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SENTINEL’S Pam Skeans (with bail) runs into the tough Argyle Pipers’ defence
during recent senior girls’ high schoo! basketball action. The Pipers, 6-0 in North
Shore league play, are currently the top-ranked triple-A squad in the province.

Pipers top-ranked
team in province

Andrew McCredie
Sperts Editor

IT’S probably best that
Jack Tasaka retired
from teaching last year.

The long-time head coach
of the Argyle Pipers senior
virls’ basketball team has his
hands full just trving to keep
his team on top of the provin
cial triple-A rankings.

“Pm enjoying it (retire
ment) very much, but it’s nice
to keep my hands in a few
things,” ‘Tasaka said Monday
on a rare day off (Argyle is
currently closed for exam
week}. “But (coaching the
Pipers) is time consuming.”

Time consuming or not,
the Pipers, led by the senior
strength of Ashlee Dobbe,
Rosalyn Hicks and
Catherine Judd, are enjoying
one of their best seasons ever.
In addition tw sporting a per-
fect 6-0 North Shore league
mark, the Pipers won the
Chilliwack Invitational wo
weeks ago. In the prestigious
tournament’s final, the Pipers
dethroned the province's top-
ranked team, Salmon Arm,
with a 53-49 victory, Heading
into the fourth quarter, the
game was knotted at 39.

Burt despite knocking off

the number-one ranked tea.n
and chiming the honor tor
themselves, Tasaka is cautious
to overstate the issue.

“The kids always enjoy
that kind of thing (rankings),
but we try to downplay it,” he
said.

“At this time of the year it
doesn’t matter who is number
one. But itis nice te be recog:
nized”

Rarher than setting rank-
ings as goals, Tasaka has his
charges focused on the North
Shore title.

The Pipers main competi-
tion for that crown are West
Vancouver and Windsor.

“We got off to a late start,
since most of our kids also
play vollevball, but we've been
working hard and making
some progress,” he added.

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