Wednescay. October 3, 1990 - North Shore News - 17 in Pte, NEWS photos Neil Lucente Run, cycle, then run some more the women and first in the 25 to 39 age division while Sally Spires of North Vancouver finished second in the 40 to 44 age division. Meanwhile, Mark Erina of North Vancouver finished ninth overall in the men's division. Other North Shore men who placed in their age divisions include Jeff Bolton, Leo Mazzoleni, ichael Lane, Paul Lee, Peter Willemse and Arthur Everton. The DEFLATED DREAMS: Mark Overton (top) of Nanaimo desper- ately fixes a flat Saturday so he can continue the cycling por- tion of the Canadian Fall Duathton held at the Seymour Demonstration Forest. Earlier in the day, a competitor (left) receives a unique muscle relaxing technique prior to the start of the 5-km run, 30-km bike, and 5-km run. Ouring the final run segment Duncan Robinson of Langley (right) grabs some water. Several North Shore athletes achieved good results in the event. Sarah Gallazin of West Vancouver placed sixth overall for North Vancouver relay teams Road Pigs, Kirk-Norris and NcLaren-Dairon finished first, third and fourth respectively. 10-pin Merchants warm up to season bowling 64 pins over his average, Andrew Johnson 71 pins over and Dan Hicks 54 pins over. Meanwhile, the veteran bowlers are getting back into form after a Jong summer off. THE NORTHWEST Merchants tenpin bowlers are a mixed bag of first-year players and veterans this year. In the team’s third night) of bowling several rookies produced decent scores with Mark Young Wendy Giovinazzo picked up CE ry 7 ta ‘Sy . . , her averane by SO pins to come close to her last) year’s perfor. mance while Randy Ruchman rolled within 1) pins of last season's average with a fine 214. gamte in the process. Doreen Lanes gained with a leap of 169 pins plus a 2Ef-pin game, The league pkiys Wednesday nights at 6:30 pom. Experienced and new bowlers wanting to join the Northwest Me:chiants can drop into Thunderbird canes to sign up or call the lanes at 985-6104. Parnell outswims rivals THE Ke Comox gaye Joan Pyrnel furits foes wat het swan more wodd medals Parnell tsished oturst oan the ZS-metre bos oth S0-metre backstroke. Toes ugtre individual medles and 2OC-smnetre Ereesty te. Iuoche fatter tie she actually lapped the competitian, winnne the evento Vs Ty almost a Sones baat oa North hor ep par peeahe inal Shore’. atier minute ahead of the closest con- tender. Other North Shore swimmers, coached bs Parnell abo acquired themselses creditabls. Thes in- chude: * Dorothy Batlen (TO.Ta, third place an 2S-metre amd Sa. metre treesta le, e dane Borthwick (68-69) -— first place in LOO-metre., 200-metre and 400.metre treesty le, * Ros Borthwiek (70-79) — se- cond place ino the SO-metre backstroke and third in 2S-metre backstroke. Former Lann Valley residents Hack and Pat) Gallagher. now from othe Sunshine Coast, also competed in the Seniors’ Gimes. Pat (68-69) took second place in the 2S-metre butterfly. S0-metre freestvle. LOQ-metre individual medley and third place in the 50-metre backstroke. Meanwhile husband Jack (70- 79) placed first in the 100-metre and 400-metre freestyle and se- cond in the 200-metre freestyle. The above swimmers also joined members of the Vancouver zone team (to secure first place in the mixed (230-259) 200-metre freestyle relay and women’s (260-plus) medley relay, second place in women's (260-plus) 100- metre freestyle relay and mixed (260-plus) 200-metre freestyle relay, and third place in the men’s (260-plus) 100-metre medley relay. Kats scratch Caps rugby CAPILANOS FIRST XV lost a 22-17) decision in) their first division rugby game against Kats at Balachival Park on Saturday Despite playing some of their best rugby of this voung season, Caps were down 13-0 at the half to a typical ag- gressive Rats teams which capi- talived on their few scoring opportunities, Shane Cable. making — his debut as) fullback for the locals, sparked a comeback in the second hall with a try. a penalty kick and a@ conversion of a Doug Speranza try. Meanwhile, Kats added a con- verted try te their tally. With 10 minutes remaining, Caps were completely dominating their opponents and appeared certain to over- come their six-point deficit: as they repeatedly stormed the Kats line. However, a Dean Massey try was not enough to vain a vie- tory and Kats added a penalty hick before the final whistle. This was a fine display of tugby by the locals who deserved @ better outcome. Other weekend rugby action had Capilanos Second lose to Kats Second 2t-19, while Capilanos Thirds clawed UBC Old Boys Thirds 41-0.