ISLANDERS BEAT MOUNTAINEERS Curtis Augustus had 22 points for the Richmond All-Stars in a 100- 95 win over North Shore April 18 in exhibition high schoot hoops at Capilano College. Carson Graham's Brent Charleton had 27. He was joined on-couit by: Fred Winters and Hamon Mojahedi (Carson), Morgan Watt, Sean Thistle and Ryan Lee (St. Thomas Aquinas). Behnad Honarbakhsh and Aaron Williams (West Van), Tim Pershick (Argyle), and Sean Campbell and Scott Lawson (Sutherland). Wednesday, April 26, 2000 - North Shora News ~ 29 IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK From the April 27, 1980 News: North Shore Winter Club won bronze at the Canadian midget hockey championships in Cornwall, Ont. 5-1 cver Halifax. Goaltender Dan Moberg had 51 saves and Randy Heath scored twice. Flicka Gymnast Anita _ Botnen won the B.C. junior women’s title. The 14-year-old won the compulsories and the floor routine. She was second on the uneven bars and balance beam. COVERING THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Hockey's goalies | are not ‘players’ WHEN he was back- stopping Montreal Canadiens to five straight Stanley Cups in the 1950s, Jacques Plante probably had the definitive word on how it feels to be a goalie in the NHL. “How would you like it?” he once asked an enquiring >> feporter, “if you were on your job in the office and you made ~ a little mistake. Suddeniy a bright light flashed on and 18,000 people started screaming, ‘Pig! Stupid! Get the bum out of ere!’” Then there was Gump Worsley, a man of sunnier disposi- ~ tion than Plante, who once was asked, what sort of man does it take to play goal? His answer: “Goalies should have hard skulls, quick hands and a skin like a rhinoceros. The hard _ Skulls ‘and quick hands will take care of the flying pucks. The ._ thick skin will defy the slings and arrows of critical coaches and customers.” , : Obviously, Tom Barrasso, the Stanley Cup playoff news- maker last week, has all the tools except thick skin. Even ~ though his Ortawa Senators had just finished beating ‘Toronto ‘Maple Leafs, he lit into Hockey Night in Canada’s Scott Oake when asked atout his performance in two previous losses to - the Leafs “I could really give a s--- what you people have to say,” he snapped at Oake. Obviously he doesn’t have the skin of'a thino, just the temperament. : Tom the Iiascible” might be a suitable nickname for the "17-year vet: When he’s done with hockey, he won’t be taking ‘up.a career in public relations. As once was said about Bert Olmstead, another NHL member of Club Irascible: If he was “the PR man for Santa Claus, there’d be no Christmas. The media landed on him with hobnailed laptops. He may not be likable; even’ among his teammates. But I do think some ‘media guys have gone over the top. After all, goalies are different, as Planté and Worsley testified long ago. cs Even hockey’ ’s rulebook concedes they are different. It lists teams as being made up of players and goalkeepers. So, literal- ly speaking, they are not players, That’s not all that makes “them different. You, too, might become irascible if your rcle in life was to be'a clay "pigeon, a target for hard rubber discs “short at up co:100 miles an hour. : : Barrasso is merely upholding a tradition of irascibility. By all accounts, the greatest goalie who ever lived was Terry -Sawchuk, the all-time leader in wins (447), shutouts (0: 103) ‘and games played (971). Not to mention irascibility. By the ton. '-». "When he first came out of Winnipeg to the Red Wings: at the start of the 1950s, he was a chubby relaxed, good ‘matured kid: But a couple of ye of years later he rey orted t to train- ing camp at 230 poun unds over his playing Soh and an angry Jack ivy nee ordered hirn onto a strict “As he shed weight, his ition began to sour: When he reached 190, something went wrong. He couldn’t stop. Sce Sawchuk following page SPECIAL OFFER | FUCHSIA TREES $9Qo0 ‘f- 10” pots “Name: _——--——__—. Postal Code:_____ Qaly wit with: Postal oe am SSE : HEWS photo Paul CAPILANO winger Akio Tyler (right) scored a try in a 13-7 win over the Brit Lions. Capiiano plays Langley in Saturday's first division bronze medal match. Cap CAPILANO Rugb’ Football Ciub’s ie division team has a bronze medal in its sights. The team defeated the Brit Lions 13-7 at Kiahanie Park Saturday and will meet Langley to decide third place at 11] a.m. Saturday at the University of Surf just miss national championships THE Surf rolled on Saturday. A week after winning the Coastal Challenge Cup, the under-14 North Shore girls soccer team almost secured a berth in a national champi- onship. Goalkeeper Lindsay Walton backstopped the Surf B.C.’s Wolfson Field. Langley defeated Abbotsford 11-8 in the other third place semi-final. Capilano kicker = Mel Browning scored on a penalty kick in the dying moments of the first half to take a 3-0 lead into halftime. Capilano winger Akio Tyler added a try'in the comer early to a trio of shutouts in the Nike Premier Cup regional qualifying tournament. The Surf had a pair of wins and a draw before losing 2-1 to Calgary’s == Norwest Premiers in the final. Norwest will play the winners of Toronto and Montreal quali- fying tournaments and the second place overall team for (FG chasing in the . second half. John Granander ran onto Steve Eastman’s short kick and beat a Brit-Lion defender to the ball to score a diving try in the cor- ner for a 13-0 lead. A Brit-Lions player and Capilano’s Marty Jones were sent off the pitch for 10 min- utes each the Canadian championship. Amy Wiggins had the only goal in the opening 1-0 win over the. Surdel Supra. The Surf tied local rival North Shore Selects Lightning i in the other round-robin Zocy Barticy’s goal, stood er a tussle. The. Brit-Lions made the most of ird the shorthanded situation as | ‘Jeff Davies scored the team’s lone try. 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