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CAPILANO COLLEGE Blues player Rod Schenoni (left) was named most valuable player for B.C. Colieges Soccer League as the North Vancouver
team blanked Ahunstic of Montreal 6-0 in the Canadian College Athletic Association men’s soccer final this weekend.

CAPILANO COLLEGE

Men's soccer Blues win
Canadian championship

RAYMOND PANG scored in the first minute as Capilano
College Blues went on to destroy Ahunstic College of
Quebec 6-0 in the Canadian College Athletic Association
men’s soccer final on Saturday.

Capilano’s winning goal resulted
from a free-kick just outside the
box from Stefano Mattarollo,
headed into an open net by de-
fender Pang.

‘*We have a set play where I’m
the first to run along the box after
a free-kick,’’ said Pang, ‘‘then all 1
have to do is jump up and head the
ball in. They were fairly slack in
covering me, I was sure surpris-
ed.”’

There was no looking back as
the Blues went on to score five
more times on goals from Jason
Charles, Rod Schenoni, Adrian
Collery and two from Rob Reed.

Reed, who plays for the Edmon-
ton Brickmen of the Canadian
Soccer League, had an outstanding
playoff and was named MVP.

Back-up goalkeeper Brad Baker
of Capilano got the shut-out as he
was forced to play in the final.
Starting keeper Karim Tejani sat
out as a result of a red card he
received in the playoff semi-final.

Ahunstic fielded a_ talented
group of players; however, they
played as individuals, not as a
team.

“They did not adjust their
game," said third-year assistant

coach Vince Alvano, ‘‘there was
no way they were going to beat us
going into the middle. Their game
was dependent on a couple of good
players getting loose.’’

Friday, Capilano blasted the
North Alberta Institute of Techno-
logy 4-0 in the semi-finals.

Jason Bermudez, Mario Mon-
tagliani, Jason Charles and Rob
Reed did the damage for Capilano
all in the first-half.

Once again the Blues stuck to
their game-plan, not allowing the
opposition any chances to score.

‘SAIl season our ability to recov-
er from mistakes has been one of
our strong points,’’ said Blues
caach Joe lacobellis, ‘teven Satur-
day we weren’t flawless, our team
listens to and respects our coaching
staff, then adjusts their game.

“The players have to be good
friends and trust each other. They
will cover for each other if some-
body is out of position, and they
won’t point fingers afterwards.”’

It was the first Canadian cham-
pionship for Capilano after being
in the Nationals for three of the
past five years.

The year did not start out well

for Capilano however, losing all
their pre-season games.

lacobellis and Alvano made
some changes to their back-field
and especially tried to instill con-
fidence in their squad.

“We were worried our players
would lack confidence; we both
knew they had the talent to win it
all,” said lacobellis.

‘sl think our greatest ac-
complishment was that we really
improved so much; higher quality
players have a much more difficult
time improving their game.”’

The CCAA All-Tournament
Team players named from B.C.
were: Reed, Pang, Eamonn Ward
and Rod Schenoni from Capilano
and Kevin Hgoper and Pat Rhode
from Malaspina.

The final seemed somewhat an-
ti-climactic compared wiih ike bat-
tle Capilano had with BCIT to
determine who would go on to the
Nationals.

Both teams went undefeated in
the British Columbia Athletic
Association regular season, playing
to a 1-1 tie a month ago, but it was
Capilano who came out ahead of a
1-0 score last week in the BCCAA
final.

Capilano scored 15 gvals and
allowed none in the CCAA Tour-
nament. Rod Schenoni was voted
MVP for the 1988 BCCAA regular
season.

29 ~ Wednesday, November 16, 1988 - North Shore News

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Soccer Pipers
remain unbeaten

ARGYLE PIPERS and Carson
Graham Eagles played in the 16-
team B.C. high school boys’ soccer
championships over the weekend
at Surrey’s Newton Park complex.

Argyle, ranked in the B.C. top
ten all season, is unbeaten in nine
league and playoff games this
season.

Carson Graham, who won a
backdoor playoff to the B.C.’s,
has lost only twice in 11 games.

Sentinel Spartans lead the North
Shore contingent into the B.C.

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high school swimming and diving
championships Friday and Satur-
day at UBC.

The Spartans won the 37-event
North Shore and Burnaby-New
Westminster meet at the North
Vancouver Recreation Centre by
piling up 146 points in girls’ com-
petition and 132 in boys’ — the
most of any school in either cate-
gory — for a total of 278.

Carson Graham’s Leila Hopkin,
Sabina Thomson, Jason Thomsen
and Bruce Heidecker broke the
200m mixed ‘‘B’’ freestyle relay
record with a time of 1:58:91,
eclipsing the mark of 1:59.5 set by

Photo submitted Sentinel in 1977.

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