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Wednesday, October 4, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER . D1 829-0018 One number. 24 hours a day 24 Hour Good Neighbor Service" A n d rew H eid em a n 829-0018 Spor\d/Vednesday LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Every Friday Fri., Oct. 6 MOTOR CITY Town Centre 1 DorvH a Q E W Fri., OcL 13 DEBBIE 844-8703 JOHNSTON V An O akville B eaver Feature Editor: NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail.nnelson@hattonsearch.com Oakville Beaver File Photo Placekicking was taken care o f by O akville high school grads in Sunday's NFL gam e between host B uffalo B ills and the In d ian ap olis C olts. Steve C hristie (left) is an O akville Trafalgar grad while M ike Vanderjagt cam e from the once strong (and now non existent) W hite O aks program . For high school football round-up, see page D3. Photo by Riziero Vertolli Oakville N FLers lock horns again i R E J E C T IO N : Conor O 'Kelly, goaltender for the Oakville Rangers triple-A minor atom rep team, stops this point blank chance by a Grey-Bruce player in action on Sunday. O 'Kelly stopped all comers, nabbing the shutout in Oakville's 6-0 win. See story, pg. D3. Longhorns try and extend th eir dyn asty across Canada ern leagues are also slna!! -- four teams in the C algary area, and three teams in M anitoba. The NFC is currently only at The Oakville Longhorns have created a four teams although Molnar said it will grow next season. football dynasty in these parts. These small leagues -- basically the last And this weekend, they'll see if they can extend those bragging rights right across bastions of a amateur tackle football in Canada -- agreed this year to stage a the country. The `Hom s are the unprecedented eight national championship. The `Homs, who easily won their eighth tim e defending N orthern Football Conference (NFC) cham pions (the league NFC cham pionship this past August, basically covers Ontario), and this Sunday defeating Sault Ste. Marie Storm 39-3, they'll play in the national championship in were only to happy to take on the chal lenge, even though conditions are far from Winnipeg. To the w inner will go bragging rights for ideal. For one, the `Homs won the NFC cham the best am ateur m en's tackle football team pionship way back on August 12. They in the country. Longhorns coach Tony M olnar was have been practicing all of September but unsure whether such a title had ever been Molnar concedes that "it's tough to be fought for before. But either way it's either down seven weeks before playing a game." They certainly won't be game battered the inaugural national championship, or at the very l?&st, a resum ption after a very like the Winnipeg team which played last long period on the shelf. weekend, although, oddly enough, they do The g)dme is set for this Sunday (Oct. 8), have some injuries to some key players. 2 p.m.. at W innipeg Stadium against the Another quirk is that the `Homs will hometown W innipeg Senior Mustangs. have to get used to playing the three-down Tfliat's a piece o f bad luck for the `Hom s Canadian game which the western leagues as 'the national cham pionship location was play. determ ined long before the W innipeg One obstacle both teams face is their Senior M ustangs captured the western complete lack of knowledge of each other. Canadian championship. All Molnar knows is that the west is a They secured the western Canadian title hotbed of football and seem to do well at last weekend with a 32-20 win over the any level, whether it be filling the stands Alberta rep resentative, the Calgary for a CFL football game or winning more Wolfpack. than their share of national university or Coach M olnar explained that the west junior football championships. BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR By Norm Nelson And he doesn't expect this senior level to be any different. "We expect a hell of game." The `Homs, over the past two years, have actually played their games out of Burlington, primarily because of field con siderations. But team officials maintain they aren't about to snip their long standing Oakville connections. The `Horns will carry a roster of about 42 and a coaching staff of four, each of whom will pay somewhere between $700 to $1,000 out of their own pockets for the honour. The team managed to do one fundraiser, but other than that "each player has to fund themselves." On the roster are forty-something quar terback Mark Demerling of Burlington and Oakville placekicker Dana Segin who led the NFC in scoring this past season. Segin is a perennial invitee to CFL training camps although he hasn't stuck, yet. Here's the `Horns roster .... James Ducksworth, Domenic Camastro, Chris Bentley, Greg Davey, Chris Pelissero, Howard Betty, Richard Rebiere, Jason Molnar, Dana Segin, Mark Dalla Riva, Mark Demerling, Gifford Rose, Jimmy Sandhu, Larry Baraniuk, Phil Doyle, Martin Woods, Tom Wighton*. A1 Campbell, Steve Cornelius, Terry Johnson, Russ Logisse, Vince Rinella, Jamie Owens, Wayne Slewinski, Joe Privett, Mike D'Aguiar, Dave Boyce*, Chris Nunn, Alwin Mascoll, Joe Pereira, Terry Luke*, Todd Harris*, Alistair Bailey*, Dwayne Scott, Mike Thompson*, Stephen Moore, Will Thompson, Sean Cross*, Karl Kustor*. Michael Dingsdale, Colin Grant and Jay Winn. Coaching staff: Tony Molnar, John Manel, Larry Guarascia, Larry Wilson and Selwyn Daniel. * doubtful Oakville's two NFL stars -- both placekickers -- locked horns again on the weekend. This time it was Mike Vanderjagt the hero as his field goal with no time remaining gave the Indianapolis Colts a key 18-16 win over their inter-divisional rivals, the Buffalo Bills. Up until that point, it had actually been a slow day at the office for Vanderjagt, who starred in the W hite Oaks Secondary School football program (back when they had one). The only time his presence had been required was for three kick-offs and a point-after. But it's the nature of the position to come through with the game on the line, and Vanderjagt, in the last play o f the game, was dead on with a 45-yard field goal. Christie, an Oakville Trafalgar grad, had a busier after noon, successful with a point-after as well as all three of his field goal attempts (from 19, 27 and 30 yards). But it was a field goal he didn't take on the second series in the third quarter that was the big news after the game. Instead of having Christie take a 46-yard-field goal on four-and-six at the Indy 29, coach Wade Phillips elected to go for it. In the ensuing confusion, the play never did get off and the Bills were assessed a five-yard infraction. Still keeping Christie on the bench, rather than attempt what would have been a 51-yarder, coach Phillips sent Chris M ohr in to punt. It proved to be the difference in the game. Interestingly, Christie was three-for-three beyond 50 yards last season. Aidoo adds three more Kojo Aidoo continued his torrid play with three touchdow ns in the McMaster Marauders 53-7 win over Guelph on Saturday. Aidoo, a Loyola grad, now has 11 touchdowns in four games, tops in the CIAU. The M arauders, m ean while, im proved their record to 4-0, tops in the OUA. Awards night deadline O ct 20 R ecognizing the achievem ents o f local athletes is the premise behind the annual aw ards night hosted by the O akville Parks and Recreation D epartm ent. This year's event is scheduled for Thursday, N ovem ber 23. N om inations are being accepted now and the deadline for indi, viduals or team s is Friday, Oct. 20. A thletes eligible for nom ination are those who have competed and placed first at the provincial, national or international level or who have made an outstanding contribution to, or on behalf of, the municipality. Recipients must reside in Oakville or train and compete with a sports team or association on behalf of the municipality. Application forms are available from the Parks and Recreation Department, 1225 Trafalgar Road and the River Oaks and Glen Abbey rec centres. For further info, contact Louise Veres at 845-6601, ext. 3154. Grad from OTHS rugby is Mac' s player of the week Andrew Thomson is the M cMaster M arauder male ath lete of the week. A third year kinesiology student from the powerhouse Oakville Trafalgar High School rugby program, he led the Marauders to their first win of the season -- 34-15 over Trent. He scored 24 of M ac's 34 points, including two tries, two field goals and four conversions. Here's what w e'll do: UPPER OAKVILLE \ SHOPPING CENTRE Upper Middle at 8th Line / \y / OAKTOWN SHOPPING PLAZA 550 Kerr Street 849-8473 Store Hours: 844-0202 · Install up to 8L of Motomaster Coolant · Pressure - test cooling system · Visually inspect all belts & hoses · Check cooling fan operation Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m., S at 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Sun. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.