FIELD HOCKEY... Five

“NVest Vancouver players
helped lead the Steller Jays,
an ounder-19) B.C. Select
squad, to first-place honors at
the 75th annual Unired States
Field Hockey Festival.

The players are Julia
Adams, Morgan Mallet, Mo
G*Connor, Lucy Shaw and
Andrea Voros.

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HIGH SCHOOL ALL-
STARS... The annual North
Shore News’ High School
All-Star pages tor girls’ field
hockey, girls’ volleyball and
boys’ football will run in the
first few weeks of January.

SWIMMING... Fifteen

—~ “hena Swim Club members
participated in a recent swim
meet in Victoria.

Leading the charge for the
North Vancouver-based club
was Michelle Landry, who
won all 10 of the events she
entered — the 200m
freestyle, 200m _ breaststroke,
200m fly, 800m. freestyle,
400m freestyle, 260m_back-
stroke, 200m individual med-
Jey, 400m individual medley,
100m_ backstroke and the
100m fly. In addition to her
swims, Landry was the lucky
winner of a television set.

Other highlights from
Chena swimmers:
® Alison Atkinson placed
firse in the women’s 800m
freestyle;

, Andrea Donohoe placed
"second in the 200m _back-
stroke and third in the 100m
backstroke;
@ Heather Donohoe placed
second in four events — the
206m _ breaststroke, 200m
individual medley, 400m indi-
vidual medley and the 100m
fly. She also placed third in
the 200m freestyle, the 100m
breaststroke, — the 50m
treestyle and thei 00m
freestyle;
nN Alexandra Leziy-Miller
swam some outstanding races
and finished first in the 200m
breaststroke and) second in
the 100m breaststroke;
@ Robert Miller posted a
third place in the boys 1500m
freestyle;
B Erin West-Sadler placed
second in the 50m_ freestyle
and third in the 200m back-
stroke.

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VOLLEYBALL... St.
Anthony’s junior and senior
girls’ volle,ball teams have
captured their respective

ssigatholic Schools Elementary
Volleyball Championships for
the third straight vear.

In both championship
finals, held at Notre Dame
School in Vancouver, the
West Vancouver school’s
squads deteated Holy Trinity

ctgams. St. Anthony's ts
coached by Cathy Carter.
Andrew MeCredic

north shore news

© SPORTS

Eagles fly hi

Carson Graham grabs trophy
by beating Cowichan in finals

By Andrew McCredie
Sports Editor

andrew@nsnews.cam

FOR the first time in the seven-year history of
the North Shore Invitational, the Carson
Graham Eagles won the senior boys’ basketball
tournament trophy.

The fact the championship game took place on their home
court on Saturday night made the preseason triumph even
sweeter for Eagles head coach Vern Porter, his team and its
supporters,

Ja the final, the high-flving Eagles beat Cowichan, of
Duncan, 85-77. Only wo other North Shore teams — Argyle
last year and West Van in 1994 — have won the 16-tceam teur-
nament.

Three North Shore teams took part in’ this year’s
Invitational — Carson, Argyle and Sutherland.

The Eagles went undefeated throughout the three-day
Invitational, including wins over Centennial (a 87-73 semi-
final win), Alpha (96-58) and Campbell River’s Carihi (107-
62).

The Sutherland Sabres, meanwhile, almost made it an all-
North Shore tinal as they made it all the way to the semis
before falling to Cowichan.

In the bronze medal game, the Sabres lost wo Centennial
94-61, and subsequently finished fourth overail.

The third North Shore school taking part in this year’s
Invitational, Argyle, got off on the right foot with a 80-63
opening round win over Victoria, but lost its final game to
California's Healdsberg.

The Pipers finished seventh overall.

Ten of the 16 teams entered in the Invitational were from
outside Vancouver. Accaurding to tournament director Larry
Donohoe, the North Shore tournament has become one of
the more popular preseason basketball events in the province.

“It’s got a really good reputation, and people are just lin-
ing up to get into it,” he said. “In fact, we’re almost full for
nexc year. And I’m sure we'll have a waiting list come
January.”

Three North Shore players were named to the first-team
tournament all star squad: Argyle guard Hidesh Bhardwaj,
Carson Graham guard/forward Paris Jackson and
Sutherland guard Tristan Crowther.

Carson forward Tarcisio Jose da Silva Soares was select-
ed as a second team all-star.

The tournament victory vaulted the Eagles to the number
two spot in triple-A rankings released Monday by the B.C.
High School Boys’ Basketball Association.

The Richmond Colts remained the number one team.

The Eagles opened the regular season last night against the
Argyle lipers (no score was available to press time).

PoCo blanks North Shore

By David Allan Weir
Contributing Writer

POOR forechecking and a
lack of consistency proved
to be the North Shore
Griffins downfall Monday
night as they lost 4-0 to
the PoCo Buckeroos in
Pacific International Junior
Hockey League action.

Both teams began the game
strong, dthough the Griffins tound
themselves scrambling for the puck
in the offensive zone. Neither team
saw many scoring, chances berore
the middle of the first period.

Port Coquitlam broke the dead
Jock at the 15:32 mark of the first
as John Morlang took a Taylor
Kitsch pass and found the space
between Griffins’ goalie Jordan
Sigalet’s legs. Eric McCombie
also assisted on the goal.

The Buckaroos followed up 44
seconds later with their second goal
as Carl Paddeck snuck an casy
shot past Sigaler’s wlove hand.
Andrew Guindon and Mark
Degovic picked up the Assists.

PoCo took both a 2-0 lead and
the games momentum into the

dressing, room at the end of the
first.

The wind seemed to come out
of the Griffins’ sails after the nwo

quick goals. The team found itself

out worked and out shot l4-4 in
the first period. Phe second period
proved no better for the Grit

the Buckeroos found the net twice,
sealing the victory.

The Buckeroos third goal came
at the 6:24 mark as) Paddock
notched his second of the night on
aslap shot from the top of the cir-
cle beating Sivalet over the shoul-
der on the stick side. Marshall
Brown finished the scoring at
13:34 of the second,

The Griffins were outworked
dlong the boards and never really
found their offensive stride. ‘
did not go unnoticed by Griffins

coaching staff.

“We're still inconsistent,” said
Grittins’ coach Norm McNamara.
“Pye got to go in (the dressing
room) either berween the first or
second (intermissions) and say
‘guys the efforts gat to be there.

“Our whole game rides on our
forecheck, and if our forecheck is
not hard and: physical, we're in
trouble, and as veu can tell, we
backed out of it for s while and got
inte trouble,

He added: “EP chink our guys just
aren't reading che plays too well.
The other teams are reading the
play betore us, that might be expe:

rienee, but we have to step it ap it
we're going to get che puck out of

our zone.”

Buckeroos’ coach Grant) Kerr
was happy with his teams perfor-
mance, but was especially
impressed with Kitseh’s pertor-
mance. Missing three plavers, Kerr
was locking to his team to step up
their play to break their three-game
losing, streak.

“He's been struggling lacelvand
he had an opportunity tonight with
some ice time and he proved to us
just what kind of a hockey plaver he
is, and E think he proved something,
to hintself,” said Kerr.

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

VICTORIA’S Chris Marsh (dark jersey) is checked closely by Argyie’s Vince
Cumayas during North Shore Invitational opening round action on Thursday.

Highlanders
fourth in B.C.

THREE North Shore schools finished
among the top 10 teams at the recent B.C.
triple-A girls’ volleyball, championships for
the fifth time in seven years.

West Vancouver Highlanders, coached
by Dave Rea, ciaimed fourth place; the
Argyle Pipers, under Gwen Parker, finished
fifth; and the Sentinel Spartans, with Ron
Mutch and John McGowan, took ¢ighth in
the 16-ream tournament in Comox.

The Highlanders were the only team to
go undefeated in pool play, winning all seven
matches, The Wese Van team then beat
crosstown rivals Sentinel 2-0 in the quarter-
finals betore being stopped by eventual
champion North Peace of Fort St. John 2-0
in the semis. Coquitlam’s Centennial then
edged the Highlanders 3-2 in the bronze
medal match.

Argyle’s record was 3-2 in pool play. They
fell 2-0 to North Peace in the quarter-finals,
then bounced back to) take Sentinel 2-0 and
Surrey’s Earl Marriott 2-0.

Shannon McGregor of West Van and
Ashlee Dobbe of Argyle were named first
team all-stars. Margo Dunnet of West Van
was chosen te the second all-star team.

Tr was the seventh straight year thar the
North Shore placed at least one team in the
top four and was also the tirst ime four local
teams qualified for the tournament, as
Handsworth finished 16th