Or ee a rene en een oy op Pi 3a vy he ies Whey Rsteya Kootenay Savings Credit Union MONTREAL (CP) — Bill Torrey, mastermind of New York Islanders Stanley Cup dynasty, was in town Friday for what proved to be the deciding game of the Adams Division final, trying to find out what is making Montreal Canadiens into playoff tigers. The Canadiens, regulat-season pussycats with a sub-.500 National Hockey League reeord, come back from a 20 third-period deficit to thrash Quebec Nordiques 5-3 and win the series 4-2. The winners didn't look at all like the Canadiens Torrey last saw, when his Islanders whipped Montreal 7-0 at Uniondale, N.Y., in a late-season game. He was probably amazed, even saddened, by two wild brawls that saw 11 players tossed by referee Bruce Hood. The best-of-seven Prince of Wales Conference final starts here Tuesday, and Torrey, who was accompanied by assistant coach Butch Goring, myst disabuse his players of the idea the Canadiens are the same patsies of the regular season. The Stanley Cup champion Islanders swept the three games between the two teams. “I'm sure that (coach) Jacques Lemaire is doing something right,” chuckled Torrey. “The (Canadiens') players look like they're working a lot harder.” Torrey and Goring said before the game they knew little else about Montreal's resurgenfce. The Canadiens eliminated Boston Bruins in three straight games in the Adams Division semi-final with a fierce defensive game anchored by hot new goaltender Steve Penney, who was called up near the end of the regular season. The strategy worked against Quebec. “I'd like it if they told me who's popping pills on this team,” joked the Islanders general manager. Goring said he picked Boston to walk over Montreal and then picked Quebec to beat the Canadiens. A Montri s final offers hing extra. The Islanders are in search of their fifth straight Stanley Habs turn into ‘playoff tigers’ Cup. Montreal is the only team to ever win five straight — during 1955-60, and will want to prevent New York from doing likewise Pride, something both teams know a lot about, is likely to be a pivotal factor “Now I know what it means to play for the Canadi: ” said rookie Chris Chelios, the former U.S. Olympian from San Diego who was a stalwart Friday for Montreal, which lost defenceman Jean Hamel in a donnybrook at the end of the second period. “Despite everything that went on we never lost our heads.” The big brawl at the end of the second period eventually cost the Nordiques centres Dale Hunter and Peter Stastny and defenceman Randy Moller, all key players who were ejected But it was a sucker punch thrown by Quebec forward Louis Sleigher at Montreal defenceman Jean Hamel during that melee that may have ignited the Canadiens’ five-goal third-period comeback. Sleigher's left over the shoulder of linesman John d’Amico knocked Hamel out. When the teams returned for the third period with Quebec leading 1-0, Mark Hunter and Mike McPhee charged Sleigher during the warmup and reserve goalile Richard Sevigny fought with Dale Hunter. Exit Hunter, the Nordiques’ emotional spark. Psychologically, said Robinson, that ignited the Canadiens, although the big defenceman handed ‘the Nordiques a second goal at 2:02 by giving the puck to Michel Goulet in front of Penney Hamel suffered a broken nose and stretched shoulder ligaments in the fight, but should be ready for Tuesday's game, say team officials. Defenceman Dave Langevin of the Islanders will be missing with a sore shoulder. S ‘e501 HELPER 9 Some 4 : LX; Cli eS. cage ip and Save! tices / CHECK EVERY PAGE! CHECK EVERY COUPON! D Make out your list and Save! Save! Save! 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Rockers win opener Stanley Humphries Sec- ondary School's rugby team got off to a good start re- cently, winning their league opener against Rossland, then placing third in the Kelowna Black Owls tourna- ment. At Hailey field in Rossland, the visiting Rockers took a while to get over the first of the season jitters, but de- feated an experienced Ross- land team 19-6. “Rossland has about 13 or 14 returning players and they play a good game of rug- by.” said coach Mike Bal- ahura. Bob De Sousa scored two tries for the Rockers and Kevin Saliken and Carl Gruden had one try each. Randy Stewart kicked a pen- alty goal. In Kelowna last weekend, Stanley Humphries defeated Spring Valley 12-0 in their first game on tries by De Sousa and Gruden. Stewart converted both. In their second game, the Rockers faced a well-drilled and larger squad from O-K Mission Secondary in Kel- owna. On a very close hard-hit- ting contest, O-K Mission de- feated the Rockers 18-8. De Sousa and Bob Kanigan scored tries for the home team. In their game for third place, Stanley Humphries defeated Mt. Boucherie of Kelowna 14-0. Vockeroth ninth By CasNews Staff Red Mountain Racer Mel. annie Vockeroth placed ninth in a women's slalom FIS (Federation Internation du Ski) race held last week at Blackcomb Mountain. Vockeroth had a time of one minute 34.46 seconds in the race. In the men’s slalom race held the same day, racer Murray Greenwood came 12th with a time of 1.57.32 while Ryan McLellan was 14th in 1.58.05. Vockeroth also came 12th in a women's giant slalom race held last week At Whistler Mountain. Vockeroth’s total time for two runs was 5.64 minutes. Derrek Trussler of the Red Mountain Racers placed fourth in a U.S. Ski Asso- ciation men’s slalom race held at Mission Ridge Washington earlier this month. In the race, Trussler had a time of 1:41.77 minutes. David, Buckley came 18th in 1:45.05, Murray Greenwood was 34th in 1:52.71 while Ryan McLellan was 40th in 1:54.18. In the second day of racing, McLellan placed 36th in 1:50.69, Greenwood was 41st with a time of 1:51.34 while Buckley was 43rd in 1:51.97. SPRING TRAINING . . . Judy Closkey (at bat) works out with Intermediate Division players of Castlegar Little Lassies Softball League in preparation for upcoming season. Games get underway April 30. cosnews Photo by Chery! Colderbonk ROME (CP) — Canada’s hopes for a berth in the Olympic water polo tourna- ment at Los Angeles this summer took a further slide Friday when the team was beaten 87 by Australia in a qualifying match. Simon Deschamps's long arching shot off the crossbar with seven seconds remain- ing in the game just missed tying the score for the gritty Canadians against a Com- monwealth power that ap- peared to have its confidence shaken from an unexpected loss to China on Thursday. Only the’ top five teams from the seven that qualified for the final round here ad- vance to the Olympics, join- ing the top six teams — the Soviet Union, Hungary, West Germany, the Netherlands, Cuba and the United States — from the 1982 world cham- pionships. Because the U.S. is exempt from qualifying as the host country, the seventh place team from the world cham- pionships in Ecuador — Yug- olslavia — was added to the Olympic lineup. The loss Friday means Canada, 0-4 in tournament games relevant to prelimin- ary and final-rounds oppon- ents here, must win its last two scheduled matches against China and Greece. Charles Turner and Rus- sell Basser led the Australian offence with two goals apiece. In other final-round games Friday, Spain remained the only unbeaten team at the tournament with a 7-5 win over Greece while Italy swamped China 15-5. In consolation play, Japan played an 88 tie with Bul- garia, Colombia edged Zim- babwe 8&7 and Brazil de- feated Mexico 9-8. Mariners outscored MILWAUKEE (AP) — Left-hander Mike Caldwell, staked to an early four-run lead, pitched a seven-hitter to lead Milwaukee Brewers to a 62 victory over Seattle Mariners in an American League baseball game Saturday. The Brewers scored four times in the second inning to chase Matt Young, 2-2, and give Caldwell all the runs he needed. Caldwell struck out three and walked two in gaining his third victory in four outings. A’S 5 RED SOX 2 BOSTON (AP) — Dave Kingman belted his fifth homer of the year Saturday, 2 two-run shot, and Dwayne Murphy drove in a pair of runs with a homer and single, powering Oakland A's to a 5-2 victory over Boston Red Sox. Kingman lined a shot through a stiff crosswind into the screen in left-centre after Bruce Bochte walked on a 3-2 pitch with one out in the second inning. Murphy, who had an RBI single in the third inning after Donnie Hill singled and took second on a balk by Boston starter Mike Brown, completed Oakland's scoring by drilling his first homer into the bleachers beyond the A's bullpen in right field in the seventh. The A's also scored an unearned run in the fourth on an error by Boston shortstop Glenn Hoffman, a single by Hill and a wild pitch by Brown, 0-2. Winner Mike Warren, 2-2, allowed seven hits and two runs before needing relief from Keith Atherton and Tom Burgmeier inthe seventh. INDIANS 3 ROYALS 2 CLEVELAND (AP) — Andre Thornton, who had hit a home run earlier, snapped an eighth-inning tie with a sacrifice fly that scored Brett Butler and gave Cleveland Indians a 3-2 victory against Kansas City Royals. Bert Blylevan, 3-1, yielded both Kansas City runs over the first eight innings to earn the victory. Ernie Camacho pitched the ninth for his second save. Kansan City starter Danny Jackson, 0-1, walked Butler to lead off the eighth. Tony Bernazard sacrificed Butler to second and Julio Franco's infield hit moved Butler to third. Joe Beckwith then relieved Jackson and Thornton greeted him with a sacrifice fly to deep centre field. Kansas City took a 1-0 lead in the first when Darryl Motley led off with a single, stole second, took third on Pat Sheridan's single and scored when Jorge Orta grounded into a fielder's choice. RANGERS I YANKEES 0 NEW YORK (CP) — Fyank Tanana allowed two hits in eight innings Saturday and New York singled home an unearned run in the sixth as Texas Rangers blanked New York 1-0, stopping the Yankees’ three-game winning streak. Tanana, 2-1, yielded singles to Lou Piniella in the fourth inning and Rick Cerone in the eighth. The 30-year-old left-hander struck out four and.walked as many before Dave Tobik pitched the ninth for bis second save. He allowed a two-out single to Don Mattingly before retiring pinch-hitter Oscar Gamble on a grounder. ORIOLES 5 TWINS 3 BALTIMORE (AP) — Mike Flanagan. earned his first vietory of the American League baseball season holding Minnesota to five hits through seven innings, and Eddie Murray drove in two ryms to lead Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 victory against the Twins. It was only the fourth triumph in 14 games for the World Series-champion Orioles and the first time this season they have recorded consecutive victories. The Twins have lost four successive games. Flanagan, 1-2, struck out five and walked three before being replaced by Tippy Martinez after seven innings. The two left-handers combined on a six-hitter, with Martinez registering his first save. TIGERS 4 WHITE SOX 1 DETROIT (AP) — Lou Whitaker homered to back the combined five-hit pitching of Dave Rozema and Doug Bair as Detroit Tigers beat Chicago White Sox 4-1. Rozema, 1-0, making his second start of the season, allowed two hits, striking out seven and walking two in the six innings he worked. Bair came on to start the seventh and notched his first save after giving up a run-scoring double to Greg Walker in the ninth. Chicago's LaMarr Hoyt, 2-1, who was thwarted in his effort to win his 16th consecutive game over two seasons, gave up 10 hits. Hoyt, the 1983 AL Cy Young Award winner, struck out five and walked four. Hoyt's last defeat occurred July 23, 1983 when he lost 10-7 at Milwaukee. ANGELS 8 JAYS 4 TORONTO (CP) — Bobby Grich drove in three runs with a home run and a two-run double and Reggie Jackson stroked a two-run triple to lead California Angels to an 84 victory against Toronto Blue Jays. Jackson paced the Angels to a 2-0 lead with his triple in the first inning, while Grich hit a solo shot in the second and keyed California's three-run third with his double before 44,164 fans, the fourth-largest crowd in the Jay's history. Rookie Ron Romanik, 2-1, scattered nine hits for his first major-league complete game and extended California's win streak to four games. The Angels put the game away with three runs in the third and chased Toronto starter Jim Gott, 0-1. PHILLIES 12 METS 2 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — John Denny scattered six hits for Philadelphia's first complete game of the season as the Phillies crushed New York Mets 12-2 in a National League baseball game Saturday. Denny, 2-1, the 1983 National League Cy Young Award winner, struck out seven and walked two. He retired 16 batters in a row until Darryl Strawberry, Mookie Wilson and Hubie Brooks singled with two out in the ninth, but left fielder Glenn Wilson nailed Strawberry at the plate to end the game. PIRATES 8 CUBS5 CHICAGO (AP) — Tony Pena’s run-scoring double keyed a four-run seventh inning and Marvell Wynne and Johnny Ray had three hits each to lead Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-5 victory, snapping Chicago Cubs' three-game winning streak. Successive singles by Ray. Bill Madlock and Jason Thomson to open the seventh broke a 4-4 tie and Pena followed with his double for another run. A single by Amos Otis drove in another run and the fourth run scored on an errant pickoff throw by pitcher Rich Bordi? Jose DeLeon, 1-0, was the winner in relief and reliever Dickie Noles, 0-1, took the loss. The Pirates jumped on Rick Reuschel, who came off the disabled list Friday, for two runs in the first inning on Wynne's triple, a double by Ray and a single by Pena. NHL PLAYOFF SERIES ENDS TONIGHT By The Canadian Press The National Hockey League playoff series that was supposed to be over long ago concludes tonight in Ed- monton as the Oilers try to shake off the pesky Calgary Flames once and for all. The high-scoring Oilers, expected by all but the most die-hard Calgary fans to either sweep or go no more than five games in the best-of-seven Smythe Divi- sion final series, suddenly find themselves in a 3-3 deadlock. The Oilers, who finished first overall after the regular season, led the series 3-1 be- fore the Flames caught fire and rebounded with. succes- sive 5-4 victories. On Friday night, veteran right winger Lanny McDonald's goal at 1:04 of overtime forced the seventh game in Edmonton. In the only other division final yet to be decided, St. Louis Blues travel to Bloom- ington, Minn., tonight to face the North Stars in the sev- enth game of the Norris Div ision series. “The biggest thing now is how will we be mentally?” wondered Edmonton de- fenceman Paul Coffey after the overtime loss. “What will our reaction be?” MOMENTUM SWINGS The Flames, who could not beat their provincial rivals during the regular season, are convinced the consecu- tive victories have swung the momentum in their favor. “They're the ones with their backs against the wall now,” said Flames forward Carey Wilson. “I don't know what’s going through their heads, but they must be questioning themselves.” Wilson added that the Oil ers may be relying too heav ily on the team's leaders — Wayne Gretzky, Coffey, Jari Kurri and Mark Messier — when Edmonton gets in trouble. “They have players, when the going gets tough they turn to certain individuals and that’s been hurting them,” said Wilson. Gretzky has been held by the tight-checking Flames to only four assists in the last four games of the series and the Edmonton centre is nag. ged by a shoulder injury. The one-game showdown is exactly what Calgary coach Bob Johnson wanted and the fact it will be played in Ed. monton doesn't bother him. “At this point, we'll play them in (Alberta cities) Grande Prairie or Red Deer or Olds or any other place,” said Johnson. “We wanted this down to one game, 60 minutes of sudden-death hoc- key.” ACTION OUT OF ACTION Minnesota, meanwhile, will be without high-scoring cen. tre Keith Acton when its plays host to the Blues. Ac- ton suffered a possible bro- ken wrist in the North Stars’ 4-0 loss to the Blues Friday night. A North Stars spokesman said Saturday Acton is out for tonight's contest, but added it isn’t known whether the imjury is a break or a severe bruise. Acton’s injury could be. come a factor in the contest. “There's no doubt about it,” said Steve Payne of the North Stars. “Keith's been a catalyst for us.” But North Stars coach Bill Mahoney feels his club will over the last little while after having an injury is to recover and respond with all kinds of effort.” Brian Lawton, the highly touted rookie centre who was the first pick in the NHL draft last June, is expected to play with Acton out. Lawton has had a disappointing sea- son and hasn't been a factor in the playoffs. Veteran soccer players to rest By GRANT KERR VICTORIA (CP) — Can- ada’s Olympic-bound soccer team likely will use some of its less experienced players April 25 in Havana for the final qualifying game against Cuba. Coach Tony Waiters has indicated he would like to rest some of the older pro- fessionals who helped Canada qualify for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles with two ties against Costa Rica and a victory over against Cuba. Costa Rica has five points, Canada four and Cuba one in the double-round-robin series to select two teams from the Central America, Nerth America and Caribbean re- gion, with the Canada-Cuba contest the only game re- maining in the series. “We may look to using some of our younger players, although we've got a very young team anyway,” Wai- ters said after Wednesday's 0-0 tie with Costa Rica that clinched one of the 16 Olym pic berths. “We don’t need to win or tie in Cuba, but we would still like to win this qualifying tournament. “A point in Cuba would get us in front of Costa Riea be- cause we've scored more goals than they have.” The Canadian team will resume training Saturday jin Fort Lauderdale, Fla.