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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009 17 Up-and-down Devils win Halton title winning its fifth senior title in nine years. "Absolutely, we got discourMaria Seto called her team's aged," the Devils' Dylan appearance in the Halton senior Cruickshank said of the late-season boys' volleyball final "a bit of a gift." slump. "Maybe we got too cocky, And like any well-wrapped pres- but we worked together and talked ent, you're never quite it over with Ms. Seto. sure what you're going "Absolutely, we We had to step it up got discouraged. to get. and we really wanted to That's how the Maybe we got win today." Oakville Trafalgar Red too cocky." The Jaguars took a Devils came into different route to the Tuesday's final at OT player Dylan final. Christ the King Sheridan College. They Cruickshank, talking began the season 0-2, opened the year with about his team's including a loss to OT five straight wins midseason struggles in the second week of before going 4-4 down the season, before winthe stretch, slipping all the way to ning 12 of its last 13 matches to fifth place. reach the final. But in the playoffs, they avenged And when CTK cruised through two of their regular-season losses the opener -- never trailing after by knocking off Notre Dame in the OT took the first point -- to win quarters and Robert Bateman in a 25-17, the Devils had to summon DAN HO / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER 28-26, 27-25 thriller in the semis. that desire to win. OT built a 10-4 lead in the secLIFTOFF: Tyler Houston of the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils gets high above OT continued that roll Tuesday by the net to deliver a kill during Tuesday's Halton high school senior boys' volleyball rallying to defeat the Christ the ond game, only to have the Jags King Jaguars 17-25, 25-21, 15-11, claw back to within a point at 12Division 1 final at Sheridan College. OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF By Herb Garbutt 11. The Devils staged many small rallies that were answered each time by the Jags, but OT finally squared the match with a threepoint run capped by Mike Turnbull's hit off a CTK block. In the deciding game, the Devils' strong play at the net -- led by the blocking of Bruno Svajger, who battled the flu late in the season, and Cruickshank -- shut down the Jaguars attack. "It's been a very interesting season," Seto said. "We beat some strong teams at the start of the season and lost against some weaker teams later on. But they had the heart and they really wanted it." Seto said the team generally doesn't play well when it is trailing, but overcoming a seven-point deficit in the semifinal win over Bateman seemed to help the team. OT next meets St. Jean de Brebeuf tomorrow (Friday), with the winner advancing to the provincial AAAA tournament. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Oakville Soccer Club Inc. will be held at the Oakville Town Hall, 1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville, Ontario, and not at the Pine Glen Soccer Centre as previously reported, on Saturday, 28th of November, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. for the following purposes: