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The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday September 11, 2002 - D3 Winstars off to Kelowna for nationals By Norm Nelson BEAVER S P O R T S EDITOR Oakville women off to St. John's for nationals (C ontinued from page D1) The Oakville W instars only led once in their Ontario Cup U-14 boys tier one provincial cham pionship against the East York Komets on Saturday. But they they held the lead when it counted the most -- with a sudden death, overtime Golden Goal by Adam Cannell. It gave Oakville the 3-2 win. "It felt great," said Cannell, moments after being mobbed by team mates. He explained how it happened. "The ball came across from Grant (Girouard) and then the goalkeeper just went to punch it, and he punched it against my head. "So I just turned and ran as fast I could to get the ball and I just hit it in." Cannell was also instrumental in the Winstars first goal, lobbing a cross into the East York crease which Daniel Ramos converted, out-challenging the goaltender for the ball. The W instars second goal was scored on a perfect free kick from Julian Fabiani. The win brings with it an exciting opportunity, as the Winstars advance to the national championship which will be held this year in Kelowna. B.C., Oct. 10-14. The Winstars will be seeded first, and you can bet they're looking for ward to it. "I am very excited about it," said one of the captains. Grant Girouard. in no uncertain terms. He said the game was "hard fought by both teams." "It was close, down to the end. And we just played tough and we came through. "We never gave up. We came back twice. Hard work by our team." While this game was close, their two previous meetings were anything but. Oakville won the first one 2-0 and then the East York blew the second one open 4-0. That latter drubbing sent longtime head coach Charlie Sciberras -- back in the fold after three years coaching Woodbridge U-19s -- back to the drawing board. While he had no doubt about his starting 11, he toyed with both posi tions and strategy to give the team a new look. At first, it appeared to be making no difference. East York scored early and threat ened to run away with the game with a couple of glorious opportunities that just failed to go in. To be honest, if the game was deter mined by judges and not by goals -- it would probably have been awarded to East York. But they lacked the finishing touch es on this day, and that continually allowed Oakville to get back off the mat. "The first 10 minutes we had butter flies," conceded coach Sciberras. "I don't think there was one player that didn't have butterflies. To tell you the truth we were a little shaky ... But after 10 minutes we seemed to settle down. We tied the game. "And then after that we tied the game again. And we were on even ground again and we went at them -- we never looked back." Cannell, the winning goal scorer, agreed: "We held our spirits high, kept on pushing back." Preparations for Saturday's key Ontario Cup game culminated in a Friday night meeting at the Oakville Soccer Club offices. "I seemed to change their attitude, get them together. Think positive. And drill nothing but positive things in them." For Sciberras it culminates a tri umphant return to the Oakville Soccer Club and a reunion of sorts. He had actually kicked the team off four years ago as the U-10 Oakville Acorns, and a few o f the players remained from that team. Previous to that he had led another Oakville Winstars team to provincial and national championships. As far as this year, he said the 2002 version of the Winstars is right in the thick of the league championship hunt. That pack includes East York as well as teams from North Mississauga and Etobicoke. On any given day throughout the season, he said, any of the teams could find themselves anywhere from first to fourth place. The W instars have four games remaining, and he said they'll be bat tling hard to capture first place. And that should be just the kind of preparation they need to stay sharp for the national cham pionships! OAKVILLE WINSTARS: Cosimo D'Agostino, Grant Girouard, Brandon Blackwood. Spencer Morrison, Gurtej Dhillon, Rabii Karanouh, Daniel Ramos, Gavin Russell. Adam Cannell, Jessie Mahal. Diego Caradona. Perkins Ulysse, Daniel Lewis, David Ortega. Emmanuel Prah, Julian Fabiani and Evan Kadet. Team staff: Charlie Sciberras (coach), Komel Vuia (asst, coach), Paul Kitson (asst, coach) and Stephen Girouard (manager). the first Ontario Cup gold I have ever received in six years of trying so it is very exciting." Despite her age, Gayle is far from being inexperienced when it comes to tense game situations. She just returned from the FIFA U-19 World Cup finals where her U-19 team delivered a silver medal performance. Tanya Dennis also dished out an exceptional performance. Her tremen dous speed and footwork gave her sever al rushes, keeping the Iron Eagle goaltender on her toes. As well, Diana Matheson's ability to make the completed pass, always finding the open man. kept the Oakville team pressing. Oakville's Matheson was in the national team U-19 pool of players. She didn't see world championship action but played in some of the tune-ups. Coach McKenna attributes his team's level of skill to their positive attitude and extreme dedication. "Win. lose or draw they are a great bunch of kids. They practice hard and they train hard," McKenna said. The Oakville women's team will head to St. John's. Newfoundland October 1014 for the national championships. OAKVILLE WOMEN: Carly Argo, Tanya Dennis. Brandi Buschhausen, Kathryn Link, Darrelle Leeming, Kanisha Campbell, Amanda DiCarlo, Keisha Garrick-Meyers, Christine Zimmerman, Kristin Robertson, Jamila Brown, Tiffany Meinen. Vita McKenna, Michelle Houchen, Erin Osbourne, Diana Matheson, Robyn Gayle, coach Billy McKenna, manager Andy Robertson. Oakville Strikers off to Vaughan for nationals (C ontinued from page D1) Strikers dominated the tiring Ranger team for most of the half allowing few runs in to their own defensive zone. Co-captain, Petro Czoli snuck by two Brampton defenders and put a beautiful shot past the goaltender just minutes into the second. Then Oakville's Glen Villa made a playbook pass across the net, setting up Darkwa for his second (and Oakville's third) goal to put the game out of reach for Brampton. "I'm happy. I think we played well, passed the ball well, we had our ups and downs but we came out on top," said Czoli after receiving his gold medal. Miran Zaki also scored for Oakville to give the Strikers the 4-1 win. Coach John Farrer was more than pleased with his team's performance. "Every game we've played against Brampton in the past has been tied or a one goal difference, either way, and today we are Ontario Cup champions." Out of 26 Ontario teams in their division the Oakville Strikers have earned the number one spot. The golden boys will return to Vaughan for the national champi onships Oct. 10-14. Coach Farrer is confident about his team's next challenge. "We will prepare for nationals in October, train a little harder over the next month and basically just keep on doing what we're doing." OAKVILLE STRIKERS: Peter Koumoulas, Brien Chamnery, Barry Wilson. Dexter Uowu, Darren Charles, Michael Medeiros, Nikola Milosevic, Miran Zaki, Brent Lukowski, Glen Villa. Andrew Greco, Matthew Silva, Ryan Tuske, Petro Czoli, Jeffrey Darkwa, John-Mark Ssennyonjo, coach John Farrer, assistant coach Carlo Greco and manager Mark Lukowski. 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