Reps do it! SPORTS EDITOR Aseason teams only dream about became a reality for the Castlegar Bantams Reps last weekend. Unbeaten and basically un- rivaled in the West Kootenay Minor Hockey Association, the Reps completed a perfect season with a pair of wins on the road last weekend. Castlegar beat Nelson 4-0 Saturday and squeaked out a a 5-4 victory over Rossland- Trail Friday to put their final regular-season record at 19-0- x “It’s quite an accomplish- ment for the boys, they have something to be proud of that’s for sure,” said Reps’ coach Vince Antignani Sr. The Reps now have to wait for the outcome of a series be- tween Beaver Valley and Nel- son to see who they will face in a series that will determine the West Kootenays represen- tative in the provincial cham- pionship. John Ray picked up the shutout against Nelson, while Vince Antignani Jr., Bryan Yackel, Craig Swanson and Brent Neumann did the goal scoring. i Rossland-Trail threw a scare into the Bantams Fri- day but, as they’ve done all season, they found a way to win. Swanson scored the win- ner, his second of the game, by banking it in off the goalie from behind the net with 3:21 left in the third period. “The boys find ways, they dig a little deeper and they make it happen,” Antignani Sr. said. Teddy Hunter, Yackel and Antignani Jr. also scored, while Darren Pottle set up two goals and Mark Carlson and Rick Fauth had one assist each. . Ryan Stoochnoff was in net for the win. Characteristically, Antig- nani didn’t want to dwell on son so far, but I don’t want to get too excited because bigger things are coming.” Beaver Valley will play Nel- son this weekend in a best ~ two-out-of-three series. The fi- WINNING SMILES Larissa Leason (left)displays her gold medal and Vanessa Katrukoff her bronze won in the Ogopego Freeskate competition in Penticton two weeks ago. Other Castlegar Figure Skating Club members to compete in the event were: Karen Skibinski, Chelsea and Meghan Van Vliet, and Michelle Kooznetsoff. News photo by Ed Mills @ Wed day, February 19, 1992 SchoolSPORT Less means more for Shell in Recreational Hockey League @ In a CRHL first, Shell plays an entire game with just five skaters and a goalie. And wins thanks to ironman Keraiff’s 10-points. News Staff Apparently less means more for Wood- land Park Shell in the Castlegar Recre- ational Hockey League. Specifically, the less players they have the better they seem to do. In a CRHL first this season, Shell iced just five players and goalie Rick Rogerson in a marathon/hockey game against~ Castlegar Pressure Wash Saturday night at the Community Complex. And despite having to play every shift in every period, Shell pounded Pressure Wash 11-3. For its part, Pressure Wash had just . one extra player but was out of the game - early, behind 6-0 after one period. Two days later, with nine players and a goalie, Shell was beaten 6-5 by Kootenay Computers. In the other game over the week, Ban- jo’s Pub beat Sports Center 11-7 Thurs- ry: Shell’s Kelly Keraiff proved he’s the league’s ironman scoring a goal and as- " sisting on nine more in the win over Pres- sure Wash. Chris Brodman scored four goals and set up two, while Dave Rugg scored twice and had five assists and Bruno Tassone had the double-triple with a hat trick and three assists. Dan Friedel was Shell’s defensive spe- cialist but still managed a goal and two assists. - Steve Simonen scored twice and set up Darrell Bojechko for Pressure Wash. Computers overcame a 4-2 deficit with four goals in the third period to beat Shell. Dave Terhune and Bill Nazaroff had a - pair of goals each, while Gary Sauer as- sisted on four and Gerry Genshorek set up three. Dave MacKinnon and Darwin Ander- son also scored for Computers, which moved into first place with the win. Benton Hadley scored the hat trick for Shell while Rugg had a goal and two as- sists and Tassone had a goal and an as- sist. Keraiff was shutout. ” CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE STATS TO FEB. 17 TP Kootenay Comps 5°33 Sports Centre 2.32 Pressure Wash 1.31 Shell 3 31 Banjo'’s Pub 1 29 Aaron Postnikoff with a goal and four assists and Larry Price with two goals and three assists led Banjo’s in the win over Sports Centre. : Wayne Salekin scored a hat trick and assisted on another for Banjo’s before be- ing tossed out of the game with five min- utes left. Salekin was_nailed for an unsports- manlike conduct penalty which led into a 10-minute misconduct and a game mis- conduct. Adrian Markin had four assists for Banjo’s, while Clay Martini and Rob Aris- man had two goals each. Frank Costa al- so scored. > Niki Hyson replied with three goals and two assists for Sports Centre, while Tony Rego with two, Grant Pilla and Chris Owens also scored in the loss. JR. BOYS BASKETBALL With the West Kootenay playoffs less than two weeks away, the SHSS junior boys couldn’t have picked a better time to put all the pieces of their puzzle together. Underachieving much of the season, the junior Rockers put together their best back- to-back games of the year last weekend against L.V. Rogers of Nelson. “T think we just starting re- alizing that we’re a pretty good team, when we want to be,” said coach Doug Hickey. The Rockers beat what Hickey calls “the best junior . boys team in the Kootenays” 57-52 Friday in Nelson, then turned around and lost 59-57 at SHSS Saturday with one of their top scorers out the line- up. “I’m feeling very confident as we prepare for the West Kootenay championships next weekend in Grand Forks,” Hickey said. Simon Laurie led SHSS with 17. points Friday night, while Todd Bondaroff had 16 and David Pereversoff had 13 with Laurie out of the lineup x Doug Hickey B.C. SECONDARY SCHOOLS GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION “AA" DIVISION Top 10:to Feb. 12 1. Lambrick Park (1) 2. Duchess Park (4) 3.. Stanley Humphries (2) . 4.Westsyde (3) 5. Little Flower Ac. (6) 6.Pitt Meadows (8) 7. Garibaldi (5) 8. Kelly Road (HM) 9. Windsor (9) 10.D.W. Poppy (7) Honorable mention: Fernie, John Barsby, K.L.O., Parkland, O'Grady. Colette Pilloud Saturday. “It’s frustrating sometimes with a young team, because it takes the (Grade) 9s a while to come along,” Hickey said. “But what's happening now is the 9s have kicked in, the fundamentals are there and they are playing a little bit harder, which is making us more successful all around.” Hickey was especially im- pressed with his bench Satur- day, as reserve players came in to key a second half comeback Money player on road to bowling provincials again MiWood rises to the occasion in local bowling playoff, off to Kelowna for provincials News Staff Marv Wood is a money player. When there’s something on the line — money, prestige, hardware — Wood usually ris- es to the occasion. “I just seem to do better in competition,” said Wood, who will play in the B.C. Champi- onship Fivepin Bowling Series Saturday in Kelowna. For the second straight year, Wood won the local play- off and will represent Castle- gar at the event. And he won it in style too, rolling three, 300-plus games in the 10-game playoff held at the Castle Bow] Jan. 15. “I had a worse year this year as far as rolling 300 games, I’d only rolled two up until we rolled this 10 game,” he said. Wood; 57, said he loves the game regardless of the stakes, but just seems to pull his game up a notch in the big tourna- ments, “T like to be with the better bowlers, it definitely brings you up,” said Wood, who qual- ified for the championship with a 258 average, which is up eight points from last year. Wood said he’s hoping to bring it up a couple more notches this weekend when his competition will be the best 98 fivepin bowlers in the province. At the very least he’s look- ing to improve on his 31st- place finish of last year. “You bet, I was really pleased with that finish, but Td love to move up,” he said. The top 18 averages over 10 games in Kelowna qualify for the provincial finals. The top two players from the provincials qualify for the $50,000 national playoff, which is televised over five weeks on CBC’s Sportsweek- end program. The grand prize is $27,000. . Among Wood’s competition are last year’s champions Wayne Davies of Maple Ridge and Paul Traynor of Fernie, who sport averages in the 260- 270 range. ; “You got to hope they have a bad day and you have a good one,” Wood said. Among the high-average players Wood beat out at the local playoff were Roland Han- dley, Stu Schmidt and Len Donald. after the starters ran into foul trouble. “Tm confident with anybody I put on the floor basically.” JR. GIRLS BASKETBALL It’s put up time for the Ju- nior Rockettes as they begin playoffs today with a game against Salmo at SHSS. A win over Salmo (which is expected) and the Rockettes travel to Grand Forks for the West Kootenay championships this weekend. Despite a 1-2 record at a six- team tournamenrit in Kelowna last weekend, coach Colette Pilloud said her team is play- ing its best ball of the season. “Very positive, I saw some great things from them on the weekend,” Pilloud said. Trail’s J. Lloyd Crowe, a team SHSS will have to beat if it hopes to win the West Koote- nays, beat the Rockettes 53-43 in Kelowna. But the girls proved against Trail that they are not the Lisa Datchkoff Rockettes by keep- CASTLE GLASS & WINDSHIELD LTD. OUR PRICES ARE ing the game close even though their leading scorer and team leader sprained her ankle in the first quarter. Rockettes’ tourney mvp Jan Holden picked up the slack with 17 points in the loss to Trail, while Treena Goolieff had seven before she fouled out. The Rockettes opened the tourney with a 62-29 win over Kelowna then lost 49-42 to . Vernon. 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