Tecumseh athlete wrestles in Turkey
Tecumseh’s Linda Morais, who is a L’Essor high school product, was named to Canada’s 15-member team to compete at the 12th FISU world university wrestling championships, which start Tuesday and run through Sunday in Corum, Turkey.
Majoring in exercise science at Concordia University in Montreal, the 5-foot5, 140-pound Morais is in her fourth year of school and is a three-time CIS all-Canadian in the women’s 58kg division.
Saints take silver: The St. Clair College Saints women’s softball team reached the final at the OCAA championship in Kitchener, but had to settle for the silver medal.
The Saints fell 11-6 in the final of the double-knockout tournament to Oshawa’s Durham College, which built a 7-0 lead early in the game.
Sarah Bondy had three hits for the Saints while Mackenzie Taylor-Noah, Micheala Rilett and Alexa Georgiou each had two hits.
Georgiou and Allison Telfer were both named to the tournament all-star team.
Saints baseball awards: St. Clair College Saints third baseman Max Ayarza won the OCAA baseball batting title with a .481 average while Kyle Breitner was named the league’s pitcher of the year for the third-straight season after posting a 5-0 record with a 1.53 earnedrun average.
Both Ayarza and Breitner were named OCAA all-stars along with Saints catcher Jeff Watkin, who batted .412.
Saints softball awards: St. Clair College Saints fourthyear pitcher Alexa Georgiou was named OCAA pitcher of the year after finishing the season with a 10-2 record and 1.91 earned –run average.
Georgiou was named the OCAA all-star team along with first baseman Skyler Patteson, who finished second in the league with a .471 batting average and leagueleading 41 hits.
Vardar soccer crown: The 2001 Vardar Windsor Vipers boys’ soccer team won the 2016 Adidas Wolf River Soccer Classic in Memphis, Tenn.
The team went 5-0 in the tournament and beat clubs from Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee.
In the final, the Vipers blanked the Arkansas Rush, which is a team that reached the state final, by a 2-0 score.
Michael Zivcic scored both goals for the Vipers while Pietro D’Agostini posted a clean sheet in net to record the shutout.