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Trail Times- Friday, November 26, 1982-7

, The fortunes of the
Rossland Warriors is in the
hands of the fates. For some
reason they are coming up
one goal short in their attempts to salvage a victory
that could lift them out of the
cellar of the Western
division of the KIJHL.
Grand Forks Border
Bruins are immediately
above the Warriors in the
standings and a couple of
wins for the Rossland crew
during this coming weekend
could vault them over the
Bruins into fiftb place. Then
there is the problem of
Castlegar Rebels who
currently hold down fourth
- spot with six wins and
threatening to take more.
Doug Buhr, Warrior
manager, has expressed
o timism with his team's
~ces and on the strength
of their recent performances
his optimism is not out of
place. Losing by one goal is
certainly nothing to be
ashamed of but it can get
pretty frustrating.
Perhaps the addition of
Darren Pastro and Rob
Porcellato, cut from the
Trail Juniors early in the
pre-season, will give the
Warriors that little spark
they need. The team, which
started the season with a
pretty big load of rookies,
has seen them become a
pretty effective unit. Darren
Pastro got a goal in the 5-4
overtime loss to the Nelson
Juniors on Tuesday evening.
Perhaps when he gets back
into the swing of things, he
hasn't played since September, he will start potting
winners for the red and
white

the Warrior camp.
While on the subject of
hockey, a young man turned
up in Rossland recently who
used to do a pretty good job
between the pipes for the
Warriors back in the . early
seventies. A lay-off victim of
the current hard times,
Tonµny Castle will start
work in the near future on
the re-opening of the moly
mine on the slopes of Red
Mountain.
Tommy played goal for the
Warriors when he was in the
15-16 age group and played
until he got too old. Before he
started with the Warriors,
Tommy played minor
hockey and was picked up by
an intermediate team then
operating out of Rossland for
a trip to Spokane. I don't
think he had turned 15 at the
time and he held the Spokane
club, which had a number of

former senior players on it,
to two goals in a 2-1 Rossland
loss.
More recently Tommy has
been working at Granisle in
northern B.C. for a mining
company which has now
closed down. While there,
Tom took quite a big part.in
hockey circles. The Omineca
hockey district of which he
was president for a while, is
one of the largest in the
province, its present prexy is
another Rossland-Trail boy,
John Merkley.
During his coaching
tenure at Granisle, Tommy
had on one of his clubs a very
confident young man named
Blair Sharp. Tommy tells
me he was really high on this
young goaltender. His
confidence was evidently
well-placed since this
youngster is now third-string
goalie for the resurgent 1982-

83 edition of the Chicago
Black Hawks of the NHL's
Norris division.
Tom will be around for
a while and is afready
looking for a chance to coach
in Rossland's Minor Hockey
system.
The retirees' curling club
of Rossland had a very nice
trip to Nelson for an invitational last week and
word has it that the Nelson
ice was in really excellent
condition. The three teams
which went along all report a
good time, although they
didn't win any games they
were royally entertained by
the Nelson boys.
We have no unbeaten rinks
in retiree competition at the
present time. The Harry,
Popplewell and Ferrey rinks
have all felt the sharp edge
of defeat and with the first
competition drawing to a

close it would appear that
the Harry and Popplewell
rinks could have a batle
right down to the wire.
Still with the retirees, the
Trail club has been invited to
share a day's curling and
socializing with the Rossland
club and this will all come to
pass in the very near future.
The mixed club in
Rossland is looking for a
minimum twelve rinks for
Sunday's bonspiel. At last
reading I counted 36 names
on the board for the event
which will be up agaimt the
Grey Cup celebration,
always a big thing in this
area where breakfasts and
brunches are the order of the
day.
On the playing field, it
looks like the Eskimos have
a real challenge coming for
the hyped-up Toronto
Argonauts. "Nuff said!"

threatening to take more.
Doug Buhr, Warrior
manager, has expressed
o timism with his team's
~ces and on the strength
of their recent performances
his optimism is not out of
place. Losing by one goal is
certainly nothing to be
ashamed of but it can get
pretty frustrating.
Perhaps the addition of
Darren Pastro and Rob
Porcellato, cut from the
Trail Juniors early in the
pre-season, will give the
Warriors that little spark
they need. The team, which
started the season with a
pretty big load of rookies,
has seen them become a
pretty effective unit. Darren
Pastro got a goal in the 5-4
overtime loss to the Nelson
Juniors on Tuesday evening.
Perhaps when he gets back
into the swing of things, he
hasn't played since September, he will start potting
winners for the red and
white.
Lloyd McLellan and Ken
Koshey have done a fine job
with the team by bringing
them along so far. I have
been really impressed with
the passing and puckcarrying abilities of a lot of
the players up front. The
defence is also starting to
show some pretty good
moves and what can you say
about the performance of
Bert Brooker except fantastic.
The acid test comes
tonight in Rossland against
Trail and again Saturday
when they travel out to
Beaver Valley to go against
·the suddenly-rejuvenated
Nite Nawks. Wins against
these two arch rivals could
instill a lot of confidence in

y and was picked up IJy
an intermediate team then
operating out of Rossland for
a trip to Spokane. I don't
think he had turned 15 at the
time and he held the Spokane
club, which had a number of

Bwr ~narp. Tommy tens
me he was really high on this
young goaltender. His
confidence was evidently
well-placed since this
youngster is now third-string
goalie for the resurgent 1982-

e bave no unbeaten rlnlrS

in retiree competition at the
present time. The Harry,
Popplewell and Ferrey rinks
have all felt the sharp edge
of defeat and with the first
competition drawing to a

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day.
On the playing field, it
looks like the Eskimos have
a real challenge coming for
the hyped-up Toronto
Argonauts. "Nuff said!"