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Sports “Connected to your Community”Jon KuiperijSports Editorsports@oakvillebeaver.com

Two Oakville gymnasts signed national letters of intent last week to join the Oregon State University program.

Mariana Colussi-Pelaez and Sabrina Gill, who both currently train at Manjak’s Gymnastics in Mississauga, will begin competition with the Beavers next fall.

Colussi-Pelaez will be reunited at Oregon State with older sister, Silvia, who transferred to the school from Florida following the 2014 season. Mariana brings inter-national experience, having trained with the Canadian and Spanish national teams in recent years. She was sec-ond on vault and eighth all-around at last year’s Span-ish National Championships, and helped Canada to a second-place finish at the Massilia Open Cup in France in 2013.

“She is a talented gymnast that displays grace and pow-er on every event,” said Oregon State coach Tanya Chap-lin. “Mariana is soft-spoken when you first meet her, but she does not shy away from hard work and taking risk. (She) will make an immediate impact.”

Gill has trained and competed with the Canadian na-tional team and is currently attempting to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games. She was also part of Can-ada’s second-place team at the Massilia Open Cup two years ago, and was the 2010 national champion on bars. At the 2013 Elite Canada competition, she was third on beam, fourth on bars and eighth on floor.

“Sabrina’s resume is very impressive. She is an inter-national and national medalist on every event,” Chaplin said. “Her gymnastics is world class. She has worked very hard and persevered through many challenges to achieve her success.”

Gymnasts commit to Oregon State

New Brunswick curler Rob Swan stopped at Oakville Curling Club

Tuesday as part of his cross-Canada tour. Swan is attempting

to play 100 games at 100 different curling

clubs across the country in an endeav-

our to raise money for renovations to his

hometown Harvey Curling Club. His op-position in Tuesday’s

Senators League game was skipped by

Ross Tousaw.

| photo by Eric Riehl — Oakville Beaver

— @Halton_Photog

C U R L I N G A C R O S S C A N A D A

Seven Oakville Speed Skating Club members will compete at the 2015 Cana-da Winter Games short track speed skat-ing trials this weekend in Clarington.

Erin Stewart, Alexis Halushak, Josh-ua Sullivan, Hana El Sammak, Sean McAnuff, Ryan Quesnelle and Nicho-las Kothleitner qualified for trials with strong showings at the first provincial meet of the season in Cambridge.

Teammates Tiago Santos and Al-exander Giannotti earned gold med-als at the meet, while Jaden Lo added silver. James Nelson, Kothleitner and Halushak claimed bronze, and Samuel Chin-Cheong, Samuel Mathew, Adam DeVellis, Alina Santos and Manon Garde posted top-six finishes.

At the second Western regional meet of the season, held earlier this month in Brampton, Andrew Liou and Lee Deluca won division titles representing Oakville. Teammates Manu Kadalayil, Jonathan Caron and Kai Abdool collected bronze, and Brittany Pan, Ivan Worona, Chen Li, Nathaniel Caron, Clayton Winteler, Spencer Skeete, Emma Borca, Alec Neate and Philip Szymborski cracked the top six in their events.

Noah Waters, Connor Waters, Hudson Strople, Borca, Neate and Philip Szymbo-

rski made their competitive debuts at the meet.

OAK gold-medal haul at Swim InternationalOakville Aquatic Club’s Mabel Za-

varos, Madison Murray, Ethan Ma and Leon Qin combined to win 20 gold med-als at the Swim International meet earlier this month in Brantford.

Zavaros won six gold and set a new club record in the female 13-14 100-me-tre butterfly. Qin, who collected four gold, set an OAK standard in the male 13-14 100m breaststroke.

Murray and Ma won five races each. OAK finished third overall at the meet, which drew 36 teams and more than 1,100 athletes.

Loyola wins OFSAA basketball openerThe Loyola Hawks won their open-

ing game at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations girls’ AAAA basketball championships yesterday (Thursday) in Guelph, downing Missis-sauga Father Michael Goetz 62-36.

Sam Pocrnic scored 31 points for Loyola, Julia Knez added nine and Kiana Steinauer tallied eight in the comfortable

victory.The Hawks were scheduled to face No.

13 Earl Haig last night with a berth in today’s quarter-finals on the line.

The tournament concludes tomorrow with the bronze-medal game at noon and the gold-medal contest at 2 p.m. Both games will be played at the University of Guelph.

Cavaliers cruise in first game at provincialsThe King’s Christian Collegiate Cava-

liers also won their first game at the OF-SAA girls’ A basketball tournament, 60-28 over Englehart yesterday in Cornwall. Christina Morra scored 26 for the Cavs.

King’s, the fifth seed in the competi-tion, will face tournament host Roth-well-Osnabruck today in the second round. Medal games will be contested tomorrow.

OT did qualify for OFSAA volleyballContrary to what was reported in yes-

terday’s edition of the Oakville Beaver, the Oakville Trafalgar Red Devils did qualify for the OFSAA boys’ volleyball AAAA championships in Brampton.

OT, the Golden Horseshoe Athletic Conference finalists, lost its opening match yesterday to St. Michael’s College, 25-23, 15-25, 11-15.

Minor Oaks Hockey Association product and current Oakville Blades defenceman Greg Campbell will join 2014 NCAA men’s hockey champion Union College next season.

“I’m just thrilled and honoured to be a part of such an amazing program like Union,” Campbell said in a release posted on the Blades’ website. “They continue to graduate talented players that move on with their hockey careers. Also, their academic program there is top notch.”

Campbell has recorded 23 points in 22 games this season for the Blades. He also competed at the Central Canada Cup All-Star Challenge last weekend, and was a member of Team Canada East at last year’s World Junior A Hockey Challenge.

“Having the opportunity to watch Greg’s development from minor midget to now, I’m very happy he’s reached his goal of playing college hockey at Union,” said Blades general manager Mike Daley. “Greg has worked very hard to improve his weaknesses and has become such a poised defenceman on both sides of the puck.”

Union College, which won its first NCAA hockey championship last year with a 7-4 victory over Minnesota in the final of the Frozen Four, already features another Oakville resident, former Blades forward Mark Bennett.

Blades blueliner Campbell joining NCAA champ Union

Speedskaters competing in Canada Winter Games trialsSports Briefs