“Bob Maekin

= Cup giant slalom snowboarding event

in‘ Yealy.:He was fourth after the first
in, but put together a flawless sec-
id run to'capture gold :

the firs anal North Shore Sato Cup

witational.” Team B.C. beat .

the’ visiting: Washington state team..:
The. Carso

lecision. over: rivals

s for. the: only local :;

; .C.: high: schoo! boys
sénio. ‘AAA basketball championship.

raham : Eagles clawed -

8S JONE

Flicka’s Lise Leveille won gold in
the balance beam at the Canadian
Gymnastics Championships _ in
Burnaby. Teammate Nathalie Balfour

- was the top all-around gymnast in the -

“Darren. Chalmers of. North Van):
won. his first:gold. medal‘at a-World’

open women’s finals and won gold on
the balance beam. Collingwood
school won its second straight provin-
cial AA rugby championship 15-10

‘over Abbotsford’s Robert Baternan
- secondary. Steve Bernier had a try
_ with two seconds left in re

lation.

Carson..Graham finished fourth...

. Tracy Godoy struck out in her bid to

bring junior A hockey to North Van.
She tried to buy the Powell River and
Cowichan: Valley. B.C. Hockey
League teams ard then league gover-
nors nixed her bid for an expansion

her partner. in the ver
ture... Former: North “Van : resident

sting the Rugby ‘Canada Su
gue-! national championship ‘at:
n’s Klahianie Park. B

promoter :
‘North “Shore :
in, bike: racing “map.- Shawn:
arion® drew more: mosquitoes than:
le the three- san ‘Wrap: Zone
1 M@un'

Scymow tae he"may have:sown the
seeds. for;

.196-medal bounty.

and music festivals on local peaks...
Alberta’s Steve Sir netted 47 points to
lead his team to an 88-69 win over
B.C. in the firse Canadian juvenile
basketball final at Capilano College
Spo ortsplex.. Sean Thistle of St.

jomas Aquinas had’ seven points
while Brent Charleton’ of Carson

Wednesday, December 29, 1999 —

Graham had four. Alberta’s girls beat.

B.C. 66-54... The XIU Pan American

Games were in Winnipeg and North .-

Shore athletes got to share in the
North Van’s
Brent Olynyk shared the gold medal
in men’s doubles badminton. Flicka’s
Lise Leveille won gold in balance
beam and shared the team gold. West
Van's Colin Dixon brought home
bronze with the baseball team. Mike
Mahood backstopped Canada’s men’s

field hockey team to gold and a berth .

.in. the 2000 Olympics.- Kelly Kerr
: ftom North Van shared silver is; rac-.
“quetball... Gary Gait led the Victoria -

Shamrocks toa 12-11. win over the
North Shore Indians: at Lonsdale

” Arena, sweeping the Western Lacrosse :.

Association semi-final i in four gam

The Burnaby Bandits “scored” six

| times in the second period to beat the

~ North’ Shore ‘Indians: 9-5. for: the:
President’s Cup national lacrosse ~:

; - Copeland LJ

hampionship -.at* Bill. -
‘Arena... Olga Kotelko, 80, returned:
from the world veterans games with

: -six. gold medals and three. silver’ i
- track and field... The'senior, A North

Shore Indians are moving to Kelown.

in 2000 after che team was sold to‘an:

Okanagan: group. Indians’: manage

ment argued the Lower Mainland hi
‘too many.teams and too many empty
“seats at Lonsdale Arena. However, the -

. Indians ‘of ‘the senior 'B West. Coas!
Senior ‘Iacrosse: league will _feturn S

public tennis .centre named in
his honour. oe

“year’s B. C. champs failed to make it...
to the AAA: playoffs...‘ Lise Leveille ©
was part of Canada" 10th place team:

-at.“, the“ "World ©’. Gymnastics
Championships. in Tianjin, Chin
Oct..9, and: qualified for. the .2000

Griffiths of: Campbell River: at. the” :
gles’ hall -ia. North: Van. Kepkay :--

ains ‘with: Ken -Mclanis. at the
Champlain‘ ights Boxing: Club ‘in
= Wancouver:-McInnis put together the
~ 15-bout card and hopes to establish
permanent ;-club .-here...': Capilano
Collége’s soccer teams
ver™ medals «at the: B.
college: socce: championships in
Kamloops Oct.:30:'The men’s Blues

‘opened, giving the North Shore an

indoor,’ : public’’; tennis. : comple

of the. Windsor Dukes foot:

rway fr
in the final to Holy |

GRANT. Connell. ‘opened ‘the.

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