By ANDY FRASER~ =

Botnen takes overall title

Gymnasts from Australia, Holland, the United States and Canada all watched as the North Shore failed to. live up to the perfect host concept by capturing the North Shore Invitational gym meet

B.C.LT. on Saturday.

Not only did the North Shore capture the team trophy for the first time ever, but Anita Botnen a Flicka gymnast took the . over-all title.

The 15-year-old finished with a score of 34.55, just ahead of Crissy Sutter of the Pacific Northwest Twisters with 34.30 and Ingrid Bolle- boom of Holland with 34.15.

Botnen captured top spot in the uneven bars and balance beam and had a third in floor exercises.

Bolleboom, the classy 16- year-old Dutch star, took the vault and the floor exercise

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program. The win for the North

-Shore number one team

marks the first time that a Canadian team has taken top honours in the North. Shore Invitational:

North Shore . finished ahead of the Puget Sound Rainbows from Tacoma in a squécker. The home towners scored a total, of 98.2 while the Rainbows camo in with a

98.15 mark.

‘In third place was last years. champs, the Mid-

‘American Twisters, with a

score of 97.40. A total of 64 gymnasts

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from 16 teams took part in the day long affair at the BCIT gymnasium on Saturday.

The winning North Shore entry will be travelling to the Northwest Invitational meet in Portland on the weekend.

In other major gymnastics news, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission will be giving lover their Memorial gymnasium to Flicka gym club as a full time facility in the near future.

Flicka, one of the. better

gym clubs in the country, has been searching for larger quarters than SeyLyn Hall, where they are presently located.

According to officials, the gym club will soon be moving thousands of dollars of equipment into the rec centre, including the first full-size sprung floor in B.C. that is approved by the Inter- national Federation of Gym- nastics. ay

‘There will also be foam pits. for ‘practicing new moves which eliminates the danger of injury.

Flicka is holding a registration for their second semester on Saturday from 9 a,m, to noon at ScyLyn Hall, 625. Mountain Highway. Further information on the semester can be obtained by calling the registrar at 922- 1493, or the Flicka Gym Club at 985-7918.

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