FOR THE FIRST time in Sea Festival history the
Labatt’s Media Softball Tournament trophy i is on

. the North Shore.

. With Ceperley Park the
battleground for a totally
awesome display of softball
supremacy, the North Shore
News team went through the
week-long tournament allow-
ing only 20 runs in 4 games
while scoring 58 runs against
their opponents.

Wednesday July -11, the
News first competition was
the Westender newspaper
which yds totally devastated
by a T9-5 score.

One of the many highlights
of this thrashing was a grand
slam home run by Garry
Crossley.

On the weekend, with the
competition getting increas-
ingly more difficult, the
North Shore News rose to the
occasion.

In the Feature game at 5
p.m. Saturday, the News fac-

~ By KEN ELLIOTT

ed arch-rivals C-FOX Sum-
mertime Blues. In what
started out as a pitcher’s

POURING on the praise, supporters help Blair Cooke-Dallin
celebrate baseball triumph with a champagne shower. At
right, Garry Crossley shows winning form during the final
game of the media softball tournament.

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duel, C-FOX led 5-3 after 6
thnings.

: The News then exploded i in
the top of the 7th inning scor-
ing the-maximum of 10 runs
and with & great job of pit-
ching as Blair Cooke-Dallin
proceeded to shut down for
the next 2 innings to win this
hotly contested match by. the

score of 13-5. The News now
had" to play the Vancouver
Sun in a semi-final match at 1
p.m. Sunday.

Again -the News was
behind 4-2 aftef 5 i innings but
ralliéd to tie the score in the
6th inning 4-4.

The North Shore News
team then blasted the Sun in

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the 7th inning for 6 runs and _

went on to win a decisive vic-
tory 10-6. “Superb perfor-
mances were given by
and Lenny Beck defensively.

The News now had to wait
2 hours in the blistering heat
while CKWX and BCTV
played their semi-final game.

At 5 p.m. Sunday, the
tournament final got under-
way with the North Shore
News and CKWX fighting it
out for dominance in Media
Softball. The News got off to
a phenomenal start scoring 7
runs in the top of the first in-
ning to totally demoralize
CKWxX. The News coasted to
the top of the Sth inning

Botnen to

ANITA BOTNEN proved
why she is the Canadian
gymnastics champion.
Over the weekend, the
West Vancouver teenager
earned herself a place on
the Canadian Olympic
team with a gutsy per-
formance in spite of a
nagging and painful back
injury.

Many had felt that

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when Crossley’s bat came to
life'as he hit his second grand
slam homerun of the tourna-
ment making the score 12-1.
The News went on to a
16-4 win, clinching. the much
heralded Labatt’s traptiy as
Champions of .the 1984
Labatt’s Media Sea Festival
Softball tourhament. .
The peaching duo of Ken
Elliott’and Bing Crossley
have to be commended for
their excellent job of holding
the team together and prepar-
ing them for each opponent.
This tournament win was a
total team effort and the
North Shore News looks for-
ward to defending their title
next year.

Olympics

Botnen would be unable
to overcome the injury
enough to make the team.

Competing in Califor-
nia at a dual training,
final selection camp, the
former member of Flicka
proved her mettle and
made the team along with
Flicka teammate Bonnie
Wittmeir and five other
women gymnasts.

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