•.

LIit weekend'• ~Pitch

the Miners, the team went
through the tourney un-

pub in RoaJand, touched a
large nmnber of our citizens
in one way or another.
The tournament started
1'1th 11 teams. Ron'tend had
to form an atra team to fill
the spot vacated by a Vernon

defeated to take home the
beautiful trophy which is
emblematic of the RollSland
Slo-Pitcb tourney championship.
It took a three-nm homer
by Don Casey in the third
atra inning to push them to
victory in the final over the
Kamloopl Kats. They wound
up the celebration with an
impromptu victory parade
out in front of the curling
rink where the refreshment
area WU located,
Players taking part in the
winning nm of the Miners,
besides Casey, were Ken
PeDDe!z Gary Urquhart, Bill
Lyle, ·u1mmy Lepage, Rob
Valentine, Norm Wolford,
Peter Dunn, Kelly Schultz~
Scott Leyland, Rob Waugh
and Howie Kam.
Other RollSland teams in
the tourney were SuperScrap, Legion Royals,
Payless and Lotex. ·
Someone will never
forgive me if I don't mention
our refreshment crew.
Freddie and Viv Thompson,
Joe Thalman, Chuck
Harlmes, Henry Matthews

Coumament, held in four

JIHhow.
There · had been a
: we,1,...,,1111 party at the

arena Friday nlpt but that
4ldn't deter the eager
. playen from being OIi deck
-ID -the opm
teams
the field
1nctoot
~ All
1t had aeen adtGn by noon,
tqbt 1olen tbm faced
eJlmination in their nm
IOUlld.
llowffer It W8I Sunday
:mornin8 before. the first
.eaaaltlel bllan to appear
mtbeboud.
'l'bse wen five teams
from llollland, one each
from C&lpry, Trail, Salmon
&mandEDr:ford, three from
\'ernon and four from
fCamJoopa.
I have to pay tribute to the
ace11ent way all the details
of a tournament of this size
wen managed, the commmee, headed by Ken Dison
and Cem Jensen, did a
remarkable Job.
The friendly atmolpbere
- of the tournament gron

'· 'more evident every year u

old friends from around the
coantry get together to
renew acqualntenca
The good rapport among
the teams la plainly evident,
Its a fan tournament but that
does nothing to dull keennea
of the cmipetiton.
.. 'lbll year the champion'•
.mantle went to a team from

.•·1astand.

. • Decked out in their Kelly
. peen uniforms and dubbed

andyours,truly.

Down at the Upper Course
on Tuesday we bad balls for

Honey Pot points, low, net,
low gross and most honest
golfer. Thirty-nine golfers
from

the

Retiree

ranks

assembled for a fine day of
the grandest game on earth
and when it wu all over Bill
I.Jmacber bad won HP points
with 30, Jack Barnes was the
low net winner with 33,
Herbie St. Jean bad a 44 to
take low gross and Henry
Matthews was the most
honest.

Next week's play will be
kinda special as we
celebrate "Pat" Morris day
at the upper course on
Tuesday. A shotgun start at
nine a.m. ·will feature some
special events that are
sponsored by the donor
every season at this time. It
is expected that well over ioo
retirees from around the
country will be on band.
Lacrosee is Canada's
national game. One of the
hotbeds of the game in the
Kootenays is Rossland.
Despite the demise of the OK
league in which the Redmen
played last season.
Wednesday the annual
Dominion Day game took
place at RollSland arena. It
was a high-scoring affair as
the Orwell-Beaver Falls AllStars came on strong in the
closing stages to beat the
Redmen 20-13. The big goalgetter was the All-Stars' Tim
McNulty. He scored seven
times, potting four in the
first period and three in the
third, team-mate Peter
Corrado added three as did
Mike Amos and Grant Fines.
Grant Johnson and Hughie
Small got three apiece for
the Redmen and Joe Letoria
was a big helping band with
a goal and eight assists.
Greg Stein and Doug
DeGans came up with a lot of
sparkling saves as the play
swung from end to end.
After the game, I talked
for some time with Jong-time
lacrosse great Paul
Seymour. He would sure like
to see the game prosper in
our area and will do
anything be can to help.
The lineups for the game
were:

Redmen - Greg Stein,
The All-Stars waere Doug
Hugh Small, Greg Galpin, DeGans, Mike Amos, Grant
Grant Johnson, Morley Fines, Bill Sherwood, Peter
Levick, Dan Shepherd, Pete 'Corrado, Roger Woodhouse,
Bourchier, Rick Leduc, Wes Nadigel, Dave Price,
Mark Haynes, Joe Letoria Brian Johnson, Tim Mcand Phil Sandahl.
Nulty and Dave Lipyscbak.