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OSH SOOKERO

Brett Hull hasn't got
anything on Castlegar’s Josh
Sook

The
forward added 12 anelita to
lead ‘the league overall

Sookero would’ .

. Sookero's

teammate Mike Myhra was

second overall in scoring with
48 points including 25 goals.

QUOTE NOTE

“Our hands were in the

basketball team commenting
on his team’s lack of shooting
prowess during the first half
of the championship game in
the Trail Men's Basketball
League (See story on page
Bi). Castlegar came back to
win the game in the second
half after shooting an all-time
record low 18 points in- the
The four-team
its awards
panaeet cone at the Colan-
der in T:

SSrTBALL
ey cad Bae host a Sof-
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new umf
tain certification.

ple
Bill Svinkoff for more infor-
mation.

SATURDAY

With the theme On Broad-
way, thee Castlegar Figure
Skating Club presents its year
‘arnival at
munity Complex
Shows begin at 2 p.m
p.m. and tickets are available
at the Complex or Mallard's
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Wayne Gretzky Is in a
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more than one scoring ti

the NHL? Hint:

same player who won the fir-
St-cver scoring title in the
1917-18 season.

aints hopes fade to black

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Realty wins b-ball title

Despite record-low 18
points in dismal 1st half

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

Castlegar Realty just couldn't do .
anything wrong in the Trail Men's ~ that point it became soul-
Basketball League playoffs. But it Neier far time for the players, said
wasn't for lack of tryin Turlock:

Castlegar won the playoff cham-
pionship Wednesday night at the

they trailed Kingfisher by nine poin-

er team.
That’ 5 what we did and away we
went.’

a new team record for fitility And

in the fourth quarter and Castlegar
48-44,

“We went on a 7-0 run there and
we never looked back

Kingfisher’s Ernie Rella said i it was
tough to see his team’s Cinderella
story end.

“In my own mind at the half I
really thought we were going to win.
1 was really disappointed,’ said
Rella. We all worked so hard all
year and we really came together in
the last four games. It was tough to

~—See it all slip away in four or five
miltutes

With | 14 points, Duane Donald
was Kingfisher's high scorer while

the regular

cap @ season in which they also won
the mgr title.

they won, but they did spend
the first half trying hard to lose, said

eee it until there was 13 minutes
to g

Caaibocai’ s 18 first half points set

When play resumed, Castlegar’s
four sleeping giants, Wayne McCar-
Lou Cicchetti and

Finding that Jack hadn't climbed
down the beanstalk with the league
championship yet, those four led a
Castlegar’s second half comeback in
which they outscored Kingfisher 47-

6

Cicchetti scored 13 of his 18 points
in the second half while Reichert had

WAYNE McCARTHY
+. scores 10

13 of 15. Turlock, who got in foul
trouble in the first half and rode the
bench for almost a quarter, had 10
of 11 points in the second half while
McCarthy had 10.

The turning point, said Turlock
came with about seven minutes left

season, went into the game as heavy
favorites against the 2-10 Kingfisher,
who finished last in the four-team

league.

It's Castlegar’s first tithe in. just its
second year in the league. It has won
the regular season crown in both
those years.

The league holds its awards
banquet tonight at the Colander
restaurant in Trail.

news, but we didn't have a very good
day,” he said.

Fraser said things started great in
the Saints first match against Saskat-

(games to) one, and leading in the
fourth game. We ao the momen-
tum, then there was a power failure

(in the ‘pau. all the lights
went

athe. pow cr was restored it was
like a whole mew game had begun,
Fraser said.
Unfortunately for the Saints, it

bd ere quite demoralized and
pws if you will," he said

“Our confidence was shattered."

It was a state of mind that con-
tinued into the team's second match
later that day against one of the two

“Quebec schools in the tourney,

The Saints won the first game but
were swept in the neat three, ending
theit medal hopes.

“Sometimes the high expectations
can backfire in some ways. But hey
if you don’t go for it all, you can't
win it all,"* said Fraser.

The-tcam played its third game
Friday morning against the tour-
nament favorite and hometown
college coe Ageia weren't
available at press

The Saints rare aN Castlegar on
Monday.

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Rematch
in works

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike Tyson
and Donovan (Razor) Ruddock may
be getting the rematch both say they
want.

A spokesman for the Mirage Hotel
said Thursday a rematch between the
top two heavyweight contenders may
come before a planned fight pitting

we a Renaldo Snipes.
re looking into the possibility
of a reaaiee this summer,
spokesman Alan Feldman said. ‘‘It's
fair to say the public WANIS 10 See
these two guys again.’

Iman said promoter Don King
and Ruddock’s promoter, Murad
Muhammad, are negotiating the
details of a second fight, and an an
nouncement could come neal week.

Tyson defeated Ruddock on Mon-

dec
the seventh round following a
barrage of Tyson punches.

Right thing, esi time for Junker

ByEDMILIS ~
Staff Writer
Castlegar native Sieve fra picked exactly the right time to have his
best season ever in Junior A hoc
With the NHL draft set te, Buffalo , BLY., in June, the 18-year-old
player fof the Western Hockey League’s Spokane Chiefs has shown this
season that he's a legitimate NHL prospect.
Junker said he knew going into his third WHL season that the pressure
was on him to perform
“Yeah, I'm eligible to go in all 12 rounds (of the draft) this year so it was
ind of a now-or-never situation. And hopefully everything will work out
good,’ Junker said Thursday
After an off year sapeighaarelg nn oes t last season, the six-foot, 180-
left winger est: Pelabhaked Realtor Get ot the latgar'd bec reseed Clr:
nerman with a touch around the net.
Sr ra lNt guaed thes Sanson, Junker had 77 points, including 39 goals. He's
~wertaland ed orltapany goals with 15 and also third on the team with
goals and has 90 penalty

Junker said he never felt he was playing in the shadows of the team's big

ust the fact that all he has to do is look around his —— room to see

as competition or that they are (aking@way the spotlight from me.

If Junker knows his teammates are on the way SP now, will Castlegar
hockey fans have a local i they recognize a oo later

“1 don't know, I can t I hope so, ee: I
wouldn't want lo do sailed else but follow SE ‘al that a as fir as | can
go in hockey."

But Junker, who played (wo years of bantam in Castlegar before Es
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the Chiefs as a 16-year-old, said he isn't thinking about the NHL
he’s thinking about the Memorial Cup.

In a way, he said, the better Spokane docs in the playoffs, the better he ©

and his teammates are going to look to the scouts.
Because if they make it 10 hockey's Junior A championship tourney, of
ed with pro scouts from NHL teams
to make it big but that will happen if we have a ove
Cup).

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