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Well hello there, nice to see you again. It’s
been quite a week in sports, wouldn’t you
say? What’s that? You say you’ve been
writing an autobiography for the exact
seven days between my submission dead-
lines (Oct 14—21)? Well, let me fill you in
then.

Nobody would’ve thunk it (certainly
not me), but the Boston Red Sox are now
the only team in Major League baseball
history to come back from a 3-0 game
deficit in a best of seven playoff series.
Heck, they’re the only MLB team to even
force a seventh game in that situation.
And they did it against the biggest payroll
in league history at that. Boston is now
only the third of 239 teams in the four
major North American leagues to come
back and win from being down 3-0 in a
seven game series, joining the 1942
Toronto Maple Leafs and the 1975 New
York Islanders. Now BoSox fans are won-

dering if they can break the curse and win
their first title since 1918. Their opponent
is the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the
Houston Astros after coming from
behind in their series as well to win games
six and seven en route to the MLB finals.
Now those of you who know me, know
that I’m not a huge fan of the sport, but
the Red Sox really caught my eye this time,
and now I can’t wait to see them fail in the
World Series.

On the home front, in the CFL the
Lions came back from a 20-0 point
deficit in the first quarter to beat the
Montreal Alouettes 32—29 on a last-sec-
ond touchdown pass from Dave
Dickenson. Casey Printers had started the
game but left in the fourth quarter after
sustaining an injury. Don’t worry, it’s not
serious. With the win, the Lions have
clinched the West Division and get a buy

pot
29 septembre

  

Montreal’s final “chaude chein”

Premier Teams Keep On Rolling |

Dave Pearcey, OP Contributor

 

Photo by Jerald Wallise

Qetaber 27/2004

The Douglas Premier women picked up
their first win of the season with a 14-13
comeback _ victory the UBC
Thunderbirds. Battling a stiff wind during
the first half, Douglas managed to hold
the T-Birds at bay, thanks to the timely
kick of Candace Barry.

To start the game, UBC managed to
score one try off a rolling maul and led
5-0 at the half. Then, while looking to use
the breeze to their advantage for the final
40 minutes, Douglas suffered a setback
when props Stephanie Staller and Brenna
Glover were both penalized for a single
incident early in the half and sent off for
ten minutes. UBC took advantage and
increased their lead to 10-0.

Once back at full strength, Douglas
finally got some field position and Tanya
Leigh broke through on a ten-metre run
to score under the posts; Barry added the
conversion.

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into the CFL Western finals. Tickets are
already on sale for that game, and Bob
Ackles is opening up some of the long-
covered upper-bowl seats to
accommodate what is expected to be the
Lions’ largest crowd in years.

In basketball, Jay Triano has been fired
from his job as the Canadian Men’s
National coach. This is likely a decision
based on the team’s failure to make the
Athens’ Olympics. The firing was sugar-
coated, with Basketball Canada saying that
they wanted to give Triano the time to
focus on his job as an assistant coach with
the Toronto Raptors. For those of you
who remember when we had a basketball
team in Vancouver, Bryant “Big Country”
Reeves has bought a big piece of country.
Yes, that’s right, all the millions of dollars
that he scammed out of our franchise
before running the team into the ground
is going to good use. He bought a 2,509-
hectare game ranch for $2.7 million so
that he can hunt all the deer, black bears,
quails, turkeys, and doves he wants. The
property also has 30 lakes and ponds for
all of his fishing glory. So, uh, hooray for
getting a slimy agent and scamming a city
and its misguided attempts at creating an
NBA franchise.

In the soccet, Bob
Lenarduzzi was inducted into the United
Soccer League’s Hall of Fame in the
builder category. He is being inducted for
his continued work with our Vancouver

world of

Whitecaps, as he has created a successful
team despite all of the ownership adven-
that he has had
Lenarduzzi is already a member of the

tures to endure.

Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as well as

However, poor rucking and inadver-
tent penalties allowed UBC to get come
back with a penalty kick to lead 13-7.

Then with only two minutes left, UBC
again won possession in Douglas territory
and tried to salt the game away. With their
fullback joining the attack, a poorly timed
pass was intercepted by centre Mel Klein,
who sprinted 70 metres to put Douglas
within one point. Barry was true with her
kick and the visitors escaped with a 14-13
win.

In the second division, the rain made
for a slippery ball and ultimately cost
Douglas a win over their long-time rivals
from SFU, as both teams were forced to
settle for a 0-0 tie.

Most of the first half was spent in
SFU territory, but the conditions and a
tough SFU defense kept the game score-
less. Scrumhalf Tia Staller dove over the
tryline early in the game, but lost control

 

Bryant “Big Country” Reeves

the National Soccer Hall of Fame in the
US.

And, finally, a couple of weird tidbits
for you. The last hot-dog sold at an Expos
game was sold on E-Bay for $2,605 to
Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du
Soleil. The dog is preserved in a jar and it
comes with the original bun and another
hotdog mounted on a trophy. And it real-
ly was the very last one sold before the
concession stands were closed for the last
time. Lastly, a sports-talk radio station in
Italy is having cardinals (of the religious
type) come on their show and commen-
tate on soccer. The cardinals, so far, have
all been very well informed and quite
opinionated on all aspects of soccer.
What do the actual soccer officials think?
The same thing we do. It’s weird. But
that’s all. So I wish you best of luck in sell-
ing your autobiography and I'll see you at
the BC Place Stadium soon,

of the ball just as she attempted to touch
down.

There was good action in the 2nd half,
as winger Elisha Walker broke through on
a 50-metre run, but was caught before she
could score. Meghan Dobbs and Agnes
Stefek also made strong runs but were
unable to beat the last line of defense.

SFU produced some good running by
their backs and fullback Nikki Jackman
made potential try-saving tackles on two
occasions.

Finally, in the men’s games, the pre-
mier team beat Langley 21-17 and the
second division team lost to Langley
27-17. This moved their records to 2-2
and 0-4 respectively. Names of the try
scorers could not be obtained. The men
host their atch-rivals, Pocomo, on
Saturday, Oct 30, at Queen’s Park. Game
times are 1pm and 2:30pm.

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