ust 10, 1994 - North Shore News SIDELINES MASTER ATHLETICS... Hans Weickardt won gold medals in the 800m and 1,500m events at the Masters’ Pan-Am Gamés in Edmonton last weekend. The North Vancouver resi- dent, fighting a hamstring problem that kept him from competing last year, finished third in the 100m sprint, com- pleting the distance in 18.82 seconds. The North Vancouver mas- ter athlete, competing in the 80-84 age group, set a world record in the master mile at the Harry Jerome Classic in May with a time of 7:16.16 minutes. Weickardt will be representing the North Shore at the B.C. Seniors’ Games in September in Prince George. TRAIL RUNNING... North Shore endurance runner Brian Van Oene set a new Canadian record at the White River 50- Mile Trail Run in Washington State as he finished an impres- sive sixth overall in a time of eight hours. 49 minutes and 22 seconds. -Another local runner, Divna Krgovich, competing in just her second ultra run fin- ished first for her age group and second in the women’s overall competition with a time of nine hours and 59 min- utes. Enzo Federico, the orga- nizing force behind the North Shore’s Knee-Knackering ultra trail-run, ran the course as a pace-setter and crossed the line with Krgovich. COACH OF THE WEEK TYSON DAVIS COACHING IS something that just comes naturally to 23-year-old Tyson Davis. Davis and his North Shore Seyeaps returned recently from the B.C. Games with a well-earned sil- ver medal in the midget (15- and 16-year-olds) lacrosse competition, “Last year we only won a few games, but this year we just seemed to click.” remarked Davis recently, adding that the lacrosse team consists of “a bunch of gooly characters.” Goofy or not, the Seycaps placed added a third-place finish at the provincial championships to go with their B.C. Games’ silver. Davis will be attending Capilano College in September. He also coaches hockey in the winter, ynn Valley teams struggling THE CHANCES of Lynn Valley’s Junior Little League . team (13-year-olds) repeating as Canadian champs dimin- ished considerably after a 9-8 loss to Valleyfield, Quebec, last Saturday and a 12-4 defeat at the bats White Rock/South Surrey on Sunday night. By Kevin Gillies Contributing Writer The latter game was called duc to darkness after 5% innings. The losses left the defending champs, 0-2, in last place behind Ontario, Quebec, the Prairies and Maritimes, ali at 1-1. White Rock, the B.C. champions, moved into sole possession of first with a tecord of 2-0. But Lynn Valley coach Eden Briscoe is upbeat his team can still make the final if they win, their three remaining games and get some help from another team. (To press time, scores were unavailable for games played Monday and Tuesday.) Briscoe also expressed concerns that his team was giving up too many runs with two outs. Against White Rock, Lynn Valley gave up two in the first and three in the second— with two outs in cach inning. But the boys in orange stormed back in the fourth. Catcher Brian Briscoe hit a stand-up double on the inning’s first pitch and shortstop Clinton Hosford followed by crunching one to the wali in left-centre ficld to bring in the team’s first run. But Hosford was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple. With two out, Drew Sickenger drew a walk and Scott Carison hit a Texas-leaguer down the first base line. Shawn Layton singled in Langley’s lads win nationals CAPILANO COLLEGE mens’ coach Phil Langley added another feather to his coaching hat as his under-19 provincial team picked up the gold medal at the National Under-19 tournament in Waterloo, Ontario. Langley’s squad of eight college and four high school players from across B.C. recorded a perfect 6-0 at the tournament, featuring some of the best young basketball play- ers in the country. Capilano College guard Gerald Cele was the sole North Shore player on the squitd. Eo route to the national title, B.C. defeated PLE.L.. Nova Scotia, Manitoba. and Ontario in reund- robin play before disposing of Quebee in the semis and Ontario (85-71) in the finals. Previous to coaching at the North Shore, Langley was die head coach of the junior national team, and previous to that was the head coach of the Windsor high school dynasty. He is currently a guidance counselor at North Vancouver sec- ondary school. Sickenger and Cam Janz hit an infield single to load the bases. Spencer Barnard’s single brought in another run and kept the bases loaded for Lloyd Haggard, whose grounder went off of White Rock shortstop Ryan Samson’s shoulder to bring in another before Janz was thrown out at the plate to end the inning. Lynn Valley was back in it with the score 5-4. However, the Lynn Valley comeback was killed when White Rock scored another two in the bot- tom of the fourth and another four in the bottom of the fifth to put the game away. In the tournament's opener on Saturday — a rematch of last year's Canadian final — Valleyfield, Quebec, defeated Lynn Valicy 9-8 despite being outhit 14- 10. . With haif of their hits coming in the first inning. Valleyfield jumped out to a 5-1 lead after thre first frame. The Quebee team then scored two unearned runs in the second before Hosford and Blake Anderson each drove in a run in the top of the fifth to make the score 7-3. Quebec, however, kept pace, scoring another two in the bottom of the fifth to make it 9-3. After Lynn Valley scored anoth- er run in the sixth, the bases were loaded for Haggard who dropped one in the left field corner for an inside-the-park home run to close the gap to 9-8. Haggard, pitching in the bottom half of the inning, then walked two to load the bases before striking out Quebec catcher Eric Pregent to retire the side without any runs being scored. But Quebec shut Lynn Valley down in the top of the seventh, stranding runners on second and third to win the game. ° The round-robin tournament has teams playing each other once. The two teams with the best records will mect in the final on Saturday. Lynn Valley’s 11- and 12-year- old team are in Calgary trying to repeat as Canada's representative at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. However, after losing their first game to Sherbrooke, Quebec 6-2 on Saturday, the boys from the Valley were beaten 5-1 by Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. on Sunday. In the loss to Quebec, David Borys doubled, Roger Legatt sin- gled and Erik Heck doubled to combine for the two Lynn Valley runs. Gerald Goch-Koldyk and Cody Swanborough shared the pitching duties. . On Sunday, Michael Winstanley hit a solo home run for the team’s only score. Lynn Valley takes on host team Calgary tonight at 5 p.m. (local time). NEWS photo Cindy Gocdman CHRIS COLBECK manoeuvres his mountain bike over some rough terrain during the Cruel Dual Duathion on Grouse Mountain last week. The rider won the 12-kilometre bike leg, but fin- ished sixth in the four-kilometre run, placing him third overall in the competitive division.