14 - Wednesday, July 27, 1994 - pote Pea CRUEL DUAL DUATH- LON... Grouse Mountain is hosting the first-ever Cruel Dual Duathlon, a combination mountain bike and cross-coun- try running race open to both competitive and recreational athletes, this Sunday, July 31. The competitive course consists of a four-kilometre mountain bike course and a four-kilometre running course. The race will comprise three loops of both courses. Registration for competitive division is from 9 to 10:30 au, with the race set to start at 11:30 a.m. The recreational category (open to both individuals and relay teams) consists of two loops of a three-kilometre bike course and a four-kilometre cross-country run. Registration for the recreational category is from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Race-time is 9 a.m. Spectator tickets can be purchased at Grouse or at any Cyclepath location. For more information call 893- 8008. DIVING... West Vancouver divers Paige and Megan Gordon finished in the top- five at the Commonwealth Games Trials in Ottawa last weekend. Paige finished third ne ; DIVER PAIGE GORDON in the 10-metre tower event. and second on the three-metre. qualifying her for the Commonwealth Games and the Worlds. Megan was fourth in the 10m event, earning her the right to compete at the Goodwill Games, currently being held in St. Petersburg, Russia. GOLF... North Vancouver junior golfer Dennis Konasewich won the gold medal at Jast weekend's B.C. Summer Games in Kelowna. The 15-year-old Marine Drive player, a student at West Vancouver secondary, shot a 69 on the par-70 Kelowna Springs course. ROLLER-HOCKEY LEAGUE... An eight-game roller-hockey Icague for eight to [l-year-old boys and girls is being held in North Vancouver during the month of August. Cost per player is $48, and there are a limited number of spaces available for players whose financial cir- cumstances would otherwise prevent them from playing. For more information call 984-2237. North Shore News atte JUNIOR PLAYERS from the West Vancouver recreation centre practise for the 10th-annual W.V Parks and Recreation Community Tennis Tournament beginning Saturday, Aug. 6. Entry deadline is this Friday. Call 926-3266 for information. WEST VANCOUVER-Cy- “press Hills (WVCH) were undefeated to press time in their current pursuit of the B.C. Senior Little League Championship at Killarney Park in Vancouver. ~ THE HOT BOX By Kevin Gillies Last Saturday they mauled Vancouver's Victoria Drive {5-4, thanks to power hitting and the pitching of Jeremy Bryck. Kyle Chalmers drove in two with a single down the first-base line on way to a 4-0 first inning lead for West Van. Matt Huntingford’s double off the wall in the second drove in two more before Matt ‘Action’ Jackson doubled and Bryck helped Car washes can’t fly U-19 teams AP. NicCredie VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS FOR THE first time ever, both under-19 soccer teams representing B.C. at the his own cause by driving in another two. Chalmers’ two-run homer to dead-centre in the third put the game out of reach for Victoria Drive with the score 13-1 after three innings. WVCH cruised to the win from there. Their Sunday game against Dunbar (District 1) was a complete- ly different story as a 1-1 after one score held up until the bottom of the seventh inning when WVCH took their last bats of regulation innings. A bases-full walk by a new Dunbar pitcher gave WVCH the 2-1 victo- ry. Chalmers pitched the entire game. “Our offense wasn’t as potent as it should be.” WVCH manager Ken Huntingford said after the Dunbar game. “Our defense was superb today. We had one error in the beginning that gave up the one run but that was it." National championships hail from the North Shore. The North Shore Amazons travel to Halifax at Thanksgiving to challenge for the U-19 girls’ tile, while the North Shore Selects take on the country's best U-19 boys’ squads at the same venue. Both teams are riding winning Streaks that have scen them through their respective division titles, through Coastal Cup action, and through the Provincial Cup. The next challenge that both clubs face is raising the $36,000 needed to fly, feed and lodge two soccer clubs for a weekend tourna- ment on the far side of the country. (B.C. Soccer picks up 52% of the airfare costs, though that cheque isn’t cut until affer the teams buy their plane tickets). “We are almost at odds, more JUNIOR LITTLE LEAGUE To press time, Lynn Valley had won their first two games in the B.C. Junior Little League Championships taking place at South Surrey Adiletic Park. Lynn Valley took the tourna- ment's opening game Saturday against Victoria Drive 3-0. Clinton Hosford threw 109 pitches over seven innings for the shutout. Sunday night they dispatched Little Mountain, as hard-throwing southpaw Lloyd Haggard struck out 11 Litthe Mountain batters over six innings (the game was shortened due to darkness). Haggard threw seven Ks in the first three innings. Lynn Valley’s winning run came in the first inning when Hosford hit a rope to centre field with runners on second and third. Haggard had singled and Brian Briscoe drew 4 walk betore the two executed the double steal perfectly to put them like competitors,” admits Amazon manager Tom Byron of his chase for the same fundraising dollar as Selects’ fundraiser Dan Londen. London segs it a little different- ly: “We're not competitors, though, because we both are working for children of the North Shore who have carned the right through hard work to represent this province.” (I felt the wailet beginning to loosen.) The players are continuing that hard work ethic in the form of washing cars, the tried and true fundraising event. But, as London says: “You're not going to do it on car washes alone.” Byrom has been approaching storefront businesses with donation jars, complete with an attached color picture of the Amazons, in hopes of turning coin donations into major dollars. =3| Boys’ baseball teams win in playoffs both in scoring position. Aggresive base-running and timely hitting were also the key ele- ments of Lynn Valley’s scored-runs in the third and fourth innings. Any chances of a Little Mountain come- back in the bottom of the fifth were smothered when Haggard struck out two and got another to ground out, retiring the side with the bases loaded. Lynn Valley’s 13-year-olds faced White Rock/South Surrey last night with the winner advanc- ing to the tournament final at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday night. In the event of a Lynn Valley loss Tuesday night, the team would. play 6:30 p.m., tonight — Wednesday, July 27 — against either Little Mountain or Ceoquitiam for the right to be in the final. See ‘page 16 for more baseball action. to Halifax The boys are going to embark on some old-fashioned screen-door to screen-door product selling, so don’t be alarmed if a couple of 18- year-olds show themselves at your doorstep, chocolate almonds in hand. Both the Amazons, coached (some say reinvented) by freshman coach Peter Phillips, and the Selects, coached by provincial Soccer Coach of the Year Gunther Frey. are seeded number-one at the upcoming Nationals. If the teams can face the dead- line mayhem of raising the money, the pressure of the Canadian cham- pionships should be a breeze. If you'd like to help either team in their efforts, cal! Wendy at 929- 1766, Joan at 929-3539 or Cathy at 980-0504 for the Amazons, and Dan London at 987-405! for the Selects.