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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, October 30, 2014 | 44 HALTON TRANSMISSION 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 905-842-0725 www.haltontransmission.com Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports "Connected to your Community" Matheson suffers torn ACL Canadian 2012 Olympic hero Diana Matheson can only hope she'll have the opportunity to score another big goal at next year's Women's World Cup. Sports Briefs The Oakville Soccer Club product, whose goal against France gave Canada a 1-0 victory in the Olympic bronze-medal game two years ago in London, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee Saturday while playing Diana Matheson. in a friendly against Japan in Edmonton. | Oakville Beaver file photo Recovery time for a torn ACL varies by athlete but is typically six months to one year. The 2015 Women's World Cup, which Canada is hosting, will begin June 6. "Obviously I want to be in a World Cup so that's my goal," the 30-yearold Matheson said on Canada Soccer's Twitter account. Leafs send Percy down to AHL's Marlies The Toronto Maple Leafs sent Abbey Park High School grad Stuart Percy down to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies, Sunday. The 21-year-old defenceman recorded three assists in seven games with the Leafs, including helpers in each of his first two career NHL contests. He also received regular praise from the coaching staff for his first-pass ability, smart puck decisions and overall trustworthy play, and averaged 18:14 of ice time per game. The deletion of Percy's entry-level contract and bonuses gave the Leafs nearly a million dollars more in cap savings. -- With files from Mark Zwolinski, Stuart Percy carries the puck durToronto Star ing a recent game against Detroit. | photo by Eric Riehl Titans finish first in Tier 1 football -- Oakville Beaver The Holy Trinity Titans scored a touchdown with 45 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to complete a comeback from a 20-point deficit and defeat the Assumption Crusaders 29-28 in Halton high school senior football play last Friday at Trinity. Titans quarterback Nathan Rourke ran two yards for the game-tying major and Graham Maskins kicked the go-ahead extra point. Earlier in the game, Rourke ran for a 30-yard touchdown and added TD passes to Entinosa Eguavoen and Tarik Pryce. Trinity overcame five lost fumbles in the victory, which clinched first place for the Titans in the Tier 1 standings. Both Trinity (6-0) and Assumption (5-1) have byes this week as the playoffs begin. For more on last week's game, visit Holy Trinity student Amanda Coughlin bit.ly/1xEoWMn. cheers on the Titans football team last T.A. Blakelock, Oakville's other week against Assumption. | photo by team in Tier 1, missed the playoffs afGraham Paine -- Oakville Beaver ter concluding the season Friday with a 25-8 loss to Nelson. Oakville Trafalgar High School students Cassie Chisholm (left) and Emma Haugrud run side by side during last week's Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference cross-country championships near Milton. The event was a qualifier for this weekend's provincial meet in Waterloo. | photo by Michael Ivanin -- Special to the Beaver Webb, Blakelock win cross-country team titles Garth Webb and T.A. Blakelock both won boys' team titles at the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference high school cross-country championships last week at Milton's Hilton Falls Conservation Area. Webb rode top-10 individual finishes from Braeden Vallis (sixth), Matt Forrest (ninth) and Omar El Tawil (10th) to the midget boys' 5-kilometre division crown. Jacob Rideout rounded out the Webb team with a 17th-place finish (scores in team competition are determined by totalling the placings of each school's top four runners). Blakelock won the senior boys' 7km title, led by a sixth-place effort from Mitchell Barran. Kyle Dennett, Connor Hicks and Christian Sprang finished 13th, 14th, and 15th, respectively, for the Tigers. Loyola's Kristin O'Neill (third), Lexi Noden (fifth) and Dana Pope (10th) finished in the top 10 of the senior girls' 5km race, but the Hawks had to settle for second in the team standings as Georgetown's Christ the King boasted four runners in the top 12. Sarah Nixon (19th) rounded out the silver-medalist Loyola squad. The Hawks' junior girls (Andrea Wallin, Sofia Borea, Kristin Ward, Sarah Benyo) were also second in team standings, as was the Iroquois Ridge midget boys' squad (Luka Mircetic, Christian Martyn, Adam Misiewic, Randy Shao.) The top two teams in each division, as well as the top six individual athletes not on one of the top two teams, qualified for Saturday's Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations provincial championships in Waterloo. Abbey Park's midget boys' team (Ben Currier, Matthew Tiplady, Andrew Vu, Yihang Qin), Oakville Trafalgar's junior boys' 6km squad (Ryan Rudderham, Parker Crawford, John Carson, Matt Spiller) and Webb's senior boys' squad (Evan Notley, Brayden Tiels, David Gallant, Gavin McKay) narrowly missed out on qualifying for OFSAA, finishing third in their divisions. Oakville's top individual performers were Abbey Park's Currier (second in midget boys, 16 seconds out of first) and Iroquois Ridge's Bridget Ball (second in midget girls' 3km, 12 seconds behind the leader). Holy Trinity's Lauren Taylor placed third in the midget girls' race. Other local residents to qualify for OFSAA were Abbey Park's Nicole Parsons (midget girls), Webb's Robert Scott and Loyola's Jack Turchet (junior boys), OT's Lucy Pennyfather and St. Thomas Aquinas's Samantha Farah (junior girls), Webb's Notley and OT's Robert Lasso (senior boys), and Trinity's Katie Zbogar and White Oaks' Christine Morris (senior girls).