as. Castlegar News May 22, 1991 FLAT PAINT Ideal for walls and trim in Ideal tor walls and trim, kit- Trail Home Hardware Building Centre 2 I te cape ete ation galls -0h ee o hieditaantbehtintntsierinsye.<4/ Where You Belong chens and bathrooms, etc. pastel GARAGE PACKAGES 2499 $2599 2599 $2699 eure- Treated (GUARANTEED FOR vue WE USE 2x8:FIR: JOISTS! Raised Decks Starting As Low As Pressure Treated FENCING PACKAGES Landscape Ties RAILWAY TIES 9 6"x8'"x8' (approx. size) Square Edge ¢ Good Neighbour e Jasper Board on Board EACH FENCE PACKAGE — Concrete Mix CONCRETE MIX You choose to sult your job CONTAINS PER 8’ SECTION . One treated J post (wetime guarantee) . Spruce’ syed ° 1x6" Boards WE'VE GOT THE VALUE AND SELECTION IN A BIG WAY E MEZZANINE LEVEL FOR A CUP OF COFFEE IT PAYS TO GO THE EXTRA MILE! L 8130 Old Waneta Road, HOME/.N “ee BUILDING CENTRE a name to build on Trail 364-1311 $359" 8x8 * Prebuilt Trusses © All Hardware © Many sizes avail 8x8" Greenhouse 8’x10" 8'x12° 10'x10" 10°x12" 10°x14° THE COFFEE IS ALWAYS ON AT HOM Mills What does doing your shop- ping in the U.S. have to do with Sports in this town? ‘Until last weekend, I didn’t know either. I found out that for local spor- ts teams who are sponsored by local businesses, cross-border shopping has at least a little to do with the games we play. I would suggest, though, that it has a lot more to do with a lack of loyalty and downright two- facedness. Actually, it wasn’t my Suggestion at all — it was a comment (not exactly in those words) made by a local businessman that shed light on the connection between sports and business in this town. After telling me a story about how people come into his business and callously brag about how little they paid for this or that item in«a U.S. store, this local businessman shared an in- teresting scenario of what local merchants might, could and maybe should do to get even. The story went along these lines: If local athletes — and that in- cludes recreational and com- Petitive athletes — want to buy their groceries, running shoes, et- cetera in Spokane, Colville or wherever, then that’s their right. But when those same people come back to local businesses wanting sponsorships for their teams — which usually includes a request for cash for sweaters or equipment or something — Perhaps thosé local businesses should suggest those people get their sponsors from the places they support with their dollars. If local people are more than ready to travel to the U.S. to shop, why not travel there to get sponsors for their teams? Perhaps local businesses will start becoming a little more choosy on who they sponsor. Maybe they should administer skill-testing questionaires to determine whether the people who want sponsorship actually deserve it. Sure it’s a recession, everyone's trying to save what they can, but it’s also a recession for local businesses and if we don’t give them our business, whére are they going to get it from — the U.S.2 I mean, local business people are our neighbors, they support this community. And we need look no further than any ball diamond or hockey rink to see that they support our teams too: It’s unfortunate that we too often think of our own welfare as top Priority at the expense of our neighbors’ welfare. The sad thing about this situation is, businesses really don’t have any leverage. While a little militancy in handing out sponsorships to local sports teams sounds like a neat plan, it isn’t likely businesses will start doing it. It’s hard for a business Person to be two-faced. It’s too bad they don’t have any way to fight back because if they did, now's the time to do it. Maybe it’s time we let them know they don’t have to fight us. ee * 1 tried and tried but I couldn’t find a link between Castlegar and the Stanley Cup. About the closest I could get was that a few of the players on the Minnesota North Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins have at one time or another played on a NHL team with Castlegar native Steve Bozek. 1 was looking for the connec- tion because Castlegar already has some pretty serious connec- tions with the winners of major junior hockey’s highest honors. that Castlegar native Steve Junker was a member of the Memorial Cup champion ane Chiefs. At just 18 years old, what a future this guy has. Past winners best bets in Open 30th Sunflower begins June 1 By ED MILLS Staff Writer A betting person might want to drop @ few bucks on the chance there will be a repeat’ winner of the 30th annual Sunflower Open this year. Considering how many former champs will be teeing it up at the Castlegar and District Golf Course for the Open June 1-2, there's Probably not a lot of takers for that bet Off the top of his head, tour- nament chairman Brian Turlock can name a handful of onetime Sun- flower champs who will be back this year for the 36-hole, two-day event. At the top of that list is Nelson’s Brian De Biasio, a former winner and consistently in the top 10 in the championship flight. A close second in Turlock’s name dropping game was last year’s win- ner, Dan Dupuis of Genelle, who is the assistant pro at the Birchbank course in Trail. Then there’s Castlegar’s own Bill Perehudoff, another former winner who probably knows the par-72, 6,600-yard course as well as anybody at the Open. ; Another Castlegar native, Ken Sherstobitoff, has won the Open and will be back to try again. Also on the list is Creston club pro Randy Panton (1986) and Kent Brown of Colville (1988). Ross Gibson, the club pro at Capilano course and in coming in and stealing «their (the favorites’) thunder,” he said. Another man willing to bet against the favorites is Castlegar course pro Denny McArthur, but his pick isn’t exactly a longshot either. Admi the top 10 in the B.C, Amateur, was another on Turlock’s list of best bets. Despite the collection of talent ‘on the list, Turlock, who will play in tournament, wouldn’t be averse to putting a few pesos on a longshot. “In a tournament like this, where you put together a bunch of guys that don’t play this game for a living and where the weather can be a major factor, (like it was last year) absolutely anybody can win,’’ said Turlock. “I wouldn’t bet against somebody he’s sed, McArthur likes his own assistant pro, Steve Johnson, who came second in the Sunflower in 1986 and "87. “Yeah, he’s a good bet against it (a former champ winning). That may be wishful thinking, but I’m hoping, maybe,”’ said McArthur, who won't play in the Open. Others to watch in the tourney, according to Turlock, include former Castlegar course assistant Wayne Gamborski, who is now the head pro at Birchbank, Derrick Simister of Trail and Castlegar’s Danny Walker. And those are just the players who will be going for it all in the cham- pionship flight — for golfers with 0-3 handicaps — which consists of about 15-20 golfers of the 240 in the tour- nament. Picking winners in the rest of the flights, which include handicaps up to 36, is anybody’s guess. Turlock. said 210 spots have been filled so far in the city’s most Prestigious tournament, and he’s ex- pecting another sellout. What he’s not hoping for is a repeat of last year’s weather con- ditions at the tourney. It could. only have been worse (last year) if we were underwater. was scuba golf,’’ he said. Registratian forms for the Sun- flower are still available at the golf course and cost $75. J r J on ROBSON. ~ comvews photo by Ed Mills TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Robson River Otters assistant coach Nancy Wolff offers hands-on technica member Justin Sutherland, 7, poolside Tuesday at the Cora Lea Schuepfer Memorial Pool in sistance to club Penguins rapid-fire start brings North Stars to earth BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The final notes of the American national anthem had barely finished echoing through the Met Centre when the scoreboard read Pittsburgh 1, Minnesota 0. No sooner had the anthem singer taken his seat than the score was 2-0. Twenty-two seconds later, it was 3-0 and the Penguins were off to the fastest three-goal lead in the history of the Stanley Cup final. Just 2:58 into the contest, the Penguins had crushed the old record of 10:03 set by the New York Islan- ders in 1981 (also against the North Stars) and went on to a 5-3 victory to tie the best-of-seven series at 2-2. Game $ is Thursday at Pittsburgh. “We were sitting back on our heels ‘and they came at us,”’ said North Stars defenceman Jim John- son, ‘*We were a desperate team when we were down three goals,”” said Minnesota’s Brian Propp. Pittsburgh wanted an early cushion to deflate Minnesota's rabid fans. What started as a little room suddenly turned into ‘an oxygen tent. “We badly needed to get the lead inside this building”? Penguins coach Bob Johnson said. ‘‘We knew what we were up against.”’ “It’s louder here than Chicago,” said Mario Lemieux, who returned to action after bein; led in Game 3 with back spasms. ‘When they get the lead, it’s always tough to come back."” Kevin Stevens scored the first goal 58. seconds into the game when he picked up a loose puck in the right circle and shot it through the pads of Jon Casey. It was his 16th goal of the playoffs, tying him for the lead with Boston’s Cam Neely. About a minute and a half later, Stevens got off another shot against Casey. The puck bounced out and Ron Francis slammed it past the goalie. Twenty-two seconds later, Mark Recchi slid @ pass from the right slot to the left slot, where Lemieux was standing to tap it in for his 14th goal of the -playoffs and third against Minnesota The 3-0 lead survived until Dave Gagner scored at 18:22 of the first Period. But the period ended 3-1 and the North Stars had been winless in the five previous playoff games in which they trailed after the first period. Minnesota is 14-2 in playoff games in which they lead after one. “You can't dig a hole like that,’’ Propp said. ‘‘We're just going to have to be sharper at the start of the next game.”’ Pittsburgh goalie Tom Barrasso, who made 35 saves and pulled the Penguins through a five-minute Minnesota power play at the tail end of the game, said the instant three- goal advantage was a spectacular morale booster, but it marked the end of the Penguins’ aggressiveness. In the final two periods, the North Stars outshot the Penguins 24-11. “TI think we got ahead jand we thought that was enough,”’ Barrasso said. **When we press the attack, we can make our lead bigger. But we got what we needed tonight.”’ Banjo's rules men's fastball Nelson looks to dethrone By CasNews Staff A quarter of the way through the Castlegar Men’s Fastball League there are a couple of pressing questions on the minds of four of the five teams in the league. One: Can Bapjo’s Pub be beaten?. And two: Who’s going to do it? So far the answers to the questions are no, and nobody, respectively, as the defending league and playoff champions have won all six of their games since the start of the season. A look at the team’s season stats offers the answer to Banjo’s success — standout pitching and great hit- ting. Banjo’s has four of the league’s top 10 hitters including Lyle Stoushnow, who leads everyone with a .550 average and Jim Nazaroff second at .538. On the mound, Eli Soukeroff is the runaway leader with six wins and no losses. The No. 2 pitcher is Nelson’s Cam Sookro with two wins and no losses. Despite the stats and the perfect record, Banjo’s player-coach, and league president, Terry Taranoff, won’t touch the prospect of an un- beaten season with a 10-foot bat. “No, no, I don’t want to say that’s our goal. It'd be nice, sure, but it’s pretty tough in this league. Any team is capable,’’ | said Taranoff. One team that has already proven it’s capable is the second-place Nelson Athletics, who beat Banjo’s in a tournament in Appledale last weekend. Banjo’s finished fourth in the tourney and the A’s finished third. Nelson will try to make it two wins in a row and snap Banjo’s league winning streak tonight in a game at Playmor Park at 6 p.m. The secret to beating Banjo’s, ac- cording to Athletics player-coach Bob Marsh, is getting to Soukeroff. Prior to last weekend, it apparen- tly was a well-kept secret. “I think you have to get to Eli early, He’s the key. If we can jump on him early, it takes away their momentum,” Marsh said. “They've got good sticks, so we have to have good pitching and I think we have that. We can hit Eli. We have some pretty good sticks too. I think they saw that on the weekend.”” Labatt’s, the Castlegar Merchants and Salmo Hotel are the other teams in the league. ELI SOUKEROFF . -.Banjo's ace Considering Banjo’s start, those teams may already be asking them- selves one more question: Who's going to finish second? Meanwhile, the big boys are get- ting ready to play for the big bucks in the $2,200 Paul (P.K.) Kinakin Memorial Fastball tournament at Kinnaird Park this weekend. Twelve teams, including an entry from Missoula, Mont., and at least five local teams, will be after the cash in the two-day event which begins Saturday at 9 a.m. Admission to the tournament is free and there will be refreshments and food at the park. Second again for softball girls By CasNews Staff < The Castlegar Bantam girls came a long way only to be beaten by the team next door in a tournament in Rutland last weekend. After winning three of four in the round-robin portion of the tour- nament, then crushing Kelowna 13-5 in the semifinal, the Castlegar girls were beaten 11-10 by West Kootenay rivals from Trail in the final. Trail scored two runs in the bot- tom of the seventh inning to hand Castlegar its second straight second- place finish in tournament play. Christina Evdokimoff carried the bulk of the pitching load for Castlegar getting credit for all four wins. Jaclyn Kalesnikoff led Castlegar at the plate with a .741 average reaching base safely 20 out of 27 times at bat, which included five doubles and a pair of triples. Susan Roosa and Treena Goolieff both went 17 for 27 at the tourney while Kris Myhra provided the power with a homer, two triples and two doubles. Defensively, catcher Janet Kalesnikoff gunned out three base runners in one game and picked off several more over the the course of the tourney’s three days. Fielders Jaclyn Kalesnikoff and Melanie Samarodin also made a few sparkling defensive plays. The team heads to Warfield for a tournament this weekend. } i ‘