a Be

~ the Nr ear

- This year’s B.C.

ACTION-PACKED MOMENT as West Van Pirates bear down once again on. the West Van Jets goal in Sunday's
game at Ambleside Park. The Pirates blanked the Jets. 8-0 [Noel Wright photo]

_ Derby - - hitherto a two-day

‘event --. will be spread over

four successive weekends .

That was the decision last
Friday. of the (organizers of

amnansal ficeh

eave} r-old annuds kkri-

ing contest, believed to- be

average
caught i in different localities.

ws orld.

the biggest of i its kind in n the.

“One of the | reasons: for the
extended schedule, .accord-

ing to Doug Keough, execu-
tive: vice- -president of the

derby is the variation in the
size of . salmon

“Last year fish. from one
area (Pedder Bay near
Victoria) - monopolized the

prize list to the point. of °

embarrassment: >

This year there will be a
poundage handicap system
to: equalize: the chances of
participants - in the ~ various
areas.

Fish caught at redder:

‘Becher bays will be entered

at. ‘*scratch"’
actual weight).

(i.e... their

Catches from Cowichan-
Saanich will have six pounds
added for prize award
purposes. Those from the
Lower Mainland will have 10
pounds added, and_ those
from the Pender Harbor area
16 pounds.

The entry fee is being
raised to $15 from $12 last
year, and the top prize will

again be $25,000 cash.

The four-weekend sche-
dulc is:

July 16-17: Lower Main-
land and Pender Harbor
area.

July 23-24: Pedder-Becher
bays.

July 30-31 Cowichan Bay-
Saanich Inlet.

August 6-7:

~ MORE
SPORTS

Lower Main-

PAGE 10

Salmon |

their No. 1 berth, having won
|. encounters

-fourth.for a tournament total
‘so far of seven points.

_waymen'’s encounter

Close shaves for Senators
, At the halfway mark last.

weekend some interesting

_.upsets were shaping up in.
the North Shore Intermediate

‘Hockey League's: Double
_ Round . Robin ‘semi-finals,
which continue through
March 12. .

The league- leading Sena-

tors were holding firmly on to

their
-and

three of semi-final

tied

But ‘the first 10 games of

the 20-game Round = Robin |
brou ght major changes in the’
“fortunes of the. other four
loop members in relation to

their standings at the close of
the’ regular schedule.

With five points to ‘date,
the Merchants -- bottom of

After losing the North

Shore high school basketball

title to Argyle the Hillside.
Highwaymen squeaked into
second place last week with a
narrow 68-67 win over
Windsor Dukes in a sudden-
death playoff.

The victory gave Hillside a
bye into the double knockout
round of this week's Howe

‘Sound tournament.

High scorers in the High-
with
Windsor were Rick Hall with
20 points and Dave Hubbard
with 18.

With only about a minute
of play left Hillside was
leading by five points. Then,
with a fast four points during’

the final seconds of the

game, the Dukes almost

made it. a a
In other North Shore

basketball action North Van
Norsemen toppled Hands-

worth 76-56 in. their final
league game, led by the
league’s top scorer Rod

Craig with 39 points, follow-
ed by Brian Hilton with 19,

the.

Norsemen win zone tourney

the heap in the regular

“Standings -- were running
‘second to the Senators. in

~ The -

Round Robin $action.

Pharoahs, No. 2 in the

-regular standing, had: drop-

ped to fifth place in. the
semi-final séries, with only
two points.

Trojans and___ Pastimes,

third and fourth respectively
had |

in regular standings, .
swapped berths during the

‘first half of the Round Robin. —

#

However, with 10 more

games to go, it’s. still too

early to forecast the outcome

of the series. Despite their.
‘the : Mer- .

early © promise,
chants lost twice in two. days

on Friday and Saturday, and.
will have to fight back kK hard to

keep pace.

North Van then went on to

win the zone tournament by

narrowly defeating the for-
midable Howe Sound
(Squamish) team 70-68 in the
final -- after trailing by 12 at
halftime.

In earlier tournament play
the Norsemen had stopped
Elphinstone 92-62,, trounced
St. Thomas Aquinas 96-66
and dumped Pemberton

86-61.

Once more it was Craig
who led the tournament with
an average 29-point score in
the four games.

Thursday, however, saw
the Norsemen's triumphant
season grind into the sand.

‘

Despite a 24-point contri-
bution from the irrepressible

_ Craig, North Van was elimi-

nated by a 60-52 defeat at the
hands of. Delta in senior boys
"A" playoffs at Cariboo Hill
School. Top scorer for the
winners was Paul Kershaw
with 16 points.

ators have had two close.
Shaves. In the opener they
edged the league fourth-

Meanwhile, even the Sen-

place Pastimes in a slim 4-3
victory. Last, Thursday they
pulled out a 3-3 tie to escape
defeat by the injury-ridden
Pharoahs with only a few
seconds of the game left.

Detailed “scores ‘to the
weekend (games. played-wins
“losses- ties- points) were:

Senators: 4-3-0-1-7; Mer-. f
chants: 5-2-2-1-5; Pastimes: —
4-2-2-0-4; Trdj dns: 3-1-2- 052;

Pharoahs: 4- 0- 2- 2- 2.

The two top: teams emerg- 7 |

ing from the Round . Robin

will play a_best- of-five stop.
time series for. the. league .

title.

page 9, March 2, 1977 -

In Northwest Heckey League playofits last weekend in
North Vancouver.the Hurry Kings defeated Pert Alberni

7-2 on Saturday and 7-0 on Sunday, and are now poised
to wrap up the best-of-five series this coming weekend in
Port Alberni. Meanwhile, Burnaby Lakers clinched their
own berth in the finals with a 7-3 victory Sunday over
SFU in a deciding semi-final game.

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