NEWS photo Neil Lucente

LORI DURWARD warms up at Ambleside Park in preparation for a run.

Blues hoop teams look up to defeat

FOR ALL its convoluted Strategies and procedural com-
plexities, basketball remains a game where only the tall

survive.

The Capilano College women
Blues, who are talented, hard-
working, and not tall enough, fell
52-45 on Saturday tu the Cariboo
Goidrush, who out-rebounded
Capilano all night. The men
Blues, whose game against
Cariboo followed the women’s,
lost a closer one, 88-85.

Holding the visitors to 52 points
usually guarantees a win for the
home team, but the Cariboo
basket might as well have been
invisible for the rare times the
Capilano women found it. The
Blues shot with difficulty against
the tall defence, and Cariboo’s
dominance at the boards put ex-
cessive pressure on Cap to make
the first shot. In one stretch the
Rlues put up three consecutive
airballs.

By halftime Cap had scored 17
points to Cariboo’s 31. In the se-
cond half Heidi Maida sank four
shots from the outside while
Chery! Kinton chipped in a bunch

By Guido Marziali
Contributing Writer

of free throws — she led all
scorers on the night with 23. Kin-
ton also frustrated Cariboo's
Kerry Roberts, who had 17 points
by intermission but added only
four after Kinton was assigned to
mark her.

Jenny Anderson, the Blues’
tallest player at 5°10°", was stifled
by the Goldrush and also got into
foul trouble. Ditto for the other
tall post, Leanne Isaac. The Blues
couldn't have asked more from
Allison Snelgrove. who made a
basket for three while bleeding
from her nose and hobbling ona
sprained ankle.

Cap alse lost on Friday at
Fraser Valley College, and their
record stands at 1-4.

Said coach Dawn Schooler:
“We're trying to work back one
step at a time and start to get

CAPILANO COLLEGE
SPORTS

some confidence back and set
some different goals other than
just go out and beat them — let's
go out and make an effort to
make sure our rebounds are up
and our defence is better.’'

The Blues improved in those
areas Saturday in the second half,
Schooler noted, but the 14-point
halftime deficit was too large to
overcome.

In the other game of the night,
the men Blues started impressively
against the Cariboo Chiefs with a
10-0 run, but the visitors woke up
and replied with 12 out of the
neat 15 points.

Mike Anastasi showed well with
a couple of steals, a three-pointer,
and a flashy drive that he began
with a steal and ended with a
layup. Blair Hokensen make {3 of
his 15 points in the first frame. At
halftime the two squads were sep-
arated by one poiat, with the
score 35-34 for Cariboo.

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Durward

the distance

DISAPPOINTED ONE season and pleasantly surprised
the next is how to best describe the career of track

athlete Lori Durward.

Right on the heels of her
graduation from Handsworth,
the 18-year-old middle distance
runner signed on with UBC
where she ran cross-country in
the fall and is just starting the
indoor season for the winter.

Durward’s pleasant surprise
came Noveinber at a Halifax
meet when she qualified for the
March 24 World Junior Cross
Country Championships in
Antwerp, Belgium.

“I was really surprised I made
the team,’’ says Durward. ‘I
don’t really work that hard on
my endurance; it’s more on my
speed.””

Tall, lanky, and soft spoken,
Durward says she prefers the
shorter 800-metre and 1500-
metre distances, which is where
she has so far made her marks.
At the 1990 B.C. high school
track and field championships,
she clipped almost two seconds
off the previous 800-metre re-
cord set in 1982 with a time of
two minutes, 08.61 seconds.

The disappointment for Dur-
ward came last year when she
failed to qualify for the World
Junior Games held August in
Bulgaria. She made the quali-
fying time two times as required
but not by the date required.

“IT made the standard, but I
made it too late. It was a bit
disappointing, but 1 was happy
with my times,’ she said.

Not one to dwell on the past,
Durward is already looking for-
ward to the Belgium race. but
says she will need to change her
training first to focus on longer
intervals and more mileage. The
race will be four or five
kilometres — not a distance she
has concentrated on.

“Ivll be really tough. [’'m not

After the intermission the Blues
feil behind 44-50, but Anastasi
kept it from getting worse by
breaking up a two-on-one. There-
after, guard Mike Rose came in
from the bench to resurrect the
Blues defence. Interim coach Ken
Shierk, who has taken over the
team while Neil Chester sorts out
a dispute with league authorities,
complimented Rose.

“He came in and played real
tough, and sparked everybody
else, everybody stasted playing
well, and even when he came off
they continued to play well. He's
the gvy that got it turned
around.”’

Unfortunately the Chiefs also
turned it around, scoring 12
unanswered points to lead by five
with four minutes to go. Anastasi
eventually pulled the Blues even
with five points on two hoops, but
the Chiefs finished strong and
won by three.

Cap men lost another close one
on Friday to Fraser Valley Col-
lege, so whiie their games have
been more exciting, their record is
just the same as the women’s.

By Elizabeth Collings

News Reporter

setting my standards really high.
1 just want to run a good race,’
she says.

A goal even closer to her heart
is the Pan Am Games in
Jamaica this July. Competing in
her last year as a junior, Dur-
ward must qualify at the junior
nationals at the end of June.

In the meantime, she has a
busy schedule. In addition to the
world cross-country race, Dur-
ward will compete next month at
the Canadian West track meet in
Winnipeg and in March at the
Canadian Inter-Collegiate
Athletic Union mcet in Windsor,
Ont. She also trains six days a
week for one or two hours at a
stretch with the guidance of na-
tional team coach Marek Jedrze-
jek.

“These couple of months are
just going to be wild because
we’re travelling so much,’’ she
says.

After her !9th birthday, Dur-
ward will compete in the senior
division where she will be pitted
against runners with far more
experience.

‘it’s a big jump,’’ she says. but
admits in her next breath that
she does have much bigger plans
for herself, namely the Olym-
pics.

“‘T think that’s probably every
runner’s dream. | think for the
1992 Olympics I']l still be prety
young, but nevertheless we'll see
— but definitely for the 1996. I'll
be a good age,”’ she says.

Let’s hope that Durward is in
for more pleasant surprises in
the future — not that she hasn’t
earned them.

Kitchen top
laser youth
Down Under

BRAD KITCHEN of West
Vancouver pulled off a first in
the youth division of the recent
1991 Australian National Laser
Championships.

Racing against top sailors
from many countries as well as
Australia’s best, Kitchen, 18,
also finished fifth overall in
open competition. The
Australian nationals were held
at Port Lincoln, Australia.

Kitchen is currently touring
Australia on the faser circuit.
In March, he plans to return to
Vancouver to start training in
an Olympic-class stac boat in
Preparation for the Olympic
trials to be held this summer in
Vancouver for the 1992 sum-
mer Olympics in Barcelona.

From the West Vancouver
Yacht Club, Kitchen is ac-
cumulating several victories to
his credit including a bronze
medal in the 1990 World Youth
Championship.

Wednesday, January 30, 1991- North Shore News ~ 13