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SCHOOL SPORTS

Erin Hitchens did it. And hey!
It was easy — except maybe for
the television interview,

The SHSS Grade 10 student
kept the school’s streak alive by
winning the third straight
women’s weightlifting gold medal
at the B.C. Winter Games in
Duncan last weekend.

And, as the only girl in the
event, became something of a
celebrity as BCTV picked up on
her story.

Her teammate, Grade 9
student Jeff Lewkowich, was also
in the medals, winning a bronze.

Another SHSS lifter, Carlo
Masini, just missed the medals,
finishing fifth.

It-was the first time the three
had competed at the Games and
for Hitchens, it was a gold medal
on a silver platter — her com-
petition failed to show.

“They said that two other girls
were supposed to. be there with
me, but they didn’t show up,”
said Hitchens, who won the gold
by default.

Hitchens said she would have
preferred it if the other girls had
come.

“Yeah, it would have put
Pressure on me and then I would
have done better.””

As it was, Hitchens said she
“*screwed up one lift that sent my
total back, but I did OK."

Hitchens said the BCTV thing
was a little embarrassing but ad-
mitted she taped it anyway so she
can relive the moment.

Team coach Grant Lenarduzzi
said Masini could have easily

been in the medals, but ‘‘ran into
some trouble” during the event.
“He's lifted better here (at
SHSS). He didn’t lift what he
could have lifted, maybe it’ was

Now we just have to keep the in-
terest. up because it’s the second
year when you usually see im-
Provement.’’

Lenarduzzi doesn’t have to
worry about Hitchens coming
back to the sport.

“I liked it before, but I really
like it now, and I’m going to go
back again and again,’’ she said,

BASKETBALL

Last «eeknd might well
become known as the West
Kootenay wipeout for two
Stanley Humphries basketball
teams.

High expectations went down
the tubes Saturday as the favored
junior girls lost to Trail in the
West Kootenay championship
while the senior boys didn’t even
get that far, losing to Grand
Forks in the semifinal game.

That leaves only the senior
girls, ranked fifth in the province
in AA, with a chance to advance
to the provincial championship
when they host the West
Kootenay finals March 2.

Girls coach Colette Pilloud
said the 32-29 loss to J.L. Crowe
on its home court in Trail was as
disheartening as they come.

“It’s a shame really. After not
losing a game in this area the
whole season — and losing very
little outside this area — then to

lose the one that counts. I was
really disappointed,’’ said
Pilloud, whose rookie season
with the junior girls came to an
end with the loss.

The junior girls had not lostto
Trail in a half-dozen meetings
during the regular season.

Pilloud said her girls didn’t
have the right attitude going into
the game and it showed.

“This year’s Grade 10s just
didn’t have the attitude 1 would
have liked tn basketball players.
They seemed too casual for me.
They just wanted it all to be over
and that’s the way they played
the game, like it meant nothing.’*

Pilloud said Amy Polonicoff
and Wendy Closkey were notable
absences on the court.

“Polonicoff went 0-19 and
Wendy was 2-19, those are stats
that can turn a game right
there,”’ she said.

On a positive note, forward
Jan Holden gave Pilloud hope
for the future as the Grade 9
student played as consistently as
ever against Trail even though
the roof was falling in.

“‘She’s going to be one of our
upcoming ball players,’ said
Pilloud.

The senior boys were out after
their first game in a 69-64 loss to
Grand Forks in the four-team
final played at L.V. Rogers high
school in Nelson. Grand Forks
then got beat 132-71 by Nelson in
the final.

SHSS was led, as usual, by
West Kootenay all-star Wade
Forrester, who scored 21.

Coach John Ritchie’s ex-
Planation was simple: ‘They

scored too many points against
us for us to win.”

It sounds obvious but there’s
logic to what Ritchie says.

“If a team scores more than 60
points on us then we're in
trouble, because we’re not a high
scoring outfit.’”

But Ritchie said if you're going
to point a finger at anybody it
has to be him.

“A four point loss is a
coaching loss. When you lose by
that much the coach should have,
or could have, done something.”’

Considering this was the
revival year for senior basketball
at SHSS — there was no team
last year — Ritchie said it was a
successful season and a learning
experience.

“If it had been @ real dump
this year that would have been
tough to take, but we were one
game over .500 on the season and
next year we'll be a little bit bet-
ter.”

As for the senior girls, coach
Jack Closkey said\he’ll -be
keeping them focused through
the week’ heading into the West
Kootenay playoffs to avoid the
same fate the juniors suffered,

Being focused is especially im-
portant after his girls played
poorly in the second half of a
home-and-home exhibition series
against Cranbrook on Saturday,
Closkey said.

The girls lost 66-42 to Cran-
brook — a provincially ranked
AAA team — in Cranbrook and
“‘we played badly,’’ said Closkey.

“We have to refocus and we'll
be working on it all week,’* he
said.

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No talk of cheap tents
for Castlegar Realty boys

By CasNews Staff

Don’t talk to Castlegar Realty
men’s basketball team about cheap
tents — they don’t want to hear it.

Castlegar Realty finds itself in a
familiar position heading into
tonight’s opening game of the Trail
Men's Basketball League playoffs.

Like last year, Castlegar handily
won the league title with a record of
10-2. And, like last year, Castlegar
has to be considered favorites to win
the whole shebang.

Here’s where the cheap tents come
in. Because last year, the local team

folded up like tne proverbial bargain
basement shelters in the rain as
Trail’s Smelter Pub went on to win.

This year, says Realty’s Brian
Turlock, things are going to be dif-
ferent.

For starters, Castlegar is, unlike
last year, ready for the playoffs this
time around, said Turlock.

“*We had a lot of injuries last year,
so we were really low on bodies
during the playoffs,’’ he said. ‘‘This
year, we've got a full crew,
everybody’s health y, so we should
be OK."” A

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Castlegar opens the \d-robi:
playoffs tonight, against Kingfisher
Bobcat Services at the Cominco Gym
in Trail.

Next Wednesday, Castlegar plays
Victoria Place and the following
Wednesday meets Smelter Pub in the
last of the round-robin games.

The top two teams after the three-
game round-robin will meet in a one-
game final March 20.

League president Ernie Rella, who
plays for Kingfisher, said Castlegar is
the team to beat, but there is com-
petition out there.

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