Page 12 12A all set Grand Sterling News Service The 18th Grand Forks Interna tional baseball tournament gets underway tonight (Wednesday) when the Tahoé Stars tackle Tai wan in the opener following the opening ceremonies at James Don- aldson Park at 7:30 p.m. “I've never been so excited about a tournament,” said coordi nator Larry Seminoff. Seminoff has been swamped with calls from all over British Columbia follow- ing a BCTV advertising campaign featuring Toronto Blue Jay first baseman John Olerud promoting the toumey Olerud played in two Grand Forks International tourmaments as a Washington State Cougar. “We've spent a lot of time trying to arrange accommodation from Greenwood to Christina Lake for those people,” said Seminoff “We've never had so much sup- port from the community itself, or so much interest from around the province,” he added Meanwhile, back at the opener tonight, Team Taiwan this year will feature the very best ball players from the country's amateur base ball program. Three players from Taiwan's sil- ver medal team in the 1992 Olympics-Huang Wen-po, Lin Kuw-han and Lo Kuo-chong- promise to deliver more defensive finesse and offensive punch, and the addifion of Tong Chung-hui, winner of the MVP and batting awards in this year’s Asian Cham- pionships in Perth, Australia, should add and explosive element at the plate Taiwan has lacked in pervious years. Team manager Dick Reid's Tahoe Stars will be picpared tor the revamped Taiwan squs ul. Reid whose semi-pro crew took home the, toumament crown in 1990, fell short in 1991 when a lean bench failed to rise to the occasion. Reid has expanded his roster to 20 players this year, and the Cali fornia crew count four lefties on their pitching staff Thursday's 6 p.m. game will feature the host Grand Forks team facing the Tahoe Stars, while the 8:30 game sees Japan's Nippon Oil taking on the Hermiston Sox Games for Friday, Saturday and Senior golfers score three Holes-in-one KEN PRICE Special to the Sun Three senior golfers made a little bit of history at the Castle- gar and District Golf Course this past month, as all three made the ultimate shot in golf—a hole-in- one The first was Alex McKinnon with an Ace on the 197 yard par three number 17; followed a few days later by Otto Walker with his Ace on the 165 yard hole number eight. Then on August 24 Ken Price followed with a hole-in-one on the 120 yard third hole. With the weather cooperating, a large number of seniors enjoyed their trip to Colville a couple weeks ago. This invitational tourney was a “low team net” so there were no individual winners to report On Thursday the name of the game was an individual low net aS the members again tackled their own course Zeke Clements came in with a low net of 67, followed by D. Henshaw's 70, Bill Shay and W. Janicki each with 71 Other winners were D. Dever- son, Tom Wilson, Andre Lamarche, H. Belbeck, K. Price, N. Oglow, M. Waite, E. Isack- son, A. Popoff, A. Allis, G. Pet- titt, M. Bermel, and O. Walker. Reminder for all senior golfers, the tee-off time for tomorrow is 9 a.m in Forks Sunday start at 8 am. and run through to the late evening. Sun day afternoon features the stant of the Money Round, while Monday is reserved for the wrap-up of the Money Round, and the semi-final and final games. See the tourna ment program available at James Donaldson Park for a full schedule of games. The Los Angeles Rangers will return to defend their title as tour nament champions and take their best shot at winning the $12,500 first place money Joining those already men tioned, teams from San Diego, New York, Lewiston, Seattle, Port land and Chicago are all prepared to take home their share of more than $31,000 in prize money The tournament runs six days from Sept. | through to Sept. 6. Labor Day Monday «Ast tar The Castlegar Sun Ball tourney Thunderbirds and Cougars to clash JOHN VAN PUTTEN sn Sports Castlegar has been home to ome temporary residents for the past week. Actually, 52 hockey hopefuls ‘are in Castle gar trying out for a spot on the Western Hockey League Seat tle Thunderbirds squad Arca hockey fans will find the highlight of the Thunder birds Camp Thursday night when the Victoria Cougars come to the Castlegar Recre ation Complex to play an exhi bition match against’ the Thunderbirds Aceording to Thunderbirds General Man nnis Be yak, both teams evenly matched and that uld make for a close game “I think the Victoria Cougars will be improved over last sea son, they have made some good gains for their team. As for our team, we are certainly better than last year,” Beyak said During this game area Hock ey fans will have a chance to see three Russian players show their wares on the ice, two will Smae CHILLER DRINKS Assorted Flavours Case of 27 - 250 mL 6** «