AS Castlegar News _ August 21, 1991 To Be Is To Do Plato DoBeDoBeDo Sinatra NY We're going to Do it. Be there. McCullough*. Coming September 7 CASTLEGAR = SPORTS .dramatically different, infinitely improved . Todd Archambault is one of the lucky ones, I wonder what happens to those who aren’t as fortunate. Archambault was in Ottawa last week playing in the National Junior golf championships. On the way there, he and his dad stopped in Edmonton so Todd could play in the Western Canadi- an championship. He did well, but that’s not the point here. The point is that Archam- bault’s parents had to grab a bag full of money from the bank to finance the trips. Though Gary Archambault didn’t say how much it did cost, I know, from being in Toronto a couple of weeks ago, that the price tag, including meals, hotel rooms, et cetera, has to be in the neighborhood of $2,500. At least. For several reasons, Gary Archambault sees it as money well spent. For starters, how could he refuse? “It cost you a lot of money, but what do you do? When they have the opportunity to go, do you say ‘OK, no, you can’t go.”? It might never Hap- pen again. He may go into the B.C. (championships) next year and he might not quali- fy. So what do I say? No?” Some parents have to say no. Can you imagine that con- versation? “Tm sorry Billy, but mom and dad just don’t have enough money to be able to send you to the most impor- tant thing in your life at this moment. We’re sorry Billy, honestly sorry.” Gary Archambault realizes his fortuitous position. “Fortunately I was in a position that I could take him down, but—lots of people maybe would not be able to, which would be sad.” But in a way, said Archam- bault, in the long run he’s saving money by draining the bank account and spending a couple of C-notes now. “When you talk about the cost and the expense to go someplace like that, when you look at it on the other hand, it’s about half the cost of a lawyer for drug charges if the kid wasn’t doing some- thing constructive.” If Archambault’s right, that would explain a lot of things. But we had this conversa- tion in my column last week, and the consensus then was good kids are basically good and bad kids are basically bad. I don’t agree with that, but that’s what some people I talked to thought. The really sad part about the cost of minor sport is that there’s not a whole hell of a lot you can do about it. Registration, travelling, 4 hy tour an — I know if I had a kid, he or she wouldn’t even be playing hockey right now. And there’d be nothing I could do about it short of making an unautho- rized withdrawal from a local bank. Heck, I can’t even buy a lousy used car right now and it'd probably be less than new hockey equipment. In reality, the situation is probably a little better for the really.top-quality athletes like Todd Archambault than it was a few years ago. “I think there is maybe more backing for kids now than there has been in the past. There are always ways of raising money and that,” his father said. T have no idea what the answer is. I was just wondering how many really good athletes we have in town that we'll never know about, unless their per- ents win the lottery. Adios Amigos in slo-pitch provincials Locals finish fourth after slow start By CasNews Staff A poor start put the Amigos in a hole they couldn't climb out of in the Provincial C mixed slo- pitch championships at Kin- naird Park last weekend. After barely surviving the round-robin portion Saturday, the Amigos — the only Castle- gar entry in the tournament — lost 15-9 to Campbell River in the bronze medal game Sunday and had to settle for fourth place. “We were up on them 8-4, too,” said Amigos’ coach Kris Stanbra. “We made about four errors, maybe more. Our defence went down for an inning.” The Victoria entry won the gold medal in the nine-team tournament, beating Trail 5-1 in the final. Finishing out-of the medals appointment for the , but it was tempered couple of outstanding individual efforts. Third basemen Nedda Kinakin won the women’s bat- ting championship hitting .600 over seven games, For the men, shortstop Clay Martini finished third in the batting race with a .725 average. Victoria’s Dale Willard won the by batting .800. Tt was a disastrous round- robin for the Amigos as they lost three of four and narrowly made the eight team cutoff for San- day’s championship round. As one of the bottom four teams entering the final day, the Amigos couldn’t afford to make any mistakes in a single game knockout format. The top four teams meanwhile were given two chances in a double knock- out. mond then beat Parksville 14-10 before meeting Campbell River, a team they also lost to in the round-robin. “We had a wonderful time in the tourndment. It was really good ball. We really enjoyed playing three outs,” said Stan- bra. Meanwhile, the year-end slo- pitch tournament played annu- ally on this weekend was can- celled then revived by a few diehard teams. A last minute push by some local players means the tourna- ment will go ahead this weekend at Kinnaird Park. At press time, eight to 10 teams were on the slate includ- ing clubs from Trail and Nelson. Games will begin Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 8 a.m. The Amigos opened the final ° round with a 12-9 win over Rich-, ¥, * Up one minute, down the next was how wo championships at Kinnaird Park. le Nevakshonoff celebrate a good pest deer bad Inning. oor tap ay weekend in the provincial C mixed sio- as (L to R) Marian Shiakoft, Joeand feground) and Adrian Markin Deanna Bankert (for: Aquanauts reclaim role as region’s best By ED MILLS Staff Writer If the Castlegar Aquanauts’ season were a movie, it might have been called When Dreams : Come True. One thing for sure, it was a show coach Tom Carew wouldn't have missed for the world. And he was there, at the provincial championships in Coquitlam last weekend as the Aquanauts put a cap on a sea- son which put Castlegar back on top of swimming in the region. The Aquanauts won seven medals, more than Carew had expected, and led this region with a 19th-place finish overall out of 50 or so teams that attended. The Numbers, page B2 “It was a great year. I think aw lot of hard work that the kids did all year paid off for them at the provinciats. A lot of them accomplished, or came very close to accomplishing, their goals,” said Carew. One person who exceeded his own goals, and even Carew’s expectations, was eight-year-old Justin Kanigan, who led the Aquanauts with four medals. Kanigan, who just a week ago was named the club’s top swim- mer along with veteran Aimie , won a silver in the 50- metre freestyle and a bronze in the 50-metre butterfly. He was also part of two regional relay teams, along with teammate Adam Kristian, that won gold medals. Needless to say, Carew was uN . “We haven't had a really young kid like that win a medal at provincials in quite a while, only surprise for Carew was Justin Phillips, who won his sec- ond straight provincial gold in the 100-metre breaststroke. “It was quite a sidering how he tenined St all JUSTIN PHILLIPS -»b Ig surprise bs year,” said Carew. “He wasn’t around much this year, and when he was he didn’t do much. I guess he just made up his mind that he was going to do it again this year.” Phillips was a three-time winner at the event with a sil- ver, along with teammates Mario Fehrenberg, Neil Jones and Alex in the 4 x 50- metre and another silver on a relay team, again with Fehrenberg and Jones. bhp brtce won his third with a bronze in his spe- ciality, the 100-metre back- stroke. JUSTIN KANIGAN «impressed everyone 100-metre butterfly. Meanwhile, the Robson River Otters had their best perfor- mance from Karen Shingler, who finished ninth in the 50- metre breaststroke. Kim Verigin had a pair of 19ths in the 50- and 100-metre freestyle events while Torrie LaHue had a 21st in the 100- metre butterfly. Kristy Verigin placed 22nd in Archambault 4th in his age group at golf nationals Despite a weak last day score By CasNews Staff A late night and early morning, combined with a tough course in a strange place, made for a bad mix for Todd Archambault in the final-round of the Canadian Junior golf championships. After making the last-day cut, Archambault shot a dis- appointing 88 in his final round Friday at the par-71 Carleton Golf and Yacht Cub in Ottawa. Despite the bad round, the 15-year-old Castlegar golfer’s four-day total of 322 (81-77- 76-88) was good enough for fourth overall in his age group and 12th overall in the under Trail Open, page B2 Legion Golf, page B2 16s. About 140 of the country’s best under-19 golfers played in the tourney. Archambault played in the first group Friday morning, which.was good for his travel- ling plans, but bad for his game, especially after he stayed up half the night ing about the next day. the 50-metre b and 24th in the 100-metre freestyle for the Otters while Sean Pinkerton had a 22nd in the 100-metre backstroke and David Shingler had a 24th in the 100- metre breaststroke. The Richmond Kigoos won the meet. Colville was right behind Castlegar followed by Trail-Warfield and Nelson: “I had to play too early in the morning. I had to get up at five. I went to bed at 12,” said Archambault, who devel- oped a sudden case of insom- nia. “If I went to bed any ear- lier I don’t think I would have been able to sleep.” TODD ARCHAMBAULT --@ great experience Considering the course and a relative lack of sleep, Archambault said his round wasn’t that bad. “I had 11 pars and one birdie. It was five holes that killed me,” said Archambault, who was playing in his first ever national championships. “Like one hole I knocked two balls O.B. (out of bounds) and one in the water, so that kind of hurt. But that’s that course. “It was a good experience and I'm glad I went. And if 1 had the same opportunity 1 would go again, even though I had to pay my own way. "Next year hopefully I'll make the B.C. team. The top eight players in B.C, get their way paid for, so that’s my goal next year.” In the short term, Archam- bault said he will play in the two tournament's at Birch- bank Golf Course this month = arg Junior/Senior and the Mike Wichert memorial.