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Sports Oakville Beaver 27 · Friday, March 1, 2013 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com SPORTS EDITOR:JONKUIPERIJ Phone 905-632-0588 (ext. 294) email sports@oakvillebeaver.com Legion sprinter posts province's top time in 60m Oakville's Brandon Tyrrell owns the fastest 60-metre sprint time of all boys 17 and under in Ontario this season. Tyrrell, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at T.A. Blakelock High School, posted a time of 6.981 seconds to win gold at the Athletics Ontario Youth Senior Championships recently in Toronto. The time also ranks third in Canada among boys 17 and under this season. "I didn't expect to do this well," admitted Tyrell, who posted a time of 7.15 seconds at a meet the previous weekend to finish fourth in a similar 60m field. Tyrell, a member of the Oakville Legion Track and Field club, won three individual events (junior boys' 100m, 200m and high jump) representing T.A. Blakelock at last Brandon Tyrrell year's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference championships. He also helped the Tigers to two relay wins at that meet and eventually competed at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations provincial championships, finishing fourth in the 100m. As strong as he is in the 100m and 200m sprints, Tyrell said he is cut out for the 60m distance. "Starts are what I'm known for," he said. Coached at the Oakville Legion club by former Olympian Charles Allen, Tyrrell hopes to earn a track scholarship at a U.S. college in the future. -- Jon Kuiperij NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER / @HALTON_PHOTOG OUT OF MY WAY: Holy Trinity's Dan Cubric (left) bumps Christ the King opponent Jamie Stoyles out of the way as he heads up ice during yesterday's Halton high school boys' hockey final at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. The Titans fell 5-2. Penalties sink Titans in hockey final By Herb Garbutt OAKVILLEBEAVERSTAFF Blades drop OJHL playoff opener, host Game 2 tonight The Oakville Blades will look to even their firstround Ontario Junior Hockey League playoff series with the North York Rangers when they host Game 2 tonight (Friday) at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. North York drew first blood in the best-of-seven series Wednesday, defeating the Blades 4-1 in Toronto. The Rangers scored the first three goals of the game before Luke Laidlaw put Oakville on the board, and North York added an empty netter in the final seconds. Evan Buitenhuis made 31 saves in the loss. Tonight's contest is slated for a 7:30 p.m. start. North York will host Game 3 of the series Sunday. The Blades will be back at home for Game 4 Tuesday, also a 7:30 p.m. start at Sixteen Mile. The last time the Holy Trinity Titans and Christ the King Jaguars met, there was little to separate the two teams. The Titans and Jaguars played to a 3-3 tie in January, which turned out to be the lone blemish on Holy Trinity's 9-0-1 regular season. But when the teams met again in yesterday's (Thursday's) Halton high school boys' hockey final at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, one word was repeated over and over following the Jaguars' 5-2 victory. "We talked about discipline before the game," said Trinity coach Aaron Consoli. "We took a lot of penalties and they scored power-play goals. In the playoffs, that's how you win games. We had the first two power plays and didn't capitalize, they had the next three and scored on all three." "We took way too many penalties, we played most of the first period shorthanded," said the Titans' Doug Bertrand, one of nine Titans eligible to return next season. Those goals spotted the Jaguars a 3-0 lead, the third coming with just a second left in the opening period, and Christ the King extended its lead to 4-0 in the second. The Titans came out looking like a completely different team in the third. Justin Bowie set up Dan Cubric's goal a minute into the period to get Trinity on the board, but the Titans knew they still had a daunting task ahead. "It gives you a little hope," said Titans captain Matt Capern. "But we still needed three goals in 14 minutes and against a great team like Christ the King, that's tough to do. They've always been one of the strongest teams in the league since I've been playing." It was the Jaguars' third Halton title in four years, with only a 1-0 loss to Assumption in last year's final interrupting their dynasty. Holy Trinity kept applying pressure and showed it was more than capable of playing with the Jaguars five on five. The Titans didn't allow a shot on goal until halfway through the period but they weren't rewarded for their efforts at the other end either. The teams exchanged late goals, with Jimmy Shea picking up the Titans' second goal in the final minute. However, the early hole they dug for themselves proved to be too much to climb out of. "You take away the first (period) and we played a pretty good game," Consoli said. "It was still a good season, and the boys have a lot to be proud of." -- Herb Garbutt can be followed on Twitter @Herbgarbutt