BOXING... North Shore pugilist Fabian Gujral improved his amateur record to 8-3 with a three-round deci- sion over provincial mid- dleweight champion David Habib of Kelowna. ; It was the first fight of Gujral’s career in which he fought in three-minute rounds, and although he received two standing-eight counts in the first round, he fought back to win rounds two and three. The judges: scored the fight 4-1 in his favor. The West Vancouver fighter is coached by Dave Allison and trained by Manny Sobral. GYMNASTICS... North Vancouver gymnast Alana “Webb won the all-around title ‘for Gpen Women of the 1994 ‘Western Canadian Gym- nasties. Championships, held last.. weekend in Grande * Prairie, ‘Alberta. The Flicka club member won the beam * and:floor events, placed sec- ond in the bars competition. and fifth on the vault to win ‘ the overall crow “ Webb’s. Flicka ieammates : -Dapine ~ O° Young -"and - |. Chantelle Poon piaced third . | and fourth, resnectively. The™ _ Strong showing .by: Flicka-: - gymnasts .helped-. British | _Cotumbia‘claim the team title, “beatiig out the host. Province ” and Manitoba. “MARTIAL ARTS....A num- ~ der of members of Champions’ “Martial Arts Club competed at “ithe: B:C> Open Martial Arts - ’ Championships in White ; ~Rock last month. Top. theee’ finishers from the | ’ North Vancouver club includ-’ “ed: First place: Crystal ‘ Jaeggle,. Moe Mirhadi and “Mariela .Zapata;. Second “ place:-Slavash Ashrafinia, . Shawn Jahangard, Anita .-Katzberg, -Massaontis, Naz Mirhadi -.and Teresa Taylor (two, sec- “ond-place finishes); Third place? Jason Jaeggle, Anita ._ Katzberg and Chris Schraff.” VANCOUVER INTERNA- TIONAL MARATHON... - North Vancouver endurance - athlete Hugh Trenchard fin ished in fifth place at las Sunday’s..*- ‘Capilano College graduate, a contributing ‘writer to -the News’ sports page, finished ' the 42.195 kin (26.16 mile) race in two hours, 31 minutes and 25 seconds, Race winner Makato Sasaki, of Japan, covered the course ing lime e of 2:17.24, “The race was Trenchard’s sev- enth full marathon, and marked 4 personal best as he shaved 13 minutes off his. best “time. The race began in “Vancouver, crossed the Lions ’ Gate Bridge, travelled across the North Shore and passed aver the Second Bridge. “Phe 30 kia mark is as you cross the Second Narrows and that’s where it really start- ed to hurt,” Trenchard said a day after the race. Kalliopi ° : Vancouver . International Marathon. The - Yarrows | U-19 North Shore squad sh A GROUP of under-19 women soccer players did something no other North Shore girls’ soccer ‘club did this year: they won the Coustal Premier Cup. By AP. McCredie Sports Reporter The North Shore Amazons cap- - tured the U-19 1994 Coastal A Cup at Kinsman Stadivi last month. with an exciting 1-0 victory over the Burnaby Selects. It was the fourth premier cup won by the Amazons, They owned it from -1988 to 1990, and in 1991 lost in the finals. Leanne Byroii scored the only “goal of the tightly played contest. Byrom was selected as the game MVP. ~ “They played as a team and never gave up,” Amazons’ coach Tom Byrom said of the team’s season in - which they finished fourth in the; : Girls Metro League before marching . to the championship game. The key to that game’s result, ‘according to Byrom, was strong defensive play by rearguards’ Lindsay Brown, ' Leanne - ‘Mancheroff, Jen Hawkins, Denyse Kuhn and Verenica Lie. . The defense forced Burnaby to challenge with long shots, which -were skillfully handled by keeper . Carmen Turner (Asuaia Kusano is . _ the back-up). On the offensive side of. the. bail, ~ mid -fielders J.R. Payne, Andrea Stamatakis and Lyanne Westie kept the pressure on Burnaby. — Forwards Sarzh Cunningham, Jen Mustard, Leah Stipie and Jen Walker also had strong perfor- miances. . . WAITING. IN a game as fast- paced as hockey, figure it would come down to waiting. The Vancouver Canucks’ cur- rent playoff drive — call it unex- pected or call it about damn time — culminates a season-long waiting period by the Canuck faithful. The current four-game undefeat- ed run is thanks in no small way to Pat Quinn. : The once hard-nosed defence- man has evolved into a study of the cerebral coach. The thinker. An original Canuck — he was drafted by Vancouver from Toronto in the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft * — Quinn is visibly enjoying win- ning for a city he foves. ‘Not that that’s such a bad thing, but external emotion is something . the Hamilton native rarely wears on his pressed shirtsleeve. But after the Canucks’ last home game — the thrilling overtime win in Game 6 of the Calgary series — the West Vancouver resident was talking about, and with, emotion. Coming off the second of two straight overtime games, everybody was. “When your back’s against the wall and you see your team play in that pressure and perform well, you know you're making some steps,” the Canuck coach enthused outside a boisterous Vanceuver locker- room. The sold-out crowd was the uts out Burnab y Selects 1- 01 in 1 Premier Cup final Photo submitted” THE NORTH Shore ‘Amazons recently won the u-t9 Safeway Coasts! Premier Cup at Kinsmar ; _ Stadium in North Vancouver. The team will face an Interior chalenger in July. in Richmond to. decide the provincial championships, with the winner of the one-game final I qualifying | for the « Nationals in Halifax In October. : . The team, also coached Peter Phillips, now waits until July for a challenge from the Interior champion to decide provincial honors in a game to be played in Richmond. The win- ner of that game will represent B.C. at the Nationals in Halifax at. Thanksgiving. THROW-INS... Joining Leanne Byrom with MVP honors during the weekend tournameat was Shannon Bow, a member of the North Shore Selects U-17 team that lost 1-0 to Sur-De! Celtic in their cup final. VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS . loudest to rattle the rafters of the Pacific Mausoicum in some time, although Friday night’s game is sure to rival last Thursday’s towel- waving frenzy on Renfrew. Playoffs have always been the’ tonic for a winter-soaked audience. It's as defining a Canadian trail as is Don Cherry. The burgeoning success of a team after the gruelling regular sea- son campaign is sometimes consid- ¢red smooth gravy — a reward for the faithful for their continued box- office allegiance. Other times, playoff rounds are considered climbable steps along a staircase to glory and drinking from In the boys’ Premier Cup compe- tition — held at Kinsman Stadium late last month — the Lynn Valley Falcons defeated Port Coquitlam - Ace 2-1 to win the Under-12 division championships. Falcons’: player James Healey was selected as a tournament all-star. The Coastal Cup . victory capped an outstanding season by the Falcons, who won their league division and the Pioneer Cup prior to : their victorious showing at the week- end tournament. The team is coached by Glenn Cobb and Jan Durban. Other North Shore boys’ named to” the all-tournament squad were: Tan - Hunier-(U-13, see picture page 18); ° Suki Kandola (U-14); Chung Ming Ip (U-17); and Steven London (U-: 19), In last week’s sports: page in a story about North Van Lions Gate Capilanos the coach of the under-13 team was incorrectly identified. Brent Lee, not Ron Hunt, is the coach of the team. : ‘ For more Coastal Cup action | ; results, please see page 16. art of patience — the Cup. For the Canucks of 1994, pre- season expectations lay a little between the two extremes. Recent seasons. pointed to bigger and better things, but this season sputtered and choked along. Scribes scribed, fans muttered, airwaves cackled, but Quinn remained stoic. Sometimes to the point of frus- tration, Emotion controlled i is no doubt a powerful motivator for a team, but wouldn’t it make you feel a little better if Quinn, just once, would beat a hockey stick to kindle when one of his defenceman coughed up a puck? But patient Pat will have none of It. . Which brings us back to waiting. “T think pretty much it’s (the year) been the story of a team being patient,” Quinn says on the team’s - Steps this season. But he also knows, as do the paying customers, that the team has nol yet mastered the fine art of patience. “We've talked about it many times,” Quinn says of his team’s anxious ways, “If we don’t like the way it’s going we want to iake it on our own. A single soul sort of hock- ey club and not a team-oriented hockey club.” The four-game playotf drive has been anything but single-souled, as Kirk McLean, Pavel Bure and Trevor Linden are being joined by "a cgniributing cast that includes “that other guy” from St. Louis, Nathan LaFayette. Everybody likes a winning team, but it’s just as satisfying to ride with a team take continues to take that next step. The band- wagon is beyond capacity today. I’ve even heard Hab © : fans tatk of calling g Ticketmaster, “just to see what the prices are.’ -(Yeah, right). - Bur that’s OK. ; The mornings are sunny, Pat Quinn is smiling, and all is right with the world. “It shows that when you pick up on the mental side of this business, that anything...” Quinn started into, stopping just shy of uttering a front page epithet. “You can’t guarantee’ wins, but you can guarantee good performance.” ” Don’t expect Quinn to change his cool-as-ice demeanor behind the bench. ; It’s his style.” But success and confidence have a way of letting the coaching mask down to reveal the pure competitor inside. * : The Canuck coach wanis to win as bad as anyone in this town, but he, better than most, knows that patience is not only a virtue, it’ san "art that must be mastered.