A Dunbar player locks up for the umpire’s call while a North Van Central player applies the tag
during last week's game in the under-15 provincial championships. Dunbar beat North Van Central

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7-4 and eliminated them from the tournament, eventually won by Whailey.

Lynn Valley heads for Maritimes

LYNN VALLEY’S Little
League team is in St. John,
New Brunswick, repre-
senting B.C. at the national
championships. after upset-
ting Whalley 4-1 to lay
claim to the provincial
crown. :

The victory marks the first time
in .22 years that a North Shore
team will represent B.C. at the
nationals, : .

According to team coach Eden
Briscoe, it’s the first time a Lynn

~.Valley team from this level has
reached the nationals.

“Pm ecstatic,” Briscoe said.
“Four years ago, I knew this team

would contend for the provin-:

cials.’’

Lynn Valley won four straight
games enroute to the provincial
tournament title, beating perennial
favorites Whalley twice.

The ti- and 12-year-old North
Shore squad gave up a total of
only three’ runs.in four games.
Offensively, they scored 3) runs,
And, only two errors were cred-
ited against the well-disciplined
team during the tournament.

| NV cyclist
wins 52-k
Apex race

BRUCE SPICER blazed a golden
path for. North Vancouver racers
at the Earls Canadian Mountian
Bike Championships last weekend
at Apex Mountain, near Pentic-
ton.

Spicer won -the feature 52-
kilometre senior men’s cross-
country race in a time of three
hours, 13 minutes and 48 seconds,
1:09 ahead of defending champion
and second-place finisher Warren
Salienbach of Surrey.

Sallenbach surged to an early
lead, but Spicer seized control of
the race in the final two laps.

~. *It was a pretty gruelling
course,’’? Spicer told the News
following the race.

Spicer was fresh off a victory in
‘the’ men’s downhill event at a
Canada Cup mountain bike race
in--Canmore, Alta. The North

« Vancouver rider finished the 5.5-
km downhill race in 10 minutes
and three seconds — 44 ‘seconds
ahead of his closest competition.

Trish Sinclair, also from North

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THE HOT BOX
by Kevin Gillies

Briscoe said the pivotal game
was a 3-2 win over Victoria Drive,
with Lynn Valley scoring the third
run in the sixth — and final —
inning.

Blake Anderson made two key
defensive plays, catching flyballs
in right field while running into
walls and warm-up mounds.

He also drove in two of the
team’s three runs.

Shortstop Brian Briscoe made a
key defensive play to end the fifth

when Victoria Drive was pressing
with runners on second and third..

In the team’s 21-0 victory over
Comox, Lynn Valley's Ciinton
Hosford threw a no-hitter.

Southpaw Lloyd Haggard shut
down Whalley by throwing a
one-hitter in their 3-0 first
meeting.

The team left Tuesday for the
Maritimes where they will play in
a six-team round-robin tourna-
ment.

The top two teams will play off
for the right to represent Canada
at the Little League World Series
in Williamsport, Pennsylvania
immediatley following the na-
tionals.

Take a Chrysler LHS for a drive this Friday
with Greg Wilson in the auto section.
Greg will give you the goods on the latest
vehicles to hit the showrooms,
from high performance sports cars to family sedans.
Spend a few minutes kicking the tires on a
Chrysler LHS with Greg this Friday.

SUNOAY ¢ SYKOMZEDAY * FRIDAY

Greater
Vancouver
Regional
istrict

Instead of using your car; walk to the store.
Doanenandonyour bicycle.
Take the bus to work, or carpool it.

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