82 Castlegar News February 9, 1901 SPORTS nimi hy alii he, last d in the annual The ice at the Castlegar Curling Club got a Groundhog Bonspiel. The ink di downed the MacKenzi: Q inal. The Lind rink won the D final over the McArthur rink. jeteated the Akselson fink in the A final. The Belton rink rink in the B final while the Dergousoff rink beat the Tetz rink in the CosNews photo by Chery! Calderbank McCormick scores three Chris McCormack’s hat trick led the Castlegar No, 2 Pee Wees to a 10-7 win Tuesday over the Trail Hawks pee wee team in West Kootenay Minor Hockey League action in Castlegar. Trail jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period but Kevin Short, assisted by Freddie Jack and Brandon Waage, got one back for Castlegar with 5:11 left in the period, Trail added to its lead in the second and was leading 4-1 when McCormack started Castlegar’s comeback with an unassisted goal at the 10:58 mark. Brent Neumann, on a setup from Jack, closed the gap to one and Jack tied the score 4-4 with an unassisted goal with 4:47 left in the period. Kelvin Bezaire put Castlegar in front for the first time 30 seconds later with another unassisted goal. Trail knotted the score at five before the period ended. Castlegar came on strong in the third period with a couple of quick goals by Neumann, from Bezaire, and McCormack, from Kevin Short and Ryan Ferreira. McCormack completed his hat trick five minutes later on a setup by Jack and Castlegar had an 8-5 lead. A couple of quick goals by Trail made it close but Short’s unassisted goal and Jamie McKendry, assisted by Neumann and Jack, iced the game for Castlegar. A 4-0 win over Grand Forks No. 1, a 9-6 win ‘over Midway and a 3-2 squeaker over Beaver Valley set the stage for the exciting final against Grand Forks No. 2 for the championship. Mike Myhra and Josh Sookro led the offence while the duo of Jamie Ross and Justen Evin played superbly in goal. Team management called it an “all-around solid effort by all the boys.’’ Rounding out the team were Dustin Heagy, Craig Hawkins, Jerrod Leason, Rob Bleier, Mike Shannon, Eric Ismay, Nick Antignani, Wade Stoochnow, Luke Ferraro and Chris Barton. The following weekend the boys stayed on their winning ways, sweeping all three games in Spokane’s American Days tournament. ATOM ALL-STARS Castlegar Atom All-stars fought to a 3-3 tie Saturday against Trail Atoms. Castlegar goalie Reed Byers and Trail goalie Evan Barry each made more than 30 saves in the games with Byers making several outstanding stops. Jay Antignani opened the scoring for Castlegar just 16 seconds into the game. Brad Abietkoff and Cory Quiding earned the assists. Trail tied the game with 30 seconds left in the period. Castlegar regained the lead in the second period PEE WEE HOUSE Castlegar Pee Wee House No. | made a clean sweep of an eight-team tournament in Grand Forks with four straight wins capped by a 3-0 shutout of Grand Forks No. 2 in the final. on A s second goal of the game assisted by first-year senior novice Ryan Byers, called up to help the shorthanded Atom All-stars, and Scotty Carlson. With the score tied 2-2 in the third, David Bell broke the tie for Castlegar with assists going to Quiding and Carlson. 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He already is eyeing a medal at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, them.”" Norway. “*Because Alain has done so well it team includes has opened peoples’ eyes to the fact we can produce good technical skiers,"’ said Crossan, who was fourth in an International Ski Federation “Taking a bunch of good skiers and putting them together they pull and push each other. leaving us the girls long enough so we can work with them and develop Besides Laurendeau, the women’s British Columbia skiers Tara Williams of Nanoose Bay, Edith Rozsa of Whistler, Lin- dsey Roberts of Rossland, Rardi Van Heest of Kelowna, and Denise Fit- Canadian skiers ‘blaze a path’ toward Olympic-medal status Villiard, his brother Eric, Crossan, Louis Francois Gagnon of Mont- Laurier, Que., and Mark Bonnell of Saint John, N.B. Little said the downhill team will also benefit from an improved technical program. They are *‘Downhill is getting more technical all the time,"’ he said. “‘Now that there is a stronger technical program at the national February 9, 1901 LOCAL NEWS AHEAD OF THE GAME Alex gets a few steps ahead of the stick during a game of fetch with owner Darlene Doskoch. CasNews photo by Donne Zuber At present ore jew residential building lots tag pt in the Ciry of Costlegor. if intend on building this yeor, the time to y Is now, before prices rise! — pushes ut the Me coritke on pH et ina JEWEL OF THE WEEK Owls’ A toning oo w-hometo aa re in High Seems Meadows. Features 3 bdr : MICHAEL KEREIFF floor laundry ond corpor!” Unbelievable at et $104,900. 365-7825 Castlegar 365-2166 REALTY trp 1761 Columbia Ave., Castleger Adoption association hosts panel to determine local needs Individuals or couples interested in adoption and its related issues are invited to attend a panel discussion Feb. 20 at Selkirk College in Castlegar. The. meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in room 17-B. Speakers include Ministry of Social Services representative Ray Suomi who will talk about special needs adoption, and P’nina Shames, a Nelson sociaj worker licenced for and international urposes of this meeting is to bring together people who might be interested in forming a local chapter of the Adoptive Paren- ts Association,’’ says organizer Janice Isaac, a social worker with the. ministry. Isaac said some of the reasons for joining a local support group include helping adopted children cope with their adoption, helping. children adopted from other countries or cultures to maintain pride in their heritage, and special needs adoption issues. Other concerns include infer- tility support issues, private adoption =p Alain Villiard- and Annie SASTLEGAR & DISTRICT. REGISTER NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS! : Ballet March 12-May 7? 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Phone 365-3386 — 2101-6th Ave., Castlegar has meant. success Soon have to be carved out straight down the face of a moun- tain. “For Canadian kids in the past there was always the impression there was no future in technical skiing,” said Doug Little, who oversees the men's technical teams on the Europe Cup circuit. “*Now we have had some history of success and Canadian kids are seeing there is a possibility there.” Villiard, of Montreal, was the first Canadian male skier to start the World Cup slalom season in the top 15 racers. He has been hampered by injury and is home in a cast to repair a stress fracture. Rob Crossan of Barrie, Ont., was slalom race and third in a North American championship series slalom earlier this year. “‘We’ve gotten more staff, more training camps."’ Laurendeau, of Montreal, was 17th in slalom at Saalbach and won the Canadian ‘giant slalom cham- pionship here Wednesday. Her sights are set on a medal at the 1992 Olym- pics in Albertville, France. Her coach, Craig Spiess, said Laurendeau is one of six women who will be challenging for World Cup medals by 1993. “‘With these six girls they are giving up the opportunity and time and support to develop a technical group,"’ said Spiess, his face burned brown from hours of standing in the chett, of Revelstoke, “*Lately they've really been con- centrating on the technical group and its really helped,’’ said Rozsa, who finished second in Wednesday’s giant slalom. The men’s team consists of level, the provincial teams are step- ping up their technical programs.”” Crossan said his slalom skills helps in downhill, é “If there’s one turn on a downhill course, you need some kind of technical base.’’ ’87 FORD RANGER S/CAB 4x4 STX Sports Package P.L., AM/FM Cassette, miley 5-Spd. 12,995 88 FORD CREW CAB 460, 5-Speed, 4x4 NOW - *12,995 © 1989 FORD RANGER $/CAB 4x4 G.T. * bat cate P ne : Super ab xd, 365-7133 Firebi B16 1980 Buick Ltd., 4-Door, Loaded 1979 GMC Short Box; 4x4, P.W., P.L. 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