NEWS photo Eike Schroter SANDWICHED BETWEEN No. 7 Tony Snead and No. 9 Stephen Bain, a Handsworth grad (in black) tries to intercept a bail. It was experience over youth as the Handsworth grads defeated the current Fi2ndsworth senior boys basketball team 75-65. High scorers for the grads were Derek Gordon with 17 points, and Earle Birney and Rusty Corben with 13 apiece. Todd Rattee led the Handsworth scoring with 16 points, followed by Snead with 14. JUNIOR HOCKEY Pilots stamp THE NORTH Shore Winter Club Flames were unable to solve the mystery of the feague-feading Abbotsford Piiots, bowing to them 6-2 at a Saturday home game in West Coast Junior Hockey League action, and re- maining winless in their four outings with that team this season. While outshooting the Pilots 29-28, a big factor in Saturday's loss was the inability of Flame scorers to convert on their many quality scoring opportunities. The two teams traded power-play goals late in the first period. Abbotsford opened the scoring at 13:41 and the Flames replied at 17:00 with Rick Rougeau pulling the trigger from Rob Tournier and Sean Mor- tison. But with two minutes remaining in the period ire Pilots connected for their second goal and a 2-1 lead. out Flames Three minutes into the second period, the Pilots went ahead 3-1 and then added two power-play goals fess than a minute apart — the first at 12:44 and the second at 13:17 to take a 5-1 lead. At 18:24 the Flames made it 5-2 as Brad Costa scored on the power-play, completing a slick three- way combination from John Cox and Scott Gordon, and closed out the scoring in the period. Abbotsford concluded scoring in the game at 14:04 of the third period for the 6-2 final. The game, which was telecast by Shaw C able. canbe seen Dec. 6 at 9 p.m., Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 10 at dp.m. Cn Dec. 9 at 9 p.m., the Flames host Hastings Ex- press and then Cravel to Seattle the following day fora game with the Northygst Americans. 17 - Wednesday, Dec Permanent troupe arrives PAGE 27 Jeyaseelan mak IT’S NOT over until it’s over when Sonya Jeyaseelan plays tennis. Tne petite 13-year-old from North Vancouver played a mara- thon four-hour two-minute match last week in the semi-finals of the U.S. under-14 national indoor event in St. Louis before succumb- ing to Tiffany Gates of Michigan 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. Seeded second, Gates went on to win the national tourney after easi- ly downing Florida’s Diana Spadea, 6-0, 6-2. Jeyaseelan’s fa- ther Reggie said the score shows the final was really between Gates ember 6, 1989 - North Shore News es U.S. semis and unseeded Sonya. Later that day, Jeyaseelan team- ed up with Janet Lee from California to play the doubles semi-finals where they were defeated 7-6, 6-4 by Sandra Mir- ingoff and Lindsay Davenport of California. On Dec. 12 Jeyaseelan will be leaving for a fast-paced tour down south for a month where she’ll play the Orange Bowl in Florida, the Casablanca Cup in Mexico, the Coffee Bowl! in Costa Rica and the Que Qui Bowl in Puerto Rico. Swimmers qualify for Games MICHELLE SALLEE and Jen- nifer Goldsmith will be competing as members of Canada’s Com- monwealth swim team after quali- fying for the Commonwealth Games at the trials in Montreal last week. A Grade 11 student at Hand- sworth, Sallee will be racing in the 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events while Goldsmith will race in the 400-metre freestyle and the 400-metre individual medlev OFFICIAL LICENSED PA0CUCT Jersey & events. Originally from Kelowna, Goldsmith now boards with the Sallee family in North Vancouver and attends Handsworth. Both swimmers train with the Canadian Dolphins and are coach- ed by Tom Johnson. Training for the Commonwealth Games starts Boxing Day. Held in Auckland, New Zealand, the Commonweaith Games run from Jan, 24to Feb. 3 [ Buy crested NHL: receive matching”. crested baseball cap F R EE wave $9.98) TUM OUT “Guaranteed Service” Lyn Faiey Centre 1199 Lynn Valley Rd., N.Van. V7J 3H2 = bn - 980-9211 “~~ ~-_980-Ol16