<2 of on SAY 'GOCD BYE’ FOR DAVIS CUP TEAM The Canadian Davis Cup tennis team, led by North Shore native Grant Connell, has been avarded a bye into the second round of 2001 Davis Cup competition. The team tirst heads into action April 6-8 in a tie versus either Mexico or the winner of the Argentina-Colombia tie being played in October. Connell took over as head coach of the team atter Louis Cayer retired this spring. schools mining gridiron gola dan-Christian Sorensen Sports Reporter jsorensen @nsnews.com ‘A number of North Shore natives have secured spots on university gridiron squads this fall. Simon Fraser University will see six luca! players take to the field for the Clan this: season, while another North Shore three will don the colours for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. The Clan has a home in the Columbia Football Association while the - T-Birds belong to the Canada West conference in the CIAU. .For. SFU, leading the way will be returning rushing leader Mike : Vilimek, a junior who graduated from North Vancouver's Windsor sec- ondary. Vilimek is a six-foot-three, 221- pound running back. Serving time on the defensive line will be Sentinel’s. Jeremy Kaleniuk, a six-foot- one, 249-pound SFU junior, and sopho- more-Adam Perrins, a six-foot-one, 223- pounder out of North Vancouver's _ Handsworth Secondary. Another Handsworth alumnus, six-foot, '200-pound linebacker Matt Bradshaw will “Serve his junior year on the squad. Carson Graham can boast of senior defen- sive back David Green, who comes in at five-foot-eleven and 199 pounds. “ Meanwhile, a new face in the Clan crowd is freshman quarterback Darcy Grant, a six-foot-three, 211- ~pounder who cut his ‘teeth at. West Vancouver’s Sentinel sec- ondary. For the T-Birds, seeing action will be Joey Mancin, a. six-foot-four, _220-pound defensive end whose old stomping ground was at Windsor. * Also out of Windsor is Trent Orton, a six- foot-one, 200-pound linebacker entering .~ his senior season with the T-Birds. :-West Vancouver’s Sentinel will have repre- sentation in the form of Sasan Ansari, six- foot, Z00-pound linebacker. . Freshman linebacker and Handsworth - product’ Mike. Hitchborn, a five-foot- _J eleven, 190-pound import from Nevada, ce Will also take his place on the field. North. Shore. native: Jay Prepchuk will once again assume head coaching duties for the UBC squad, while Chris Beaton will enter his 17h season at the helm. Beaton has: amassed a 67-97 record at SFU, while Prepchuk notched an 8-3 record - — 4-@ at home and 3-i on the road —in his first year at UBC. Prepchuk’s team went 7-1 in conference regular season play and 1-1 in the playoffs. Last season the Clan went 4-6 — 3-2 at Mike: Vilimek. halls from Windsor secondary, ae home and 1 4 on the road. “The Cian plays all its home games at Swangard Stadium, while the T- Birds host their “home tilts in their namesake stadium at UBC. The.two teams will go head-to-head for local bragging rights at SFU or the Shrum Bowl XXIII on October 6 at 7 p.m. . “Last year SFU clipped the T-Birds’ wings with a lopsided 41-14 victo- y at the Shrum Bowl at Swangard.- : The Clan opened its season with a 24- 20 win over the University of Puget Sound Loggers this weekend in Tacoma. 2S. Vilimek racked up 174 yards rushing and was good for three touch- downs in the win. He helped SFU to a 14-0 first-quarter score with a pair -yard runs into the endzone. : Vilimek ran the ball 17 yards for another touchdown in the third. David Green also added a pair of interceptions for the cause. “The T-Birds took an Aug. 26 preseason game 26-24 over Alberta in a Kelowna, but lost its first official tilt 35-27 in Manitoba. “On Sunday, the T-Birds edged out the Regina Rams 33- 30 to improve its record to 1-1 on the scason. : Following is the Clan’s remaining 2000 schedule: Sept. 16 at Pacific - Lutheran; Sept 23 at Eastern Oregon; Sept. 30 at home versus Whitworth; ‘Oct: 6 at Vancouver's Shrum Bow! "00; Oct. 14 at Humboldt State; Oct. “21 at-home versus Southern. Oregon; Oct. 28 at Western Washington; «Nov, 4:at.home versus Western Oregon; and Nov, 11 act home versus » Central Washington. “.? Meanwhile, the T-Birds remaining games are: Sept. 15 at Calgary; Sept. 22. at home. versus. Alberta; Sept.. 30 at Saskatchewan; Oct. 6 at . Vancouver’s Shrum Bowl 00; "Oct. 13 at home versus Manitoba; Oct. 21 at’ Regina; and Oct. 27 at home versus Calgary. Wednesday, September 13, 2000 - North Shore News - 45 LUCKY 13? Former North Shore Twins hurler Ryan Dempster will try for his 13th win of the Major League Baseball campaign tonight when his Florida Marlins go head-to-head against Greg Maddux and the Atfanta Braves. Dempster. 23, sports 3 12-9 record with a 3.61 ERA and 185 strikeouts in 199 innings of work this season for the Fish. : NEWS photo Paul NeGrath NOATH Shore men's volleybali players in Grades 8-10 will get an opportunity to hone their set and spike skills when Capilano College kicks off its new weekend volleyball Program on Sept. 24. ; Cap College league will combat school program deficit Jan-Christian Sorensen Sports Reporter frorensen@nsnews.com WANTED: aspiring young men’s volleyball — players from Grades 8-10. Capilano College manager of athletics and recreation - Joe Iacobellis is working with past Volieyball B.C. president lan Gregory and the North Vancouver Rec Commission to establish a competitive club league at the college this fall. The aim: build a system to help pinpoint and develop North Shore volleyball talent. Tacobellis is feeling the pressure. He's facing a severely- depleted pool of men’s volleyballers — just last season the college was forced to cancel its men’s program duc to a lack of players. No men’s volleyball league currently exists in the North Shore school system to help groom local talent, and Tacobellis said if the things don’t change, the consequences program by the year 2001 | they will consider scrapping our whole volleyball program,” he said. - That would effectively spike a now-successful women’s: . volleyball team at the College. After giving the reins to head coach Wayne Desjardins last year, the team shot from sev: : enth place in the BCCAA to third place at season’s end. . “It’s almost impossible to have a collegiate program if you don’t have a feeder system, ” said Tacobellis: “Every col. tege has one except for us.” a The prospective league will have as many | as four to. ; eight teams that will compete for tvo hours on Sundays’ starting Sept. 24 at the college, The league will run for ten weeks — ending in time for participating students to sign” up for schoo! basketball squads. ‘ . Teams will vie for top spot in a com mat, with playoffs and a championship of the season. Six volunteer coaches are also at the ready. : “All we need now are the kids,” said Tacobellis, titive league for: ina st set t for. the gad, . for Cap College could be dire. “The (B.C. Colleges Athletic Association) now * has given us an ultimatum that if we do not have a viable men’s Registration for the league is $70 and includes all equi ment. For more information on_ the league, phone e NVRC at 987-PLAY. : ailly leads 86ers to slayotf win NORTH Vancouver’s Paul Dailly helped his visiting Vancouver 86ers soccer club to a first-round overtime playoff win against the San Diego Flash on Saturday. Dailly, who captains the team, gave the team a short-lived 1-0 lead late in the first half when midfielder Alfredo Valente played a short corner to Dailly, who drilled a low, hard shot to the near post which Elash goal- keeper Tom Tate couldn’t get a bead on. San Diego's Carlos Farias scored the equalizer, a 35-yard free kick into the top right corner of the goal and past 86ers keeper Paul Shepherd. The game moved into 30 minutes of sudden death overtime: with nei- ther team able to claim victory. The 86ers eventually notched the win with a 5-4 score on penalty shots in overtime. __ Dailly, = Domenic Mobilio, Steve Kindel, Chris Franks and Rick Titus all contributed to the cause, while Shepherd made the save Pa Jerome Watson to seal San Dicgo’s te. it marks the first time the 86ers have advanced to the second round of the A-League playoffs since 1997, when the team clawed its way to the semis. San Diego outshot the R6ers al - will run from. Sept. 20-24. The A- total of 14-8 in the game. In other Western Conference play- off action, the. Minnesota Thunder blanked the Indiana Blast 7-6, while Milwaukee edged out El Paso 3-2, -The 86ers now move on to play the Thunder tonight at.7:30 p.m. at” Swangard Stadium for the first tilt ina o-game, total goals series. The next game — which will see the 86ers trav- el to Minnesota — will take Place this Saturday. : Another North Vancouver native, Bobby Thornton, plays defence for — the 86ers, while Darren Rath, also of - North Van, has.a spot on the 86ers reserve team in Abbotsford. : o Round three of the playoffs. ~~ a. two-game home and away series — is the Western Conference Finals, which ~ League final is a single tilt tentatively b, . Scheduled for Sept. 30. eke _ Jan-Christian Sorensen