ARN The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, March 2, 190 - er Mike Hunter JOUN VAN PUTTEN Hockey League hardware has Sun been handed out for the regu- lar season. As can be expect- ed the Castlegar Rebels took three out of six West Division This year’s collection of Kootenay International Junior Castlegar Aquana BINGO Saturday, March 5th Castlegar Arena Complex $1000 3=. 60% PAYOUT * EARLY BIRDS + 60% PAYOUT SPECIALTY GAMES Early Bird 6 p.m., Regular Bingo 7 p.m. and THE reer TRAIL - ALL NEW SHOW - SPECTACULAR GATHERING OF OLYMPIC AND WORLD SKATING CHAMPIONS. *; ‘ALL THE THRILLING OLYMPIC JUMPS, SPINS AND COMBINATIONS TO DAZZLE Sao carn * THURSDAY, MARCH 31 nate awards Gary Hunter awards and the overall top scorer award. Castlegar forward Mike Hunter, with 110 points for _ the year, was the League's top scorer. Castlegar Coach | Garry Sauer earned as Garry Sauer Other West division win- ners were: Most Valuable player, Derek Bird from Grand Forks; Most Sports- manlike Player, Spokane's Darren Talotti; and Best Defe from Nelson, the West Division Coach of the year for leading his tcam + ‘through a record setting sea- included a 24-game streak and a 35-5 For his league leading 2.36 goals against average, based om 22 games through the sea- son, Vaughan Welychko was named Best Goalie in the West Division. In his KUHL debut season, Gary Hunter was awarded the Best Rookie trophy. He played in 39 of the seasons 40 game schedule, scoring 30 goals and 45 assists for 75 points on the year and seventh place in the west scoring race. Dale Matsuda. From the Bast Side of the league, the North Okanagan Kings took all but one of the awards: Tyler Garrow, Most Valuable Player and Best East Division Rookie; Ken Eng, Most Sportsmanlike Player; Best Defenceman (a member of last year's Castlegar Rebels) Bill Brewer; Bob Boyd and Keyin Cheveldave were named Coaches of the Year from the East. The lone other East Award went to Dean Crossland, who played 29 games in net for the Columbia Valley Rockies, with an average of 3.86, and was named Best Goaltender. Three bad minutes JOUN VAN PUTTEN -: This weekend the Stanley Humphries Senior Rockers fell just short of achieving their goal of winning the West Kootenay only several points separating them until the final minutes of the game. Castlegar was up by cight points and Nelson battled back during a Rocker mental lapse, a three point lead. “We played 37 minutes of great basketball; three min- utes cost us the game,” said Rockers coach John Ritchie. “Against a team like Nelson Nelson off the scoreboard. It didn't work as they extended their lead to the ten points at the final buzzer. In other weekend action, the Rockers beat the Grand Forks Wolves 73-48, on Fridey. to to the West K finals against Nelson the follow- ing night. re Coaches Comments: ; Hard work and determination gained results as Jesse scored three times against Nelson. We need Jesse's determination along rae peenty oan ever contributing to end. \ NAG OPOULOS PIZZA PLACE Pudiente You With A Complimentary The loss to Nelson means the end of the season for the majori- ty of Rockers but, for some, there will be one more event in the high school basketball sea- son, the East-West All-Star game is set for early April Ritchie said the team will be selected. at the end of March from area schools. Sidelines It’s all-call time for Minor Soccer In preparation for the upcoming season the urday March 12 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.. Orgahizers are you bring in your old shoes at 9:30 a.m. so they can be sorted. If ‘are unable to attend this registration then the Castlegar Complex staff can accept your forms during their daily busine: hours or drop the forms off at the Castlegar Sports Centre until the registration closing date of March 13. The season starts on April 5 for players between the ages of 7-17. Big weekend In ladies curling The Castlegar Curling Club is hosting the Annual Ladies BarBee Bonspiel this weekend. Play starts Friday night at 5 p.m. and contin- ues all day Saturday and through Sunday with the finals set for Sun- day afternoon. Spectators are always welcome at the Castlegar Curling Rink, located on Columbia Ave., and there is no admission charge. i the court for recreational volleyball ission is offering ional | on Toesday and Wednesday from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at Kinnaird Middle School. If you're not pre-registered then drop by the Community Complex to put your name on the list. Phone 365-5579 with your sport brief Association is holding its formal registration and pot om pe = ‘ = Rebels, Continued from 1B against the Rebels, ig them from their usual offensive threat. The high penalty minute game is uncharacteris- tic of a playoff game with 127 minutes for Nelson and 125 for the Rebels. Forced to rely on outside shots and a power shooting style, the Rebels fired 46 shots at Nelson's goalie, Curtis Atkin- son in the 6-3 losing effort. “Curtis is used to that kind of style, all through his minor hock- ey he’s been playing games where he has had 80 or 90 shots...the more work he gets the better he seems to play,” Jeffs said follow- ing their series tying win. Action switches back to Castlegar for game five on Friday, then back to Nelson for game six, and if needed, game seven in Castle- gar at 2 p.m.. “We are going to have to come out flying on Friday, now it's a best-of-three, they have to be pumped and ready to play and that's the biggest thing.” In other KUHL play-off series, the North Okanagan Kings con- tinued their play-off sweep by knocking the Columbia Valley Rockies out with a 3-2 win Saturday. They took the series with four consecutive wins. They now wait for the Castlegar-Nelson series to be decided. Then the battle for the KIJHL champions for the 1993/94 season Starts e ‘ 4 de the wench ge an 10 the Bi the hill was closed for #1 claims the resort supervise Sallam, Ski out of bounds and pay the Brice ‘Submitted Out of bounds skiing is on the rise at Whitewater and other quite certain that serious acci- dents will happen in the back- ‘Crossing that line from inside tion from mountain runs. Cross that line and a new reality exists. Ski area manpow- er and equipment is budgeted and designed to deal with rescue inside the area. Resources can not be moved for back-country Baybee ring — line means taking a huge amount of risk and being responsible for your own actions. Unfortunate- ly, the trend is for more and more People with little or no rescue without depl them within the area, leaving the ski to and unpatrolled back y i is ap ially dan- 3 Topping Medium Pizza gerous act. Inside a ski area stability is studied and con- trolled, hazardous areas are roped off and closed and first aid resources are strategically placed insuring quick evacua- ODYSSEY area unp The reality of someone needing to be rescued in the back-country is one of hours of effort. A volunteer group would be mobilized from town and it may take a lot of time to even locate someone. If this Person gets lost or injured at the end of the day it may mean spending the night waiting to be evacuated. Anyone who ventures outside the boundary must be prepared, mentally and physically and carry rescue equipment such as a shovel, probes, beacon, match- es, first aid gear, rations, water, head lamp, compass and map. Areas often skied Are within dangerous avalanche paths. Skiers should have or be with someone who has avalanche knowledge and safe terrain and exp to ly ski out of bounds. Ski magazines, movies, tele- vision shows are all glorifying the “radical” out of bounds skier. More and more children are venturing outside ski areas car- tying no equipment and abso- lutely no back-country experience with them. It is only a matter of time before a serious accident occurs. If you decide to go back-_ country skiing, then please do it safely. Bring proper equip- ment, obtain avalanche stabili- ty information, go with someone with experience, avoid hazardous avalanche ter- rain and take an avalanche awareness course. If you can- not meet all these require- ments, then ski within your ski areas boundary. You know its really good skiing as well. ”~ Wednesday, March 2, 1994 The Castlegar Sun Saints’ prayers partially answered JOUN VAN PUTTEN Sun Spore tough road ahead of them, fond ry his players rose to the at hand. A season filled with improve- and “Five of our six players were ment, has come to an end. This year's Selkirk Saints Men's yolleyball team has patina from the British the championships. Even with one was ig as well as he normally does and else was on fire.” In their first match of the championship tourney Selkirk was up against BCIT. With an explosive start the Saints took the match in three games: 15-5; 15-7; and 15-10. With the win they advanced to play Malaspina Col- lege and were downed by the BCCAA powerhouse in three games: 15-7; 15-8; and 15-10. Selkirk Saint Lee Malinek prepares to serve for the Men's volleyball team ‘SUN SPORTS FILE PHOTO / John Van Putten Malaspina went on to take the overall top spot in the weekend championships. The last match of the tourney for the Saints Season, nine wins and nine losses, was one of steady constant their first had them with a 4-7 record while the second term squad, to see who would cam the bronze medal, was against Trinity Western Univer- sity, which they lost 15-9; 15-8; and 15-8. With their record of one win and two losses, the Saints earned fourth place in On what's really important they turned around with a 5-2 wins-losses count. “There is one thing that ‘a play- er said to me.. he said, in the end he = has regrets,” Perra. On a per- sonal note the Saints coach said “I cam honestly say I have no the tourney and the right to say they belong among the best college teams in the province. Looking back over the week- end action, coach Mike Perra said most of the teams performed as he expected. The only team at the event which pulled off any sur- prises.on their competitors was his Selkirk team. “The only team who did any upsetting was Selkirk College,” said Perra. Taking a look at the entire season, Perra said “who's team did all the improving this year.” From September his ple have not i beginning of this year’s college season. They started off very Strong and stayed that way all season. For the Saints, their regular Mixed results for Rep teams JOUN VAN PUTTEN Advancement is on the agen- da for the Castlegar Bantam Rep team, while the Pee Wee Rep squad can only dream of taking part in the upcoming provincial play-offs. rivals by winning two games of the best-of-three weekend series. Castlegar won the opener 7-4, Nel- son took game two, and on home ice, for the third game, Castlegar's Bantam Rep’s took the game 3-2. Nelson opened the scoring when Gerred Strebchuck put one by Castlegar goalie Matt Huggett and held onto that lead until Castlegar’s Jay Antignani put his team on the scoreboard in the second period. Grady Moore added another for Castlegar and Nelson’s Kyle Stre- | bchuck’s goal returned the game into a tie. With 20 minutes to play and the teams tied jj at two goals cach, Castlegar’s Darren Belanger, put what turned out to be the win- With the win, the Bantams advance to play against Trail’s Bantam Reps, who beat Beaver Valley to advance, starting Thurs- day night in Castlegar. For the Castlegar Pee Wee unit, their Silver City opponents proved to be too strong a team for them to beat. In their best-of-three week- end series, Trail only needed two games to move past the Sunflower pf squad. On Saturday, in Trail, the Castlegar team was on the los- ing end of a 6-2 decision. For Castlegar it was a do-or-die situation on their home ice Sunday afternoon—win and they force the series to a third game, lose and they watch the Trail-team drive 1owands: the’ provincials, which are being held in Terrace later this month. The Silver City players were in their winning form as they took the game 13-4. The strong Trail team cruised through the match putting the Castlegar goalies through the workout of their lives. Castlegar goalies Aaron Beble- man and Jeff Craig split the duties and faced a combined total of 57 shots. In net for Trail, Bryan Mari- no was tested with 11 shots throughout the game at the Castle- ning shot past Nelson's A Trail player sends another shot over the shoulder of Castlegar netminder Aaron Bebleman. goalie Wylie Dumesnil SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten Valley birdie bashing Submitted Sentinel School gymnasium gins at 9 am. and Love to play badminton but tired of high power competition leaving you swinging at air? ‘Then maybe you should plan to attend the 3rd Annual Slocan Valley Round Robin Badminton Fun-Tournament where every- ers entering divided into two teams with skills levels being balanced so everyone starts on an equal footing. As a round- robin it’s total team points that determine the winner. There will be recognition of the winning team at the end of the day as well as everyone being eligible the day should be over by 3:30 p.m. The entry fee is $4. Partici- pants should bring their gym clothes and wear white-soled shoes (no street shoes please). There will be a concession on hand so you don’t even have to worry about lunch. The event is sponsored by The Slocan- Valley Recreation Com- mission but the Mt. Sentinel Badminton crew do a lot of work towards making it a success. So out for a fun day of whacking the birdies around. If you're planning to attend it's advisable to call the SVRC at 226-7744 to pre-register. ATTENTION MODEL RAILROADERS We Now Stock All Scales SUNRIDER CYCLE & HOBBY 127 - 10th Avenue North, Creston 428-9612 regrets... I would do it all again. This years group gold medal, this team stunned those who have been following their season's progress. Pesra said the most important thing is not the hardware around the players neck— it’s what you leam on the road getting there that counts. “The thing you take home is the friendships and the memo- Ties...the gold medals only hang on the walls.” “The real pat on the back is knowing we can look each player in the eye and say we did the best we could,” Perra said. ee ee es ina in first; Ok 4 essa seoasd sisee BEcBsssBsrse Sacser BREUNKS ese eeaeenzseay VICTORIA STREET SOCIAL CLUB 845 Victoria St., Trail ¢ 364-2611 LOW BALL POKER TOURNAMENT Wednesday, March 2 « 5 Card Draw « 8:00 pm POKER TOURNAMENT Saturaday, March 5 ¢ 7 Card Hi-Low Split « 8:00 pm ffee & Donuts 6:45 -7:45 * ENTRY FEE: $10 For more info call 365-2611 of 368-565 Gather in March 10-13 for the 1994 Colleges in second; Trinity West- ern University in third place; Selkirk College in fourth; while Vancouver Community College and BCIT rounded out the top si schools in the varsity tournament. B.C. 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