The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 16

THE VANCOUVER SUN. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1998 C7c SPORTS T-Birds crush Dinos Burke reacts CANADA WEST Queen's at Bishop's, 10 a.m. GP 2 1 0 to hard-hitting DINOS 22 THUNDERBIRDS 37 b.c Calgary Saskatchewan 0 Manitoba 1 Alberta 1 A Carleton at Concordia, 10 a.m.

-0 81 25 4 Toronto at Guelph, 11 am 0 81 51 2 Waterloo at Wilfrid Laurier, 11a.m. 0 00 00 0 Western Ontario at McMaster, 11a.m. 0 14 59 0 York at Windsor, 11a.m. 0 03 44 0 Alberta at Saskatchewan, 12:30 p.m. Atlantic Preseason Saint Mary's at Acadia, 10 a.m.

SL Francis Xavier at Mount Allison, 10 a.m. 0 0 questions Friday's Game British Columbia 37 Calgary 22 Saturday Games Greg Douglas "As long as the o-line offensive line keeps opening up big holes for me, I'll get my yards," said a happy Singh. "They did a hell of a job tonight I like to find the seams and hit them, so obviously the o-line plays a big part. Our coaches really had us very well prepared for this game," he added. "It was just a matter of execution on our part" Other UBC touchdowns were scored on a three-yard Olson pass to slotback Bill Chamerlain and a one-yard plunge by ninning back Trevor Bourne after linebacker Dan Elliott made a key defensive play by intercepting Calgary quarterback Darryl Leason on the Dinos' 30-yard line.

Duncan O'Mahony kicked three field goals for UBC. "I think we mixed the offence up pretty good," said QB Olsoa Akbal's tittle different style of runner than Mark Nohra was, but he still gets the mail delivered. And I think we've established that we've got a pretty solid passing game as well." Thanks! VARIETY OLU3 JJ Richards, President of Variety Club, andSherroldHaddad, Chair of the South Fraser Healthcare Foundation, are proud to be partners in the development of the new Children's Health Centre at Surrey Memorial Hospital. DAN STINSON VANCOUVER SUN Predictions of a second straight Vanier Cup championship were definitely premature last November. They may still be.

But the question University of B.C. football fans were asking themselves Friday night was: Who's going to stop the Thunderbirds? Certainly not the Alberta Golden Bears or Calgary Dinosaurs. The T-Birds marched to their second straight rout of the 1998 Canada West season 37-22 over outmatched Calgary in the home opener at Thunderbird Stadium following a 44-3 rout over Alberta Sept 5 in Edmontoa Thanks to a virtually unstoppable tailback named Akbal Singh, this one was over early. The quicksilver Notre Dame high-school grad romped 77 yards for a touchdown on UBC's first possession and later caught a 14-yard TD pass from quarterback Shawn Olson and ran a two-point conversion as the T-Birds soared to a 34-4 halftime lead. Singh, a fourth-year T-Bird, was only mareinallv less effective in the second Canuck GM busy on the phone lines.

Something could be brewing with Philly, possibly a Bure trade. SCENE HEARD: If Hollywood talent scouts are ever looking for a younger version of George C. Scott Wrestler wins bronze medal TEHRAN (CP) Gia Sissaouri of Montreal won a bronze medal as the world freestyle wrestling championships came to a close Friday. Sissaouri beat R. Madjinov ofKyrgyzstan 4-2 in the 58-kilogram class bronze-medal match Daniel Igali of Bumaby lost his 69- to play in a Patton sequel, Brian Burke just might be their man.

At his "1st Annual State of the Fran The South Fraser Healthcare Foundation thanks the Variety Club of BC for its generous donation of $150,000 for life saving equipment for the new Children's Health Centre at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Variety Club's donation was used to purchase critical items such as patient controlled analgesia pumps, a i portable ECGrespiratory monitor, a neonatal ventilator, oxygen -blenders, cardio-respiratory monitors and specialized incubators. chise Address" in the ballroom of the Waterfront Hotel Thursday night, Burke barked for 30 minutes kilogram class bronze-medal match against Lincoln Mcllravy of the U.S. 4-L half as Olson elected to go with a more balanced attack, passing as much to talented wide receiver Brad Courts as handing the ball to Singh. It was Singh, however, who entertained most before the near-sellout of 3,500 fans.

Diminutive at 57" yet solid muscle at 190 pounds, Singh finished with 260 of UBC's 337 rushing yards and has clearly picked up the torch from former all-Canadian tailback Mark Nohra, who marched the T-Birds to the Vanier Cup last fall. Panthers sign goalie Burke MIAMI (AP) The Florida Panthers, hoping to fill a void left by the loss of John Vanbiesbrouck, have from the podium, then reacted to several hard-hitting questions from the floor with hard-hitting answers for another hour. He didn't pull any punches. On head coach Mike Keenan: "50 per cent of the people love him; 50 per cent of the people hate him. I'm somewhere in between." On the holdout of goal-tender Corey Hirsch: "He's getting bad advice from his agent.

We've of signed free-agent goaltender Sean Burke. The Panthers announced Friday they have signed the much-travelled Burke, but would not release details until a news conference today. The Mi i The 33rd annual "Show of Hearts' airs Feb.13i 14, 1999 on BCTV. For information call 32M505 or 1-800-381-2040. ami Herald reports the deal is worth SOCCER Women SFUCIm Classic SFU 5 Colorado Christian 1 (Sara Maglio 3 goals) $4.3 million US tor next seasoa pXLAiT (MWc AIR CANADA Sale of GVQ; Vehicles Save Thousands! OjCC iiO fered him $575,000 if he makes the NHL team and $50,000 if he goes back to the minors.

If he's had problems with management in the past, it's not my concern. Corey has no baggage with me." On the Canucks trading Trevor Linden: "When I was with league headquarters in New York, Mike Milbury (Islanders GM) called and asked me if I'd trade Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan McCabe for Trevor. I said no. Then Steve Tambellini called and asked me if I'd trade Linden for Bertuzzi and McCabe. I said yes." HERE 'N' THERE: Burke talked to 14 NHL general managers in one day this past week and eight of them inquired about Pavel Bure.

Burke left his exclusive audience of roughly 300 season ticket holders with the distinct impression something could be brewing with the Philadelphia Flyers, possibly a three-team trade that will transpire sooner than later When Burke was asked about Bure's secretive problem with playing in Vancouver, Burke snapped: "I promised Pavel I wouldn't get into that least until after he's been traded." There is nary a glimpse of the Russian Rocket on the Canucks new promotional highlights film. SHORT HOPS: The most finely tuned athlete in the entire Orca Bay organization is neither a Grizzlie nor a Canuck. That would be Debbie utt, media relations coordinator with the Grizzlies. Debbie joined 1,900 participants in the recent Iron-man Canada competition at Pentic-ton, all trying to qualify for the Hawaiian Ironman world champi 1 38 P3DAYOV i Vil': Only 6 Cadillac Cateras Only 8 Oldsmobile Auroras ft 1 i -i 6 is I i XI UJi, jew Only 20 Cadillac Sevilles 'A fc'J? JrtAHOS onships. Debbie swam 2.4 miles in Lake Okanagan, biked 112 miles and completed the challenge with a 26.2- mile marathon run, all in the span of Only 70 Oldsmobile Silhouette Vans Only 9 Cadillac DeVilles Li hours, eight minutes and 30 sec onds.

She trained 20 hours a week for nine months leading up to the Penticton event. The top 12 in Debbie's division go to Hawaii. She fin ished 13th. i. END ZONE: A replacement for Canucks departed media relations manager Devin Smith has not yet been named.

The vote here goes to Chris Brumwell, the articulate Only 6 Oldsmobile Eighty Eights 160 Happy Golfers "3 young man who's worked under Smith and is ready to step up a notch VTV's sportscasting team of Perry Solkowski and Jody Vance is about to welcome Brad Fay, who's leaving BCTV Hastings Park Racecourse announcer Dan Jukich made a guest appearance at Emerald Downs in Auburn, this week, calling four races. In a unique "voic es across the border" move. Emer aid Downs announcer Robert Geller will call four races at Hast ings Park next month. (Greg Douglas can be heard morn ings on 93.7 JRfm and The Bridge ouuam Monaay through mday) 3 Days Only- Friday, Sept 11, Saturday Sept. 12 and Sunday, Sept.

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