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Shore senior boys’ football
teams are preparing, for the
playoffs — and not a triple-
A team among them.
Sentinel, Windsor: and
Handsworth are one-two-
three in double-A Northern
Conference standings, and
as such are preparing for
. playoff games this weekend.
The North Shore’s two
triple-A. squads, Carson
Graham and West
Vancouver, play one another
this Friday az Carson’s field.
Kickoff is 3:15 p.m.
The Eagles, sporting a 0-

8 record are definitely out of .

the triple-A playotf picture,
but the 3-6. Highlanders,
with a win: over’ Carson
combined | “with an
Abbotsford win over -W.J.
Mouat, could: find them-
-selves in the playoffs:

=s In last week's action, the

; Highlanders: trounced John ...
Oliver 30-0, while . Terry

Fox did much the same to
the’ Eagles
shutout. .

In double-A action last
weekend, Windsor beat Rick
Hansen 26-12 and Sentinel
blanked Pinetree 20-0.

NOR-WES CAPS... The

posing ways continue for the

“North Shore’s junior boys
hockey team.

The Caps played. three

_ games last . week and lost

them all: 6-5 to Grandview;

6-2 to Port Coquitlam; and .

5-1 to Ridge Meadews.

And this. week’s games
aren’t going to make it any
easier for the 1-17 Caps
to put: one in- the win
column,’ ;

"Next up for Nor-Wes is

ano away. game tomorrow
night in Richmond to take —

.on = the. . Icague-leading
Sockeyes, then a Sunday
afternoon |. game against
third-place ... Abbotsford
_ Pilots. at- Lonsdale Arena.

The) ‘puck drops at 2:15 p. m. *

ROWING... Fittingly, a
- school near ‘the water. won
“three” of -six. races at last
weekend’s Deep Cove High
Rowing League
Championships.

Seycove crews won the

“novice - boys’ quad,
novice girls’. eight and’ the

oe novies girls’. quad events at
. . Seycove’ crews also finished

Saturday © regatta.

~ second in the ‘experienced

girls’, quad and mixed eight’
ewaces.

won. . the
double

Sutherland
“ experienced : girls’

-. pace, “Handsworth won the

. mixed eight, and a North
“i; Shore crew. won the experi-
enced girls’ quad event.
2s Handsworth : crews
-placed second in the novice

.° girls’ eight and ‘the experi-
on enced girls double ricer ;

_ ‘Andrew McCredie

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© SPORTS

Fighting Saints

win B.C.

crown

MAYBE they should call it the North Shore

Cup.

For the second year in arow a North Shore team has won
the B.C..senior boys’ single-A soccer championships. Last
year it was West Vancouver private school Collings ood; this

vear it is St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Fighting Saints bear Nakusp Secondary in a f-nil
overtime shootout thriller on Sunday in Osovous to keep
the qvo-year-old championship trophy on North Shore-soil.
Both STA and Nakusp were undefeated and had not surren-
dered one goal through four games leading up to the cham-

pionship final.

Fighting Saint Grade 12 Oscar Suarez was named tour-
nament MVP, while his Grade 1] teammate Ryan Lee was

. selected as a tournament all-star. In tournament round robin

games STA’s Suarez, James Healy, Mike Mayo and Jesse
Wignes were named game MVPs. .

According to Ledois, the Saints, coached by Steve Watt,
will be j just as strong next season.

“Our team is dominated by Grade Hs," Ledoix said.
“Only five of 20 players are in Grade 12.”

Strong as they arc, however, Ledoix says the chance the
Fighting Saints will defend their single-A B.C. title is slim:
“Our schoo! population is growing and next year we'll prab-

ably be a double-A school.”

Vancouver-Norci Van-
Whistler land the 2010
Winter Olympics, how

-do you plan to get

maybe 10,000 people
to the top of (Grouse
Mountain to watch the
bobsled and luge
events?

“Very simple,” he replied.
“The road.”

- “Of course,” said the old
gaffer, slapping his forehead
hard enough to jog a few
half-century-old memorics, “I
remember driving it. Sure, it
was kind of rough. ‘
Switchbacks galore and lots of
ruts. But I took a few sum-
mertime car tips, all the way
to the chalet.”

The old gaffer is your
agent and it must have been -.
back in the late 40s, Up to
the top of Mountain
Highway and then onward,
onward to ski headquarters,

It was built in 1926 by W.C.
Shelly, no relation to the
poet, but a big man at the ©
time in the bread business. *
Any oldtimers out there

In 1949 the Cromie fami-
ly, the then owners of The
Vancouver Sun, bought the
mountain-top operation and
installed the Lor

wer

*“Mainland’s first chairlift —-
= from Skyline Boulevard to the
* Chalet. Then, to funnel all

the upwardly inclined traffic”
to the little office that sold
the lift tickets, they conve-
niently dropped a few trees
across the old road. It’s been
out of service ever since.

As Arthur — the head

~ knock in this area’s bid to
land the 2010 Games — tells |

it, if he and his committee are
awarded Canadian bidding
rights for that 12-years-away

» event, and then get the nod

from the International
Olympic Committee, the’
toad will be re-engineered,
rebuilt and paved all the way

— Andrew McCredie

to the chalet cocktail lounge.

Also, he says, the Olympic
organizing committee here is
getting great co-operation
from Mayor Don Bell. It
should, for he’s part of the
committee and likely will be
in the band of 30 going to
Toronto for the Nov. 2] D-
(for decision)-day.

That’s the day the
Canadian Olympic
Association awards the
Canadian bid to either
Calgary, Quebec City or
Vancouver-Whistler. The win-
ner gets the right to spend
$50 million over the next five
years, wooing world support
and the ultimate blessing, in .
2003, of the International
Olympic Committee.

As of this moment, Arthur

‘*-and cohorts would seem to

have the inside track. Just a

* couple of weeks ago,
Montreal lawyer Richard

Pound, the IOC’s vice-presi-
dent in charge of negotiating
TV and all other commercial

"revenue, shafted Calgary.
: Dallas-by-the Bow should :.

butt our, he said, because it
hosted the 1988 winter pro-
duction and Olympic policy is
to keep moving the Games,
both summer and winter, to
laces that haven’t held them
fore.
He’s a heavy hitter at the

‘international level. No doubr

the COA is listening,’

Then there’s Quebec City, .

which finished dead fast in
the IOC voting that awarded
the 2002 Winter Games to
Salt Lake City. Political

volatility in La Belle Province -

killed off an otherwise excel-
fent bid. It’s no less volatile

ae

Care bears —

THE North Shore Kodiaks girts’ soccer team’ (above) recently donated $2.0 000 ;
worth of Nike sporting goods equipment it received as a Cup runner-up prize to
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today. The COA will be mak-
ing its choice nine days before

the current election campaign |’

ends. Also in the knowledge
that if the Parti Quebecois *-
wins, Lucien Bouchard will

- go ahead with another inde-
pendence referendum.

So, by all the laws of logic,
the Canadian bid should drop
into local laps. The only way
they could miss — and this is’
pretty wild speculation — is if
the COA rejects all three bids
in order to give Toronto an
unencumbered run at the
2008 Summer Olympics.

However, such a scenario
is pretty far out, especially in
light of the fact-Toronto may
be a longshot three years
from now, when the 2008
decision will be made. The
Summer Games still haven’t
gone to Africa or South
America and it’s IOC policy

-to get them there as soon as
possible. a
Buenos Aires will be « com-.
. peting against Toronto, but
Not previously contending

Capetown. South Africa has. -

decided, instead, to try for
the 2006 World Cup of
‘Soccer. Then there’s China. :
Should Beijing apply, take it .
for granted it has the 2008
event nailed down even
before the official IOC vete.
It’s a matter of face.
The Chinese capital,

which lost out to Sydney for.

the 2000 Games, won’t bid

aes it is absolutely assured

it will win.
_. But back to Vancouver-
~ Whistler and the word from
” Griffiths. He says it will cost
$970 million to stage the -
Garaes here, presumably 2
good part of that te improve,
‘road and rail wansportation ~
to Whistler-Blackcomb. '
He's looking at $1.2 bil-:
. lion revenue from all sources,
» the biggest chunk from the
sale of U.S. TY rights. He
points out that the current
NBC contract runs out with
~ the 2008 Games and a new
“contract will start with the

2010 event. 1: Hopeful, he.

adds, the other big Anterican .-

networks will join the bidding '
and the subsequent pile of
lolly will be tall enough to
~ hold che Olympic downhill
and slalom courses.

Also tall cnough to pay all
* the bills, for Olympic tinane-
ing history shows that cost
‘over-runs are the rule, not
the exception. To be fair,
though, Calgary posted a
profit of S80 million. Ten
years later it remains the heart
of an amateur sports founda-

r

“tion there. Arthur says his.”

group has the same sort of
thing in mind for the Lower
-Mainland.

‘In wishing him good luck,
your agent would remind him.
— if he needs reminding at ©
all foliowing his B.C. Place-
Grizalies-Canucks experience
— of the wise words once >
flippantly advanced by Oscar...
Wilde: In this world there are
only two tragedies.’

One is not getting what .
one wants. The other is Ber
ting. it. :

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