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BADMINTON...
Phil Allard,
Capilano College’s
best-ever badminton
player, won the silver
medal at the recent
Canadian College

Athletic Association’s i |
Badminton &

| Championships.

The first-year
Commerce _ student
was upset by long-

time rival Mergan {%

Van Heukelum, of
| BCIT, .15-11, 7-15,
15-8 in the men’s sin-
gles final last week-
end at °Sfalaspina
College in Nanaimo.

PHIL ALLARD...
2nd in nation.

“I played as hard
as I covid,” said”
Allard of ‘the three-
gare final. “I defeat
ed Morgan two
’ straight in the provin-
‘cials, but I guess this
“was not my day.”

Allard defeated
champions from
Ontario, Alberta and
Nova Scotia en route
to the finals, display-
ing some of his most

year.
“Phil
exhibition,” “BI .
coach .. Derek,
Hoekman’ said. “He:
has . nothing «to . he
ashamed of .. his
back was bothering |
-him - after ~ playing
three. - preliminary
matches on the hard
floor surface but he
‘continued: to | battle.
until the end.” ”

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“ Blues’

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Passing of
Forum sign
of the times

GIVEN HOCKEY
Night in Canada’s over-
sentimentalized
fareweli to the’
Mentreal Forum last
Saturday, one can only
imagine what heights
(or depths) it will attain
on that Inevitable day
Toronto’s Maple Leaf
Gardens closes its
doors.

The building variously
referred to as hockey's
Mother Temple and the
Carlton Street Cash Box is
now the NHL's oldest, built
in 1931, seven years after the
‘Forum was constructed in a
matter of 159 days in 1924.

In these times of inflated
salaries, equalled only by the
TV-inspired inflated hype
surrounding all pro sport, it
no longer is the cash box it
used to be. This is reflected
in the-fact that the three
Canadian cities chosen to
host World Cup games later
this year are Vancouver,
Ottawa and Montreal.

Toronto, with only 15,000
seats, has been omitted. The
Vancouver and Ottawa build-

- "ings hold 19,000-plus and .

the new Molson Centre seats
21,000.

Once the finest hockey
_ arena in Canada, the Gardens
is now a relic unable to pro-
duce the box office dollars

. the new arenas can.

to be second banana in any
building the basketbat!
Raptors may eventually put
up, the Gardens may outlast’
the Forum’s 72-year lifespan.

In the sports facilities
league, 72 years is an eterni-
ty. There is no other
Canadian sports facility that
old. Down south, the Rose
Bow] and the Coliseum in
Los Angeles still stand.

Remember Empire
Stadium here in Vancouver?
Built in 1954 for the
Commonwealth Games, it
was hailed as the finest facil-
ity of its Kind in Canada.
Within 25 years it was being
excoriaied as an out-dated,

" money-losing, down-at-the-
heels dump.

The B.C. Lions departed
in 1983 for the downtown
dome and there wasn't a
mourner in sight.
Prematurely dead at 30, it
wasn’t accorded anything in

* the way of an eulogy. But

then, not many steel and
concrete edifices are.

What made the Forum a
special sentimental case is a
combination of the
Francophone passion for
hockey — greater, even, than
for separation — and the
Canadiens’ ability over the
years to keep that passion
boiling.

The team once known as
the Flying Frenchmen — but
on current form and content,
the rather pedestrian Flying
United Nations — has won a
record 24 Stanley Cups.
Twenty-two of them were
fashioned at 2313 St.
Catherine Street.

Verily, in French-
Canadian eyes, the building
became a shrine, up there
with Ste. Anne de Beaupre;
and the team one of La Belle
Province’s leading symbols
of Quebec’s French identity.

. Therefore, your agent
found it passing strange that

See Shrine page 40

COLLINGWOOD’S STEPHANIE Hume (right) hit two clutch tree throws in the

dying seconds to lead the Cavaliers

st AL. Fortune 34-32 to win tho B.C,

single-A title. team members include (left to right): Emily Hamer, Brandi Halls,
coach Jim Burnett, Jenevieve Calla, Merle O'Connor, Diana Yu, Micheela

Becker, N
and Penny

alley.

STEPHANIE HUME’S two foul shots
broke a 32-32. tie and gave Collingwood a
34-32 win over A.L. Fortune of Enderby in
the championship game of the B.C. Girls’
“A” Championships in Rossland March 2.
_. The Cavaliers, although never behind by
more than five points, took the lead for the
first time at 22-20 during the third period.
Tournament most valuable player Claire

NEW FOUND success is
often a double-edged sword
with expectation dulling the
sharp, sweet sensation of
accomplishment.

Such was the case for both
Capilanc College basketball
teams at their respective
provincial tournaments.

The men’s team, making
their first post-season appear-
ance in over 10 years, lost 62-

_59 to Malaspina in the semi-

’ finals. The Mariners went on.

to win the B.C. title.:.

“The team played : as well:

as they could,” said Capilano
head coach Phil Langley.
“To come within three points
of Malaspina College was
hard to swallow, but I was
proud of the way the team
battled to the end.”

Similar sentiments were
voiced by Lady Blues’ head

coach Greg Zavediuk fol-°

jar Elmieh, Nicky Hartley, Tink Plumb, Kyia Morton Claire Hinneli .

Hinnell scored 14 points: and hauled j in 15 ;
rebounds. for the Cavaliers. Hume, was’
selected to the second all-star team. ol
Collingwood, who qualified for the tour-

nament: by beating. Pemberton .. 47-32, :
downed Pacific Christian of Victoria 51-35:
as Hinnell scored 15 and ran‘over Rossland
46-35 with Hinnell hitting for.17 points and
Kyla Morton pulling d down: 19 rebounds :

towing his tear
: ter-final.
Western:

for this: poe and.we really ©
‘thought we ‘eould pull it off, on
he said... wt
' However, Zavediuk added :

he was. proud of ‘the Lady «

Blues’ season, ; iwhich includ...’
ed wins | over fationally.
ranked teams. od

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