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BCCAA WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
STANDINGS TO JAN. 27/92
M P

*vcc
*TWU
*Douglas
*Malaspina

20
(*-clinched playoff spot)

Feb. 21 — Douglas vs Selkirk (3-0) 15-
13, 15-2, 15-1.

Feb. 22 — BCIT vs. Selkirk (3-2) 11-15,
15-6, 5-15, 15-12, 15-7; Selkirk at CBC,
(3-1) 15-11, 17-16, 5-15, 15-12.

BCCAA MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

STANDINGS 1991-92 TO JAN. 27/92
M P

28

26

26

22

1 20

Malaspina 16

Okanagan 14
CNC 8
BCIT 6

\(*-clinched playoff spot)

Feb. 21 — Selkirk at Douglas (3-2) 11-
15, 16-14, 14-16, 17-15, 15-12.

Feb. 22 — Selkirk at CNC (3-0) scores
not available; Selkirk at BCIT (3-2) 15-4,
9-15, 14-16, 15-7, t5-7; CBC vs. Selkirk
(3-2) 9-15, 15-1, 9-15, 15-3, 15-13.

Ed Mills f
SPORTS EDITOR

The Selkirk College Saints
three-year domination of
men’s volleyball in B.C. ended
last weekend.

It came down to the final
point in the Saints final regu-
lar season game, but in the
end, the Saints’ bottom line
was that they were eliminat-
ed from the B. C. Colleges
Athletic Association playoffs.

The loss marked the end of
a Saints reign that saw them

win three consecutive provin-
Sal championships and make
three trips to nationals.

“Everyone was really dis-
appointed,” said Saints’ pow-
erhitter Theo Friml. “We all
kind of feel like we’re not fin-
ished. We feel like we should
be there. It is, it’s really disap-
pointing.”

Doubly disappointing con-
sidering the Saints proved
they were the best team in
B.C. in the second semester by
compiling an 8-2 record.

The Saints dispelled any
doubts as to their ability by
beating no. 1 Douglas College
in five games (11-15, 16-14, 14-
16, 17-15 and 15-12) on the
first day of their four-game
tour of lower mainland teams.

Douglas had been ranked as
high as sixth in the country
this season.

-_ “I don’t want to sound arro-

gant, but I think we do have
the best team in B.C. If we
went to provincials we proba-
bly would have won it,” Friml
said. “It’s pretty heartbreaking
actually.”

The Saints kept their hopes
alive Saturday with a five-
game win over BCIT (15-4, 9-
15, 14-16, 15-7 and 15-7) and
three straight over CNC
(scores weren't available).

But it all came to an end
Saturday night when
Columbia Bible College, cur-
rently ranked 10th in the na-

Theo Friml

tion, won the match 3-2 by ek-
ing out a 15-13 final-game win.
“We were tired, we were re-
ally, really tired,” Friml said.
And it showed in the lopsid-
ed and erratic scores against
CBC. The Saints won the first
and third games 15-9, but lost

- the second and fourth games

15-1.

With a record of 10-8, the
Saints missed making the top
four in the 10-team league,
and the playoffs, by two
points.

“Everyone just got really
run down. I mean two best-of
-five matches is a lot of games
to play before we went into
that one (against CBC). And
that was a tough match,”
Friml s.
we were fresh we could have
beaten those guys.”

Despite the disappointing
finish to the season, Friml said
the players should be happy
about what they did accom-
plish.”

“We started off in last place
in the first semester pretty
much, and worked really hard
to get where. we are, so we
should take that into perspec-
tive and be happy about that.”

“The guys learned a lot this
year, we just came up a little
short, that’s all,” Friml said.

Meanwhile, Selkirk’s wom-
en’s volleyball team, on tour
with the men, completed its

. season with a win and two

losses against lower mainland
competition.

The Saints opened Friday
by losing lost three straight to
Douglas College (15-13, 15-2
and 15-1).

But they rebounded Satur-
day be beating CBC 3-1 (15-11,
17-16, 5-15 and 15-12) before
losing 3-2 to BCIT (15-11, 6-15,
15-5, 12-15 and 7-15).

The women’s team, which
has never won a provincial
championship, ended the sea-
son with a 5-15 record and in
ninth place in the 11-team
women’s division. _

What went wrong, this time

Over

aid. :
“It’s too bad too, because if

Ed Mills
SPORTS EDITOR

The Castlegar Rebels offered a per-
fect a example of what went wrong
lwith the club this season just as team
president Russ Rilcof was trying to ex-
plain it.

It was in the first period of what
lwas to be the Rebels final Kootenay In-
ternational Hockey League game of the
season at the Community Complex
Saturday night.

Rilcof, trying to explain why a sea-
son that started with so much promise
ended with with such little hope in
terms of on-ice st , was
tarily distracted by the game.

Rilcof watched as the Rebels had a
great opportunity to score but just
d, then were scored on at the oth-
er end a minute later.

“That's one of the problems right
there,” he said . “Lack of scoring hurt
tus all year.”

With a 162 goals in 38 regular sea-

against was by far the worst in

West Division.
With 24 points, the Rebels were the
worst team in the eight-team
, and only avoided missing the
playoffs for the fourth straight year be-
sans team made the post season

Mamata died ayoong, inexperi-
and fatally undisciplined team,
3 anybody who saw them in the play-

offs against the Nelson Maple Leafs
would have had no trouble discerning.
And the coaching position, where|
the job requirement was to mold these
young men into a winning team, was
a source of for management.
Rilcof said it started before the sea-
son began when the Rebels paid a lot
of money advertising for a coach across
the country. When they finally got the}
person they wanted, he reneged at the
jeete pute.
’s been coaching by default ever'
ae “he said.
And three coaches at the helm in the
span of a month had a disastrous af-
fect on the team.
“It’s inevitable, unless the team wins|
through the transition, it always hurts.
Unfortunately, we’ve had to put young)
players in leadership roles and they
haven’t_been able to rise to the occa-
sion.”
Still, trial by fire as it has been for
the Rebels players in a year in which)
Murphy’s Law reigned supreme, will
be a positive factor next season, he!
said.
“We're going to be a lot better with!

some of the players if they come back|

because of what’s happened here this
year,” Rilcof said.

Then there’s been the disappointing :

affiliation agreement with the Vernon!
Lakers of the BCJHL, which failed to}
live up to any of the pre-season expec-
tation.

“It was a complete waste of time.”

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certainly cost the Rebels game 1 and
were a factor in each game as the
Maple Leafs potent powerplay made
the Rebels pay.

“They deserve all the credit anyone
can give them, because they worked
hard all season,” said Rebels’ defence-
man Dave Dybal, who was the Rebels
best player, along with Corey Ross, in
the series. “It just didn’t work out for

Rebels’ goaltender Vaughn Wely-
chko, making his first start in the se-
ries Saturday since being pulled in a
first-game 9-2 loss, made a half-dozen
key saves to keep the Rebels within
striking di 2. :

Unfortunately for the Rebels, Jones,
who played in games 1, 2, and 4, was
even more unbeatable in the Leafs’
net.

Jones probably won game 4 himself
in the second period when the Rebels
outshot Nelson 20-8, scoring all three
of their goals but getting robbed on five
or six other opportunities.

“Jones was the difference tonight,”
said Maple Leafs’s co-coach Rob
Wright. “He was fantastic the whole
series.”

Wright, who shares his duties avith
former Rebel coach Ed Cooper, said
the Rebels gave Nelson more than they
expected Saturday.

“They didn’t give up. A lot of teams
could have folded up tonight, but they
didn’t.”

KOOTENAY INTERNATIONAL
JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
Final

EAST DIVISION

W LT GF GAP
Spokane 26 111 275 220 53
Col. Valley 14 222 199 200 30
Golden 14 231 223 296 29
Elk Valley 10 271 186 286 21
WEST DIVISION ~
30 6 2 250 107 62
21 143 200 191 45
Grand Forks 20 162 208 188 42
Castlegar 12 26-— 162 217 24

Nelson native John Casey, who
played in net for games 2 and most and
most of game 1, also sparkled at times
but wasn’t ee without an offense
to back him

Derek Kazakoff, Chris Sannutti and
and Mike Hunter scored for the
Rebels, while Aaron Hackman had two
assists and Ross had one.

About 350 people, the Rebels largest
crowd of the season, watched the

Nelson
Beaver Valley

game.

“I don’t think the fans were disap-
pointed by the way we paved If they
were they weren’t watching the same
game I was,” Walker said.

The Maple Leafs advanced to the
West Division final against the winner
of the series between the Grand Forks
Border Bruins and the. Beaver Valley
Nite Hawks.

The Border Bruins lead the series

The Rebels hold their banquet and
awards night Saturday.

‘ +I
m@ Wednesday, February 26, 1992

SchoolSPORTS

@ Junior girls pull off
upset of the year, while
junior boys go colder
than stone in West
Kootenay Championships

JR. GIRLS BASKETBALL

The SHSS junior girls bas-
ketball team pulled off the up-
set of the year in West Koote-
nay high school basketball
last weekend.

And as a reward the team
will play in the A provincial
championships in Abbotsford
March 5-7.

The victim of the upset was
the J.L Crowe junior girls, a
team that has owned the Rock-
ettes in three meetings this
season.

But ownership changed
hands in the most important

* game of the season, the West

Kootenay championship final,
in Trail Saturday.

Treena Goolieff scored 15
points and Shannon Gienger
had 10 as the Rockettes beat
Crowe 49-46 in their own barn.

Coach Colette Pilloud said
the team even surprised her
with the win.

“It’s the first time that the
entire team played together.

. Td had some strong play from
people here and there, but nev-
er all at the same time.

“I think they really wanted
to play to win, which I’ve been
waiting for all season.”

Crowe beat the Rockettes

by wide margins early in the ~

season, but Pilloud said she
could tell the gap between the
two clubs was closing after the
last game they played.

“Yeah, it got a lot closer, it
(the loss): was just by 10 points,
and that was without Lisa
Datchkoff and Treena Goolieff.
So I figured for sure it was go-
ing to be a much tighter game
this time.”

Pilloud said the players,
starters and non-starters, re-
sponded in the final.

“There was so much sup-
port for each other, even from
the bench they were scream-
ing, yelling and cheering.”

The girls beat Grand Forks
58-19 to advance to the final.

Datchkoff led the way in
that game with 20 points,
while Gienger had nine.

As for the provincials, the
Rockettes won’t be ranked in
the 12-team tournament until
Sunday.

Pilloud said she doesn’t

Gymnastics judge
gets Sports B.C.
nod for award

@ Veteran, world-class
gymnastics official
Hardy Fink picks up top
honor in B.C. Amateur
sport for years of
dedicated service

Sport B.C. revealed today
the winner of the official's cat-
egory from the 26th Annual
Sport B.C. Athlete of the Year
Awards.

Richmond's. Hardy Fink
was selected the top sports of-
ficial of 1991.

Fink judges artistic gym-
nastics at both national and
international levels.

He wrote the national
judges exam and earned the
highest mark in Canada to
maintain active national & in-
ternational ratings.

Fink has been selected to
judge at every World Champi-
onship, Olympic Games, Pan-
American Games and Com-
monwealth Games since 1974.

Fink is preparing the entire
gymnastics rule book for
world-wide distribution.

The Sport B.C. Official of
the Year Award is open to any
official who has resided in
British Columbia for the past
year and has been responsible
for officiating amateur sport
events at any level of athletics.

Candidates are nominated
by B.C.'s provincial sport gov-
erning bodies and the winner
is selected by a panel of B.C.
sports media.

Other nominees’ were:
Hank Aarsen of Victoria (B.C.
Amateur Hockey Association);
Liz Bain of Coquitlam (Syn-
chro Swim B.C.); Tom Bell of
Richmond (Softball B.C.); Bill
Crowley of Clearbrook (Bas-
ketball B.C.); Inge Hedman of
Nanaimo (B.C. Athletics —
Track/Field); Janice McClin-
tock of Burnaby (B.C. Wom-
en's Field Hockey Associa-
tion); Jim Mitchell of Abbots-
ford (B.C. Wrestling Associa-
tion); Steve Piskorik of Surrey
(Celebral Palsy Sports Associ-
ation of B.C. — Boccia); Robert
Sawtell of Surrey (B.C. Soccer
Association); Alan Waterman
of Richmond (B.C. Men's Field
Hockey Association).

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Treena Goolietf

Shannon Gienger

know much about competition
the Rockettes will face in Ab-
botsford.

“I. don’t know where we'll
place, but I’m sort of guessing
around the middle of the pack
is where we'll end up.”

SR. BOYS BASKETBALL

Unlike the junior girls, who
picked the perfect time to get
hot, the SHSS senior boys
picked the wrong time to go
cold.

Frigid might be better word
for the Rockers’ shooting in a
76-54 loss to Grand Forks Sat-
urday in the West Kootenay

Championship.

The Rockers shot 19 for 75
from the field in what has to be
their worst shooting perfor-
mance of the year.

“I have no idea how we
scored 54 points,” said coach
John Ritchie. “If it wasn’t for
(Ryan) Vatkin we would have
got beat by 40.”

Vatkin had 21 points to lead
SHSS, then it dropped off to
eight points for Jeff Moffat.

“T figured if we held them
under 80 it would give us a
chance to win. We did that, but
we couldn’t throw the ball in

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Usual double-figure scorers
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“That happens sometimes,
you just get cold. They picked
an inopportune time to get cold
but that comes with a little bit

+ of experience,” Ritchie said.

Ritchie said this team has
great future.

“No, I’m not disappointed. It
was going to be tough for us to
beat Grand Forks, and the
way we shot we couldn’t have
beat a bunch of chickens.

“(But) considering this is
the second year (of a senior
boys basketball program that
was non-existent before
Ritchie came to teach here)
and it was probably going to be
a three-, four- or five-year pro-

ee we're a bit ahead of sched-
le.

“Because next year we’re
(all the players) all back and
we're going to be tough.”

The boys beat Trail 66-54 in
the semifinal at SHSS Friday.

Bob Baulne led the way for
the Rockers with 19 points,
while Dusseault and Vatkin
had 14 each.

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