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LIFTING FOR the top are North Vancouver powerlifters Nick Burgess (on left) and Don Dyer. Sporting im- pressive powerlifting credentials, the two will be leaving Noy. 18 for Dayton, Ohio, to compete in the World

Powerlifting Championships.

Cap women’s vasketball team wins one, loses one

CAPILANO COLLEGE Blues women’s basketbali team came up with a win and a loss over the weekend in pre-season exhibition play.

Player Crystal Caldwell was the top scorer with 16 points and Lori Tarasewich controlled the boards for the Blues with 1] rebounds in a game Nov. 6 against a senior women’s all-star team.

“The game was very close at the half,’’ said Capilano coach Neil Chester.

But going into the second half 26-23 for the all- stars, the Capilano team was dominated by the stronger squad to finish the game losing 64-41.

The next day, this time against the University of British Columbia varsity team, the Capilano women bounced back to a 77-48 decision, dominating the

whole game. “They led all the way,’’ said Chester. ‘They pretty

much outclassed them most of the game.”’

In the game against UBC, Caldwell topped the Capilano scoring roster with 25 points. Coming in just behind Caldwell in the scoring was Tryell Tyerman with 19 points.

A scrimmage exhibition game between the Capilano men’s team and the Everett, Wash., squad saw the Capilano team playing for a good portion of the day.

“They did really well,’’ Chester explained. ‘‘It’s really starting to come together.”

Capilano men play at home Nov. 13 at 8:15 p.m. against a senior men’s team from Burnaby, and Chester is expecting a good match. ‘‘They have some very experienced, very talented players,’’ he said.

The same day the women also meet a senior team at home at 6:30 p.m., and then travel to Washington Nov. 14 to play Everett Community College.

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TWO NORTH Vancouver men will be lifting for the top later this month when they represent Canada in the World Powerlifting Championships in Dayton, Ohio.

Don Dyer, 32, and Nick Burgess, 25, both sporting im- pressive powerlifting credentials, will be trying to beat the stiff competition to win for Canada.

“*It’s a Strength sport,’’ explain- ed the 181-pound Dyer, who tied for top spot in the B.C. champion- ships and placed second in both the Canadian and North American championships. ‘‘In the Olympics (scoring) is more on technique.”’

Competitors must perform three lifts — the squat, the bench press and the deadlift — and are scored on the combined weight totals of all their lifts,

When it comes to deadlifts, where the lifter lifts the weights from the floor to standing, Burgess is the champion, setting a record for a 700-pound lift.

At 242 pounds, Burgess has won both the provincial and national ti- tles and taken second spot in the

recent International North American Championships.

“I'm going to have the best meet I've ever had,”* said Dycr. “But I don’t know how well Ill do. There’s some very good lifters that'll be there.’’

Training at the Empire Fitness Centre at the North Shore Winter Club, the duo is busy getting ready for the Nov. 21 competition, in which Dyer expects the toughest competition to come from lifters from the United States and Bri- tain.

Squat . lifting three times his body weight — a whopping 543 pounds — Dyer is easily in the running to place high in the ranks. Burgess, too, with his heavy deadlifts is expecting to place well up in the world powerlifting ranks.

Dipping into their own pockets for travel and accommodation money, the North Yancouver lifters are fighting the athletes’ battle for needed sponsorship.

“This is the fifth meet this year — it can get expensive,’ said

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