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NEWS phato Terry Peters
TENNIS DYNAMO Sonya Jeyaseelan, 12. holds up her latest addition to her trophy collection at her North

Shore home. Sonya recenily won ithe 12-and-under title in the 1988 U.S. National Girls’ Tennis Championships.

Junior hockey standings

WEST COAST junior hockey ‘eagues standings as of Dec. 4 are:

Team WwW GF GA Pts.
Abbotsford Pilots 16 122 70
Burnaby Bluehawks 14 113 90
Hastings Express 12 108 98
N. Shore Winter Club Flames 10 107 90
White Rock Whalers 10 W712
Grandview Steelers 8 195 123
Seattle Northwest Americans 7 68 106
Port Coquitiam Buckeroos 2 87 138

Hollyburn night skiing starts

CYPRESS MOUNTAIN’S country skiing on the mountain.
Hollyburn Ridge officially opens An evening celebration preceding
for night skiing tonight, Dec. 7. the official opening ceremonies

The popularity of cross-country and cake-cutting event at 8 p.m.
skiing prompted the installation of — begins at 5 p.m., and is open to the
five kilometres of lights for cross- public.

Soccer Ravens
tepple P. Roya!

MT. SEYMOUR Ravens’ Andrew
Wilton’s three goals sent Park
Royal Hotel players back to their
rooms over the weekend in local
men’s coaches’ soccer league ac-
tion.

Strong goalkeeping by Colin
Brierly coupled with Wilton’s goals
was all Mt. Seymour needed to
beat Park Royal 4-2. In other ac-
tion, Candia had trouble getting
on the scoreboard, with Lynnwood
Nordic beating them 6-0.

Other games were clinched by
the Avaton Rangers, who topped
Moisons 4-2, and by F.C. Ger-
mania who edged out the Coach
House Hotspurs 2-1.

Narrow wins were scored by the
Norvan Oldtimers, who topped
Swan Lager 2-1, and by the Olym-
pia Goldcaps with a slightly better
win over OK Tire, 3-1.

Pemberton Station and Fosters
Pacifie meanwhile ended in a 1-1
draw.

13 - Wednesday, December 7, 1988 ~ North Shore News

Healing
at
home

PAGE 45

FIRST CANADIAN EVER TO WIN CUP

weyaseelan
takes U.S.
tennis tourney

NORTH VANCOUVER tennis dynamo Sonya Jeyaseelan
is on her way to the top after recently becoming the first
Canadian ever to win the indoor under-12 United States na-

tional tennis tournament in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Twelve-year-old Jeyaseelan won
the singles and a doubles crown
with California’s Janet Lee, and
beat No. I seed Anne Miller of
Michigan 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the final.

“Y feel good. I’m proud and
happy,”’ Jeyaseelan said after the
tournament, ‘“‘I played well and
very agressively."’

The Upper Lynn Elementary
student said she was nervous at
first but settled down soon after
the first part of the game.

Father, Reggie Jeyaseelan, who
quit his full-time job to oversee his
daughter’s career, said winning
was a great relief. ‘‘We worked
hard over the years. Now we can
go on to the next level.*’

Jeyaseelan has had an impressive
list of accomplishments so far for
1988: a victory in the under-18

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play, one under-16 tournament
win, three under-l4 wins, two
under-12 wins, came second in
under-]4 Canadian nationals, and
third in under-14 Canadian out-
doors.

Her victories have come from a
lot of practise and self-determina-
tion. Practise includes two hours
before school at a local racquet
club and one and-a-half hours
after school.

This month Jeyaseelan goes to
Arizona to play in the Fiesta and
Copper Bowl tournaments.

“Our goal is to be the first Ca-
nadian to win Wimbledon,’’ he
said.

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