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Wednesday, September 27, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER D1 YOU WOULDN'T TRUST JUST ANYONE TO DRIVE YOUR CAR, SO W HY T O S T JUST ANY COMPANY TO INSURE ITT Wayne McGill hm m*wd AataMfcfc N u n lm *m , 2345 Wyeaok Rd # 21. Oakvilc 847-5671 SporWedmky LIVE ENTERTAINMENT E v e ry Frid a y Fri., Sept. 29 town Centre I CHRISTA w -nZ blondaA S An O akville Beaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com Tickets for Tiger on sale soon, but it' s a t Royal M ontreal Photo by Barrie Erskine Tickets for next year's Bell Canadian Open, which Tiger Woods has, thus far, penciled in to defend, will go on sale Tuesday, Oct. 10. Now, for the bad news. It's at Royal Montreal, Sept. 3-9th. As oft noted on these pages, the Open -- which has been held at Glen Abbey 22 of the last 24 years, including this year's wildly successful edition won by Tiger -- is now hitting the road. It's all part of a move by the Royal Canadian Golf Association (RCGA) to gain a better presence across the coun try. Part and parcel of that was last year's sale of Glen Abbey to ClubLink. ClubLink, meanwhile, has Photo by Barrie Erskine brought in CP-owned Delta Hotels to put up a $45/$50-milTickets for next year's Open on sale soon, lion luxury hotel/conference with Tiger set to defend. centre (as recounted in last next fall with a 2003 spring comple Friday's Beaver) which it hopes will tion date -- well in time for the 2003 attract the Open even more than the Bell Canadian Open, should the minimum amount promised (which is three times over the next 13 years with RCGA wish to consider Glen Abbey (although they are leaning towards an option, for both parties, on a fourth western Canada). one in the subsequent five-year peri The 2002 Bell Canadian Open has od). The development is slated to begin (See Tiger" page 03) P LAYIN G H O O K EY , ER , H O C K E Y : this opening senior girls high school field hockey game on Monday featured a 0-0 tie between Q.E. Park and Assumption (solid blue jersey on left). Com m ent... It's game over for White Oaks' guys By Norm Nelson BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR lessons. Just the excitement of the game itself. Now, it's game over, lights out, at least for the guys at White Oaks. By all accounts Canada is not doing well at the Olympics. FOOTBALL Well, what do you expect when its most populous Here's last week's action. province can't even come up with a sports program for Senior, tier one: Nelson 24, M.M. Robinson 19; Loyola its high school students. 20, Bishop Reding 20; Notre Dame 36, Aquinas 8; If you're a White Oaks male student, there are no Assumption 32, OakvilleTrafalgar 0. sports for you this fall. Schedule fo r this Friday (Sept. 29), all at 3:30 p.m.: What a disgrace. M.M. Robinson at Bishop Reding; Loyola at Nelson, Primarily it's a catfight between teachers, school Aquinas at Assumption (at Gen. Brock); Oakville Trafalgar at Notre Dame. boards and Premier Mike Harris. Assigning blame is not really as important on these Senior, tier two: Bishop Reding 21, Aldershot 0; sports pages as the bottom line -- which is that our high Iroquois Ridge 11, Lord Elgin 9; Q.E. Park 14, Milton 6. school sports programs are crumbling to dust. Schedule fo r this Friday (Sept. 29), all games at 3:30 There have been some prominent athletes spring out p.m.: Aldershot at Iroquois Ridge; Lord Elgin at Burlington of high school sports programs, here in Oakville, and Central; Milton at Blakelock. they pretty well, to a person, fondly recall their high Junior division one: Nelson 42, M.M. Robinson 7; Notre school days. Dame 12, Assumption 0; Loyola 25, Iroquois Ridge 7. Next time I get a chance to interview Q.E. Park grad Schedule fo r this Friday Thursday (Sept. 28), all games Donovan Bailey I would like to ask him if he believes he at 3:30 p.m.: Assumption at Iroquois Ridge; Loyola at would have gone on to capture Olympic and world M.M. Robinson; Notre Dame at Nelson championships if there had not been a track and field Junior division, tier two, season starts this week ... program at Q.E. Park to at least get him started. Schedule fo r this Thursday (Sept. 28), all games at 3:30 And I would ask the same question of last year's top p.m.: Burlington Central at Milton; Q.E. Park at Lord scorer in the NFL, whether Mike Vanderjagt, place kick Elgin. Bye week fo r Aquinas. er for the Indianapolis Colts, believes that the football FIELD HOCKEY program he starred in at White Oaks contributed to his The Oakville Trafalgar senior girls field hockey team, later success. sponsored by the Duck and Furkin Restaurant, were suc Ditto for recently retired NFLer Tony Mandarich, also cessful in Ottawa last weekend, winning the 10-team, 2000 from White Oaks. Bear Hockey Challenge. Could they have achieved their Olympian heights Sarah Dunbar's goal was the difference in the 1-0 cham without the benefit of the high school sports programs pionship win over Sir Robert Borden. which got them started. In the semifinals, Oakville Trafalgar defeated Earl of And that's not even the point of a high school sports March 3-0 with goals to Sarah Vogt, Steph Gulledge and program. The production of such world class stars is just Lindsey Stuart. a bonus. In the preliminary round, Oakville defeated Colonel 4-0 The point is the benefits that a high school sports pro (Lindsey Stuart 2, Laurel Gale and Erin Maloney), Sir gram are supposed to bestow on every young participant. Robert Borden 1-0 (Lindsey Stuart) and Barrhaven Fitness, exercise, healthy living, team building, life Bulldogs 2-0 (Steph Gulledge and Michelle Suh. Tryouts for basketball rep program O akville Vytis Basketball rep tryouts at St. Thom as Aquinas Secondary School will be held on Sunday, Oct. 1 ... Boys' minor bantam (bom '89 & '90): 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Girls' minor bantam (bom '89 & '90): 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Girls' bantam (bom '87 & '88): 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Girls' midget (born '85 & '86): 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. For more information contact Vic Juzenas at 845-8166 or Mary Quinn at 469-8435. Photo by Peter C. McCusker ELVIS S IG H TIN G : in Oakville, of course, that doesn't mean the king of rock and roll but the very much alive king of Canadian figure skating, Elvis Stojko. Elvis sightings are very common in Oakville, given that Stojko, for his entire career, has had his skates sharpened by Oakville's Paul Fisher. And he's always welcomed on the ice at River Oaks, as he was last Saturday. Stojko is again slated to compete in the world championships this season. S a tu rd a y S e p te m b e r 3 0 , S u n d a y O cto b e r 1 Store Hours on Selected Items UPPER OAKVILLE SHOPPING CENTRE Upper Middle Road at 8th Line f.'cr.-Frr. 3:20 a.m.-S tCa.rr.-e p.m.. Sera S 849-8473 OAKTOWN SHOPPING PLAZA 550 Ketr Slreet Sunday October 1 844-0202