Locals swim to seven medals at OFSAA

Area athletes claimed seven medals on Tuesday on the opening day of the OFSAA swimming championships in Toronto.

Belle River’s Emily Bryant claimed a pair of medals. She took gold in the girls’ multi-class para 50-metre freestyle in a time of 35.91 seconds and added a silver medal in the para 50-metre backstroke in 46.63.

Riverside’s Lily Pattinson had the area’s other gold medal with a win in the senior girls 100-metre breaststroke in a time of 1:18.66.

Vista Academy’s Daniel Sloboda won a silver medal in the junior boys’ 50-metre breaststroke and was one of two swimmers to go under the older record as he finished in 33.76.

Massey’s Daniel Marion earned a silver medal in the boy’s multiclass para 50-metre freestyle with a time of 33.71.

Bronze medals went to Leamington’s Kalin Lougheed, in the junior girls’ 50-metre freestyle in 29.00, and to Massey’s Teagan Kukhta, in the senior boys’ 200-metre freestyle in 2:11.42.

SAINTS SOCCER

Both the St. Clair Saints women’s team and men’s team qualified for the OCAA indoor soccer championship at regionals on Tuesday.

The women’s team posted a 3-0 record to win its pool with a 4-0 win over Sault College, a 3-0 win over Centennial and 6-1 win over George Brown College.

Ryan Morneau led the offence with four goals in three games while Julia Aleartie had three and Keely Ryan and Jaclyn French two each.

The men’s team went 3-1 to finish second in its pool. St. Clair beat Mohawk 4-2, but lost 2-1 to Sheridan College. The Saints bounced back to beat Canadore College 10-1 and finished with a 7-0 win over Sault College.

Matt Montaleone had three goals and Massimo Pollard, Bastien Aguilera and Korede Adepitan finished with two goals each.

NOBLES TITLE

The Belle Rivers Nobles claimed its fourth-straight WECSSAA boys’ AA/A title on Tuesday.

The Nobles claimed the title by knocking off the Brennan Cardinals in dramatic fashion.

Brennan came into the game unbeaten, but fell 2-1 to the Nobles at the Essex Centre Sports Complex. All three goals in the game came on the power play with Gabe Barrette giving Belle River an early lead before Guy Graham tied it for Brennan and then Carter Dembinski delivering the winner.

That left both teams with a loss and forced a sudden death overtime period and Marco Sladoje scored in the second shift of the five-on-five overtime to win it for Belle River.