NORTH SHORE WINTER CLUB Senior Ladies rink, skipped by Kay. Wright, last week won the North Shore berth in the provincial championships by defeating Hollyburn Winter Club. Left to right: Catherine Collins. Playdowns for the-provincial tile, Poor Delbrook took lumps in the sports arena as well last Friday. . its Hours after the. million- dollar blaze that destroyed the main wing of the school and probably destroyed the floor of the gym with water damage the "battered but gallant Delbrook. Hilltoppers were extinguished | 91-67 by Steady as a rock Maureen (Moe) Chow, the 15-year-old North Vancouver gymnast, pulled off a sur- prise first place- all round against some of the best in North America at the North Shore Invitational Gym Competition Saturday. The best’ Moe was hoping. for was a third place finish against Karen Kelsall, 14, of Surrey, who took top honors with the Canadian team at the Olympics, and Leslie Pyfer, 14, of Eugene, Ore., who came first in this year’s Can-Am Games. | Last year Moe tied for first, squeezing out top contender Kelly Muncey and U.S. national ~=champion Donna Turnbow, both of Los Angeles. Her Saturday night per- formance was characterized ‘by a rocklike steadiness and absence of mistakes, which kept her in high scores throughout the meet. In all round standing Chow as first with 37.05. Kelsall second with 37.00,-, Pyfer third with 36.90 and Diane Dunbar -of San Francisco fourth with 36,80. ° B.C. teams did not fare SO well. The Vancouver Region team was seventh with 98.10, while the North Shore Region team came cighth- with 96.25, . . First in team standings was Diablo Gym Club of San Francisco (108. 25), followed by the Canadian expatriate team of the National Acad- emy of Artistic Gymnastics in Zupene, Ore. (107.00) and Hillside Highwaymen. North Shore in ‘senior boys. ‘basketball action. It was the Hilltoppers’ 27th straight loss in. regular league play. .Their last (60-48) win was on February 21 last year against Carson ° Graham. That victory could, in fact, be the school’s final one. Delbrook was. already due to be phased out by the National Academy's U.S. team (106.75). Both Chow. and Kelsall left the North Vancouver Flicka Gym Club to train in the U.S. when facilities for the club at the North Vancouver Réec- reation Centre were recently cut back. B.C. senior champ-. ion Lisa Broderick. left Flicka for the U.S. about the same time. Lat eGENERAL MECHANICAL __. eAUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS eALIGNMENT & BALANCING 1979, and Friday’s disastrous fire may speed up the timetable. ; Former Delbrook - senior basketball teams had seen many better days. For years they were among the powers on the North Shore and, 1973, reached the’ B.C. championship. . Earlier. in the week the -already luckless Hilltoppers had been wiped out 100-46 - by the league-leading Argyle Pipers, who chalked up their lith straight win of the ‘season with no losses. In that encounter Mike Jackle led the Pipers with 25 points, while Terry Overes added a further 20. a In another North Shore game last week Hillside edged West Van 71-68, despite the efforts of West Van's Tim Clark, who emer- ged as the game’s top scorer with 20 points. Rick Hall led for Hillside with 16,supported by David Hubbard with 14. Beals Kay Wright, Marg Gartry, Helen Cruickshank, which Kay and her teammates will new seek, take place February 14-18 in The Hurry Kings remain firmly entrenched as Number ina WA in North