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The West Van Rockets
and the North Van
Mountaineers came away
empty-handed in the
opening round of Metro
League play-off action on
the weekend — the
Mountaineers dropping a 4-3
decision ta the PoCo Blazers
Saturday and the Rockets
losing out 6-4 to the Blazers
Sunday at West Van Arena.

On Saturday at Karen
Magnussen the _ Biazers
scored two goals just over
one minute apart in the
closing seconds of the third
period to steal a 4-3 win from
the Mountaineers.

The Mountaineers slide
started late in the second
period, after having built up
a 2-0 lead on goals by Doug
Jones and Rick Kent. The
Blazers scored with two
power play goals and pulled
into a 2-2 tie before the
period ended.

Both men’s and women’s
Blues basketball teams met
their B.C.1.T. Cougar
counter-parts on Sunday for
the first time this season, and
both recorded impressive
victories over the Cougars.
The wins were important for
Cap College as they and
B.C.1.T. have been
deadlocked in the standings
for most of the season.
Going into the contest, the
Blues and Cougars were tied
for second place with
identical 9-1 records in the
men's division, while the
women’s taems were
deadlocked at 7-3, good for
third place.

In the women’s game, Cap
College expanded a 28-24
half-time lead to 60-48 to win
the game going away.
Theresa Smith was top
scorer for the Blues, hitting
for 14 points, while Lea
Anne Stevens had 12 points.

Passion is

FROM PAGE B1

Listening to com
mentators when Canada
plays hockey leaves one with
the impression that af the
team loses the com
mentators will have to buy
the beer lts lamentable to
hear the screaming
natronalism while the skill of
the pame takes a back seal

But even more than the
historomics itis the super
ficaabity from thease of whom
we would

expect more

There are so many caciting
stones avatlable in sport that
are not being told possitely
lack of

knowledge on the part: of

because of a

those of us who write and
broad« ast them

The depths and passions of
the Rodninas the Reads and
the Kreiners 9 are being
wwnored and that is sad

JUST IMAGINE

Sports reporting ts one ol

the few arcas of yournalism

Ken Mooney had put the
Mountaineers ahead 3-2 just
five minutes into the third
and while the Moutaineers
controlled territorial play for
most of the period they were

- unable to gain that all im-

portant two goal pad on the
PoCo team.

Chris Kozak handled 19
Blazer shots while his team-
mates fired 33 shots at the
PoCo netminder.

In West Van on Sunday
the Rockets staged a three
goal third period rally to pull
into a 4-4 tie with the Blazers
late in the game, but ran out
of steam as the PoCo team
took advantage of a
defensive lapse and scored
the winner with three
minutes remaining. The
Blazers added the insurance
goal into an empty net while
the Rockets were going with
six attackers.

Cap Blues win

Cathy Nolan turned in her
best performance for the
Blues to date, playing ex-
tremely aggressively on the
defensive boards and
blocking numerous Cougar
shots.

In the men's game, Doug
Hale and Phil de Vooght
scored 25 points each and
Terry Cameron notched 15
to lead the Blues to an 80-67
win over B.C.I.T. At the
break, the Blues clung to a
narrow 35-32 lead, but in the
second half Hale, who was a
disappointing 2 for 7 from
the floor in the first frame,
exploded for 21 of his 25
points to put the Cougars
away. B.C.1.T., boasting one
of the biggest teams in the

league, were unable to
capitalize on their height
advantage as Cap’'s Peter

Pierobon, Craig Freeman
and Mark Hansen effectively
shut down the Cougar’s
inside game.

missing
where there is the preat
potential of uplifting events
of human beings struggting
and achieving

There are countnes in the
world where your
nalists participate in
sports if they wish fo write or
broadcast them Not at a
high level, but enough to
understand what transpires
on the field and in the arena

Picture fora Moment your

sports
musl

favorite owriler oof com
mentator participating Now
try and keep a straight face
By and large we are failing
the pubhe and = the

should be

public
objyecting
However, perhaps the public
In so accustomed to sitting
back for all their entertain
ment that they dont really
wantanything better
Pity

TIME FOR A

TUNE-UP?

Goal scorers for the
Rockets were Dan Corrigan
with two, and Jeff Durrant
and A! Wilson each counting
singles.

While the Rockets outshot
the PoCo team 39-22 Randy
Smith turned in a stellar
performance for the West

Van team in their losing

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