TENNIS... The Sentinel
. Spartans tennis team fin-
ished third at the recent
B.C. triple-A. Boys’ and
Girls’ . High . School
Tennis Championships in
Abbotsford.

The other North Shore
team competing ‘at the
provincial tournament was
Handsworth, which ‘fin-
ished in 12th place overall.
Sixteen teams qualified for
the championships.

: Sentinel finished: sec-
ond in its section (defeat-
ing Burnaby North 9-2
and Semiahmeo 8-3 , and
losing to Centennial 8-3),
then beat Eric Hamber 8-
3..in the - quarter-finals
before losing to eventual
champs. Magee 6-5 in the
semis.

The Spartans: are
coached by: Rika Luttin.

GOLF... West Vancouver
claimed: second : place in
the 22-team’ B.C: high
school golf championships
in Castlegar with a team
- total. of 631 strokes, just
three behind Semiahmoo.

For the’ Highlanders,.

‘Dave. Sheldon had. a 36-
hole total of 149, Gareth
Martin 160, Dennis
Konasawich [62, Leigh
Tate 164 and Alex Tielker
165.: :
Windsor, led by Mark

‘Parry’s 153, totalled 659.

* for.10th place.

COACHING...
longtime’coaches -— Earl
‘Henderson, Ed Pederson

‘and Mike Smith — who:

have. left. indelible marks
on, high school: athletics
chave. been

ships in the North Shore
Secondary Schools’
Athletic

from teaching. -

Henderson: .::.-- who’

coached wrestling, . rack

and -field, cross‘ country,
and field “lacrosse in his:

earlier... years,:. is’ best
known for“: coaching
Carson Graham’s foot-
ball team since the school
opened in 1965.

Pederson, : the origina-
tor of B.C.’s top ten bas-
ketball. rankings . which
have spread to most school
sports, coached boys bas-
ketball at
Vancouver - secondary
“from “1961-1971 and at
‘Handsworth s since then.

Smith, .who started at
Hillside when the NSS-
SAA was founded in 1958
‘and moved — to West

- Three ,

. awarded.
Honorary Life: Member-:

Associations:
(NSSSAA) .as they retire

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spectator

DO YOU have the feeling that
down the road somewhere
there will be a great big bar-
bell at centre ice, and the first
guy to lift it over his head, his
team will be declared Stanley
_ cup champion? .
I sort of got that feeling after
watching New Jersey Devils make
mincemeat of the favored Detroit

- Red Wings. They didn’t merely beat

the team with the best record in the
NHL this past season, they embar-
rassed them; made them Icok like
97-pound wimps. Too big, too

“_ strong, too energized.

But most frighteningly of all,

“except for the Devils and their fans, .

_ they employed a stonewalling defen-
* sive system which, given the official

- blind eye to most of the clutching,
: » grabbing and interference, threatens

- to become the game of the late ‘90s.
A winning formula i it undoubted-

NAME: Dave Sheldon
‘SCHOOL: West Vancouver
GRADE: 11

SPORT: Sr. boys’ golf

ly is. But professional sport is sup-
posed to be the sport entertainment
business, especially at the prices the
suckers have to pay to get into the
buildings these days. And this was
not entertainment. It was the equiva-
tent of football without the forward
pass: basketball with a zone defense
and no shot clock; 15 rounds of
clinches and infighting.

Did | say frightening? Yes.
Because success spawns legions of
imitators. Already this is the formula
used by the NHL's untalented have--
nots: the only way they can stay
close and hope to fluke the winning
goal now and again.

The Devils are a team with a
goodly amount of talent, all of it

willing to subjugate distinctive per-
:.sonalities to concentrate on a group

defensive effort, waiting for power
play opportunities and turnovers.
Accentuate the negative. ;

If this is the surest way to victo-
ry, then other teams with talent are
going to follow suit. And if you
think you witnessed too many unin-
spired defensive games in this past
shortened season, chances are you
ain’t seen nothing, yet.

Hockey is unique in that it’s the
only team sport in creation where
the players wear blades on their feet
so they can whip up and down the
ice at the speed of sound. It was
conceived as a game of constant
flow from end to end. The only
things flowing in this final were the
tears of the hockey purists.

The people who run the NHL are

See Success page 30 ,

” NAME: Leanne Hanceroff.
SCHOOL: Windsor
GRADE: 12
SPORT: Sr. girls’, ‘soccer

WHO TO CALL:
Sports Editor
Andrew McCredie

985-2431 (147}

NEWS photo Paul MeGrath

Deeking Duke

NORTH SHORE Indians’ Mike Shaw attempts to get past the
tight checking of Trevor Duke of the Surrey Surrards during %
recent game between the two clubs. The Indians’ next hore
game will feature the North: Shore squad taking on the
Burnaby Lakers at 7:45 p.m. tonight at the North Vancouver ,
Recreation Centre.

POSITION: midfielder
COACHES: Steve Garland. .

Vancouver in 1987.. has
coached three sports every

Sy

COACH: TOM RIPPON

ro:

year: for'37 years. He has
touched track. cross coun-

try, golf and volleyball but.

primarily" basketball and
rugby. j

« They have ‘retired from
teaching but Henderson will

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oes

Dave shot a 77 ‘and. 72
(good for a fourth place
individual finish) as he ted
the Highlanders to second
‘place team honors ‘at’ the
recent B.C. High School

’- and Gordie Simpson:
"Leanne's leadership and.’
defensive play was instru-:
mental as, the Dukes won
their second straight. B.C.
double-A ~~ championship
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