48 — Wednesday, May 6, 1998 — North Shore News

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

THREE North Shore players were part of two bronze medal British Columbia teams at the recent National
Ringette championships in Edmonton. Pictured left to right are Alar.a Gray, Amy Root and Jenn Tait.

B.C. scores double bronze

Robert Gaister
News Reporter robert@nsnews.com

BRITISH Columbia teams
entering the Canadian Ringette
nationals knew they were in
tough against the traditional
powerhouses of Catario and
Alberta.

But the teams, representing three dif-
ferent divisions, held their own though
the vaunted competition bear them to
the silver and gold medals in every divi-

sion.

AJana Gray and Amy Root both came
up through the North Shore Winter Club
system before moving on to Northwest
Van Ringette Association where they cur-
rently play. Their 19-23 year-old division
squad finished the round-robin partion
of the naticaal tournament with a 5-f
record. However, thev succumbed to the
Alberta team in the semi-finals by a score
of 7-3,

Meanwhile the provincial junior divi-
sion tcam completed the round robin
portion of the tournament with a 6-2

record. However, they too had to face
one of the favorites in the semi-final
game. Jenn Tait of the Northwest Van
Ringette Association contributed to the
team’s efforts, bur it wasn’t enough as
Ontario came out on top with a 3-4
score.

With Ontario and Alberta sharing the
gold medals in all four divisions, B.C.’s
double bronze medai performance never-
theless represents the first time in the
tournament’s 20-year history thar
Canada’s most westerly province has won
more than one medal.

Photo submitted

Royals revisited

MORE than 59 years of Handsworth football history will go head to head this Saturday
as the school's second anaual Alumni Football Game takes to the field. Coaching the
~was two sides will ne Jack Tasaka (left) who led the Royais to the provincial championship
in '73 and Oavid Pearce (right) who repeated the feat in '79. Separating the two is Jay
Prepchuk who played at the school in 1976 and now coaches the senior football
squad at Windsor. To sign up for the game call Mary-Ann Hartley at 987-3381.

LACROSSE... The North
Shore fndians squeaked out
aowin in their 1998) season
opener in Burnaby last
Friday evening.

The Indians opened the
scoring in the contest bur
found themselves giving up
the next tour goals to fall
behind 4-1 in the early going
of their game against. the
Lakers. But their offence
began to click in the second
period where they scored
eight times.

In the third pornod, with
acomtortable 11-7 lead, the
Indians cased off and found
themselves in. atic game with
less than a minute remain
ing. However, the Lakers’
euphoria didn’t Jast as the
iovians managed w por the

winner seconds later. Final J
score: Indians 12, Lakers 11.
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WEIGHTLIFTING... B
Morgan Crocker, 14, of the
North — Stiore — Mussels ff
Olympic Weightlifting Club
litted his way co vicrary last
Saturday in the 1998 B.C.
Junior
Championships
Kamloops.
Crocker broke the 100
kg mark with a 102.5 kg
coral in the 56 kilo class
men’s division. Also finish-
my in the medals was Patrick
Fonseca, 13, who caprured
the silver medal in the 62 kg
class with a combined torai
of 60 kg.
— Robert Galster

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