30 - North Shore News -— Wednesday, February 2, 2000 SATO CUP HI SATURDAY AT CAP For more subdued cumbat. the second annua! Karate Bo- sanctioned Sato Cup invitational Karate Tournament goes Saturday at Capilano Coltege’s SportsPlex. Action begins at 9 a.m. The event draws karate athletes from around B.C . Washington and Oregon. Tickets are $5. For information, cal the Unison Way dojo at 988-0082. LOCALS DEBUT AT EMERALD GLOVES North Snore’s Paut Meija and Ryan Egilitis are debuting at the B.C. Emerald Gloves Boxing Tournament. The Friday and Saturday night extravaganza at the Fraternal Order of =agles’ hail at 170 West Third Avenue in North Vancouver feutures at leact two dozen boxers from 14 B.C. cht. outs begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. Call 435-7792 for information. no longer enough DO you get the impression, as your agent does, that among the monied set in pro sport these days, millionaires now rate as paupers; that at the ownership end only billionaires need apply? Certainly Orca Bay’s sale last week of the basketball Grizzlies to a certified bil- lionaire from Chicago for $160-million cash would indicate as much. And the fact that the Grizz were sold by one American (John McCaw) to another | American (Michael Heisley) suggests Vancouver has a critical shortage of billion- aires. Whether this is a critical shortage: of super money- bags in general, or merely super moneybags just raring to go on a pro sports own- “ership ego trip, your agent does not know. He does not normally travel in such financially exalted company. The only time in the past year was at a function where the city’s only billionaire of ‘record, Jimmy Pattison, : happened to be present. Your agent asked if, in his opinion, the Orca Bay oper- ation could ever make busi- ness sense. Only, he sug- gested, if it could be folded into a very large telecom- munications company. This has-not yet happened and now the Grizzlies no longer are part of the package. indeed, mere million- aires, multi or otherwise, are beyond your agent’s purview. David Braley of ‘Hamilton, Ont., who owns the football Lions and the soccer Eighty-Sixers, is said to be one of them. His name goes into the local sports ownership hopper just to illustrate the fact that alt four of our pro sports franchises are owned by people who live elsewhere. Does this mean that the monied set in-this city has (a) no faith or (b) no inier- est in the future of pro sport here? Or (¢) recog- Sze Devalued next page Bob Mackin Sports Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com CHENA Swim Club celebrated Groundhog Day early by winning their fourth annual Groundhog Swim Meet at William Griffin Pool. Chena garnered 487 points to top the J0 teams at the meet. The Pacific Sea Wolves were runners-up with 465 points. The club’s Lonsdale group won 65 medal (25 gold, 22 silver and 18 bronze.). Chena’s Robert Miller and Courtney Jelinek qualified to join Bree Beveridge, Andrea Donohoe, and Ronald Chung in Kamloops February 18-20 for the junior national swim championships. + Jelinek won gold in the 100 m freestyle and 50 m freestyle; silver in the 200 m individual medley, and bronze in the open 800 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke and 200 m buttertly. Miguel Iriondo (1,500 m freestyle) and Adriana Briceno (800 m.and 200 m freestyle) qualified for the AAA champi- onships March 2-5 in Surrey. Kamiah Mulvihill, won berths in three events for the AA championships nwo weeks from now in Nanaimo. Mulvihill will be joined by Nancy Nguyen. j Gapl Premier side loses; Firsts win Bob Mackin Sports Reporter bmackin@nsnews.com RUGBY returned to the North Shore Saturday and Capilano players couldn’t have asked for better weath- er to end the mid-season break. The club’s first and second divi- sion teams won their games, com- pensating for carlier losses by the women’s and third squads. The 2000 edition of Capilano rugby Bot underway when the women’s team “Licked off against James Bay RFC from Vancouver Island at Hamilton field. The James Bay side went home with a 29-0 vic- tory, leaving Capilano with a 4-5 record, Burnaby RFC scored a 42-13 win over Capilsno’s third division team in the first game of the day at Klahanie Park. Like their sisters on the women’s team, the thirds fell one game below .500 to 5-6. The Capilano second division tea began its second half schedule with a 24-8 win over Burnaby for their second win in seven games. The first division side was up 25-0 at halftime and coast- ed to a 39-14 win, improving to §-2. Burnaby RFC, however, had the last laugh of the day by winning the Premier league match 22-3. Visiting kicker Andrew Eckert dominated the match. He missed his first penalty kick at goal when he hiz the post, which gave Capilano’s Steve Eastman the opportuni- ty to take an early lead with a successful three-pointer. Burnaby’s drop — goal attempt was wide, but Eckert tied the game at 3-3 at the half. Eckert put Burnaby ahead with a penalty kick at Boal from near the centre of the field. The teams waded missed ‘penalty kicks until penalties cost Capilano six points. Eckert made another kick before Burnaby’s Tyler James scored the only try of the game. Eckert had another two convert oints and a three-point penalty ick. On Saturday the Cap women’s team goes on the road to Nanaimo. NEWS photo Cindy Goodman CHENA Swim Club’s Courtney Jelinek was third in the women's open 800 metre freestyie race at iast week-_ end’s Groundhog Swim Meet in North Vancouver's Wiliiam Griffin Pool. Jelinek, 14, swam the race in nine. minutes, 50.72 seconds and was behind 17-year-old teammate Andres Donohoe and 12-year-old winner Anne Schmuck of the Pacific Sea Wolves. lano RFC enjo NEWS photo Paul McGrath STUART Wright of the Capilano Rugby Football Club received the bail while being pursued by Burnaby’s Andrew Eckert. Eckert led Burnaby to a 22-3 win at Klahanie Park Saturday in the first Premier game of 2000. Another quartet of. men’s matches will be played at Mahanie. The - headliner is a Premier meeting — between Capilano and Scattie at. 2:30 p.m. :