If Fisher can win the provin- cial tide, he will get a position on the Canadian National Duathlon team as the Blackcomb race has been chosen as the national team qualifier for athletes from the West. Fisher, 27, who participated in his first duathlon in 19838, has competed all over Canada and the U.S. Last year, he was voted to Triathlon Today magazine's All-American) Duathlon Honor Roll, which has only 10 members at any given time. He hopes to compete in the world championships on Nov. 24 in Palm Springs, California. In the Canadian champion- ships last year, which included American competitors but won't in the future, Fisher came inas the first Canadian. Fisher, who grew up in Point Grey, earned a _ Bachelor of Commerce in business ad- ministration and a BA in in- ternational economy from Arizona State University before returning to Vancouver to join the engineering firm of H.A. Simons where he is now an analyst with the strategic ser- vices group. «I'd like to finish the season undefeated,” Fisher told the News last week, referring to next Saturday’s Blackcomb mect. **I am hoping there will be a number of tough competitors from around B.C. and from out of province,’’ he added. Between 500 and 600 athletes will be competing for the title. “*The Blackcomb race will select and announce the elite, junior and age group Canadian team which will represent competition Duathlete Dan Fisher wants to be B.C’s best B.C. CHAMPION duathlete is what North Vancouver's Dan Fisher hopes to become at the Kokanee Glacier Light Duathlon race at Blackcomb next Saturday. By Patrick Raynard Contributing Writer Canada oat the first official work! championships in’ Palm Springs.°” said Bruce Barcriseule of the Vancouver Racing Society. At’ Blackcomb, Fisher and others will go head to head with 1990 B.C. triathlon champion Frank Clarke and Canadian triathlon champion Simon Cassidy. Leading con- tenders in the women’s field include Vancouver's Kendall Morrison, Carolyn Hubbard Brougham and Carole Marlowe. “The S-km route will be a combination of roads and trails on the fairly hilly terrain of Blackcomb and Lost Lake. The 35-km cycle is the rolling ride north toward Pemberton and return, The course is fairly demanding, and if the temperature is high it could be a tourh day for everyone,” said race director Kathy Trerise. The Blackcomb race will feaure a $2,000 prize purse and a series grand prize draw of a Contiki Holiday Hotel tour in Europe for two. The sport of duathlon, formerly called biathlon, con- sists of a 5-km run and a 35- km cycle, followed by an addi- tional S-km run. All five races in the Kokanee Light Glacier Light Prestige Duathlon Series are sanctioned by the B.C. Triathton Association (BCTA), the governing body for the sport of duathlon and triathlon. DAN FISHER training hard. The North Vancouver duathlete is aiming for the B.C. title at Blackcomb next Saturday. Stuart sweeps tennis titles Photo Gordon Fisher West Vancouver athlete sets under-14 national records WEST VANCOUVER’S Russell Stuart set a tennis record in Calgary over the weekend after sweeping both the boys’ singles and doubles under-14 national finals. ft is the first time for a player to sweep all four under-I4 out- door and indoor events since the indoor component was introduced in 1985. Last March Stuart: won both the indoors singles and doubles finals. In 1988 Steve Deakin of Port Moody swept three of the four events. “Tt was prestigious. I guess.’ ‘said a modest Stuart: after return- ing from the tourney. In the singles final, top seed . By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Stuart sunk fourth seed Adam Baranowski of Toronto, 6-4, 6-2. Stuart said he used his experi- ence of previous matches against Baranowski to build an edge for the finals. ‘ “Tknew what he played like so I knew what to expect. P changed my game to how he would play so I didn’t have a really tough time. but he did give me a run,”’ Stuart said. In fact, the toughest part of the tournament for Stuart was adap- ting to the rapidly changing weather. The temperatures varied from a pre-tourney high of 80° F to a first day temperature of 50° F with rain. “It was kind of tough to get used to one kind of game styte because you were playing inside and playing outside,"’ he said. Even so, Stuart) said that waiting for matches doesn’t faze him. In the doubles action it was an all-North Shore final as Stuart and Chris Santoso of West Van- couver, again the top seeds, rolied over Matihew Walsh of North Vancouver and Ramin Pejan of West Vancouver, 6-1, 6-3. “We weren't really expecting to have a tough time and we didn’t,” Stuart. said. Stuart and Santoso have only played one previous tournament together which was when they won the indoors double title in Toronto last March, In other singles matches, San- toso finished in third pace after defeating Pejan, 6-7(4-7), 6-3, 6-2. Wecnesday. August 29. 1990 - North Shore News ~ 13 score lawn bowling gold THE NORTH Shore fours team sept their way to a wold medal in convincing style at the Canadian Lawn Bowling Championships held in Regina, Aug. 18-23. The team of skip Peter Fish, 43, third Davia Brown, 51. second David Danealf, 54, and lead Mark Raymond, 27, played eight quali- fying games in the round robin before they met Quebec in the playoff for gold and silver. After 6 ends, the Quebee team conceded the game with a score of 26-6. The North Shore team amassed a total of 219 shots scored with only 87 against. Ontario beat out Alberta for the branze. In ladies action, North Shore’s Nell Hunter teamed up with Van- couver's Mary Meany to win a silver in a televised playoff against Alberta. In round robin play. Hunter and Meany had only one loss 10 Manitoba and had beaten Alberta 18-12, but could not repeat the win in the medal playoff which Alberta won 15-10. The ladies’ pairs scored 167 for a 114 against in championship play. Their finish — combined with Vancouver's Dorothy Macy's winning gold in singles and the ladies’ fours’ bronze — was enough to win the overall ladies’ team award for B.C. Despite the North Shore team’s gold in fours, the men's team award went to Ontario as the B.C. men’s single player from Victoria finished fifth and the Vancouver pairs team only won two games. This was the upset of the championship because the pairs skip George Boxwell had won a silver medal in pairs at the Com- monwealth Games in New Zealand and was favored to win a gold in the Canadian Championships. Diver gets gold WEST VANCOUVER'’S Paige Gordon won a gold medal for the girls’ ‘‘A’’ 10-metre tower dive at the Can-Am-Mex Meet in Calgary over the weekend. Gordon | finshed with 381.50 points on tower — just .08 behind her personal best. In the one-metre final Gordon won a silver and in the three- metre she won another gold. Triathlete finishes 21st JAIME CATHCART of North Vancouver finished 21st overall at the 1990) Tronman Canadian Triathlon in Penticton an Sunday, Catheart finished with a tine of 9:45:21. With 946 entrants, the race consists of a 2.4 mile swim, a (12 mile bike race and a 26.2 mile Jun.