Se sg NEWS phote Nall Lucente TEAM B.C, battles it out with ICSF (ftalian/Canadian Soccer Federation) Virtus on the Capilano College soc- cer pitch Sunday. Team B.C., also known as the B.C. Under-20 All-Stars, will be competing in the Canada Games in Saskatchewan this August. Beach volleyball event plz AMBLESIDE PARK will be the site of the First Annual Four on Four Beach Volleyball Classic scheduled for Saturday, July 22, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Six courts will be erected on the grass field across from the conces- sion stand for a 16-team tourna- ment. The tournament, organized by the West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Department and the West Vancouver YMCA, will have both a recreational and a com- petitive category to accommodate players at all levels of skill. Each team must have two men and two women. Players will receive a T-shirt for their athletic endeavors and the winning divi- sional teams will be presented with nned trophies. The entry fee per team is $50 and the entry deadline is July 18. Entry forms are available at The Sporting Look, 1519 Believue Avenue and at the North Shore YMCA, 1735 Inglewood Avenue. For further information contact Paul McMillan at 926-3266 or Milt Williams at 926-5541. 1S - Wednesday, July 12 Catch up on art news PAGE 21 + 1989 ~ North Shore News wees eee a B.C. TEAM TO PLAY IN CANADA-WIDE TOURNEY AFTER TWO years of training, injuries and a selection process which slashed the number of players from 78 to 19, the B.C. under-20 All Star soccer team is gearing up for the 1989 Canada Games in Saskatoon. ABETH COLI News Reporter But team manager Janet Petersen from North Vancouver says Team B.C. still has some miles to put on the soccer pitch be- tween now and the Canada Games in August. . L.A. BOUND Next Wednesday Petersen will be taking 19 players on a tour of Los Angeles, Anaheim, and Col- orado where they will be playing teams from Portugal, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Germany and the U.S. at the Denver Classic Cup. Petersen said the Denver tour- nament will be especially challeng- ing for her squad because the cup contenders are in the under-23 age grouping — older than the 17 to 19-year-old makeup of Team B.C. The team has also been invited to play the inaugural match for the Denver cup, the opponents of which have yet te be decided. ““We’re the only Canadian entrant. No team from Canada has ever won that cup,’’ Petersen said. The team, which practises at Sutherland School in North Van- couver, has a strong North Shore contingent and has received abun- dant community support. Vince Alvano, the head coach, is a counsellor at Sutherland and assistant coach, Joe Iacobellis, has helped the Capilano College soccer COLIN DIXON Program turn out the formidable Capilano Blues. Of the 19 players on Team B.C., eight are from the North Shore. Eamon Ward, Geoff D*Auria, Mark Watson, Markus Felderer and net minders Brad Baker and Stephen Hayes-Richard are native North Vancouverites. Team B.C. players from West Vancouver are Franco Diligenti and Scott Munsen. But two years after the soccer program was put in place to groom a team for the Games, the team roster is still not complete. Team B.C. must still weed out two players to bring the number of players down to the regulation 17 for the Canada Games. And Petersen said Team B.C. has been plagued by injuries, mak- ing the status of some players uncertain. Team captain Ray Pang is out with a broken ankle, Baker is trying to get match fit after a knee injury as is Stefano Mat- tarollo after a hamstring tear. SUFFERED DEFEAT Although Team B.C. suffered a recent defeat in Pentiction with a 2-1 deficit in the finals against a team from Edmonton, Petersen said the tournament was a valuable experience in preparing for the Games. “The competition was good. They were senior well-experienced teams.’* More uplifting games for Team B.C. was a first place finish at the Portsmouth Cup tournament in England and a third place finish at the Haarlem Cup tournament in Holland in the summer of 1988. W/V athlete signs with the COLIN DIXON has come a long way from his little league roots in West Vancouver. In June, 20-year-old Dixon sign- ed with the Boston Red Sox. Dixon was high on Boston’s list in the 1989 U.S. college draft, receiving a significant bonus for signing with the team. The third baseman’s impressive batting average of .380 at Southeast Louisiana Uni crsity helped earn him the offer from Boston. During his one semester at Loui- siana — where he was on a full scholarship -—- Dixon broke re- cords for hits and RBI’s in a tough conference. From 1985 to 1987 Dixon travel- led extensively with the Canadian national team which trains part of the year in Vancouver. In 1988 Dixon went to the Canada Games in Ontario, where B.C. came home the Canadian championship team. Red Sox LOCAL athlete Colin Dixon .--high on Boston’s list. Formerly a studcat at Capilano College, Dixon was a third year business student, when approached by Boston. He is currently playing in the Red Sox farm system with the Winterhaven Red Sox in Florida.