HEWS choto Cindy Goodman ,

KOKANEE ALL-STAR Paul Livgard squeezes through a hote between Sailor Hagar’s Norsemen, as Rob
Christie goes for a tumble. The All-Stars won the semi-final game 29-8 before going on to win the final of
the North Shore Senior Men's Top-Flight Flag Football League.

Kokanees clinch finals

AFTER A see-saw battle, the
Kokanee All-Stars edged the
Unicorn Gamecocks 24-18 to
win the league final of North
Shore Senior Men’s Top-Flight
Flag Footoail.

The All-Stars took an early
lead but were unable to capital-
ize on many goal-line oppor-
tunities. Meanwhile, the

Gamecocks came back to lead
the game by one point with
minutes to play.

Then Kokance kicked a
single point on the fast play of
regulation time to send the
game into overtime.

Again Kokanee took a quick
lead but this time held the
Gamecocks at bay.

Jeyaseelan
fights Fought

RICHNIOND OPEN FINALS

EXPERIENCE WAS no match for youth this weekend as

14-year-old
Fought, 26, of West

tennis ace Sonya Jeyaseelan downed Susie
Vancouver - 6-3,

1-6, 7-5 in the

women’s singles final of the Richmond Open.

Coming off a three-week break
from tournaments, North Van-
couver's Jeyaseelan said the final
was (ough but she was prepared
for Fought, who holds the Cana-
dian mother-daughter Remington

SONYA JEYASEELAN, taking 3
brevk from Florida academy.

tithe with

Family Championship
hee mother, Pam Hunter,

“Actually | beat her uvice al-
ready so mentally PE knew Pd al-
ready beat her,’’ said the petite
85-pound player.

Jeyaseelan was in) Vancouver
for a two-week break from ihe
Nick Bolletieri Academy in
Florida where she is training ona
full scholarship.

The tennis centre, which pro
duced players such as beench
Open winner Monica Seles and ti-
nalist’’ Andre Agassiz, is credited
with finding aid developing atuch
of the world’s cennis talent.

Jayasecelan said she is improving
ilaily at the academy.

Kokanee quarterback Gord
Penn had an impressive game
as did Kokanee defence with
five interceptions for the day.

In the semi-finals also played
Sunday at Carson Graham, the
All-Stars thumped Sailor
Hagar’s Norsemen 29-8 while
the Gamecocks doused the
Classic Blues 43-20.

THE BATTER t

sto steal abuse as the Giunts (white j

17 - Wednesday, June 27, 1990

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hockey player
19-YEAR-OLD SUMNER WAS
CHOSEN IN THE 10TH ROUND

ROB SUMNER may be speaking through clenched teeth

these days but he’s smiling.

The clenched teeth are a result
of a broken jaw wired shut after a
lacrosse injury, the smile a result
of being drafted by the Calgary
Flames in the 10th round of the
annual National Hockey League
amateur picks.

Now, clearly the top item on
Sumner’s agenda is to mend his
jaw so he can get back to all-out
training in order to impress the
coaches ut training camp in
Calgary this September.

And of course he'd also like to
get back the 1§ pounds he's fost
since the jaw injury, he says in a
telephone interview interspersed
with slurps of a milkshake.

The 6°1 North Vancouver
defenceman is down to 196
pounds fram 210, but hopes to get
the jaw wire off as soon as
humanly possible.

“In other words, on the first
day of the fourth week, ['m get-
ting it right off,”” he says.

Jn the meantime, Sumner, 19, is
weight training and pondering his
prospects for next year.

Calgary, he says, is out.

“Realistically, I won't) make
Calgary but hopefully 11} make

Salt Lake City,”” he says, referring
to the Flames farm team in Utah.

A return to) major junior
hockey for a fourth season with
the Victoria Cougars is obviously
an option Sumner doesn’t want to
contemplate, saying he'd like to
move on.

As captain of the Cougars last
year, Sumner went through trying
times as the team produced one of
the worst records in major junior
hockey history.

But Sumner's positive attitude
(even with a broken jaw), and size
should take the Argyle grad a long
way if the past is anything to go
by.

A product of the North Van-
couver Minor Hockey Associa-
tion, Sumner made the Richmond
Sockeyes at 15 the year the team
won the Centennial Cup.

The next season he was selected
as the Cougars’ rookie of the year
and then the Cougar’s defenceman
of the year for the next two con-
secutive seasons.

NEWS photo Stuart Davis

seys) edged the Braves 9-7 in the squirt final of

the North Shore Softhall Association. The win earus the Giants a berth at the provincial championship in

daly,
Hy

“Pee been mare aggressive. Pin
more attacking and mentally
stronger. Eomean fo just hase to
erew and PM be all right.” she
suid, adding that she now stands
ats’,

In two weeks, Jeyaseelan will be
playing in the Sun Life Nationals

in’ Toromta where Helen Kelesi,
Jil Pleatherington and Carling
Bassett-Seguso will be competing.

Although she wits Knocked out
in the first round there last year,
Jeyaseelan is optimistic about her
chances this year.

“~ have a goed chance to do

well,"" she says.

Her father and former coach,
Reggie Jeyaseclan says Bolletieri is
working with her as a personal
coach and their stay in California
will be indefinite,

“TPexpect to be there for at least
another two years,”* he said.

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