BASEBALL... The
first ball has vet to be
hit out of the park,
and the Lynn Valles
baseball league has
already scored big.
Rob Fai, a 23-
ar-old baseball
coach with National

New Lynn Valley
junior basebaii
coach Rob Fai

Basebsl’ Institute
experie.ce, has signed
on te voach junior
players in the North
Vancouver league

“T remember being
13, and wanting to be
the best,” says Fai of
his young charges. “I
want them to believe

never set limits.”

Fai will be joining
his father David in the
already-strong Lynn
Valley system.

For more info
about upcoming Lynn
Valley tryouts contact
Rob Mt 313-2720.

CORRECTION: In
last Sunday’s sports
page we incorrectly
identified Windsoz
gymnast Paulina
Leung as the Level 1
silver medallist at the
provincial meet. In
fact, Leung tied team-
mate Irene Chan for
first place.

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WRESTLING...

West Van’s Tanya
Momeni and Carson

Graham’s_ Kristen =

McFee won gold
medals at the 33rd
annual B.C. high
school wrestling
championships __ last
weekend.

In the boys’ team
compttition, _Bal-
moral finished =a
strong fourth, mark-
ing just the the third
time in history that a
junior second
placed in the top four
teams at the provin-
cials. Carson’s bo:
team Ww
the — Eagles’
squad was 25th.

Silver me datises

North §
incluae Carson’s
Ryan) Fulton and
Balmoral’s Kamran
Naghibzadeh.

Thirds went to
Christoph Strubin
(West Van), David
Firenze (Raimoral),
Chris Thom
(Balmoral) and Emily
Richardson (Carson).

Graham 85-66 in N. Shore final

By Andrew McCredie
Sperts Editor

PARIS came to Lynn
Valley last Thursday
night, and the Argyle
Pipers learned some
new ways to say “mon
dieu.”

But the following night
the Pipers taught the Carson
Graham | ;

“you win.”

In action typica: of the

rth Shore senior boys’

sketball pli
bear Carson Graharn in the
tinal round of their two-game
knockout match with a 85-66
win last Friday night.

The previous night,
Carson Graham forward Paris
Jackson crashed what was to
be an Argyle senior boys"
bask tbail team home-court
celebration as the 6°3" Grade
11 scored 32 points in the
Eagles’ 83-64 win.

“The guys really dug
down deep, and the ball went
in the hoop,” said Carson
coach Vern Porter following,
what was an exhausting game
for players and coaches on
Thursday.

After a minute and a half
of somewhat nervous play by
both squads, cach team’s go-
to-guvys stepped up and start-
ed fraying the mesh.

Argyle forward Brad
Harris had the ditficult task
of covering the hor Jackson,
and despite having an inch
height advantage, Harris, a
North Shore first team ali-
star, could do little but watch
as Paris lit up from three-
point territory.

“He hasn’t hit any threes
against us all year, I don’t
think he’s even shot any,”
said Piper coach Peter
Therrien after the game.
“He’s three-for-three. He
stepped up.”

The entire Carson
Graham team stepped up
when you consider that just
one of their starters is a

Grade 12. four of Aruvle’s
starting five are ia their final
year of high school.

Save a stumble in the
opening of the second half,
the Eagles kept the defensive
pressure up and the shooting
accuracy hihi. Carson's Abi
Seiti scored 1], and put in a
strong defensive performance
atthe guard position,

Top scorers for the Pipers
were Hidesh Bhardwaj, with
18. and Fim Nicholson, with
10 points.

“We kind of fet them back
in the game, we got a little
tired, then we cot our second
wind and got it going,”

Porter said of the third quar-
ter.

On Friday night, there
was no second wind for the
Eavles as the more experi-
enced Pipers turned it up a
notch for the win and a berth
in the B.C. triple-A
Championships, which run
March 11-15 at GM Place
The Pipers face Vancouver
College next Tuesday at
noon in opening-round
action.

On Monday night, Carson
Graham failed at a Jast-
chance bid for a berth in the
provincials as they ran into a
tall and tough Clarence
Fulton from Vernon.

One last thing on last
Thursday’s Carson-Argyle
game. We realize that North
Vancouver district schools are
under a fiscal full-court press,
bur the Carson Graham
Eagle mascot is a joke —
besides looking like a raptor
in full molt, its feathers are
blue and white (Carson's col-
ors are red, grey and black).

The Eagles may have won
on the score sheet, but the
Piper fans won the bate of
the bleachers Thursday night
with their “Kill the chicken,
Kill the chi.ken” chant
whenever the ragged Eagle
fluttered by.

—- andrewGnsnews.com

NEWS photo Brad Lease

FLYING LIKE AN EAGLE — Carson Graham forward Paris Jackson goes to’ thea
hoop last Thursday during the first of two final games against the Argyle Pipers
to contest the senior boys’ North Shore title. Jackson led the Eagles to a

Thursday, but the Eagles crash landed on Friday night as the senior-laden Pipers’
clipped their wings 85-66. That's Argyle’s Brad Harris (right) hoping for a rebound

NORTH Shore Winter
Ciub skaters are set tc
showcase their talents:
as the North Vancouve
club hosts the North
Shore international
Skating Competition
March 6-&. Over 700
skaters from Western
Canada and
Washington State will _
be competing.
Admission is free. Cail.
985-4135 for more info. :
Winter Club skaters
competing include (ieft
to right): Taiana O'Hara,

vic Lyons, Brianne
Harris, Michael Giuffre,
Genevieve Hunter,
Adam Way end Kathyrn .
Barnett.

NEWS photo Paul McGrath Ba