Saints run to longawaited team title

The St. Clair College Saints men’s cross-country team captured the overall team title at the OCAA provincial championships for the first time since 1990 on Saturday. All four of St. Clair’s four scoring runners finished in the top 10 individually. Thador Tekhli ran his best race of the season, and led the Saints with a fourth-place finish in 27 minutes, 40 seconds over the eight-kilometre course at the University of Toronto’s Scarborough campus. With that finish, Tekhli was named the OCAA’s rookie of the year. Rick Nepomuceno was fifth in 27:42.3, Tyler Jones placed sixth in 27:45 and Andre Tomasian rounded out the team scorers with a ninthplace finish in 27:52.

The women’s team finished seventh overall in team scoring led by Beth Horrobin, who was 21st in a time of 26:31 over the six-kilometre course.

BASEBALL SILVER

The Saints claimed the silver medal at the National College Baseball Championship in Etobicoke on Saturday.

The team dropped a 7-3 decision to the host Humber Hawks in the gold-medal final. The Saints trailed 4-0 in the first inning and could never recover. Garik Godard, who was named player of the game for the Saints, had two of St. Clair’s four hits, which included a home run, and he drove in two runs. Tyler Lansley and Tommy Cheng had the other St. Clair hits.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

St. Clair finished sixth at the OCAA women’s soccer championship in Toronto.

St. Clair, which lost its quarter-final match 6-0 to topranked Humber on Thursday, rebounded to beat Cambrian 1-0 in the consolation semifinal on Friday, but fell 3-0 to the Algonquin Thunder in Saturday’s consolation final.

SAINTS BASKETBALL

The St. Clair men’s and women’s teams each hit the win column for the first time in OCAA basketball play on Saturday. The men (1-1) rolled to a 99-71 win over the Redeemer Royals (1-2) at the SportsPlex. The women’s team (1-1) scored a 77-61 win over Redeemer (0-3) at the SportsPlex. Jana Kucera had 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Saints