A34 • Wednesday, April 25, 2012 • The Record
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Guards net nines in all-star finale BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
Burnaby’s Alisha Roberts and Ariana Sider of New Westminster showcased their talents a final time at the annual B.C. high school basketball allstar game at the University of British Columbia Saturday. Sider led her team, coached by New Westminster Hyacks head Doug Woodward, while Roberts helped the Rob Sollero-coached unit to an 81-62 victory at UBC’s War Memorial gym. “We had a bad start, but it basically comes down to family and friends watching you, and they want to see you play,” said Woodward, who rotated his 12-person squad into the game every three min-
Tyke time: Noah Cecic, in white, digs for the ball for the Tyke 1 team at the New Westminster Salmonbellies minor lacrosse jamboreeatMoody Park Arena on Saturday. Rylan Inman-Veitch, right, supports his teammate, while Tyke 5 team member Riley Boivin, left, looks on.
utes. Sider, who has committed to Simon Fraser University next season, led the Woodward team in scoring with nine points, while Roberts matched her opposite guard with a similar point total. Roberts is off to Pepperdine University in California in September. At the Basketball B.C. Hall of Fame and awards dinner last weekend, Roberts was named runner-up to Emma Wolfram of South Kamloops for best high school girls’ player of the year. In the provincial boys’ all-star game that followed the girls’ finale, senior St. Thomas More Knights guard Denzel Laguerta potted six points for Team Hanson in a 95-85 win over Team Jakobs.
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Golfer wins zone opener Alan Tolusso of Burnaby won the B.C. Golf Association zone 4 season opener. Tolusso, a Grade 11 St. Thomas More student, won the junior tournament in a playoff with Jordan Liu of Vancouver after both golfers finished 18 holes tied for the lead with a par-72 at the Capilano Golf and Country Club on April 14. Tolusso won the playoff with a birdie on the third hole. Alex François and Lucas Gatto placed sixth and eighth, respectively.
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Shore Eagles 11-10 and a combined St. George’s team 12-8 en route to the championship final. Burnaby, including Katerina Schwab, T.J. Jones, Jenna Melton, Gareth Jones, Amanda Hass, Stewart Crombie, Mackenzie Burns, Riel Ante-Schaefer and Maria Strigoun, also easily defeated Meadowridge, Burnsview/Sands and Garibaldi in preliminary round action. – tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
Columbus women on to cup semifinal BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS EDITOR tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
Experience prevailed over youth as Columbus FC got by the University of British Columbia in B.C. Soccer provincial women’s A Cup playdowns last weekend. Columbus got single goals from 29-year-olds Alexis Heinz and Lyndsay Sadgrove to unseat the varsity team from the Pacific Coast Soccer League in quarter-final action. New Westminster
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offence.” Ty, a Grade 9 student at Notre Dame Regional School, is also a much better student academically, currently sustaining a B average. But Ty has learned other important lessons that should help him along the way. After being dropped to the Tier 2 winter club team in his first year of bantam last season, Ty made the best of it and kept working hard. He had a similar thing happen to him earlier in peewee A before re-establishing himself on the top team following a recall for an exhibition game. It’s taught him some important character lessons about having a good work ethic, sticking to one’s goals and what it takes to be a member of a team. Defeating Cloverdale for the provincial banner and coming into the Western Canadian championships as a single unit
and not as a team of individuals were key elments in Ty’s development this season. “It brought my confidence up, and I’ve learned to be a team leader, putting team first,” said Ty, who had four goals and 11 points at the Westerns. Back in 1980, Cliff was taken by the Kamloops Blazers in a precursor to what is now the WHL bantam draft. The Blazers don’t pick until the 19th spot of the first round, so it is unlikely Ty would follow his father’s path that closely. The Kootenay Ice have the 10th pick overall, while the hometown Vancouver Giants select at No. 15. “I’d like to stay close to home, but honestly, I’d play anywhere,” said Ty. The Seattle Thunderbirds hold the first overall pick in this year’s draft. The WHL bantam draft will be held in Calgary on May 3. – tberridge@royalcityrecord.com
keeper Cassie Newbrook surrendered the shutout in the final 10 minutes of play. “The game result was never in doubt as we had a few chances of our own down the stretch,” said Columbus head coach Matt Holbrook. “Columbus did a great job of ball possession.” Columbus takes on Prospect Lake, the No. 1 team on Vancouver Island, in this weekend’s semifinal. Eight-time provincial cup winner Surrey United will take on North Shore in the other semi. In the men’s A cup,
Poco FC will take on Surrey United and Delta United will face the MetroFord Wolves in an allVancouver Metro Soccer League matchup in the semifinals. In the men’s B cup, Europa FC from the Burnaby men’s league will face surprise semifinalist NVFC Campobasso, who upset defending champions Shaheen FC 2-1 in the quarter-finals. Surrey FC and Richmond Allblacks tangle in the other B semi. In master ’s soccer action, Sapperton Rovers were blanked 1-0 by the CV University of Victoria
in last week’s quarterfinals. Westside FC and Poco Castilians clash in one semifinal, while defending and Western Canada champion West Van FC and CV UVic will duke it out in the other semi. This season, Provincial Cup finals will be hosted by the Metro Women’s Soccer League at Burnaby Lake Sport Complex-West on May 12. Teams winning their respective Provincial Cup championships will represent the B.C. at the Canadian club national championships in Winnipeg from Oct. 3 to 8.
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