| Who to call: Sports Editor A.P. McCredie 985-213 {CAPILANO COLLEGE...| : 1 The fifth-annual President’s |, 4; Cup, featuring crosstown |: rivals Cap College and BCIT men’s soccer teams, goes tonight at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby. Kick- ] off is at 7:30 p.m. 2 ye ka 3 3) SKIFIT... Prior to the college game, the Windsor Dukes play the Seycove Eagles in a senior boys’ high school match, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets TEOEOE GE on MoT for the President's Cup are |: $2, with net proceeds going |: to the United Way. MOUNTAIN BIKING...|® North Vancouver brothers |/ Richard and Leo Mazzoleni placed first and second in their “ “respective divisions at the |~ recent Cheakamus Challenge Fall Classic Mountain Bike : Race. Richard; a 17-year-old Cap College student, won the junior division race, and Leo, :| 22, placed second in the men’s |” 44 expert race. The 65 km (40.3 |: mi.) race takes riders from |- The Sun Wolf Resort near}: Brackendale to the base of |, Whistler Mountain. The Vancouver recreation centre is offering a get-in-shape-for- Wd Skiing fitness class for alpine 33] and nordic skiers. The skifit class, led by | instructor Melanie Burbidge, “| Team Championships. 4 Saturday and Alberta on|:: Thanksgiving |" meets each Thursday, from 7:45 to 9 p.m., beginning West |: tomorrow and finishing on |: ‘d| Dec. 15. For more information |: fs} call the recreation centre at 926-3266. SOCCER... Two North Shore |: under-19 teams travel to Halifax this weekend to com- pete in the Gillette Sensor Cup, the 1994 National Club | ©: The ‘North Shore ” Amazons will be representing |“ B.C. in the girls’ U-19 divi- |: sion, while the North Shore | Selects carry the B.C. flag into |:: the boys’ U-19 draw. Both |-. teams are seeded number one |*:: in the eight-team tournament. On Friday, the North Shore |. squads play the Maritiiaes, |»: «| followed by Nova Scotia on |’ Sunday. Monday will be the day of |: ‘1 decision as the first-place }”, ¢]team in each division face. 2jeach other for the national }* title. coached by Peter Phillips, and the Selects are coacked by The Amazons are} Gunter Frey, the B.C. Youth |»: Soccer Association’s Coach of | | the Year for 1994, 1 ms (113) wel NEWS photo Mike Waketieid ENGLAND’S HALLOWED Oxford (dark jerseys) visited the North Shore recently to take on the untier-23 B.C. developmental team at the Capilano Rugby Club’s Kiahnaie Park faciltiy. The venerable British school team downed the developmental side 41-15. Third and fourth division squads !ead rugby club THE TOP teams for the Capilano Rugby Club suf- fered iosses this past weekend, but all was not lost for the North Shore club as their Third division and Fourth division squads posted victories. By A.P. McCredie Sports Reporter The 4-2 weekend club record fol- lowed an impressive 7-0 showing last week, in which the Capilanos fielded seven teams for the first time in the club’s history. Last Saturday, the First division Caps, playing without the services of five of their regular starters, were beaten 41-15 by defending B.C. Club champions, UBC Old Boys. With four Canadian national team members on their front line, the Old Boys rolled to a 28-3 halftime lead before tie Caps mounted a too-little- too-late comeback in the second half, Meanwhile, the Second division Cap team suffered the same fate as the firsts, losing to the Old Boys ina mistake-prone game, 12-10. it was the first loss of the season for the North Shore 2nds. Goods news came in the form of both Third division teams dumping their opponents. The 3As blanked defending champs Gibsons 25-0, and the 3Bs beat Meraloma 27-8. BCIT fell to Capilanos’ 4As 14- 5, and the 4Bs earned a default win over the Kats. The Canadian Provincial Nationals are being played this Saturday at Brockton Oval as B.C. goes head-to-head with Ontario at’ 3 p.m. Both teams are loaded with national team hopefuls. The Capilano teams, save the 3Bs, travel to Connaught Park on Saturday to play the Meralomas. The 3Bs host the Brits at Klahanie Park. Fur not flying at Grizzly camp. Yet. Kevin Gillies VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS WITH MUCH of profession- al sports deep in hibernation these days, stirrings from The Grizzlies’ lair are getting louder. The expansion franchise needs to seil 15,000 season tickets (or equiv- alent) as a condition of admittance into the National Basketball Association (NBA). According to The Grizzlies’ director of marketing John Rocha, the club has sold half that number and 1,244 suites. Northwest Entertainment Group, the owner of the infantile club, has 12 weeks to meet the NBA's deadiine. Ata round-table discussion with the press on Monday, the team announced partial season ticket packages and a Corporate Involvement Program. ® Jam Packs — in either 11-game or 22-game ticket packages — will sell for $165-$770 as the Grizzlies’ drive to make tickets more accessi- ble to the general public. The 22- game package represents half the tegular season games. Stu Jackson, general manager and vice-president of basketbali operations, said the packages have been successful in other cities. He remains confident the Grizzlies wil! sell enough tickets to get into the league, and added the new ticket packages are designed to make the NBA franchise more visi- ble in the community. @ The Grizzlics are also offering a corporate ticket program that allows companies to purchase and donate tickets to schools. Tickets for Kids was designed in cooperation with the B.C. Principals and Vice- Principals Association. “This particular program really focuses attention on young people, which, from an organizational standpoint, is really a goal of ours, to be involved with young people,” Jackson said. . ® Another interesting marketing ploy is The Assist program, which gives companies an opportunity to purchase blocks of tickets for their employees, who in turn would pur- chase individual seats through pay- roll deductions. in other news, ‘The Grizzlies added Larry Riley as the team’s new director of scouting. The former assistant coach and head scout for the Milwaukee Bucks has spent the last two years concentrating on college players for the Wisconsin team. Jackson said Riley was ideal for finding that “diamond in the rough” that Vancouver would need. In the process of making tickets more accessible to the public through corporations, the Grizzlies may attract a few new corporate connections along the way. More precisely, they will make connec- tions with people who are fed up with hockey’s labor problems. If all goes well on the NBA labor front, the league could prove to be a better investment of entertainment budget dollars than the NHL. The grizzly awakening of hockey settling in for a cosy winter by the fire, added to sports fans feeling of abandonment, accessibility to tick- ets could be just what Arthur Griffiths ordered. But then, in Arthur's unique case, it would be taking money out of one pocket and putting it in another.