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NEWS phato Neil Lucente

CASEY MCcAULEY watches his rock during a North Shore high school curling playdown at Sutherland. McAuley’s Sutherland rink of Brian Hamilton,
Gordon Tupper and Donald Tupper will be heading to the B.C. Championships March 1-3 in Nanaimo to compete against the top seven rinks in the

province.

WEST COAST JUNIOR HOCKEY

Flames nip Burnaby

IN WEEKEND West Coast Junior
Hockey League action the North
Shore Winter Club Flames staged a
dramatic 8-7 overtime win over the
league-leading Bummaby Bluehawks
on Saturday, but then fell 6-3 to
the Northwest Americans in Seattle
the following night.

With time running out in regular
season play, the weekend’s games
leave the Flames in the sixth and
final playoff position, one point
behind Seattle and one point ahead
of seventh-place Hastings.

The prolific Scott Gordon-Brad
Costa duo figured in all but one of
the eight goals scored against the
Bluehawks. Costa netted four
goals and assisted on three while

North Shore

SEVERAL NORTH Shore athictes
hit the top three in their events at
the B.C. Winter Games held in
Penticton last weekend.

Gordon was right behind with a
hat trick and three assists.

The Gordon from Costa com-
bination opened scoring in the first
Period with two carbon copy
power-play goals just seven se-
conds apart, and then a John Cox
power-play marker from Wade
Bartok anc Gordon midway
through the frame put the Flames
up 3-0. With four minutes remain-
ing in the period, Costa converted
from Rick Rougeau to give the
Flames a 4-0 lead after one.

The Flames outscored Burnaby
3-2 in the second period for a 6-3
lead after two periods. Costa ac-
counted for both markers, giving

him his natural hat trick. Yim

athletes bring

Alpine skier Erica Purves of
West Vancouver finished second in
slalom and third in giant slalom.

Grade 11 Argyle student James

Stoddart drew assists on both goals
while Cox and Marcel Desjardins
collected an assist each on the
respective goals.

Flame penalties in the third
period opened the door for the
Bluehawks who waltzed in with
three unanswered power-play goals
to knot the score at six, five
minutes into the frame, and then
took a 7-6 lead with an equal
strength goal at 14:38.

But with only 21 seconds re-
maining, and goaltender Kevin
Radbourne pulled for a sixth at-
tacker, Costa scored from Gordon
and Bartok to set up the Gor-
don-Costa winner twenty-seven se-
conds into overtime.

Burnaby outshot the Flames
56-24,

In Sunday’s loss to Seattle, the
Flames trailed 1-0 after one, 4-2 at
the end of two, and then outscored
2-1 for the 6-3 final. Flame
goalscorers were Dave Atkinson,
Kevin Alexander and Rob Tour-
nier while Andrew Wilson, Dave
Shepard, Cox and Gordon picked
up the assists.

Seattle outshot the Flames 37-31
with Gar: Knight in goal for the
locals.

On Sat ‘rday, Feb. 24, the
Flames meet the Americans in a
rematch at the regular 9 p.m. game
time at the Winter Club.

home B.C. Games medals

Buckle won a silver medal in box-
ing for the 139-Ibs. category while

West Vancouver's boys’ basketball
team snagged a bronze at the
Games.

And in figure skating, North
Vancouver's Jessica Torvick closed
in on third place in the senior
group one event.

Bluehawks |fegister for
racquetball

tournament

TODAY IS the last day to regis-
ter for the fourth annual North
Shore Racquetball Tournament.

Events are filling up quickly,
but there’s still space to register
for the tourney which will be held
Feb. 28 to March 3.

The events include mens,
ladies, mixed and senior men for
all levels of players and the mat-
ches will be held at the North
Shore Winter Club and Court-
house West.

Games start at 6 p.m. on
Wednesday through Friday with
the finals taking place on Satur-
day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This is a large tourney with or-
ganizers aiming for 130 entrants.

For more information cali the
North Shore Winter Chis at
985-4135.