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Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - North Shore News - 37

AY OF THE JACKEL

GOOD WORK, BURKE

ongratulations to North Van's Mike Jackel, one of 11 new inductees
at have found a home in the newly created Basketball B.C. Hall of
ame. Jackel was a member of the Simon Fraser University Clansmen
om 1978 to '82 and earned All-American honours. He led the NAIA
scoring in the 1980 and '81 seasons and later played professionally
Germany, leading that loop in all-time scoring and becoming the
ighest-paid Canadian cager playing in a European league.

Former Argyle Piper and North Shore girls AAA basketball all-star Ashley
Burke recently earned a second West Coast Conference (WCC) player of
the week nod for her Gonzaga University Bulldogs, as well as a slot on
the WCC's first all-star team. Gonzaga went 18-11 and finished No. 2 in
the conference this season but had its playoff picture erased on the
weekend when the Santa Clara University Broncos edged the 'Dogs 6059 in overtime to advance to the next round.

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oes to
he mat

COVERING THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

Gold rush

Blues bomb UCC to win first B.C.
men's basketball gold since '84

Jan-Christian Sorensen

an-Christian Sorensen

jsorensen@nsnews.com

CALL 'em the golden
boys of Capilano
College.

EEP Cove's Seycove
econdary won its first­
er provincial title on
e weekend as the
chool played host to
e B.C. High School
ymnastics champi­
nships.
The Seyhawks boys gym­
astics team captured the
.C. overall title - Seycove's
st in 24 years - while the
indsor Dukes girls team
on their provincial champi­
nship.
Windsor's Nicola Kirk was
st overall in girls Level One
mpetition with a score of
4.250 while Seycove's Aska
"tihara and Handsworth's
nny Bulmer finished one
d two, respectively, in Level
ive competition (36.875 and
6.300). On the boys side,
eycove's Lincoln Garries was
· d in boys Level Two over­
(50.550), while Windsor's
D. Nasir, Ryan Sunstrum
f Seycove and Andrew
baba of Windsor were t wo,
ee and four, respectively, in
oys Level Three overall
9.050, 49.000 and 48.850)
d Seycove's Scott Morgan
as tops in Level Four with a
ore of 53.950.
On Monday Seycove host­
a celebration rally in its
m to celebrate and hang
e school's first champi­
nship banner.
It's been a good year so far
r Seycove, with the school's
wing, juvenile cross-coun­
(boys), gymnastics (boys)
d senior AA soccer (boys)
winning North Shore
tles. The Seyhawks girls
owboard team also recently
on silver at the provincial
ampionships at Whistler.
See Clark page 44

The school's Blues me.n's
basketball team captured the
B.C. Colleges Athletics
Association provincial title on
the weekend at Douglas
College with an 88-65 win
over the University College
of the Cariboo Sun Demons.
The team now advances to
the
Canadian Colleges
Athletics Association national
championships, being held
next week in Lo.ngeuil, Que.
It's the school's first B.C.
title since 1984, when the
college's cagers finished up
with a fourth-place end at the
nats.
Cap coach Paul Eberhardt
said that he knew he had a
solid squad on his hands, but
wasn't certain they would be
able to improve on their fifth.
place B.C. ranking by win­
ning the provincial title.
This season the team lost
the services of both their

NEWS photo Cindy Goodman

THE Capilano College Blues men's basketball team captured its first B.C. Colleges
Athletics Association gold medal in 19 years with an 88-65 win over the University
College of the Cariboo Sun Demons on Saturday night at Douglas College in New
Westminster. Former Kitsilano Blue Demon Chris Porteous and former Argyle Piper
Tim Pershick were named to the tournament all-star team, while Duchess Park
import Jordan Yu was named the MVP. The team now will head to the CCAA
(Canadian Colleges Athletics Association) national championships being held in
Longeueil, Quebec starting March 19. The last time Capilano College won a provin­
cial title in men's basketball was back in 1984, when the school went on to finish
fourth at the nationals.

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starting forwards - former
Handsworth Royal Ryan
Le.narduzzi to a serious head
injury and McNair import
Charles Jacoway to academic
ineligibility - as well as Saint
John, N.B. guard Ryan
Buchanan and were only 4-4
after the first half. However,
the team added Austrian
import Lukas Hrdlicka to the
mix, Kitsilano import Chris
Porteous caught fire to win
the BCCAA rookie of the
year award and the team went
on a 7-3 run in the second
half to scape its way into the
postseason picture.
At the playoffs the team
staged a big quarter-final win
over the Kwantlen University
College Eagles 80-63 before
advancing to the semi-final,
where they dispatched the
two-time defending national
champs from the University
College of the Fraser Valley
75-67 to reach the final.
Eberhardt
said
that
because many of the teams at
the provincials seemed to
regard Cap as the underdog,
See Vidic page 39

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Vidic makes
a difference
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it gave his team a definite
edge.
"I don't think people have
taken us seriously all year,"
said Eberhardt. "People
know we're a good team and
that we're capable of beating
people but I don't really
think, when it came right
down to it, that they thought
we could. All that counts is
that we thought we could.
Our guys had no doubt that
they were capable of beating
everybody. I didn't have to
do a sales job or motivate
them. They knew they could
do it.
"I believed we could do it
but to say I was expecting it
would be a lie. Going in as
the number-five seed and
having no big guys I knew it
would be difficult, but I also
knew at the same time we had
beaten everybody at least
once so there was nobody we
were afraid of."
Cap guard and Duchess
Park alum Jordan Yu was
named the tournament MVP
while Porteous and former
Argyle Piper Tim Pershick
were named to the all-star
team.
In terms of scoring, Vlade
Vidic led the way in the
Kwantlen game with 19
points and five boards, while
Porteous was good for 17
points, nine rebounds and
four assists and former
Sutherland Sabre
Scott
Lawson chipped in with 14
points, six rebounds and five
assists.
In the semi-final game
Porteous scored 17 points
and three assists while Jordan
Yu - who was in all three
tilts named player of the game
- scored 16 points, 10 assists
and three steals. In the final
game it was the Chris
Porteous show - the big forward scored 33 points
( including six threes) and
added five each of assists and
steals. Yu chipped in with 23
points, eight assists and six
steals.
Eberhardt sang the praises
of University Hill grad and
sixth man Vlade Vidic, who
helped pace the team to a 3-0
record with solid play off the
bench.
"He played the best basketball of his career," said
Eberhardt. "Being such a
short bench if we got in any

foul trouble or guys were
tired, Vlade would come in.
He was averaging only four of
five points a game before but
at the provincials he scored
19, 14 and eight for us in
three games and defensively
he was great. He came off the
bench and I don't think a lot
of people noticed him but
people who know the game
really appreciated what a difference he made for us."
Eberhardt said the one
factor that drove his team was
heart. Earlier this season he
tried to illustrate how important that quality was to his
charges by showing them a
scene from the classic Paul
Newman film Cool Hand
Luke .
It's the jailyard fight scene
where George Kennedy's
Dragline lays a beating on
Newman's Cool Hand character. Despite a savage thrashing, Newman refuses to stay
down, saying "you're gonna
have to kill me first."
"Six or seven weeks ago I
didn't feel we were playing as
hard as we could. When you
talk to a team about the heart
it needs to win, it's a hard
concept to describe. Newman
keeps getting up. He wont
stay down. I showed it to the
guys and they were mesmerized by that "you'll have to
kill me first" scene. That sort
of became our theme. After
that, before every game we'd
write that on the board as as
reminder to the guys to leave
it all on the floor and give it
all you have and it became
our battle cry."
Eberhardt said that whatever happens at the _nationals,
this year's run has been one
of the major benchmarks of
his coaching career.
"If we don't win it I still
think I will look back on this
year and say this is one of the
most enjoyable and satisfying
years in terms of overachieving. My goal when I came
here was to get to nationals
and win a championship and
there were a lot of people that
didn't think it could happen.
Cap had no history of success
in basketball, it's fairly isolated and most people saw it as
only a soccer school.
"Sure, there were times
when I was wondering what l
was doing. (Going to nationals) within four years is certainly way ahead of what I
was expecting."