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SPORTS C3 TIMES-COLONIST Sunday. May 8, 1994 Talented athletes reap honors at Victoria Sports Awards ot me uncxei uiud at Beacon mil Park for the past 15 years, was honored with the Distinguished Service Award. Canada's greatest ever male gymnast Philip Delesalle, who won two gold medals at the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games and who has a pommel horse move named after him, was given the Tmes-Colorast Hall of Fame 1 I. 1 Award, wnicn includes automatic induction into the soon-to-be toria Sports Hall of Fame. Kirsten Barnes and Brenda Taylor who have two Olympic gold medals each in rowing were the other recipients of the T-C Hall of Fame Award.

Barnes, Taylor and -Delesalle join nine other past Victoria sporting greats, recipients of the T-C Award in previous years, as the first 12 inductees into the Victoria Hall of Fame. Up to three By Cleve Dheensaw Times-Colonist sports staff Different strokes propelled Derek Porter, Rochelle Low and Suzanne Weekend to the top of the 1993 sports heap Saturday at the 27th Victoria Sports Awards Banquet at the Harbour Towers. Porter's world title last year in single sculls rowing was good enough for him to be named Victoria male athlete of the year for "93. The 1992 Olympic gold medallist in eights was selected over the other male nominees, Greg Strep-pel and Gareth Rees. Streppel is ranked No.

2 in the world in marathon swimming while Rees was the third-leading scorer last year in international test rugby as he led Canada to some big victories. Low of the Spartans, who stroked home seven goals in women's field-hockey qualifying play last year in leading Canada to the upcoming 1994 World Cup in Ireland, was named Victoria female athlete of the year. Low was the top scorer in World Cup qualifying. The other Victoria female athlete of the year nominees were track star Angela Chalmers, who followed up on her two 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games gold' File photos I CREAM OF THE CROP: swimmer Suzanne Weekend, field hockey's Rochelle Low, soccer coach Brian Hughes and rower Derek Porter. 1U1U1G1 ICgCUUS Will UC inducted each year.

bertville Winter Olympic bronze medallists and 1991 Victoria team of the year, won the nomination for 1993 for its B.C. title. Jill Robertson was named masters athlete of the year for her world masters sailing title in the 14-foot single laser class. Ted Daly, whose vision and persistence created the unique five-diamond baseballsoftball complex which opened in 1993 on 10 acres of land adjacent to the airport, was named Victoria Sportsman of the Year. Bob Sherratt, the backbone men's eights rowing crew.

But the Under-19 Selects may be up to the task. The club, which was ably coached by former pro Brian Hughes and Brett Hyslop, is a virtual Who's Who of future. Island League and possible national-level soccer stars. The UVic Vikes women's basketball team, No. 2 in Canada behind national champion University of Winnipeg in 1993, was also nominated.

The other nominee was the Julie Sutton curling rink. The former Canadian champions, world runners-up, 1992 Al- medals and 1992 Barcelona Olympic bronze medal by placing fifth in the 3,000 metres last year at the world championships in Stuttgart, Germany; and rower Kelly Mahon, who won a bronze medal at the 1993 world championships and two golds at the 1993 Buffalo World University Games. Sixteen-year-old school girl Weekend, who hopes to put a dent in the Aussie tidal wave this summer in the pool at the Victoria Commonwealth Games, was named Victoria junior (19-and-un-der) athlete of the year for her 1993 Canadian senior title in the 100-metres backstroke. Weekend beat out Noel Wing, Canadian junior women's archery champion and 1993 Kamloops Canada Games gold medallist, and Dwayne Isaac, one of Canada's best young Softball hurlers, for the "93 junior award. The Island Under-19 Selects, national soccer champions for their age group, were named team of the year.

They have a tough act to follow last year's Victoria team of the year winner was the Olympic gold-medallist Canadian Nominees and winners were in balloting by the Victoria. sports media. The headline speakers at Satur- day's banquet were George. Heller, president of the Victoria Commonwealth Games; radio broadcaster Annis Stukus, the 1 first coach of the B.C. Lions when they entered the CFL in 1954; FINAL DAY Slow-start Eagles feast on 'Bellies SEATTLE JUNE 3, 4, 5 August 22, 23,24 Packages starting at $189.00 Victoria Travel Shoppe 381-5514 i 11-5 Van.

Isle. Antiques Collectables 18th Annual Spring Faire 50 exhibitors from Western Canada under one roof. ESPW SPORTS CENTRE 5 minutes over Blue Bridge 1151 Fcnmmalt IM iii OffifKDlrw May 30 nui pani GENERAL HYDRO 2000 TTHES LFEIR JOINING FEE REDUCED TO ONLY By Ron Rauch T-C assistant sports editor After a 0-2 start to the B.C. Junior Lacrosse League, the Victoria Eagles needed something to build their confidence. With only a 20-game league schedule, a 0-3 start could have been disastrous for the Eagles.

The Eagles played the New Westminster Salmonbellies on Saturday at Panorama, a team that they didn't beat last year But, the Eagles received strong performances from Rob Dawson and goaltender Devin Dalep en route to a 9-5 triumph in the penalty-filled game. Dawson, the game's first star, who played with the Victoria Shamrocks in their Western Lacrosse Association opener on Thursday, propelled the Eagles' attack with three goals and an assist Dalep, the second star, again was a standout in goal, making 33 saves and also chipping in with three assists. "We lost all of our games last year to New Westminster so this victory was a confident builder for us," said Eagles' coach Brian Spaven. "All of the games were close but we just couldn't seem to find a way to win. Today, we had more variety on our shots and scored some key goals with low shots." Jonathan Farr, Darcy Ber-thaiume, Jordan Fairlie, who was injured in the second period and didn't return, Bruce Alexander, Colin Ward and Hike Cullen also tallied goals for Victoria.

Chris Charlton, Curt Gulli-ford, Keven Stewardson, Shane Staples and Robbie Buchan countered for the Salmonbellies, who trailed 3-1 and 5-2 at the period breaks. New Westminster goalie Curt Palidwor looked somewhat shaky at times and made 30 saves. The referees were kept busy LIMITED TIME OFFER For Details Phone: office 656-3136 GLEN MEADOWS GOLF COUNTRY CLUB 1050 McTAVISH RD. RR2, SIDNEY, B.C. V8L5T4 Debra BrastvTimes-Colonist EAGLES' Colin Ward (r) evades check of Salmonbellies' Scott Daunais with help from Jordan Fairlie.

third when New Westminster was attempting a late comeback. "Our defence is getting better and we did create some opportunities on offence with our fast break," said Spaven. "Today we were much better at running and moving the ball but we can still improve." The Eagles return to action Saturday at Panorama against the 2-0 South Fraser Stickmen. Game time is 2 p.m. all afternoon by handing out 36 minor penalties, five majors and three misconducts.

Spaven wasnt pleased with his team's discipline, especially in the third period. "We didn't have very much self-discipline today," added Spaven. "We had a 7-4 lead midway through the third period when Scott Phair took a five-minute penalty. That could have killed us but we were fortunate that our shortman play was very good. The referees usually dont call the first infraction but they always catch the retaliation penalty and a couple of those situations hurt us today.

"I have been stressing to the team all year that we need self-discipline and today our lack of it almost cost us." Dawson scored a goal in every period, including a short-handed marker at 2:05 of the first His third goal was scored into an empty net at 18:33 of the if CO" SAFE FUN United lose in New West I rf ROWING PROGRAMS GRAPHITE SHAFT SALE IRONS AND WOODS FOR ALL AGES LEVELS RECREATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Certified t. Instructors Teams -Join one or form your own REPAIRS 25 1711 QUADRA 1 -800-665-0077 Phone 658-5331 5100 Pat Bay Highway (Elk Lake) GOLFSMrTH Lambriclc Park Kinanis Dabo Ruth Baseball would like to thank the following sponsors for making our season a tremendous success. Times-Colonist staff New Westminster Khalsa beat Victoria United 2-1 in Pacific Coast Soccer League action on Saturday afternoon at Queens Park. Khalsa scored at 20 minutes on a rocket-launcher 20-yard free kick taken by Gary Aujla. Aujla struck again at 62 minutes with the winning goal as he streaked down the wing to get around the United defence to put the ball in the net David Ravenhill brought Victoria to within one when he scored after getting a cross from Gary Bryant at 85 minutes.

Victoria had two chances to tie the game in the final five minutes of the contest but had no luck on the close calls. Dean Anderson's volley went over the bar and Dale Aune's open header sailed wide of the net Khalsa's record improved to 3-0 while United fell to one win, one tie and two losses. It was United's second loss in a row. The side went down 1-0 to the Seattle Storm last weekend. Khalsa and United meet again neit Saturday at 1:45 fm.

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