N. Shore rowers part of winning crew Canadian women’s team takes four out of six gold medals at international championships TWO NORTH Shore rowers are riding high on the wave of success after their crew helped propel Canada to win a record four gold medals at the recent World Row- ing Championships in Austria. The Canadian women’s ieam established itself at the pinnacle of the rowing world after winning four of a possible six gold medals — in the single sculls, pairs, straight fours, and eights in the heavyweight class. Kirsten Barnes cf West Van- couver and Jessica Monroe of Deep Cove said they were never really challenged in the fours where the Canadian women lead from the beginning. “We had a preity perfect race I guess vou could say,’’ Barnes says. The women’s cight was a dif- ferent story. With 50G metres to go in the 2,000 metre race, the Soviet team was three seconds behind. Then with 20 strokes to go, the cox called to the Canadian team, “They’re dying. We'te going to doit. ' And they did, with five hua- dreths of a second to spare. Ironically, the Canadian women came third in both fours and eights at a regatta in Lucerne a month earlier, beaten by the Germans and the Americans. But Monroe said their narrow loss helped the Canadian crew to focus on their goal. ““We realized we had to train really hard,’ says Mozroe. In preparation for the worlds, the Canadian women’s team spent two months in Lucerne where they rowed three times a day, training with the Canadian men and a British doubles crew. Barnes said the conditions were ideal for training because the daily hassles of fife — meals, bills, laundry — were taken care of for the crews. **You're in a_ situation where you can train really hard and re- covery is really good,”’ she says. A veteran rower, Barnes was on the 1985 Hillside crew that won the junior women’s eight at the Canadian High School Rowing Championship. She rowed at the 1987 Pan Am Games and the 1988 Seoul Olympics. This was her third World Championship. Monroe says she “lucked ou:"' at her first World Championship; Touch football team sets scoring record NORTH SHORE division one touch football started its se..nd week of league play last Sunday with a league record. The Joico Grid Dawgs shattered the previous league record when they crushed the Cobras 60-0, racking up more than 600 yards in total offense. The offensive fireworks were led by quarterback Greg McCluse who threw for four first-half touchdowns. R.J. Parry reeled in three touchdown catches and one convert, adding one interception on defence. Alternate quarterback Dave Merlo came in for the second half LEAR OU to register four more touchdown tosses. Other touchdown catches went to Harry Larman with two, Chad Smith and Scott Alien each with one. The stingy Dawg’s defence re- corded an impressive eight in- terceptions and three quarterback sacks while allowing three first downs. In other league play, last year’s league winner Bistro Bandits were upset 15-8 by Cat and Fiddle Pub while the Queens Cross HBur- ricanes railied in the fourth quarter to defeat the Raiders 14-9. ALY} * Save Enos SEPT. 25/91 a - ea Wednesday, September 11, 1991 — North Shore News - #5 NEWS photo Neil Lucente JESSICA MONROE (left) and Kirsten Barnes are back home from Austria where they won two gold medals fer Canada ir: rowing. The world champions are looking forward to the 1992 Olympics in Barcetona. she started training seriously for rowing three years ago. Her sister Jeanie Gillingham rowed in the 1984 Olympics. Barnes and Monro will face spr- ing selection for the 1992 Olym- pics in Barcelona next summer. Monroe says they'd like to do a ‘‘repeat performance’’ at the Olympics. But Barnes adds that being on top of the rowing world also br- WV tennis duo win A HOLLYBURN Country Club mother and daughter doubles team won the Cana- dian; Family Championships in Scarborough, Ont., over the Labor Day weekend. Seeded No. 1, Pam Hunter and Susie Fought of West Vancouver defeated the No. 3 seeds Eva and Karen Barbiero of Toronto 6-3, 7-6 (7-1). The Barbieros defeated last year’s finalists, Leona and Caroline Sporer of Burnaby, in a close semi-final. Hunter and Fought are the national defending champions. This past spring they were to play in the international family championships in Portugal but the championships were cancelled. If held, the next interna- tional family championship may go io Austria. in May 1990, the mother-daughtez duo played at the international family championship in Florida. Hollyburn Country Club provided three of the six B.C. 13 MODELS TO CHGOSE FROM! @ REG. UP tO $109.99 © Mens sizes 612 ings its pressures. “We've always been the under- dogs, we always had to move up and now it's completely different. ane goal now is to defend the ti- tle.” nat’! title teams at the national champi- onship. Mike and Ryan Clark finish- ed fourth in the father-son doubles after a semi-final loss to the Sauve family of Quebec. Winning the consolation plate was Jim and Stefano Walker who posted an im- pressive 6-1, 6-3 win over Sim and Pat Macken of Vancouver. Thirteen mother-daughter teams and 29 father-son teams competed at the national tour- nament.