The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday February 20, 2002 - D3 Series shocker: Blades ousted in four games By Sarah Elliott have foreseen the Blades being involved in times, not playing with their usual tenacity. WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND SERIES ' SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER the wrong end of a sweep. And Georgetown was sure to take advantage BRAMALEA 3, MILTON 2 After a tentative 2-4 start to the regular of the Blades' penalties, scoring two power DATE VISITOR SCORE HOMETIME The Oakville Blades reached great season, evoking memories of the previous play goals on Friday night and one on 8-Feb Friday MILTON 3-5 BRAMALEA 7:45 heights this season. two years, they suddenly hit critical mass Saturday. 10-Feb Sunday BRAMALEA 5-4 OT MILTON 4:00 I2-Feb Tuesday MILTON 4-3 BRAMALEA 7:45 In the post season, however, they learned and started burning up the league. The outcome of the series has certainly I5-Fcb Friday BRAMALEA 2-3 MILTON 8:00 just how fast and painful a fall can be. In fact, they would go on to lose only been hard for the young Oakville club to 18-Fcb Monday MILTON 0-5 BRAMALEA 8:00 From missing the playoffs last year and seven more games in the entire regular sea­ stomach, but hopefully they will leam from 20-Feb Wednesday BRAMALEA MILTON 7:30 squeaking through in eighth place the previ­ son. including just two in October, two in it. The team is young and a lot of the play­ 22-Fcb Friday MILTON • BRAMALEA 7:45 ous year, the Blades exploded, this season, November, two in December and only one ers will be returning next season. The play­ all the way up to a three-way tie for first in January/February (not counting two over­ off experience, something many of them GEORGETOWN 4, O A K V IL L E 0 place with 71 points in the western confer­ time losses which are worth a point). lacked this year, should help them next sea­ 8-Feb Friday GEORGETOWN 6-4 OAKVILLE 7:45 ence of the provincial junior A league. During that long, productive streak, their son. Or at least that’s the hope! 9-Feb Saturday OAKVILLE 4-5 OT GEORGETOWN 7:30 I5-Feb Friday GEORGETOWN 5-3 OAKVILLE 7:45 While sporting winning records over the longest losing streak was two games! “The whole organization is disappointed 16-Feb Saturday OAKVILLE 2-5 GEORGETOWN 7:30 other two first-place teams (the Hamilton Actually, in the entire season, they didn't by the way this turned out," said Anderson. Kilty B's and Brampton Capitals) as well as lose three games in a row. let alone four. "May be this all came too fast. The nucleus HAMILTON 4. MISSISSAUGA 0 fewer losses, the Blades ended up on the On Friday, at home, the Blades were of players will be together again next sea­ 9-Feb Saturday MISSISSAUGA 1-4 HAMILTON 7:30 short end of the stick in the tiebreaker for­ never in it, falling behind 3-0 in the first son. We need to leam from this.” 11-Feb Monday MISSISSAUGA 3-5 HAMILTON 7:30 mula (based on most wins), settling for third period, before finally getting on the 15-Feb Friday HAMILTON 6-5 OT MISSISSAUGA 7:30 g a m e S u m m a r i e s I7-Feb Sunday HAMILTON 3-1 MISSISSAUGA 7:30 place, and drawing the Georgetown Raiders. scoreboard in the final minute of the Georgetown 5. Oakville 3 (Friday. Feb. IS. game three) Sure. Georgetown were the sixth-place period. But it was Georgetown that PERIOD 1 BRAMPTON 4, STREETSVILLE 0 team, but they boasted a winning record and responded with two goals in the sec­ (6:25) GEO Ryan McCarthy (TJ Trevelyan) (10:23) GEO Ryan Ellis (Mike Taylor) PP 7-Feb Thursday STREETSVILLE 1-12 BRAMPTON 7:30 were solidly in the western conference’s sec­ ond period — for an insurmountable (18:50) GEO Shane Remenda (Ryan Ellis. Scon McDonald) 12-Fcb Tuesday BRAMPTON 11-4 STREETSVILLE 7:30 ond tier of teams with 52 points, just behind 5-1 lead. (19:45) OAK Mike Rubcrlo (Tyler Cann. Chris Knighton) 14-Feb Thursday STREETSVILLE 13-2 BRAMPTON 7:30 Milton (5th) at 54 points and Bramalea (4th) On Saturday, facing a series sweep, PERIOD 2 15-Feb Friday BRAMPTON 16-2 STREETSVILLE 7:30 (4:24) GEO TJ Trevelyan (Ryan Robert. Mike Taylor) PP at 55 points. the Blades took a 2-0 lead into the sec­ (14:56) GEO TJ Trevelyan (Ryan McCarthy, Mike Taylor) PROVINCIAL JUNIOR A - west conference And they turned out to be more than ond period, only to have the PERIOD 3 ready for the Oakville Blades, completing a Georgetown machine reply with five (8:13) OAK Mike Ruberto (Rob Tarantino. Evan McGrath) PP (final) (13:51) OAK Rob Tarantino (Mike Rubeno) GP’ W L T O T L GFGA Pts GAA PIM surprising sweep of the Blades, winning unanswered goals, the final one into BRAMPTON 49 34 12 3 0 246 158 71 3.22 16.96 games three and four on the weekend — 5-3 an empty net. Georgetown 5. Oakville 2 (Saturday. Feb. 16. game four) HAMILTON 49 34 12 2 1 237 156 71 3.18 27.31 on Friday and 5-2 on Saturday. "We had several opportunities per PERIOD 1 OAKVILLE 49 33 II 3 2 251 178 71 3.63 28.21 (10:26) OAK Tyler Cann (Geoff Curtis. Chris Riddell) BRAMALEA 49 25 19 4 1 225 206 55 4.20 21.63 Ironically, the other two first-place teams period and just couldn't capitalize on PERIOD 2 MILTON 49 were also involved in sweeps — second- the many point blank rebounds we (4:08) OAK Steve Pinizzotto (Marc Pinizzouo) PP 25 20 3 1 198 208 54 4.24 22.74 place Hamilton over seventh-place had." commented Blades coach. Jay (6:42) GEO Shane Remenda (Ryan Busby. Scot! McDonald) GEORGETOWN 49 23 20 5 1 216 201 52 4.10 20.22 MISSISSAUGA 49 18 4 4 164 44 Mississauga Chargers (who had 44 points), Anderson. “We missed open nets, had (12:04) GEO Ryan Busby (Shane Remenda. Scott McDonald) PP 23 174 3.35 23.52 PERIOD 3 STREETSVILLE 49 17 29 2 1 198 251 37 5.12 22.41 and first-place Brampton annihilating shots hit people and took too many (4:50) GEO Ryan McCarthy (Mike Taylor) BURLINGTON 49 14 31 4 0 171 244 32 4.98 21.44 (15:53) GEO Shane Remenda Streetsville (who had 37 points). selfish penalties." BUFFALO 49 5 39 4 1 123 275 15 5.61 20.23 (19:34) GEO Ryan Robert (Bill FetherMon) EN Certainly, there were few fans who could The Blades seemed almost timid at * OT losses are worth one point Rangers Rep move on to league playoffs Here are the upcoming rep hockey The Oakville minor novice AAA seeded fifth overall entering the play­ Rolczewski scored from Matthew the road, the minor novice AAA games for the Oakville Rangers. They rep team lost games four and five of offs. Wood early in the third. The comeback Rangers stormed out in the first period are Ontario Minor Hockey Association the best-of-five Ontario Minor Hockey Leading the series 2-1. they played was short-lived as the Hills came alive to take a 2-0 lead on goals by (OMHA) playdowns. unless otherwise Association (OMHA) playoff series in at Oakville Arena with a chance to with two more goals before Patrick Gioivanni Siciliano and Justin designated as league (L). the first round against Halton Hills. clinch against the fourth-seeded Griffin netted the final tally from Burzycki, both assisted by Wed. Feb. 20 The Rangers will now compete in a Hurricanes. Halton Hills came out Rolczewski and Braedon Russell with Rolczewski. But Halton Hills came out (Oakville Arena) league playoff in a round-robin format. quickly and took the play away, build­ time winding down. aggressively in the second and took the 6:40 p.m.. minor novicc AAA vs Halton The young AAA Rangers were ing a 4-0 lead before Kevin In the fifth and deciding game, on play away from the young Rangers. Thurs. Feb. 21 (Oakville Arena) 6:40 p.m. atom AA vs Burlington Atom AA’s now take on Burlington Eagles S u m m e r (River Oaks A) M i n o r H o c k e y L e a g u e 6:40 p.m. minor novicc AA vs Orangeville (Continued from page D2) Ethan Withers, Provost (2), Merrick (2) and Peel. Fri. Feb. 22 MacDonald, Steven McDonald, Aaron Game three saw Oakville continue pouring it May - August Schedule (Oakville Arena) Kachkowski. Jason Prolas, Brian Urquhart and on and ended the series with a 9-3 win. Including “vacation week” to assist with holiday planning 8:00 p.m. midget AA vs Orangeville (L) • Non-contacct • Divisions for boys & girls ages 5-15 (River Oaks B) Irish. This time, leading the way with the hat trick • 14-game schedule • Trophies & awards 6:30 p.m. pecwce AAA vs Guelph In game two, the Rangers continued from was Brian Urquhart. Other goal scorers were • No weekends or .Fridays • Certified officials 8:15 p.m. midget AAA vs Brampton where they left off in game one. winning by a David Provost (2), Jeff Peel (2) and Anthony • Prime time evening games • Coaching & sponsorship Sal.