Junior: Rens Take 1st at Oakville Trafalgar Tournament

The Grand River Collegiate senior volleyball team wasn't the only GRCI squad that brought home some hardware over the weekend.

On the basketball court, the junior Grand River Renegades captured the championship at the Oakville Trafalgar Junior Boys Invitational Tournament.

[Included among OTHS alumni would be my mother --- who attended back when the school was at its old location on Reynolds St. in downtown Oakville].

At any rate, the Rens went 3-0 in the tournament, starting out with a close 50-45 victory over Ancaster DSS.

In the second round, Grand River had an easier time of things, dispatching Georgetown DSS 76-39.

This advanced the squad to the championship game, where they topped Hamilton's Sir Winston Churchill SS by a 59-47 count.  In the championship final, grade 9 PG Murtada Khamis poured in 19 points to pace GRCI.

Key players for the Rens included Khamis, tournament MVP Chuder Teny, who was the leading scorer over the course of the weekend, Dusan Sekulic (3-for-3 from behind the arc in the semifinal win off the bench) and defensive stalwarts Joedey Wonch-Castiglione and Kosta Arvanitis.

Grand River starts their WCSSAA regular season tonight with a 3:30pm road game at Glenview Park.