48 - Wednesday, Octeber 3, 1990 - North Shore News

SPORTS

THE LONG. weekend means soccer heaver to 1,300 girls who will play a staggering total of 200 sOceer games in) North Vancouver during the Fourth Annual Interna- fional Thanksgiving Tournament.

By Elizabeth Collings News Reporter

From Oct. 6 to Oct. 8. up to 14 North Vancouver fields will be used by the girls aged 10 to !7 years to play out the three- day tourney.

The tournament has grown in size and appeal as quickly as the sport itself is catching on.

The North Shore Girls Soc- cer Club’s Tin Dean started the tournament in 1987 with 37 teams participating. Four years later the event is now the big- gest girls’ soccer tournament in Western Canada.

This year, 84 soccer squads are participating with teams coming from as far away as Oregon, Washington, the inte- tior of B.C., Vancouver Island and other western provinces to snag a piece of the action.

Tournament director Doug O'Neil says the tourney is becoming so big that he had to turn away some teams from Oregon because the age group was already full.

“In the last two years, it's started to really take off. It’s a fun, competitive sport for the kids. It’s usually well organized and it’s not expensive,’’ says O'Neil, explaining the growing popularity of soccer for girls.

With 24 North Vancouver teams and five West Vancouver teams, the majority of remain- ing soccer squads are visiting from the Lower Mainland. O'Neill estimates 12 to 14 teams are from outside Van- couver.

And organizing the tourna- ment is a feat in itself.

O’Neill has been working on the tournament since June. The bulk of his work has required “countless phone calls,’’ and patience while trying to orga- nize the tourney during the summer holidays before the ac-

Girls’ soccer teams converge on N. Shore

Vancouver.

tual teams are formed for the season.

“Its a good time for a tournament in October but it’s fairly hard to organize in the summer when everyone is away,”’ says O'Neill.

Finding referees for 200-plus

fl UP IN the air: a West Vancouver Angels player (left) kicks the ball out of the reaches of a North Vancouver Alley Cats player Sunday at Ambleside. The two North Shore teams are warming up for the International Thanksgiving Soccer Tournament that will be held this long weekend on fields throughout North

Ey EWS photo Neil Lucente

games is also not an easy task.

“Getting the referee man- power is a major job for two people,”* he says.

But for organizational will be worth it.

1300 girls, the manoeuvring

Men’s soccer Blues prepare for the Presidents’ Cup

THE CAPILANO College Blues men’s soccer team will battle BCIT in the first annual Presi- dents’ Cup next Wednesday, Oct. {0, at 7:30 p.m. in Swangard Stadium.

By Guido Marziali Contributing Writer

By that time, the Blues hope to have steadied the inconsistent play of the past weekend, which saw them fall 2-1 to an underdog on Saturday and then defeat a strong American school the next day by the same score.

The women Blues did their part for college pride by shutting out the Malaspina Mariners 2-0, but

were themselves blanked 3-0 by top-ranked Vancouver Community College Falcons on Sunday.

The Presidents” Cup formalizes the long and fierce soccer rivalry between the cross-town campuses.

Last) year BCIT humiliated Capilano 5-0, but the Blues got more than even by winning the league championship.

This year, BCIT expects to field Paul Dolan and Dave Fiorevento of the Canadian Soccer League’s 86ers, and Geoff Aunger of the Victoria Vistas. Cap is already starting keeper Jason Maros from the Edmonton Brickmen and mid- fielder Mike Dodd, Olympic team member.

Tickets for the Presidents’ Cup, which counts towards league

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standings, cost $2 and are avail- able at the gate or in advance at either campuses. For further in- formation call BCIT Athletics at 432-8287. Ail proceeds go to the United Way.

The Blues will eat the dust of their CSL-injected foes if they play as they did on Saturday in a 2-1 road loss to lowly Fraser Valley College Cascades.

Pressured immediately, the Blues gave up a goal at the 10th minute on a rebound from a good stop by Maros.

Paul Dailly equalized for his team 20 minutes later, stealing the ball from the central defender and blasting a rocket into the top cor- ner, but the Cascades went ahead

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Ringette players picked

SEN RINGEUTE players from the Nornh Shore Winter Club have been selected to represent BoC. at the upcoming Canadian Winter Ciames,

Coming from the belle division (18 and 16 years) are Dana Alder- son, Alana Gray, Michelle MecLeary, Erica Motinski, Jodi Rogers and Lecann Ross.

Ross is playing her first’ year with the winter club, having come from the Howe Sound division.

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