Sports TheReview Wednesday, March 18, 1992 — A26 Kapt both sides of shutouts _ The Kapteyns ladies’ field hoc- Not a single shot was registered from Erin Ward. 5 key team had mixed results overa on the Kapteyns’ netminder, as The run of the play was fairly Bea rl Ng The bad news weekend doubleheader. Kapteyn players forced the play. even in the Sunday game, although The Third Division Vancouver Vicki Robertson opened the the Renegades built up and held a Sadly, the last word is mine. Island Ladies’ Field Hockey scoring in the first half. big lead. This is the final installment of Sports scribe, your ink-stained League team shut out the Ravens The game was put out of reach © Meanwhile, in Second Division wretch having departed for points east, where newspapers are 2-0 Saturday at Lansdowne. with Evelyn Greene’s marker in action, the Hotel Sidney Hobbits newspapers and dailies deserve to be read. You deprived Greater However, the Kapteyns in tum the second half. She converted on _ beat the Red Devils 1-0 in a game Victorians don’t know what a good sports column is and should were shut out 4-0 Sunday by the 4 beautiful clear crossing pass defaulted by the Red Devils be, having gone without all these years. It should stimulate debate Renegades at Oak Bay. : =a 5 : and thought, be logical and defensible, and above all else, not be a The win featured hard work by A boring waste of your time. A columnist need not be a cheerleader. the forwards and a day off for the ¥V THE CORPORATION OF THE DISTRICT OF Hopefully you’ve been able to find all these qualities in this goalie, said team spokesman Car- space. Thus, it is with remorse that your scribe blips out his oline Paterson. CENTRAL SAANICH computer for the final time this week. Unhappily, I have to bear the bad news to the sporting public — Gym nasis rank specifically, to those who live and die by the hockey season, who 7 wait anxiously during the silly season for the BLSyGHES among elite PARTICIPANTS = Some readers can’t seem to get it through their heads that the Gi Two meeis : s | silly (regular) season amounts to nothing come playoff time. Sure, ; Congratulations io all athletes, coaches, MEME) OS and | fans pay a lot of bucks to see regular season games, and this makes Local gymnasts excelled at two officials who participated in the recent BC Winter Games in = the owners rich (despite what they may say otherwise). And it pays recent meets in the U.S. and the Yainon | for the players’ cheques. Lower Mainland. Your sportsman-like conduct, competitive spirit and high | But the measure of a hockey team is not in what they did over Members of the Falcon Artistic level of achievement make us all very proud to know the | the regular season. It’s how they do in the playoffs. Gymnastics Club competed in the Peninsula is so well represented. Come May, when the New York Rangers —a team your humble Rainier Cup two weekends ago Best wishes and continued success in your chosen sport. scribe predicted (not here) would take the Stanley Cup before the near Seattle, and the Delta Invita- Mayor and Council, season started — play the Chicago Blackhawks for the Cup, people tional Meet last weekend in Delta. The District of Central Saanich. | will ponder what went wrong with the Canucks in the post-season. At the Rainier Cup, Carla Wil- Assuming, of course, that there is a post-season, I would predict a ee sixth overall for Level that Vancouver won’t make it out of the Smythe Division. Will the girls, and Shivonne Egan placed 1991-92 campaign then be labeled a eS 11th overall in the same category. AFFORDABLE FAMILY HOUSING Yes, most definitely. This is the best Canuck team ever. But it Willock was first in the bars, Sidney and Peninsula Kiwanis Housing Society is : will be hard-pressed to advance as far as the team a decade ago 11th in vault and 12th on the planning a subsidized family housing project in the ; that went all the way to the Cup final. beam. Sidney area. If the project is approved, two and three : Why? First, most teams that come out of nowhere to challenge Her first-place showing on bars bedroom rental townhouses will be available to qualify- ) for all the marbles rarely win all the marbles. A case of nerves eared her the right to compete in ing applicants at 30% of household income. overcomes otherwise solid players. Little mistakes get magnified the combined Level 7 and 8 finals, : : : under intense playoff pressure. A goalie might let ina soft goal and where she placed third. If you are in need of affordable housing, please lend : then begin to doubt whether he can make the big save. These She was also on the team that your support by registering with the Sidney and ad things happen to inexperienced teams, and the Canucks are ripe for ae in Lae spot overall. Peninsula Kiwanis Housing Society. a fall this way. gan was fifth in beam and ‘nati : : Second, Vancouver faces a tough task just to make it out of the ninth on bars. Application fous ate avallabiea Smythe. Canuck fans better hope Winnipeg hangs on for fourth At the Delta Invitational, the REMAX REALTY, 2444 Beacon Ave. spot, because the prospect of facing Calgary in the first round is Falcon team was a eae until March 30th not a pleasant one. team was comprised OL NI ur- i ; Remember, the regular season doesn’t count on the opening day rows, Sara Mitchell and Katy Fo} fuithes imionmalion | Bisse eye of the playoff season. Those 11-0 wins are ancient history. The Jones. 656-71 56 or 656-771 7 Flames would be a formidable foe, but Vancouver might emerge Jones was first in bars, 5th in unscathed. But then again they might not. Look at what Minnesota vault and 6th in beam, good did to Chicago and St. Louis last year. Two of the top three teams enough for third overall. over the regular season unceremoniously dumped early. Will it Mitchell was sixth overall, with happen to the Canucks? It easily could. Do we think of those showings of 8th on the floor and Chicago and St. Louis teams now as great? Hardly. beam, and ninth in vault. Assuming they advance, Vancouver would face L.A. or Edmon- Burrows was sixth on bars and ton. The Oilers have the second-best record in the league since the 10th in yault. All-star break, while the Kings are coming together under Wayne _ Also, Erinne Willock was ninth Gretzky, who seems to have the jump back. in bars at the mect. H It’s wishful thinking to believe the Canucks will survive this = a ee i ee ao pages: Bee Tae, = fe) eC U ion one 0 e disasterou playoff round. : Pre Atoms Win on unrequited love,” Michael Ignatieff a in The Russian Album, whieh So, like I say, when we are watching the Cup final between the fi T won the 1987 Governor General's Award for non-fiction. This sentiment Rangers and Blackhawks, how would we answer the question: Was Irs ga me echoes throughout the pages of his first novel, Asya. ie 1991-99, editon ofthe Canucks a great team? the ci Atom ste [oe eee 3 - Bs : ,hec e fictional li = My AOSHI would be the only reasonable one. They provided Brentwood Falcons ssoiball Ae E Anastasia (Asya) Galitzine, barn at the turn of the century and whose aeetry much enjoyment for long-suffering fans. They tumed the regular : ‘| like her country’s, is turbulent. When she's five years old, Asya is rescued season into a giant love-in. They rejuvenated a franchise that has has won its first game of the new || from an icy river, across which she had tried to follow a phantom skater, But been dismal at best. SeiSOr : ‘| her idyllic childhood cannot be rescued from a greater tragedy: the outbreak But they couldn’t win the big one. By anyone’s standard, this is The Falcons beat the Saanich | | of the Russian elvil war 1 JE05: es eae not a measure of greatness. Warriors 12-0 in a Spartans Cana- : As a young woman Asya falls in love with a dashing artillery officer, named dian Football game played earlier | Sergei Apollonovitch. Their affair is brief; Sergei soon disappears in the nig TAO. : chaos of the revolution, leaving Asya alone and pregnant. : : =] Fleeing the Bolsheviks, Asya moves to Paris, where she gives birth to a Dunlop evens final series Eric Meyer and Matt Rashbrook {| son. But here among the community of exiled White Russians, Sergei scored touchdowns for the Fal- }}}) reappears and draws Asya into a web of espionage and betrayal. Soon the It’s crunch time for the Penin- _ league, upset the first-place Island cons. } forces dividing ern