Sports TheReview Wednesday, August 28,1991 — A24% Mahon wins gold ai worlds Kelly Mahon, a 22-year-old Saanichton resident, is the proud owner of a gold medal won Sunday at the World Row- ing Championships in Vienna, Austria. Mahon, a Stelly’s Secondary School grad who rows with UVic and the national team, was a member of the first-place women’s eight boat at the championships. The win signals the emer- gence of the Canadian women’s rowing team as a force on the intemational stage. The women’s eight crew completed the 2,000-metre course in six minutes, 28.20 seconds, defeated the Sovict Union (6:28.73) and Romania (6:3 4.07). Beauchemin misses Cut Glen Meadows pro Ed Beau- chemin failed to advance to the final rounds of the Canadian Professional Golf Association championship this weekend in Quebec. The championships, which were staged in Sorel-Tracy, Que., attracted the top pros from the Canadian Tour. Beauchemin opened Thurs- day with a par round of 72. However, he shot a 75 Friday, for a 36-hole total of 147. Iis missed the cut in the $160,000 tournament. Next stop on the Tour is the Atlantic Classic, which will be held this weekend in Prince Edward Island. Prizes given after derby The Sidney Anglers awarded prizes after the Annual Bottom Fish Derby held Aug. 18. First prize of $75 went to Jim Ralf, for a 10-lb, three-ounce ling cod. Christine Matte took second prize, worth $50, for a 10-Ib dogfish. Third prize of $25 was awarded to Tom Polson, for a five-Ib, seven-ounce dogfish. An additional 10 prizes were awarded worth $15 each. Soccer clubs limber up for season Two Peninsula soccer clubs are shaking out those summer cob- webs, tuning up for another season of action in the Vancouver Island Soccer League. The Cove All Points Automotive club has been practicing for about a month, preparing for competi- tion in the league’s Division 3. The Division 5 Peninsula Thun- derbird Marine squad has also taken to the practice field. “We're looking to move up this year, says Tony Medeiros, co- coach of Peninsula. Whether that means to Division 4, or higher up in Division 5 standings, remains to be seen. But Medeiros is confident the RETURNING A SERVE at a recent mixed triples volleyball tournament is Dylan Gayler, who plays for the Parkland Panthers. A summer series of mixed triples action was sponsored by the Peninsula-based HfO Gotcha volleyball squad. Gaylerteamed with his brother, Justin, and Wanda Collinge, to play in the pro division for this tournament, where they finished eighth. Two Sidney kayakers first in Strait Two Sidney residents were the first mixed doubles kayak duo to reach the finish Saturday in the second annual Save the Strait Mar- athon. Gord Hutchings and Carolyn Boersen powered their kayak across the Georgia Strait in three hours, 53 minutes. Their me was an improvement of 29 minutes from last year. The 29-km marathon attracted second-year team has improved over last year. The top teams in each division advance one rung up the ladder, with the best teams competing in the league’s First Division. The bottom teams drop to the division below. Medeiros said there are about 25 players trying out for about 18 spots on the Peninsula side. He said a goal of his team is to attract graduates from the Penin- sula juvenile soccer program to continue playing in the Vancouver Island league. Action in Divisions 5 and 3 begins after the Labor Day week- end. GIRARD HENGEN photo between 150 and 200 participants, 50 per cent more than the inaugur- al run. Included were paddlers and swimmers making the crossing from Sechelt. to Nanaimo. Marathoners left Sechelt early Saturday moming, and arrived in Nanaimo throughout the day. The event was sponsored by the Save Georgia Strait Alliance and is intended to raise funds for the Cove coach Drew Smyth says his club has lost a few players, “but we have enough to stay competitive.” Last year, Cove missed moving to the Second Division by one point. The team ended up fourth out of 10 clubs. While not making any predic- tions, Smyth said he is “quietly optimistic’’ about the coming campaign. In its preparations for the sea- son, Cove will be competing in a 12-team tournament over the long weekend in Esquimalt. The team will play 18 games, nine at home at Blue Heron Park, and nine away. Pirates tops in tourney The Pacific Pirates mixed slo- pitch club routed Wellmaster Pum- pers 13-5 to capture a Saturday tournament in Sidney. The Pirates went undefeated through the eight-team Travelodge Slo-Pitch Tournament at Blue Her- on Park. Pirates player-coach Graham Bewley said Wellmaster gave his team a better game in a semi-final match, which the Pirates won 5-4. With the semi-final win, the Pirates advanced to the finals. Wellmaster had to fight their way to the final through the B division of the double-knockout tourna- ment. They would have had to beat the Pirates twice to claim the title. Bewley said the tournament was a good warm-up to the Labor Day tournament, which will be held Saturday to Monday. The annual Labor Day event is sponsored by the Sidney Mixed Slo-pitch League. It will feature 24 teams from Sidney, Victoria and the Lower Mainland area. The teams will be divided into four divisions of six. They will play a five-game round robin pre- liminary Saturday and Sunday to determine rankings heading into Monday’s championship tourna- ment. Most of the action takes place at Blue Heron Park. A Saturday night dance is scheduled for Sanscha Hall in conjunction with the tour- nament. Stoffelsma sails wiih top U.S. juniors at meet A fifth-place showing last week- end at an American meet has put the wind in the sails of Nathaniel Stoffelsma as he continues onward in his competitive sailing career. Stoffelsma placed fifth at the United States Yacht Racing Union (USYRU) junior sailing champi- onships, held over the last week- and-a-half at Cleveland, Ohio. The 16-year-old Peninsula youth competed with the best junior sailors in the U.S. over the 10-race event. In Stoffelsma’s single-handed European dinghy class, there were 10 competitors representing each USYRU division, 10 races and 10 boats. Each sailor skippered all 10 boats to make things equal for all. The lowest point total was the winner. Stoffelsma, who is entering Grade 11 at Parkland Secondary School, finished with 40 points. “The people ahead of me, they ” were all world-class American sailors,” he said, adding he was satisfied with his showing. campaign to stop pollution in the Strait. Hutchings and Boersen raised about $170 in pledges in their effort to raise awareness about the Strait. Hutchings said the weather was “fairly good,” with about three- quarter-metre waves and a 15-knot northwest wind. He said his kayak averaged a speed of 4.4 knots. The top sailors had competed in the world youth championships, which is one of Stoffelsma’s goals for the next two years. “T want to go either next year or the year after,” he said. After that he will be too old for the junior circuit. To make it, he must win at the Canadian youth championships, and that may prove difficult in the highly-competitive sport... “T like it because it’s really challenging,” said Stoffelsma, who has been sailing most of his life but started competing less than two years ago. 5 “Lots of people think you just sail in one direction, but’s there’s a lot of strategy involved,” he said. He qualified for the USYRU championships by winning the region that includes Hawaii, Ore- gon, Washington and a portion of B.C. This regatta was held in June. He said conditions were fine in Cleveland, with enough wind on the Lake Erie course. The event began Aug. 16th, and wrapped up Saturday. marathon The marathon attracted a variety of different boats. In addition to swimmers and kayakers, participants included canoeists, rowers, cyclists, sailors and escort boats. Some boats were made of used recycled materials, including one constructed with brown paper shopping bags and another built from scrap building materials. STANDARDBRED ACTION is winding down ai Sandown Raceway, with this summer’s meet ending in about two weeks. Here a horse and rider trot to a first-place finish during a recent race at the track.