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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, September 18, 2015 | 28 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports T I T L E D E F E N C E B E G I N S "Connected to your Community" Harvest Classic girls' hockey tourney draws 180 teams Nearly 200 teams from across Ontario and the northern United States will be in Oakville this weekend for the Oakville Hornets' sixth annual Harvest Clasic girls' hockey tournament. This year's competition features 180 squads, an increase from last year's 174-team field. The novice level will offer A and B divisions, while atom, peewee, bantam and midget will each have AA, A, BB and B groupings. The largest divisions are bantam AA, A and BB, peewee A and midget A (16 teams each). Some teams began play last night (Thursday) with the others seeing their first action this morning (Friday). Championship games will be contested Sunday. Games will be played at Joshua's Creek, Oakville and Maplegrove arenas, River Oaks and Glen Abbey recreation centres, and Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Holy Trinity's Andrew Mullin (with ball) gets forced out of bounds by Notre Dame's Jacob Marks during the first game of the Halton high school senior boys' football season for both teams yesterday (Thursday) in Burlington. The defending Tier 1 champion Titans used two touchdowns from Will Ellis and two interceptions by Beaumont Cullen to defeat Notre Dame 13-9. | photo by Graham Paine -- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog Oakville senior scores pair of aces -- in one nine-hole round Dropping again, Lock hit his next shot off the trunk of a tree. After finally reaching the Oakville Beaver Staff green and making his putt, he wrote an ugly 10 on his scorecard. It was the first of two Doug Lock was just three holes into his double-digit entries on the day. "It was just one diround and already it was a saster after another," debacle. the Oakville resident On the third hole, he said. "I was playing hooked his drive into the the worst game I had woods. His son Jason went in three years. I was so in to look for it but Lock upset with myself. I was didn't share his optimism Odds of finding a four-leaf clover mishitting shots everyof finding it. And really, he where." didn't care to. The 67-year-old had Lock dropped another Odds of being struck by lightning in your lifetime taken up the game of the bright yellow Mac15 years earlier, playGregor balls a friend had ing once a week with given to him. He wanted Odds of winning Lotto 6/49 friends and before jointo get rid of them anyway, ing the Monday golf and today seemed like the league at Tyandaga Golf day to deplete his stockOdds of scoring two aces in an 18-hole golf round Course in Burlington pile. Just as Jason emerged when he retired five from the woods, Lock years ago. shanked a ball that just missed his son beA 30-handicap, Lock knows the limits fore sailing into the trees. "He was just fed up and frustrated," Jason of his game. So when he stepped up to the said. see Double on p.29 by Herb Garbutt What are the odds? 1 in 10,000 1 in 12,000 1 in 14,000,000 1 in 67,000,000 Oakville resident Doug Lock, 67, shows off the golf ball, driver and three-wood he used to score two holes-in-one during one nine-hole round Saturday near London. The 30-handicap first took up golf 15 years ago and carded a 10 one hole before he drained his first ace of the day. | photo by Michael Ivanin -- Special to the Beaver

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