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Sohne’ fifth in downhill LEUKERBAD, Switzerland (CP) -- Italian skiers swept the first three places for the first time ever in a men's World Cup downhill Saturday, in a race that saw many lesser-known competitors get good placings because of changing snow conditions, Michaél Mair was timed in two minutes 19.08 seconds on the slightly shortened 3,810-metre-long Torrent course, to capture his second World Cup downhill career victory. Canada had three skiers in the top 10, with Felix Belezyk of Castlegar, B.C., fifth, in 2:20.13. Rob Boyd of Whistler, B.C., was ninth in 2:20.97 and Dan Moar of Revel. stoke, B.C., 10th in 2:21.01, his best World Cup result yet. While most of the Alps have suffered from a drought of snow this winter, about 30 centimetres fell here Friday night, putting the early starters at a disadvantage on the soft, fresh snow. The course became increasingly fast as more skiers went down. Second place Giorgio Piantanida started 25th, while third place Werner Perathoner started 47th. Piantanida was timed in 2:19.42 and Perathoner in 2:19.69. SEEDS FALTER Only three of the top seed of 15 finished in the top 15 Saturday — Mair, who started 10th, Boyd in 12th spot, and Frenchman Christophe Ple, who started 15th and finished sixth in 2:20.33. The reigning world downhill champion, Peter Mueller of Switzerland, was the first skier down the course and wound up 35th with a time of 2:22.34. His Swiss teammate, Pirmin Zurbriggen, current leader of the World Cup downhill standings, was 39th, in 2:22.43, after starting sixth. Canadian downhill coach Heinz Stohl said the Italians have had an advantage on soft snow over the last three years because of their waxes and ski bases. By finishing fifth, Belezyk, who has been plagued by good training runs but poor race results, had his best finish in two-years, since placing fourth at Kitzbuehel, Austria, in 1986. WHERE'S THE PUCK? . . . Castlegar Rebel forward hun- ts for loose puck in front of Trail Junior Smokeater net during KIJHL contest Friday night at the Community Complex. Rebels dropped game by 7-5 score CosNews Photo by Br Nagle “I had a little chat with the coaches last night and they said, ‘Treat it like it's another training run and be as relaxed as you can.’ And that's what I did.” Belezyk started 26th. A visibly upset Boyd said a race like this is frustrating because the changing snow puts the first seed at a dis advantage. ‘This'll give me a good feel for tomorrow's race,” Boyd said. “I'll go into it angry.” With more snow forecast for Saturday night, today's downhill here could easily follow Saturday's pattern. Luekerbad mayor Otto Loretan said snow cats were out grooming the course at 4 a.m. Saturday morning to get it ready. He said 250 workers were on the hill by 8:30 a.m. to prepare the course. BOOSTS CONFIDENCE “I was definitely looking forward to this race,” said Moar, who was 52nd out of the start gate. “I needed it before the Olympics, especially “It didn’t come too late, that’s for sure.” Moar is fighting with Mike Carney and Don Stevens for the fourth and final starting position on Canada’s Olympic downhill squad. Boyd, Belezyk and Brian Stemmle of Aurora, Ont., the latter recovering from a knee injury, have already been selected. The team will also carry a fifth racer as a spare. Carney, of Squamish, B.C., was 18th on Saturday in 2:21.43, while Stevens, of Rossland, B.C., was 31st, in 2:22.10. Ralf Socher of Fernie, B.C., was 37th, in 2:22.89. Rob Bosinger of Banff, Alta., and John Mealey of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., both fell but were not hurt With half of the 10 World Cup downhills now run, Zurbriggen has 85 points, followed by Mair, with 66, and Boyd, with 54. After today's race, the downhillers will head to Schladming, Austria, for a race Friday, the last World Cup downhill before the Olympics. Oiler winless string now at five games UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Alan Kerr scored the tiebreaking goal at 7:39 of the third period and the New York Islanders defeated Edmonton 3-2 Saturday night, snapping a 10-game winless streak against the Oilers. The Islanders were 0-6-4 in their last 10 regular-season meetings with the Oilers since last beating Edmonton on Feb. 7, 1984. The win also snapped a three-game losing streak for the Islanders. The loss extended the Oilers’ current winless streak to 0-3-2 and dropped them into second place in the Smythe Division, one point behind the Calgary Flames, who tied Detroit 4-4 earlier in the day. For the 12th straight game, the Oilers played without injured superstar Wayne Gretzky. The Oilers are 4-4-4 since Gretzky suffered a knee injury on Dec. 30 after going 23-12-3 with him in the lineup PITTSBURGH 4 MONTREAL 3 MONTREAL (CP) — Charlie Simmer banged in a rebound after 29 seconds of overtime to complete a three-goal rally by Pittsburgh, enabling the Penguins to earn a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. It was the fourth straight victory by Pittsburgh — all on the road. The Penguins also ended a drought of eight losses and two ties in their last 10 outings at the Forum Mario Lemieux stopped an attempted clearing pass by Montreal Larry and forced goal Brian Hayward to block his 30-foot shot. But Simmer pounced quickly on the rebound from the right-hand side of the crease. CHICAGO 3 TORONTO 2 TORONTO (CP) — Left winger Steve Thomas scored one goal and set up another and Chicago goaltender Darren Pang made 48 saves in a 3-2 Blackhawk victory Saturday night over the Toronto Maple Leafs, who lost their fifth NHL game in a row and set a club record by going 14 consecutive games without a victory. Steve Larmer and Mike Stapleton also scored for the Blackhawks. Ed Olezyk and Gary Leeman scored for the Leafs, who have not won since Dec. 23. HARTFORD 5 MINNESOTA 0 HARTFORD (AP) — Paul MacDermid scored two goals and Dave Tippett added three assists as the Hartford Whalers struck for five first-period goals and a 5-0 victory over the Minnesota North Stars. Hartford, winning its fourth straight game, scored four goals on seven shots against goalie Don Beaupre in the first 8 of the game. MacDermid scored first at 1:08, followed by Dave Williams at 1:28, Carey Wilson at 3:47 and capped by Ulf Samuelsson. MacDermid made it 5-0 at 18:13. Ray Ferraro added a pair of assists for Hartford. Goalie Mike Liut stopped 33 shots for his second shutout of the season and 19th of his career. BUFFALO 3 CAPITALS 3 LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Mike Gartner's power-play goal late in the second period lifted the Washington Capitals to a 3-3 tie with the Buffalo Sabres. Gartner, standing to the left of Buffalo goaltender Tom Barasso, scored his 31st goal of the season by tapping in a cross-ice pass from Dale Hunter. Buffalo is unbeaten in its last four games and 9-2-1 in its last 12 FLYERS 6 BRUINS 4 BOSTON (AP) — Scott Mellanby scored twice in a 52-second ‘span late in the first period as the Philadelphia Flyers rolled to a 6-0 lead and held off the Boston Bruins 6-4. Mark Howe, Dave Poulin, Brian Propp and Doug Crossman also tallied for the Flyers before the Bruins’ third-period rally produced goals by Keith Crowder, Randy Burridge, Reed Larson and Ray Bourque. Philadelphia goalie Ron Hextall faced 41 Boston shots leading the Flyers to their fifth straight victory. He also was hit with a misconduct penalty in the third period, running his season| total to 88 penalty minutes. Mellanby also had two assists for the Flyers, who drove Boston starting goalie Reggie Lemelin to the bench at the end of one period Detroit 4 Calgary 4 DETROIT (AP) — Mike O'Connell scored with 4:19 left Smokies down Rebels By CasNews Staff Trail Junior Smokeaters scored five third-period goals to beat the Castlegar Rebels 7:5 in Kootenay International Junior ‘Hockey League action Friday night at the Community Complex. The win lifted the Jr. Smokies to within four points of the front-running Rebels. Castlegar has 44 points on the season, while Trail has 40. Trail led 2-1 after the first period, despite the fact that Castlegar drew first blood. Lorni Kanigan notched the Rebels’ opening goal with a little under six minutes left in the period. Sandy Renwick helped out on the play. But Trail responded with two goals in less than 20 seconds to head into the dressing room up by one. Castlegar's Dave Terhune — who was honored last night with a special evening — scored the lone second-per. iod marker, with assists going to Wayne Salekin and Kevin Koorbatoff. The Rebels regained the lead early in the final frame when Salekin beat Trail goalie Scott Austin after being set up by Terhune and Dave Zarikoff. But Trail refused to cave in. Just over a minute and a half later, Trail evened the score, and then went ahead. Zarikoff then brought the Rebels even again at four goals with Terhune — picking up his third point of the $500,000 project By BRENDAN NAGLE Staff Writer The Castlegar and District Golf Club will spend $500,000 this year to improve its irrigation system. The project includes tapping into the fore-bay of the Brilliant Dam on the Kootenay River and installing an auto- mated underground sprinkler system on the front nine similar to the one already in place on the back nine. “We need 1,200 Imperial gallons of water per minute to keep the course green and healthy,” said club president Barry Jackson. “We were getting 40 gallons by August last year.” Jackson said the course has had irrigation problems ever since Ooti schenia tapped into the same aquifer years ago. The improvements will include 2,133-metre pipe from the dam to an irrigation pond on the course. The pond will feed the underground sprinkler system Jackson said access to the water from the dam's fore-bay will provide far better irrigation than the two wells on the course that are fed by the aqui fer. But Jackson said there is plenty of hard work involved in securing all the permits necessary to implement the improvements at the course. “We are just applying for a water licence at this time,” Jackson said. “We are also negotiating with Cominco to install pumps on the dam.” He said raising the $500,000 needed to finish the improvements is also a large task. The B.C. Lottery Commission has been notified and Jackson said he hopes it will contribute in the neighborhood of $100,000. The course has applied for Job Trac assis. tance and has also requested assistance night — and Kelly Sidoni getting the assists. But the Jr. Smokies again pulled ahead at the 9:07 mark. Then about five minutes later, Trail went up 6-4 when Brett McLaren scored the winner. Zarikoff managed to get the Rebels to within one goal when he scored his second marker of the game at the 17:06 mark. Renwick recorded the assist. But Trail salted the game away with its final goal with just 1:27 left in the game. Nick Colvin stopped 21 of 29 Trail shots, while the Rebels peppered Austin with 35 shots. planned from the federal government's Unem. ployment Insurance Act to hire people to work on the project Jackson said the club hopes to raise $300,000 through debenture issues and a slight increase in mem bership and green fees. The debentures will be selling for $500 each. There will be a seven per cent return on blocks of debentures up to $4,500 and an eight per cent return on blocks of debentures over $5,000 Jackson said annual fees “would not increase by more than $50 per member” and green fees will go from $16 to $18. He it was time the 23-year-old course had sufficient irrigation to keep it green. “Late last season we could only water the greens and tee boxes and the fairways ended up looking like a desert,” he said. Chicago led 3-2 after 40 minutes and Pang and Leaf goalie Ken Wregget took turns making big saves as the third period wore on. BLUES 5 NORDIQUES 3 Tony McKegney scored three times and Bernie Federko broke up a 3-3 deadlock at 10:31 of the third period as the St. Louis Blues posted a 5-3 triumph over QUEBEC (CP) the Quebec Nordiques Federko took a pass from Herb Raglan and fired in a in the third period to give the Detroit Red Wings a 4-4 tie with the Calgary Flames Brett Hutt scored his second goal of the game with 4:49 remaining to give Calgary a 4-3 lead. But O'Connell took a pass from Steve Yzerman in the slot and drilled a slapshot past Flames goaltender Mike Vernon 30 seconds later for his fifth goal of the season Joe Mullen had the other two Calgary goals while John shot from the slot, while McKegney had one goal in each for Detroit. Detroit took a 3-2 lead 5:58 into the final period of period for the Blues Michel Goulet scored his 28th of the season on a two-on-one with Peter Stastny to tie the game at 3-3 early in the third period before Federko scored CRHL Chabot, Adam Oates and Bob Probert tallied the other goals Chabot's goal, before Mullen tied the score with his second of the game and 22nd of the season on a power play at 9:24 Swiss skier takes race BADGASTEIN, Austria (CP) Switzerland's Beatrice Gafner won the second World Cup downhill of her career Saturday, while Kellie Casey led three of Canada's racers into the top 15 placings. Gafner, who last won a World Cup downhill in Mellau, Austria, in 1986, clocked a time of one minute 43.80 seconds on the 2,624-metre-long Sil berkrug course with its vertical drop of 653 metres through 33 gates. Teammate Brigitte Oertli took second in 1:44.14 and Austrian Ver onkia Wallinger was third in 1:44.60. The Swiss now have won all six women's downhills this season. Casey, the Collingwood, Ont., skier who won the final training run Friday, scored her fourth top-15 result of the season, placing eighth in 1:45.13. “I'm happy with the e way I skied; adding the conditions were a big factor in the race. “The snow conditions were a little bit different from the training ru’ It seemed that each day the snow was different. Today, I found the snow was quite soft in certain sections and it made it slower in parts.” Karen Percy of Banff, Alta., who was second last week in a downhill at Zinal, Switzerland, finished ninth in 1:45.13, while Kerrin Lee of Rossland, B.C., was 11th in 1:45.22. Both came back strongly after struggling during the training runs. “Thad a really flawless run,” said Percy. “I felt good everywhere “The only thing I noticed was there was a few piles of snow that built up in the lower flats.” “I think I skied the top a lot better than I did yesterday,” Lee conceded “In the bottom, I just tried to stay more compact than I had.” Veteran Laurie Graham of Ingle wood, Ont., a second-place finisher in the final training run, was a distant 23rd in 1:46.43. Both Graham and Casey appeared to be hindered by ski selection in a race where skis played a large role. “It's disappointing for me,” said Graham. “It wasn’t a regular downhill, but it's a race. “It was a real gliding course. You had to stay on the track and stay low. I felt that I skied OK.” Graham said the change in con ditions might have affected the way her skis were running “It seems wetter, more packing snow. It's not as wind-blown as yesterday, where that dried the snow out.” Other Canadian results: 41, Lucie Laroche of Lac-Beauport, Que., 1:47.91; 50, Michelle McKendry Orangeville, Ont., 1:49.84; 58, Nancy Gee of Niagara Falls, Ont., 1:50.66. Rookie Kendra Kobelka of Revel stoke, B.C., fell during her run but was not injured. Switzerland's Michela Figini, who was fourth in the race with a time of 1:44.62, leads the World Cup downhill standings with 109 points. Teammate Maria Walliser of Switzerland is second with 81 points, while another Swiss, Brigitte Oertli, is third with 74. Percy is the top Canadian, in fifth place, with 48 points. Graham is tied for eighth with 35 while Casey is tied for 11th with 27 and Lee is 16th with 18. Figini leads the overall World Cup standings with 178 points, 38 ahead of Oertli, Walliser is third.with 196.