Pie” x ‘peermneonen fe: MY Mag: Me Mee He 216 Wednesday, April 29, 1992 Team Kootenay called best of best @ NHL, WHL and college scouts in Osoyoos eyeing up local talent in the B.C. Cup. NEWS STAFF They are being called the best of the best. And three Castlegar hockey players were a part of it as Team Kootenay took the province by storm at the B.C. Cup in Osoyoos last weekend. Goaltender John Ray, cen- treman Vince Antignani and defenceman. Rick Fauth played on the Kootenay team which represents the best 16 years old and under players in the area. ~~ Although the team didn’t win the Cup, it beat the Van- couver team that did and proved to the province that the Kootenays are a force in minor hockey. . “6 “J think that’s probably the best the Kootenays has ever done in the eight years that this has been on. Last year we never. won a game,” said Kootenay Team coordinator Doug Jones. Jones was just one of the. 100 or so evaluators and scouts in the crowd who were eyeing up the talent over the four-day, six-team tourney. “There wasn’t a lot of NHL scouts there, but there were a couple, a lot from the Western Hockey League, the B.C. Ju- nior Hockey League, Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League and probably about 10 college scouts there as well,” Jones said. Team Kootenay beat Team North 7-5 and Lower Main- land Gold 11-5, and tied Van- couver Island 5-5 and Lower Mainland Red 7-7. Undefeated heading : into the final game of the round robin tourney, Team Kootenay could have finished in a first- place tie but ended up losing 10-3 to Team Okanagan. “I think what happened is that they burnt themselves out the day before against the Vince Antignani Lower Mainland Gold. Lower Mainland Gold won the whole thing and we beat them, BONS Jones said. Ray split the duties in net in the first game and was in for the tie with Lower Mainland Red and the loss to the Okana- gan. Jones said all three Castle- gar players in the tourney im- pressed him. And more important for the Rick Fauth players than winning the Cup is putting on a good show for the evaluators, he said. That’s because 46 of the 120 players at the tourney will be invited to attend a camp in Au- gust, where a provincial team will be chosen. The Cup is the second stage in the B.C. Best Ever Program, which identifies young talent with the aim of developing top notch provincial, national and ag pee , picked team PROVINCIALS BOUND inder 16 girls regional field hockey team, which includes Castlegar's Trudy Ci fot some pointers from B.C Field Hockey Coordinator Jenny John at is headed to the Provincial Championships in Richmond this weekend. fe x News photo by Ed Mills iow, Jennifer Fayant, Averil Sheppard and Nancy Stanley Humphries Secondary School last week- John Ray international competitors. The Castlegar players, who all played for the highly suc- cessful Bantam Rep team last season, will learn if they. made the cut near the end of May. “There’s three or four sys- tems of evaluating and all the input goes into the computer, it comes out and they mull it over for about two or three weeks and they come up with their final roster,” Jones said. V-Ballers Best in the West NEWS STAFF Castlegar’s Lee Malinek was named a first team all- star as the West Kootenay team won the Western Cana- dian Midget Boys Volleyball Championship last weekend in Mission. The team, made up of play- ers from Nelson, Salmo and South Slocan, swept Victoria two straight ( 17-16, 15-9) in the final of the 10-team tour- ney. The locals lost just once in seven matches on their way to the title. Malinek, Theo Latkin of South Slocan — who was named the tournament’s most valuable player — and Chris Sylvester of Nelson led the way for the club, said coach Pat Hennelly. “We were playing very poorly at the beginning of the tournament, it seemed like they needed pressure to get going. “Lee really picked up his game with the pressure on and Theo and Chris played re- ally strong all tournament,” Hennley said. Ryan Tarasoff of Salmo, Rick Friml, Brendan Lindsay, Shane Kozak and Keith Larsen of South Slocan, and Jamie Hunter of Nelson also played-on the team. @ Wednesday, April'29, 1992” SchoolSPORTS W@ The future of girls basketball at SHSS will represent the area in the B.C. Summer Games. NEWS STAFF BASKETBALL Lisa Datchkoff, Shannon Gicnzer, Stephanie Rezansoff, Treena Goolieff and Shawna Harshenin. Remember those names. Because if you haven't already, you will be hearing ‘them a lot in the future. It is those 13, 14, and 15- year-old girls, and a few others not listed, who are the future of girls basketball at Stanley Humphries Secondary School. But their immediate future has nothing to do with the school as they will travel to Port Alberni July 9-12 to rep- resent the West Kootenay in the B.C. Summer Games. The girls were five of 11 se- lected for the Games team from about 50 who attended a tryout at SHSS last weekend. It’s the second straight trip to the Games for Datchkoff Gienger and Rezansoff, who all played together in junior high school. : For SHSS athletic director Doug Hickey, who picked and will coach the team along with Chery] Closkey, the girls area harbinger of good things to come in girls basketball at his school. “I didn’t choose them be- cause they are in our program, certainly they can play at this level,” Hickey said. “But the fact that they are in our pro- gram is certainly a bonus.” SHSS senior girls coach - Jack Closkey also likes what he sees. “You never know how they’re going to develop, but they’re pretty good,” said Closkey, who will likely pick up Datchkoff and Rezansoff for his team next season. Except for Harshenin, who is in Grade 8 at Kinnaird Ju- nior Secondary School, the rest of the Castlegar contingent on the Games team played for the SHSS junior team this season. Also making the team were Kelly Craig and Jamie Zino of Trail, Kari Dentry and Stacy Fabiano of- Jaffrey, Selena Abetkoff of Grand Forks and Stacey Ewonkiw of Montrose - The West Kootenay team finished sixth at the Games last year, but despite a talent- ed starting lineup this time around, Hickey is predicting another middle-of-the-road finish. “I would think our top five or six kids match up with any in the province, but overall our” depth isn’t there for us to be a winner,” Hickey said. Datchkoff, 14, a star on the the junior girls team that won the West Kootenay Champi- onship this season, agrees with Hickey. “We haven't really had a chance to play all together, so we don’t know how it will work out. We’ll probably do about the same as we did last year,” she said. TheNUNMBERS CASTLEGAR SLO-PITCH STANDINGS AS OF APRIL 26 RECREATIONAL = 9 Lions Head Avenues EHS Castlegar Import Smokey Bears Pushovers Williams Moving 3 Kootenay Comfort3 Perform. Auto Purnell Dist. Orlando Vec's CIBC Classics Dexter's Pub Bad Company Safeway Dominion Bridge Latecomers Athletic Support Ootisc. Fire Dept. Kokanee Kids Robson Fire Dept. Oot. ? CCC Comnwith. Mugs & Jugs Banjo’s Pub ~ Breskies Bullets The Experience Western Industrial RCMP te) SLO PITCH COMPE Castlegar Realty 3 Blueberry Creek 3 Clarke Trucking 2 Woodand P. Shell2 T-Birds 2 Amigos 1 eo+-c0000fr eco-0000+-0000004 MHODHOOD NVNNN ecooooooooHaH44- HO-“WNWNANANNNN=ANAH42N4+ eco00cZz000000 00000000 ITIVE NVALRARAMAFOCODOCSCDOOCOCOCONNNNNWEASEN Nva=-N00 Foremost 1 ° NRS 1 fe) Big O Tire t¢) fo 1992 WEST KOOTNEY CALENDAR BALFOUR Pro: Reg Clarkson Mgr.: Bernie Clarkson Supt.: Larry Olsen. June 20 Ainsworth Hot Springs Ladies’ Open. June 21 Ainsworth Hot Springs Men's Open CASTLEGAR Pro.: Denny McArthur Supt.: Nick Sherstobitoff May 17 Junior Circuit June 5-7 Sunflower Open June 11 Retirees Open June 20-21 Castlegar Credit Union Ladies’ Open June 25-26 Dinosaur (50 yrs. & over) Open July 16 Canadian Red Cross—Jim Young Celebrity Benefit Scramble July 28 & 30 Western Canada Juvenile Team 2 2 te) Gi . Championship Aug. 22 Zone 1 (West) Adult-Junior Open Sept. 1 Ladies' Open Sept. 26-27 Christmas-in-September Oct. 4 Two/Man Team Event CHAMPION LAKES May 16 Course opening. For further information call Murray Wilson. (See The Numbers in Saturday's issue for the rest of golf schedule.) News photo by Ed Mills Castlegar’s Lisa Datchkoff (left) and Shannon Gienger were two of five Castlegar girls who were- selected to represent the West Kootenay in the B.C. Summer Games. 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