FastLANE Standings West Division Beaver Valley 26 Nelson Grand Forks bo Castlegar 12 East Division 2 Col. Valley 11 Elk Valley 7 REBELS The Rebels take their three-game winning streak into Beaver Valley Friday. See story, this e. ON THE ROAD The SHSS senior boys and senior girls volleyball teams both left Tuesday for their respective provincial championships. The girls, ranked 6th in the Province head are on the way to Vanderhoof, while the boys, tanked 13th, are headed for Courtenay School sports, page 18 The men's and women's volleyball teams at Selkirk College are headed for the coast for their last tournaments before Christmas. CURLING The Pensioners Curling Club and women's curling are both well underway at the Castlegar Curling Club. See stories, page 19. LocdSPORTS “Rebels back on rails @ Rebels prove they can play at both ends of the KIJHL spectrum in pair of weekend wins at the Community Complex News Staff The Castlegar Rebels got the train back on the track with a pair of wins last weekend in the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. Playing in the friendly confines of the Community Complex, the Rebels beat the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks 7-5 Friday then pasted the Elk Valley Raiders 7-1 Sunday afternoon. It marks the first time the Rebels have won back to back weekend games this season and puts their current winning streak at three games. It also proved the Rebels can play at both ends of the KIJHL spectrum in beating the West Division leading Nite Hawks and the East Division’s. worst team in the Raiders. The games were likewise at both ends of the hockey spectrum, one a brawlfest and the other a relative gentlemen's game. Just eight minor penalties were called Friday night while the Sunday afternoon affair game required another game sheet to tally the 165 minutes in minors, majors and misconduct penalties. The Rebels got goals from seven different players in the win over the Nite Hawks but it took an empty net goal by Dave Dybal with seven seconds remaining to clinch the win. Goals by Kevin Leimen, Brad Schock, Nino DaCosta and Kevin Nisse staked the Rebels to a 4-0 first period lead the Nite Hawks were never able to surmount. Chris Sanutti and Shane Cutler also scored for the Rebels against the Nite Hawks. Joel Casey faced 40 shots for the Rebels while they had 44 on two Nite Hawk goalies. DaCosta and Nisse both had three-point nights to lead the Rebels offensively. The Rebels started fast again PRE-PROVINCIAL PEP TALK Kevin Nisse against the Raiders, who are the worst team overall in the eight- team league. Ken Hagen, Dybal and Dustin Rilcof scored in the first period and goaltender Vaughn Welychko did the rest. Welychko, who made 68 saves in the game, was the big story in the Rebels win. Welychko faced 28 shots in the iy, November 27, 1991 & Vaughn Welychko first period and 23 in the second, and only lost his shutout with five minutes gone in the third period. Chris Sanutti and Cutler scored in the second period, while DaCosta and Derek Lalonde added insurance with goals in the third. Five Rebels, including the diminutive DaCosta, were involved in fights in the game. jews photo by Ed Mills Rockers coach Don Lust gathers the Stanley Humphries Secondary School's junior boys volleyball team in thegym at SHSS for a Ppre-porvincials strategy session. The team left Tuesday for the provinicials in Courtenay. scoring exploits mark Strange week in CRHL Wi League-leading Pressure Wash loses two as Keraiff and Hadley go on a scoring tear News Staff To the casual observer, the Castlegar Recreational Hock- ey League must appear to be getting a little stranger every week. Take the two most recent games for example of mysti- fying occurrences. With a manpower advan- tage of three men, Castlegar Sports Centre loses to Wood- land Park Shell 11-8 at the Community Complex Mon- ry. For it’s part, Shell has only seven skaters and goalie Tim Horkoff in the lineup but still managed to score four, third- period goals to clinch the vic- tory. And to make matters a lit- tle stranger, two players, Kel- ley Keraiff and Benton Hadley, provided almost all of the offense for Shell. Keraiffhad a goal and nine assists — which has to be some kind of record even in the goal-crazy CRHL — and Hadley had five goals and four assists. Obviously extra ice time wasn’t a problem for either. In the other game, played Saturday at the Complex, both teams had just seven players but it seemed that on- ly one, league leading Castl- CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE w Pressure Wash 7 Woodland Park Shell 6 Kootenay Computers 5 Sports Centre 6 Banjo’s Pub 4 gar Pressure Wash, paid for it. Sports Centre, which ap- parently plays better with less players, scored four goals in the third period to win 7-4. And like Shell in Monday’s game, Sports Centre got most of its offense from three sources. Niki Hyson had two goals and three assists for Sports Centre, while Dwayne Weir got two gaols and two assists and Tony Rego had two goals. Pressure Wash, which was shutout in the third period, got two goals from league scoring leader, Gord Walker and one each from Darrell Bo- jechko and Steve Simonen. Against Shell, Hyson and Brent Peterick both had two goals and three assists for Sports Centre while Weir had two goals and one assist. In what would be consid- ered a great night in any nor- mal game, Jim Nazaroff had a hat trick and one assist for Shell while Wayne Batchelor had two goals and two assists. Through it all, Pressure Wash still managed to stay on top of the five-team league with 14 points. But the lapse Monday allowed Shell to move into a first place tie. Neither team is likely feel- ing comfortable in first with Kootenay Computers and Sports Centre just two points behind. Keraiff, who will have moved up considerably in the league scoring statistics -which are released periodi- cally by league officials — as- sisted on Shell’s first five goals, had a rest for the sixth, then assisted on four more and scored one himself. Shell plays Computers Thursday at the Complex while Banjo’s plays Sports Centre in the early game Fri- day at 7:15 p.m, while Pres- sure Wash meets Computers in the late game. FULL MEASURE FOR THE POINT News photo by Ed Mills Castlegar Pensioners Curling club players George Markin (right) and Art Toews have to pull out the measure to determine shot rock during an end at the Castlegar Curling Rink. Atoms second in Nelson tourney News Staff Castlegar Atom House #3 beat Nelson and Grand Forks and almost beat the odds fin- ishing second in a 14-team tournament in Nelson last weekend. Facing a highly touted rep- resentative team from the Trail House League, the Castlegar Atoms staged a comeback only to fall short 9-6 in the tourney final. Castlegar beat Nelson Credit Union 8-4 in their open- ing game Friday then pounded Grand Forks Black 11-1 Sat- urday to advance to the final in a goals-for tiebreaking sys- tem. Kevin Pacheco had the hat trick in the game against Trail, in which Castlegar trailed by six goals at one point in the second period. Ryan Wenger had two goals and Jordan Barlow scored the other for Castlegar, which trailed 1-0 after one period. The local atoms, who were shorthanded in the final with just 10 skaters and goalie Jeff Craig, weren't expected to be competitive against the fully- staffed Trail team. But the Atoms delivered a solid, all-around effort , espe- cially after being down so bad- ly in the second period. The Castlegar Atoms are, Tim Craig, Justin Dunsmore, Ben Euerby, Justin Kanigan, Chris Kanigan, Graeme Re- dekop and Drew Ross. Teams from Beaver Valley, Kaslo and Rossland also par- ticipated in the tourney. WEST KOOTENAY MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION HOUSE DIVISION STANDINGS TO NOVEMBER 15 ATOMS Team Cas. #1 Trail #1 Cas. #4 Ross. #1 Ross. #2 Cas. #1 BV. #1 BV. #2 Trail #3 ORRAEUUDOHV ©000+~000+-0000-0004 =Nenw Sow -munnno+++=0-00F ooo v0 ‘ 00s asanwnehoodes ti -swiwmnoars 200+--0%.0000-n00-0 CAND COOKNOABaUD ouscaete § NOSNOCOCORLN=NN=0+00- r) n&