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F10 SPORTS Times Colonist Sattrday April 30 2005 Editor Gavin Fletcher Telephone: 380-5344 E-mail: sportstc.canwest.com Referee's error forces game replay When is a soccer victory not a victory? When it takes place in the B.C. Province Cup men's quarter-finals. Vantreights of Victoria blanked Westside Rino of the Lower Mainland 2-0 in a quarter-final match last weekend at Royal Athletic Park to advance to the B.C. Cup semifinals. Or so they thought In a precedent-setting decision, the B.C.

Soccer Association has ordered a replay of the quarter-final game. Westside Rino lodged a protest, arguing that one its players was red carded and ordered off the pitch because of a refereeing error. Apparently, the ref thought it was the player's second yellow card when it was actually his first The protest was sustained and a replay ordered. The replay takes place Sunday at 2 p.m. at Royal Athletic Park.

The first game was filled with ill will and much jostling and Sunday's game should be emotionally charged, especially on the part of Vantreights. -Cleve Dheensaw, TC sports staff Ex-caddie sues LPGA player over pregnancy A former caddie for LPGA golfer Jackie Gallagher-Smith is suing her, saying she seduced him in order to get pregnant Gary Robinson says Gallagher-Smith, who is married, used him as "an unwitting sperm donor." He is suing for an unspecified sum, claiming fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. No hearing date has been set for the suit filed in circuit court this week in West Palm Beach. A message for Gallagher-Smith's lawyer, Edwin Belz, was not immediately returned. Earlier, Belz told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that the suit was, "an attempt at extortion." The suit says Gallagher-Smith, 37, gave birth last month, but Florida law says a child born into a marriage is deemed to be a result of the marriage.

A DNA test can't be forced and Robinson has no legal claim to the child, said Cathy Lively, Robinson's lawyer. "That is why we are seeking damages; he's not going to be able to ask for a DNA test," Lively said. "It is our claim that he was put into a position and this was an intentional act to father a child. He was led to believe at that point that the child was his. -AP -T 'ill NBA PLAYOFFS Victoria Sports Awards Suns takes stranglehold on series with win Yt z'M I Stephanie Dixon topped Canada's medal count with eight at the 2004 Athens Paralympics.

Darren StoneTimes Colonist A banner sports year Steve Nash, Stephanie Dixon take top athletic honours Former Team Canada World Cup captain Wilson got the coaching nod ahead of fellow nominees Jim Fowlie, the PacificSport Victoria swim coach who guided the fortunes of Say and several other internationals in a productive year against exceedingly fast fields, and Ed Somers, who last year coached Lambrick Park to a third consecutive B.C. boys' AA high school basketball crown. Somers' hoops squad was named high school team of the year. Mitch Gudgeon, now an emerging UVic Vikes basketball player who was a brilliant all-rounder at Oak Bay high, was voted high school athlete of the year. The other nominees were hoops star and all-rounder Mike Saunders of Lambrick Park, who also got selected by the Seattle Mariners in the major league draft, and SFU-bound wrestling prodigy Sta-cie Anaka of Reynolds.

Prodigious endurance cyclist Ken Bonner was named masters athlete of the year ahead of swimmer Grant Hall and the Wiley's Angels women's softball team. Keith Dagg, who organized the successful men's world curling championships at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, was named Sportsman of the Year. Jimmy Spencer, who was tireless in helping organize soccer from the Island league to FIFA Team Canada qualifiers in Victoria, was given the Distinguished Service Award. By Cleve Dheensaw Times Colonist sports staff The three nominees for Victoria male athlete of the year ran from Marathon in the footsteps of Phidippides, swam in the wake of the Thorpedo and danced an MVP basketball jig with Shaq. How's that for a year in sports? Basketball whiz Steve Nash, NBA most valuable player candidate, emerged from media balloting as the winner over outspoken swimmer Rick Say, who reached two finals in the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics, and marathoner Jon Brown, who was fourth in the Athens Olympics over the most historic marathon course imaginable.

One-legged swimmer Stephanie Dixon, who won a Canada high eight medals at the 2004 Athens Paralympics and made the able-bodied finals for UVic at the CIS national university championships, was voted Victoria female athlete of the year. The other nominees were Athens Olympics 800-metre track semi-finalist Diane Cummins and UVlc rugby star and world university championships MVP Erin Lockwood. The 38th annual Victoria Sports Awards banquet took place Friday at the Princess Mary. Balloting was conducted by an eight-member media voting panel comprised of two Times Colonist sports-writers, two News Group sportswriters, MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) The Phoenix Suns are showing they can mix in some muscle with their finesse.

Amare Stoudemire scored 30 points, and the Suns rolled over the Memphis Grizzlies 1 10-90 Friday night for the franchise's first 3-0 lead in a best-of-seven series. A victory here Sunday night would give Phoenix a sweep of the opening-round Western Conference series. Joe Johnson scored 20 points and reserve Jim Jackson added 17 for Phoenix. Shawn Marion added 14 points and 13 rebounds, Victoria's Steve Nash had 13 points and eight assists. Lorenzen Wright led Memphis with 14 points.

Pau Gasol and Mike Miller had 13 apiece, and Shane Battier and Jason Williams scored 10 each. The knock on the Suns despite their NBA-leading 62 victories in the regular season was that they couldn't handle physical play from bigger opponents, preferring to sprint up and down the floor. The Grizzlies felt the time finally had arrived for the franchise's first playoff victory after seven straight losses. They thought they had only themselves to blame in losing Game 2 108-103 on Wednesday night and expected their frenzied fans to provide the edge the team lacked in Phoenix. What they found out is that the Suns can push back pretty hard when they want without affecting the NBAs best offence.

The Grizzlies got the start they wanted, hitting eight of their first 10 shots and leading 24-15. The Suns couldn't find the basket in the opening minutes and missed their first eight shots. Stoudemire finished the quarter with 1 1 points after struggling early and even missing a slam. Phoenix coach Mike D' Antoni anticipated a furious start by Memphis and had cautioned his Suns to weather the early excitement. They did that easily.

With the Suns clutching and grabbing, the Grizzlies cooled off and missed nine of their next 12 shots. The Suns took their first lead at 3 1 -30 on a jumper by Johnson with five seconds left in the quarter, part of a 24-6 surge that ended with a Johnson three-pointer from the right comer for a 49-36 lead with 5:28 left in the second quarter. Stoudemire, coming off a playoff-best 34 points in Game 2, personified the Suns' physical approach when he soared up near the basket and tomahawk-chopped a dunk over the six-foot-nine Stromile Swift in versial 2010 logo will begin appearing at Bay stores across the country this summer. Heller is now CEO of the Bay and he and fellow naturalized Canadian Furlong have hit it off tremendously, leading to the blockbuster $100 million deal in which the Bay took away the Canadian Olympic clothing rights from the trendier Roots. Furlong, speaking in Victoria, said what he was looking for was a Games logo that "reflected the genius of the artistry and wonderful history of our country." But some complain the logo fails even there and doesn't speak of Canada at all to them.

It does to me. There's no laziness with a stylized Maple Leaf approach, but there is Canada writ large all over it. Firstly the name, Ilanaaq, smells of Canada more than the sweat of a hockey duffle bag. The thing that sprang into my politically incorrect mind on first glance was Sacramento's Mike Bibby, centre, drives to the basket between Seattle's Rashard Lewis, left, and Jerome James during Game 3 of their Western Conference playoff series Friday in Sacramento, Calif. Seattle lost 116-104.

Rich PedroncelliAssociated Press the second quarter. The Suns led 5747 at halftime and never let the lead dip below double digits in the second half as they finally blew out the pesky Grizzlies. They led by as many as 19 points in the fourth quarter with half the sellout crowd already headed home. 76ers 115, Pistons 104 At Philadelphia, Allen Iverson scored 37 points and handed out five of his 15 assists in the fourth quarter to lead the Philadelphia 76ers past the Detroit Pistons' 115-104 Friday night. Tl.f Sixers defeated the defending NBA champions for the first time in the best-of-seven series, cutting Detroit's lead to 2-1 Game 4 is Sunday.

Iverson led the way as Philadelphia overcame an early 13-poirtt and then played its best ball in the fourth quarter, keeping the Pistons from getting much offence from anyone other than Ben Wallace. Detroit's centre scored a career-high 1G rrItifp rrA ir-fiKhorl 1 roKminHc Kilt jJllllia OllU ,1 UUUtU 1U 1LUVJU11UO, LUl the Pistons got only two points from their reserves to offset another 50-per-cent shooting effort from the field the third time in the series they've made at least half their shots. that it "must be some sort of Eskimo thing" and I believe that's how the world, will see it. And it's child friendly, as the SpongeBob jokes attest. The 1994 Commonwealth Games logo a ribbon in the stylized shape of a didn't reflect Victoria beyond that.

The nod to Canada was the red ribbon and to B.C. the blue ribbon. It didn't bludgeon you with the Butchart Gardens popping out of the Legislature dome, but went with oblique references. The city and province are missing in the 2010 Winter Games logo but the most integral part is there Canada is staring back at you. Subdy, yes, but welcomingly and with a bit of a wink.

Who thought a nation known as being so reserved would do something as unexpected as this with its Games logo? Gulp, are we actually unpredictable and maybe even cool? Perhaps. Here's betting Gumby and his goalie pads grow on you. two The New VI sports broadcasters, one CH News sports broadcaster and a sports broadcaster from 100.3 The Q. Chris Baier's 2004 B.C. junior men's curling champion rink was named winner in the youth category.

Also nominated were Wegadesk Gorup-Paul of Victoria Boardworks, who is still a teen and yet won the bronze medal behind Olympic silver-medallist Alexandre Despatie in the senior men's 10-metre at the Canadian diving championships, and rising baseball star Matt Gunning, who played for his hometown Victoria Royals last summer and was Sun Belt Conference player of the year in hitting .381 and taking Western Kentucky University to its first NCAA tournament appearance in 24 years. It's often a controversy at the Acad-1 emy Awards when the best director Oscar goes to someone other than the person who directed the best picture. Something like that often happens in sports awards, too, but not Friday, as the CIS national university soccer champion UVic Vikes were named Victoria team of the year and Vikes mentor Bruce Wilson as Victoria coach of the year. The other team nominees were the WLA champion and Mann Cup national lacrosse runners-up Victoria Shamrocks and Victoria United, which again swept to Pacific Coast League hardware last summer in soccer. copyright has been breached by an immigrant artist devising a native-themed logo, as if only someone from India has the right to play the sitar or study Sanskrit or only a Frenchman can open a French restaurant.

Many don't care about the background of who did it, but are displeased it isn't a West Coast theme aboriginal or other but a rather lumpy stylized, if playful, Inuit design from northern Canada. There are no totems, salmon, ferries, dogwoods, mountains, waves, sunsets or safe injection sites anywhere in the design and it doesn't say B.C. in any way. But there are no apologies for that from VANOC, the organizing committee, nor should there be. If there has been one theme pushed hardest by VANOC, especially its CEO and president John Furlong, it's that these are Canada's Games and not Vancouver's or British New Olympic logo says Canada with a wink and a smile I was exacdy one week ago today that Gumby in Goalie Pads or is it SpongeBob T.

v. Steroids? -was unveiled "omnere as the logo for the 2010 Winter Olympics and people in B.C. still can't stop talking about it. Reaction has ranged from outraged to mildly bemused. There doesn't seem to Cleve Dheensaw be a radio DJ who hasn't made at least one crack about it per day.

But please, people, pace yourselves. There's five years of abuse to go yet. Some aboriginal leaders aren't happy because some sort of unspoken cultural Furlong has lived and worked all over B.C., including spending a good chunk of his life on the Island. But his vision is beyond that and he's passionate that the Games must speak to all Canadians. "I want these Games to touch the soul of not just our province, but our country," said Furlong, during a speech earlier this year in Victoria.

"These are Canada's Games and we want to share them with everybody." Now there's a novel concept for this country a national vision. It's not surprising that Furlong, an Irish immigrant, should be so impassioned about this. Immigrants tend to have more a sense of Canada as a whole and are less deflected by provincial or regional jealousies. It's the same way Czech immigrant George Heller, CEO of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, felt about that event. And it's not a shock that Games merchandise emblazoned with the contro ZtS A APRIL 30 MAY 1 pgatour.canada.com LilHi Catch the live coverage of the PGA TOUR'S Classic of New Orleans this weekend.

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