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16 - Wednesday, October 16, 1991 - North Shore News

SPORTS BRIEFS

Local badminton aces
head for Mexico

HOLLYBURN COUNTRY Club
badminton players Nancy Reid
and Allison Rice will be repre-
senting Canada at the Pan Ameri-
can Junior Badminton Champion-
ships. The event will be held in
Mexico City, Oct. 21-25.

The pair will be the only repre-
sentatives from Canadian among
players from the U.S., Jamaica,
Peru, Guatemala and Mexico.

Reid is currently ranked in the
top four in the girls’ singles event

in the under-16 age category, and
Rice is the Canadian nationat
singles charapion in her age
group.

Hollyburn head pro Zip
Dhanani will accompany the pair
to Mexico where the girls will
compete in the under-16 and
under-i8 age categories.

Dhanani said that playing in
Mexico will be a new experience
for the girls; they will have to get
used to breathing the thin air
because of the high altitude.

West Van brothers
place first in chess

WEST VANCOUVER chess
Players Sherwin and Shahin Nabi
won first place finishes at the
B.C. Junior Chess Championships
held recently at Park Royal.

Sherwia, 17, placed first in the

” 1972 and under age group and will

be travelling. to Ottawa in
December for the Canadian
Junior Championships. Sherwin is
a sciences student at University of

- B.C.

Younger brother “Shahin, a
Grade § Ridgeview student,
finished first in the 198!- and

, : under age group.

_SHAHIN NABI of West Van

‘concentrates on his chess
game.

Shandro places 9th

_in bike championship

the fourth fastest North American
to complete the technical course.

NORTH VANCOUVER’S - Aa-
drew Shandro: finished ninth in

the World. Mountain Bike Cham- —
pionships in Lucca,’ Italy, earlier
‘this month.

Despite a fall on the cCownhill :
course, Shandro, 20, proved to be |

In the cross-country event of

:the _ world. championship, - Kris
Oetter of North Vancouver. fi nish-

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

THE THANKSGIVING long weekend saw 92 teams with players
aged rine to 18 compete in the three-day North Shore Girls’
Soccer Tournament held at Ambleside Park, Loutet Park and
inter-River fields. Pictured here, a North ! Shore Hawks player
(right} vies with a player from the Seattie Vedettes for the ball
during an under-11 game Saturday at Ambleside. Sponsored
by the North Shore News, the tournament was Ros? to teams
from Washington, Alberta, Vancouver island, the Interior and

the Lower Mainland.

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

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