Wednesday, March 11, 1992 - North Shore News - 47 North Van skier takes cross-country gold wf ab OP le 14-year-old Lisa Malin makes an excellent first impression at Winter Games in Vernon A NORTH Vancouver cross-country skier went to the B.C. Winter Games held recently in Vernon and returned NORTH VANCOUVER’S Liza Malin was a gold medal winner at the B.C. Winter Games held recently in Vernon. NEWS photo Cindy Goodman Local badminton players strike gold BC. Masters Badminton Championships at Hollyburn NORTH SHORE players struck gold and silver at the B.C. Masters Bad- minton Championships heid last weekend at West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club (HCC). North Vancouver resident and HCC director Rolf Pater- sen teamed with Abdul Shaikh, Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club professional, to capture the gold medai in age 50-plus Men’s Doubles. In straight games, they defeated the duo of Warren Kilpatrick from Victoria and Sunny Teng of Vancouver. In Women’s play, West Vancouver’s Lenore Williams and Bette Williams won silver medals, topping Denise Coates of Redmond, Washington and Sheila Paynter of Westbank, B.C. On the mixed doubles side, North Shore brothers, Ward and Steve Silverton went head to head in a 40-plus quarter final match. Older brother Ward, playing with Joanne Sullivan of Vancouver, defeated Steve and Joyce Robertson of Brentwood Bay, Singles action featured AMRIT BEWAN of Dayton, Ohio who repeated his success at the U.S. Masters Champion- ships, winning gold in 60-plus Men's Singles. He overcame the same two challengers; Jack Harvey of Spokane, Washington, and Bob Brooks of Kelowna. More than 100 athletes from the U.S. and Canada competed in 25 events. Competitors ranged in age from 35 to over 70. with a gold medal. Lisa Malin, a 14-year-old Grade 9 student at Handsworth Secondary School, picked up the gold in the five-kilometre juvenile girls class technique category. She competed as part of the Hollyburn Nordic Racers. “I didn’t think I would win a gold medaJ. I thought there was a miscalcuiation when they told me I had won,”’ said Malin. ‘‘The competition was pretty tough there. They had sume pretty good skiers." She added that her first-place finish was her best result so far this year. It was the first time Malin had competed in the annuai B.C. Winter Games. “The course was hard. There were lots of uphills ard lots of downhill turns,"’ said Malin. ‘But the peop!e who ran it were good. They had the course marked out preity good.”’ Malin, who was born in North Vancouver, began skiing when she was two years old and has been skiing with the Hollyburn Nordic Racers for the past three years. ~ She had been training for the B.C. Winter Games since last September. “My parents started me skiing. I saw these people cross-country skiing 20 zooming by me and 1 thought I would like to do that,” said Malin. Her parents did not know Malia had won a gold medal! until she returned home from the four-day event. Malin's younger sister is also a cross-country skier and is ex- pected to attend the B.C. Winter Games in 1993. Malin said she hopes to be there with her sister and will try to win By Surj Rattan News Reporter selection to the squad the Hollyburn Nordic Racers takes to the games next year. **Mext year I'll try to go for the B.C. Championships and the B.C. Cup series,’’ said Malin. In the meantime, she will con- centrate on coming up with win- ning performances at the Cascade 44] thought there was a miscalculation when they told me I had won. $# —Lisa Malin Cup to be held in Manning Park and the Mile High competition set for Vernon. Other medal winners from the Hollyburn Nordic Racers were: @ Patricia Bishop: gold, junior women’s relay; @ Toby Hendersen: gold, junior women's freestyle and gold, junior women’s classic technique; @ Dave Norona: silver, men’s freestyle; @ Glen Iversen: gold, junior men's freestyle, gold, junior men’s relay, silver, junior men’s classic technique. junior Flicka gymnasts dominate in provincial competition THREE GYMNASTS from the Flicka Gym Club in North Vancouver won. ali the medals in the Provincial A division at the B.C. Winter Games held recently in Vernon. Daphne O’Young, 13, of Van- couver and Patti Furniss, 23, placed first and second with totals of 36.00 and 35.45, to lead the Vancouver Squamish team to a 104.45 lead just ahead of Fraser River Delta who scored 104.10. O’Young, whe competed in the games for the first time, won both uneven bars with 9.30 and balance beam with 8.80. She was second on floor exercise (9.20) and fourth on vault (8.70). Furniss, who competed in her fourth games, won the vault event with 9.15 and came third on two events, uneven bars (9.00) and balance beam (8.40). She placed firth on floor exercise with 8.90. Flicka's Raila Gutman, 14, of Richmond, won the other individ- ual event floor exercise with 9.25. She was the bronze medalist in the Provincial A_ girls division and had a total of 35.40, Gutman was second on both vault (8.75) and uneven bars (9.10) and fifth on balance beam (8.30). In the Provincial B level Elsa Cuadra, 17, of Nosth Vancouver came fifth overall with 34.25. Cuadra, who moved up several places for the ‘91 games, had a total of 34.25. She won both the uneven bars event (9.35) and the floor exercise (9.30). Teammate Sarah Friesen of Vancouver was 10th with 33.25 and came fourth on uneven bars ‘with 8.80. Sandra Tsakok, 14, of West Vancouver was 17th with 32.30. Competition was close for the “B" girls. Meanwhiie, B.C. Gymnastics Association would like to correct two results reported in a recent story concerning the B.C. team’s first trials to the nationals held in February at the Surrey Gymnastics Society Club gym. Jenny Campbell was third overall with a total of 36.45; she won the uneven bars event with 9.45 to tie with Kristi Mardyn. Marlies Ernst was third on the uneven bars with 9.46, and not second as reported.