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FROM THE eight gymnasts who completed the Elite Canada competition in Calgary Feb. 28 to March 2, only 17-year-old Tracy Wilson brought home good news.

At what was the first national selection competition of the year, Wilson finished fifth with a 72.76 total,

She was fifth on the balance beam 18.36 and seventh on both bars and the floor exercises with scores of 18.62 and 18.00 respec- tively.

The meet was 2 disappointment for Miriam Michel, and Sandra Botnen. The [5-year-olds placed 13th and 14th with their respective scores of 70.98 and 70.96.

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Fifty five juniors «7+ seniors competed at the Elite competi- tions.

The North Shore girls train at the Provincial Training Centre in North Vancouver.

At the B.C. Winter Games in Terrace, which also ran from Feb. 28 to March 2, Keith Lockitch, 14, of West Vancouver Recreation Centre returned with the bronze medal in the Boys 15 and under division for best all-round perfor- mance.

Lockitch won the pommel horse event with 8.05 and came second on floor exercises with a score of 8.15, second on rings with 8.70 and second on the high bar with 8.25. His all-around total score was 49.40.

West Vancouver's Kristin Wingfield, 15, the province’s only other senior gymnast, placed 22nd in the competition with 69.16.

The next major competition for the gymnasts is the B.C. Provincial Championships being held at UBC on March 11 to 13.

gir. REACHING FOR the ball at the B.C. Native Women’s Basketball tournament was a member of the Port

Simpson team, which won the game against North Shore 85-76, on its way to an overall victory. The North Shore team, which came third, hosted the three-day tournament last week at Carson Graham Secondary School.

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THERE WERE a lot of high leaps in last Sunday’s soccer game at Ambleside Park, played between the Vancouver Holdings and West Vancouver Bears. Vancouver Holdings won the game 4-0. With the victory, the Vancouver Metro division three A team will now proceed to division two.

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PORT SIMPSON ran away with the All Native Women's B.C, Basketball championship held aver the weekend at Carson Graham Senior Secondary School.

The Port Simpson team took Duncan 85-76 in the final to win the three-day tournament, ‘hich attracted eigit senior women's teams from all over B.C.

North Shore's entry in the tour-

nament whipped Greenville 60-44 on Friday and outplayed Victoria 80-59 on Saturday, but were no maich for Port Simpson Saturday night as they dropped 1 70-88 deci- sion to the louima. ol winners,

The North Shore squad finished third overall.

Two North Shore players, Sher-

ric Johnny and Jodee Roberts, were selected to the tournament's all-star team. The paie posted three 18-point performances in the tour- nament,

Johnny was also voted most in- spirational player. Port Simpson’s Gayle Bedard was named the tournament's most valuable player.

THE Capilano College Blues women’s volleyball team won the gold medal at the provincial Totem College

Athletic Association (TTCA)

March 7 and 8 in Victoria.

The Blues’ tournament victory capped a perfect season for the local volleyball squad, which did not lose a single game in regular season play and playoff action.

“Tt boils down to talent," Blues’ co-coach Joe lacobellis said Monday. ‘‘Really, the team has been the class of the league all year.””

Four teams from the TTCA’s nine-team league — Cariboo Col- lege, Trinity Western University, Vancouver Community College (VCC) and Capilano College — qualified for play in the tourna- ment which was hosted by Vic- toria’s Royal Roads Military Col- lege.

Cap College opened Friday night with a 15-13, 11-15, 15-4 victory over Kamloops’ Cariboo College, then turned around and whipped VCC 15-1, 9-15, 15-5.

In the third round of prelimi- nary piay, the Blues bounced New Westminster's Trinity Western 15-7, 13-15, 15-11.

The local squad faced the New Westminster team again in the semi-finals and advanced to the gold medal round taking three straigitt, 15-4, 16-14, 15-2.

In Saturday night's final, the Blues again were unstoppable as they rattled Cariboo College 15- 4, 15-9, 15-9 to win the gold medal.

Blues’ Debbie Kallenberger was Selected to the TTCA'’s first

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all-star team, while Gina Boratto and Jennifer Lidster were named to the association’s second and third all-star teams respectively.

Blues’ Lori Mayervich was voted the tournament's most valuable player.

The Blues will now go on to represent B.C. in the national Canadian College Athletic Association finals.

Hosted by Cap College, the tournament will be played March 20 to 23 at Simon Fraser Univer- sity. The best men’s and women’s volleyball teams from across Canada will compete in the four-day tournament.

Cap College, which thus far does not have a men’s volleyball team, has qualified in the B.C. finals for four straight years, placing first three times and se- cond once. The women’s team has competed in the national finals in 1983 and 1985. On both occasions the Blues finished sev- enth.

The team’s other coach, Nora Marconato, described the 1986 Blues as a basically young squad that is reaching peak form at precisely the right time.

lacobellis said with the quality of national competition, par- ticularly from Quebec and Alber- ta, a first-place finish for the Blues would take a herculian ef- fort. Initial ambitions for the team, he said, are to finish in the tournament’s top four.