34 — Wednesday, February 3, 1999 — North Shore News

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Smart leads pro mogul tour

WHISTLER Freeride ting bounced trom side to side LOD crrer snow. and after ber ihe first jump but it was just
Team mogul skier John but just kept hanging enirving run) Ringstad said the course too snowy,” she said: Sarurday

. vet contr tore the sce the toughest she’s ever afternean.
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Mogul Championships Dig mistakes but because this
on Saturday in was duak. sou never know

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gun. so there was no way Dwas : aay

The Lion's Bay native win giving up ohe continued, : a Se
maintained his lead in the pres Once Po hit the bottom air | iris Vi West Vancouver

“Twas going to doa spin otf

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rankings on the FES sanctioned
Pro Mogul circuit.

“Twas actually teeling very
tired on the morning et con
and omy

Was

said Smart

Monday, who tor
the past few

home. y
was the altitude or
it was
T hadn’r
had my morning
coffee... a strong
espresso sean got
me going.”
forme
fanadian Freestyle ream: mem:
edged homerown favourite
Luke Westerland in a blistering
final ran on Mach 1, a run
which is ranked along with
Blackcomb’s Davies Dervis ats
one of the world’s steepest and
toughest: competition bump
sites,

Smart, the mumber one
seed, attacked the 32) deg
bump-intested slope in ty
Cc Canuck fashien ins the
dual mogul tinal against second

knew T could hold on through
the finish.”
Former Canadian
member Christian Ma
finished 3rd) with
Whistler's
Mare Macdonnel in
Oth.
rent will be
don ESPN
Sunday, Feb. 210 at
30 am. and by
2 on
Saturday, Feb. 27 at
10am.

The final event of

son is
Valley, Calttornia,
on March 20.

Ringstad ninth in
Blackcomb duals
Kelly Ringstad improved) on
her best result of the World
Cup Freestyle season Sunday as

the West Vancouver 4
placed ninth in the dial mogul
sompention.

The 24-vearold’s previous
best result was a FOth, which
she achieved two weeks age in
Breckenridge, Coiorado,

On Saturday, Ringstad was
the fitth skier down the snowy

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SUTHERLAND Sabre Reza Nasooti doesn’t have much | seed Westerland. :
of a chance for this rebound as Handsworth’s 611” “Once [deft the tap ain, TP course. Over the course of 48
centre Derek Potter reaches for the ball. The Royals new it was voing to be acrazy hours the run had received over

may have won this battle of the boards, but when the ride through the middle of the

final buzzer went the Sabres had won the game 69-53. course,” Snart said. “f was get
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