Telegraph Journal and The Evening Times Globe, August 23^rd, 1985

By: FRANCIS CAMPBELL

New Brunswick upped its medal total by four in about two hours Thursday evening at the Renforth rowing and canoe club, claiming two gold and two bronze medals.

Chris Flood and Wayne Macfarlne stroked their straight pairs to nearly a 1O second victory over the silver medal winning B.C. team. Flood said he knew B.C. was the team to beat. "We held them off. Our strategy was to start off strong and hold the lead"

Flood said the team saved a bit for the last. We didn't want to go full out.

"It was a comfortable win, but a hard race. We could hear the crowd at the end and that gave us a little extra push."

The crowd that Flood heard was a large and noisy one, and they had lots more to cheer when the men’s quad team of Dave and Don Dickison and Peter and John Oxley finished about a half second ahead of the B.C. rowers to take a second gold for New Brunswick.

Don Dickison said it felt great to win two medals in one evening, referring to the bronze in double sculls that he and his brother had won earlier.

"I was quite upset with the bronze. I thought we could have done a lot better. The gold makes up for it though."

Dickison said the quads race was so close that he didn't know who won.

"I was told we won but I didn't know'. We weren't sure. We were relieved when we heard it over the microphone."

Angela Buck, stroke for the women's eight team that won a bronze medal behind a B.C. gold and an Ontario silver, said the team was happy with the bronze.

"Color doesn't matter. We were trying for gold. We wanted a medal in the fours and didn't get it so we were ready for the eights. "

New Brunswick finished fourth behind Ontario, B.C. and Alberta, in that order, in the women’s fours with cox.

Tanya Wolstenholme finished fifth in women's single sculls race.

British Columbia took the gold, Quebec the silver and Ontario the bronze in that race.

The strong B.C. team captured three gold and three silver medals on the six races and Ontario placed boats first, second and third.

Racing wraps up this evening at Renforth with seven medals up for grabs. The men's single sculls, men’s straight four, four with cox and eight with cox as well as the women’s pair, double sculls and quad finals go tonight.