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34 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, April 28, 2000 Sports Art O akville B eaver Feature Editor NORM NELSON Phone:845-3824, ext 255 Fax:337-5567 E-mail:nnelson@haltonsearch.com Photo by Riziero Vertolli Brandon Sayer at McGrory's gym in Hamilton, preparing for his first junior nationals this weekend in Sarnia. INSET PHOTO: twotime Olympian Domenic Filane has one last shot to qualify for his third Olympics, next month in Argentina. The Boxers: Sayer and Filane V File Photo by Barrie Erskine he ended up coaching Domenic Filane in his first trip to the Canadian junior nationals. Filane, who would go on to compete in innie Ryan, a national boxing coach two Olympic games, had come down from who, for 18 years, has run his Northern Ontario home of Schreiber with McGrory's boxing club in the base big dreams but no coach. ment of an east Hamilton community rec Ryan took him under his wing and centre on Barton Street, near Parkdale "helped work his comer" and they've been Avenue, not far from the belching lakeffont friends ever since. backdrop of Stelco and Dofasco, recalls how When Filane wanted to move to the BEAVER SPO RTS EDITOR By Norm Nelson Toronto area, to be closer to a couple of brothers who had moved there, Ryan recom mended him to the Atlas boxing club where he still continues to train under his longtime coach, Adrian Teodorescu. Filane, of course, eventually settled in Oakville, which has become a home away from home, and where he continues to expand a couple of family-owned, (See 'Sayer page 35) <*001 imKGtf)