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32 Sports Oakville Beaver www.aplushomes.ca Adam Campbell 905-844-4444 I N D E P E N D E N T LY O W N E D A N D O P E R AT E D Broker of Record B R O K E R A G E SPORTS EDITOR: JON KUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010 CUP CHAMPS: The Oakville Blades gather around the Buckland Cup trophy after winning the Ontario Hockey Association junior A championship Monday in Newmarket with a 6-1 rout of the Hurricanes. Oakville will compete in the Dudley Hewitt Cup next week in Sault Ste. Marie, a tournament that determines the Central Canada representative at the RBC Royal Bank Cup national championships. JON KUIPERIJ / OAKVILLE BEAVER Blades headed back to Dudley Hewitt Cup By Jon Kuiperij BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR NEWMARKET -- As the old Danish proverb goes, he knows the water best who has waded through it. And the Oakville Blades have waded through plenty of water the past few springs. Showing the savvy and poise of a team that had been there before, the Blades claimed their second Ontario Hockey Association junior A championship in three years Monday with a 6-1 rout of the upstart Newmarket Hurricanes in Newmarket, winning the best-of-seven series in six games. Oakville now advances to the Dudley Hewitt Cup tournament in Sault Ste. Marie, where it will face the host Thunderbirds, the Superior International Junior Hockey League champion Fort William North Stars and the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey Dan Savelli was rock solid in the Blades net League champion Abitibi Eskimos for the to record the victory. The lopsided win was Oakville's third vicright to represent Central Canada at the RBC tory in a row to end the series, following a 3Royal Bank Cup national championships. Oakville outshot the Hurricanes 41-25 2 win in Game 4 and a come-from-behind 43 overtime triMonday, 31-17 in BUCKLAND CUP OHA JUNIOR A FINAL umph in Game 4. the first two periOakville Newmarket Ingoldsby, part of ods while the game vs. Blades Hurricanes last year's team was still in doubt. Game 1 - Newmarket 3 at Oakville 4 that reached the The Blades ripped Game 2 - Oakville 1 at Newmarket 4 Ontario Junior A the heart out of Game 3 - Newmarket 3 at Oakville 1 Game 4 - Oakville 3 at Newmarket 2 Hockey League Newmarket with Game 5 - Newmarket 3 at Oakville 4 (OT) two goals in the final before falling Game 6 - Oakville 6 at Newmarket 1 last minute of the to the Kingston second period, taking a 4-1 lead into the sec- Voyageurs, said experience was a big differond intermission. ence in the series. Steven Guzzo paced the Blades with a hat "It's never fun losing, obviously, but trick, including two pretty goals in the third sometimes you have to learn how to win," period. Mike Ingoldsby, Ryan Murphy and said the Blades captain, one of many Dustin Alcock also tallied for Oakville, while returnees from last year's squad. "Our guys who came back took a lot out of that, and we already had (five guys who won the league title in 2008). Then we had a bunch of good guys coming in. It was a perfect combination." Newmarket captain Chad Sumsion agreed. "Oakville is a good team and obviously deserved to be here just as much as we did," he said. "It was the two best teams in the OHA. They've been here the last three years so they had that experience." Another edge the Blades held on Newmarket was depth. The Hurricanes managed to shut down the opposition's top scorers during their run to the Central Canadian Hockey League title, but that was a lot tougher to do against Oakville. Ten different Blades players scored See Depth page 33