Wednesday, May 1, 1991 - North Shore News - 43 a ae MANY OF tomorrow's triatileres will be tearing up the course of the North Shore Spring Triathlon on May 20. By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter Triathlons aren’: just for overgrown kids anymore. Race director Trish Holme says approx- imately 17 kids are registered for the age divisions of under-10, 10- 12 and 13-15. And the competitors are coming from as far away as Nanaimo to compete in the course which in- cludes a 225-metre swim in Ron Andrews pool, a six-kilometre bike ride and a 1.5-kilometre run. A maximum of 45 kids may enter and mountain bikes are welcome. ‘Kids’ races are growing and there's a lot more of them popp- ing up,’” Holme says. Two competitors from North Vancouver look like they may be with the sport for a while. Jeff Bolton, 15, and Scott Bolton, 11, are entering the triathlon with their father John Bolton. A grade 10 student at Hand- sworth, this is Jeff’s second triathlon after one at Whistler as well as a duathlon at Seymour Demonstration Forest. He has attended several triathlon workshops this spring with his father, putting many adult participants to shame in the process with his speedy time trial on the bike. Jeff anticipates that biking and running will be his strongest events. “The swim Pili probably have some problems with but the bike LISA NAKANO won her first championship title last weekend at the Western Canadian | Championships held at Sungod Arena in Delta. Nakano, 33, won the tyro ti- Ue with a total of 36.300. As well, she won two individual! events -—— the balance beam with 9.40 and floor exercise with 9.30. Nakano came se- cond on vault 9.10. She was one of 10 gymnasts competing from the Flicka Gymnastic Club in North Vancouver. Meanwhile, Angeta Orange, 13, had to withdraw from the tyro. «competition because of ankle problems, The B.C. team | was second with 173.200. Aparna Ray, 16, was in a close competition with two Wesiern champicas from last year from Winnipeg. Ray | finished second with a total of « NEWS photo Mike Wakelield TRI-KIDS: Scott Bolton, 11, his brother Jeff Bolton, 15, and tain Lark (right), 9, are gearing up to compete in the kids’ age groups of the North Shore Spring Triathton. and run should be OK. I'm not the greatest swimmer,” he says. Meanwhile, brother Scott, a Grade 6 student at Highlands, is gearing up to follow in his brother's footsteps with his first triathlon. “T just thought that since it was &@ pretty small triathlon, 1 could just try my first ever triathlon,” Gymnast wins Western Cdn title 36.650 behind Kate Booih whose total was 37.00. Ray was second on vault with 9.45 and also on beam with 8.80. She finished third on two events — uneven bars 9.10 and floor ex- ercise 9.30. In the women's novice divi- sion, Marlies Ernst and Jeany Campbell, both !4, placed se- cond and third all-around with totals of 36.400 and 36.300, respectively. Ernst won the floor event with 9.45 and came third in the other events (vault 8.95, bars 9.00 and beam 9.00). Campbell won the balance beam with & score of 9.25, and was second on vault (9.15), fourth on bars (8.90) and sixth on floor (9.00). Briony Lechy and Jessica Malach, both 14, followed to help the B.C. team win the novice Utle with a total of 176.700 — more than ten says Scout, who is a member of the Esso Swim Club. Grade 9 Handsworth student Lindsay Donaldson will also be drawing on her swimming background with the Chena Swim Club, “1 competitvely swim and the swimming looked pretty easy and 1 run so | thought, ‘Hey, why points ahead of Alberta. Lecky finished fourth all-around with a total of 35.700 while Malach came seventh with 34.400. The young argo B.C. team won the team title with a total of 172.850 — eight points ahead of Manitoba. The title has been won by B.C. gym- nasis Over the last few years. Karen Gill, Lt, of North Van- couver, was the silver medalist with 34.950 followed by Shan- na Bonikowsky, 11, in the bronze medal position with 34.750. Gill was second on bars (8.80) and also on beam (9.25). Bonikowsky had second place wins on vault (9.00) and uneven bars (8.50). She came third on floor (9.05) and sixth on beam (8.20). The next competition for some of the girls is the Cana- dian Championship to be held in Saskatoon, May 16-19. Bennett nets third straight golf victory SCOTT BENNETT of | North Vancouver captured his third con- secutive tournament title reconily at the annual Simoa Fraser Uni- versity, Invitational Golf Tourna- ment held at the Semiahmoo and Peace Portal golf clubs. ac a A senior playing for SFU. Ben- nett, who carded rounds of 73 and 80 for a 158 total, defeated Mark Hughes of Central Washingcon in the fifth) sudden-death) = playoff hoid. The win was Bennetr’s se- cond in as many weeks in sud- den-death,. In the team compention, SFL finished in second place with 64! strokes. seven strokes behind tournament champion Centra! Washington (634). don’t Ltry in?" ” Lindsay says that ker goal is simply to finish the triathion. “f have no idea what the time should really be. As long as I work hard Vi be happy,’ she says. A Grade 4 student at Canyon Heights, lain Lark, 9, says he had been hoping a triathlon would be Ss meeting triathlon challenge NORTH SHORE SPRING TRIATHLON held locally. A swimmer with the North Vancouver Cruisers, lain cycles and runs every second day and even practices his transitions. “After you come off the bike. it’s always different. 1 haven't had that much training in that.’ he says. “A Grade 6 student at Ross Road, Ryan Smith is also training for his first triathion. He says that a friendly challenge against his friends spur- red him on to the triathlon. “My friends were going to do it so 1 thought itd be a challenge and I'd try to beat them.” Event needs volunteers VOLUNTEERS ARE needed to help with the North Shore Spring Triathlon. Held May 20 at recCentre Ron «Andrews, approximately 100 volunteers will be needed to help organize the triathlon. Volunteers will help out with registration, aid stations, tim- ing and lap counting as well as act as course marshalls, to name a few of the positions needed to be filled. All the volunteers will get a complimentary T-shirt and will be eligible to win the draw prizes. To volunteer, call Lesley at 984-3278. Caps defeat UVic for rugby crown CAPILANOS JUNIORS won the B.C. Rugby Union Junior Cham- pionship after defeating University of Victoria Juniors 16-12 at Klahanie Park on Saturday. The final was packed with dramatic and heroic performances which left the large contingent of partisan spectators convinced they had witnessed the best rugby game ever contested on the North Shore. The local team, composed mostly of Grade 11 and 12 stu- dents, were sbviously giving a lot in age and size to their university- level opponents. When the Victoria side put nine points on the scoreboard in as many minutes, it appeared a moral victory would be the ob- vious by-line ro describe the out- come. However, at the interval the score was 9-3 as Paul Aucatto kicked a penalty goal to keep the Caps in the game. Coach Roger Hatch must have made the right) inspirational speech at the break because carly in the second half Ryan Carphin intercepted a Victoria passing movement and raced 30 metres to seore under the posts. Zucatto converted bur UVic added a penalty yoal 1oO make the score 12-9, Caps now sensed victory was near and dug deep for that extra effort. The forwards battled furiously for every ball and the backs ran harder and hit with chain-saw tackles. Meanwhile, UVic started to founder as it became obvious they had underestimated the skills and determination of the local players. Caps now mounted a relentless attack on their opponent's line and after several loose rucks, Jeff Chalmers dove over at the left corner flag for the go-ahead try. Zucatto later added his second penalty goal which brought much needed relief to the frenzied sup- porters. UVie stermed back in the dying minutes and scrummed repeatedly just outside the loci! line but the Capilano defence would not be penetrated, While the victory was an astanishing team effort, mention must be made of Zucato and Steve Gelinas pounding forward through would-be tackers. At full-back, Peter De Silva proved to be a tactical kicker and a gritty tackler while Chalmers, at scrum-half, was always in the ac- tion. ant