12 Independent & Free Press, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 SPORTS & LEISURE ’Dogs headed to provincial final Rally past Mimico in thrilling fashion but now face powerhouse Six Nations EAMONN MAHER Friday night, but enough for us to win that game.” Staff Writer dominated the home Saunders, who led the OLA Jr. B circuit side, chalking up a with a team record 57 goals and 102 They broke The Hex, and the reward 13-3 win, marking the points, was hoping to play the team that for the is a meeting ninth consecutive cut him in his second year of junior— with the top-ranked team in as playoff game between Elora— but for the moment was just glad their remarkable playoff run of 2008 con- the two division foes to see the last of Mimico. tinues. that ended with the “They had been shutting me down all The Bulldogs earned a berth in the road team victorious. series, so it was nice to score three and provincial championship series for the In the deciding come out on top,” said the 19-year-old first time in franchise history after coming game on Sunday, the PAT from Arthur, a possible National Lacrosse back to knock off the Mimico Mountain- home side took a 3-1 SAUNDERS League selection. “They were high stick- eers in their Ontario Lacrosse Association lead to the first inter- ing me, trying to get in my head and did- Jr. B East Conference final series over the mission before the Mounties struck back n’t give me much room. You just have to weekend. with three quick goals to go out in front. play through it. A 7-5 win over the Mountaineers Pat Saunders scored his third goal of the “We just have a good team here that Sunday night in front of about 1,000 spec- night to even the score to set up a tense works hard and that’s all. It’s not all about tators at the Alcott Arena in the fifth-and- third period, with Kyle Davis cementing the skill. It’s who wants it the most.” deciding game of the series propelled the the result on an empty net goal with 17 In Friday’s rout at Mimico, the host Bulldogs into a matchup with the mighty seconds remaining. Mike Burke connected Mounties actually scored within the first , who rallied from a 2-0 twice for the ’Dogs and rookie Chad minute of the contest, which only seemed series deficit to beat the in Cummings added a key third-period to fire up the Bulldogs. The visitors led 7- game five, 7-6, on Monday night in the marker. 2 after the first period, chasing starting Veteran Halton Hills’ forward Nic Grasby OLA West Conference final. “We finally broke the curse and got the goalie Stephen Fryer, and never let up, (13) was the first player to reach Game one of the best-of-5 title series will first goal at home, which was so big,” said shrugging off the Mounties’ intimidation Bulldogs’ goalie Michael Cregan after be held at the Gaylord Powless Arena in Davis, a Caledon resident. “Up until tactics. the final buzzer sounded Sunday night Ohsweken Friday starting at 8 p.m., with Friday night, we hadn’t played our best Burke had three goals and three assists and the celebrations began after the game two Sunday in Georgetown at 7 p.m. lacrosse and that win really opened it up to pace the offence and Davis helped set local Jr. B lacrosse club eliminated The Bulldogs faced elimination for the for us. When we give up four or five goals, up five scores. Cummings (3), Saunders Mimico to earn their first OLA East second straight series against Mimico our offence should be able to score (2), Evan Whillans (2), Michael Licata, Conference championship. Mike Brown and Brendan MacDonald Photo by Eamonn Maher found the twine for the conference champs. In Six Nations, the ’Dogs face the Sinclair, Lapointe defending winners who went undefeated (20-0) during the regular season for the second year in a row and at place 8th, 10th one point owned a 48-game win streak. But the Rebels lost to Windsor in the sec- ond round of the 2008 OLA playoffs and at tournaments dropped the first two games against Elora before storming back to eliminate the Gloria Sinclair of the North Halton Mohawks. Golf & Country Club finished eighth at Halton Hills head coach Blaine last week’s Golf Association of Ontario McCauley says the Rebels will be a daunt- Senior Women’s Amateur Championship ing opponent for his squad, which never held at the Loyalist Country Club near did have an official captain, opting instead Kingston. to have four assistants. Sinclair, 61, turned in rounds of 86- “We are a young team but our older 77-78 to finish a dozen strokes behind guys who went through the wars last year winner Ivy Steinberg of Cedar Valley, really learned to play in these difficult sit- Ont. uations and passed that on,” McCauley • • • said. Georgetown’s Mary Ann Lapointe shot “You don’t necessarily need a guy with a two-over-par 74 on Friday to end up in a ‘C’ on his jersey when you have group a tie for 10th at the Royal Canadian Golf leadership and sometimes that works bet- Association Women’s Amateur Champ- Mimico’s Scott Bird was foiled on this point-blank scoring attempt by Halton Hills ter than just a single leader. We did it by ionship, an event she’s won four times. Bulldog goalkeeper Michael Cregan during their OLA playoff game on Sunday committee and it seems to have worked The 48-year-old Lapointe recorded evening. Cregan had a superb game and backstopped his team to a 7-5 victory, because we’ve had a lot of leaders step up rounds of 73-74-73-74, finishing up nine and now the Bulldogs will play Six Nations for the Ontario Jr. B title. at some point. You can go up and down strokes back of champion Stacey Keating Photo by Eamonn Maher the roster.” of Australia. 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