412 — Wednesday, May 34

BASEBALL... North
Vancouver hitting. phenom
Andren Burk logged a
-700 batting average during
the Iith Annual
Renegade/Can-Am _fast-
pitch softball tournament in
White Rock.

The North Vancouver
Rainmakers* second base-
man also displayed some
nifty defence en route to
being selected a first team
all-star al the conclusion of
the Victoria weekend tour-
nament.

RAINMAKERS’ —ALL-'
STAR Andrea Burk.

The Rainmakers are
coached’ by Doug
Pilkington and play as an
A-division rep team in the
North. Vancouver. peewee
league. Andrea is a 13-year-
old” student at Larson
Elementary. a

RUGBY... Carson
‘Graham blanked — St.
George’s 24-0 to finish
third at the triple-A. B.C.
High. School Rugby
Championships at U.B.C.

The highly regarded
Eagles were: grounded on
their title quest in the semis
as they lost to > eventual
champs ‘Semiahmoo 10-6.
Semiahmoo ~*~” beat
Abbotsford). 16-11 in’ the
tille game.

The third-place finish
natched Carson's best-ever
finish at the provincial tour-
nament,

Carson serunv half fan
'. Smortchevsky was nanied
; to the Commissioner's XV
(rugger-speak for a lourna-
{ment all-star team),

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SAILING... Tine Moberg-
Parker finished’ fourth at
the. Spa’ Regatta in
Medemblik, | Netherlands
last Sunday, but the North
Vancouver sailor was far
from pleased with race
+ organizers,

“Hs the worse race Ive
ever been to.” said Moberg-
Parker, who went into the

2 final race’in second place.
- “People are furious. They

put the finish just 20 feet.

from shore to make it more
uppealing to the spectators
but it was crazy. The wind
was offshore. and ‘boats

were going.in all directions“

and some capsized.”

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COLLINGWOOD DOUBLES’ player Negar Elmieh guards the
net during the 1995 8.C, double-A Tennis Championships,
held last Friday at the Grand Boulevard courts in North
Vancouver. The West Vancouver tearn finished an impressive
third in the province, as they defeated Winston Churchill 6-5
in the bronze medal match. The other North Shore school
competing, Windsor, finished seventh with a 6-5 edging of
Lord Byng. The Dukes were also. selected the. Most-
Sportsmantike Team. Victoria's Lambick Park took provinciat
bragging rights with a solid 7-4 win over Penticton in the

championship final.

DAILY, PRIZES |

WHO TO CALL:

Sports Editor
Andrew NicCredia

985-2134 (147) La

key hiatus
bodes changes
Jim
Kea armey

SOME ADVICE fer Canucks
management when the team
goes back (o training camp in
September: toss a cictionury
into the fap of eaeh and every
player and tell him to look up
the meaning of ‘discipline’.

The Canucks might sail be play-

ing Chicago were some members of

the club able to find a better balance
between the muscular and the cere:
bral, Unfortunately, the foriner over-

same the fatter in the area of the
forehead. proving once more the
truth of that old hockey dictum you
cunt win games sitting in the penal-
ty box.

On the whole. the Canucks did a

great job of killing off those penal-
ties Cup until their departure they

. Were the most penalized team in thy

playoffs), but killing off penalties is
not the most constructive way of uti-
lizing the team’s best offensive tal-
ent. ft left them with less energy for
what they were supposed to be
doing — scoring goals.

The proper teams have reached
the Stanley Cup semi-finals.
Philadelphia, New Jersey, Detroit
and Chicago. All four were cither

. divisional winners or runners-np,

and deserve to be the final four. You
will note that the semi-finalists are
all U.S.-based teams. This will be
the first spring-time since 1980 that
no Canada-based team has maue it
as far as the semis.

if you are a flag-waving hockey
nationalist, last week was a bad one
for the old true north strong and
free, A couple of days before
Canada’s last ‘playoff hope. the
Canucks, surrendered, Quebee
Nordiques’ US$75 million sale to
Denver was announced, A quick
change of the plan to put an expan-.

DAILY PLAY 3 APPROXIMATELY 100 vals

spectator

sion team there for the same sum,

The Nordiques’ erstwhile owner,
Marcel Aubut, and not the league;
is now.75 million richer, And it
seems filting, somehow, that the new
Denver rink under construction to
house this NHL refugee from
Quebec is 19 be known as the Pepsi
Centre.

Has it not heen the habit of mii-
lions of Canadians outside Quebec
to refer to French-Canadians as
Pepsis? It has, the reason ef course
being that Quebet is the unly juris-
diction in the western world where
Pepsi outsells Coke.

Quebee City seems to have
shrugged off the loss of its 2am
with a good old-fashioned Gallic
shrug. No big deal. Such maturity is
rare in this country. Such was the
public clamor in Winnipeg --- and
the failure of a Minneapolis buyer to
come up with the purchase price — .
the Jets will remain in town,
Temporarily, at least, ;

The Canucks, of course, are
moving. About five miles from the
PNE grounds to their new luxury

See Canucks page 13.

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