ce osymenn y Ae Castlegar News June 19, 1991 i A hole In the fence at a diamond at Kinnaird Park BIRD'S-EYE VIEW one of the games during the C: CasNews photo by Ed Mills gives this young baseball fan a bird's eye view of Minor '3 annual wind up Saturday. LEGION BRANCH 170 to 3 p.m. 11 p.m, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 12 to lam. mae BINGO THURSDAY 365-7017 CABLE 10 A reward of $2000 Is for Information leading by the arrest and conviction of Person or persons responsible for extensive damage done to the 0: rest area y 3-East of C: PP on In the late hours of June 12 or early hours of June 13, Please contact the Castlegar R.C.M.P. at 365-7721. 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Produced by Shaw Cable staff. 5:30 p.m. (Wed) 9:30 a.m. (Fri) $:30 p.m. (Sun) Seniors Health Fair and Forum - Seniors from around the area gather to discuss issues critical to their lifestyle ‘ wat ve Produced by Lorraine Garrett of the Seniors Health Fair and Forum Committee. 7 p.m. (Wed) 11 a.m. (Fri) 7 p.m. (Sun) Night Talk: Lead Levels in Trail - Panelists studying the lead levels in Trail take calls from the public. Recorded during the June 18 live production. 8 p.m. (Wed) 12 p.m. (Fri) 8 p.m. (Sun) Ask Us: Great News From Shaw Cable - Gary Monaghan, Minto Road marketing manager, and Steve Lake, system manager, for Shaw Cc in the West take calls about the new channels coming to Trail and Castlegar. Produced by Shaw Cable. 9 p.m. (Wed) 1 p.m. (Fri) 9 p.m. (Sun) Trail City Council - Gavel-to- gavel coverage of the June 17 meeting held at Glenmerry school. Produced by City of Trail with Ed Langevin. FURNITURE MATTRESSES for less... A LOT LESS! 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These are kids, many of whom are getting their first taste of the grand game, who hankfully haven't di a that baseball is supposed to be serious. In a typical Tadpole game, everybody hits and everybody plays the field. Parents or coaches are designated pitch- ers and, as far as I could tell, No one ever struck out, not at three strikes, not at 3,003 strikes. It was as a batter not par- ticularly adept at hitting the grapefruit was whiffing away when I stole a glimpse of the the wonderful things going on in the outfield. There was our future major leaguer picking his nose in left field ( an activity not confined to the outfield) apparently more intent on his activity than the game. Then there was little Freddy Field- er in centre, facing the wrong way, apparently contemplat- ing the universe — his eyes in the sky, his useless glove dangling from his hand a dead bird. There were spitting fights during catching practice, some kids threw their gloves around more than the ball, and concentration, especially if someone walked by eating an ice cream cone, was marginal at best. My play of the day came in Tadpole game on a bloop sin- gle to right which was mis- played by the fielder — I didn’t see if if he was picking his nose or not. The muff was all the bold elementary school base runner needed to make a break for second. Eluding the grasp of the first base coach (coaches tend to hold on to base runners’ shirts until there’s a hit and it’s time for them to be released), our hero was off on his adventure to second. And he made it there safe- ly except for one, slight prob- lem. His teammate had refused to vacate second base and apparently had no inten- tion of doing because he pushed his buddy bodily off the bag back towards the place from whence he came. Meanwhile, the various infielders and outfielders who touched the ball on the play — invariably half the team will touch the ball on any given hit - were having difficulty defining the situation. With parents, coaches and team- mates yelling to throw the ball somewhere, anywhere, panicked kids, twirling around in confusion, usually passed it off to the nearest person with a glove, looking quite relieved at having done 80, The look.on the face of the kid who got the ball reminded me of similar ones I'd seen in scenes from a fire fight in one of those Vietnam movies. Taking advantage of the On the way home I thought, well, it’s nice to win championships and have all that competition and travel around like those kids in Trail do every year, But > nice to fd playi game just to play. It made me path f not good enough to have kids of my own, but good anyway. Creston pro wins Open again By CasNews Staff Cherie Baker of Creston became the first two-time winner Sunday in the seven- year history of the Castlegar Savings Credit Union Ladies Open at the Castlegar and District Golf Course. The assistant pro at the Creston golf course, who won the event in 1989, Baker shot a 36-hole total of 170 to win by three strokes over Castlegar’s Diane . Eighteen-year-old-Denise Pottle of Castlegar won the first flight for 0-15 handicaps with rounds of 86 and 88. McAfee, whose 84 Sunday was the low score in the final round, said Baker’s win was quite an accomplishment considering it came against the strongest field of competition in the event; “We had 128 (players) this year. It could have gone in any direction,” said McAfee, who co- organized the Open along with Leslie Johanson. “The challenge was there and Cherie held it together and pulled it off.” Pottle; who won a district junior tournament in Kimberley the weekend before, said she just couldn't put an entire round ‘a "Mary Sy VSTRIA “QSAR together on either day of the tournament. “I guess I kinda choked. My first round (Saturday) I was 41 on the front and 45 on the back. J had my chances but I couldn’t ‘put two together,” said Pottle, who just finished her first year of a golf scholarship at Kansas State University. Cranbrook’s Dianne Mc- Ciilloch was the overall low net winner (score minus handicap) with a net 149. Mary Ish of Castlegar won the sécond flight while Castlegar golfers Kay Hominiuk, Olwyn heim and Virginia Maida won the seventh, eight and ninth flights re- spectively. Corrine Sheldrup of Nelson won the third flight and Chris Ondrick of Cranbrook won the fourth flight while Kelowna golfers Mryt Lawrence and Shirley Yamaoko were the fifth and sixth flight winners re- spectively. Last year’s winner, Loretta Bulfone of Trail, was virtually eliminated from contention after her first round while former Castlegar winners Diony McArthur and Ruth Tricky fell out of ion Sunday. | 4 .second place Ball team torn apart By ED MILLS Staff Writer As far as carbon copies go, this was one the Castlegar girls peewee rep fastball team would like to rip up and throw away. The venue and the day had changed but the score remained the same as, for the second straight game, the Castlegar Industrial Equipment girls were crushed 9-1 by Conacher News of Montrose at Kinsmen Park last night. The win, combined with a 10- 1 win Monday night in Montrose, gave Montrose a sweep of the best-of-three series to determine which team would represent the West Kootenay at the C Provincial championships. Fourteen-year-old Montrose pitcher Stephanie Pipes was near perfect in both games toss- ing a three-hitter last night after a one-hit performance Monday. * And she said she didn’t even have her best stuff. “No, it wasn’t really one of my better games. Yesterday’s (Monday’s) game was much bet- ter,” said Pipes, who stuck mainly with her fastball but mixed in a drop and a change up. Castlegar teased the small home crowd with a run in the first inning but never really tl d the rest of the game CasNews photo by Ed Mills Castlegar peewee reps pitcher Stephanie Rezansoff, 13, didn't have one of her best days on the mound and It was the same for her teammates in the field at Kinsmen Park last night . For the second straight game the peewees were bowled over by Montrose who won the right to represent the West y in the pi NHL draft will likely be more than just the Eric Lindros show By GRANT KERR The Canadian Press There is a lot more to the NHL entry draft Saturday than the Eric Lindros sideshow, complete with hyped speculation the budding superstar doesn’t want to play in Quebec. It was seven years ago some insiders snidely suggested Mario Lemieux wouldn't leave his native Quebec. Lemieux has done just fine in Pittsburgh, including the fitting for a Stanley Cup ring, something the Lindros handlers should take into consider- ation. Lindros will obvi And, the St. Louis Blues are desperate to move up in the first round because the first instalment of their mortgage payment for Scott Stevens is due. al managers. ily be the of the Saturday draft show in Buffalo - he’s clearly been the best prospect since his first world junior tournament in Helsinki - but there's a lot more going on behind the scenes wing that doesn’t involve Lindros. Trade winds are blowing hard before the The Ca: annual auction of junior, college and foreign talent by pro hockey’s established For instance: : the San Jose Sharks have the second pick overall and the expansion team may be willing to take a collection of in exchange for the No, 2 slot proven San Jose and Mi So while the Lindros situation drones on. Will he jump to a rival, unproven league, or will his rights be traded to.a United States- based team? There could indeed be some sig- nificant manoeuvring by enterprising gener- The Montreal Canadiens (drafting 17th) are anxious to pick Pat Falloon, the Memorial Cup scoring star of the champion Spokane Chiefs, who is ranked among the Falloon, from Foxwarren, Man., has seen his stock rise dramatically in recent months. The slick forward can play centre or right and can score from almost anywhere. At least he did against rival junior teams. nadiens grinders, butdacks someone with the deft touch around the net. could use depth and the Montreal system could easily oblige. The Sharks stunned other teams by tak- ing unproven defenceman Jayson More from Montreal in the expansion draft. San Jose bypassed proven defenders J.J. Daigneault, Donald Dufresne and Sylvain Lefebvre, along with versatile forward Brent Gilchrist, leading to rumors a deal with the Habs is forthcoming to even accounts. Montrea! could offer an attractive multi- player package that San Jose would find hard to refuse, considering the circum- stances of an expansion team. Another club that may want to deal with San Jose is the New York Islanders, whose has hed an i with Canadian sniper Pat LaFontaine. . The Islanders have always liked Western players and Falloon has the scor- hel 1 to rep LaF. asa marquee player. The deal might send LaFontaine to San Jose along with New york’s fourth overall pick, which the Sharks could use to select ing defe Scott Nied yer of ls to do business at the draft table. The Sharks the Kamloops Blazers. as Pipes took over. Montrose, on the other hand, threatened and scored in every inning but the first and the mercy rule - which ends the game if a team is up more than seven runs after five innings - was invoked in the fifth, also for the second straight game. Castlegar pitcher Stephanie Rezansoff said she and her team just had a good case of nerves. “We were just so eager to beat them, I guess we just got too overwhelmed,” said Rezansoff, 13, who took the loss for the peewees in both games. Castlegar peewee co-coaches Ron Bartsoff and Chris Datchkoff said Rezansoff had good stuff in the first couple of innings but neither she nor the team got a break all game. “You really can’t explain that kind of thing,” said Datchkoff. “We just weren't getting the breaks, it just wasn’t meant to Considerihg the score in both games, Bartsoff wasn’t about to take anything away from Montrose or coach Brian Pipes. “He’s got good hitting on his team and he puts a lot of work into that team. They deserved to win,” said Bartsoff. 5 In the first game Montrose scored four runs in the second behind the hitting of Leanne Walker and Jaime Zino while Pipes struck out eight. Montrose travels to Campbell River July 5-7. for the Provincials.