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Moore's rink goes for gold

AT THE 1985 Canadian
Ladies’. Curling Champion-
ships, after recently winning
the B.C. Ladies Curling
Championships, North Van-
couver’s Linda Moore is
feeling pretty confident.

| By BARRETT FISHER

. In an interview with the
News before she left, Moore
said, ‘‘We’re mentally ready;
we’ve been there before; and
we know what to expect.”
“I’m pretty competitive,”
she continued, “‘but at this
level: of curling, you're ex-
pected to be competitive and

"intense on the ice, but not
. necessarily so off the ice.”

Moore, 31, has curled
since she was 33, the mini-
mum. age allowed to par-
ticipate in the sport. Since
her family belonged to the
North Shore Winter Club,
she says she tried every sport
there, and .though it took a
few..years before she really
got: inyolved in curling, by
1971, a 16-year-old Moore

basketball teary, are. poised

; P
. Suampionships and-when the

dust ‘settles any of the: five
could. -wind up with” the
honor.

Four’ of the- fi ive teams”

“fave made appearances in
-the-provincial top 10 rank."
~ ings: throughout "the: season.~
“ci and ‘only one of them’ will:

get beyond.the Howe Sound”:

» tournament” and. into next.
month’s provincials.

: The.-tournament is being -

HE FINALS of the B.C.

Section’ Precision ‘Skating

‘ championships ° wrap up to- ~

‘day at-the PNE Agrodome,
with at least one North Van-
couver ‘teams strongly in the

. > Tunning for the right to go to
.the-national finals.

Twenty-five teams, com-
prising *600° skaters, com-
peted: throughout the: day

mu yesterday.

North Shore hopes are be-
ing” -pinned on- the junior

. team, winner of the provin-

cial championships last year.
‘The Vancouver meet is be-
ing hosted by the Vancouver

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was runner up in the B.C.
Junior Girl's finals.

‘“*! naturally gained more
interest with success,’’ she
said with a smile. In '72 her
team won the B.C. Champi-
onships and placed third in
the Canadians, and in °74,
she played for UBC and won
the B.C. Championships
again, placing second in the
Canadians.

Moore then tock a year
off curling, and when she
returned found her team
didn’t place for about three
years. But parallel to this
time, Lindsay Sparkes, also
a North Vancouver girl, was
making headlines by winning
the 1976 and °79 Canadian
Championships.

Sparkes’ team retired after
the ’79 win, so in °81 Moore
and Sparkes teamed up, and
the two are still together,
making up the North Van
Rec Centre team with Deb-
bie Jones and Laurie
Carney, who will be the B.C.
representatives at the 1985
Canadian Scott Tournament

owe. Sound

, FIVE “AREA “high | school

held at Windsor Secondary
School in North’ Vancouver
Monday .through Friday, if

~ “all games are needed. :
The two teams. to watch

will be the host Windsor

Dukes, whose 31-2 season -
“record earned
place in league play, and,
runner-up Hillside"
‘Highwaymen who - finished
- at 12-3. Both teams have -
been on the Top. Ten list -
throughout : the high. school .

basketball season.

. Windsor, defending
champions “from the. zone,
‘have.four of their starters

“back from that team and
“two of them .—
-{ Brinham and Tom Schimmer-

— have ‘averaged almost 20°.
- points a: game. throughout
‘the season,

. Jason

Their toughest competi-

tion is likely.:to.come from’

Hillside, fifth’ place. finishers
in Provincial “competition

them .- first:

~ season works out

of Hearts which began in Win-
nipeg February 23.

Jones plays
Carney plays

second,
lead and

Moore and Sparkes take
turns playing skip and third,
with Moore playing skip this

LINDA MOORE
year. As skip, she calls the
shots, directs the game and
team, and throws the fast
two rocks. ‘It’s not a more
important position,’? she

said, “but a lot more deli-

cate, finesse shots’ are re-
quired. There's a lot. more
pressure at the end of the
game.”"

up for

last year. They're led by a-

grade eleven stand-out, Col-
in Dixon,. who is averaging
22.5 points a game.

‘Tough competition is ex-
pected from the third and
four place ‘teams, Carson
Graham. Eagles and Argyle

’ Pipers. -.

-Carson Graham finished
the season with an 11-5 re-

- cord but they have a major

threat in Paul Simmons,
whose 402 points during the
to a
league-leading 26.8 points-
per-game average. ~

. The Pipers finished just.
back of Carson Graham at.-
10-5, but finished the season’

strongly. Either team could
make things difficult for the
top two.

Fifth and final

spot had not been determin-
ed to presstime with the
“Sutherland Sabres, and the
_ Handsworth Royals,

‘each

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Moore enjoys curling
because of the team effort,
and says ‘‘everyone is equal-
ly important. It’s vital in a
team to have confidence and
communication. And the
sportsmanship is important.
After the game, no one cares
about who won or Jost."

At the level of competition
Moore. is at, she says the
curling is quite a commit-
ment of time, and with
bonspiels many of her

‘weekends are taken up, and

10 days will be spent at the
Nationals. Since she’s mar-
ried, one might think’ that
would be a stress on the
relationship, but Moore

says, ‘Allan is a competitive .

curler as well with the Super
League at the Vancouver
Curling Club. We can em-
pathize with each other.
Moore majored: in Home
Economics at UBC and
taught at schools in Burnaby
and at Sutherland. in North
Van on a part-time basis un-
til 1983. This year she’s tak-
ing her Masters of Business.

grabs

‘with only three‘wins in 15
outings, battling it out for

that playoff berth...

While neither team is ex-
pected to have a major im-
pact onthe tournament,
either is capable of solid
play. .

Of she. }
>, HELPS!

27 - Sunday, February 24, 1985 - North Shore News

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