~ Sunday, January 11, 1987 - North Shore News

LOCAL ATHLETES

Gymnasts

quality

for provincial team

SIX GYMNASTS from North
Vancouver's 1988 Best Ever girl's
program and one West Vancouver
Recreation Centre gymnast were
recently named to the B.C. team
for the Canada Winter Games to
be held Feb. 21 to 28 in Cape
Breton, Nova Scotia.

In the first men's competition,
Mike Lockitch finished third in the
trials and will compete this year at
the junior national level,

The six girls were chosen after
15 gymnasts competed at North
Vancouver's Flicka Gym Club
Dec. 21 and have the chance of re-
taining the silver medal position
held by the B.C. team at the 1983
games in Chicoutimi, Quebec.

Only two points separated the
winner from the other members of
the team as Kristin Wingfield, 16,
of the West Vancouver led with a
35.450 total.

She finished just ahead of
Jeanette Hrubes, 15, from the
Okunagan-Kokanee Gym Club
who had 35.375.

Wingfield won both the beam
and the floor exercise events both,

with a score of 9,00.

Third and fourth positions on
the team went to two Surrey
sisters, Krista and Lisa Onno, who
finished with scores of 34.675 and
34,225 respectively.

In fifth place was North Van-
couver's Ursula Trpin with 34.275
and sixth position went to Miriam
Michel, 17, of Coquitlam, who did
not compete because of injury, but
had a medical petition.

The two alternate gyninasts to
the girls team’ were Kelowna’s
Heather Andrews with a score of
33.90 and Helen Carmichael of
North Vancouver with 33.20.

Hrubes won the uneven bar
event with a 9.30, the highest indi-
vidual score of the meet.

All of the girls train in North
Vancouver under the Best Ever
Program and will compete in the
games for the first time,

Next competition for the girls is
the annual North Shore Invita-
tional on Jan. 24, at BCIT, in
Burnaby, where they meet top
gymnasts from across Canada and
the United States and a team from
England at this meet.

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NEWS photo Mike Waketleld PURE NGREY
EXPO CHARACTER Siim takes a chance on skis during a promotion
for Labatt's Skiing is Believing program at Grouse Mountain. Helping
Slim is Ornulf Johnsen, director of the Grouse Mountain, Ski School
and area chairman of Skiing is Believing. The program gives discounis
to beginner skiers for lift tickets and lessons.

Local youth trys out
for B.C. hockey team

THE NORTH Shore Winter
Club’s ‘Keith Randall was among
30 junior ‘‘B’’ hockey players who
were selected to attend the
Christmas camp in Trail to deter-
mine who will be selected to Team
B.C. for the Canada Winter
Games.

Team B.C. will be coached by
Tom Renney and Derek Spring at
the Canada Winter Games, which
will be held in Cape Breton, Feb.
14-28, 1987. The hockey competi-
tion will be held during the second

week and Team B.C. will be trying
to bring home the gold medal.

In 1979 B.C. won the gold
medal and in 1983 they lost to On-
tario in overtime and came home
with the silver.

The Christmas camp was the
final chance to evaluate the players
as the coaching staff named their
final roster following the camp.

Randall, who suffered a groin
injury prior to the Christmas
camp, was unable to attend, but
hopes to join the team at its next
practice session.

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