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FIGURE SKATING

SKATING THEIR way to fame are North Shore Winter Club figure skaters Jodi Barnes and Rob Williams.
The pair recently won the senior pairs title at the B.C. Sectional figure skating championships.

MEN’S SOCCER

CHAMPIONSHIPS

NEWS photo Mike Wakatield

Goldcaps crush Candia

AN AGRESSIVE game played by members of Olym-
pia Goldcaps resulted in a 6-0 win over Candia
DeVerna in recent local Men’s Coaches’ soccer league
action.

Molsons also played a tough game blanking Park
Royal Hotel 4-0. In other play, Lynnwood Nordic
defeated Swan Lager 4-2, with OK Tire and Avalon
Rangers ending in a 0-0 draw, and the Coach House
Hotspurs and Foster’s Pacific in a 2-2 tie.

The weekend before team members played agressive
games which resulted in five shut-outs over the
weekend.

Lynnwood Nordic began the streak with a 4-0 win
over Foster’s Pacific. Avalon Rangers followed
defeating Swan Lager 3-0. Norvan kept up the beating
with a 2-0 win over Molsons.

Coach House Hotspurs clinched the game with a
4-0 shut-out over Candia DeVerna. Olympia Goldcaps
meanwhile blanked Park Royal Hotel 1-0.

In other soccer action, Mt. Seymour Ravens’ An-
drew Wilton's late goal coupled with Colin Briezly's
outstanding goal deflated OK Tire’s hopes for victory,
with a 1-! draw. Pemberton Station edged out F.C.
Germania by a significant margin of 6-1

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Local duo wins top B.C. title

NORTH SHORE Winter Club figure skaters Jodi Barnes
and Rob Williams have won the senior pairs title at the re-
cent British Columbia sectional figure skating champion-

ships in Richmond.

The win sends the pair to the
Western Canadian figure skating
championships in New
Westminster next month. If suc-
cessful there, they will have a
chance to compete for the national
charmpionship figure skating title
in Quebec in February.

Barnes and Williams are cousins
who have skated together for the
past eight years and have plenty of
medals to show for it.

For the last five years the pair
have skated at the Canadian na-
tional figure skating champion-
ships as novice and junior com-

petitors.
The routine that won them a
new title in Richmond — a short

2% minute program and a longer 4
minute routine set to Romanian
music — was the most challenging
performance they have given in
their eight years together.

“It was the hardest routine we've
done yet,’’ said Barnes. ‘‘It was
intricate and involved a lot of
footwork. You don’t usually see
that in pairs.”"

Figure skater Tanya Bingert,

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By EVELYN JACOB
News Reporter

also of the NSWC, won the senior
women’s title.

Barnes and Williams work with
Vancouver choreographer John
Thomas.

Williams, #8, studies Grade 12
by correspondence and Barnes, 17,
attends a special program for
athletes at Sentinel School in West
Vancouver.

The program, initiated by a
former Sentinel principal named
Doug Player, allows students to
take advantage of a _ half-day
timetable.

About 10 per cent of Sentinel’s
students are enrolled in the pro-
gram including super-achieving
skiers, skaters, gymmasts, swim-
mers and tennis players.

And to those who would call
working out daily with a family
member unusual, Barnes has her
own explanation: ‘‘Skating with
your cousin is original. It makes us
like brother and sister.”’