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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, October 9, 2014 | 34 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports H O L I C C H A M P I O N S H I P S "Connected to your Community" C A T Oakville Blades forward Jackson Bales. | Kevin Sousa -- OJHL Images Bales leads Blades to win Jackson Bales scored twice and added two assists as the Oakville Blades moved back to the .500 mark with a 6-2 win over the Pickering Panthers Sunday in Pickering. Matthew McLeod, Ryan Burns, Christian Rajic and Matthew Lippa also tallied for Oakville, which improved to 5-5-1 on the Ontario Junior Hockey League season. Brendan McGlynn made 31 saves to record the victory in net. The win was the Blades' second in three days, following a 3-0 blanking of the St. Michael's Buzzers Friday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Joe Seney, Tyler Burns and Lippa scored in that contest, and Daniel Manella made 23 saves for the shutout. Oakville will host the Toronto Jr. Canadiens this Friday at Sixteen Mile and will also be home to the Aurora Tigers Saturday. Both games are slated for 7:30 p.m. starts. The Blades will then visit the North York Rangers Sunday. Last week's Halton Catholic District School Board elementary crosscountry meet drew hundreds of students from across the region to Bronte Creek Provincial Park in Oakville. In left photo, Mother Teresa's Dominique Reid-Graham looks to the crowd during her race. In right photo, St. Andrew runner Andrea Vankalmthout (foreground) tries to stay ahead of an Avengers teammate. | photos by Graham Paine -- Oakville Beaver --@Halton_Photog Oakville natives do it all in RIT's milestone victory Whether they were scoring all of their team's goals, stopping all but one of their opponent's shots or making the decisions behind the bench, Oakville natives ensured Rochester Institute of Technology's women's hockey team was victorious in the firstever regular-season game played at the school's new arena. Coached by T.A. Blakelock high school grad Scott McDonald, the Tigers rode the steady netminding of Ali Binnington and goals from Lindsay Grigg and Lindsay Stenason to a 2-1 win over Union College in NCAA Division 1 action Saturday at RIT's new Gene Polisseni Center. Stenason, a graduate of Appleby College, scored the winning goal midway through the third period. Grigg, the Tigers' captain and a Holy Trinity alumnus, netted the first-ever goal at the new facility, and Binnington, a former St. Mildred Lightbourn School student, made 19 saves to record the victory. "With the game tied in the third period, we owed it to our fans and to the school to get the win," said McDonald, in his ninth year as the Tigers' head coach. "We competed and played hard for each other... and it paid off." Lauren Carroll, a Carlisle resident who played last season for the Oakville Hornets, was also part of Saturday's win, making her NCAA debut. RIT won the College Hockey America Championship last season, only their second year in Division 1, when Grigg scored the title-clinching goal in double overtime and Binnington made 62 saves in the final against Mercyhurst. Pictured from left, the RIT women's hockey team's Oakville connection of Lindsay Stenason, Lindsay Grigg, Scott McDonald and Ali Binnington. | photo submitted The Tigers celebrated that championship with a ring ceremony following Saturday's game.