32 — Sunday, September 5, 1999 — North Shore News

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Hopping by the sea’

A Burnaby Transformer tries to block Fort Coquitlam X-Caliber Dean Whaien’s shot during the recent Park Royal Slam by the Sea three-on-three basketball tour- nament on the south side of the shopping centre.

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REGISTER online for the ninth annual Grouse Grind Mountain Run.

The Sept. 9 event will see more than 1,000 people tack- le the challenging 2.9 kilome- tre vertical trail up the face of Grouse Mountain,

Derek Reed set the course record of 27 minutes, 18 sec- onds in 1997's race. Leanne Johnston set the women’s record of 35:23 last year.

Registration for adults is $50 or $95 for a family and includes a Nike T-shirt, down- bound SkyRide ticket and entry into raffle prize draws.

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Teams of four people can sign up for $75.

Register at <www.grouse- mountain.com> or at Grouse Mountain’s Guest Services office at the mountain’s base parking lot.

Call 984-0661 for infor-

mation. — Bob Mackin

Whitecaps back to play 86ers

THE Vancouver Whitecaps come back to life Monday.

The North American Soccer League team captured the hearts of Vancouverites on Sept. 8, 1979 when it won the Soccer Bowl championship in a 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

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The occasion

marked with a 40-minute game at Swangard Stadium at 4:45 p.m. between Whitecaps and Eighty-Sixers’ alumni. North Vancouver's Bob Lenarduzzi and Carl Vaientine, who played for both teams, will be joined by ex-Caps like West Vancouver’s Derek Possee, Bob Bolitho, Les Wilson, Sam Lenarduzzi and Buzz Parsons. West

Vancouver’s Tony Waiters will coach.

North Vancouver lawyer Dan Sudeyko is on the ex- Eighty-Sixers’ squad with Paul Dolan and John Cavliff.

The game precedes the Eighty-Sixers’ 7 p.m. A- League regular scason finale against the rival Seattle Sounders.

— Bob Mackin

NEWS phota Tarry Peters

Silver from the ‘peg

EMMA Dowds (left) and Katie Beck sport silver medats after joining Team B.C. at the national under-13 girls baseball tournament in Winnipeg Aug. 13-22. The North Shore girls helped B.C. go 4-1 before a 2-1 loss to the Ontario Spitfires in

the final.

CYPRESS Park’s senior little league baseball team won the recent Kamicops Tournament of Champions with seven straight wins.

The team, 33-109 on the season, outscored its oppo- nents 108-13, including an 11-0 shutout of North Vancouver in the round robin and an 8-0 shutout of Lethbridge in the semi-final.

Steve Stasiuk was 10-for-12 at the plare in the five-game round robin, Ryan Meier went 10-f6¥-16, Mate Sinclair seven- for-nine. Tyler Jefferson was nine-for-12, including three- for-three against Sunridge with a-trio of home runs and eight RBIs.

Andrew Wallace had a one- hit shutout against Lethbridge. He walked one

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and struck out six. Jefferson stroked a pair of doubles and drove in three runs. Matt Reeves had two RBIs and two runs Cypress had a tougher match in the early going of the final with Prince George. A squeeze play in the second inning by Andrew Guillemerte put Cypress ahead 1-0, The

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second run came in the chird ona hard single to left field by Joel Fleming.

Cypress led 6-0 by the fourth inning, but the shutout was spoiled when Prince George managed to get a run across in the sixth. Meier struck out 12 in the decisive

victory. — Bob Mackin

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