Sports

20 - Wednesday, May 1, 1985 - Norih Shore News

Strong turnout for third road race

RICK PARRY AND LINDA
ROSSETTI were !ast minute
entries but first to complete
the distance in the Open Men
and Women Divisions at Sun-
day’s third annual North
Shore Quarter-Marathon
Road Run.

Some 435 entrants were
pleased with the dry day and
slight overcast sky that had
produced heavy rain the day
before.

Pegasus
Starts
season |

Parry, the North Shore one-
mile, two-mile and cross coun-
try champion on several occa-
sions while at Balmoral Junior
Secondary i in the 1968-70 era,
was in a three-man race with
eventual runner-up Tony Bar-
ren and third-place Herman
Sangha for most of the race
until he pulled away to win in
34:48.1.

Barren, winner of the
Masters Men title in the first

“THE PREMIER division

team for the North Shore
Pegasus has just finished a
competitive winter season
finishing in the middle of the

: league table.

This season’s premier
“team homefields include:
Kinsmen Stadium; Grand
Boulevard; and Cap College.

North Shore Road Run in
1983, won that division again
and improved the division's
record time to 35:00. Sangha,
the Sutherland student who
won the Junior Seccndary
gold medal in the two previous
years, was first in the Senior
Boys category and again bet-
tered his time to 35:24.
Rossetti, unbeaten in the
North Shore cross-country
season as a grade 12 student in

: NEWS photo Stuart Davia

The reserve team is Cleve-
land Park South.

This season’s first home
game begins Thursday, May
2 at 6:30 when the premier
team battles B.C. (Canada
Games) at Kinsmen
Stadium. On Wednesday,
May 8, the reserve team
plays Wesburn,

1973 and later a member of
Canada’s cross-country team,
decided to run virtually at the
last moment.

A teacher at Carson
Graham and a member of the
Run’s organizing committee,
she has been in charge of the
course’s 15 spotters each year.
This time she viewed their
spotting first-hand as she out-
distanced the women’s ficld
over the 10.55 km in 41:05.

BATTLING FALCON,
Robbie Tournier (10), duels
with Fraser Vailey Athletic
opponent in 33rd annual
Sua Tournament of Cham-
pions, Saturday at Swangard |
Stadium. The Fourth. Divi-
sion Fatcons held on to win
2-1. It was their fourth Sun
Tournament victory in as
many years.

1985 Sun
Boy from
Lynn Valley

FOR THE FIRST TIME, a-
North Shore player, Sean

Piekaar of the Division 5 Lynn ©

Yailey Falcons, was named the
Sun Soccer Boy of 1985. He is

the youngest player ever to .

receive this award and, along
with fellow team member Jaime
Paredes, was selected to the All
Star team. His team, coached by
Danny and Doug Jensen and
managed by Harty Short, was
named the Most Outstanding
Team of the tournament where
they defeated the Vancouver
Iisiand Sooke team 7-0 on goals
by Trevor Short, Sean Piekaar.
Ryan Carphin, Todd Langley
and William Cromack.

Colts draw from NASL

“On what Colts coach and

General Manager, Frank

” Pike,” calls: ‘tan absolute
’ -nightmare’', North ‘Shore's

semi-professional -soccer.
team suffered its first loss of

. the PRSL season Sunday.

afternoon at Empire

~. Stadium, dropping a 2-1 deci-

sion to Vancouver Columbus

‘3 Italia before a crowd ‘of ap-
: proximately 350.

., We ran into a well’
disciplined team that has

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time,’ says Pike, “ and we

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Columbus. coach, Mike
Bernardis, said the game was
very well-“played by both

Sides, but ‘we had the better

scoring opportunities.’”
Columbus mid-field
striker, .lvano Belfiore,
formerly with Tulsa
Roughnecks and the Chicago
Sting of the NASL, opened
scoring 15 minutes into the
match heading home a corner
kick. New Colt and former
Whitecap, Sammy Saundh
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later on a penalty kick.

Columbus won the game
with approximately 15
minutes to play when mid-
field striker, Gary . Clarke,
blasted a shot past Colts
keeper, Roger Mastin, from
20 yards out.

““It was one of those games
when everything that could
go wrong did go wrong,”
moaned Pike -

Colt mid-fielder, Paul
Nelson, and Columbus mid-
fielder, Dave McGill were
voted individual players of
the game.

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‘three new Colt signings in
time for the team’s home
opener, May 5 at Kinsmen
Stadium: former. Irish inter-
national, Martin McCoy
former Montreal Manic

, striker, Chris Chuden, and

former Fort Lauderdale mid-
fielder, Ted Hamilton.

Two wheelchair runners
also participated in an unof-
ficial race, and Fhil Crowson,
a blind athlete running with
buddy Barry Nelson, finished
237th overall.

More than 40 elementary
school youngsters ran the
shorter 3.6 km route. The
Nor’Westers Track and Field
Club took seven of the top ten
boys’ places and four of the
dest five girls’ spots, although
first place eluded them i in both
divisions.

The participants came from

‘all parts of the Lower

Mainland and Fraser Valley
plus Vancouver Island and
Ontario. David: Martinez of
Mexico placed 250th.

The event began and finish-
ed at South Park Royal and
included running in Ambleside
and Norgate Parks.

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Shore News, the Run was
organized by the North Shore

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Top finishers were:

Masters Women (35 and over) — 1.
Beverley O'Conner (50:51), 2. Cathy
BufMham (52:12), 3. Barbara Boechter
(53:14), 4. Lois Woolley (53:37).
Opera Women — 3. Linda Rossetti
(41:08), 2. Jacquie Orr (41:53), 3
Terry Denike (42:46}, 4. Remy Yan
Hatm (43:27). .

Senior Girts — 1. Shirley-Ann Stolzle
(44:25), 2. Anita Bien (45:43), 3. Missy
Rayfieid (46:40).

Masters Men (40 and over) — !. Tony
Barren (35:€0), 2. Mike Cowan
(37:43), 3. Roger Woodhead (39:35).
4. Joe Corcoran (29:59).

Open Men — 1. Rick Parry (34:48), 2.
Denis Gagnon (36:36), 3. Mark Shorter
(37:24), 4. Owen Parry (37:53).
Senior Boys — 1. Herman Sangha
(35:24), 2. Peter De Souza (36:55), 3.
Stefan Forrestal (39:10), 4.. Brian
Nelson. -

Sunlor Gitis — 2, Siobhan Martin
(44:50), 2. Margaret Langford (46:32),
3. Karlina Breikss (45:23), 4. Nancy
Jackson (50:45).

Elementary Girls — 1. Patty Hansen
(14:14), 2. Nicole Mitchison (14:24), 3.

‘Nicole Trigg (16: O1), 4, Karen Lee

(16:31).

Juntor Boys ‘— " Jamie. Beckett
(38:59), 2. Araa Bjornscn (42:44), 3.
David « Hoskins (44:19), 4. Kevin
Mossop (44:42).

Elementary Boys - — 1, Jeff Schiebler
(12:03.6), 2:Scott Barker (12:28), 3.
David Lee (12: 38) 4 4: Gareth, Metgan

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