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NORTH Van's Rishan Kuruppu hopas to follow in the
feotsteps of North Shore Winter Club product Grant
Connell: Kuruppu, 13, was among the top-16 at the
recant Canadian Junior Championships.

_Kuruppu a bright, young star
HE is’ currently among
the top six under-14 boy
tennis players in the
Pacific Northwest, but
‘Rishan Kuruppu has his
sights set higher.

of competitive tennis and
teach the world stage.

In addition to qualifying
for the recent Canadian Corel
Junior tennis nationals — he
finished in the top-16 —
Kuruppu won the boys’ U-14
singles’ and doubles’ titles at
the B.C. Junior hardcourt
championships. He added the
U-14 singles crown and the
U-14 doubles’ runner-up
crown from the Coquicam
Junior Open.

Closer to home, Kuruppu
defended his U-14 doubles’
title ‘at the recent Hollyburn
junior Classic.

The 13-year-old Windsor
high school student is wrap-
ping up the most successtul
summer of his young career.

And like Grant Connell,
the most successful tennis
player ever to come out of the
North: Shore Winter Club,
Kuruppu hopes to progres-

‘esively rise through the ranks

Moody wins two
“golds at nationals

final, Mocdy
favorites Shannon
Shakespeare and — Laura
Nichols as she blazed to a new
B.C. record with a time of
26.26 seconds. She beat the
previous mark (which was
hers) of 26.45.

Otter swimmer Ryan
Laurin also fared well at the
nationals as the 1996 national
short course champion fin-
ished fourth in the men’s 50-
metre freestyle.

WEST Vancouver Otter swim beat out
club member Andrea Moody

aewvon two gold medals at the
Maratime Life Summer
Nationals.

The 18-year-old
Olympian, fresh from a
Canadian record-setting per-
formance in Atlanta in the
women’s. 4X100 relay, won
‘the 50-metre freestyle in both

““’he junior and senior divi-
sions.

In the. senior 50-metre

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lack Sox camp opens Monday

THE North Shore Black Sox Baseball
Club is holding a baseball camp from
Aug. «5-28, at InterRiver in North
Jancouver tor boys aged 13 to 17,

In addition to the Club coaches, the
camp will feature guest coaches Marty
Lehn and Colin Dixon (owner/opera-
tors of The Dugout baseball coaching
facility). Lehn is a former Southeastern

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Louisiana University player and coach
and is currently the BC Selects and
Canada Games coach, while Dixon was a
2nd team All-American as Southeastern
Louisiana University and until recently
played triple-A ball in the Colorado
Rockies’ farm system.

The Black Sox will be expanding
from one to three teams for the 1997

season, The 1996 team played 58 games
at the Bantam Level ( bays aged 13 and
14) in BC Minor and) succeeded in
reaching othe = doubleA BC,
Championships in. Vernon where they
finished with a 2-2 record. The overall
season record was 33-23-2,

For more details and registration info
call 988-6919 or 985-8009,

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