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team trains in downtown Toronto three times a week from mid-April to September — because of the fire. Being with her teammates gave her strength, and she felt she gave strength to her teammates.

“I don’t even remember half of (the first) practice back,” said Wil-son, who has rented a home on Tra-falgar Road since the fire but hopes to eventually move back to Alder-shot. “They were all helping me through it all… encouraging me to talk about it. On one hand, all I did was lose my pets and my house. We didn’t lose any people. On the other hand, you think ‘Oh my God, my pets!’ Sometimes you feel bad for being that upset over things, but they were telling me how inspiring I was. And I was telling them how inspiring they were for everything they were doing to help my family and I.”

The support Wilson received wasn’t limited to the paddling com-munity. A team in the Oakville Mi-nor Football Association, which Wilson helped found nearly a de-cade ago, collected donations for Wilson’s family during its first game after the fire.

“I can’t tell you how much that meant,” Wilson said.

“I’ve always told everyone foot-ball is a great way to teach people community, and a sense of working together toward a common goal. Dragon boating is the same way. There’s not just one person in the boat.”

Team won three gold at worldsMore than an hour after the

2,000m final at the world champi-onships in Italy, the Outer Harbour team got some unexpected and thrilling news.

Despite its collision with the

Americans, Outer Harbour had won the race by more than seven seconds. The team had secured its first world championship gold, fi-nally getting over the hump after settling for three bronze in 2010 and a silver and bronze in 2012 — frustrating results that had mo-tivated the squad to step up its training.

Outer Harbour rode that momen-tum to two more gold medals the following day, winning the 200m and 500m titles, as Canadian boats swept the top four placings in each of the three senior women’s events.

Wilson and DeVarennes point to the coaching of Chris Edwards and the aggressive training regimen as keys to Outer Harbour’s success this season.

“We would have done well, no matter what,” DeVarennes said. “We give whatever it takes to get to where we need to be... Everyone doubled their efforts this year, men-tally as much as physically.”

But Wilson also feels that what she went through, and the experi-ences of another teammate who battled a brain tumour (the Toronto woman received a non-invasive Gamma Knife radiation treatment in mid-July, and was back training two weeks later), strengthened the team even more.

“Our coach asked me what was the worst thing that happened to me this season, and I said, ‘The fire,’” Wilson said. “Then he asked me what the best thing was, and I said, ‘The fire.’

“It really brought this group of women so together and showed us what we were capable of for each other.”

— Jon Kuiperij can be followedon Twitter @Beaversports

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Football team also supported family All-Oakville HSSAA senior girls’ Tier 1 hoops final MondayThe Loyola Hawks and Holy Trinity Titans will collide Monday in an all-Oakville Halton high school senior girls’ basketball Tier 1 final at Sheridan College.

Both teams easily won semifinal games on their home courts Tuesday, with Loyola (9-0) downing Nelson 64-25 and Trinity (8-1) defeating Bishop Reding 49-22. The Hawks are seeking their third Halton champion-ship in four years, winning the Tier 1 title in 2011 and 2012 before Nelson claimed last year’s crown. Monday’s final is scheduled for 11:15 a.m.

The junior Tier 1 final, slated for 9:30 a.m., will fea-ture Nelson and Georgetown. Nelson defeated Loyola 41-16 in Tuesday’s semifinals, and Georgetown beat Trinity 30-18.

The senior Tier 2 final, to be contested 1 p.m. Mon-day at Sheridan, will feature an Oakville-Burlington matchup. Garth Webb and White Oaks were in one of Thursday’s semifinals (after the Beaver’s deadline), while Frank Hayden and Assumption were the com-batants in the other.

Minor peewee AEs win A-level tourney in PeterboroughMatthew Perry, Joshua Finkle and Simon Dowd

scored in a shootout to lift the Oakville Rangers minor peewee AE team to a 3-2 victory over Newmarket A in the final of a recent A-level hockey tournament in Peterborough.

Rangers goaltender Thomas Rea ensured the trio’s tal-lies stood up by allowing just one goal in the shootout.

Oakville sandwiched shutout victories over Credit Valley (3-0) and Newmarket AE (4-0) around ties with Applewood (1-1) and Peterborough (3-3) in its other games at the tournament.

Also contributing to the title win were Tyler Bo-lender, Michael Chornous, Shane Dormer, Samuel Holmes, Nolan Johnson, Joshua Nesbitt, Mark Mova-kovic, Anthoy O’Coin, Logan Reid, Travis Robertson, Jackson Round, Aiden Sholdice and Sam Swatuk. Brent Robertson, Matt Newsbitt, Paul Dormer, Bill Bolender and Tony Rea coach the team, and Jeff Sholdice is the trainer.

Peewee As blank Brampton to win Halton Hills titleThe Oakville Rangers peewee A blue team blanked

the Brampton 45’s 6-0 in the championship game of the recent Best of the Best Halton Hills Thanksgiving hockey tournament.

Earlier in the competition, Oakville defeated the Per-inton Blades by scores of 6-0 and 4-1, shut out the Hal-

ton Hills Thunder 5-0 and downed Brampton 3-1.Members of the team are Armman Dhillion, Cole

Maddox, James Mackey, Andrew Toscano, Brandon Van Laare, James Carroll, John Wesley Appleton, Jonathan Policelli, Joseph Nasato, Kole Schledewitz, Michael Goverde, Nicolas Almeida, Noah Darling, Quinn Li-gon, Robbie Forbes, Sean Stodulski and Tyler McLeish. Coaching and training staff include Rick Goverde, Robert Forbes, Blair Mackey, Lori Schledewitz and Ed Stodulski.

Bantam AEs romp in Grimsby tournament finalTournament MVP Josh Leitao scored twice and

Jaques Seibt earned the shutout as the Oakville Rang-ers bantam AE squad defeated the Pelham Panthers 7-0 to win gold at the 40th annual Fall Classic hockey tournament in Grimsby.

The Rangers finished the tournament with an un-defeated mark, including a 3-1 win over the Georgina Blaze in the semis.

Other participating members of the champion Oakville team were Paolo Capua, Mason Spencer, Kyle Ivey, Steven Prokopenko, Reese Sanders, Jakob Chafe, Erik Mustafa, Jonathan Meraw, Ryan Nguyen, Christo-pher Sdao, Quinn Stargratt, Dylan Arnold, Zach Jones, Adam Misiewicz, and Andrew Cornell. Paul Costin, Alex Green and Casson Speziale also contributed to the win as affiliate players.

Hess Mustafa, Armando Leitao and Colin Ivey coach the team and Jason Stargratt serves as the team’s trainer.

Titans teams win two of threeMitchell Goldestine had four touchdown runs of 60

yards or longer, Greg Campbell added a four-yard TD run and Santiago Munera booted five converts to lift the Oakville Titans bantams to a 36-26 win over the Mis-sissauga Panthers last Saturday in Mississauga Football League play.

The peewee Titans were also victorious, riding a strong effort from its defence, stellar running by Bryson Guy and a touchdown from Braeden Bales to a 16-12 win over the Colts.

Max Holmes scored rushing TDs of 80, 75, 70 and 55 yards but the atom Titans fell 50-24 to the Mavericks.

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