SADMINTON... Capitano
College finished fourth at
the B.C. College Badminton
Championships earlier this
month at the North Van col-
lege’s Sportsplex.

The Blues managed to
win only one of their five
matches, but finished ahead
of both Douglas College
and UCC in points.

The Malaspina Coilege os

squad was perfect as they
won all five of their match-
es en route to the provincial
title. BCIT was second.

' FIELD HOCKEY... West
Vancouver Secondary
. senior girls’ team won the
' bronze medal at last week-
end's B.C. triple-A Field
Hockey Championships in
Vancouver.

The Highlanders went 3. |
1-1 during the provincial
tournament, including a 1-0

overtime win against Oak ;

; Bay Secondary in the
bronze medal game.
West Van's only loss was
i a 2-1 semi-final defeat to
Cowichan Sr, Secondary,
the eventual] tournament
champions.
i North Vancouver's
Argyle Secondary finished
11th in the 16-team tourna-
ment.

FIGURE = SKATING...
Two members of Hollyburn
Country Club won gold
medals at the recent B.C.
Section : Figure Skating
Championships in Powell
River.

Nicole: Kafka. claimed
the Novice Ladies’ gold.
while Ashley Szabo took
- first in Juvenile Ladies.

Kaffka’s result qualifies
her for. the Western
Canadian Figure Skating
Championships in Medicine
Hat tater this month. ~

WHO TO CALL:

Sports Editor

Andrew McCredie

985-2131 (147)

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

A MEMBER of the Burnaby Selects (right) contests the ball with two Chinese Wu Pei provincial
soccer team players during a recent exhibition match at Kinsmen Field ir in North Vancouver. The
visiting Chinese side beat the under-23 Burnaby squad 10-2.

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the
spectator

CHRISTMAS IS just over
five weeks away and, if
Santa’s in the mood, soccer
and rugby would like him to
drop upon them an intimate
little stadium in which to
play their games.

Intimate, that is. in comparison
with the big downtown teflon-cov-
ered mushroom, its plastic playing
surface and its 60,000 seats. All they
need is a place with 20.000 to
25,000 pews. a roof to keep the cus-
tomers dry and a real grass field.
They do not need, nor would they
want, an eight-lane running track to
distance the fans from the action.

Of course, what we're talking
here is pure fantasy. And that’s
because — no. no, no. Virginia —
there isn’t.a Santa Claus. Nora
large. profitable corporation just
busting to spend some of its profits
on the building of a national stadi-
um for these two sports.

Were the money available,
Greater Vancouver would be the
only logical place to locate such a
facility because the bulk of the play-

~ ers on Canada’s national soccer and

rugby teams come trom this little
corner of southwest B.C.
As it is new, the area that pro-

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duces most of the players and has
the most fan interest, must stand
aside and see all the big internation-
al matches go elsewhere in Canada
because we don't have a playpen
with sufficient seating to cover the
cost of bringing in the best.

See F lights page 15

Capilano
women
national
champs

CAPILANO COLLEGE
women’s soccer team won
their first-ever National -
Championship in convincing
fashion last. weekend. i
Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Outscoring their opponents 11-
2 over three games — including a
5-1! defeat of University College
of the Cariboo in the tournament
final — the Lady Blues dominated
their competition despite freezing
temperatures and frozen pitches.

Indeed. the secret to the North
Vancouver College's
could well have been coach Doug

_ Abercrombie’s decision to forego

movement-restricting ‘long -johns
in favor of smearing his players i in
Vaseline.

“We came out ready for the
weather and dominated the first 27
minutes.” said Abercrombie. fol- ...
lowing Capilano’s.4-1. win over.”
the host Medicine Hat. College

‘Lady Rattles (a game played in -

10°C weather. and four inches. of
snow).
Lady Blue Michelle Artuso

was named tournament MVP and | °

selected to the All-Tournament -
squad, as were her teammates
Melissa © Artuso. | Manuela
Gazzola and Lynn Westerman.

. — Andrew McCredie

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