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Rogers from Nelson by ascore of 85-18 . }, Stanley Humphries next oppo- fents were the K.L.O. Cougars from the Okanagan. K.L.O. had beaten Salmo, the eventual con- solation round winners, in an ear- ler match-up. Apa the Rockettes dominat- ed, pulling ahead early and cruis- ing to a 46-27 victory. The win set the stage for a The Falcons had knocked off Spring Valley 66-13, and J.L. Crowe 52-37 to get to the finals. Rockers roll down road JIM. ZEEBEN Sun staff “ ‘The Rockers were Tolling as they hit the road in stride last week, The senior boys basketball team at Stanley Humphries Senior Secondary won four out of five games in opposition courts, ‘Iwo of those victories came on a three-game weekend swing that went as far as Richmond while their first win of the year came in Trail a week ago. Last Wednesday, the Rockers beat the JL. Crowe Hawks 66-51 in exhibition play. Leading scor- ers for SHSS were Bobby Baulne with 12 points and Marcel Duss- dault with 11. On Thursday the team trav- elled west on the Crowsnest high- way to play Princeton. The Castlegar crew, led by Dan Kooznetsoff with 22 points; took :* the game 66-49. Dussdault had 17 points in the win. The next night, Stanley Humphries, an AA school headed west again, The players and their coach John Ritchie knew their Friday match-up wasn’t going to be easy. They took on the Steveston Packers, an AAA team ranked second in the province. “They're a division above us Led by the versatile Allana Oestreich, Fernic jumped out.to a 10-4 lead with six mmunules, gone in the game, SHSS struggled back to end the quarter down 18-14. But the carly lead would prove ' to be too much for thé Rockettes as they never managed to break the Falcons consistent four to. eight point buffer, : Castlegar did manage to come close, ticing the score at 24 with four minutes left in the second. Stanley Humphries even held the lead for a brief period before half- time as Rory Perrier scored twice within eight seconds to make it 28-24. But just as quickly Fernie retook their lead and hung on for the rest of the game. At the half, the Falcons were up 36-32. By the end of the third quarter Femic had extended their lead to nine points with the score 49-40, The fourth quarter started slowly for both teams. A few leading the Packers by one point after the first quarter. After some foul trouble by Castlegar, Steveston took over and went on to an 87-48 victory. Kooznetsoff had 15 points and Baulne had 12 points for SHSS in their losing effort. The final game of the trip went Saturday in Hatzic, just outside Mission. The Rockers won 51-48 and headed home. Leading scor- ers were Baulne with 16 and Dussdault with 15. Castlegar also had a'game last night in Grand Forks but results were not available at press time. At was the first league game of the year for the Rockers. “I think anybody could win the league,” Ritchie said, adding that none of the local teams are Provincially ranked. He said it ill take-a few big-qut:of town -~ the'p o aztour before t! early baskets made the score 53- 42, but then neither club could manage to add points for several minutes, As both teams struggled to find the, hoop Castlegar’s conch Jack Closkey called a time-out with 6:27 left and his squad down 55-46, responded, the offence still failed “to make any major ; jor gains. With 3:17 left to play, SHSS sophomore, Rhonda Dawes, drew a foul driving for the basket, Dawes made both free throws and the victory margin narrowed to three baskets at 57-52. With Castlegar threatening, Although the Rockettes defence _ *“who do the ranking can “assess where West Kootenay teams are. “The truth be known I'd rather not be ranked,” he said. “I'd rather teams didn't know any- thing about us.””” The team will again hit the pavement as they take part in a tournament in Oliver this coming weekend. One of the teams SHSS will face is Pleasant Valley from the fe) ranked tenth in AA. and it showed,” Ritchie said. But, in the early going, the Rockers surprised their hosts “We'll use that game as a barometer of where we are at,” Ritchie said. Rec hockey in order The mayhem in the standings of the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League has been put in order this week. Where five teams had occu- pied three spots last week—with two, two-way ties—those five teams now have moved into their very own positions. , One point separates each spot in the standings—from league leading Castlegar Pressure Wash with 18 to cellar dwelling Banjo’s Pub at 14. Pressure Wash took over sole possession of top spot after a Thursday night battle between first place clubs. Woodland Park Shell fell into third place after losing to Pressure Wash 9-8. It was the second loss of the week for Shell as they also fell to Banjo’s 10-7 last Tuesday. - Gord Walker scored four times and added an assist for Pressure ‘Wash while Mike Nevekshonoff and Doug Knowler helped out with four assists each, Al Staub notched two goals'and set up three for Shell in the loss. 3 The team that: bumped Shell into third took to the ice Monday night. Castlegar Sports Centre earned the raise to second by beating Pressure Wash 11-8. y)Niki-Hyson had three‘assists and'added a:hat trick for Sports Centre. Lorne Anderson one’ Banjo’s Pub gained ground with two wins over the week but remain in last place, one point behind Kootenay Computers. Banjo’s beat K.C. 6-4, Satur- day night at the Community Complex. Larry Price scored twice while Clay Martini had one goal and helped out on two others. Ian Stewart and Aaron Post- nikoff had two goals each for Banjo’s in their Tuesday night win over Shell. Woodland Park's Bruno Tas- sone put on an outstanding solo performance, scoring five goals, but it wasn’t enough to get the win, Shell and Computers played last night but results were not available at press time, Feria Falcons: ‘guard Tanya Baker yells for some-help in slowing down SHSS Rockettes, guard Laurel Closkey during the championship game of the 1991 Blue and Gold Tournament, December 6-7 at Stanley Humphries High School. : Belezyk way back after first race =| Castlegar’s Felix Belezyk couldn't overcome the odds as he :| finished almost four seconds slower than the eventual winner at _| the first World Cup ski race of the season in Val d'lsere, France. Starting well back in the 64th position, Belezyk was forced to tace down what observers called a “chewed up strip of snow that was marginal at best to begin with.” The result was a disappointing 60th place finish in a time of one minute 59.37 seconds. American A.J. Kitt, starting in the 13th position, won the event with a time of 1:55.69. Belczyk’s high start is due to his lamentable finish last season. He crashed at the race in Val d'lsere last year. In Friday’s training run, with starting positions chosen random- ly, Belezyk finished 29th overall. >| The next World Cup downhill is on the weekend in Val Garde- =| na, Italy. Kootenay West Men's basketball league In Kootenay West Men’s Basketball League action undefeated Castlegar Realty knocked off winless RHC Realty 64-54. The only other game of the week saw Selkirk College up their record with a 73-67 win over the Winlaw Pistons. Cowan office supplies had the bye this week. sm, The pr ‘upped his teammate as he put: © ‘four shots. behind : Pressure, ‘Wash’s goalic, Barry Grunrod,, hile setting up four others. Dwayne, Weir had a five point ‘night including two goals. 3 Walker led Pressure Wash scorers: with .a hat trick and two 1507 COLUMBIA AVENUE CASTLEGAR. B.C. V1N 1H8 Stuart MacDermid of Castlegar was the win- ner of a limited edition Monroe BMX bicycle. His son James accepts the prize from local Big O Tire owner Larry Chernenkoff. Oestreich showed why ‘she’ 's con- sidered o provincial all-star by sinking a free-throw, then setting up two baskets to make it 61-53. The Rockettes missed three opportunities in front of an open Fernic basket before a wide-open Kelly Davidoff pulled in a long pass and sank the ball on a lay-up. However, Erin Scott nailed two free-throws for the Falcons and the game appeared to be out of reach. Dawes added a pair of baskets to move Castlegar to 59-63 with 47 scconds left in the quarter. Wendy Closkey nailed a free throw with nine seconds to go making it 60-63. But as Stanley Humphries desperately went for the ball they fouled twice allow- ing Oestreich and Denise Dilts to add a pair of free throws ending the game 65-60. Castlegar’s Laurel Closkey was chosen to the tournament’s ° all-star team for the second year in a row. Joining Closkey were Rebels can’t break ji jinx JIM ZEEBEN Sun staff. After winning five straight games, including a 14-7 shoot out victory against Golden, the Castlegar Rebels hit a fence. The Grand Forks Border Bru- ins have single handedly man- aged to give Castlegar a losing record, The Rebels are unbeaten in five games with Grand Forks and Saturday night's trip to the city of sunshine and borsht was no exception. In what works out to a four point game in the standings, the Rebels fell on their faces, losing 8-4 to the Bruins. “We Came up with a real stinker unfortunately,” Rebels coach Kevin Cheveldave said. “For some reason the players heads weren't into it.” Sandy Jolial from Sp Kelly Hill from: K.L.O.;S! Rosie Albert,’ and Denise: Dilss) and Alana Oesterich from. Femio. Homecoming notes” The junior girls team filled if as a last minute replacement along with Nelson’s L.V. Rogeis Bombers. Queen Elizabeth froma Surrey and Fulton from Vernon cancelled their trips to Castlegar: Both the junior Rockeites and the Bombers ended up losing their first two games. That set uf a clash between the two teams to sce who would avoid finis! last. Despite a strong perfor, mance, the age level was top much for Stanley Humphrids young team as they Jos the third straight game. The next. game for the ji junio is tonight.in Trail against tL Crowe. setae ROR AR RR ALAA D ee Se 4 the game including Kevin Lie- man, Dustin Rilcoff, Mike Je an, Ken Hagen, and Jarrod Beck, Sunutti said his most produg- tive game of the year was a direct result of playing the previots weekend with the Vernon He scored his fifth goal of the weekend in Grand Forks. Brad Schock, Dave Dyball, and Bill Brewer had the other goals ip Castlegar’s loss. Cheveldave said he plans a take disciplinary action at practi- es and maybe even tinker Mie the line-up. “There minds are else whefe other than on hockey. We’ Fe going to correct that right now,” he said. “If it continues withta few players they won! “tbe. Castlg- gar Rebels anymore.” Castlegar’s captain, Corey Ross, a aap veteran of tlie is night C: team, suff d'shoul- was at home to the Golden Rock- ets whose line-up included sever- al ex-Rebels. Defences took a holiday for the game allowing some offen- Sive talent to shine. Chris Sunutti padded his lead among club scorers with four goals. Shane Cutler added a hat trick while Kevin Nisse had two markers. Five Rebels had single goals in Big defenceman One of the most well-liked players on the Castlegar Rebels line-up was in uniform at the Castlegar Complex last Friday. The only problem was Keith Watson was wearing a jersey’ from the Golden Rockets, a team Castlegar walked over 13-7. Watson had started the season in Castlegar but was one of the casualties of the Rebels wocfull early season performance. The big defenceman surfaced in Golden about two weeks after der in Friday’: ‘s game. He was forced to watch Saturday's logs from the stands. “ I knew something was goire to happen,” he said. “Maybe I felt it just because I wasn't playing, but everybody wasn’t as together as they have been.” The Rebels will try to get back to .500 next Friday in Nelson before coming home to a rematah against the Bruins on Saturday. visits old team being let go by Castlegar. : Rebels coach Kevin Chevel- dave said it was tough to let Wat- son go—mainly because Cheveldave had coached the 1& year old defenceman for twb years previously in Salmon Arm. One of the reasons moved ‘Watson was because, at 6°4” 245 pounds, he wasn’t playing up to his size. 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