Marcie Good
Contributing Writer
YOUTH and enthusi-
asin against age and
experience is often the
name of the game for
the men’s and women’s
Capilano college soccer
teams.

As is often the case, this
year’s teams were almost
entirely new and consisted
largely’ of younger players. In
this weekend’s final league
games, however, both ensured
play-off spots and showed they
were ready te play.

The men’s team beat
Douglas College 2-1 on
Saturday, with Tom Adamson
scoring in the first half and
Tamie Dunnet in the second.
On Sunday, the Blues drew 0-0
in a game against University
College of the Fraser Valley.

Those results pur them in’

third place in the nine-team
league, ensuring their spot in
next weekend’s provincial
‘tournament in Kamloops,

- Coach Beb Birarda called
Sunday 's game the team’s best

“We have to deal with age
and_ inexperience,” he said,

~ adding that half of the team is.

18.or under. “It has taken
© them six’or seven weeks to ger
comfortable with the pace of
the | game.” °°
‘Because several of the col-
* deges i in the league now offer
"degrees, they are.able to keep
«players. for four years.
‘Capilano, however, has a high
‘turnover rate with most stu-
“dents. only" staying for, two.
. That situation, said Birarda,
“has changed the dynamic_ of
the league. “

While many ‘of his players :
come, from high-calibre teams |
je counts scven. members of |

‘a muckle, says the old *
- Scottish proverb.

“$0, if we can find suffi-
» cent mickles today, they may
«also make a column.
” For starters, a recerit story
«, [read somewhere attributed
thé supposed financial break-
down of the Grizzlies’ sale to
Bill Laurie, the billionaire
:-from St. Louis (his wife is an
heir to the Walmart fortune)
who needs a basketball team
to add to his recent $100
- million purchase of the NHL
 Bhies and the Kiel Center, .
the place where they play.

If this is true, Laurie aid
Orca Bay boss John Mc
-$148 million, and when/if
he moves the team to St.
-* Lots, he must come u
another $52 million.
question, then, is this: What
incentive is there for McCaw,
now Laurie’s landiord, to
encourage the new owner to
keep the team in Vancouver?

recious litde, I would
think. It would take many a
mickle of rentals for many a
muckle of years for Orca Bay
- to callece $52 million.
Despite all the local vocal
pleading, the Griz will be

ne before the new century
is out of diapers.

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Wednesday, October 27, 1299 — North Shore News — 49

Mike Tempesta leaps for the ball in Capilano Coliege’s game ageinst Douglas College on Saturday. The Blues
won 24, grabbing a spot in next week's provincial championships in Kamloops.

the “North Shore. Under-19
selects. who recently. returned
from a'national tournament —
they are now imeking the
adjustment to playing older
teams.

“The raen’s teams are big-
ger and stronger... They make
decisions faster, they under-
stand the game better,” he
said. “It’s not necessarily that
they’re: better players, they're
just more experienced.”

“The team must: win next

weekend’s cournament ta qual- -
the national champi--

Laurie certainly didn’t lay
out all that money without
lining up a sizeable measure
of support trom other NBA
team owners. But what if he
didn’t? Forget it. Nohody
could be that dumb.”

Mickle Number Two: Did
you see those full colour pic-
tures ia the Sun of the Sedin
twins decked out in their
MoDo regimentals during a
gaine in the Swedish Elite
League? I haven’t seen so
many advertising decals clus-
tered together since the
CART circuit cars raced here
last Labour Day weekend.

No open space is left
unadorned, Helmets, } jerseys,
pants and stockings all ca
commercial messages, 7 Those
guys in Sweden may not be
playing for NHL salaries, but
neither are they playing for
just three squares a day and a
place to sleep. They have to
be paid and what better way

-onship, held in Toronto.

‘ou go into these compz-
titions and you got to get lucky
to win,” reflected Birarda. “If
things fall our way I think we
have a shot at a provincial
title.”

While the women’s team
has a strong history of provin-
cial and national champi-
onships behind it — it has won
three national titles in the last
four years ‘only four out of
17 players are back from previ-
ous years.

In league play, the Blues

had already secured a spot in
next week's provincial tourna-
iment. This weekend, they lost
3-2 to Douglas college and
then came back on Sunday to
blank UCFV 3-0.

Cara Valli, of North
Vancouver, scored both goals
against Douglas while Gina

Bottiglieni scored two against

UCFV.

Women’s coach Doug
Abercrombic says the team has
taken its time to gel, losing, all
its pre-season games and Tren

slowly . gathering momentum

to finish second in Jeague play.
The team will be challenged
this weekend, especially if they
face the number one-ranked
team from Cariboo College.
Capilano has a long rivalry with
the Sun Demons, but beat
ther last year in provincial and
national championship games.
“I’m confident that the
team is. coming together and
we're. prepared,” said

. Abercrombie. “The Pressure’ s

always on, especially if you're

_ the defending champions and
‘everybody’ s gunning for you.”

and sponsored ice rinks

to relieve some of the salary
crunch?

Will the NHL follow suit?
Especially, will the Canadian
have-nots band-aid some of
their financial woes by plas-
tering their uniforms with”
commercial messages?
Everything from oze’s
Booze is Goad for Youse to
Perkins Gherkins For Your
Inside Workin’s?

Don’t bet against it.
Oldtime hockey fans will
remember when the arena
boards everywhere were a
pristine white. Everywhere,
that is, except in Europe. The
late John Francis (Bunny)
Ahearne, then the czar of
international hackey, sold the
World Tournament boards to
advertisers in the 1960s.

Upon returning from one
of those tournaments, your
agent mentioned this devel-
opment vo then-Teronto
Ma He Leafs owner Harold
Ballard. “Absolutely classless!

We'd never do that!” roared
Ballard, a man whose own
actions made him the NHL's
leading expert on classless-
ness,

Within a couple jc of ycars,
Harold had the Maple Leaf
Gardens boards or
sold. He then topped that
, commercial success by selling

"space on the risers of the

ardens escalators. Today
NHI. arenas are littered with
ads, from the scoreboard
clocks to the penalty box
walls. So far, the players’ uni-
forms have escaped. But if
precedent is to be observed,
for how much fonger?

How long into the new
century before the NHL
becomes the first major
league North American spore
to decorate the players’ duds
with the decals of commerce?
And how will the scale of
advertising fees work? How
much for a decal on the jer-
sey of Ed Jovanoski, who's
on the ice for 30 minutes a

ame? As opposed to Trent

att, who may get only 10
minutes of ice time and next

week could be in Syracuse?

How much for the wide
expanse and full length of a
goalic’s pad? Especially when
the goatle plays for a weak
team and the play is continu-
ally at his end of the rink.

‘The revenue possibilities are

just as endicss.as many of the
games. And they, like the fans
paying those gaudy ticket
prices, will be fully exploited.
Bet on it.

Mickle Number Three:
Bob Gainey, once a superb
defensive forward with the

Canadiens and now GM of
the Stanley Cup champion

Dailas Stars, has startled the < -

hockey world. He says fight- :
ing should no Jonger be part:

of hockey. It ain’t necessary.
It should be legislated out of
the game, as it is in other
team sports. Throw the mis-
creants out and suspend
them...

Years ago, when he was
still caaching Montreal,
Scotty. Bowman told your
agent he had the solution,
based on his own statistical
studies. They proved to him
thar 95% of the fighting
involved only 5% of the play-
ers.

His solution: give every-
body one free fight. Then
start suspending — one game
for the second fight, two for
the third fight, four for the
fourth, eight for the fifth and
just keep on doubling. The
goons would be gone by
Christmas.

Obviously, he was never
able to sell the idea to the
team owners and managers,
who know there are sv many
dull, defensive games during
the season, fighting often is
the only thing that keeps the
fans awake. Gaincy’s message
will be equally ignored. Pity.
And that’s today’ 's muckle.

sidelines

DAVID Milne of West
Vancouver Track Club
will compete against
B.C.’s Gest over a gruel-
ing 10-km course at
Vancouver’s Jericho
Beach on Saturday.

A fourth place or better
finish in the provincial cham.-
pionship will guarantec the
20-year-old UBC student a
place on the B.C. team at next
month’s national race in
Etobicoke, Ont.

On the fine is also Milne’s
bragging right to the course
where She defeated Steve
Osaduik to. capture the
Canadian junior championship
one year ago. Now competing
as a senior, Milne will face suff
competition from Olympic
veteran Graeme Fell, Algerian
miler Ahmed Krama, and
national 1500-metre champi-
on Allan Klassen.

The B.C. Cross Counry |
Championships, hosted this

ar by the West Vancouver
Frack Club, will start at 10:30
a.m. with an open race. The
final ‘race is the senior men at
2:45 p. Me, *

THE Casson Greham
Eagles junior varsity
football team has
clinched the first place

in the North Shore divi-
sion with a undefeated
record in six games.

The Eagties will play their
last season game on Thursday
against Sentinel, and then
advance to the Lower ;
Mainland playofis.. :

Winning the ‘North Shore °
title was the first league victory -
in seven years for the Eagles.

“This is the best. group of ;
athletic: players: that--we have’
had ‘the pleasure of working .
with: in years,” said: receiver ;;

e ae 2

: Last: Wednesday, Carson
defeated" Johr Barsby of
Nanaimo 34-22: The: Lower
Mainland playoffs : begin -on |
Nov, 4 ar nm Graham and -

lead ~ up “to. the:  B.Ce.
Championship Game on Noy. ;

26 at the Burnaby 1 Lake sports, .

complex.

_ SHANNON Lee of
North Vancouver...
-brought home.a bronze 2

medal from Sun City.

_ Lee went to the South:
African -resore. for the’
Trampolining and Tumbling:
World Championships Sept. ;

. 23-26 and shared in the team’s

third. place finish” in double -
mini trampoline. | 7 a

Portugal -won’ the event. ‘

with 31.13 points. Australia
was runner-up at 30.92.
Canada had 29.67. °.

Lee, a member of the West
Coast Dynamos in West

Vancouver, was joined by nwo |

gymnasts from the Okanagan
and one” from New
Westminster as representasives
of B.C.
‘The world championships
were the qualifying teurna-)
ment tor me 000 Sydney:.
ympics. Trampolining and”
mibbae will make. ics debur:.

there as a medal spar.

“