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Kevin Nagel Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports 41 | Thursday, March 10, 2016 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | www.insideHALTON.com "Connected to your Community" Chargers net OFSAA medal erside in the gold-medal match at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Riverside advanced with a four-set victory over Samuel-Genest. Earlier in the day, Webb guaranteed its spot in the medal round with a 25-21, 23-25, 25-16, 25-12 quarter-final victory over Casselman. Garth Webb won its pool with a perfect 4-0 record without dropping a set. The Chargers beat the top seed in their pool, St. Michael, 25-22, 25-22. They followed up with a 25-11, 26-24 win over Confederation to close Monday at 2-0. Garth Webb opened Tuesday with a convincing 25-10, 25-15 victory over Bayside of Quinte West and clinched top spot in its pool with a 25-20, 25-14 victory over Orillia's Patrick Fogarty. The Garth Webb Chargers played for the gold medal at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations girls' AA volleyball championships in Kenora Wednesday night. The Chargers rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win Wednesday's semifinal match against Eden in five sets. The gold-medal game occurred after the Beaver's press deadline. After the Chargers took the opening set 25-17, Eden battled back to square the match by taking the second set 25-15. Eden then pulled out a 25-23 win in the critical third set, but Webb kept its hopes for OFSAA gold alive by tying the match with a 25-21 win. Webb then won the deciding fifth set 15Catherine Ostapovych of the Garth Webb Chargers spikes the ball in a recent GHAC semifinal win. The Chargers 11. Garth Webb was scheduled to face Rivadvanced to the OFSAA girls' AA finals Wednesday after Beaver press deadlines.| Justin Greaves ­ Oakville Beaver Foursome accepted into TFC Academy If there's a downside to being very good at your sport, it might be that you don't get many opportunities to see your local pro team. "We practise four times a week, so I don't get to many (TFC) games," says Lazar Stefanovic. The nine-year-old and three fellow players who started their soccer careers at the Oakville Soccer Club --Noah Barna-Zuzic, Philip Biondich and Matthew Dovale -- may not have to worry about that much longer. They will not only get the chance to see Toronto's Major League Soccer team play, they'll share a field after being accepted into the Kia Toronto FC Academy. For Barna-Zuzic, whose favourite player is TFC's Sebastian Giovinco, that's a great opportunity in itself. But it also gives the players access to high-level training at Ontario's only professional academy. "It's exciting," Dovale said. "I want to be a professional." The Oakville players were among the 14 selected for the academy following a four-month tryout process that brought hundreds of players from across the province to vie for one of the coveted spots. Despite the intense competition for limited spots, Barna-Zuzic took it in stride. "I wasn't that nervous," he said. Dovale didn't have to go through the same selection process after being recommended by John Moreira of Euro Star Keeper Academy. But the St. Joseph's Catholic School student still had to impress the TFC Academy evaluators enough to earn one of the two keeper positions up for grabs. Biondich is looking forward to the opportunity to play against other top competition. "I like competing against the other teams, the stronger ones," he said. "They're very focused and coachable," Michael Scholz of RVDL Soccer Academy said of Biondich and Barna-Zuzic, who trained with him prior to joining Toronto FC Academy. "You can see them taking things on board and then applying them. That's what really separates the cream from the rest." -- Herb Garbutt p r os of tomo r r ow ? Four young soccer players selected to the Kia Toronto FC Academy are, from left, Noah BarnaZuzic, Philip Biondich, Matthew Dovale and Lazar Stefanovic. | photo by Graham Paine ­ Burlington Post (follow on Twitter @halton_photog) Next thuRSday eveRyoNe iS iRiSh!!!! The fun starts when you get here...!!!! 905-338-5458 www.draftedsportsbar.com 379 Speers Rd., @ Dorval live music, irish menu, green beer, prizes giveaways all day all night...