Highlanders close in

West Van
tackles Hawks
in football
championships

HE A VEN S TO
Murgatroyd!

By Bob Mackin Jr.
Contributing Writer

Thats what the Burnahy Cen-
tral Havcks will be saying next
Wednesday in the B.C. single
“A’ high school football cham-
pionship unless they can stop
West) Vancouver Highlanders’
halfback Gavin Murgatroyd.

Murgatroyd had three
touchdowns and ran for more
Can 90 yards in Saturday's 34-0
semi-final shutout of the Hand-
sworth «Royals at B.C. Place
Stadium.

Burnaby Central —_ which
dumped the Wiadser Dukes 35-6
in the other semi-final to prevent
an all-North Shore championship
— will face the Highlanders at
B.C, Place, Wednesday, Nov. 28
at 4:30 p.m.

The teams both scored three
touchdowns when they met earlier
this season, but West) Van won
21-18 because Burnaby Central
missed all three point-after at-
tempts.

West Van coach Gary Schwert-
feger doesn’t expect the Harvks to
be any less challenging in the
rematch.

“They've got a lot of play ac-
tion where they fake the run, roll
out and throw the ball at you,’’
he said. ‘*All those things were
giving us trouble the first time we
played them.”’

Murgatroyd scored 20 points
(three TDs and a two-point con-
vert) and rushed for almost 100
yards, including a 62-yard run
four minutes into the third guarter
fer his second of three TDs.

“He did a good job of cutting
back, reading the hole where it
developed and cutting back across
the wing,’” Schwertfeger said.

The Grade 12) student
moonlights as a defensive back, a
position in which he made a key
end zone interception midway
through =the second quarter to
avert a Handsworth touchdown.

Rob Crumlin caught a 44-yard
David Wright bomb in the first
quarter and received a 28-yard
pass in the third for the
Highlanders‘ other two TDs.

* West Van started plasning its
return engagement under the
dome with seconds left in the
third quarter. Royals’ quarterback
Sandy Turner hurled the ball 40

Sturtridge Eagles
freeze-out Esks

THE JUNIOR bantam Eagles of
the Gordon Sturtridge League
sealed their regular season foot-
balt play over the long weekend
with a 37-6 win over the Esks —
boosting the Eagles’ record to
10-0.

The undefeated Eagles re-
corded seven shutouts in their
season, outscoring their oppo-
nents 307-31.

Wednesday. November 21 .

SPORTS

All-stars named

SEVERAL NORTH Shore players
have been named to the All-Star
team announced recently by the
B.C. Secondary School Football
Association.

West Vancouver Highlander
running back Gavin Murgatroyd is
the only North Shore player to
join the (4-member offensive
team.

On the defensive team is Carson
Graham linebacker Kwakwee
Baker, and defensive backs Rick
Strong of West Vancouver and
Chris Yano of Handsworth.

yards from his own 34 to un-
marked Andrew English near the
West Van 25, English juggled the
ball and dropped it into uie hands
of Rick Strong, who turned
around and got to the 42 for the
Highlanders.

The Royals made a last ditch
attempt to make the score re-
spectable in the fourth quarter
with a plethora of substitutions.
Backup QB Rob Ferguson got a
first down inside the West Van 40

WE’RE NO. 1 — or will be
after next Wednesday's
final if these West Van-
couver Highlander
players can repeat last
Saturday's semi-final
performance where West
Van shut out Handsworth
34-0 in B.C. ‘‘A’’ high
school football playoffs.
On Nov. 28, West Van
will meet Burnaby Central
tor the finai.

after scrambling 18 yards with less
ihan two minutes to go. But
Ferguson's last minute completion
to Matti Allas cn a fourth down
gamble was a vard short of a first
down.

“We got beat badly,’ said
Handsworth assistant couch Joe
Bell. ‘We were in there until just
before the end of the first half.
We could have been up 7-6. but
they got the ball, drove for a
touchdown and it was 14-0 at the
half. We went downhill from
there,

“We pul our second string of-
fense in and we started to move
the ball, but it was a case of tco
little, too late."

X-country runner qualifies

CAROL MONTGOMERY of
North Vancouver qualified Sun-
day to represent Canada at the
World Cross-Country Champion-
ships in Antwerp, Belgium and at
the = International Cross-Country
Relays in Bareclona, Spain.

The qualifying race was con-
ducied by the Canadian Athletic
Association in Halifax, N.S.

Held in March 1991, the
Belgium mect will follow the
Spanish meet which is to be held
Jan 31.

‘This remarkable achievement
by Carol is further testimony to

the growing competitiveness of
triathletes and their ability to
cross to the individual disciplines
of run, cycle and swim with suc-
cess,"’ said Les MeDonald, presi-
dent of Triathlon Canada.

Montgomery was recently nam-
ed Canadian Triathlete of the
Year by the Triathlon Association.

Her next event will be the
World Duathlon Championships,
consisting of a 10-km run, 60-km
hike and a 10-km run, in: Palm
Springs on Nov. 24. On Dee. 1
Montgomery will be competing in
the Ixtapa International Triathlon
in Mexico.

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