they were already trailing the
over and earned a 6-3 win.
Merchants 2-1.
Scorers for the Blades were Mike
But once Oakville got one goal, they
Ruberto,
who was back for his first
just couldn’t stop scoring in what little
game
after
a four-game suspension,
time was left in the game.
And by the final buzzer, they had Kevin Harvey with two, Marc
added four goals, skating away with a Pinizzotto, Nick Dodge, and Zac
Diluca.
4-2 win.
“We jumped out of the starting gates
It was a great team effort by every
one, especially the rookies, who (Saturday),” said head coach Jay
accounted for three out of the four Anderson. “A big lead early sometimes
isn’t a good thing. Some players begin
goals.
Scorers in the win were Nick Davis, to get complacent.
“Our discipline sagged early in the
Brad McKenzie, Nick Dodge, and vet
second period and penalties ended up
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Milton Merchants goalie Cody Spicer gets a face full of snow as he and teammate Rick Janco, right, work to stop
Oakville Blades Kevin Harvey (19) in close during Friday’s Provincial Junior A Hockey League game at Oakville Ice
Sports. The Blades beat Milton 4-2 then doubled-up Bramalea 6-3 Saturday. The wins push Oakville’s league record
so far to 7-1. Next home game is Friday vs. Buffalo at Ice Sports. Game time is 7:45 p.m.
hurting us. We re-grouped as a team and
(goalie) Dan Giffm made several key
saves when we needed them.”
The Blades are on the road tomorrow night (Thursday) in Brampton, and
back at home Friday when they host the
Buffalo Lightning.
Game time is 7:45 at Ice Sports
Oakville.
Local racers run wild
at Bronte Harbour 5K
It was a pair of Oakville runners
speeding to the men’s and women’s
overall tides Saturday at the Bronte
Harbour Twilight five-kilometre road
race.
Local racer Kip Sigsworth ran the
course in 16:38 to win the men’s title,
while Christie Perry’s time of 19:11 was
good enough enough to win the
women’s tide.
, Toronto’s Predrag M ladenovic
(16:42) and Milton’s Rene Vanandel
(16:56) finished second and third
respectively in the men’s category.
M ississauga’s Kerry Houlding
(19:17) and Oakville’s Leah Weagant
(20:23) finished two-three respectively
in the women’s category.
It was the second year of the race,
sponsored in part by The Running
Company, that aims to raise money for
Rebounders of Canada. Rebounders is
an organization that provides support
for survivors of childhood cancer.
The total money raised by this year’s
event isn’t yet known, however, race
committee m anager and Running
Company manager Greg McKinnon
said they’ll likely exceed last year’s
total of about $10,000.
“We hope to make this one of the
largest evening events of its kind in
Halton and it looks certainly looks like
we are well on our way,” he said.
This year, 208 racers entered the
event in 10 categories.
Complete results are available at The
Running Company, 118 Thomas St.
Some of the top finishers in each cat
egory include:
Under-20
Top photo, racers get set to begin Saturday’s Bronte Harbour Twilight 5-km run and 2-km family walk to benefit
Rebounders of Canada, an association dedicated to helping survivors of childhood cancer. Above, left, Doug Atkinson
paces through the course. Liz Watson, middle, finishes the race and Matthew Hustler workson his stride.
Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:45 p.m.
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Men, Andre Simon of Stoney Creek
(17:03), Scott Chase of Oakville
(17:18), Cam Sheppard of Oakville
(17:34).
Women, Paulina M aher (21:56),
Angelika Uremovich (22:45) and
Monica Lau (23:21) all of Oakville.
20-24
Men, Stewart M cConnachie of
Oakville (24:10).
Women, Tanya Wojtus o f Oakville
(33:43).
25-29
Men, Matthew Hustler of Burlington
(18:41), Brett Warren of Oakville
(21:48), Michael Fay o f Oakville
(27:35).
Women, Natasha Croskell of
Oakville (24:11).
30-34
M en, Neil James of Burlington
(19:18), Mark Kearney of Mississauga
(22:02), Tyler Warcop of Oakville
(22:13).
Women, Michelle Dirisio o f Toronto
(21:45), Erin James of Guelph (25:03),
Crystal Smith of Oakville (28:19).
35-39
Men, Ian Mclean of Cambridge
(19:03), Andrew Tyrell of Oakville
(23:15), Stephen
Henstock o f
Burlington (27:42).
Women, Barb Celeiestini (23:23),
Shelly Greer (26:24), Julia Sprawson
(26:57) all of Oakville.
40-44
M en, Robert
Kahlmeiler of
Kitchener (18:58).
Women, Jil Lograno o f Oakville
(21:32).
45-49
Men, Steven Nesbitt of Stratford
(19:33).
Women, Charlotte Russell of
Oakville (26:13).
50-54
(See ‘Bronte’ page D2)
Friday, Oct. 11 at 7:45 p.m.
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