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BASEBALL La. ‘Shore “Rebels (boys" tnidget triple-A) splits homefields ‘doubleheader fast Saturday with Burnaby Fraser dropping the first hall 8-6 and winning the second 63.

“BASKETBALL. “Lady Blues of. Capilano Colleye have a new ‘couch.

“CAP CAGER coach’ Greg Zavediuk.. _

é Greg Zavediuk, a a pra “uate of Hillside ‘secondary “school and UBC, -will take over.coaching ‘duties . from:

Lori: Chizik,. who is mov-.

ng to Australia at the end of the month. Prior to: accept.’ 1g | “the head couchin}? : posi- “tion’ at’ Cap, Zavediuk was .. the UBC women's ‘assistant

af, coach since:::1989.; Former >

UBC player: “ Wendy Palmer jis the Lady: Blue’ s assistant ‘coach, : ,

‘HOCKEY: pee “North

Shore: Winter. Club. U=17/

jockey . players, “have -been

“selécted'to attend the. 1995 3

Provincial a Under-17

‘Edgeworth’: and: “forward

Travis Payne will take part’ ntense : eight-day:

amp along ‘with. 45. other ers ftom’ ‘across BiG: t ‘the conclusion of the

amp, 10: players: will be™

“selected to join10° players from: Alberta” toi: comprise the: ‘Pacifi fic Regional: U-17 - scheduled to com-

the’ 1995. World

p : Hockey Challenge-in New.

runsivick later.this year, ©

KARATE: Thirtcen out of:

-19.North Shore competitors imedalled “at the’! “24th Annual Gima-Ha Shiai ‘Karate’ Langara College.” “=” Winners... (medals ‘won: in brackets) Alex; DeLine © (bronze); Lynne = DeLine: (bronze);

: Ken:. Dubata’. (bronze);..

ichael ‘Dubeta (bronze);

“Lan Hong: (gold); Fred -

--Masare.,; ((wo--. bronze); Keyin | Munsie (bronze): Dennis Nenadic (gold, ‘sil? ver); Sarah. Osberg (two silvers); Steve’: Ross (bronze);.". "=. Andre: Segsworth (two - bronze); David... : Swanton (two bronze); Adrian Swanton (bronze). 7

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competition’ = at

included .

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LYNN VALLEY U- 45 Falcons (above) defeated Vancouver KLM: 3-2:to'win the B.C. B. Coastal Cup..Falcons' Shaun Layton, Poter Soukup and Mark Gordon scored in the match.

WHAT. A: difference a year makes.

.By Andrew MeCredie Sports Reporter. ||

_This’ time: last, “year, North Shore Indians were. stiff looking for their victory, in»

Association (WLA)

action. This: seasons. # “their second inthe: 2" senior Av ranks, head -couch Dave Evans hag: his tearn: sporting ‘a2

: record or putting them in a thee. : cwith, New | ;

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‘Great start to season Westminster and, Coquitlam (to. press time). Last year’s Indian team

was winless until their fifth’ game. Tonight at the Lonsdale Arena,

“the Indians put their first-place on

the line as the afways-tough

Vile toria.

Shamrocks’ come

‘calling. Game time. .

is 7:45 p.m. One of : year’s: bright’ spots “for the Indians has

been. the, play of + their rookies. Dif

Seer tied for. fourth in league scoring (tive goals. six assists)

while “Yul ‘Baker ‘is sixth (three:

goals, Six assists). .

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7 spectator anyone, who can identify Ross Macdonald and

‘Eric Jespersen aid the spart

in which they are world champions, A‘aint: they wre Canadians and they live i ine Vancouver,

Now, if one were to ask asimilar question in New Zealand, and © y; change the names to Peter. Blake - and Russeft Coutts, everyone in that country of 3.5 million would be able to supply the son of detailed biogra-. phy hockey nuts here might r ecites about Gretzky or Bure. (If this is getting 2 little beyord you, don’t . give up hope, With some tuck, we're going to add ice to water and, hupe: fully, come out of it with a column.)

Organizer Blake and helmsman Coutts. were the key figures last

week in the absolute rout of Dennis ..

Conner’s American boat in the

a's Cup final on that piece of the Pacific Ocean bordering San Diego. They won the best-of-nine

“series live steaight and the America's - Cups has Ieft the U.S. for only the

second time in 144 years...

One of Kiwtland’s two official .- religions —— the other being rugby : — competitive sailing is such a turn- on, 80% of the population stopped .

What it was doing to watch each day “~

"Fleetwood Brougham

2 wanted. it and Regency

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the live TV coverage of the final, And that doesn't include the sheep: “AS you all know, Canada has © anly one official religion — peck. ‘ Aad that's sehy: FU wager that most of you are unaware that Macdonald and Jespersen also are world sailing champions, Less than i year ago they topped ii Held of 97 boats, rep- resenting more dan 20 countries, in the World Star Class ; Championships. Mind you, Star - Class sailing docsi’t have (he hype and ghimor of the bigger America’s cup boats, which require crews of 16 men of, in the case of this year’s event, women, Not to mention bud: pets. of up to $30 million. ‘ This was the. 73rd annual Star world championships and the first ever Canadiin win. The two men got» together in 1991 ang clicked almost immediately us ateam, winning the bronze medal at the Barcelona” Olytupies just ¢ year later, Their : world title effort was relegated to the» inside pages in most of Canada's: daily sparts sections and, as ane +. remembers, cestainly didn't make printe-time TV)in this country. Despite all those bumper stickers.) that read “Ld rather be sailing,” the “> sport isa long. way from being a’ national passion, One of the problems for spect. tors is that there's no way to get. close up and become part of the i action, as those bloodied spectators became at the Coliseum the other’: night when Trevor. Linden put the Jeff Norton through the glass: From half-a-mile away, sailing Icoks about”. as fast as a turtle race.. There may be. a lot of interesting tactica! ‘manoeu- yres out there, but how can you“ appreciate them without 3 telescope?’ ‘ ‘But one ining that came through.

‘loud and clear‘in the America’s Cup = and it could be an inspiration for.

the NHL — is just how long it took

40 run this multinational elimination ;

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