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Sports Oakville Beaver SPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-845-3824 (ext. 432) Fax 905-337-5571 email sports@oakvillebeaver.com · FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012 23 Blades blast Buffalo, advance to West final Led by a four-goal effort by captain Kyle Blaney, the Oakville Blades advanced to the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL) West Division final with a 9-0 win over the Buffalo Jr. Sabres Wednesday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Blaney added an assist and Tyler Karius chipped in four helpers for Oakville, which won the best-of-seven West semifinal series 4-1. Nathan Granitto, Brandon Denham, Martin Kudla, Tye Campbell and Liam Board also tallied for the Blades in Wednesday's rout. James Prigione made 18 saves to record his second shutout of the series. Oakville's opponent in the West final will be the Georgetown Raiders, who finished off their own 4-1 semifinal series victory Wednesday with a 7-4 win over the Burlington Cougars. Georgetown won five of six regular-season matchups with the Blades this year, though three of those contests went to overtime. The teams have not met since Dec. 23, when the Raiders won 3-2 in a shootout. A schedule for the West Division final had not been released as of yesterday (Thursday) morning. LES KAPUSCINSKI / SPECIAL TO THE OAKVILLE BEAVER SABRES DULLED: Oakville Blades forward Liam Board beats Buffalo Jr. Sabres goaltender Parker Gahagen to open the scoring Wednesday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Oakville added eight more goals to rout the Jr. Sabres 9-0 and win the Ontario Junior Hockey League West Division semifinal series 4-1. Heavy medal haul by OAK swimmers at major competitions Oakville Aquatic Club (OAK) swimmers combined to win four individual medals and added a relay medal at the 2012 Speedo Eastern Canadian Championships recently in Gatineau, Que. Olivia Sinclair set a club 13-14 girls' record on the way to gold in the 15-and-under female 200-metre butterfly. Nicole Bullock earned a silver in the 15-and-under female 800m freestyle, while Annika Grewal (15-and-under female 200m backstroke) and Evan White (16-andunder male 400m individual medley) collected bronze. The female senior relay team of Sharalynn Missiuna, Lauren Lalumiere, Mika Spencer and Bullock added a bronze in the 800m freestyle relay. Mitchell Gour, Mackenzie Hamill and Spencer each had a fourth-place finish in individual action. Other top-eight finishers included Bryce Kwiecien-Delaney, David Whiteside and Lalumiere. The male senior 400m medley relay team of Gour, White, Whiteside and KwiecienDelaney set an OAK record on the way to an eighth-place finish. Hamill set club records in six 13-14 male events, and Briar Tedesco added a new club standard in the 17-and-over female 1,500m freestyle. Central Region champions Earlier last month, a five-medal performance by Adrian Haasler helped OAK win the overall championship at the Central Region Short Course Championships in Etobicoke. OAK finished the meet with 1,096 points, well ahead of Toronto Swim Club's second-place tally of 872 points. The Newmarket Stingrays Swim Club was third with 744 points. Haasler won four gold medals and added a bronze in boys' 12-yearold competition, winning the division's high point award. OAK was first in both the 12-and under and 13-and-over age group standings. Other multiple individual medal winners for OAK were Tyler Altenhof bronze), Michael Kalman (one silver, two bronze), Maisey Kent (one silver, one bronze), Paige Lavergne (one silver, three bronze) and Lauren Van Laare (one silver, one bronze). Alyssa Forbes, Bennett Ho, Lara Olivier, Lucas Po and Katelynn Rapson added one gold each for OAK. Silver medals were earned by Marcelo Gamio, Joel Pearson, Tamara Slavkovska and Blaze Slavkovski. Bronzes went to Emilie Gagne, Sarah Hay and Clark Norris. OAK added four more medal wins in relay competition. The female 15-and-over 200-metre freestyle team of Maisey Kent, Sasha Boulton, Rebecca Gibson and Julia Sinkovits earned silver, as did the female 10-and-under 200m medley squad of Alyssa Forbes, Lara Olivier, Kiera Brough and Moira Sumner. OAK's male 12-13 200m medley team of Anthony Ivakhnenko, Tyler Altenhof, Marcelo Gamio and Nicholas Pinney earned bronze, with Haasler substituting for Pinney in the team's bronze-medal win in the 200m freestyle. OAKVILLE BEAVER FILE PHOTO GOLDEN FORM: Anthony Ivakhnenko, pictured competing in the Brad Townsend Fall Classic Swim Meet last fall, was one of many Oakville Aquatic Club swimmers to win races at the Central Region Short Course Championships. bronze), Dan Rona (one gold, one silver, one bronze), Emma Tsang (one gold, one bronze), Anaka WillDryden (one gold, one silver, one bronze), Wezley Wright (one gold, two silver, one bronze), Kiera Brough (one silver, one bronze), Rebecca Gibson (one silver, two (one gold, two silver), Carly Jazbec (one gold, one silver, two bronze), Anthony Ivakhnenko (one gold, one silver), Christina Ji (one gold, two bronze), Alexander Karam (one gold, two silver, one bronze), Kristen Olvet (one gold, one silver), Julius Raymond (one gold, one silver, one