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TEAMS from West and
North Vancouver won
almost 40 medals at a recent
karate tournament held by
the Gima-ha Association in
White Rock.

Biack-belt Shelley Jones, of
North Vancouver, was judged best
all-round competitor in the
women’s division, after taking
first place in kata and second in
kumite.

The North Vancouver junior
team, Ali Jiwani, Ivfhan Jiwani
and Mitsuru Nakagawa, won the
Junior Team Kata Trophy, while
the senior team from West Van-
couver — Cathy Stott, Lloyd
Marlor and Daniel Baker - went
home with the event’s most
prestigious award, the trophy for
Senior Team Kumite.

(Kata, meaning ‘‘form,” is a
series of dramatic and stylized
moves of varying speed and inten-
sity, made against a series of
imaginary opponents.

Kumite is the application of
kata skills in combat between two
opponents attempting to score
points by striking target areas on
the body.)

Other medals awarded to North
Shore competitors included:

@ Senior team kata: -fourth place
to North Vancouver (Frank
Mostad, Shelly Jones and Susan
Nakagawa);

@ Junior team kata: fourth place
to West Vancouver (Jennifer
Stott, Sarah Osberg and Benzad
Etemadi);

@ Brown and black-belt men’s
sparring: fourth place to Andrew
Szabo, West Vancouver

@ Yellow and white-belt men’s
kumite: second place to Gord
Grandison; 3rd place to Adrian
Swanton, both of North Van-
couver; .

© Masters’ Open: third place to
Lloyd Martor, West Vancouver;

@

@ Women's green, brown and
black-belt kumite: second: Sheliy
Janes, North Vancouver, third,
Cathy Stott, West Vancouver;
same division kata: first: Shelly
Jones, second Cathy Stott.

North Shore juniors’ results in-
clude:
@ Green and brown belt i7- and
18-year-old males division: Daniel
Stott: first in kata and fourth in
kumite; Benz-’.: “temadi: second
in kata and iiued a kumite, both
from West Vac vuver
@ Yellow and white belt, 17- and
18-year-old males: Larry Hsu: se-
cond in kumite and Howard
Chang: second in kata, both of
West Vancouver,
@ Green and brown-belt 16 and
under males: Aly Jiwani of North
Vancouver: first in kata and
fourth in kurnite.
@ Green and brown-belt 16-
and-under females, kumite: Jen-
nifer Stott, second, Heather
Osberg, third, both of West Van-
couver.
@ White and yellow-belts, 16 and
under: Stephen Wade of North
Vancouver: first in kumite;
Heather Osberg: first in kata;
Salim Virani of West Vancouver:
first in kata.
@ Green and brown belts, 12 and
under: Mitsuru Nakagawa: third
in kumite; Irfan Kiwani: second
in kata and third in kumite, both
of North Vancouver.
@ Yellow and white belts 12 and
under: Andrew Stott of West
Vancouver: fourth in kata.

in April’s Provincial Dojo
Team Champions, David Swan-
ton, Irfhan Jiwani and Mitsuri
Nakagawa, won the bronze medal
in team kumite, open division.

Gima-ha Shoto-Ryu Karate-do
Association has two clubs on the
North Shore,

For more information call
922-3540 for West Vancouver or
293-8694 (day) and 942-5048

(evenings) for North Vancouver.

NV gets Olympic preview
of men’s basketball teams

NORTH VANCOUVER, for
the first time in its history, will
play host to an Olympic
preview of four of the top
men’s basketball teams in the
worid.

During the evenings of May
21 and 22, Canada’s Olympic
team takes on the national
teams of China, Mexico and
Commonwealth of Independent
States., formerly the Soviet
Union, in the Pac-Rim Classic
at the Capilano College Sport-
splex.

Canada’s national team will
be bolstered by the presence of
several players with profes-
sional experience such as Mike
Smrek, formerly with the NBA
Los Angeles Lakers and Bill
Weonnington, a former Dallas
Maverick player.

Coach Ken Shieids is prepar-
ing his team to qualify for the
‘92 Alympic Games in
Barcelona, and he is expecting
to play his top players in this
tournament.

The Pac-Rim Classic will
give Shields an indication of
just where the Canadian team
Stands against top-notch
Olympic-calibre competition.

Team Canada will have to
prove itself against a strong
CALS. team which enters the
tournament as defending gold
medalists from the 1988 Games
in Seoul, Korea. and recently,
as the second-place finishers in
the 1990 World Champicn-
ships.

“This is the first interna-
tional basketball tournament of
this magnitude ever to be held
on the North Shore and we are
very pleased to be able to host
the tournament in the Sport-
splex for our community to en-
joy,’ said Joseph lacobellis,
manager of the Sportsplex fa-
cility.

Tickets for the Pac-Rim
Classic are available from the
Sportsplex ticket desk at
Capilano College. For more in-
formation, call 984-1737.

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

WINDING UP from the pitcher’s mound is a Pemberton Station player, while a Lynnwood bat-
ter waits to swing last Wednesday during North Shore Senior Men’s Fastball action at Mahon

Park.

Carson Graham advances in rugby

HIGH SCHOOL scoreboard
results for the week ending May
12:

ABBREVIATIONS: Arg = Argyle, Bat
= Balmoral, Brac = Brackendale, CG
= Carson Graham, Coll = Colling-
wood, Hand = Handsworth, Hill =
Hittside, HS = Howe Sound, STA =
St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent = Sentinel,
y = Sescove, Suth = Sutherland,
= West Vancouver, Wse = Wind-

RUGBY

Senior Boys

Vancouver and district playoffs:
Semi-finals; CG 39, Burnaby
North 6; Burnaby South 13, WV
0. Final: CG 56, Burnaby South
4. (CG and BS advance to the
B.C. ‘‘AAA" championships at
UBC.)
Junior Boys

North Shore playoffs:
Quarter-final: WV 32, Sent 3;

HIGH SCHOOL
SPORTS

Semi-final: WV 14, Bal 9,
GOLF
Senior Boys and Girls
Sent 6, WV 1; HS 7, Suth 0;
WV 7, Arg 0; Hand 7, Hill 0; Wsr
6, Sey 1; Hill 7, Suth 0.
SOCCER
Senior Girls
North Shore playoffs: Final:
CG 1, Argyle ‘Green’? 0. B.C.
zone playoffs: Burnaby Central 4,
CG 0: Arg 3, Burnaby North 0.
TENNIS
Senior Boys and Girls
CG 7, Hand 0; Wsr 6, Coll 1;
CG 4, WV 3; Suth 4, Hand 3;
WV 5, Wsr 2.
North Shore playoffs: Tie-
breaker for fourth piace: Suth 4,

Wsr 3; Suth 4, Hand 3. Semi-
final: WV 4, CG 3.
Junior Boys and Girls

Hand 7, Coll 0; CG 4, Hill 3;
Wsr 6, Coll 1; WV 7, CG 0; Hill
5, Hand 2.

FRACK AND FIELD
North Shore championships
(events finalized prior to Meet
Day).

Senior Boys

Javelin: 1. Al Kylionen (HS)
46.92m; 2. Josh Romer (WV)
43.30m; 3. Manuel Gervais (STA)
39.68m.

Discus: 1. Josh Romer (WV)
33.56m; 2. Al Kylionen (HS)
32.28m; 3. Marco Anglesio
(Hand) 3{.74m.

5,000 Metres: 1. Grant Bullington
(HS) 16:49.6; 2. Rob Ferguson
(Hand) 17:16.9; 3. Brendan

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