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15 Mighty Pens flex muscles at Milton tourney February2014 | 5, | Wednesday, Sometimes the toughest game on the way to win- ning a championship isn’t the final. The Oakville Mighty Penguins tyke house league hockey team discovered that at the recent Milton Winterhawks tournament. Hockey Briefs OAKVILLE BEAVER Oakville needed a goal in the last two minutes of regulation to force over- time in its semifinal against the Milton Canadiens, then | www.insideHALTON.com won the game 5-4 in the seventh round of the shoo- tout. In the final, the Penguins blitzed the Milton Black- Oakville Blades goaltender Brendan McGlynn and forward Sean Kohler discuss what went wrong after the Aurora hawks 11-1. Tigers scored their second goal of the game Friday at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex. Aurora edged the Blades 2-1. Matthew Paris scored the | photo by Kevin Sousa / OJHL Images tying goal in the semifinal, while William Weldrick provided the winner in the shootout. Blades in dogfight for OJHL playoff spots Other members of the Going into last night’s (Tuesday’s) game in team are Linkin Stinson- Buffalo, the Oakville Blades had fallen out of And down the stretch they come... Kurz, Connor Guilday, Quenten Chaney, Jack Ja- playoff position in the Ontario Junior Hockey Oakville Blades (44 points, 7 games remaining) League standings with less than three weeks DATE OPPONENT OPP. RECORD navicius, Ronan Breton, remaining in the regular season. Feb. 4 @ Buffalo 24-14-5 Josh McKay, Ryan Legault, Feb. 7 vs Toronto Lakeshore 31-11-4 Sam Mann, Patrick Filler, The Oakville tyke Mighty Penguins (top photo) and atom Red Rebels Oakville (20-22-4) entered last night’s ac- Feb. 8 @ Toronto Lakeshore 31-11-4 tion in a three-way tie with the Toronto Jr. Feb. 14 vs North York 27-17-5 Logan Asuncion, Tyler (botom photo) both won house league tournament titles recently. Canadiens (21-25-2) and Mississauga Char- Feb. 15 vs Lindsay 16-19-7 Makowich and Robbie Feb. 17 @ Burlington 9-30-4 Marchioli. John Mann and gers (21-23-2) for seventh place in the South/ Feb. 21 vs St. Michael’s 23-17-7 Adams, Sam Swatuk, Ty- Oakville finished the West Conference standings. Technically, Dino Marchioli coach the ler Paradine, Nolan John- competition with five wins however, the Blades were ranked ninth due Toronto Jr. Canadiens (44 points, 5 games remaining) team, and Oscar Asuncion son, Simon Dowd, Aiden in as many games. DATE OPPONENT OPP. RECORD is the trainer. to tiebreakers. Eight teams in each confer- Feb. 8 vs North York 27-17-5 Marchildon and Sam Lun- The Rangers roster in- ence qualify for post-season play (two divi- Feb. 9 vs Cobourg 30-10-5 Rebels rule in Niagara dy. Coaches are Kevin Ad- cludes Akam Bedi. Alex Feb. 14 @ Lindsay 16-9-7 ams, Dave Munshaw, Mark Dupuis, Blake Power, Cam- sion winners plus six wild cards). Feb. 16 vs Milton 26-19-2 The Oakville Red Rebels The Blades and Chargers both had seven Feb. 17 @ St. Michael’s 23-17-7 atom house league team Vincent and Craig Dowd, eron McKay, Chris Frauley, games remaining, while the Jr. Canadiens won all five of its games at and the trainer is Heidi Connor Drover, Dylan Lee, Mississauga Chargers (44 points, 7 games remaining) Lundy. Jack Wieninger, Jacob Sch- have just five. DATE OPPONENT OPP. RECORD the recent Al Boone Me- Oakville lost both its games last weekend Feb. 5 @ Toronto Lakeshore 31-11-4 morial Classic in Niagara Minor atoms win gold in OT neider, Josh Kudo, Liam at Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, dropping to Feb. 7 @ Trenton 28-16-2 Falls, claiming the champi- The Oakville minor atom Glover, Marko Laurencic, Feb. 8 vs Stouffville 18-23-4 Nathan Jesseau, 1-6-2 in its last nine contests. Kris Bennett Feb. 13 @ Stouffville 18-23-4 onship. AA Rangers ral- scored the Blades’ only goal in a 2-1 loss to Feb. 15 vs Cobourg 30-10-5 Oakville locked up the lied from a 3-1 Owen House, the Aurora Tigers Friday, and Greg Campbell’s Feb. 21 @ Wellington 29-10-6 gold with a victory over t h i r d - p e r i o d Sebastien Hardy, Feb. 22 vs Toronto Lakeshore 31-11-4 power-play goal with 2:11 left in regulation Barrie in the final. deficit to down Troy Elson and was all the Oakville offence could muster in a ** Going into Tuesday, Feb. 4 action Members of the team are the Milton Win- Sean Ecclestone. 4-1 loss to the St. Michael’s Buzzers Saturday. Thomas Rea, Xavier Kim, terhawks 4-3 Bruce Frauley, The Blades, who have not missed the play- Sports Complex, before visiting the Patriots Sebastien Petrilli, Aiden in overtime in Allen Elson, Rob offs since 2001, will play a pair of games Saturday. Sholdice, Griffin James, the champion- Glover, Mike against the 31-11-4 Toronto Lakeshore Patri- Five of the Blades’ final seven games are Hayden Munshaw, Timo- ship game of the Wieninger and ots this weekend. Oakville will host the first against opponents who have more points thy Haluk, Brendan Geary, Three Rivers Cup hockey David Jesseau game, a 7:30 p.m. start Friday at Sixteen Mile than games played this season. Luke Vincent, Cormac tournament in Pittsburgh. coach the team. Hornets earn five of possible six points in Provincial Women’s Hockey League play The Oakville Hornets came 43 seconds away 1:16 into the extra session. Cassidy MacPherson, Kirsten Miller, Putigna, from winning all three of their Provincial Wom- Alessia Marchese, Jennifer MacAskill and Jor- Martin and MacAskill provided the Hornets’ en’s Hockey League games last weekend. dan Martin scored goals Friday for the Hornets, tallies Sunday. Loukes stopped all 29 shots she The Hornets defeated the Waterloo Rangers with Martin’s snapping a 2-2 deadlock in the faced. 3-2 Friday at Joshua’s Creek Arenas and blanked third period. Stephanie Loukes made 26 saves The Hornets (11-13-5, 12th in the PWHL) visit the Etobicoke Jr. Dolphins 5-0 Sunday in Eto- to record the win. the Brampton Canadettes tomorrow (Thursday) bicoke. Sandwiched in between was a 2-1 over- Christina Putigna scored Oakville’s goal Sat- before hosting a pair of games this weekend. The time loss to the Durham West Lightning Satur- urday and Daniela Paniccia carried a shutout Southwest Wildcats will visit Joshua’s Creek Fri- day at Joshua’s Creek, when Durham West tied into the final minute of regulation, finishing the day at 8:30 p.m., and the Aurora Panthers will the game with 43 seconds left and then won it contest with 30 saves. follow suit Saturday at 4:30 p.m..