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LIFTING FOR the top are North Vancouver powerlifters Nick Burgess (on left) and Don Dyer. Sporting im-
pressive powerlifting credentials, the two will be leaving Noy. 18 for Dayton, Ohio, to compete in the World

Powerlifting Championships.

Cap women’s vasketball
team wins one, loses one

CAPILANO COLLEGE Blues women’s basketbali
team came up with a win and a loss over the weekend
in pre-season exhibition play.

Player Crystal Caldwell was the top scorer with 16
points and Lori Tarasewich controlled the boards for
the Blues with 1] rebounds in a game Nov. 6 against a
senior women’s all-star team.

“The game was very close at the half,’’ said
Capilano coach Neil Chester.

But going into the second half 26-23 for the all-
stars, the Capilano team was dominated by the
stronger squad to finish the game losing 64-41.

The next day, this time against the University of
British Columbia varsity team, the Capilano women
bounced back to a 77-48 decision, dominating the

whole game.
“They led all the way,’’ said Chester. ‘They pretty

much outclassed them most of the game.”’

In the game against UBC, Caldwell topped the
Capilano scoring roster with 25 points. Coming in just
behind Caldwell in the scoring was Tryell Tyerman
with 19 points.

A scrimmage exhibition game between the Capilano
men’s team and the Everett, Wash., squad saw the
Capilano team playing for a good portion of the day.

“They did really well,’’ Chester explained. ‘‘It’s
really starting to come together.”

Capilano men play at home Nov. 13 at 8:15 p.m.
against a senior men’s team from Burnaby, and
Chester is expecting a good match. ‘‘They have some
very experienced, very talented players,’’ he said.

The same day the women also meet a senior team at
home at 6:30 p.m., and then travel to Washington
Nov. 14 to play Everett Community College.

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November 11, 1987 - North Shore News

for the top

TWO NORTH Vancouver men
will be lifting for the top later this
month when they represent
Canada in the World Powerlifting
Championships in Dayton, Ohio.

Don Dyer, 32, and Nick
Burgess, 25, both sporting im-
pressive powerlifting credentials,
will be trying to beat the stiff
competition to win for Canada.

“*It’s a Strength sport,’’ explain-
ed the 181-pound Dyer, who tied
for top spot in the B.C. champion-
ships and placed second in both
the Canadian and North American
championships. ‘‘In the Olympics
(scoring) is more on technique.”’

Competitors must perform three
lifts — the squat, the bench press
and the deadlift — and are scored
on the combined weight totals of
all their lifts,

When it comes to deadlifts,
where the lifter lifts the weights
from the floor to standing, Burgess
is the champion, setting a record
for a 700-pound lift.

At 242 pounds, Burgess has won
both the provincial and national ti-
tles and taken second spot in the

recent International North
American Championships.

“I'm going to have the best meet
I've ever had,”* said Dycr. “But I
don’t know how well Ill do.
There’s some very good lifters
that'll be there.’’

Training at the Empire Fitness
Centre at the North Shore Winter
Club, the duo is busy getting ready
for the Nov. 21 competition, in
which Dyer expects the toughest
competition to come from lifters
from the United States and Bri-
tain.

Squat . lifting three times his
body weight — a whopping 543
pounds — Dyer is easily in the
running to place high in the ranks.
Burgess, too, with his heavy
deadlifts is expecting to place well
up in the world powerlifting ranks.

Dipping into their own pockets
for travel and accommodation
money, the North Yancouver
lifters are fighting the athletes’
battle for needed sponsorship.

“This is the fifth meet this year
— it can get expensive,’ said

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