Serving Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows since 1978 Saturday, January 13, 2007 THE NEWS 49 BY LAURA JANSEN Staff Reporter The Pitt Meadows Marauders only gave up the lead they established early on as they defeated the Westview Wildcats 47-21 Thursday evening. The two junior basketball teams went head to head in the Westview gym, with the Pitt squad keeping play in the zone for much of the rst half. Westview took a brief lead when, after receiving an in-bounded ball, point guard Morgan Meys sunk a three-pointer in the rst quarter, bringing Westview ahead 3-2. From there on, it was game. The Marauders drew further and further from their Westview coun- terparts, who had a small roster of 10, during the rst half of the game.
By half-time Pitt was enjoying a 32-7 lead. While they maintained their lead throughout, the Westview squad began to pick up speed, narrowing the gap increasingly throughout the second half. They kept pace with the Maraud- ers girls during the third quarter, scoring 10 points to Pitt 12. The nal quarter saw a push from both sides, a back-and-forth effort that yielded minimal scoring for each. The rst points come until more than a minute into the fourth, scored by Laura Davis.
Meys scored nal non- foul shot basket of the game after backing her way through the key to- wards the net. While Westview came back hard in the second half, scoring double the number of points it accumulated in the rst, it was not enough to catch up to the lead established by the Ma- rauders, the game ending with a nal score of 47-21. Pitt Ariel Powell was the top scorer with 11 points, followed by nine from Saman- tha Dalke and six apiece from Char- maine Biagioni and Angelie Cade- lina and ve from Sarah Rolin. Single baskets came from Katie Kehler, Kirstun Noga, Tianna Bak- er-McKenna and Amber Arter. Foul shots were sunk by Jessica Lee and Amanda Severinski.
On the Westview side, Meys banked eight points while Laura Davis had four. Single baskets came from Molly Beaudreau (with one foul shot), Shafa*gh Houssaini and Chelsea Rodgers. Andrea Fortier sunk a foul shot. Pitt Meadows coach, Kevin Sev- erinksi who was treated to a cho- rus of Happy Birthday by his girls following the victory said he was pleased with the effort. boxed them out and beat on the he said.
played After tournaments this weekend and next, Pitt Meadows plays its next league game Jan. 23 against the Maple Ridge Ramblers, a home game beginning at 5 p.m. The Westview juniors host a home game Jan. 18 at 5 p.m. against Maple Ridge Christian.
In senior girls' action, the Thomas Haney Thunder, Maple Ridge Ram- blers and Pitt Meadows Marauders sit 1-2, 0-1 and 0-2 respectively as of Jan. 9 in the AAA division. Standings for the AA division, which houses Garibaldi and West- view secondary schools, are cur- rently unavailable. THE Section coordinator: Laura Jansen 604-467-1122 ext. 216 Blue Devils lead Wildcats in 10-4 rally The winter break came to an end when the PoCo- Ridge Meadows Blue Dev- ils travelled to Langley to meet the Delta Wildcats on Sunday.
Delta opened scoring against the novice A rin- gette team, but the Shelby Greaves fed Bayley Bird the ring to even things up early on. Katie Stanoffsky tied things at two after Delta jumped ahead once more. A minute later, Greaves and Bird teamed up again for a one-point Blue Devils lead. In the last minute of the rst, Lizzie Nickason found Sarah Knight for a two-point advantage. Early in the second pe- riod Stanoffsky netted her second goal of the game.
Delta got past keep- er Gena Desjardin twice to catch up within one goal. Late in the second, though, Kaila Butler found an open Bird, who scored her third goal of the night for a hat trick and to bring the Devils ahead by two once more. Within a minute, Greaves found Stanoffsky open to widen the gap further. Within another 30 sec- onds, Butler slipped the ring in the top corner to give PoCo a four-goal ad- vantage over the Delta squad. The nal goals of the night came just as quickly with Nickason passing to Krstine Osachuk, who scored her rst of the night, and Kat Formilleza fed Knight for the nal.
Within three minutes the Blue Devils had scored ve goals and defeated the Del- ta squad 10-4. The Devils next play to- morrow (Sunday) at 5 p.m. in Port Coquitlam as they host Fraser Valley 1. Fifth for Christensen Pitt Meadows' Aaron Christensen sits in fth place for scoring in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, averaging 21.43 points per game for the Simon Fraser University Clan men's basketball team. Christensen was the high scorer in each of two games each against the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack and the University College of the Fraser Valley Cas- cades.
The Clan men will hit the road to visit the Wolfpack in Kamloops and the Cascades in Abbotssford for a change of pace this week after dropping two tough games against cross-town rivals the University of Brit- ish Columbia Thunderbirds last weekend. Friday night the Clan (7-7) will be in Kamloops to take on TRU (0-14) and Saturday night will be in Abbotsford to face UCFV (3-11). Dumping of snow cancels events BY LAURA JANSEN Staff Reporter Winter sport took a beat- ing late this week, following a dose of real winter. A dumping of snow ren- dered sports elds unus- able for weekend games, sending soccer organizers in particular wondering if elds will be clear and dry enough in time for the start of a provincial series next weekend. not going to play this weekend; supposed to get cold, which means the snow will said Ann Steen, eld co-ordinator for the Pitt Meadows United Soccer Club.
So far, the two local soccer clubs Pitt Meadows and Golden Ears have lost one weekend plus another Sun- day on account of snow, the rst taste of which came in late November. This weekend the Pitt Meadows club will see 17 games cancelled at Harris Road Park and another 32 at Pitt Meadows Athletic Park. lot of games went Steen said. a big possibility that the majority of those games be rescheduled to make up for the lost time. mini-soccer, which is u-10 and under, and u-11, not competitive so they be reschedul- Steen said.
With the others, more than 90 per cent of the league went down, just cancel the That could be a disappoint- ment for teams want- ing to get one last game, par- ticularly if the snow clear by next Sunday. provincial cup starts next Steen said. As well, the league cup begins for teams. Steen gures if the snow clears early enough, Pitt Athletic might be OK. Pitt Meadows athlet- ic elds are perhaps the best in the Lower she said.
drain exception- ally Much of the Lower Main- land and Fraser Valley was covered in white on Wednes- day, approximately 30 centi- metres or more blanketing the ground in the Maple Ridge area. The result was a mass shut-down of outdoor sporting events, the snow too deep to play in. Linda Turner, eld co-or- dinator for the Golden Ears United Soccer Club, said she had 34 local games sched- uled that will need to be re- scheduled before the season comes to a close at the end of February. has been the worst soccer season for bad weath- er conditions that I can re- member in the last 10 years that my kids have been play- ing she said. now that we have the turf elds Samuel Robertson Techni- cal secondary and Westview we are able to schedule some night games during the week, once the snow is gone, to get some of these games made The fall eld lacrosse sea- son was also impacted by the snow, said Reynold Co- meault, vice president of the Ridge Meadows Minor Lacrosse Association.
entire season has been reduced by a number of games he said. date, we have only been able to have six league games as a result of the Three more scheduled games were going to be can- celled, he said. Outdoor sports the only events impacted; the snow also kept the Wednes- day night super league off of the curling sheets at the Golden Ears Winter Club. Games were cancelled due to bad road conditions. Parks and Leisure services cancelled all skating lessons on Wednesday they make judgment calls on a day-by- day basis and Planet Ice cancelled all registered pro- grams for that day, and also acts on a day-by-day basis.
Ridge Meadows Arenas, however, was operating business as usual, with its stick and puck session Wednesday afternoon going ahead as scheduled. Pitt downs Westview 47-21 SIMONE NEWS Pitt Meadows Marauder Ariel Powell gets past the Westview Wildcats' Andrea Fortier Thursday evening at Westview in junior girls' basketball action..
