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May 13, 1990

PLAYING THE HOP .. . As smooth as silk is shortstop Gary Fleming of
Banjo's Pub in the Castlegar men 's Fastball League at Kinnaird Pa:

- Unfortunately
bounces in a 4-3 loss to Trainer Mechanical.

for Fleming, his team didn't get the

CasNews photo by Ed Mills

Fastball team
‘must have hurler

Shaking his head

By CasNews Staff
Eli Soukeroff has to be wondering
what he has to do to win a fastball

game.

Soukeroff allowed just four hits
over seven innings but ended up
taking the loss as Trainor Mechanical
beat Banjo’s 4-3 at Kinnaird Park
Thursday night in one of four games
in week two of the Castlegar Men's
Recreational Fastball League.

In other games, it took two extra
innings but Labatt’s beat Salmo Hote!
6-5 at Kinnaird Thursday. On Mon-
day, Labatt’s lost 3-2 to Trainor
Mechanical at Kinnaird Park white it
was Soukeroff again with a four-
hitter leading Banjo’s to an 11-4 win
over Salmo Hotel in Salmo.

Despite playing without a centre
fielder for the first two innings
because it didn’t have enough players
show up at game time, Trainor
Mechanical managed to hold Banjo’s
off the scoreboard while putting up a
pair of runs itself.

Banjo’s looked like it might cut the
lead in half in the bottom of the third
when Guy Bertrand tried stretching a
triple into a homer but he was nailed
at home plate.

Trainor’ scored two more runs in
the fourth from the. bat of Gerald
Ryan who took a Soukeroff pitch
‘Over the fence to make it 4-0:

Banjo’s got back in the contest with
three of it’s own in the bottom half of
the inning but that’s when winning
pitcher Cam Sookro decided to offer
his imitation of Nolan Ryan.

Sookro, who didn’t have a strike-
out through four innings, proceeded
to fan five over the next three innings,
including two in Banjo’s last at bats
to preserve the victory.

Phil Angrignon carried the hot bat
for Banjo’s, going two-for-two and
walking once.

-With the two wins, Trainor
Mechanical holds top spot in the
league with a 3-1 record while Banjo’s
and Labatt’s sit tied at 2-2. Salmo is
last with a win and three losses.

All four teams are in action Mon-
day as Labatts takes on Banjo’s at
Kinnaird and Trainor meets Salmo in
Salmo. On Tuesday, Salmo plays
Banjo’s at Kinnaird. Labatts is back
in action against Trainor on Wed-
nesday at Kinnaird. Starting time for
all games is 6:15 p.m.

Winfield vetoes

trade to

SEATTLE (AP) — The New York
Yankees tried to trade Dave Winfield
to the California Angels on Friday,
but the controversial slugger refused
to go and the deal was sent to ar-
bitration.

Winfield, who missed all of last
season after back surgery, said he has
the right to turn the deal down
because of a clause in the basic
agreement. Because he’s been in the
major leagues for 10 years — at least
the last five with the same team —
Winfield has the power of veto, he
says. / v

Angels

The Yankees claim Winfield’s con-
tract specifies seven teams to which he
was willing to be traded and that
California is one of them.

“T was traded but I ain’t going
nowhere,”’ said Winfield, whose 10-
year contract expires after this season.
“4m not packing for California, but
I can’t put on a Yankee uniform,
either. I’m in limbo.

“Get me a cab for limbo.”’

The Yankees said the deal — for a
player to be named later — will be
decided by an arbitrator, but no
timetable has been set.

Dollars the difference in
Lions’ bid to lure Harris

VANCOUVER (CP) — The agents
for West Virginia quarterback Major
Harris want the B.C. Lions to give
them a better deal than the Calgary
Stampeders gave rookie Terrance
Jones last year.

It’s believed the CFL team has of-
fered Harris,.21, a package close to
the reported $30,000 signing bonus
and $85,000 first-year salary that
Jones got.

“*We want more than that, but not
much more,’’ said Louis Duvenay,
the negotiator for Ed Abram*s Mor-
com Sports.

““We feet Major is-a better-player
and has more value to Joe Kapp’s
team than a Terrance Jones would,

not only in the standings, but at the
turnstiles.””

He said Kapp, general manager of
the Lions, indicated this week that he
wants a deal negotiated by early next
week,

“He said he wants to sign by
Tuesday,” said Duvernay, ‘It’s up to
him whether or not we do i

Harris, who threw for 5,137 yards
and 41 touchdowns and ran for an
additional 2,161 yards and 18 touch-
downs in three seasons, passed up his
final year of eligiblity at West Virginia
toenter the NFL draft.

But with Harris not being picked
until the 12th-round of the NFL draft
— he went to the Los Angeles Raiders
and is at their rookie camp this week

— Duvernay and Abram do not have
a strong bargaining position.

Raider officials have hinted
strongly they would just as soon see
Harris come to Canada and develop
his suspect throwing and defence-
reading skills in a pro-style offence.

The Raiders would hold his NFL
rights for four years if he signed with
the Lions.

Kapp has said he’s not worried
about the questions about Harris’
throwing. mechanics and his lack of
coolness under fire.

“The NFL doesn’t want to know
about bowlegged,; —bad-breath guys
even if all they do is win. It wants
blond-haired, blue-eyed, straight-

legged guys. Major is a Magic John-
son type. He’ll be our point guard."’

Kapp, who js continuing to
negotiate with the agent for former
NFL quarterback Doug Flutie, admit-
ted Thursday that time is beginning to
‘become a factor:

“People have a right to know who
our quarterback is before the season
start

It’s also possible the club, in spite
of consistently stating it wants to take
both to camp, will settle for just one
of the two, Kapp said.

‘*We can only afford so much. And
if one of them were to step up, well
maybe we couldn’t afford the other
one.””

City’s ready to play ball

WASHINGTON (CP) — The city
of Vancouver could be ready within
24 hours to host a major league
baseball team, Liberal Senator Ray
Perrault told U.S. politicians on
Tuesday.

“We have a 55,000-seat, state-of-
the-art stadium that could schedule
baseball within 24 hours,’’ said
Perrault, a former Canadian sports
minister, after lobbying baseball
commissioner Fay Vincent on behalf
of Vancouver.

“That's how ready we are for
major league baseball."”

Vancouver is one of about six cities
the 12-team National League is con-
sidering for a two-team expansion by
1993.

Denver, Colo., and Tampa Bay-St.
Petersburg, Fla., are believed to be
the leading contenders for the two
new franchises, although several
others, including Washington, D.C.,
Buffalo and Phoenix, have said they

_want teams.

The league is scheduled to announ-
ce the two new teams next year, but
Vincent made no expansion commit-
ment beyond that during a meeting

with the U.S. Senate task force on
baseball.

The group, of which Perrault is a
member, is made up of U.S. senators’
from regions clamoring for inclusion

league baseball.

le lobbying for Vancouver's
major league baseball prospects,
Perrault invoked free trade and con-
tinental trade ties. He made the point
that the Toronto and Montreal fran-
chises have already proved baseball
isn’t an exclusive U.S. preserve and
that Canadians can get the job done

Perrault said Canadians resent

lingering suggestions that expansion
franchises should go only to U.S.
cities, and he noted that in 13 years,
the Toronto Blue Jays have become
baseball’s *‘most successful team’* in
attendance.

He also pointed out that baseball is
played in 18 countries.

Perrault said he’s confident Van-
couver “has ach equal to that of
any other ity in No merica”’ to
Tand an expansion team. And he said
Western cities like Edmonton and
Calgary should be considered in 10 or
20 years.

Hey kid, would

you like to
play in the NHL?

BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP)}— To
anybody else Lint Gaetz, Neil Wilkin-
son, Rob Zettler, Jayson More,
Zmolek and Mike Craig may not be
household names.

To the NHL’s newsest expansion
franchise, they spell: The Future.

These are some of the top prospects
of the Minnesota North Stars and
they figure to become the nucleus of
the Bay area hockey franchise next
summer, thanks to a complicated per-
sonnel arrangement.

“One of the reasons for the
discussions taking so long as far as
moving the franchise was the dispersal
of the players,” said Jack Ferreira,
the North Stars’ general manager the
Past two seasons who will go with the

There are safeguards written_into
the agreement that protect the ex-
pansion team’s pool of players.

If the North Stars elect to trade any
player with less than 50 games NHL
experience between the official sale of
the team and the roster draft, the
North Stars will be allowed to protect
only nine skaters and two goalies.

The expansion team won't be
allowed to include any 1990 draft
choices in their initial selection of 14
skaters and two goalies, but will be
able to select those players once the
two team’s get to alternating choices.

“In hockey, it’s very similar to
baseball,”” Ferreira said. ‘“‘We both
draft 18-year-olds.

“It ga 18-year-old has an impact on

Gunds as the
of hockey operations.

> ‘‘Believe me, it does give us a
unique opportunity to get off to a
good start,’’ Ferreira said.

As part of the $38-million deal that
transferred ownership of the North
Stars from George and Gordon Gund
to Howard Baldwin and Morris Belz-
berg, the expansion franchise_will be
allowed to select up to 30 players who
were the property of the North Stars
as of April 10, 1990.

The deal was approved by NHL
owners at a meeting Wednesday in
Rosemont, Ill. Here’s how it goes:

In July 1991, the North Stars will
be allowed to protect 14 players and
two goalies, each of whom have 50 or
more games of NHL experience.
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the Bay area team will select 14
players and two goali

The two franchises will alternately
select players, with the North Stars
picking first, until the expansion
franchise has 30 players.

\jor-league baseball, it’s an excep-
tional case. It’s the same thing in
hockey. The 18-year-old we draft-we
don’t expect for two or three years.

“*That’s why it was so critical to get
this deal done the way we structured it
because we want those young players
who will have had two or three years
development in the minor leagues. We
won't have to start from scratch.
‘We'll have a solid base for our team.’’

The expansion team will get the No.
2 overall pick in the 1991 entry draft,
as well as the first pick in each sub-
sequent round.

The Bay area team will also be
allowed to select 10 playerrs off the
rosters of the other NHL teams, who
will protect 16 skaters and two goalies
apiece. The North Stars will be
allowed to select 10 players, too.

All those players will be met by a
hockey staff already in place. Ferreira
will bring with him to the expansion
team: assistant general manager Dean
Lombardi and scouts Chuck Grillo,
Les Jackson and Craig Button.

hand

CosNews photo by Ed Mills

THE FUTURE IS NIGH

Well, maybe two-year-old Tyler Nazaroff is a few years from
the big leagues but he's getting an early start. Now, which

does this glove go on anyway? Tyler was watching dad
play fastball at Kinnaird Park Thursday night.

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Finale sour for SHSS team

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

A storybook, whirlwind season
came to a decidedly unhappy ending
for the Stanley Humphries secondary
School's girls soccer team Tuesday.

The success the high school team
courted through its inaugural season
coldly dumped the girls when they
niost needed it in the West Kootenay
championships at Nakusp secondary
sel .
The girls’ season came to an end af-
ter the team lost two of three games to
finish fourth out of seven teams in the
tourney.

Feam captain Jennifer Small, who
led the team on offense all season,
continued to have the hot foot in the
playoffs scoring three of SHSS’s four
goals in the three games.

Small_scored twice, once on a
penalty kick, in an opening game 3-2
win over Salmo secondary while
Tammy Bezaire scored the other
SHSS goal.

That was all the good news to be
had though as Nelson’s L.V. Rogers
high school team laid a 5-1 beating on
SHSS and then Midway secondary
dashed any hopes of a top-three finish
by beating the locals 3-1. .

Aniece Stetsko scored for SHSS in

the loss to Nelson while Small scored
against Midway.

After losing its season opener to
Nelson, SHSS had won four straight
heading into the West Kootenays.
And that coming with a team staffed
with at least half a dozen girls who
had never played organized soccer
before.

“It was kind of disappointing,”’
Small said of the playoff loss. ‘‘We
wanted to beat Nelson, that was our
major goal . . . but they were just a
better team.’"

Overall though, the team has
nothing to be ashamed of from its
debut season, said Small who, at 18,
is the senior player on the team.

“We started out slow but we im-
proved tremendously. They (her
teammates) felt like they have im-
proved a lot and they're excited about
next season,’ said Small.

Coach Alicia Hornbeck and teacher
sponsor Don Lust were out of the city
and couldn’t be reached for com-
ment. But SHSS principal Jack
Closkey said Lust told him the
coaches were extremely happy with
the program.

“The kids felt good about it, the
coaches feel. good about it,’’ said
Closkey.

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Canadians don't want to be
doormats of world soccer

By GRANT KERR
The Canadian Press

Canadian soccer needed a_ swift
kick in the grass following the World
Cup -four-years-ago-in- Mexico-

The national team didn’t score in
three first-round losses. The no-risk
system of coach Tony Waiters, a
Strategy to keep Canada within
striking distance of global powers,
was brutally boring, if not ineffective.

Times may be changing, however,
as Canadian soccer gets a much-
needed boost from younger players
who have honed their skills in
Europe.

Waiters could hardly contain his
enthusiasm Sunday after Canada’s
well-earned 1-0 victory over the
United-States in the 3-Nations Cup.

The coach praised the creativeness
of midfielder John Limniatis, raved
about the game-saving stop by Craig
Forrest — Waiters is a former English
goalkeeper — and was pleased with
the efficiency of fullback Frank
Yallop.

These are hardly household names
in Canadian soccer, but they are the
new foundation Waiters is preparing
in the buildup for qualification roun-
ds leading to the 1994 World Cup
being staged in the United States.

Waiters was dabbling
—wusi hy

Canada won't be in Italy for the
1990 extravaganza next month,
having lost in qualifying when
in private
aa

went to Greece last year to improve
his game. The lessons seem to have
paid off handsomely.

Canada needs more skill in the at-
tack Swift ‘

joan, over the course of the

is back, placing his personal stamp
again on Canadian soccer.

“It’s nice to see youthful faces,
particularly when you see the quality
of the soccer they’re capable of
producing,"” Waiters said last week
during a high-tempo training session.

Waiters wants the new nationals to
press on more than the 1986 team,
which often hestitated when faced
with the critical decision of offence
over defence.

Limniatis, 22, is a special project.
Born in Athens; raised in Montreal
and now. playing for the Aris club
team in Greece, the lithe Limniatis
has passing skills that light up the eyes
of the coach.

Waiters has moved him to midfield
from his normal defending position.
Limniatis responded against the
Americans with a classic crossing ball
to John Catliff that was struck for the
game’s only goal.

Limniatis intends to play again in
the developing Canadian Soccer
League, perhaps in 1991. After two
years with the Ottawa Intrepid, he

winger
zgerald, 21, of the Toronto Blizzard,
is a bright prospect. So is striker
Domenic Mobilio of the Vancouver
86ers, who missed Sunday’s game
because “he’s involved in the indoor
Playoffs in the United States.

Forrest, 22, and Yallop, 26, also are
intriguing finds. They are products of
the youth soccer system in the Van-
couver suburb of Coquitlam and both
are key members of Ipswich Town in
the English Second Division.

Yallop returned to his native
England 10 years ago after spending
six years in Coquitlam. The: little
fullback now is the Ipswich captain,
playing in front-of the dependable,
six-foot-five Forrest.

The young Canadians face a more
difficult task when they meet Mexico
in the final game of the 3-Nations
tournament today in Burnaby. The
Mexicans must eventually be beaten
for Canada to qualify for the 1994
World Cup.

“t-don’t think-there’s too much
wrong with our game,”’ Waiters ad-
ded.

REGINA (CP) — Veteran
football player Bob Poley tackled
a question that has perplexed
adolescent males for centuries
when he spoke to a group of
Regina students recently.

How—do—youimpress—the—op-
Posite sex?

The answer appeared to be two-
fold: drink plenty of milk and be
true to yourself.

In a speech on the dangers of
smoking, abusing liquor and
doing drugs, Poley used a story
from his own youth to illustrate
the peer pressures young people
face.

Poley told about 60 students in
Grades 5, 6 and 7 that he passed
up his first high-school football

Football player tackles
substance abuse issues

team party because he found the
air blue with tobacco smoke and
the room filled with beer-guzzling
buddies.

But he didn’t w «nt to be left on
the sidelines again, so he turned
up at next the party carrying a
two-quart bottle of milk, parked
himself by an open window so he
could stay away from the smoke,
and happily gulped away on his
milk while the party proceeded.

“You know, the girls thought I
was great,”’ Poley said. ‘‘The girls
loved me.’"

Poley’s presentation was the
latest in a series held at schools
across Saskatchewan this spring as
part of the Team Health program
organized by the provincial

Health Department in co
operation with the Saskatchewan
Roughriders.

Several Roughrider players
have been involved. Students are
shown a video presentation on
substance—abuse, —followed—by—a
talk from the player and a
question and answer period

Poley talked about one-of his
friends who died in an alcohol
related traffic accident

“It is ugly to have a buddy of
yours get killed,’’ he said. ‘‘Now |
know why alcohol is bad it
kills people and it kills kids.”

He warned the students that
they ultimately have the respon
sibility for making the right
decisions in their own lives “

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