photo by Ed Mills Heavyweight Mike Ross takes a nap in centre ring after getting plugged with a fight he hand from 16- year-old Tough Man Champion Shane Sutcliffe. amateur championship Joe Pendry of Cranbrook. Scared straight: 8 fighters withdraw ‘News photo by Ed Mills Trail native Garry Vecchio (right) lost a split decision in the lightweight division to former Canadian Wednesday, October 30, 1991 Hometown boy one tough guy @ Partisan crowd goes crazy as Trail native bruises his way to title in Tough Man Challenge Ed Mills SPORTS EDITOR A Trail native pounded his way to the title and a $1,000 payday for six minutes work in the B.C. Tough Man Challenge Saturday night in the Cominco Gym. ; To the thundering ovation of the crowd of about 500, hometown boy Steve Bi- agioni scored a two-round unanimous decision in the middleweight division over onetime Canadian amateur Se e Wayne Walsh. The crowd went crazy again shortly after the fight j joining in the count as organizers off Biagioni in 10, crisp $100 bills in centre ring. Another Trail né native almost made it local-boy wins in two out of three divisions but Gar- ry Vecchio lost the lightweight title in a split decision to Joe Pendry, another onetime Canadian amateur champ from Cranbrook. A 16-year-old heavyweight slugger from Nanaimo punc- tuated the evening's festivities with a pulverizing right hand that floored his opponent in # Ahe first round of the final Lightweight shortly after winning his bout. t of the night. Te sound of face absorbing glove drew a gasp from the crowd as Shane Sutcliffe con- nected with a right hand on the button of Mike Ross. Ross crumpled to the can- vas and laid there for more than two minutes as he was attended by the ringside doc- tor, cornermen and the refer- ee. Signing autographs after the fight, Sutcliffe said it wasn't one his greatest knock- outs “but it was up there.” Biagioni won a unanimous decision over Joe Caktas of Richmond in his first fight while Vecchio got two of three judges’ votes in his first fight against Paul Liddy of Kam- loops. The three winners will be on the card — along with win- ners from the other cities where the series made stops — for the $30,000 champi- onship at the PNE Agridome Nov. 14. Twelve fighters, out of 20 who had signed up, showed up for Saturday’s card, including Karl Lawrence from Creston and Damian Ahyee of Fruit- vale, who both lost their first ed Tough Man Competi- tion makes its last stop in an eight-city tour Saturday in Prince George. photo by Ed Mille News: champion Joe Pendry collects his $1,000 prize money @ Wed , October 30, 1991 SchoolSPORTS It was a rather unsociable thing to do, but the SHSS ju- nior girls volleyball team sent everyone home unhappy from its own invitational volleyball tournament last weekend. On the other hand, the SHSS girls were quite happy after beating a favored Princess Margaret secondary of school of Penticton in three games to chalk up their first tournament victory of the sea- son. Treena Goolieff and Stephanie Rezansoff led the girls and were named tourna- ment all-stars for their efforts. SHSS went 2-2 in the round robin portion of the five-team tourney while the Penticton girls were perfect all the way bichon until meeting the lo- cals in the final. It appeared Penticton would keep its perfect record and take the tourney title af- ter winning the first game 15- 3, but SHSS came back with a 15-6 win and put Penticton on the bus with a 17-16 final- game victory. Trafalgar secondary of Nel- son, Mount Sentinel from South Slocan and Prince Charles secondary of Creston also played in the tourney. Co-coaches Tamara Gam- borski and Carol Verigin take the chub to Penticton for a tour- nament this weekend. FIELD HOCKEY It took a double-overtime barnburner at Kinnaird Park Sunday to decide the West Kootenay champion in junior girls field hockey. When the tahoe had settled the Rossland secondary girls came away with a 1-0 victory over SHSS in the five-team championship. Rossland got a goal in the second set of sudden-death shootouts after the teams played through regulation, one overtime period and one set of of shootouts without a goal. SHSS beat Trafalgar of Nel- son 5-0 in its first game then took out Trail’s J.L. Crowe 1-0 in the semifinal to advance against Rossland, who had beaten Salmo. SHSS field hockey director Verna Chernoff had nothing but praise for first-year junior girls coach Marcie Silva. “Marcie did a great job, she didn't cut players, she let them all play and they were all able to contribute to the team,” Chernoff said. The championship loss means both the senior and ju- nior girls ended their seasons placing second to Rossland in the West Kootenays. The kid’s got a future News Staff A Castlegar hockey player had a career couple of games last weekend as the Hi Arrow Atoms swept a two-game se- ries in Grand Forks. 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