Wednesday, April 1, 1992

Slo-pitch getting set for s

strict registration deadlines to get league
up and running by April 13. League stand-

ings another new feature.

Phillips.

penalty.

News Staff

If you’re reading this and you haven't registered
your team for slo-pitch this season, you're going to

pay the price.

The Castlegar Slo-pitch League has put stricter
deadlines on registration this season in an effort to
get the league up and operating faster and smoother

than last year.

“Last year I made up three new schedules in the
last two days because people forgot to register. That

teams can still register but will h:

gets a little frustrating,” said league president John

April 7 is the final deadline for registration.

Phillips said he is trying to have schedules in place
and the league running by April 13.

Strict deadlines aren’t the only thing new about

slo-pitch this season.

leagues.

For the first time, standings will be kept in both

“They're going to be keeping track of wins and loss-
es to give out two trophies. They want to give out tro-
phies for first place overall in the regular season,”

FASTBALL GIRLS HIT DIAMOND

The Castlegar Midget Girls Fas' + 4
for the coming softball season. The team; sponsored by Pete's TV in Castlegar, will play ina
league with teams from Trail, Fruitvale and Salmo. :

eam was practisi

ave to pay a

And there is at least three new teams in the league
this season, mostly made up of players working on

Slo-pitch Recreational and Competitive a beg: aspantey of Sod new pulp mill. re
ague will still put on three tournament i

season — Sunfest in June, Wind-up in July and the

Year Ender in August.
Slo-pitch faced a crisis over the winter when the

current executive threatened to quit if it didn’t get

help running the league.
The executive stayed on after volunteers came for-

ward at a special meeting.

Phillips said time will tell if the current executive

will have a successful campaign.

“There’s not much to do so far, but we're still get-
ting lots of people out to meeting. The real work
starts once the tournaments start,” he said.

Kinnaird b-ball
girls finish 8th
in provincials

Wi Ifs play big role as
Grade 7 girls can’t
repeat past glory at
Provincial Basketsmall
Jamboree at UBC
News Staff

If one or two of those rims
had been baskets.

If a couple more calls had
gone their way.

If a rebound had fallen into
their hands just one more
time.

Akselson’s rink takes title in
Castlegar Pensioners Curling

#8 Verzuh best skip in
first four draws curling
at 72 per cent.

Bud Lowther
NEWS COLUMNIST

Arne Akselson skipped his
rink to the Lamb Trophy rep-
resenting the overall victory in
the Castlegar Pensioners’
Curling Club.

Akselson and his rink of
lead Paul Oglow, second Dave
Adshead and third Otto An-

derson won the six-game mi-
i-spi the

his rink of lead Walter
Gorkoff, second Mike Kurnoff
and third Al Franks won the
Sherbiko Trophy as the B

a ee
Bermel, second Hen-
drick, third Gerry Wichert and

skip Ralph Clay picked up the
Sharples Trophy.

Though his rink didn’t win
in the playoffs, Mike Verzuh
was the best skip over the first
four draws curling at 72 per
cent.

Akselson was next at 62 per
cent, while Rene Archambault
was at 56.4 and Nick Oglow at
51. 2 per cent.

John McGillivray curled at
60.7 per cent, but completed
only three draws.

The percentages were com-

iled by Pensioners’ executive

New executive members
joined the club and two cur-
rent members resigned at an
executive meeting held after
the final draw.

Walter Field and Jim Moore
resigned from the Pensioners’
executive to pursue other com-
mitments, while Archambault
and Wichert joined the fold for
next season. 5

Rule changes wont’ bother
senior players as we already
play our own special free
guard system . We try, but we
usually can’t hit the guard’s

member Bill Cook.

The local seniors got a bit
of sweet revenge against the
Nelson club when it came here
for a one-day tourney March
12.

The Castlegar Pensioners
won five of eight games, which
was a similar result, only re-
versed, when we played them
in Nelson.

Tf, if, if.

The Kinnaird Junior Sec-
ondary School’s Grade 7 girls
basketball team was counting
the ifs as it returned Sunday
from the Provincial Baskets-
mall Jamboree at UBC.

Most of the ifs went the oth-
er way as the KJ girls lost
their final five games to finish
eighth in their 12-team divi-
sion of the 24-team tourney.

Four of the team’s final five
losses were by four points or
less.

“They all could have gone
either way,” said coach Cheryl
Closkey,.who returned empty-
handed from the tourney for
the first time in three trips.

“It was almost like we were
trading baskets_all the way
through. You never know, if we
had another 15 seconds we
might have won some of those
games,” she said.

Closkey’s girls won the

anyway.
Last rocks to Slim Jonas-
son, who passed away recent-
ly. I liked him and will re-
member him — especially for
his wonderful sense of humor.
As a final word on the sea-
son, let us hope that we are all
here next year to meet again
and to try again — with or
without the help.of Geritol.

t ttwovyears ago and
last year both teams she took
won consolation finals.

It looked like the KJ girls
were on the way to three ina
row as they opened the tour-
ney Saturday with a 22-20 win
over Maple Ridge No. 2 team
and beat the Surrey No. 2
team 32-6 in their second
game.

Shelley Stansbury

Then the ifs became a factor
as Castlegar. lost 28-26 to
Chilliwack, 22-16 to Surrey
No. 1 and 20-18 to Abbotsford
to round out its games on Sat-
urday.

The top ranked team at the
tourney, and its eventual win-
ner, from Maple Ridge was
the only team to easily handle
KJ, beating them 18-6 in their
first game Sunday.

That loss put Castlegar in
the game to decide fourth and
eighth place, which they lost
12-8 to Abbotsford.

Closkey said she got stand-
out performances from Selina
Malakoff, Shelley Stansbury
and Melissa Read.

Closkey was especially im-
pressed with Stansbury, who
injured her finger in the fourth

Pame Dp piavyed nrougn pain
through the rest of the tourna-
ment.

Meanwhile, the KJ boys
team, coached by John Dun-
can went 1-6 at its first ap-
pearance at the tourney.

“The boys showed excellent
sportsmanship and represent-
ed Castlegar and KJSS very
well,” Duncan said.

@ Wednesday, April 1, 1992

SchoolSPORTS

NEWS STAFF
GOLF
The backbone of the Stanley

Humphries Secondary Sch- -

ool’s golf team is in place.

Now all coach Bill Lunn has
to dois play doctor and put the
rest of the body together.

Jody Carew, Todd Archam-
bault and Mark Perrier make
a solid backbone to the team as
returning veterans.

But two players who were a
big part of the club last season,
Klaus Rentsch and Todd Bon-
daroff, won't be back this year.

Bondaroff is going on an ex-
change to Japan and Rentsch,
an exchange student from
Germany, returned home.

Nine players are currently

* fighting it out for the last two

spots on the team.

Among them is Chris Cher-
nenkoff, Mike Myhra, Chris
Gray, Devon Cheveldaeff and
pct Chor,

Lunn said he will make his
decision on the last two spots
by the end of this week.

With Carew, Archambault
and Perrier, Lunn, going into
his second year as coach of the
team, knows he has a solid nu-
cleus.

Now it all depends on the
quality of the final two players
as to whether or not the team
will be improved from last sea-
son, he said.

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Jody Carew

Todd Archambault

CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT
MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, April 8

7 p.m.

CASTLEGAR COMMUNITY
COMPLEX
EVERYONE WELCOME!

“Off hand, I'd say we're not
as strong as we we're last year,
Lunn said. “But we could be as
strong.”

The golf team plays its first
match April 9 at the Castlegar
Golf Club. It_played-an exhibi-
tion match last Thursday at
Birchbank.

It’s competition during the
year comes from Nakusp,
Rossland, Grand Forks,
Salmo, Nelson and Trail.

Meanwhile, the SHSS ten-
nis team has begun practising.

Physical education teacher
Barry DePaoli will once again
be coaching the tennis squad
along with SHSS alumnus Jim
Muller.

Ss Ria e

Mark Perrier

No 1 and No. 2, as designated by how many fingers are bei held up, in Tanya Elementary School
Intramural sports activities celebrate for the camera. 7 “ a as ve

CASTLEGAR GOLF CLUB

DENNY McARTHUR PROSHOP

FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING
MERCHANDISE, GOLF EQUIPMENT OR MEMBERSHIP

CALL: 365-5006

Keep Smiling!

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for the 1992-93 Season.
Send Applications to: Box 3451, Castlegar, B.C., V1N 3N8

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

April 3.,1992— a
Registration Fees: $25.00

Registration forms are located in Schools
and at the Castlegar Recreation Centre.
Please register early. Maximum 12
Players per team on 1st come 1st serve

basis.

SEASON OPENS APRIL 14