BRUCE GETS LOOSE AT PANORAMA Canadian Alpine Ski team prospect Trevor Bruce sailed down the slopes in Invermere to a second-place finish at the Men's Giant Slalom race held Dec. 18. Bruce finished with a total, two-run time of 2:26.23 and 8.83 race points. Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Deep Cove, meanwhile, settled for 14th spot and 30.58 race points when he clocked in at a total tirne of 2.30.02 in two runs. NEWS photo dulic Wverson BIG White's Jeff Warner gees alrborne eS, GEVERING THE GA Wednesday, December 27, 2000 - North Shore Mews — 34 EELING SQUASHED THIS HOLIDAY SEASON? If so, the Evergreen Squash Club is holding a major open tournament Jan. 16 to 27 at the North Vancouver club on Glenaire Drive. The AA-rated, 8.C. Squash-sanc- tioned tournament is expected to draw some cf the top provincial players. Registration is $45 for open play and $30 for juniors. For more info, cal! Roberta at 980-7929. ‘NEWS photo Julle lverson at the Kokanee Boardercross Grand HOWE Sound high jumper David Derusha ciears the bar at a North Shore ses- Nationals at Mt. Seymour in January. Following is the first of a two-part series of the - best in Nortly Shore sports for 2000. Part two : continues inthe Sunday, Dec. 31 edition of the News. . “Jan-inistian Sorensen ‘News Reporter j frorensen@nsnews.com | THE Summer Olympics i in Sydney. “North Vancouver native Sean - -Millington’s romp tothe Grey Cup “with the Lions. A national title for the Capilano College women’ $ soc- _ COL. team. : “These were but a-féw of the banner “moments for. North Shore athletes during, 2000. Assembled for your approval, some of the more notable. Sports stories of the past “North. Vancouver snowboarder Drew Neilson’ won ‘the first: stop on the Kokanee Boardercross Grand Nationais tour at Mount » Seymour~for’ his third. straight year on January: 8..He ‘also took the. time -trials in 51.942 down ‘the *1,550-foot-long Elevator to Matining Slope. - Neilson waiked off with $2,500, but fil ‘low boarder Maelle Ricker wasn’t so lucty. The ‘then-defending world champion. -boardeércross racer from West Van overshot -the final jump on the downhill course and _reiniured her left knee. In -other boarding news, Deep Cove’s. Kevin, Sansalone captured a silver medal at ondary school track meet in May. the Grav cy Games on Jan. 22 at Mammoth Mountain near Lake Tahoe, Calif. The snow- boarder’s second place finish earned him a $8,500 payday, Sansalone would also go on .to take first place and $3,000 ar. the men’s big air competition at the Westbeach Classic 2000 at Whistler on’ May 22. : On Feb. 25 North Vancouver ~hurdier Vanessa Fryer grabbed a gold at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athictics 2000 indoor track and field meet in Lincoin, Neb. Fryer, a member of the SFU Clan team, ran the 55-metre hurdles in a personal best time of 7.96 seconds, also the fastest time recorded in the NAIA to that point in the sea: son. , ; In . basketball, the Argyle Pipers toppled the McRoberts Strikers 79-61 to claim the Lower Mainland senior girls bas- ketball championship Feb. 25. Unfortunately, the team went on: to lose to the Thomas: Haney Thunder. 61-50 in the quarter-finals . at Capilano College... The tear went on to claim fifth place and the consolation round title by beating Chilliwack 94-82 on March I]. In other cager action, the Handsworth junior girls team finished fifth overall at the provincial championship in Penticton Meanwhile, on the boys’ side, the Carson Carol _NOBTH Van triathiats ‘Montgemery raced her way to the Summer Olympics. Graham Eagles won their - first-ever Vancouver & District junior boys basketball championship over Richmond’s McRath sec- ondary 48-31 Feb, 24. The team rebounded from a‘ quarter-final: loss to grab eighth spor at the junior boys championship in ~ Nanaimo. The St. Thomas Aquinas Saints won the B.C. beys AA basketball championship titie March 11 by _ beating Ladysmith 65-48 in Kamloops. The ‘Saints were three-time A-division winners ‘in the early 90s before mov- ing up to AAA status. They. lost to J.L. Crowe in the 1999 final. : In Los’: Angeles, West. Vancouver secondary and Cap Collegé alumnus Mark Watson scored the lone goal for Canada as the national team handed. Trinidad and Tobago.a 1-6 loss on Feb, 23 and the zone championship for North and Central America and the Caribbean. The ex-Vancouver, 86er and his teammates went on to defeat Colombia 2-0 and gain a berth ia the Confederations Cup event. On the women’s side, North Van’s Ros Hicks found a spot on the. Vancouver Angels -. women’s semi-pro soccer team. The team, the only Canadian squad in. the Women’s PLAY DIUM. B -RON PLAYOIUR SURINFIBY ) METRAPCLIS @ METAOTOWN _ {ecajazs- PLY (VERE sara Se eS a ee a et AHO, NEWS photo Paul McGrath WEST Van Highlander Andrea Baron. goes up against Argyle’s Ashley Burke in the senior girls basketball semi-final. Professional Soccer League, made its debut May 28 at- Coquitlam ‘Town Centre against the Santa Ciara Red Devils. . North Vancouver triathlete | Cazol Montgomery. claimed. gold and qualified for the Summer Olyinpics in Sydney in the Pao de Acucar World Cup event in Rio de Janeiro, ' - Brazil in March. - Ia_ gymnastics, 16- “ear-o3d Surrey. gym- nast Kara Glover — who -trains. at Noch Vancouver's Flicka Gymnastics Ciub — fin-_ ished ‘second all-around at the Western Canadian Championships. in Winnipeg . on April 14, North Van’s. Jennifer Clarke fin- ished fifth all-around and qualified for three of the four finals..Whistler’s Rikka Tindle, |. who also trains at Flicka, took the’all-arcund © provincial novice gold and bronze for-balancé _ beam in’ the. provincial ‘open and provincial -novice categories.: ; A pair of North Vancouverites — Andrea , Wiebe and Michelle Foster.— ‘piaced second = and third, respectively, in: the women’s pro- fessional division of the Rainforest Duathlon, ‘on’ April 23 in the Lower. Seymour Conservation Reserve. Both were (past win- : ners of the event. ; On April 29 the North Shore’s elite ath: letes’ were’ honoured ate the North Shore Sports Awards. : -Diver Blythe’ Hartley won the youth eles female category; Skier Marcus Waring was. . the best youth male; Carol Montgomery won’ | the open female; track’ athlete David Milne - See Sentinel folowi b page £0 Ces EOE RADIOS AAP: