8- Trail Times-Friday, March 13, 1981

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have seen two sports events
· which gave us a great deal of
pleasure and brought out the
best in a whole lot of the
participants, the first, the
final game in the West
Division (KIJHL) finals, the
second, most of the twelve
games played in the
Rossland Arena in the Steve
McFarland
memorial
Tournament over the past
weekend.
The game in the Trail
Memorial Centre between
the Trail Juniors and the
Castlegar Rebels didn't lack
one thing which makes
hockey the finest spectator
sport in the world. In this
pressure-packed seventyodd minutes of the fastest
game played, there was not
a moment when the fans
were not on the edge of their
seats wondering what sort of
drama was coming up next.
It was as most of the
• games in this series, a
netminding duel between
• two of the finest young
goaltenders ever to perform
in this league and in the end
it had to be a definite break
that ended it.
Just a few minutes into the

f>EPP-]ALK
second overtime period, that game on Tuesday night. I
break coming as Trail sent think it is high time that the
three attackers against a hockey fans realized the
lone defender and Dan quality of the entertainment
MacDonald's magic was at they can get by watching the
an end, it was, as Bert kind of hockey these
LaFreniere,
KIJHL youngsters provide.
president, said afterwards
On the other end of the
"a helluva way to lose a scale everyone who I talked
hockey series."
to who watched the Rossland
After it was all over I spent tournament was really high
an hour or two with Trail on the show put on by these
goalie Dan McFarland and teams who play the game
his family, where everyone strictly for the fun they get
was very happy with the out of it. It was indeed a wellresult This will be Dan's last run tourney. Games got
year in the junior ranks and under way on time and the
Mturally he would like to go action was fast and furious,
out a winner. Be that as it . the officials kept a tight rein
may he certainly gave the on the play and the rough
Trail club an outstanding stuff was kept to a
effort during the past season minimum. There were a
and capped it with a really couple of unfortunate instellar performance on cidents due more to overTuesday night.
exuberance than calculated
We shall just have to wait roughness, but all in all it
and see what happens in the was the kind of hockey one
league final, the East win- can sit.• back and enjoy.
ner, Cranbrook Colts, are a
Every team in the tourney
very powerful club, I think had its own bevy of fans.
they only lost three or four Rossland teams, Labatts,
games during the past ~ Skidders, Red Moguls and
game schedule and had a Snappy Service, had their
relatively easy time in their fans as did the Al Gulf and
own playoffs.
Tank Room teams from the
Someone said there were Trail area, there was also
around 3,000 people at the considerable support for the

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teams from Spokane and
Campbell River.
We have seen the Spokane
boys before, they are one of
the originals of the tournament and always give it a
good shot. The pleasant
surprise this year was the
showing of the Campbell
River team, a number of the
boys on this team originated
in this area, Joe and John
Feeney, Joe Caron, Mike
Evans and Gary Stanley are
all Rossland's own and Billy
Vulcano played junior
hockey .in Trail, they are
coached by a gent named
Jim Howie, who, I'm told is a
boxer of some repute on the
Island.
They played a good brand
of competitive hockey and I
particularly liked their
goaltender, a tall, tow-head
by the name of Bandy
Beaulieu, a real stand-up
goalie. Randy is a lighting
consultant in everyday life
and for my money one of the
better goalies in the tournament which has had quite
a number of them over the
years of its existence.
Joe and John Feeney
didn't, to my knowledge,
play much hockey as
youngsters in Rossland but
they showed a lot of savvy of
the game over the weekend.

Mike Evans is still the Mike
we knew in his days in junior
hockey for the Warriors and
big Joe Caron has just got a
little older. He looks pretty
good.
Brian Eaton's powerful
Snappy Service team came
out on top this year. The
team, with a number of topranking district players on
the roster, went undefeated
through the competition to
win the "A" event over the
boys from Campbell River
while the Al Gulf with Dino
and Nerio DeRosa leading
the way, knocked off the
hometown Labatts to take
the "B" side.
While on the subject of
hockey I want to extend my
best wishes to the Rossland
Pee Wee Reps who are
engaged in a series with
Castlegar for the Kootenay
crown. At present they have
a win and a tie and a win in
Castlegar on Saturday night_
would send them to Fort St.
John in quest of the
provincial title.
On the Business Girls'
curling front this past week
it was Irene Dunlop over
Jane Feeney, Beryl Davis
over Arlene Dyson, Vi Krest
over Bev Bell while Donna
Price and Phyllis Woodyvard
played to a tie.