8-Trail Times-Friday, Mav 16, 1980

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Except for the NHL finals, bear. ·
The young fellows are sure
hockey is pretty well wound
up for the '79-'80 season and it learning fast from their big
ended I on a sour note in brothers of the NHL, where
Regina the other night for the every season's end we see
participants in the Memorial more and more teams taking
Cup finals.
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part in the season-ending
I guess if you want to in- hoopla.
While on the subject . of
terpret it this way, the Junior
"A" Tier I Js ' the most tern- hockey, I think quite a
. pestuous circuit in the number of people got quite a
business today. We have seen kic'k out of McQuiggan's
what · happened to McLean's farcical' report on Trail
Bruins in New Westminster aspiring to an NHL team
after they had almost started status. I know I thoroughly
a dynasty as far as Western enjoyed it. There's more than
Canada was concerned, but it enough crisis in the world
all came crashing down after press today, so that
one game in which the team something like this was a
pulled out all the stops and pretty satisfying interlude,
resorted to something other ranked right up there with
than hockey .in a game with Jim Taylor's story about the
Portland Winter Hawks. The sale of beer at Nat Bailey
participants in the rough stuff Stadium, in the weekend
got what they had coming to Vancouver paper.
them from the powers that be
In baseball the Blue Jays
and the demise of the Bruins
was bound to take only a continue on their merry way,
matter of time. It came home currently right up there with
to them this past season.
the Yankees at the top of the
The perfonnance by the AL East, astounding
fans in Regina towards the everyone, possibly even
end of the playoff series was themselves. While the
something which was almost Toronto players are having
bound to happen in time. With the time of their lives, their
their team on the ropes after . Montreal brothers are not
a dismal 0-3 start, the fans having that good a start.
were looking for something to Maybe they will pull them· vent their unhappy feelings on selves together and the two
and the Ontario champs were Canadian teams will go on' to
the ideal whipping boys.
big things in 1980. Could it
It was certainly in the cards possibly be that 1980 is not
that there was some tianky- going to be too good a year for
panky going on, but then · Montreal teams? We've seen
these days, anyone, par- what happened to one notable
ticularly a . losing team's example. ,
fans, suspect the worst has
happened to their favorites.
Locally, the Rossland entry
Had the Peterborough team into · the Trail Commercial
finally emerged the· winners, Fastball League was on the
things would have seemed verge of their first away win
more ~onsistent, but when of the young season as they
Cornwall tagged them twice had Funky John's on the
to take it all, that should have ropes last Thursday night.
. proved something, mainly But the rains came and the
that the · Regina fans were game. was called before a
barking up the wrong tree.
decision was reached. I think
At least it started a move to someone said the score was
change the fonnat of · the 20-2 in the Uplander's favor as
playoffs for the junior they were at bat in the fifth
championship of Canada, inning. I .heard the opposition
·something which is · long only had to come to bat and it
overdue. The series as it would have been a win for the
stands right now is .strictly Rossland nµie.
done for the purpose of exI don't want to criticize the
tracting . all the money from plate umpire, he was a
the fans that the traffic will member of the Trail team and

was doing a good job; but he
was under some pressure
when he had to make a
decision that could have sent
his team down to · a loss.
Would it be possible to stay
away from team members as
umpires? It would certainly
be a better arrangement all
round.
There's a lot of ·enthusiasm
among the m~mbers of the
Rossland team and some
pretty fair ball players. I
think they will let everyone in
the league know they're
around as the season rolls
along.
In soccer, the big cup
games over in the Old
Country are over and for only
the third time in a lot of
years; a second division team
has triumphed over a first
division team in the English
version of the FA Cup. Arsenal of Div. I were beaten by
West Ham of the second
division 1-0. It was an allLondon final and Arsenal's
third straight Cup final appearance; last year they won,
but the year before Ipswich
beat them by the same 1-0
score.
Up in Scotland it was
Glasgo\Y'S two premier teams
Rangers and Celtic, meeting
for the umpteenth time. This
one resulted in a Celtic victory and I know someone in
Rossland who will feel that is'
a cause for celebration, Joh,n
Hughes Sr. being a staunfh
Celtic admirer.

scored in the first minute for h
the Fruitvale Flyers and they f1
never looked back; they led 4- c
0 at the half and for a while. t:
the Celtic more than held I
their own and when Jamie f
Postni.koff finished off a nice t
play by the right winger, it o
looked as though they were on t
their . way. But three_ quick '
goals by the Flyers late in the 1
game put it on ice. Also . J
scoring for Fruitvale were
David Pavan, David
Michalik, Fred Fowles and
Stephen Milne . with a hattrick.
The referee for both games
was Mike Bapty and he did a
good job. People like Mike
should know that their help is
much appreciated by all of us.
During the games, Lowry
May returned from Tadanac
aild reported that the
Rossland Eagles had downed
.Rivervale 2-1 in a game in the
Pee-Wee I division there.
Lowry's young son plays for
the Eagles and it was he who
got the· winning goal on a
penalty shot. Lowry tells me
he has been quite impressed
with the work of the referees
in the two games he has seen
in Trail; he feels that this
contributes quite a lot to the
betterment of the games,
especially with the kids who
are just breaking in.

In women's softball over
the weekend the Trail Terra
Nova team came in second in
the Fiesta Tourney, losing in
the final ·. to a team from
Surrey. On the T-N team were
In local soccer at Rossi.and Rossland girls Lori Gibson,
on Saturday, one Rossland Jan Faurot . ·a nd Flo
team won and the other lost in · MacArthur.
twin games against F_ruitvale
Jan and Flo both pitched in
teams. In game one, Blaise the final, according to my
Szekely's Royals fell behind l- informant, Don Gibson.
Talked to Shirley Williams
oin their game with the Spurs
on Mike Marshall's goal but the other day in the Ore Car.
bounced back as Terry Shirley says some of the girls
Ferguson completed a hat- who were on Rossland's
trick and Dallas Drake netted championship team a few
twice for a 5-1 win. Marshall years back, will be making a
had a chance to score from comeback in the Fruitvale
the penalty spot in the second tourney which is being
revived this year. Maybe the
half, but missed to the left.
, In the ~econd game the girls will have mislaid some
Celtic coached by Joe Hughes . of their skills of the past but
were the victims of a jittery .I'll bet they'll give it a good
start and never really ,try. More power to you,
recovered. Mark Pavan ladies!