/Page 10A The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, October 14, 1992

Rebel Lalonde gets the Lowe-down in Banff

Wednesday, October 14, 1992 The Castlegar Sun

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Showing up carly _ off big
or Rebel Derek Lalonde.
Working at a sports ‘store in
}| Banff, Alta. for the summer,
{Lalonde hit the ice a few hours
}iearly one morning to get some
tiextra skating practice in before
‘the lunch hour hockey league he
‘ played in. He had to share the ice

with one other player that day,
and he ended up sharing the ice
for another month.

Big deal? It is a big deal, since
his playing partner for late
August and early September was
Kevin Lowe, last year's captain
of the Edmonton Oilers.

“I stayed in my half, and I let
him have his own half,” said
Lalonde. “He asked me to come
over to do some shooting with

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him, so I said ‘What the hell’.”
The next day, Lalonde decided to
show up early at the rink,

the same thing might happen. It
was that and more.

When Lowe's regular partner
couldn't make it on the third day,
Lowe asked Lalonde if he could
come out.

either. It was a lot of hard work.
Lowe put Lalonde through a rig-

orous mini-training camp. (
“He wants to play another two
years in the NHL and then go in
to coaching.” Shooting close to
200 pucks a day was a small part.
Lalonde did the works: running
the bleachers, a

You betcha.

“From then
on, for most of a
month, we went
out every day
from 10 to
11:30,” — said
Lalonde. It was
beneficial for
both. Lowe's
regular partner
was a skier friend

‘if you play hard all
the time, you always
come out on top.’

— DEREK LALONDE
on Kevin Lowe's advice to
the second year Rebel

20 minute warm-
up skate, cross-
ice passing drills,
shooting drills.

ing up with a lot
of drills I've
never done.” Last
year was
Lalonde’s first
full season as a

of his wife,

Karen Percy, and just didn’t have
the hockey skills to make it reward-
ing for Lowe.

“He was happy I could come
out and do some passing, agility,
and shooting drills with him,”
said Lalonde. As for the benefits
for the Rebel forward, how many
Junior B players get a month of
one-on-one practice with the cap-
tain of an NHL team?

That thought was with Lalonde
for the first while.

“The first week it was ‘This is
Kevin Lowe, captain of the Oilers
last year, but after a while, it was
just a first name basis and just
another guy'.”

‘That still didn’t take the thrill out
of wearing Lowe's Oilers’ helmet.

“The atmosphere was like
practicing with an NHL team.”
Wearing that helmet, he said he
felt he had to live up to the task.

It wasn't a cake walk for
Lalonde. It wasn't a fun skate

forward. The for-

mer defenceman said that the
month with Lowe was an asset.

“Shooting close to 200 pucks a
day, that will definitely help.” But
skills weren't the only thing
Lalonde picked up from Lowe.
Lalonde caught a bit of attitude.
When Lalonde wasn’t pushing it in
practice, if he stopped skating
when he hit the blue line, Lowe let
Lalonde in on the secret of success.

“He said ‘You're skating for
you. Shoot hard all the time.
When you cheat yourself, you
cheat the team.

“If you play hard all the time,
you always come out on top’.”

Lalonde also got a day-by-day
update on Lowe’s career. He’s
been holding out in Banff since
Peter Pocklington, owner of the
Oilers, has so far refused to pay
Lowe $1 million a season.

“I'd go in and and ask ‘What
did your agent say yesterday?’,”
Lalonde said. Lowe would then

Former Oilers' captain Kevin Lowe (|) showed Castlegar
rebel Derek Lalonde (wearing Lowe's Oiler helmet) a

thing or two about hockey.

tell him of the different offers,
what players had been offered in
trade, and the like.

One of the hottest was an offer
by the Quebec Nordiques, who
had been practicing in Banff this
past summer. Lalonde said he
was always bugging Lowe that if
he went to Quebec it would be a
boring to play in Le Colisee. The
stands would be empty.

Lowe corrected that thought

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for him. Though they finished
second to last in the NHL last
year, the Nords sold out 35 of
their 40 home stands. They may
have had little success in the
standings, but their honest effort
was a success with the fans.

Lalonde hopes that message
comes to roost at the Complex.

“If the Rebels give an honest
effort, the fans should come out
and watch it.”

A ministerial talk on athletics at SHSS

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Keeping the students involved
in both the inter-school and the
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the Minister of Athletics at Stan-
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“I have to promote and adver-
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grade 12 student who this year
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hosts a tournament, like the NRS
Invitational volleyball tourney
two-and-a-half weeks ago, she
has to round up scorekeepers, line
judges, and the like to keep the
games running smoothly.

And when she’s not busy trav-
elling and playing with either the
field hockey or basketball team,
she’s on hand To represent her
school when the awards are hand-
ed out after SHSS tournaments.
Add to that organizing the schools
lunch-time intramural athletics,
and the other reason for being at
school, school work, and the Min-
ister has a pretty busy schedule.

“It’s just managing time, and
deciding what has to be done
first,” said Closkey. “I end up
doing most of my school work at
lunch, or in the morning.” With
the demands of field hockey and
tests are placing on her, she said
that Doug Hickey, the athletic
director at SHSS, has been help-
ing her out with the athletics.

The ministerial nature of her job
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sports. She’s there to organize,
oversee, and drum up interest. She
said she wants intramural to appeal
to those students who want to be
involved, but don't want to try out
for the school teams.

“It’s mostly the athletes [from
the school teams] and their friends,
but it shouldn't be.” To achieve
that, Closkey will be blending the
old and the new for the rest of the
year. As well, the PE-12 class will
come on stream later in the year to
help manage intramurals.

One student, Rae Carter, has

already approached Closkey about
starting up an intramural competi-
tion in Ultimate, a frisbee sport.
With the first intramural sport,
volleyball, winding to a close,
Closkey is bumping around a few
ideas, including: a softball tour-
fey, basketball (team as well as
three-on-three), an outdoor volley
ball tournament, and badminton.

All the work doesn't bother
Closkey, and she’s getting what
she expected out of the job.

“I just want to do as much as I
can for everybody else.”

Things are looking up for the SHSS Minister of Athlet-
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| Sun Sports Editor _

Mike Perra will go to the wall
for volleyball.

The coach of the Selkirk mens
team loves the sport.

*T just don’t think there's any
sport that comes close to volley-
ball.”

He's doing everything in his
power to build awareness of his
sport in the area. And his team
benefits

“Anything I organize is to
make the college

like Perra and Spiller, who
played together for years, now
have the net between them
Spreading out all of this talent
between teams will allow the
league to have a parity that will
keep it interesting for everyone
involved.

One team, the college team,
will play strictly as a unit. That
will allow them to have access to
something their predecessors
didn’t have — a lot of extra court
time.

“The league is a product of the
Selkirk College

better,” said
Perra.

The biggest
project on his
plate right now is
the Regional
Super-Volley
Challenge, a
high-calibre
league for Koote-
nay area volley-
ball players. It's
an opportunity
for some area
men to get out

‘I just don't think

there's any sport

that comes close
to volleyball.’

— MIKE PERRA
Coach of Selkirk Saints
mens volleyball team

men as well.”
The team not
only get the
extra practice
time every
week, they get
some pretty stiff
competition.

In the league
warm-up tour-
ney two Sun-
days ago, the
Selkirk men
gave the Border
Bros a run for

and play a level

of the game they haven't been
able to play since they were in
college or university.

The league’s regular season
will run over six weeks, until the
end of November. The six teams
participating will include teams
from the Slocan Valley, Nelson,
the Selkirk College Saints, and
the Brew Shop Border Bros,
made up of players from Ross-
land, Trail, and Colville.

“There's so many stories about
volleyball in this area,” Perra
added. Teams from Selkirk, Mt.
Sentinel and the Slocan Valley
have had a lot of provincial suc-
cess over the years. Former high
level players like Perra, Ben
Spiller, Rand Wayling, Theo
Friml, Wes and Jason Wishlow
decided it ‘was time to get back
together and play some V-ball.

“Now we're just good and
love playing with each other.”

It also provides some interest-
ing situations. Former teammates

their money.

“And that's without me having
all the guns out on the guys,”
added Perra. When he sets sights
on and for the guys, they should
be one of the best Saints teams in
recent memory.

With all the extra competition,
the Saints will be in great shape
both physically and skills-wise.
But for Perra, it’s their spirit that
is unbeatable.

“They'll fight. You push, and
they’ll push back.” In tryouts,
four of the team members pushed
themselves over the edge. Of
nausea.

“They puked.

“And they jumped back in as
soon as they could see again,”
said Perra.

He's also shooting to make
volleyball a year round sport in
the West Kootenay, with Selkirk
at the focal point. In the summer
there is beach and grass ball. In
the fall the high school and col-
lege start their seasons.

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The Castlegar Tom Kats came
up against some heavy hitting
last weekend.

As last years league champi-
ons in the Trail Flag Football

, the Kats travelled to East
Vancouver to defend the West
Kootenay at the provincials.

“Their leagues on the coast are
a lot more aggressive than ours,”
said Tom Campbell, Kats’ coach.
The team went 1-1 against a cou-
ple of teams from Vancouver,
who taught his team one thing.

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The Kats were one of 12 teams
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Campbell said the teams 20-19
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their 32-18 loss to last year's
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“We definitely weren't out-
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teams,” said Campbell. “Every-
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The score didn’t tell the real
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“We got caught flat footed twice

- they got two quick touchdowns.”

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Mike Perra is getting his Selkirk College Saints ready, and
getting a chance to brush up his own game, with the new
regional super-volley Challenge at the college.

Perra’s high calibre league fits
in with the fall seasons, and an
upcoming recreational league
will run after Christmas, leading
up to the club season which
begins in March.

And if more public attention
and participation is focused on
the sport, there will be a bigger

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pool for Selkirk to draw on in the
future. With the high level of ball
already being played in the area,
it just might translate into a
dynasty at Selkirk.

Perra’s goals don't stop there

“I really hope this game
evolves in to the new sport for
the world.”

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