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Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports G I R L S B A S K E T B A L L 23 | Friday, October 18, 2013 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" J U N I O R OT Red Devils to play for another field hockey title The Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils will play for another Halton senior girls' field hockey Tier 1 championship Monday at Bronte Athletic Field. OT, seeking its fourth consecutive regional title, advanced to the final with a 4-2 victory over the Loyola Hawks yesterday (Thursday). OT will face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish or Nelson Lords Monday at 2:30 p.m. The Red Devils, who outscored their opposition 36-0 on the way to a 7-0 mark in regular-season play, won Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations bronze in 2011. OT was denied a trip to last year's provincials, however, with a shootout loss to Notre Dame in the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference semifinals. "We came back and we've made it our goal not just to go to OFSAA, but to win it," Red Devils co-captain Ellie Cookson said last month. Should OT win Monday's Halton final, it would host the Hamilton Catholic finalist in a GHAC semifinal game Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. If victorious then, the Red Devils would also host the GHAC final the following day. Junior final The junior girls' field hockey Tier 1 final will also be played Monday at Bronte, beginning at 1 p.m. St. Thomas Aquinas and OT were the two Oakville teams still alive in the Tier 1 playoffs, going into yesterday's semifinals. Aquinas visited the Nelson Lords and the Corpus Christi Longhorns hosted OT. The Red Devils were 3-1-4 during the regular season. Aquinas, despite scoring four goals in eight games, was 2-2-4. Tier 2 playoffs begin Oct. 24 for seniors and Oct. 29 for juniors. -- With files from Herb Garbutt T.A. Blakelock Tigers player Rachel Dhingra leads the attack down the floor against the Frank Hayden Huskies Wednesday at Blakelock. The Tigers defeated Hayden 41-20 to improve to 7-0 in Halton junior girls' Tier 2 basketball play. | photo by Eric Riehl -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog St. Matthew earns five pennants, St. Mary wins participation award at HCDSB cross country St. Matthew won five of the 16 division titles earned by Oakville schools at the Halton Catholic District School Board's recent cross-country system championships at Bronte Creek Provincial Park. The Wildcats' victories came in the mite girls' D, tyke girls' A, atom boys' A, bantam boys' A and bantam girls' B divisions. St. Marguerite (tyke girls' C, atom boys' C, atom girls' C) and Mother Teresa (mite girls' C, tyke boys' B, atom boys' B) won three titles each, with Pope John Paul II adding two (mite boys' C, mite girls' B). St. Andrew (midget girls' A) and St. Bernadette (midget girls' B) were Oakville's other division champions. St. Mary claimed a different honour, the Cynthia Tobin Memorial HCDSB Cross-Country Overall Participation Award, for the second straight year. Fifty-seven per cent of the school's eligible student population participated in this year's system meet, ranking well ahead of second-place Burlington St. Mark (42 per cent). Oakville's St. Matthew and St, Michael tied for third with 39 per cent participation. Overall, 27 per cent of the eligible students in the Halton Catholic board took part in this year's championships, meaning more than 2,800 runners took the course during the two-day event. Our Lady Of Peace student Kristen Abraham was second in the midget girls' B race, making her one of three runners to post top-three finishes in each of their years of eligibility. St. Matthew's Emmy Lou O'Neill, Mother Teresa's Megan Turnbull and St. Vincent's Brittany Pan are on pace to accomplish a similar feat next year. Individual champions from Oakville included Pope John Paul II's Emili Saenger (mite boys' C) and Sophie Francuz (mite girls' B), St. Dominic's Emma Wieland (mite girls' D), St. Matthew's Jack Natyshak (tyke boys' A) and Sean Guerin (atom boys' A), Mother Teresa's Carson Wiggins (tyke boys' B), Luke Ivan (atom boys' B), Turnbull (bantam girls' A) and Lucas Cisnero (midget boys' A), St. Joseph's Rachel Marriott (tyke girls' A), St. Marguerite's Lindsey Boryszko (tyke girls' C) and Dante Stevenson (atom boys' C), and St. Andrew's Lauren Taylor (midget girls' A). -- For full results, see Page 24 Our Lady of Peace student Kristen Abraham runs to a second-place finish in the midget girls' B division at the recent Halton Catholic District School Board's elementary cross-country system championships. It was the fifth straight year Abraham finished in the top three of her division. | photo submitted