On the beam NEWS photo Julle Iverson ‘COLLINGWOOD seconiary’s Judy Rebak performed on the balance beam - Saturday at the 8.C. high schoo! gymnastics championships at Windsor sec- ondary in North Vancouver. The three-day provincial meet began Thursday. From previous page -He’s also looking ahead to the ‘next: Rugby World Cup in 2003. _Victoria’s Sean Fauth scored’ two tries for the .Greens. Victoria’s Rob Robson and Kevin Tkachuk scored singles. Mike Armstrong added a penalty “<>, and a’ conversion. For the ‘» Black team, Victoria’s Fred - Asselin. scored two tries. . . Andrew Hoffman of North Delta added a single, while Victoria’s Ben Charleton converted two ties. Tim Murdy, coach of the “Capilano ‘Rugby Football Club’s Premier XV, was at the helm of the Black team. _Murdy’s. “side included * Capilano Bob Bremner and Ron Johnstone, a North ““Mancouverite playing in ’ Victoria with — Rugby Canada’s west coast develop- ment team, Pacific Pride. "On attack (Bremner) played very well and it was unfortunate not to link up or have other players link with him a couple times, he made some very good breaks,” Murdy said. “He’s a very big, strong runner and he was getting through the gap.” . Murdy is hopeful Bremner.can make the squad in a non-starting role. Johnstone, he said, also had a strong game. Murdy, a teacher at Rockridge middle school, is hoping that his performance through the weekend could earn him a spot on the side- lines as an assistant to Clark. “It was a testing ground for me as well. It was a good experience for myself to work with that many talented players who worked very hard for the whole camp in preparation for the game.” Clark said he was happy with the quality of players, though was disappointed with the lack of kicking tal- ent. “I’m very optimistic with the showing today. The men played with great heart and commitment and when we mix-in our overseas players, I think we'll have a team that wilt show well. From what 1 have seen here today, we'll certainty have plenty of good back-up.” @ In Capilano RFC play Saturday,- the first division remner could be backup side scribbled the Scribes 74- 3, while the thirds were blanked 17-0 by Gibsons. The women’s team defeated the Meralomas 21-17 in a playoff game. @ This Saturday, the 4-12-1 Premier team hosts defend- ing Premier league playoff champion James Bay. Kickoff is 3 p.m. at Klahanie. “It’s for us an almost a must win game, we have to win two of our last three to get intu the playoffs,” Murdy said. The Caps hast Cowichan March 25 for their final reg- ular season home game. The schedule wraps-up with an April 1 match in Victoria against the league-leading Castaway-Wanderers. The first division team is playing at home in the first round of playoffs at 1 p.m. against an opponent to be confirmed. The second division side hosts PoCoMo, while the thirds meet the Meralomas at Connaught Park in Vancouver. The women’s team is off this weekend until the Final Days playoff tournament in Burnaby March 26. " centage, Bob Mackin Sports Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com THE Argyle Pipers ended their season in record style. The Pipers claimed fifth place and the consolation round tite e* the B.C. AAA girls baskerball championship by beating Chilliwack 94-82 on Saturday afternoon at the Capilano College SportsPlex. The combined [76-point score was the highest in tour- nament history. It surpassed a 170-point performance from 1991 by Richmond over Belmont (94-76). Argyle, the — Lower Mainland champion, fell out of championship contention by losing to the Thomas Haney Thunder on Thursday night. The Pipers rebounded Friday by a 79-33 score over Abbotsford’s W.J. Mouat Hawks. Ashley Burke finished the tournament as the overall high scorer with 95 points. Teammate Christine Kirk went Ll-for-12 at the free throw line for a .917 per- the best overall accuracy. Handsworth Royals, meanwhile, lost to Claremont of Victoria on Thursday and Cranbrook’s Mount Baker on Friday. The Royals relegated Richmond’s McRoberts to last place with a 77-56 Saturday morning win. Heritage Park of Mission upended Port Moody 71-37 in the final Saturday night. Maple Ridge beat crosstown rival Thomas Haney 68-61 for third place. Heritage Park’s Dani Langford was the tourna- ment’s most valuable player. Her teammate = Julia Wilson was named best defensive player. South Peace secondary was voted most sportsman- like of the 16-team tourna- . ment. ® Handsworth’s junior girls team was fifth overall at the provincial championship in Penticton, also last weekend. The Vancouver and District champions finished the seascn with an overall 39-5 record. _ The junior Royals opened the tournament with a 58-38 win over Nisga’a of New Aiyansh and continued by beating Victoria’s Belmont 54-32. The team was knocked out of championship con- tention by Arbutus of Victoria, 54-40. Handsworth rebounded Saturday with an impressive 58-28 victory over Walnut Grove to claim fifth place and the consolation crown. Erica McGuinness, a first team all-star, scored a tour- nament-high 35 points in that game. [t was the first time a Handsworth junior girls basketball team played at a provincial championship. At the junior boys champi- onship at Nanaimo’s Dover Bay secondary, the Carson er Graham Eagles rebounded from a controversial quarter- final loss to rake eighth piace with a 67-26 consolation win over the host team = on Saturday. Tony Strong led scoring with 23 points. Mareus Wooden had 17 points. The team was eliminated from the championship round by eventual runner-up Enver Creek in a 72-44 Thursday game. That game was cut 1:53 short by a referee after Carson Graham coach Gerry Van Samang was assessed a third and disqualifying indi- rect technical foul. Wooden racked-up_five fouls and was the only Eagle player sent off the court. Allan Pudwell, a B.C. Basketball Officials’ associa- tion assignor/evaluator who was on duty at the game, told the News that Van Samang did not act inappro- priately and was not ejected as such. However, under interna- tional basketball rules, he was required to leave the court because his benched players amassed three techni- cal fouls. Pudwell said players on the Carsen Graham bench were cited for talking in an unsportsmanlike maLner to officials. Under international basketball rules, technical fouls by benched players are charged to their coach and termed “indirect technical fouls,” he said. When the third technical foul was charged to Van Samang, Pudwell said a ref- eree decided to end thie game. Pudwell said the unnamed referee could have. carried on with the team’s captain substituting as coach. eye HUGH SSSCCHOTFEROROSOHHREEGEE STARK S&S Authors of + . “DOMESTIC CONTRACTS” A book on marriage and separation agreements - FAMILY LAW MEDIATION 682-4999 - #602-1 166 Alberni St, Vancouver With less than two minutes remaining in the game and a 28-point margin, Pudwell said officials felt it was not worthy to continue, “The coach was not quote-unquote — ejected,” Pudwell said. “By rule when a coach gets three indirect technical fouls they have to leave the bench. (B.C.) High School Sports say you have to have a coach on the bench, the coach by rule can be the captain. But in this’ case, because it was a student and remarks were coming from students, the decision to finish the game carly was the choice that was made under the circumstances.” Pudwell said there is a move afoot to amend the rule so that benched players — not their coach — can be penalized. “Right now, the assump- tion is the coach is responsi- ble for the players on the bench,” he said. Enver Creek lost 65-50 in. the final to Vancouver’s Kitsilano secondary. ® The Windsor Dukes’ girls team finished 16th in the girls portion of the AA tour- nament in Kamloops. Alana Wilson was the game’s high scorer with 27 points when the Dukes were beaten 57- 50 by Hazelton on Saturday. The Queensbury clemen- tary Grade 6 girls team brought the District title to the school for the first time since 1976. Queensbury, coached by Cyd Grimwood, beat Capilano elementary 28-24 in a nailbiter. ; The team, which won its six regular season games, was fed by point guard Brooke Penman — and: forwards Morgan Grimwood, Gillian Orris and Christe! Mitchell. KIRSTIE $ MACLISE: