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duly 24, 1985 - North Shore News

UPCOMING TOURNAMENT

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FRANK PIKE has coached his last game for the

North Shore Colts.

The former Canadian Na-
tional soccer team coach and
coach of the NASL
Rochester Lancers, or-
chestrated a satisfying swan
song Sunday night as his
Colts came through with a
7-0 bombardment of the
Burnaby Beamers.

Pike described his firing as
an amicable parting of the
ways based solely on money:
“‘The ozganization could no
longer afford ne. I’m a pro-
fessional and I have to live
by my profession and what
the Colts were offering was
just not enough. | can’t live
on kisses and promises.””

The former Colts’ coach
denied any connection be-

tween his firing and the
team’s massive financial
losses incurred when it
hosted an international soc-
cer tournament June 5 and 6
at B.C. Place stadium.
Though the Colts won that
tournament, which included
Scotland’s Glasgow Celtic
and Holland's Ajax, the
team lost an estimated
$185,000 in the process.

“*T was only an instrument
in the organization of that
tournament,’’ says Pike,
“but the loss taken by the
team certainly is a factor in
it being burdened with fi-
nancial problems One of the
first steps in reviewing these
problems was me and, un-
fortunately, in these affairs,
the coach is always first to

go.

Colts’ Chairman Grant
Johnstone says money was a
factor in Pike’s dimissal, but

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“What the
Colts were
offering
me was
just not
enough. ’’

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SKATEBOARDS AND their riders will be per-
forming sweepers, nosedives, back and front side
aerials and generally transgressing the laws of

gravity in

the North Shore’s

first official

skateboard competitions July 28.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

Don Nimi, President of
the North Shore Skateboard
Association (NSSA), says
the competition will start at
10 a.m. Sunday morning at
the Seylynn skateboard
track in Seylynn Park just
off lower Mountain Hwy. at
Fern Street in North Van-
couver.

Following on the four-
wheeled heels of the July 14
skateboard Border Wars
competition staged in
Stanley Park, the North

IN EXUBERANT defiance of alt gravitational laws, skateboarders (above) compete at Van-
couver’s Ceperley Park skateboard bow! as part of Vancouver Sea Festival celebrations.

Vancouver competition is a
first attempt by the NSSA to
bring the re-blossoming ex-
citement of what is Califor-
nia’s most popular
landiccked board sport to
the North Shore.

Nimi says the NSSA hopes
to attract the best in fecal
skateboard talent ard some
possible international rivalry
from Seattle and California
to Sunday’s National
Skateboard Association
sponsored, North Vancouver
Bowi Buster event.

*“We should have approx-
imately 30 competitors,

kateboard hot dogs

everyone from beginners
through to expert,’’ he says.
Judging will be based on
degree of trick difficulty,
fluidity of trick transition,
general style, and numbe: of
unscheduled falls in the in-
dividual 45-second routines,
Nineteen-year-old Dan
Arnold, co-owner of Gravity
Zero Sports and NSSA
vice-president, will be com-
peting in the event atop his
Hosoi Hammerhead
skateboard. :
Technology, he explains,
has transformed what began
as old skate wheels ham-
mered onto pieces of
plywood into a slick and
aerodynamically designed
combination of fibre glass,

See Technclogy
Page 17

‘photos Stua Dar is

Stunts similar (o the inverled aerial (left) will be on display July 28 at North Vancouver’s

Seylynn

Park skateboard bow! when the first-ever North Vancouver Bow! Buster

skatebcard competition ralls into action. Bowl busting will kick off at 10 a.m.

“team performance was also
very much a part of it. In the
three games before Sunday’s
win, the team didn’t score a
single goal. 1 think we have
one of the best teams in the
league and we were just not
performing up to our abili-
ties.””

Johnstone added that
after the financial setback of
the B.C. Place tournament,
the Colts’ organization could
no longer supply Pike with
the money for the kind of
team he wanted: ‘tl mean
this is not the NASL or the
English First Division, this is
a semi-pro league. If you
don’t have the money com-
ing in you can’t spend it.
Frank knew the money situ-
ation here.”

Ex-Whitecap Paul Nelson
will take over Colts coaching
duties for the balance of the
season, says Johnstone.

FRANK PIKE

coach Pike

As to his own future, Pike
says he will continue
elsewhere in the Vancouver
area, ‘‘possibly in the
PRSL.”’ He has not, he says,
finished with international
tournaments because, ‘‘they
have to happen for the sake
of the game in B.C. and in
Canada.”’

In Sunday’s game, striker
Ralph Mazzucco whistled in
four goals to up his goal-
scoring total to 14 and lead
the Colts to their eighth win
of the season and revenge
for their 1-0 loss to Burnaby
July 15.

Defender Claudio Bar-
tolomeo, a recent defection
from the Beamers, opened
the scoring at the 40-minute
mark. Mazzucco scored his
fitz. of the game four

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