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SIDELINES

MOUNTAIN BIKING...
Alison Sydor won the
women’s cross-country title
last Saturday al the world
mountain bike championships
in Vail, Colorado.

The North Vancouver
cyclist took the lead three
miles into the 22.3-mile race
and won easily in a time of
two hours, 12 minutes and
seven seconds.

Sydor, 28, finished third in
the World Cup standings for
the 1994 season.

She and North Vancouver
male rider Bruce Spicer are
both set to defend their
Cheakamus Challenge Fall

Classic titles this Saturday at.

the annual 65-kilometre race
near Brackendale.

HOCKEY POOLS... A
North Vancouver man is
offering a helping hand to
those of us who live for annu-
al hockey pools.

Thomas Clemmer is sell-
ing a 40-page hook, or a
MSWoarks for Windows disk,
containing the latest informa-
tion on National Hockey
League players and teams.

Included are point projec-
tions based on age, past per-
formance and position.

The cost of the book, or
disk, is $6. For more informa-
tion contact Clemmer through
Ultimate Projections, Box
38599, North Vancouver,
B.C., V7L 4T7.

PGWERBAR HILL CLIMB
CHALLENGE... After set-
ting a race record two weeks
ago on Cypress Road during
the first phase of the
Powerbar Hill Climb
Challenge, Kamloops rider
Giav Stan (Team Schwinn)
set another blistering time
last Sunday up Mount
Seymour to lay claim to the
series title.

His combined time for
both mountaias was one hour.
four minutes and 58 seconds.

Second place went to local
tider Mark Ernsting
(Seymour Bicycle/Genesis
Nutrition), and third to
Ermsting's teammate Larry
Zemich.

The Scott Fraser Memorial
award was given to Category
3 vacer Andrew Rapier.

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UBC VOLLEYBALL... The
UBC women’s volleyball
team will be taking on
Seattle Pacific University in
an exhibition match at
Handsworth secondary school
tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m.

In addition, immediately
following the match, UBC
players and coaches will con-
duct a mini-clinic, free to all
elementary and high school
players.

St. Thomas Aquinas
graduate Izabe! Rudol, a sec-
ond-year Thunderbird, is a
key player on the UBC squad,
with tremendous quickness
and versatility.

Admission is $1 for stu-
dents and $2 for aduits.
Handsworth secondary school
is located at 1044 Edgewood
Rd., North Vancouver.

NEWS photo Nel! Lucente

A HANDSWORTH ball-carrier tries to evade Carson Graham defensive back David Green during last Saturday's Buchanan Bowl.

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Eagles’ fourth-quarter drive steals victory from Handsworth

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VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS

AN UGLY win, though a win
nonetheless.

That’s no doubt how Carson
Graham football coach Earl
Henderson looked upon his
Eagles’ 8-6 decision over the
Handsworth Royals in the eighth
annual Buchanan Bow] last
Saturday afternoon at Kinsman
field.

In a game that featured four
fumbles, three interceptions and a
blocked field goal, Carson stole the
victory from the Royals with a late-
game drive and subsequent two-
point conversion that sealed
Handswarth’s fate.

“This is where we win it or lose
it.” a Handsworth coach barked as
the Eagles marched, for the first
and last time of the game, towards
the Royals’ end zone in the fourth
quarter. Unfortunately for
Handsworth, his dire words of
warning went unheeded. as Carson

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running back Craig McLaren
sliced through the Handsworth line
and secondary en route toa 10-yard
major to tie the game.

McLaren then took a handoff
from Eagle pivot lan
Smortchevsky and dragged
Handsworth defensive back Cory
Cameron into the end zone for the
two-point conversion.

A late drive by Handsworth was
thwarted when McLaren, this time
in the role of defensive back,
picked off a Matt Sanderson pass
at the Carson 25-yard line.

The loss was a bitter pill for the
Royals, who missed an epportunity
to draw even with the Eagles’
Buchanan Bowl record. With the
win, Carson leads five games to
three, including the past three
games.

Early in the game, however, it
looked like the Royals were going
to even the mark.

Sanderson was getting great
protection as he confidently sat in
the pocket and found his receivers
on small hitch and post patterns.
The Handsworth quarterback also
made his mark punting the ball,
consistently booting 50 yarders.

Early in the second quarter the
Royals missed on a field-goal
attempt when their holder bobbied
the snap, but recovered a fumble on
Carson's subsequent possession.

The Royals’ offensive line then
went to work, giving Sanderson
protection to complete passes to
tight ends Andrew Newton and
Cameron, and fullback Matt
Anderson.

On second down and If) from
the Carson 13, Sanderson threaded
a ball t© Cameron in the end zone
for the first score of the game.
Anderson's convert was low.

On the ensuing kick-off,
Handsworth recovered the ball ona
Carson fumble and marched to the
Eagles’ nine-yard line. With sec-
oads feft in the half, a wayward
snap thwarted a Handsworth tield-
goal attempt.

Considering they were out-
played in the first half, the Eagles
were lucky to be down by just six
after two quarters,

The second half, prior to the
Carson score, was played mostly in
the middle of the field, as a tiring
Handsworth team was just trying to
hang on.

The players of the game were
Carson's tight end/defensive back
Mike Andrew and Handsworth
guard/linebacker Reggie Martin.

The Buchanan Bowl began in
1986 in honor of former Carson
Graham vice-principal Jim
Buchanan.

Extra points... Handsworth
grad Todd Chapman (1992)

recently transferred from Queen's
University in Kingston to Simon
Fraser University. ... There are cur-
rently 13 Buchanan Bowl graduates
playing college football in North
America — seven from
Handsworth: fan Cook (SFU),
Todd Chapman (SFU), David
Bridger (SFU), Andrew English
(UBC), Strachan Hartley (UBC),
Dan Elliot (UBC) and Andrew
Devine (UBC): and six from
Carson: Jerome Pathon (Univ. of
Wash.), Andrew Plant (UBC).
Kory Lonneburg (Acadia),
Shayne Gait (Rocky Mountain
U.), Dave Saklofsky (Rocky
Mountain U.) and Ramses
Langsten (St. Francis Xavier U.).
... Pathon has also changed schools,
going from Acadia University —
where he was named CIAU Rookie
of the year — to the University of
Washington, where he is playing in
the tradition-steeped Huskies foot-
ball program.

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EIGHTEEN- YEAR-OLD TENNIS player Sonya Jeyaseelan fought bad
press and a well-known rival to win her first-ever professional tournament

last Sunday.

A well-publicized switch of coaches — her past coach was hes father,
Reggie — and the No. 1 seceding in the upset prone Sunlite Challenge in
Vancouver were still not enough to derail this determined player, one of
the brightest hopes for Canadian women’s tennis.

*] played well throughout the whole toumament. and just tried to con-
centrate on what was happening on the court.” Jeyascelan said from her

North Vancouver home on Monday.

Jeyaseekin defeated California’s Janet Lee 6-2, 6-4 to win her first-
ever pro tournament. She and Lee have faced each other six times. and
Lee stayed at Jeyaseelan’s North Vancouver home during the tournament.

Jevaseelan has two more tournaments left in the season, and plans to
turn pro next year, “when Tcan earn cnough money” on the pro circuit.

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