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Young Norvanr club on mend

o.J. Thomas
Contributi ng Writer

IS the glass half full or
half empty?

Soccer Chub is
unbeaten in fi mes and has
climbed @ut of the Meue
Premier League cellar, That's
the half full take on things.

van Soccer Club has
only one win in it's last ti
games and sits near the bot-
tom of the Metro Premier
feague standings.
empty.

The truth is the men’s
team has emerged fram its
carly season slump and is well
on its way back to respecrabil-
ity.

The young sqttad hay one
win and four ties in its last five

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Miter starting the seasen with
six lovses and one ti

Last weekend's scorcless tie
with | Burnaby Canadians
carned them a valuable sing
pomt which brought Norvan
up trom the bottom ot the
standings and more impor-
tantly out of the treacherous
relewation sone,

The former powerhouse in
British Columbia soccer has
been rebuilding since its dark-
est moment in 1996 when it
was relegated from: Premier to
Disision One and forced to
rebuild from scratch,

Since that time the club has
gone through a series of very
deliberate steps it an effort to
regain past glories and things
ure coming together 1 ely,

Manager AP Munro and
coach Gunther Frey have
steered the club with vision
and things are starting to pay
dividends.

“This seasars amar! Norvan's
return to focal soccer's top
Egague and after carly season
growing pains, the team looks
to have found its place.

This weekend Norvan_ is
scheduled to play Sats
and Sunday at Kinsmen
in North Vancous i
2 p.m. both days

In other local action, the
West Van Troflers are in dan-
ger of returning to Division
one after they fost their

NEWS photo Terry Peters

NORVAN Soccer Club — in action above in last year’s
Imperial Cup —- have seemingly soived their early
season struggles in Metro Premier League play.

Premier league match +0 to
Vancouver's: Club Inter last
Sunday.

West Van is among a pack
of teams near the bottom of
Premier standings and will
need to string together some
good jare season results to
ensure its place ino the top
flight next vear, West Van has a
huge match verse Croatia $.C.
Sunday at Ambleside. Game
time is 2 p.m.

The Premier League is
made up of two inter locking
divisions and 14 teams. The
last place team in es

gets relegated.

7. is in first place
in its half of Prem despite
dropping a }-0 decision to fel-
low leaders Vancouver
Vestside last Sunday.

However, Pegasus dumped
Surrey United 2-0 at Kinsmen
on Saturday getting goals
trom Troy Wood and Mike
Dodd. Pegasus and Westside
are likely to play off for the
overall league tide at the end
of the season,

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Saturday ar South = West
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