31 | Thursday September 7, 2017 | September 7, | Thursday Kevin Nagel, Oakville Beaver Sports Editor, “Connected to your Community”
[email protected] Sports Burloak war canoe crew breaks own record at nationals gold and two silver medals the pre- BCC picks up 11 wins in vious week at the Canada Games. She was also a part of Burloak’s OAKVILLE BEAVER Welland meet to finish winning crews in the junior C-4 third overall in Canada 500m (with Jillian Perrone, Little and Vernooy), the under-19 wom- en’s K-4 (with Messenger, Vernooy By Herb Garbutt and Olivia Browning) and the se- Oakville Beaver staff nior women’s C-15. | www.insidehalton.com The Burloak Canoe Club’s women’s Vernooy also earned a pair of under-19 war canoe (C-15) crew gold medals in war canoe, giving shattered its own national record her a total of four golds at nation- to take the gold medal at the Cana- als. dian Sprint Canoe Kayak Champi- Westwater, Bowman, Looper and onships in Welland. Kate Pennyfather each contributed The Burloak team won in a time to three Burloak war canoe wins. of one minute, 53.401 seconds, Burloak’s Max Perry won the knocking more than four-and-a- under-17 men’s C-1 6,000m while half seconds off the record time of Jenna Neate took first in the wom- 1:57.915 it established last year. en’s under-17 K-1 6,000m. The crew included Lily Arm- Mitchell Barran teamed up with strong, Gabrielle Bowman, Anya Rob Clarke to win the senior men’s Chuprys, Erin Demopolis, Kirpa K-2 1,000.