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BASEBALL La.
‘Shore “Rebels (boys"
tnidget triple-A) splits
homefields ‘doubleheader
fast Saturday with Burnaby
Fraser dropping the first
hall 8-6 and winning the
second 63.

“BASKETBALL.
“Lady Blues of. Capilano
Colleye have a new ‘couch.

“CAP CAGER coach’
Greg Zavediuk.. _

é Greg Zavediuk, a a pra
“uate of Hillside ‘secondary
“school and UBC, -will take
 over.coaching ‘duties . from:

Lori: Chizik,. who is mov-.

ng to Australia at the end of
the month. Prior to: accept.’
1g | “the head couchin}? : posi-
“tion’ at’ Cap, Zavediuk was
.. the UBC women's ‘assistant

af, coach since:::1989.; Former >

UBC player: “ Wendy
Palmer jis the Lady: Blue’ s
assistant ‘coach, : ,

‘HOCKEY: pee “North

Shore: Winter. Club. U=17/

jockey . players, “have -been

“selécted'to attend the. 1995 3

Provincial a Under-17

‘Edgeworth’: and: “forward

Travis Payne will take part’
ntense : eight-day:

amp along ‘with. 45. other
ers ftom’ ‘across BiG:
t ‘the conclusion of the

amp, 10: players: will be™

“selected to join10° players
from: Alberta” toi: comprise
the: ‘Pacifi fic Regional: U-17
- scheduled to com-

the’ 1995. World

p :
Hockey Challenge-in New.

runsivick later.this year, ©

KARATE: Thirtcen out of:

-19.North Shore competitors
imedalled “at the’! “24th
Annual Gima-Ha Shiai
‘Karate’
Langara College.”
“=” Winners...
(medals ‘won: in brackets)
Alex; DeLine © (bronze);
Lynne = DeLine: (bronze);

: Ken:. Dubata’. (bronze);..

ichael ‘Dubeta (bronze);

“Lan Hong: (gold); Fred -

--Masare.,; ((wo--. bronze);
Keyin | Munsie (bronze):
Dennis Nenadic (gold, ‘sil?
ver); Sarah. Osberg (two
silvers); Steve’: Ross
(bronze);.". "=. Andre:
Segsworth (two - bronze);
David... : Swanton (two
bronze); Adrian Swanton
(bronze). 7

North

‘The |

“first
Western Lacrosse -

competition’ = at

included .

12~ Wednesday, May 17, 1995 — North Shore News

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LYNN VALLEY U- 45 Falcons (above) defeated Vancouver KLM:
3-2:to'win the B.C. B. Coastal Cup..Falcons' Shaun Layton,
Poter Soukup and Mark Gordon scored in the match.

WHAT. A: difference a year
makes.

.By Andrew MeCredie
Sports Reporter. ||

_This’ time: last,
“year, North Shore
Indians were. stiff
looking for their
victory, in»

Association (WLA)

action. This: seasons. #
“their second inthe: 2"
senior Av ranks, head -couch Dave
Evans hag: his tearn: sporting ‘a2

: record or putting them in a thee. :
cwith, New | ;

lie. for ; Airst

se

‘Great start to season
Westminster and, Coquitlam (to.
press time). Last year’s Indian team

was winless until their fifth’ game.
Tonight at the Lonsdale Arena,

“the Indians put their first-place on

the line as the
afways-tough

Vile toria.

Shamrocks’ come

‘calling. Game time. .

is 7:45 p.m.
One of :
year’s: bright’ spots
“for the Indians has

been. the, play of +
their rookies. Dif

Seer tied for. fourth in league
scoring (tive goals. six assists)

while “Yul ‘Baker ‘is sixth (three:

goals, Six assists). .

_ this |

| Kearney

HANDS UP,

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Sports Editor

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7 spectator
anyone, who can
identify Ross Macdonald and

‘Eric Jespersen aid the spart

in which they are world
champions, A‘aint: they wre
Canadians and they live i ine
Vancouver,

Now, if one were to ask asimilar
question in New Zealand, and © y;
change the names to Peter. Blake -
and Russeft Coutts, everyone in that
country of 3.5 million would be able
to supply the son of detailed biogra-.
phy hockey nuts here might r ecites
about Gretzky or Bure. (If this is
getting 2 little beyord you, don’t .
give up hope, With some tuck, we're
going to add ice to water and, hupe:
fully, come out of it with a column.)

Organizer Blake and helmsman
Coutts. were the key figures last

week in the absolute rout of Dennis ..

Conner’s American boat in the

a's Cup final on that piece of
the Pacific Ocean bordering San
Diego. They won the best-of-nine

“series live steaight and the America's
- Cups has Ieft the U.S. for only the

second time in 144 years...

One of Kiwtland’s two official .-
religions —— the other being rugby :
— competitive sailing is such a turn-
on, 80% of the population stopped .

What it was doing to watch each day “~

"Fleetwood Brougham

2 wanted. it and Regency

Poe

the live TV coverage of the final,
And that doesn't include the sheep:
“AS you all know, Canada has ©
anly one official religion — peck. ‘
Aad that's sehy: FU wager that most
of you are unaware that Macdonald
and Jespersen also are world sailing
champions, Less than i year ago
they topped ii Held of 97 boats, rep-
resenting more dan 20 countries, in
the World Star Class ;
Championships. Mind you, Star -
Class sailing docsi’t have (he hype
and ghimor of the bigger America’s
cup boats, which require crews of 16
men of, in the case of this year’s
event, women, Not to mention bud:
pets. of up to $30 million. ‘
This was the. 73rd annual Star
world championships and the first
ever Canadiin win. The two men got»
together in 1991 ang clicked almost
immediately us ateam, winning the
bronze medal at the Barcelona”
Olytupies just ¢ year later, Their :
world title effort was relegated to the»
inside pages in most of Canada's:
daily sparts sections and, as ane +.
remembers, cestainly didn't make
printe-time TV)in this country.
Despite all those bumper stickers.)
that read “Ld rather be sailing,” the “>
sport isa long. way from being a’
national passion,
One of the problems for spect.
tors is that there's no way to get.
close up and become part of the i
action, as those bloodied spectators
became at the Coliseum the other’:
night when Trevor. Linden put the
Jeff Norton through the glass: From
half-a-mile away, sailing Icoks about”.
as fast as a turtle race.. There may be.
a lot of interesting tactica! ‘manoeu-
yres out there, but how can you“
appreciate them without 3 telescope?’ ‘
‘But one ining that came through.

‘loud and clear‘in the America’s Cup
= and it could be an inspiration for.

the NHL — is just how long it took

40 run this multinational elimination ;

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