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Midget Hawks claim provincial field crownOnce the Oakville midget 2He gives his heart and soulHawks got their full team togeth-to lacrosse. Hes done a lot forer, they were difficult to stop.the Oakville community and hesOakville won gold at the pro-a very big field (lacrosse) guy,vincial lacrosse championshipsClarke said.recently in Brampton, rolling toWhen you welcome him andvictory in all five of their games.give him free rein and put himIt was a drastic turnaround fromin a comfort zone, he justa regular season that saw theexplodes in mentorship. He wasHawks earn only one win as play-a big reason for the success oners regularly missed games duethe field.to commitments in other sports.Members of the Hawks theWith a full 19-player comple-lone Oakville team to win gold atBEST IN THE FIELD: The Oakville midget 2 Hawks recently won the provincial field lacrosse championship.ment at provincials, the Hawksthis years provincials aredefeated Guelph, Kitchener-Foster Cuomo, Spencer Clarke,Waterloo, Mimico andSam Domachevski, AndreasCheerleader hurried back from injuryPeterborough in the roundZbogar, David Eckert, Tannerrobin, then downed Kitchener-Fabiano, Eric Vanhees, AndrewContinued from page 22though no longer part of the basket toss.Waterloo 9-6 in the champion-Kew, Travis Stockfish, Mackenziecompetitions.I thought about quitting, says Chandler, who willship game.Connor, Joseph Modzelewski,And theyre as determined and tough as any otherhead to university next fall. But Id been on the teamWhen I think about it, if weJoshua Morton, Riley Stamp,high school athletes.for four years and I just wanted to finish the season.had just one kid missing for anyJake Smyth, Brodie Schell,When Chandler suffered her injury, which left herCheerleading is my life... I didnt want to let down myof the games, I think the out-Nathan Maracle, Colin Bambury,gasping for breath and unable to speak, she wonderedteam.comes would have been differ-Mitchell Andersen and Lucasif her cheerleading days were over. In fact, doctorsKrumpek certainly understands that. She brokeent, Oakville head coach DwayneZitmanis.warned her that the blow, which they compared to aher leg while on the high school team and couldntClarke said. Each child playedDarrin Kew also coaches theboxer being punched in the throat, could possiblywait to get back on the floor.such an important part.team, Paul Domachevski is theleave her permanently mute.As soon I was out of the cast I wanted to get backClarke also attributed some of trainer and Lisa Cuomo is theAfter surgery to repair the damaged vocal cord, sheout there, she recalls.the teams success to assistantmanager.was told she couldnt practise for two weeks. TwoInjuries happen in all sports. I guess people dontcoach Bruce Donovan. Jon Kuiperijweeks to the day later she was back in the gym,expect it in cheerleading.Sunningdale wins two pennants,overall title at Gough track meetSunningdale Public School was the over-1,500m), Courtney Evans (senior girls 800m all champion at the Halton District School and 1,500m), Wheeler (senior boys 100m) Boards Gough elementary track-and-field and Graham Maskins (senior boys 400m and meet, held recently at Iroquois Ridge High 800m).School.E.J. James students won six individual Sunningdale finished the meet with 280 events. Nicolas Fontes (junior boys 400m), points, 14 more than second-place Silver Michael Caraeciolo (junior boys triple jump), Creek of Georgetown and 31 more than Ella Griffin (intermediate girls 800m), Griff third-place E.J. James.Haines (intermediate boys triple jump), Many of Sunningdales points came in Mikela Lehan (senior girls shot put) and intermediate boys and senior boys competi-Cameron Elliot (senior boys 1,500m) were tion as the school won the pennant in both E.J. James winners.divisions.Other local students to finish first in at Sunningdale students won 14 individual least one event were James W. Hills Trustin events at the meet, with Mabel Dunn (junior MacDonald Baugh (intermediate boys 100m) girls triple jump), Matt Simonot (intermedi-and Serena Andrade (senior girls long jump), ate boys long jump) and Owen Wheeler Montclairs Rajat Bhargava (senior boys 200) (senior boys long jump) setting meet and Emily Carrs Kiana Steinauer (junior records.girls' 200m) and Stefan Rakic (senior boys Also winning events for Sunningdale were shot put). MacDonald Baugh, Andrade and Kaelen Peterson (intermediate girls 1,500-Steinauer set meet records.metre), Mara Lach (intermediate girls shot Emily Carr won relay races in intermedi-put), Simonot (intermediate boys 400m), ate boys and senior boys competition, set-Daniel Moll (intermediate boys 800m and ting a meet record in the intermediate race.Trinity rugby player misidentified in pictureA Holy Trinity rugby player was misidenti-pictured tackling a Pearson ball-carrier in the fied in a photo accompanying coverage of the photo that appeared in Friday's edition of the Titans' 12-0 victory over Lester B. Pearson in Beaver.last week's Halton senior Division 2 final.TheBeaverregrets the error and any Christian Downey was the Titans player inconvenience it may have caused.23 Thursday, June 2, 2011 OAKVILLE BEAVER www.insideHALTON.com