B2 - Wednesday, June 30, 1982 - North Shore News

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Three chosen
for scholarships

OUT OF the 11 outstanding
graduates of youth soccer
chosen by the B.C. Youth
Soccer Association to
receive scholarships
totalling $3,250, three are
from the North Shore.

Gary Coblenz, 18, and
Mark Schmidt, 18, of the
Burdett Soccer Club and

Kevin Colbow, 17, of the
West Vancouver Soccer
Club all received $300

Whitecaps Supporters Club
Scholarships at the BCY SA's
annual general meeting June
12.

Other winners came from
the Fraser Valley,
Kamloops, Burnaby,

Terrace and Vancouver
areas.
The scholarships § are

presented to selected grade
twelve students who are
moving on to post-secondary
education.

More than $13,000 has
been distributed to 40
athletes since the
scholarship program began
in 1973. Of the $3,250
distributed this year, $1,900
came from the Whitecaps
Supporters Club, which
shares BCYSA’s interest in
seeing young soccer players
combine their athletic

North Shore nabs
14 b’ball awards

NEARLY ONE-THIRD of
the scholarships awarded by
the B.C. High School Boys’
Basketball Association went
to North Shore athletes this
year.

Tim Mills of Argyle and
Erik Lockhart of West
Vancouver lead the North
Shore contingent of 14 who
shared $4,650 in award
money with 31 others.

Mills and Lockhart each
received a BCHSBBA award
worth $150.

Mark Marter and Steve
Pawlett of Argyle and Paul
Kitchener of West Van were

endeavours with a solid
education.
awarded $100 BCHSBBA

scholarships.

Nine Howe Sound Zone
scholarships were also
awarded. Receiving the $100
scholarship were Don
Mustard (West Vancouver),
Jason Brown (Argyle) and

Sean Campbell (Carson
Graham).

Recipients of the $50
scholarship were: Victor

Penman (Carson Graham),
Peter Milley (Handsworth),
Ken Wright (Argyle), Jim
Pearce (Handsworth), David
McLean (Carson Graham)
and Geoff Davies (Hand-
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by Andy Fraser

Countering the negatives

It wasn’t a formal Lions function. In fact, it
gave every appearance of being one of the most
informal softball games ever played at Lynn
Valley Park. And it was this informality, this
spontaneity, that made the big challenge game
between some of the B.C. Lions and the young
Babalooey girls team of the Babe Ruth League so

much fun.

The girls and a couple of
the Lions had apparently run
into each other at the local
Dairy Queen the other night
and after a bit of banter back
and forth, a challenge had
been issued and accepted.

Not formal and not of-
ficially requested in writing

_ from the front office. Just an
impromptu challenge and
pick up game by a bunch of
young girls and their coach
and a few rather large and

Cyclist places

MARY HANSEN of North
Vancouver was the highest
placing North Shore cychist
in last weekend's B.C. Road
Championship.

Held in Saanich at Cen-
tennial Park, the mens and
womens races were set on an
11 mile course.

In the women's 70

well known pro _ football
players.

Football often comes in
for a bit of a knock from
both within and without. The
recent horror stories about
the drugs and _ booze
problems coupled with the
oft times exaggerated macho
image the sport holds, all
help to keep the sport
beyond mere people and
into a fantasy world of
created hype.

third

kilometre race, competitors
circled the course four laps.
Hansen was forced into a
sprint finish with Laurel
Zilke of Chilliwack, and
placed third by scant
seconds with a time of
1:58.55. The winner, Verna
Buhler, was only 30 seconds
ahead of the silver and
bronze finishers.

However, after watching,
Joe Paopao, Roy Dewalt,
Larry Keys, Devon Ford and
company cavort around the
basepaths, one is left with a
reassurance that this par-
ticular bunch are “real
people” who obviously enjoy
the kids and what they are
doing.

Spontaneous events like
the Lynn Valley “game” can
do more to counter the other
negative image than any
amount of PR work or
statement from the league
office.

The game will leave a
pretty good impression
among any of the girls who
played or those who stopped
off to watch the fun.
CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE
- Let's hoist one for Labatts.
Their acquisition of the
Canadian rights for the
telecasts has undoubtedly
helped promote the game of
soccer in this country as well
as providing countless hours
of bliss for soccer nuts.

By the time it’s ali over.
we will have seen in excess
of 50 matches, equal to
anything anywhere else in
the world.

And, an interesting by-
product, the CBC French TV
channel is probably

receiving a higher late night
viewing audience than at any
time in their history on the
west coast.

Another plus to the whole
affair has been the com-
mentary of Steve Armitage
and Graham Leggett.
Forgoing the North
American habit of endless
babble, the pair has allowed
the viewer to watch the
game with just enough in-
formation coming across to
keep up with the action. A
joyful and blessed relief.

Perhaps if some of the
thick-heads of the NASL are
taking in the games, they
will start to realize that the
less interference in the way
the game is run, the greater
the success will be — even in
America.

BIG GAME — It could be
one of the best games of the
season Saturday when the
Cosmos come to town.
Always a great nivairy,
feeling should be high with
the Caps trying to avenge
their 3-2 loss in Cosmos

country last Wednesday.

If the team can’t get close
to 30,000 for this one, then
there could be cause to start
worrying.

The Canadian Red Cross Society

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