ay ASN PLES HOTEL So TUSCANY = BATHTUB RACING... West Vancouver tubber Rod Sinn, a relative newcomer io the sport of plumbers, pulled off a# coup at the annual Nunaimo-to-Vancouver Bathtub Race, winning the modified class and placing fourth overall in an interna- tional field of 54 tubs. Sinn, sponsored by Securiguard Services Lid., placed first of 27 unmodified tubs in four- foot (1.3 m) seas and 25-knot westerly winds. ‘Before the race | wanted to win, but once under way all { wanted to do was finish.” Sinn was heard to say after the race. Seventeen tubs did not finish. ENDURANCE RUNNING... Enzo Federico, race director of the Knee-Knackering ultra-traiJ run, recently placed second at the Budweiser Elkhorn Mountains 100K En- durance Race in Helena, Montana. Federico finished the muddy 62-mile course in 1} hours, 12 minutes, 51 se- conds. Mark Tarr, the win- ner, finished in a time of 10:10.13. Seventeen Cana- dians competed in the race, including 10 from the Lower Mainland. aee ROWING... Four North Shore junior women- rowers returned from the recent B.C. Games in Chilliwack with hard-earned’ medals for the Zone 5 team. Lisa Malin, a 15-year-old Handsworth stu- dent, won a silver in the women’s singles, then teamed up with 18-year-old Christina Kereki, of West Vancouver secondary, to win a silver in the women’s double. Twins Katy and Rachel Dunnet, 15-year-old West Vancouver secondary students, stroked to a silver medal in the women’s pair on the Harrison Lake course. Al] four are coached by North Vancouver’s Geor- die Bryan Orr. TENNIS... The Hollyburn Country Club in West Van- couver is currently hosting The Martini Masters, Canada’s jiational senior ten- nis chatapionships. The week-long tournament (Aug. 2-8) features Canada’s finest men and women senior tennis players (35+) in both singles and doubles competition. North Vancouver's Alf Bren- ner, a Hollyburn player, is defending his over-70 singles title he won Jast year wt the Martini Masters in Ottawa. Bob Puddicombe, also of North Vancouver, is a former Davis Cup player who is challenging for the over-45 singles’ crown, Matches begin each day at 9 a.m., with the finals slated for Friday, Aug. 6 to Sunday, Aug. 8. Wednesday, August 4, 1993 ~ North Shore News - 13 Lin x2 staid , y NEWS photo Paul McGrath NORTH VANCOUVER Central’s fan Smortchevsky successfully steals third in the team’s 14-inning 6-4 victory over Dunbar in the Provincial Little League Championships at Ambleside Park last week. N.V. Central fost 13-0 to Whalley and played either Dunbar or Cypress Park on Sunday. The tournament's winner will advance to the Canadian Championships in Calgary in early August. Athletes set for toug! competition Kamloops plays host to Canada Summer Games, starting August 8 The Canada Summer Games begin in Kamloops this Sunday, Aug 8. The North Shore News finishes our series profiling local athletes who are members of Team B.C. today. Look for local athlete results in the Sports section of the next two editions of the News, By Kevin Gillies Contributing Writer ADRIAN AND DANIEL BAVID are two sisters who, between them, have enough medals from provincial and national diving competitions to open a retail outlet, Daniel won the gold diving from the one-metre, three-metre and 10-metre boards at the 1993 Provincial meet, and was seventh, first and seventh on the respective boards at the national level. Adrian won gold on the one- metre, three-metre and tower at the provincials, and fourth, bronze and gold (seven-metre board) at the nationals. Adrian, 14, and Daniel, 16, both anend Sentinel secondary school. Both dive at the Van- couver Aquatic Centre. Daniel hopes to go into medi- cine after high school and Adrian also wants to go to university. Both were slated 10 compete for Team B.C. at the games, but only Daniel will be there as Adrian will be competing for Canada at the World Diving Championships. ADAM GRAY’S Jong-term goal is to be on a medal-winning row- ing crew at the 2000 Olympics. He’s already well on his way to achieving his mark, but he says that’s a long way away. After attending Brentwood College in Victoria, Gray was awarded a scholarship to Yale where he is currently studying ethics, politics and economics. He’s looking at getting into marketing after school’s done, then maybe going to business or law school. He attended the rowing pro- gram’s 150th anniversary where he sat with the captain of the 1934 rowing team. Tradition and history are heavy in the sport. Gray has become a part of that history by being named 1993 Stroke of the Yale Freshman Lightweight. AMY TUTT first began playing volleyball in Grade 10. A year later she was named the 1992 All Around Athlete and Outstanding Athlete at West Vancouver Sec- ondary School. Along that short road the 17- See Shaughnessy page 44 photo Terry Poters: DIVERS Daniel and Adrian David were both named to Team 8.0.