14 — Wednesday, March 20, 1991

- North Shore News

SPORTSLINE

MARCH 24-27: Notth Shore
Winter Club is hosting the B.C.
Masters Curling Association
Championships. B.C."s top eight
senior men’s rinks will be in) the
playoffs. Spectators welcome.

MARCH 29: West) Vancouver
Yacht Club is hosting its 23rd
Annual Southern Straits Classic at
10:30 a.m. from Dundarave pier.
Crews will race in one of three
course routes: long course, short
course and inshore race. For ap-
plication forms and information:
Barry Ford, WVYC’'s fleet cap-
tain, 5854 Marine Drive, West
Vancouver, B.C. V7W 2S2. or
921-7575.
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APRIL 6-20: RecCentre Ron An-
drews presents its level two cycling
clinic in the North Shore Spring
Triathlon workshop series. Led by
triathlete Paul Granger, the clinic
will focus on advanced training
techniques including interval and
hill climbing, group training rides
and race strategies. To sign up,
call Trish Holme at 929-7314.
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MAY 5: The Vancouver Interna-
tional Marathon and Half-

High School

gwood.
Hand = Mandsworth, Hin = Hillside, HS

= Howe Sound, STA Se Thomas

a Sent = Sertinel, cove,
Sen te Sothestande, wv = War vow:
couver, Wst = Windsor.

BASKETBALL

Senior Girls

B.C. “A” championships (in
Agassiz): STA 61, Agassiz 54;
STA 76, St. Margaret’s (Victoria)
41; Final: Ron Pettigrew Christian
(Dawson Creek) 77, STA 62. STA
finishes second.
Sunior Girls

B.C. championships (in
Kelowna): WV 52, D.W. Poppy
(Langley) 34; Laurie (Cranbrook)
54, WY 42; WV 55, McNicoll
Park (Penticton) 41; Dunsmuir
(Victoria) 40, WV 37. WV finishes
seventh,
Senior Boys

B.C. ‘A’ championships (in
Fort St. James): Nisga'a (Aiyansh)
98, STA 90; STA 86, Lillooet 75;

Marathon will follow a new route
which includes North and West
Vancouver. Entry forms are
asailable at any YMCA.

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MAY 20: The second annual
North Shore Spring Triachton will
be held atoreeCentre Ron An-
drews. Sponsored bys the North
Shore News and Westview Cycle,
this short-course triathlon includes
a 78Q-metre pool swim, an 1S-
kilometre cycle and a five
kilometre run. To register or for
information on workshops leading
up to triathlon, call Trish Holme
at Ron Andrews, 929-7314.

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SUNE 22-23: The 24-Hour Relay
kicks off at Swangard Stadium to
raise money for the B.C. Lions
Society for Crippled Children.
Teams of 20 people will run relay
style around the 2.5 mile course.
For information, call 873-1865.

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SPOKTSLINE RUNS every Wed-
nesday a5 space permits. If you
are planning an event, submit
details by preceding Friday to the
North Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale
Ave., N. Van., V7M 2H 4. Priori-
ty given to North Shore and fund-
raising events.

Scoreboard

STA 81, Similkameen (Keremeos)
60. STA finishes fourth.

B.C. **AA’’ championships: St.
George’s (Vancouver) 114, Suth
94 (overtime); Suth 82, Smithers
74, Highland (Comox) 69, Suth
65; Suth 85, John Barsby
(Nanaimo) 72. Suth finishes tenth.

SKIING
Senior Girls

B.C. championships (in
Whistler):

Team standings: 8. Wsr.

Individuals: Slalom (93 entries):
9. Chandra Eyton (Sey) 1:09.40
and $8.21 - 2:07.61; 10. Christy
Allan (Wsr) 1:98.32 and $9.73 -
2:08.05.

Senior Boys

B.C. championships (in
Whistler):

Team standings: 6. Coll; 7. (tie)
Sey.

Individuals: Slalom (104 en.
tries): 3. Kyle Chyplyk (Sey) 54.78
and 55.82 - 1:50.60; 9. Richard
Dye (Arg) 1:00.88 and 58.91 -
1:59.79,

St. Thomas Aquinas places
second in provincials

ST. THOMAS Aquinas finished
second in the province after the
senior girls’ ‘‘A*’ basketball team
was stopped 77-62 by Ron Pet-
tigrew Christian of Dawson Creek
in the B.C. championship final
held March 9-10 in Agassiz.

Erin Mackey scored 25 in the
final.

Ranked third going into the
tourney, STA reached the final
with a 61-54 win over the host
team Agassiz and a 76-41 triumph
over Victoria’s St. Maragret’s.

Nained as tournament first all-
stars were two of the Saints’
youngest players: Grade 10 stu-
dent folandi Freschi and Jamie
Mackey, a Grade 9 guard brought
up from the juvenile team.

At the other end of the province
in Fort St. James, STA’s senior
boys’ basketball team — number
one in the rankings for ‘‘A’’
schools (those with 75 or fewer
boys in Grades 11-12) — were
beaten in their B.C. tournament
opening game 98-90 by unheralded

Nisga’a from Aiyansh who even-
tually finished third.

Aquinas rebounded to take the
next two games from Livooet 386-
75 and Similkameen of Keremeos
81-60 in order to place fourth.

Pat McLewin, who graduates
this year, and David Bernier, in
Grade 11, were selected to the
tournament’s second all-star team.

At the B.C. “‘AA*’ boys’
basketball tourney (for schools
with 76-200 boys in Grades 11-12)
held in Victoria, Suthertand
Sabres won two and lost two for a
10th place finish but will never
forget their first round loss to St,
George's.

Down by 19 in the fourth
quarter, Sutherland came back to
tie the game 89-89 at the buzzer
on a three-pointer by Musa
Hashimoto; only to lose 114-94 in
overtime. [t’s the highest scoring
game in the tournament's 22-year
history and Sutherland's score is
also the most ever made by a los-
ing team.

Gleneagles looking for golfers

THE MEN'S division of the
Gleneagles Golf Club has recently
reopened its membership list and
is now accepting applications to
join.

Throughout the year the club
offers a wide range of golfing ac-

tivities, including annua! inter-club
matches.

To become a full member, there
is an initiation fee of $35 and an-
nual dues of $60.

For more information, call Er-
nie Van Daele, membership
chairman, at 922-0388.

Cap’s Sportsplex nearing completion

STARTING AS interim coach for
a team in mid-season isn’t always
easy. Ask Ken Sherk.

By Guido Marziali

Contributing Writer

When Sheth replaced athletic
director Neil Chester in) January
as coach for the Capilano College
men’s basketball team, he took on
Players he had not recruited.
strategies he had seldom practised.
and defeats which he had never
witnessed,

If you're waiting for the happy
ending, forget it. The midstream
upheaval was something the Blues
never quite recovered from, al-
though they did begin to gel late
in the season. And it didn’t help
that Capilano lost the host spot at
the nationals because of a
tiresome spat between Chester and
league authorities.

But things are finally looking
up. The college has made it of-

ficial: Sherk, formerly the very .

successful mentor of the Sentinel
Spartans, is the new men’s
basketball coach. With two retur-
ning coaches — Dawn Schooler of
women's basketball and Joe
lacobellis of men’s soccer —
Sherk previews the coming season.

He begins by saying he’s
honored to have been asked to
coach the team, and adds he very
much looks forward to next year.
One of the major reasons is the
College’s new Sportsplex, nearly
teady to welcome the Blues into
its 1600-seat arena.

KEN SHERK ... hoping
Capitano’s Sporisplex will give
ailing men's basketball team a
lift next season.

**Fabulous. Fantastic,’ says
Sherk of the Sportsplex, adding
that the facility should “haul in a
couple of good ball players’’ for
Capilano, not to mention more
fans than ventured into the
cramped confines of Delbrock
gym last season.

And, not least, the arena’s big-
ger court should help the fast
game that Sherk favors. The tal-
ented but small contingent of
returning players needs to be
enlarged with ‘‘guards that are
quick ... 6°4’", 6°53" forwards that
are fast, quick, that piay like 5°9"°
guards,’* he says.

It's quite a shopping list, and
probably not too different from
those of other recruiters. *‘All I
can do,"’ Sherk explains, ‘tis
promote the gym, promote the
team, and promote me, as being
the coach.”

Sherk doesn’t need a lot of
promotion. He guided his AA
Sentitiel squad to the B.C. high
school championships four times
in five years, twice into the
Agrodome’s AAA tournament.

Meanwhile, Schooler also looks
forward to playing in the Sport-
splex and improving on a spotty
1990-91 season.

“Our 20 fans won't look like a
full house anymore,’’ she says,
but ‘tone of the first steps in run-
ning a first class program is to
make it look like a first class pro-
gram.”’’ Now, that has been taken
care of.

While lacobellis won't be
needing the Sportsplex for his

team, he has been appointed
manager of the facility. Jacobelliv’
Blues are the current and 1988 na-
tional collegiate champions and
have captured six out of the last
eivhr provincial titles. Nest season
the Blues look to defend their
provingial and national crowns,
and will also travel to: Arizona to
play) Yavapai Junier College,
reigning American collegiate
champions.

The Blues’ success over the past

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.. is a game on ice for girls ...

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season has made rectuiting easy
for lacohbellis.

“ft don't think [ve ever had so
many kids contact me... there's
an awareness of the program out
in the high schools and in the
community, und there’s a feeling
that peaple want to be affiliated
with the program.”

Here’s to a new season of low
goals-against’ averages, high free
throw percentages, and plentiful
fans,

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