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M8 TIMES-COLONIST Sunday, March 6. 1988 Last-rock misfortune keeps jinx intact in Canadian women's curling I GORDON: male award winner I SHACKLETON: top female star Sanders rink wins top team honors at awards dinner 7: i It The Canadian Press FREDERICTON Heather Houston of Ontario beat Pat Sanders' Team Canada rink from Victoria 6-5 for the Scott Tournament of Hearts title, continuing the jinx that has plagued Canadian women champions for 15 years. The 29-year-old graphic artist and her Thunder Bay team of third Lorraine Lang, second Diane Adams and lead Tracy Kennedy will represent Canada at the world championship in Glasgow later this month. For Sanders, the 1987 Canadian and world champions, it marked the end of a dream to become the first team to repeat as champions since 1973, when Vera Pezer completed a three-year sweep. Sanders seemed set to lock up her second championship in a row when her last-shot draw in the 10th skimmed into the back rings, allowing Ontario the steal.

"I was very proud of our team regardless of the outcome," said Houston. "I had no idea it (Sanders' shot) was going to be too heavy until I saw it stop." For Sanders, the loss was doubly-disappointing since she threw a draw shot that she no longer had confidence in during the championship game. "I did't want to throw the draw because I hadn't had much success with it in the game," she said. "I wanted to throw the takeout, but I talked it over with Georgie (second Georgina Hawkes, who was in the house) and we decided to go with the draw." Sanders said she knew she had too much weight on the stone "as soon as I threw it; even my sweepers knew it." Also on the Sanders rink was lead Deb Massullo and third Louise Her-linveaux. The Ontario rink-had a dynamite finish to the championship, becoming the first team to win two tiebreaker games, the semifinal and the championship game since the playoff format was instituted in 1978.

They won five straight since losing to Team Canada 10-5 in the 14th draw of the week-long preliminary round-robin event. Team Canada, which automatically qualified for the championship without having to go through the provincials, locked up first place and a bye into the finals with the win over Ontario. Ontario finished in a three-way tie with Manitoba and British Columbia for third place and beat both provinces Friday before meeting second-place Saskatchewan in the semifinal later that night. I SANDERS: skips best team TO! cv if! 1 i 1 I VICTORY EMBRACE is enjoyed by Ontario sec- Team Canada rink from Victoria in the final of the ond Diane Adams (facing camera) and lead Tracy Canadian women's curling championships in Fre-Kennedy following their win over Pat Sanders' dericton, N.B., Saturday afternoon. SFU running back first pick in draft I LOW: top junior athlete By Cleve Dheensaw Times-Colonist staff It came down to the battle of Pat Sanders versus Ring Road and Pat Sanders won.

Sanders' 1987 world women's curling championship rink of herself, Georgina Hawkes, Louise Herlin-veaux and Deb Massullo was named Victoria team of the year for 1987 at the 21st annual Victoria Sports Awards dinner on Saturday at the Harbour Towers. Sanders beat out four 1987 Canadian championship teams from the University of Victoria (where the Ring is located) Vikettes basketball, Vikings soccer, Vikettes cross-country and Vikettes field-hockey for the honor. But it was a bittersweet day for Sanders, who earlier Saturday lost in the 1988 Canadian's women's championship game in Fredericton, N.B. Football star Ian Gordon, named the top defensive junior player in Canada, as named the Victoria male athlete of the year. He goes down in history with past winners like Olympic gold-medal rowers Dean Crawford and Grant Main, World Cup soccer qualifying hero George Pakos, national team and UVic basketball star Eli Pasquale, Daytona 500 driver Roy Smith, NHL and Cougar hockey-stalwart Mel Bridgman and Canadian gymnastics great Philip Delesalle.

Brenda Shackleton, the Canadian cross-country champion, was named Victoria female athlete of the year. Shackleton beat out four-time winner Debbie Bowker, one of Canada's great female middle-distance track stars, and world rowing champion Janice Mason for the award. Gordon beat out lacrosse scoring whiz Paul Gait and national-team and UVic soccer star John Hughes for the male award. Shackleton also joins a glittering list of past female winners which includes Bowker, Olympic silver-medal rower Marilyn Campbell, national team field hockey captain Shelley Andrews, Pan-American Games track multi-medallists Joyce Yaku-bowich and Penny May, national team and UVic basketball great Carol Turney-Loos and superstar Softball pitcher Rosemary Fuller. National junior team field hockey ace Rochelle Low, tabbed for senior national team stardom in her sport, was named junior athlete of the year for her rookie season with the UVic Vikettes in which she led Canada West in scoring and also led the Vikettes to the Canadian title.

Low beat out Byron Dafoe, the brilliant 16-year-old goalkeeper of the Juan de Fuca Whalers of the B.C. Junior Hockey League, and Julie Je-spersen. bronze medallist at the world junior row ing championships. Mike Creery, a marathoner for Canada who didn't did get to the 1980 Moscow Olympics because of the Western boycott, was named Victoria masters athlete of the year. Creery rebounded from that bitter blow in 1980 to become Canada's top-rated masters runner.

His 1987 placings put him in the top three in North America and in the top five in the world. Creery beat out B.C. senior women's curling champion Dorothy Fukuyama and masters track star and former national team sprinter Rafael Melendez-Duke. Doug Hudlin, the only non-American ever to umpire twice at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding contributions to the youth of Victoria through baseball. linebacker Brian Forde who went to the Edmonton Eskimos, rounded out the eight first-round draft picks.

The Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats did not choose in the first round after losing their picks in trades last season. The Tiger-Cats' first pick overall was defensive end Tim Lorenz of Cal State. Hamilton chose Lorenz 11th overall. The Argonauts' first draft pick was highly-touted wide receiver Paul Ma-sotti of Acadia. The Hamilton native was expected to go in the first round and his availabilty in the second 15th overall was a sign of how selective the teams were drafting.

In the only major draft trade of the day, Ottawa gave up its third- and fourth-round picks to Winnepeg for veteran tight end Nick Arakgi. years with Simon Fraser and accounted for another 863 yards in the air for a total 43 touchdowns. The 5-foot-10. 190-pound back was a Northern Division NAIA all-star in 1987. Wide reciever Jeff Fairholm, a Montrealer out of Arizona State, was the second player picked, by the Saskatchewan Rougliriders.

Inside linebacker Dan Wicklum of Guelph University was picked third overall by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, followed by offensive tackle Poly Georganos from Bishop's University who was chosen by the Calgary Stam-peders. Pete Giftopolous, an inside linebacker out of Penn State chosen by-Saskatchewan, punter Tony Martino of Kent State picked by the B.C. Lions, and Washington State inside selected, taken in the seventh round by Calgary. Lee was generally conceded to be the top draw among the 320 players available in the draft, and the Rough Riders didn't confound the critics. "We got the player we wanted." said Ottawa general manager Paul Robson.

Ottawa picked first in the draft by virtue of its last-place standing overall last season, finishing with a 3-15 record. Lee, who moved to Toronto with his mother and family in 1974, appeared equally happy to be going to Ottawa. "I'm really pleased that Ottawa picked me," said Lee, 23. "I wanted to be closer to my family and the people that I know." Lee rushed for 3,146 yards in four The Canadian Press HAMILTON Running back Or-ville Lee of Simon Fraser University was the first in a grab-bag of football talent to be selected Saturday in the Canadian Football League college entry draft. Led by the Ottawa Rough Riders and their choice of the Jamaican-born tailback, the eight CFL clubs showed a wide variety of taste in their various shopping lists.

Two running backs, a wide receiver, two linebackers, an offensive tackle and one punter went in the first round as teams picked on the basis of need rather than availabilty. Overall, 37 offensive players were taken including 13 wide receivers and 27 defensive players. UBC's Jordan Gagner was the only quarterback DE GOEDE: superstar career Two killed in shootout at boxing stadium Goodwrench 200 Busch Grand National at Rockingham, N.C. WALES WON the triple crown of the Five Nations' rugby union by-beating Ireland 12-9 at Dublin. Wales now will attempt to win the Grand Slam when it meets France in two weeks for the title.

The Welsh have beaten England, Scotland and Wales in the Five Nations' championship. England came from behind and beat Scotland 9-6 at Edinburgh, posting its first victory of the Five Nations competition. England kept the Calcutta Cup, a 96-year-old trophy competed for annually by England and Scotland. selected for induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The announcement was made Saturday by Hall of Fame Vice Chairman William F.

Talbcrt at Indian Wells, Calif. Cawley, 36, an Australian now living in Naples, will become the 36th woman and 147th overall inductee into the Hall of Fame since its founding in 1954. She will be inducted at the Newport Casino in Newport, R.I., on July 9. She was the only person voted into the Hall this year. IN STOCK CAR racing, Mark Martin inherited the lead when Harry Gant ran out of gas six laps from the end and scored an easy victory in the Times-Colonist news services TWO PEOPLE were killed and seven were wounded in a shootout at a boxing stadium crowded with nearly 7,000 fight fans at Bangkok, Thailand, police said Saturday.

Police believe the violence stemmed from a personal conflict between boxing promoters. Thongchai Tikam and Manop Nark-tang, a police sergeant, were arrested and charged with murder after the incident. If convicted, they could face the death penalty. Police said Thongchai shot Chaiwat Palangwattanakij, a boxing camp owner and president of the Professional Boxing Association, as he watched one of the Thai-style kick-boxing matches at the stadium. NAMES MP GAMES Chaiwat was reported seriously-wounded.

Manop, Chaiwat's bodyguard, fired at the fleeing Thongchai, police said. MIDDLEWEIGHT Sambu Kalam- bay retained his World Boxing Association title with a unanimous 12-round decision over challenger Mike McCallum at Pesaro, Italy. It was the first defeat in 33 professional fights for McCallum, who vacated his WBA junior middleweight crown to move up in weight. TWO-TIME Wimbeldon champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley has been 4i HUDLIN: service to baseball Wadkins 18 holes from first win in 14-year career Doug Feme won the Sportsman of the Year Award for his remarkable coaching and leadership which turned the once-moribund Victoria Pay Less football team into one of the top junior teams in Canada in 1987. Hans de Goede, the James Bay-rugby superstar and captain of Canada's national team who was named to the All-World XV in the 1970s, was given a special award for his outstanding career that somehow saw him never win the Victoria male athlete of the year aw ard.

The guest speakers at the dinner were CKVU sportscaster Chris Hebb, hockey personality Babe Pratt, sports medicine specialist Dr. Dan Buie, Victoria Commonwealth Games committee member Mel Cooper and Vancouver Province sports columnist Jim Taylor. Tina Purtzer of Montreal missed the cut Friday. Orville Moody shot a 2-under-par 70 to maintain a three-stroke lead over a charging Al Geiberger after three rounds of the Vintage Invitational seniors tournament at Indian Wells, Calif. Moody, who tied an all-time PGA Senior tour 36-hole score of 14 under par on Friday, put together a three-birdie, one-bogey round to go to.

a 16-under total of 200 heading into today's final round. Geiberger, ho sank a 13-foot eagle on the 503-yard, par-5 No. 18 for a 67. reduced Moody's lead from five strokes to three for the last round. Bob Charles of New Zealand shot a 67 for 206 and third place.

hole score of under 208. Daniel, looking for her first Ladies Professional Golf Association tournament victory since 1985, led by one stroke after 17 holes. She hit a 6-iron 172 yards to nine feet from the pin and sank the putt for her eagle. Daniel started the third round one stroke ahead of Marci Bozarth, who shot an "even-par 72 to finish in a four-way tie for second. Joining Bozarth at5-under211 were Betsy King, Ayako Okamoto and Amy Alcott.

King shot a 66, Akamoto a 69 and Alcott a 70. Karin Mundinger of Toronto was the top Canadian following her 71 for 221. Barb Bunkowsky of Burlington, Out. shot 75 for a 222 total. Dawn Coe of Lake Cowichan and in contention with a hard-earned 71 that left him in a tie at 208 with with Sandy Lyle of Scotland, Ray Floyd, Bruce Lietzke and Ben Crenshaw.

Floyd, twice a winner of this tournament, and Lietzke each had a 68. Lyle moved up with a 67. Crenshaw had a 69 despite a double bogey from the lake on the 18th hole. Dave Barr of Richmond was the best Canadian after Saturday's round. He was eight shots back of the leader following a 68 to put him at 212.

Richard Zokol of Vancouver had a 71 for 214. Beth Daniel eagled the 18th hole to take a three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Women's Kemper Open at Princeville, Hawaii. The eagle gave her a 2-under-par 70 and a 54- Times-Colonist news services Bobby Wadkins, seeking his first victory in a 14-year career, retained a two-stroke lead Saturday in the third round of the $l-million Doral Open golf tournament. Wadkins, the leader all the way in the chase for a $180,000 first prize in Miami, had a third-round 70 and finished 54 holes in 201, 12 under par. Chip Beck, who scored his first career victory last week in Los Angeles, held onto second with a 70 that left him at 206.

Mark McCumber, battling flu, moved up with a 68. He was alone at 207. Despite some erratic putting and bogeys on three of the par-five holes, 48-year-old Jack Nicklaus remained i v. I I i I Hull iihiii ll FERNE: turned football around.