News January 14, 1990 SPORTS The best are left in NFL show DENVER (AP) — Ozzie Newsome and Dennis Smith crossed paths in a downtown hotel, It might be the first of many meetings this weekend. Newsome, the most prolific pass-catching tight end in NFL history, represented the Cleveland Browns during a media conference Friday. Smith, the Pro Bow! safety of the Denver Broncos, also was there. On Sunday, at Mile High Stadium, their confron- tations will be less cordial and, possibly pivotal in deciding which team @oes to the Super Bowl. “I saw Dennis and he looked quite dapper todi said Newsome, who is planning to retire. ‘‘But we have a different opinion on what will happen Sunday.”” Whatever happens, Smith figures to be in the middle of it when Cleveland has the ball..The defensive captain, Smith is one of the surest tacklers in the game and, on some plays, will draw coverage of Newsome. “4 expect us to play tough and Cleveland isin troubleif they tink we'll just show up,”’ Smith said, ‘‘They'll have to takefhe game from us.”” Which is just what Newsome plans on the Browns doin, came back this year to help this team make it to New Orleans,’ he said. ‘“They are the team that prevented us from getting to what we want the last two times and that makes for a great rivalry."* Smith, when reminded that Denver's 1986 and 1987 AFC championship game victories over Cleveland were marked by The Drive, and The Fumble, said he hopes this ene will be The Shutout. LA‘RAMS ATSAN FRANCISCO Jerry. Gray has a simple analogy for the way he and the rest of the Los Angeles Rams view the San Francisco 49ers. “It’s like there’s a big guy on the block and you're the little guy,’’ said the Rams’ Pro Bowl cornerback. ‘Every day you have to walk past this guy to get home. “One timg you're going to have to beat him up and I think this time may.beit."” This time, of course, comes Sunday when the Rams meet the 49ers at Candlestick Park for the rightto represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. ys) There can’t be a greater contrast. On one side are the 49ers, seeking to become the first team in a decade to win two straight NFL titles and seeking to match the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s as four-time winners in the Super Bowl. - psp sehor de are the Rams, who have made the playoffs six of the seven years John Robinson has been the ‘coach bubhave never-made it to the ultimate game. Five of those six playoffberths have been as wild cards because the 49ers have beaten them out for the NFC West title. Some Rams think that gives them more incentive. “They may be a bit complacent,’’ said linebacker Kevin Greene. During a média conference Friday ni ht, represen- tatives of the teams agreed that possibility Of rain Sunday — it rained on and off Friday and there’s a 30 per cent chance of more rain today and Sunday — wouldn't have’ much effect on the game. Team By CasNews Staff Blame-it on the turkey, or call it a rejuvenation, but Hi Arrow has retur- ned from the Christmas break on a’mission in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League. The subject of that mission Thur- sday night at the Community Complex was to win over Sandman Inn and Hi Arrow did it in easy fashion with 10 goals in two periods on the way to a 12- Twin. Hi Arrow has now won two straight since Christmas and has scored a dozen goals in each game. League-leading Sandman has how lost two straight since the Christmas break and has been outscored 30-13. ack with a vengeance score points consistently for Hi Arrow. He had two goals and an assist Thur- sday. Obetkoff hit the high-water mark for Hi Arrow with a hattrick and four assists. Hyson was close behind with a pair of goals and four assists while Knowler also notched a trio of goals and added a helper. Other Hi Arrow scorers were Darrell Bojechko and Bill Nazaroff with a goal and three assists each, while Rod Zavaduk, Dave MacKinnon and Tony Da Rosa chipped in one assist apiece. Sandman’s Clay Martini almost single-handedly made the score respec- table for his club with five goals and one assist. Four of Martini’s goals came in a five-goal third period for Sandman; which trdiled 10-2 after two. Vince Antignani scored Sandman’s other two goals and assisted on three of Martini’s five. Adrian Markin picked up three aésists and Ian Stewart had two. Hi Arrow built a 4-1 first-period lead and then exploded for six goals in the second before rounding it out with two in the third. The win improves Hi Arrow’s record to 8-11-3, putting them three points behind Shell in the race for second place in the CRHL. Sandman leads the league with 27 points. The CRHL swings back into action Mondéy at the Community Complex with Shell and Hi Arrow tangling. Game time is 9:30 p.m. |_ Local sports briefs Includihg goalie Tim S' Sandman has just eight skaters for the game. Hi Arrow’s trio John Obetkoff, Doug Knowler and Niki Hyson con- tinue to terrorize the league with their scoring, accounting for 17 points against Sandman. The trio had 16 points in a 12-4 win over Woodland Park Shell Tuesday. The trio might be becoming a quar- Cyclist up for honor Nelson cyclist Allan Boucher hias been selected as a finalist in voting for jun- ior athlete of the year award in British Columbia, Sport VANCOUVER (CP) — B.C. announced Thursday. Boucher’s competition for the award is diver Paige game average. é Gordon of West Vancouver and fencer Laurie Shong of Vancouver. Tamelin has also added his share for Castlegar moving into fifth in league scoring with a 13-point-per- Hurd's streak snapped By CasNews Staff Castlegar native Kelly Hurd,-on a hockey scholar- his eight-game tet as Bobby Larsh is also beginning to HI SIS W's in the class to throw a y in judo for e member who has graduated a belt level. So Chris Mansbridge gives the heave-ho to his sister Celia, who earned o ye! jow belt from the Castlegar Judo Club at Twin Rivers Elementary School Thursday CosNews photo by Ed Mills night. Peewee Reps win two PEEWEE REPS6TRAIL1 PEEWEE REPS 6 NELSON 4 The Pee Wee Reps are on a roll after wins of 6-1 against Trail Saturday and 64 over Nelson Sunday in regular league action. In Nelson, Castlegar found itself on the short end of a 2-1 score after one period. Nelson tallied twice in the first four minutes and Derek Read an- swered for Castlegar with assists from Phil Laporte and Rick Fauth. Castlegar took a 4-3 lead after 40 minutes with goals: from Ryan Coulson, Fauth and Darren Pottle. Assisting on the goals were Mark Carlson, Pottle, Gary Hunter and Coulson. Fauth gave Castlegar a -3 lead early in the third period from Craig Swan- son and Pottle. Coulson and Laporte set up Hunter for a three-goal advan- tage before Nelson rounded out the scoring midway through the final period. On Saturday at Pioneer arena, Castlegar SLOWPITCH LEAGUE Invites written requests from non-profit organizations to sponsor either Bavarian Gardens Food Concessions For tournaments during the 1990 season. Send submissions to: CASTLEGAR SLOWPITCH LEAGUE Box 3171, Cestlegar, B.C. VIN 3H7 yy Feb. 15.1990 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL Glen, 365-6363 or Katrina 365-3270 Castlegar dominated the scoring if not always the play against Trail. The local squad built a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes ‘on goals by Swanson, Read and Pat Biln with assists awarded to Shaun Mosby, Laporte, Hunter, Potile, Fauth and Read The only goal of the second period was an unassisted effort by Castlegar’s Pottle to make it 4-0. 4 Trail ended Ryan Stoochnoff’s shutout bid at 7:21 of the final period. Coulson restored the four-goal lead at 18:27 from Hunter and Biln and then Pottle ended the scoring .from Read and Mark Perrier with only six seconds left in the game. The Castlegar Pee Wee Reps’ next game is Jan. 13 at 3:15 p.m. when they host Nelson at the Complex. Castlegar Cougars Athletic Association EVERY MONDAY 6p.m.-11 p.m. 30 GAMES — 60 % PAYOUT Early Bird Starts at 6 p.m. Regular Bingo Starts at 7 p.m. Come Qut & Help Support Our Club SCOUT HALL — 216-8th Ave., Castlegar CASILEGAR & DISTRICT R TION DEPARTMENT JANUARY 4-21 | ‘SUNDAY REGISTRATION FOR ALL WINTER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES STARTS MONDAY, JAN. 15 AT 8:00 P.M. Rossland losesxace VANCOUVER (CP) — The national downhill and super giant slalom championships have Been moved to Lake Louise, Alta., next month due to poor snow conditions at Rossland, Alpine -Canad&announced Friday. The races now will be held Feb. 23- 26 after originally being scheduled for Jan. 27-29. “*Due to present snow conditions at Red Mountain, we were concerned about the safety of the competitors,” Rossland race spokesman Robin Valentine said in a prepared statement Lake Louise was host to the 1989 Canadian women’s downhill and super giant slalom championship races. Rossland was to be the site Jan. 27- 29 for both the Cavendish Farm Cup downhill and super-giant slalom and the Jeep-Eagle Canadian champion- ships. Lake Louise was the host to the 1989 Husky Canadian downhill and super- giant slalom championships Seleéted to the final ballot-for B.C.’s senior athlete of the year were wrestler Gary Bohay of Burnaby, skier Rob Boyd of Whistler and golfer Doug Roxburgh of Vancouver. The winners will be announced March 3 at the an- nual Sport B.C. awards dinner in Vancouver. Finalists were picked by a panel of writers and broadcasters from nominations by provincial sports governing bodies. Several other athletes, coaches, officials and ad- ministrators wilt be honored at the 24th annual awards ceremony. B-ballers reach top By CasNews Staff . Castlegar Realty has climbed into a first-place tie in the Trail Men’s Basketball League after winning its fifth straight game, 64-57, over Smelter Pub in Trail Wed- nesday night. Brian Turlock led Castlegar with 19 points while Lou Ciccetti had 15 and Wayne Tamelin 11, as Castlegar improved its record to 6-5, good for a share of first with Kingfisher Bobcat Services. Castlegar got some help in its bid for top spot as third-place Victoria Place knocked off Kingfisher, 71- 65, in the other game at the Cominco Gym. Castlegar’s surge has come with the team playing without the services of Wayne McCarthy, who was fifth in league scoring before suffering an ankle injury while jogging in December, Turlock, who sits fourth in league scoring with a 15-point-per-game average, has picked up the slack nicely while McCarthy sits out. ship at Michigan Tech University, scoring streak for the Huskies snapped in a game against Colorado College last week. The Huskies junior right winger had 12 points, in- cluding six goals, on the career-high streak. His totals over-23 games this season are nine goals and 11 assists, tying him for fifth in team scoring. Kelly Hurd The Huskies record sits at seven wins, 17 losses overall and 3-13-0 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Another Castlegar native, Darcy Martini, plays defence for the Huskies, also ona hockey scholarship Both Martini and Hurd are former Castlegar. Rebels. Michigan Tech played Minnesota-Duluth in Michigan Jan. 12 and 13. No results were available at press time. —— The Huskies final non-leagué series of the year pits them against St. Cloud, in Minnesota Jan. 19 and 20. Weekend Wrap-up (not including Setvs (7 72 15 23 6 Smythe Division Big Sundey Gomes Philadelphio at NY Rangers St Louis et Winnipeg Colgery at Chicago Horttord at Boston Minnesote af Moniredt Chicago ot Toronto ea odors (not including Saturday's Gomes) 38s exseescoeses jen Minnesore Steen, Winnipeg Meslcon News terse Cottey Pinburgh Robinson, Beaver Volley viogor NL ALLSTAR GAME (errieburgh. 3 alee Conference Revver m Puppe, Bultolo Boston, Chris Chelios Phil Houstey. Butlolo Kevin Hatcher Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh. Pa! LoFontoine Scoring Leoders 8 1025 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division NY Islanders, Pierre Turgeon, Bultalo, Ron Francis He Quebec iy. Boston Rick—tocche' COLLEGE STATISTICS Pacific Division 25 CANADIAN COLLEGE RANKINGS Men's Basketball 2. Lethbridge. 3. Humbe: eco, 6. Vanier. 7. King’s. 8. John Ab i Conference Roster Geel: Mike Vernon, Calgary, Kirk Mclean, Von Al Macinnis. Calgary: Kevin Lows, Edimion ini, St. Louis, Doug Wilson. Chic Los ‘Angeles we ward, Chicago: Steve 1 Lethbridge, 2 5. Red Deer W Wing: Bret} Hull. St! Louis Joe Mullen, Royal. 10. Humber Colgory. Mike Gartner, Minnesota Jari Kurri, Edmon ie Los Angeles Mork Joe Nieuwendyk. Colgory, Geargion. 7 peg yyal. 10. Centennial couver Community College, 9, MI Royal. 10 Med Beskerbell ‘Anontsic: 3. John Abbott" SAtt ‘6 Douglas: 7. Seneca, 8. Mohawk 9 Mt ° TRANSACTIONS ine BASEBALL Americon Leogue Orioles agree to terms wi ne Gorirales on @ one jexos Rongers nome Marty Stojduhor s condinoning coach FXGerneou 4 College 6 t. 8 Cope Breton 9 Mt BASKETBALL feliet pucher Erne BASKETBALL NBA BiSs Basse 383. eA EASTERN CONFERENCE ‘Attontie Divial e by league olfice that has been suspended for the tor violating substance Minnesota North Store. recoil \cHugh trom Kalmazoo Mich Hockey League Chris Nil Williams, NHL teams. TRIVIA ANSWER: in has amassed 2,447 minutes in penalties in 10 NHL seasons, (566 games) for the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers. Nilan has averaged 4.32 minutes per game but still needs almost 1500 minutes to catch Tiger who had 3,966 minutes in 962 games for five CHRIS NILAN . +» future penalty king? SPORTS Fighting Hilton gets title shot ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CP) — Matthew Hilton knows it’s a terrible thing to be considered a has-been at age 24. The Canadian boxer has another shot at a world title Monday night and this time, he says, things will be different. Three years ago, Hilton was scaling the heights of the fight world after winning the International Boxing Federation's junior middleweight title. He was a quick, hard puncher. He was good looking. He was colorful. He was white — a feature boxing promoters still consider an important asset — and therefore had good TV potential. But the good life was too much for Hilton, whose weight ballooned and whose desire waned after he became champion. He shot up to 196 pounds — more than 40 over his fighting weight — and getting back into shape Proved to be so hard he lost his belt-in just 16 months. “*T owned a bar in Rigauld,”’ Hilton, speaking about his home in suburban Montreal, said in an interview Friday “*I found myself having . . . a draft beer here and there. “Then it wasn’t a social drink anymore. After drinking, there was eating. After a couple of beers, I'd say, ‘Oh, no gym today. I'll take a day off.’ “I really had no discipline what- soever. That's why things went from bad to worse. Thank God I’m young enough. I learned my lesson.”” BIDS FOR CROWN Whether Hilton has learned his lesson will be known Monday, when he~ Games crew to look . or at Kiwis VICTORIA (CP) — Organizers of the 1992 Commonwealth Games in Victoria will get a first-hand look at what it takes to run the mammoth sporting event during the next few weeks in Auckland, New Zealand. The first wave of. Victoria’s 50- member official delegation to the 1990 Games is scheduled to-leave today for Auckland “From top to bottom, we will assess how Auckland runs the Games and learn as much as possible,”’ Ron Langstaffe, the Victoria Common- wealth Games Society's president and chief executive officer, said Thursday at anews conference. “There are a million little details in- volved in putting on the Games,” Longstaffe said. ‘‘Our objective is to run the finest Commonwealth Games ever held, so these little details matter a lottous."" y Longstaffe “and Victoria games chairman David Black will head the delegation, which will also concentrate ¢on promoting the 1994 Games to of- ficials and ~athietes attending the Auckland Games. Its sloganis: ‘Victoria 94. Onceina lifetime.’" The Auckland Games are set to begin Jan. 23 challenges Doug DeWitt for the World Boxing Organization's version of the middleweight crown. The fight, which can be seen on closedcircuit TV in Canada, on the undercard of the Gerry Cooney-George Foreman match at Caesars Atlantic City, Since losing his IBF crown to Robert Hines in November 1988, Hilton has fought just twice. He looked unim- pressive in earning a win and a draw and blames the poor showings on the fact his father, Dave, wasn’t in his cor- ner, sonvory 14,1990 CastlégarNews 1 Sports briefs Tyson, Leonard honored MEXICO CITY (AP) — Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and super-middleweight titleholder Sugar Ray Leonard have been named the World Boxing Council’s most outstanding fighters of the 1980s. Wilfredo Gomez of Puerto Rico and Alexis Arguello of Nicaragua were awarded special mentions as the two best boxers of the '70s and '80s combined. Thé Marvelous Marvin Hagler-Thomas Héarns fight at Las Vegas in 1985 was chosen as the decade's most dramatic, while the 1988 Tyson- Michael Spinks bout in Atlantic City, N.J., was named the most spec- tacular and decisive, both by a vote of the WBC membership. The vote, released Thursday, was taken by the WBC’s member organizations in 131 countries, the WBC said. Snorter squeals in skin mag NEW YORK (AP) — Stanley Wilson, suspended the morning of the 1989 Super Bowl for snorting-cocaine in his hotel room, says in the February issue of ine that he red to buy drugs with Cincinnati teammates Eddie Brown, Daryl Smith and Rickey Dixon. Wilson, now in drug rehabilitation and sacking groceries in Phoenix, Ariz., said Brown, the all-pro wide receiver, made the purchases. Also, he is quoted as saying he took drugs with Smith and Dixon. All three players and their agents denied thé allegations in the magazine, which released copies of the story on Thursday. NFL spokesman Joe Browne said nothing in the story appeared to warrant in- vestigation. Hebert no longer a Saint NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Quarterback Bobby Hebert said he is moving to Palm Springs, Calif., and can’t think of anything that would persuade him to sign another contract with the NFL’s New Orleans Sain- ts. He said it would be foolish for the Saints to protect him under Plan B free agency, which helps NFL teams hold on to important players whose contracts have expired. Hebert finished the season with a 62.9 completion percentage, second only to Joe Montana’s 70.2, and an efficiency rating of 82.7, four- th best in the NFC and sixth best in the league. Sabres trade Tucker to Caps BUFFALO, N.Y.(AP) — The Buffalo Sabres have ended months of speculation about the future of forward John Tucker, trading the little- used centre,to the Washirigton Capitals for a pick in the entry draft next June, a spokesman for the NHL team said. The round of the draft pick is conditional on Tucker’s performance dufing the balance of the current season. The emergence of younger players and nagging back problems drop- ped Tucker, 26, out of the regular lineup and into trade rumors this season. A second-round draft pick by Buffalo in 1983, the Windsor, Ont., native played in only eight games for the Sabres this season, scoring one goal and two assists. Canadians off to World's THUNDER BAY, Ont. (CP) — Quebec skiers Marie-Josee Pepin and Chris Blanchard earned berths last week in the world junior cross- country skiing championships next month in France. In Canadian free-technique trials to determine who goes to the worlds, Pepin, from La Tuque, won the women’s 15-kilometres race and Blanchard, from Pointe Claire, won the men’s 30-kilometres event. Pepin, 19, asilver medallist at the 1989 world junior championships, broke away early and-won easily in 48 minutes 20 seconds. Blanchard and Donald Farley of Lorraine, Que., who made the world team by winning a race Tuesday,‘exchanged the lead several times before Blanchard won in 1:25:11. Lewis may meet Johnson in million doffar race RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuter) — Carl Lewis's business manager said Tuesday he's discussing the possibility with at least six groups of a multi- ‘million dollar race in bet- The rematch probably would take place a few days after Johnson regains. his eligibility on Sept. 25, Douglas drug use later this month because of admitted ‘Lewis won four goid medals in the said. ween the two-time Olympic champion and disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson. “The lowest offer — and the latest round — has been $1 million for Carl and the highest has been $6 million,’ Joe Douglas, Lewis’s longtime business agent, Said from his Santa Monica, Calif., office. ‘‘But I don’t know how substantial any of the offers are.”’ Three of the groups are from the United States, two from Spain and one from the Netherlands, he said. The race could gross more than $10 million, Douglas said he had been told. ZEKE MISSING! Lost seen walking off the ice halfway through the third period Thursdoy night at the Pioneer Arena. If seen do ‘not contact the Kalesnikolf hockey'club. NO REWARD! a -born Joh » who crustied Lewis in a stirring 100-metre final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was suspended for two years by the Inter- national Amateur Athletic F i 1984 Olympics and successfully defen- ded his title in the long jump at the 1988 Olympics and was awarded the win in the 100 metres after Johnson's positive drug test. when he tested positive for steroids af- ter the race. He was stripped of his gold medal and will lose the -100-metre world record, which he set in 1987, to Lewis A London paper, the Daily Ex- Press, reported last month that U.S. boxing promoter Bob Arum had lined up a $3.2-million race between John- son and Lewis for Barcelona, Spain, for Sept. 25. 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