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w w w .insidehalton.com | O A K V IL L E B E A V E R | Thursday, Ju ly 6 , 2 0 1 7 |3 6 Kevin Nagel, 559 SPEERS RD., #UNIT 3 www.haltontransmission.com Oakville Beaver Sports Editor, knagel@burlingtonpost.com 9 0 5 -8 4 2 -0 7 2 5 S P E C i Sports P i C S O N T A R i O "Connected to your Community " A L O L Y M M E E T N H L free agents M ason, G agner sign d eals with Jets, C a n u cks Two Oakville hockey pros will be playing for new teams w hen the NHL season begins in the fall. Goaltender Steve Mason, 29, w ho spent the last four full seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, signed a two-year US$8.2-m illion contract with the W innipeg Jets. Centre Sam Gagner, 27, an Oakville Trafalgar High school grad, is going to the Vancouver Canucks. He signed a three-year, US$9.45 mil lion contract. Mason will join his third NHL team since w inning the Calder Me morial Trophy as rookie of the year with the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2008-09. He was traded to the Flyers during the 2012-13 season. He has a career .911 save percentage in the NHL and a 2.68 goals-against aver age. Mason secured his deal w ith the Jets despite com ing off one of his least successful campaigns, statis tically, in his years with the Flyers -- a 2.68 GAA and .908 save per centage. Gagner, on the other hand, just had his best NHL season, pointsw ise, w ith the Blue Jackets last season, collecting 50. He has accu m ulated 402 points, including 142 goals, in 696 regular-season NHL games. The centre spent his first seven years in the NHL with the Edmon ton Oilers, but has since played a year each with the Arizona Coyotes, the Flyers and Blue Jackets. Samantha Rose, 28, (left in above photo) gives it her all in her second-place finish to Guelph-Wellington's Connie Greenidge, 27, at the recent Special Olympics Ontario meet hosted by the Oakville Lightning Track and Field Club. In far left photo, Oakville's Annick Leger competes in the 5,000 metres. In near left photo, Burlington's Taylor Such, 33, whose favourite event is the 400 metres, marches onto the track during opening ceremonies. More than 350 athletes from southern Ontario competed. | photos by Graham Paine - Oakville Beaver Oakville Buzz will face Green Gaels in Round 2 of Jr. B playoffs The Oakville Buzz advanced to the Ontario Jr. B lacrosse Eastern Con ference semifinals by sweeping the Halton Hills Bulldogs in their bestof-five series that ended last week. The Buzz, slotted fifth in the conference for playoff purposes, took care of the No. 4-seeded Bull dogs with a 13-10 victory at Gor don Alcott Arena. Oakville opens its best-of-five series against the Green Gaels on Saturday, July 8 at the Green Gaels' hom e arena, Garnet B. Rickard Rec Complex in Clarington, at 7 p.m. Game 2 is at Joshua' s Creek Are nas on Sunday, July 9 at 7 p.m. Game 3 is back in Clarington on Thursday, July 3 with Game 4, if necessary, in Oakville the next night. A date and site for a poten tial Game 5 has yet to been deter mined. In the Buzz' s clinching w in over the Bulldogs, Oakville didn't take the lead for good until two m in utes into the final period w hen Matt Anderson scored his only goal of the night on the power play to break a 7-7 tie. W ith five assists he finished with a six-point evening. Adam Wolfe and Jaden Walcot each recorded a hat trick for the Buzz, with Austin Redding adding two goals. The other four Oakville goals w ent to Luke Pilcher, Mathew Dileila, Nate Braniff and Matt Marinier. The game was tied 4-4 after one period of play and the Buzz led 7-6 after two. W inning goalie Vinny Tucci stopped 17 shots in the Buzz net. The Kahnawake Hunters and Akwesasne Indians are playing in the other Jr. B Eastern Conference semifinal. OAKVILLE SOCCER CLUB C a m p in gT en t $70 cally Week Seven Photo Contest Winner: Photographer: Shana Hole Age Division: BU8 HLDP Orange Visit www.Tradyo.com · AppStore I ` Google-piay Buy a n d se ll in y o u r n e ig h b o u rh o o d . tra d y o Sponsored by: O a k v ille B e a v e r A Proud S ponsor o f O akville S occe r C lub