40 - North Shore News — Sunday, March 12, 2000

NAME: Katie Pinkerton SCHOOL: Seycove GRADE: 9 SPORT: boarding COACH. Suilchuk THE SCOOP: Katie’s final run at the B.C. cham- pionships on Penticton’s Apex Mountain last week resulted in two titles for the Seyhawk athlete. She won first place when she beat the field by more than a full second on her second slalom run. It also made up the time needed to give her the overall title after coming second in the giant slalom on the meet’s first day. Her combined two-run time was 1:31.90.

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NAME: David Short SCHOOL: Seveove GRADE: 12 SPORT: senior boarding COACH: Strilchuk

THE SCOOP: David was focused on going out on top in the final school meet of his career. He did just that in the slalom event after finishing sec- ond in the giant s.alom for the B.C. championship on Apex Mountain. In February, he won the North Shore —champi- onship for the third con- secutive year, completing

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placing in the top two that began when he was in Grade 8.

Selections are made by the North Shore Secondary Schools’ Athletic Association based on outstanding performances in school competition.

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Haney halts Pipers’ hoop hopes

THE Argyle Pipers were Thunderstruck on Thursday.

The Lower Mainland champs lost to she Thomas Haney Thunder 65-20 ina BC AAA wirls basketball quarter-final at Capilano College's SporisPles.

Ashley Burke was the game's high scorer with 24 points. Bat the Pipers couldn't contain the dual attack of Stephanie Van De Walle (18 points, 22 rebounds} and Bianca Salazar (22 points).

The Pipers trailed 19-9 after the first quarter but outscored the Thunder in the second and third.

Burke and Michelle Stiphout eroded Haney’s cight-point lead an the third. With 2:15 lett in the quarter, Jacqui Ferraby scored from the field to tie the game at 35-35. Haney quickly regained the lead when Salazar went owo-tor-two at the line.

The Pipers’ comeback hopes were deflated when Salazar hit a three-pointer with 5:40 left in the game tor a 46-39 lead. A minute later, Graham fouled out.

“We just didn’t execute, we didn’t hit our baskets early in the fourth to keep it close,” said Argyle coach Jason Gigliotti.

@ The St. Thomas Aquinas Saints plaved a semi-final at the News’ press time Friday after beating University Hill 67-64 in Thursday's quarter-final at the B.C. AA boys championship in Kamloops.

Canadian Seccor Association phcto MARK Watson, a Sentinel graduate, In action for

‘Canada during the Gold Cup. His Feb. 24 goai put

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ARGYLE coach Jason Gigliotti and players during time out.

@ Ar the B.C. junior boys’ championship in Nanaiinu, the Carson Graham Eagles were eliminated 72-44 in Thursday’s quarter-final by the Enver Creek Cougars. The game ended with 1:53 lett. The Eagles were assessed three technical fouls and coach Gerry Van Samang was ejected.

Bob Mackin

Sports Reporter bu. ackin@nsnews.com

MARK Watson doesn’t score many goals.

But the one at the 68th minute of a Feb. 24 game in Los Angeles was the biggest of the defender’s career.

Watson gave Canada a 1- 0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in the semi-final of the Gold Cup. Canada had surprised Mexico with a 2-1] overtime win four days earli- er and would go on to fell Colombia 2-0 on Feb. 27 in the “miracle on grass.”

“It was a lite bit of shock ‘really,” said 29-year- old Watson. “After 15 min- utes we knew we could play with and beat these guys. To think. we're 2-0 against Colombia in the Gold Cup final, it was a dream, that wasn’t supposed to happen to a Canadian team, we don’t have the pedigree for it. Winning the final was the best. thing that happened to

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Watson grew up in West — Vancouver and payed bas- ketball at Sentinel secondary. In 1988 at Capilano College he switched to soccer.

“That would've been my first choice to be a basketball player, but just after high school [ was maybe a bit short and maybe not the tight colour to go further in the sport, and I switched to soccer. I still love the game even though I don’t play it.”

On a dav off, Canada’s physiotherapist Alex McKechnie arranged for the team to meet Shaquille O'Neal and attend a Los Angeles Lakers/Boston Celtics game at the Staples Centre. McKechnie has treated O’Neal for abdomi- nal injuries. Watson and O'Neal talked basketball and soccer, The Lakers’ superstar offered the team his wishes for success.

“He’s an awesome speci- men, someone so big, yet so coordinated. I can under- stand why he’s unstop- pable.”

After the Gold Cup was over, almost half the team promptly left Los Angeles to return to their European clubs. Thirteen of the 18 players are employed abroad. Watson was part of a small group that celebrated at a waterfront bistro after the . game.

The ex-Vancouver Eighty-Sixer left the next day for England where he plays with the second division’s Oxford United. The team is struggling to avoid demo- tion to the third division.

“It’s going to be tough, you come back from some- thing like this on a bit of a high and you’re thrown right back into the deep end. I come back and it’s raining and windy and miserable, it’s hard to play good stuff. The past three weeks (in California) the weather was- n’t the best, but you could always play a decent style and pass it around. It’s not the same here. I'd almost forgot- ten what it was like. The bat- tle continues, as they say.”