Highlanders and Fighting Saints win provincial tournaments THE NORTH Shore is the capital of B.C. in girls’ volleyball once again as both the West Vancouver Highlanders and St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints came home with B.C. titles Nov. 30. The Highlanders won the 16- team B.C. ‘tAAA” (more than 200 girls in grades 11-12) tourna- ment hosted by Handswerth with a great 16-14, 15-0, 13-15, 15-11 championship match victory over Richmond in the final at the Capilano College Sportsplex. The Saints captured the 12- team B.C. ‘‘A’’ tourney (for schools with 75 or fewer girls in grades 11-12) with a final match triumph over South Slocan’s Mt. Sentinel 15-8, 15-2, 15-5 at Selkirk College in Castlegar. West Van, who went undefeated through the nine-team North Shore league and playoffs plus the North Shore ‘*AAA’’ zone playoffs, lost only one of 11 mat- ches at the B.C.’s and that was to arch-rival Sentinel Spartans in round-robin play. Host Handsworth, who put on an outstanding, well-run tourna- ‘ment, also looked good on the court. Third in the North Shore league and zone playoffs, they claimed fifth in B.C. with a 5-2 win-loss round-robin record followed by a 2-2 playoff record. The Spartans, who were fourth in North Shore league play and second in the zone playoffs, showed the strength of the North Shore by qualifying as the pro- vince’s wildcard team in a six- school playoff the night before the B.C. tourney. They lost to Rich- mend in the B.C. quarter-finals and eventually took eighth. St. Thomas Aquinas, runner-up to West Van in both the North Shore league and playoffs, and the winner of the North Shore **A”’ zone tournament, didn’t lose Ninacears : _ i NEWS photo Cindy Goodman PROVINCIAL CHAMPS: West Vancouver Secondary girls’ volleyball team won the B.C. ‘‘AAA”’ girls’ volieyball championship held recently on the North Shore. a single game in any of their eight B.C. matches. Ten North Shore players were among the all-star selections at the two tournaments. Amy Tutt, the Highlanders’ Grade 11 middle blocker, was chosen as the most valuable player at the ‘‘AAA”’ tournament. Setter fzabela Rudo! of STA, another Grade 11 student, was selected the most outstanding player at the “A” tourney. [ronically both were picked as North Shore second all-stars at the end of league play. B.C. ‘‘AAA’”? first all-stars in- cluded West Van’s Molly Kiefer, a Grade Il power hitter; Hand- sworth’s Ami-Jo Dunn, a Grade 12 power hitter; and Kate Brock, a Grade 12 setter. Second team selection was Amy Lewis, Sen- tinel’s Grade 12 middle blocker. These four, along with STA Grade 11 blocker Iolanda Freschi who was picked as a B.C. ‘A’ first all-star, were all previously chosen as North Shore first all- stars, STA’s Jennifer Jamieson and Rachel Brooksbank were named “A” second all-stars and honor- able mention went to Erin Mackey. Other members of coach Rob Ros’ Saints are Marian Anderson, Jennifer MeGucken, Jamie Mackey, Kasleigh Nemeth and manager Vicky Wight. Coach Wayne Desjardins’ West Van team includes Tania Cosper, Allison Dunnet, Lisa Hallstrom, Lori Hallstrom, Beth Gayton, Tara Klassen, Joann Paterson and Tori Robertson. Desjardins, who coached two teams to North Shore titles in the fall season when his senior boys’ volleyball team also won, was un- able to be in two places at once when the boys played in the B.C. *“*AAA'’ championships in Courtenay the same weekend. He did go to the Island for the first day of the boys’ tourney, which started one day before the girls’, then assistant Shannon Macy took over, The boys, ranked !6th going into the provincials, ended up 16th. Two of the highlights for Aquinas at the Castlegar tourna- ment were an authentic Russian banquet, complete with folk dances, and an _ unscheduled highlight called ‘‘fog’’ which postponed their Sunday flight un- til Monday. STA was third in last year’s provincial ‘‘A’’ tourney in Lum- by. Sentinel won the tourney in 1984, Sutherland and West Van- couver were runners-up in 1982 and 1987 respectively. See STA page 17