Sports 30 ~.Sunday,.May 24,.1987 + North Shore News NEWS photos Stuart Davis GORDON GOODE releases the ball while Joh Andrzejewski looks on at the B.C. Games Playoffs held recently at the West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club. Goode won 25-19 to advance in the playoffs. CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Flicka gymnasts win national gold medal IT WAS a triumph for the Flicka Gym Club gymnasts who com- peted in the Canadian Gymnastic and Trampoline Championships held in Winnipeg May 14 to 17. The six local members of the B.C. national open team took the competition’s team gold medal with a 176.75 points’ total edging ahead of Ontario’s 176.65 and Manitoba's 176.15. Two all-around medals were won in the division as Heather Andrews, 15, of Kelowna, who trains in the Best Ever program at Flicka, won with a total of 72.20 points. Andrews ‘also won the balance beam event with 18.55, came se- cond on the uneven bars with 18.25 and fifth on the floor with 18.05. Although Andrews returned home with the choreography award for floor exercise, it was North Vancouver's Ursuia Trpin who won the event with 18.30 points. Trpin’s 71.35 points won her the bronze all-around medal. In only her second national-level meet, the 15-year-old also came fifth on the balance beam with 17.45 and sixth on the uneven bars with a score of 17.85. Another member of the winning team was North Vancouver’s ‘Helen Carmichael, 14, who came ninth with 69.85. West Vancouver She also finished fourth on the bars with 17.90 and eighth on beam with a score of 17.30. Twelfth and 13th places were taken by Surrey’s 16-year-old Lisa Onno and Kristina Lonquist, 14, of Coquitlam with scores of 69.50 and 69.20 respectively. Onno finished fourth on the uneven bars with 17.90. The sixth member, Kathy Udorovic, 13, was eighth on the bars with 17.55 and came 19th overall with 67.80 points. The younger B.C. national novice team returned with the competition’s bronze medal. Ontario, with a total of 184.25, finished well ahead of Quebec's 173.35. B.C. was one-tenth behind at 173.25. . Top place on the B.C. team went to Sara Markel, 10, of Port Moody’s Omega Gymnastic Academy. She finished eighth with a score of 70.95. She was followed closely by Krista Onno, 13, of Surrey in 12th with 69.55, and Dawn Geil, 13, of Coquitlam who was 13th with 69.30. North Vancouver’s tl-year-old Kim Gilbert was 16th with 68.75 and Catherine Geekie, 11, of Port Moody, was 25th with 66.40. All the girls, except Markel, are Flicka members. Geil was seventh on the uneven bars with 18.20 and Gilbert was eighth on the balance Tennis Club _ beam with a 17.45 score. It was a disappointing event for the B.C. senior gymnasts as Jean- nette Hrubes, 16, of Peachland was the only one who competed in all routines. She did well against stiff com- petition to reach 2Ist with a total of 70.650. Hrubes was named to the Pan American Canadian team, Tracy Wilson, the top B.C. gymnast, was only able to compete in compulsory exercises which enabled her to maintain her carded position in the top 12. She was named to the Canadian team that will compete in the World University Games in Yugoslavia during the summer. Both Miriam Michel and Kristin Wingfield were on the injury list. All four of the top girls work in the 1988 Best Ever Program. All Season’s Radials for Compacts NV club launches Fitweek activities NORTH VANCOUVER’S Aiko Racquet Ciub will feature a number of events for Canada’s Fitweek May 22 to 31. Included in the Aiko activities will be a Gong Squash Rally, Drop-In Aerobics and a Racquet- ball Shoot-out. For more information call 986- 5341. Last spring, no less than six mil- lion Canadians — that is 25 per cent of the total population — participated in Fitweek activities. Over 12,500 events took place in communities, businesses and schools involving more than 300,000 volunteers and leaders. The Canadian Cycling Associa- tion is promoting Working Wheels as part of Canada’s Fitweek this year. Working Wheels is designed to encourage Canadians across the country to commute to work by bicycle as a way of getting fit and Your North Shore’s Custom Wheel Centre 100's in stock MOVING SALE| EVERYTHING MUST GO uP TO 40% oFF SONY TV XBR. VIDEO 8 ZENITH ELECTROHOME JV.C. SANYO RCA. SALE STARTS MAY 13/87 Staying fit. On May 26, employers will be encouraging their employees to cy- cle to work. The work place in Canada with the largest percentage per capita of employees cycling to work will win the National Work- ing Wheels Championship and will be recognized as the ‘‘Big Wheel.” Other Working Wheels activities featured are a push for municipalities to develop city bicy- cle maps and a Search for a Safe Cyclist. 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