Saturday, October 31, 1992 Look for the Castlegar Tom Kats to be making an appearance at the Trail Flag Football League final tomorrow at the Community Complex field. The Tom Kats will be out to defend their TFFL title, while the Dam Inn Mates, Trail Bulldogs and Trail Hawks will have other ideas. Game time is 2 p.m. AMONG ~ LocalsPO THE BEST The Stanley Humphries senior boys volleyball team continues to be ranked among the provoince’s elite. Rankings released this week show the Rockers slipping a place, but still occupying a spot in the top 10 at No. 7. They are in action today at the KLO tournament in Kelowna while the senior girls battle it out at the J.L. Crowe tournament in Trail. Close, but no cigar for Chernoff’s crew @ Stanley Humphries senior girls field hockey team thrills the home crowd but comes up just a little short NEWS STAFF Ce oe Doing everything but score, the Stanley Humphries senior girls field hockey team came up just short Thursday afternoon. Facing off with Rossland in the regional final, the Rockettes took their Golden City opponents to triple overtime before bowing in a shootout, 1-0. The decision marked a season of improvement for the locals, as one of their earlier matches ended in a 6-0 to the same Rossland team. Since then, they had tied them 0-0 and lost 1-0, and those results had team member Wendy Closkey looking for a win Thursday. i i “I think we have a good chance to beat Rossland,” she said in a previous interview. : ( And chances they had in the final, but anything and everything they tried couldn’t buy them a goal during regulation time. With no score after 60 minutes of play, the teams went to a 10- minute overtime that Rossland dominated. . : “I think it was pretty even during the regulation, but in the first overtime they had it in our end a lot,” Closkey said Thursday. But the visitors couldn’t score themselves, and the two teams went to a shootout with each getting five shots. _ ; Both teams made the most of their chances, with each scoring three goals on their first four shots, but when Rossland missed No.5, Closkey said the upbeat visitors suddenly became quite uiet. bs “That was a real turn of events right there,” she said. “They thought they had lost.” . : : The Rockettes were unable to capitalize with their fifth shot, and the two teams went to a second shootout, this time sudden death. Making it quick and painless, Rossland scored and when Stanley Humphries missed, the visitors had won themselves a trip to next months’ Provincials in Squamish. News photo by Jonathan Green Stanley Humphries’ Jennifer Fayant battles with a Rossland player in regional final action Thursday. The Rockettes took their Golden City opponents to triple overtime before-falling 1-0. Not dwelling on the loss, Closkey said field hockey is over now and it’s time to start thinking about basketball. “I guess I have that to look forward to now,” she said. “Let’s hope we do well there.” Eastern swing a prime opportunity for easy wins ll Rebels embark on six-point weekend with games in Sparwood and Invermere Jonathan Green SPORTS REPORTER Although the season is still young, a three- game series in the east could dictate where the Castlegar Rebels finish this season. With games last night and tonight in Spar- wood against the Elk Valley Raiders and to- morrow in Invermere against the Columbia Valley Rockies, the Kootenay International Ju- nior Hockey League club should come home with three wins in as many games. Heading into last night’s action, the Rebels Garry Sauer all three,” he said. “It’s very important that we get six points this weekend.” In addition to coming home with no losses, had 10 points to the Raiders’ eight and the Rockies’ six while playing two fewer games. That in mind, coach Garry Sauer said the six points are there for the taking. : “I'd be'totally disappointed if we didn’t win could be a determining factor.” Plagued by mental lapses of late, the Rebels have been playing less than 60 minutes more often than not, and Sauer said it won’t help that they will be spending time on the bus. “It takes a Sauer said there is lot out of your [ KOOTENAY INTERNATIONAL | also the matter of system, both JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE which one of the mentally and three goalies will be physically,” let go. he said. He said by taking “Hopefully we all three out east, it won't get will make choosing caught sleep- that much easier. ing.” “We have to make And the adecision who we’re coach doesn’t going to keep,” he think that said. willhappen. [Rossland “This weekend ‘I think the guys will be ready to play,” he said. “Hope- fully we'll come off the bus and be ready to give 100 per cent.” Bus travel makes me wish | had wings There’s just something about being out on the open road that gets me go- | ing. Acar made for the highway, cruise | control and a radar detector. Some people need alcohol or drugs to achieve some kind of a buzz, but give me these three things and that’s more than enough stimulation to keep me going from here to Winnipeg without stopping. With that in mind this chilly Wednesday morning, I’m really look- ing forward to the weekend. By the time you good folks read this, I'll be living high off the company hog in some of eastern B.C.’s finer ho- tels as I accompany the Castlegar Re- bls on their first major road trip of the season to the bright lights of both Sparwood and Invermere. Sure, I won't be the one driving, but just being out on the Crow wheeling through the East Kootenay is good enough for me. Planning this trip for some time, it became official this week when my ‘Conquer the Kootenays, Rebels 1992’ tour shirts arrived, advertising some of the more enticing places we'll swing through like Moyie, Wardner and the editorial department's vote for Victo- ria’s replacement as the provincial capital, Yahk. It was about a year ago when I made my first trip through coal coun- try en route to the flatlands, picking up more cops with radar guns than you could shake a bismarck and two jelly doughnuts at. Although friendly on the surface, I had heard stories about how tough the people of Sparwood really were, from the local Boy Scouts who use shake- down tactics to sell their merchandise to the women who flog men in the town square for leaving the toilet seat up. Realizing that I needed to answer the call of nature, I thought it wise to keep on driving since flogging doesn’t do a thing for my skin, and the same has held true with every subsequent trip through town. As for Invermere, well I’ve never been any further north than Cran- brook or south than Golden, but I did meet someone once who had a cousin there. Though this trip is sure to impress potential employers, there is a slight downside. As hard as I tried, the publisher told me I couldn’t fly out, saying some- JonathanGREEN thing about Sparwood International being closed for the season, which meant I had to go on the bus. Normally not a problem, buses and I don’t really agree with each other and it all dates back the one and only time I have travelled that way. It was April of 1985, and the John Taylor Collegiate senior band was re- turning home after an enjoyable ex- change with Bowness High School in Calgary. The last leg of the journey was an overnight stop in Banff, where we in- vented a new game. The object of this contest was to drink as much as humanly possible that night and see how far you could travel the next day before asking the bus driver to pull over for your ‘medi- cal emergency.’ Being the competitior I am, victory was mine in the Banffto Medicine Hat leg, yet for some unknown reason I didn’t feel up to celebrating that evening. Since then, my bus travel has been severely limited to major arteries in the big cities and I would be more than happy to keep it that way. I think the key to ‘Conquering the Kootenays’ lies in pretending I’m not really on a bus, but a low flying air- plane. Though some people can’t handle air travel, I’m more than happy to fly, and by incorporating certain things associated with planes into the bus, it'll work. The driver becomes the pilot, the coaches are the stewards and the play- ers are the other passengers. ~ The only problem lies in whether or not they serve liquor on the flight, be- cause I don’t expect the pilot will be too willing to make any landings for ‘medical emergencies.’ Banjo’s way out of tune in CRHL play @ Pub team still looking for elusive first victory in local men’s hockey action company and is in dead last. Seeing action two Tuesdays ago against the Computers, Sheldon Sooka- choff’s one goal, two assist effort wasn’t their third loss in a row. In other action, Tim Cousins paced Pressure Wash with six points while Mark Boss and Mike Nevakshonoff each Bluetop NEWS STAFF Things are looking pretty interesting at both the top and bottom of the Castle- gar Recreational Hockey League stand- ings. Three-and-a-half weeks into the sea- son, Woodland Park Shell, Castlegar Sports Centre, Castlegar Pressure Wash | and Kootenay Computers are all slugging it out for top spot, with two points sepa- rating the four as of Wednesday. Banjo’s Pub, on the other hand, has no enough as Banjo’s got bounced 10-4. Brent Petrick led the way for the Com- puters with four goals, including three straight over the second and third peri- ods, while Duane Weir added six points on two goals and four assists. The teams traded goals until the flood- gates opened at 22:05 of the second, when Petrick scored his first of four straight Computer goals on the way to a 6-3 sec- ond period lead. The Computers scored another four straight in the third, sending the pub to added added four in their 11-1 thumping of Sports Centre Monday. And on Tuesday, Banjo’s rallied from a 6-2 first period deficit with three straight second period goals but came up just short in a 10-8 loss to Shell. Kelly Keraiff led the assault with two goals and seven points while Niki Hyson had four goals in the win. Wayne Salekin, Ron Lindenaar and Bacon Cheese Deluxe & Fries topped with cheddar and bacon served with home made fries. All Our Prices include G.S.T. WINTER HOURS - 10 A.M.-8 P.M. 1521 Columbia Ave. 365-8388 Call Ahead Drive Through Service Don Soroke each had five points in a los- ing cause for the pub. ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Need acar loani? We'll make it happen. ON ICE With winter just around the comer, curling season is upon us once again, and RCMP Cpl. Al Hudema made it look like he hadn't taken the summer off. Hudema and 31 other members of the men’s league were out Wednesday for a pre-season fun bonspiel. WENDY CLOSKEY scored the winning goal in the Stanley Humphries senior girls field hockey team's 1-0 semi-final win over J.L. Crowe of Trail. 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