OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, May 1, 2009 • 38
OT girls’ rugby team
gets behind coach’s cause
Iron Woman
SPORTSBRIEFS
Wright named co-captain
Oakville’s Allison Wright has
been named co-captain for the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(RPI) women’s hockey team.
Wright, who had eight goals and
21 points as a junior left winger
this season, will share the captaincy with Laura Gersten. Wright led
the team with four game-winning
goals and scored in double overtime to give the Engineers a 2-1
quarterfinal win over Princeton.
The Loyola graduate has not
missed a game in three years at RPI,
scoring 22 goals and adding 30
assists in 105 career games.
Red Devils raise $3,000 for brain cancer research
■ By Herb Garbutt
OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF
Having won six of the last nine Halton
girls’ rugby titles, Oakville Trafalgar Red
Devils’ coach Dan Valley is not shocked
when his team achieves great things.
The team’s latest accomplishment,
though, is what he believes truly makes it
special.
Valley’s uncle, Stephen Buttrum, recently died after being diagnosed with multiple
brain tumours. Valley’s cousin had been
organizing a run, The Spring Sprint for
Brain Tumour Research, in support of
Buttrum. The OT coach approached his
team about taking part in the event.
Three weeks ago, the team began collecting pledges and this week when he totaled
them up, it came to more than $3,000.
“It was a surprise but at the same time it
wasn’t a surprise,” said Valley. “That’s just
the nature of the girls, the nature of the
team and the nature of the (rugby) program. It was unbelievable. It’s exemplifies
what the program is all about.”
The challenge took on special meaning
for Grade 11 student Sam Mehltretter. She
had also lost an uncle to a brain tumour.
Mehltretter’s family got involved in helping
her collect pledges and she went door-todoor. In the end, she collected $900 in
pledges.
“It was amazing to see that other people
were trying to raise money for the same
cause,” she said.
The rugby squad formed teams of three
for their fundraising efforts and Valley has
pledged to buy track suits for the winning
team.
Team captain Devon Perras said the Red
Devils will take part in Saturday’s run in
Hamilton wearing their jerseys. She said
many parents are also coming out to show
their support.
“We were a close team already but this
brought us even closer together,” she said.
“We’d do anything for Dan. We wanted to
make him proud.”
The team begins the defence of its
Halton championship today, but they’ve
already their first goal of the season.
“It’s unbelievable. It’s nice to know
you’ve got that kind of support behind you,”
Valley said. “The run was organized before
my uncle passed away. It was going to be a
support thing for him. Now it’s taken on a
whole new meaning.”
OAKVILLE HORNETS
GIRLS HOCKEY
ASSOCIATION
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Oakville Hornets Girls Hockey Association (OHGHA)
Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
1225 Trafalgar Road, Oakville
Town Hall
Bekar, Salmon all-stars
GOOD COMPANY: Eleven-time Ironman champion
Lisa Bentley attends a promo for Saucony running shoes at
The Running Company in Oakville on Saturday. Bentley
shared training tips and experiences from her career, which
includes Ironman wins in four countries over an eight-year
period, including three victories at Ironman Canada.
Two Oakville players will suit up
for the Ontario University Athletics
(OUA) All-Star Showcase May 3 at
the Rogers Centre.
Western Mustangs teammates
Matt Bekar and Andrew Salmon,
both outfielders, will play for the
all-star team that will face the
defending champion McMaster
Marauders. The game will be
played
following
Sunday’s
Toronto Blue Jays’ game against
the Baltimore Orioles.
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