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The Oakville Hornets Girls HockeyAAssociation recently held its championshipday to conclude the season and determineits house league playoff champions.

In the novice final, the Silver Screamersrode a four-goal effort from Katie Lengyelto blank the Yellow Stingers 6-0. Madiso Cote and Sarah Van den Heuvel added singles for the Silver Screamers, and Natasha Melhuish earned the shutout. Julia Benoit was named the YYellow Stingers’ MVP in the final.

The atom final saw the Yellow Thriller Bees score three timesin four minutes to overcome a 1-0 deficitand down the Terrific Teal Tornadoes 3-1.AAlyssa Garcia, Hannah Petriv and ShaleenaMadon had the goals for the Thriller Bees,wwhile Michelle Boratko had the TealTornadoes marker. The game featured thetop two teams from the regular-seasonstandings.

No one was able to solve Yellow Buzzgoalie Kelsa McDonald or White Senatorsnetminder Samantha Urwin in regulationtime and overtime during the peewee final.Sydney Davison scored in a shootout and

McDonald stopped all three Senatorsattemps as the Buzz prevailed 1-0.

The bantam final was also a low-scoringf affair. Bailey Dean scored the lone goal of

the game, tallying in the second period, tolift the Redhawks to a 1-0 win over the

Flyers. Arielle Mileski earned theshutout for the Redhawks whileTaylor Scott took the tough-luck loss in goal for the Flyers.

In the midget-intermediatefinal, leading playoff scorerBridget O’Neill scored in over-time to give the Black Knights a2-1 victory over the Orange

Flames. The Knights’ ShannonNieweglowski and the Flames’ Jaden Daleshad the game’s goals during regulationtime.

The ladies recreational final was won bythe top-seeded Blue Zumbas, who blankedthe Teal Tornadoes 2-0. Kim Tyler had thewinning goal for the Blue Zumbas andBrynne Katsof added an insurance markerin the third period. Natalie Procyk earnedthe shutout for the Blue Zumbas, spoilinga Cinderalla run by a Teal Tornadoes squadthat had squeaked into the playoffs beforeupsetting several teams to reach the final.

Hornets decide house league champs

DIVISION CHAMPS: Pictured clockwise from top, the novice Silver Screamers, bantam Redhawks and midget/intermediate Black Knights are three of the Oakville Hornets house league division champions. Members of the novice team are Budka Dominika, Ryley Cauchi, Madison Cote, Basant Dhillon, Nimrit Dhillon, Teagan Haggerty, Katie Lengyel, Natasha Melhuish, Gabrielle Noordijk, Miranda Orlowski, Emily Sampson, Saveena Singh, Emma Stargratt and Sarah Van den Heuvel. Members of the bantam Redhawks are Alisha Abnett, Brianna Baird, Jessica Burton, Cassandra Byj, Bailey Dean, Erin Federovich, Valerie Graham, Logan Hannay, Elizabeth Kish, Amy Martini, Shannon McGuire, Erika Reynolds, Megan Stewart, Madison VonHanke, Emily Watson-Martin and Lindsay Watt. Members of the Black Knights are Shannon Farrell, Bridget O'Neill, Erin Rykhoff, Nicole Arkell, Carly Romkema, Daniella Speck, Krista Ashton-Zwirchowsky, Alexandra Reilly, Deanna Fabiano, Shannon Nieweglowski, Erin Belleghem, Danielle Pasta, Jennifer Grainger, Annie Laskaris, Hannah Palozzi and Emily McGuire.

needed hard work and team work.”The Venom came back with a 48-33 vic-

tory over the Kitchener-Waterloo Vipers and then topped the Venom’s second entry 47-26 to win the pool.

Oakville then delivered its biggest win of the tournament, defeating Toronto Triple Threat in the semifinals 60-32. While oppos-ing teams keyed on Callum Baker, the team’sleading scorer, others — particularly Luke Seidel — helped carry the offence while Vlad Lukomski and Reniel Jamison played strong defensively. Meanwhile, newcomers to this yyear’s team, Den Joseph Aban and Adam Francolini were unstoppable on the boards.

Baker said last year’s team started slowlybecause he had to learn the players’ individ-ual strengths and how to best utilize them. This year, there was still some adjusting to do with new players on the team but the

players adapted quickly.Among the changes Baker made were

there wasn’t a designated point guard to bring the ball up the floor and the team scored more off transition.

“We had four different guys bringing the ball up the floor and that threw a lot of teams off,” Baker said. “Last year we were running our sets and going through our progres-sions. This year we implemented the transi-tion so we could score that way as well.”

Baker said the players worked very hard, practicing three times each week to make the adjustments, and it showed in their results.

Other members of the Venom’s champi-onship team are Dimitris Katsilieris, Roko Juricic, Julian Lepp, Rohan Saxena, Richie Thompson and Jalen Mason. Ivan Lukomski and Marko Juricic are the club’s assistant coaches.

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goals in the playoffs — and Joel Senecal hadOakville’s markers Tuesday. McGowan’s camemidway through the third period, tying thegame 2-2.

The Etobicoke native is one of several graduating players whowwon’t be back next season.

“The older guys, you neverwwant to see it end. It’s sad,” saidJooris, noting that the departureof captain Nick Rivait this sum-mer will also create a huge voidto fill. “There were a few tearsshed, I’m sure, in the dressingroom.”

Oakville will have a good coreof returnees to work with next year, however,as the Blades seek a record fifth straight tripto the Buckland Cup. Jooris, who plans toreturn as coach, said Braedan Russell,

Brandon Denham, Bradley Ryan and PhilHampton are four major cornerstones theteam can build around for the fall.

“First and foremost, you have to replacethe leadership of Rivait,” Joorisadded. “And replacing (startinggoalie Daniel Savelli) is big.

“We’re going to build fromthe back out. You need solidgoaltending and good defence,”he added.

“With junior hockey, it’salways rebuilding. Everyonealways talks about that, but it’s arebuilding process year afteryear.”

That rebuilding processbegins later this month. The Blades will holdspring tryout camps for goalies April 28 andfor skaters April 30 and May 1 at Sixteen MileSports Complex.

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“The older guys,you never want to see it end. It's sad. There were a few tears shed, I'm sure, in thedressing room.”

■ Blades coachMark Jooris