February 7, 1988 SPORTS ROCKETTE REBOUND . . . The Stanley Humphries Jr Rockettes hosted the Hi Arrow Classic basketball tournament this weekend with four teams competing. The Rockettes won the tourney with a win over Southern Okanagan from Oliver on Saturday. CosNews Statt Photo Shell beats Hi Arrow By CasNews Staff It was a close one at the Community Complex Thurs day night as Woodland Park Shell squeaked by Hi Arrow Arms 5-4 in Castlegar Rec reation Hockey League action. Kelly Keraiff scored once and added two assists for Shell to lead the way in scoring for his squad The game wasn’t a minute old when Shell scored their first goal. Doug Knowler hit Gamble recalled VANCOUVER (CP) — Junior goaltender Troy Gamble was recalled by the Vancouver Canucks for the National Hockey League game Friday night against the New Jersey Devils at the Pacific Coliseum. Gamble was called up from the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League the net ona play from Keraiff and Bruno Tassone. Hi Arrow replied under a minute later. Don Deschene scored his first of three goals. Wayne Kinakin and Rod Zavaduk provided_the help Hi Arrow took the lead 90 seconds later with Deschene converting a pass from Chief Mercer and Kinakin Shell got the equalizer from Keraiff. Rick Christen sen and Wayne Popoff got the assists. Shell went out in front after Keraiff put Neil Archambault in the clear with 8:34 remaining in the opening frame. Pete Tischler scored the next goal for Shell from Vince Antignani and Tassone. Hi Arrow got the final goal of the first with 5:55 re maining. Deschene finished his natural hattrick. Mercer and Kinakin again provided the help. The opening stanza ended 43 Shell The second period was a defensive struggle as both teams came up empty after the buzzer. Tassone got the game-win ner for Shell from Tischler with 8:51 left Hi Arrow’s lineup was ex tremely thin Thursday night as only eight players showed up to face off against Shell's 13-man squad. Canucks win one By GARY KINGSTON ‘The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — Jim Sandlak donned a football face- guard Friday night and promptly began throwing his weight around while leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 5-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils in a National Hockey League game. A first-round draft choice in 1985, the six-foot-four, 220-pound right winger has often been called the Friendly Giant. But he turned rambunctious against the Devils, delivering several crunching checks while scoring twice and adding an assist, wanted right from to go out and play physical,” said the soft-spoken 21-year-old from Kitchener, Ont, Sandlak skated with the faceguard to protect a severely strained jaw. He suffered the injury at home Tuesday against Los Angeles when he was levelled by the Kings’ Ken Baumgartner and sat out Wednesday's return match in-Los Angeles, While Canucks’ coach Bob McCammon was joking about making it “a lifetime injury,” Sandlak was complaining about his restricted vision and suggesting there was more to his improved play than the security of a faceguard. “I think confidence is a big factor,” said Sandlak, whose two goals gave him eight in 27 games this season. “When I first came up I tended to give the puck away for somebody else to handle. “But guys like (teammates) Barry Pederson and Greg Adams have been telling me that I have enough skills, that I'm smart enough to make my own plays. That's a big key, having thosq guys behind you all the way. It was sNadlat’s inspired play and the nifty playmaking of Pederson — also returning to the lineup after missing Wednesday's game with a slight concussion — that helped the Canucks rebound from a disastrous first period in which they were outhit and outshot 11.3. “I felt like leaving the building,” said McCammon after the Devils took a 1-0 lead on Andy Brickley's first goal of the season. But the Canucks scdred three times in the second on just seven shots, with Sandlak blasting a hard slapshot through New Jersey netminder Bob Sauve's legs after Pederson had set up goals by Rich Sutter and Tony Tanti with pretty passes, . “We figured they'd be hungry, they had a bad first period,” said New Jersey coach Jim Schoenfeld, who lost his second game in a row after starting his new job two weeks ago with three consecutive wins. “I knéw they were catching hell and they'd come out ready for the second period. Instead of picking it up a notch to stay ahead of them,-we let it go a notch and the momentum was'swung. Once the momentum swung we couldn't get it back.” MecLEAN STRONG Sandlak on a goalmouth scramble and Sutter into an empty net added third-period goals for the Canucks, who got strong netminding from Kirk McLean in his first game against his old club. McLean blocked 30 shots as the Canucks, who moved back into a fourth-place tie with the Kings in the Smythe Division, completed a three-game sweep of the season series with the Devils. McLean's strong body coincided with the news that veteran netminder Richard Brodeur — one of the three goalies on the Canucks’ roster — may have played his last game in Vancouver. The Canucks won't confirm whether the 35-year-old Brodeur, who has asked to be traded, has been placed on waivers, but the playoff hero of six years ago has been told not to report for practice. The Canucks, who also have Frank Caprice in goal, are trying to work a trade for Brodeur. “There was no conflict between myself and Richard,” said McLean. “There's been rumors but it's a bunch of baloney. “But if Richard is traded, it'll give me and Frankie a little more ice time in practice to work on different things.” While the NHL all-star game goes Tuesday, the Canucks don't resume action until next Thursday at home against the Edmonton Oilers. Senior men tie in 4 games By JOHN DALZIEL Last week I wrote that there had been three ties in the games played. This week the boys have outdone them- selves and come up with four ties. The strange part is that two rinks tied both their games for the week. The four ties were between Rudashy and Culley, Rudashy and Mills, Buff¢tt and Clay and Buffett and Waterman. Thursday afternoon I watched the last two ends of the Buffett-Waterman game. It was ding-dong all the way and when the last rock came to rest they had to use the measuring apparatus to de- cide which was the closest rock. During the week two games were won by Burak, McGillivray and Crossley. One game was won by Heagy, McGauley, Verzuh, Obedkoff, Bate, Leckie, Flynn, Bradford and Dalziel. There will be no Pen- sioners curling this week. Instead the West Kootenay Zone Playdowns of the B.C. Interior Seniors Curling As- Moguls go to Ca KIMBERLEY, Ont. (CP) — Jamie Boyd of Ottawa won the men’s division’ and Sue Kirkwood of Whistler Moun tain, B.C. headed the wo- men's division in the mogul event Friday at the week. long Barcardi Nor-Am free- style ski meet. sociation will be played in Castlegar on Tuesday, Wed nesday and Thursday. Rinks from Trail, Ross- land, and Nelson will be here with possibilities of Salmo, Kaslo, Nakusp and even Grand Forks taking part. Boyd scored a total of 22.34 points to beat Jay Toffan of Calgary who had 21.39. Tony Dowling of Cape Elizabeth, Me. was third with 21.31. Kirkwood grabbed 18.76 points, edging Maggie Con nors of Killington, Vt. who scored 18.07 points. Anne Castlegar will be repre- sented by rinks skipped by Clay, McGillivray and Rust with Mills as a standby. Anyone wanting to watch some live shotmaking | are welcome to drop in at the curling rink. nadians Dowling of Cape Elizabeth, Me. was third at 17:48. The event continues with training for today's aerial competition. More than 100 skiers from Canada, the United States, the Soviet Union, Sweden and Australia are taking part. Graham regains form t All Paper Cash BINGO At the Arena Complex Sat., Feb. 13 Early Bird 6 p.m. Reg. Bingo at 7 p.m. Tickets $9 at Door No Advance Tickets Pay out 60% Packages Available. INVEREMERE, B.C. (CP) Laurie Graham was laughing and joking and enjoying ski racing once again The 27-year-old Inglewood, Ont., veteran ended a season of frustration by winning the Canadian Alpine downhill ski championship Friday and she relished the feeling “Hey, I want to bask in this a little,” Graham said when asked a question about the Calgary Olympic Winter Games, which start next Saturday. “I was nervous this morning; I wanted to win this a lot. “I wanted to win this so much and at the Olympics that's the way it's going to be — I want a medal.” Graham became the first woman ever to win three Canadian downhill championships by conquering the Panorama course in 1:19.23. Kellie Casey of Collingwood, Ont., was second ir 1:20.17 with Kerrin Lee of Rossland, B.C, third in 1:20.62. In the men's event, Steven Lee oftAustralia won his second downhill title here in 1:39.92, beating Austrians Gerhard Pfaffenbichler, second in: 1:40.11, and Anton Steiner third in 1:40.22. With Canada’s top two racers, Rob Boyd of Whistler, B.C., and Felix Belezyk of Castlegar, B.C., taking time off, Mike Carney of Squamish, B.C., was the top Canadian man, finishing fourth in 1:40.29. “My confidence level is back,” said Carney, a World Cup rookie who lookes like Boyd. “I had a couple of bad training runs and managed to put it together in the race, which is good for me because earlier in the season I had the problem the other way around.” For the Canadians, however, the story was Graham. An Olympic medal favorite when the season started, she struggled on the World Cup circuit, failing to win a race and currently ranked the second-best Canadian behind Karen Percy of Banff, Alta. “Now I know what to do at the Olympics because it’s the same thing,” she said of her nervousness and the ability to turn that into a positive energy force. “I want to have the best run on race day and overcome nerves and be calm and cool, yet aggressive — just like today.” Fre victory is more prominent in view of the Perf@rmance of the rest of the Canadian team this season. Perey, Lee and Casey have all had top 10 World Cup results and all are medal possibilities. “It's not so much the placing of top three, but the way I skied and the feeling I now have in my mind when I go out of the gate,” said Lee, a 21-year-old native of Trail, B.C. “I really feel I have the ability to do it now.” CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT FEB. 7 — Novice Tourney continues at Complex. No public skating today FEB. 8 — Morning Aerobics, Complex 7 10-11 a.m. $2.00 Drop In. L.H.H. 12-1, compl $s 00. Parent and Tot Skote, 1-2 p.m. at complex, $1 FEB. 9 — Morning Shape Up Complex, 9-10 a.m., $2.00 drop in. Gym Energy, complex, 10:15-11 and 11 Fes. 1 p.m. Complex, $1.00. Public Skating, 2-3:30 p.m. at complex |. 13 — Saturday Aerobics 9-10, $2.00 drop in, com plex. Public Skating, 2-4:30 p.m., complex. River Otters Bingo, complex hall. Junior Hockey Castlegar vs. Beaver Valley, 8 p.m 2101-6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-3386 Ben Johnson injured . in European track meet SINDELFINGEN, West Germany (CP) — Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, the world record holder at 100 metres, pulled a thigh muscle while winning the 60-metre dash in an international track and field meet Friday night. The Toronto athlete won the event in a time of 6.50 seconds, after slowing in the final five metres. Johnson holds the world record of 6.41 seconds over 60 metres. Johnson's trainer, Charlie Francis, said the runner had suffered a “slight strain.” “But at this time we're not sure how bad it is.” Francis said he was not sure whether Johnson, who won his semifinal heat in 6.45 seconds, would be able to compete as scheduled in a meet Sunday in Karlsruhe. “Right now Td say he won't be able to run,” Francis said. An employee at the hotel where Johnson is staying said the sprinter arrived back from the meet under his own power. “He came back to the hotel walking on his own,” said Ingo Hoeffgen, assistant front office manager, adding Johnson looked “a little bit unsteady.” Johnson arrived in Europe earlier this week for a series of eight meets before re. turning to Canada for the Canadian indoor champion- ships at Windsor, Ont., on Feb. 20-21. Meanwhile, Thomas Sch- oenlebe of East Germany had a world record time of 45.05 in the 400 metres. Schoen- lebe broke his own mark of 45.41. In the 60-metre hurdles, Mark McKoy of Toronto won with a time 7.50 seconds, Tonie Campbell of the United States was second in 7.57 and West German Juergen Schoch was third in 7.79. Weekend Wrap-up HOCKEY ee CAMPBELL CONFERENCE 1a Division 182 182 60 1 184 56 210 214 58 Rangers Et Friday Results Buttle 5 Toronto 2 Detroit § Calgory | NY Islanders 4 Washington 2 Chicago | Winnipeg | Vancouver 5 New Jersey 1 Chicago ot Quebec New £880 Ssesssssoes ses> Seussseecs Sesszszazes 323? Nieuwendyk, Co! Robitaille, LA Srondon ot Regione hedicine Hot ot Set Corrent Lethbridge ot Spokane Moose Jon et Portiend et fan Victoria ot Sorte 194 Nove Scotio. pn. 3 17 183 64 22 203 50 210 289 Friday Sherbrooke 5 Nove Scotie 3 N mion 3 New Haven ter 2 Baltimore 3 Springtield 3 Springtgield ot New Haven Ne (et at Nove Scotia Moncton ot Sherbrooke Herhsey ot Baltimore Utica at Binghamton CRHL STANDINGS Hi Arrow Woodland Park Sheil Sandman inn cme SCOTTISH LEAGUE Pe 15 Soccer Resvite Satu ENGLISH LEAGUE Division | 7 Queens PR 2 Chariton 0 Shettield W 2 Southampton 1 Wimbledon 0 Newcastle 0 Aston Villa 2 Leicester | Blockburn 2 Man City | Kelly Keraitt, Sheil Townsend, Sex Doug Knowider, Shell 2 Crystol Polace 3 Birminghom 0 ‘eods | ipswich 0 mi Plymouth vs. Barrel frozen tield Shrewsbury 0 West Bromwich | SCOTTISH LEA Dundee United 2 Moton 0 Falkirk 1 Duntermline 0 r Fo" SBI" BSSBSss S88 5 Division | Aidrie 1 Dumborton 1 ch i Kilmarnock 0 Fortar 2 Portick $ Raith O TRANSACTIONS American League Boston Red" Sox nome Seon Mc Donough television Play-by-play onnoun Colitorn - ith ie Frover end outtialde Ogree to terms ‘end pitcher Don inngnote Twins — acquire pitcher Fred Toliver trom the Phil Phillies in ox Shanes for catcher-ticst bosemen Chriat crore SEE. res wn pees em = ie cons ened Sete pape a] om ae Fear tt — ears ote pipes Cpt act rooraat ot rm, taugh nn — nam det ware, Pry that sgn tetas pare nid otc con Socaet fae tak non Sank i WAR: Editor's note: CasNews publisher Burt Campbell Forces Europe's participation in NATO exercises last fall in West Germany. The group visit Lahr, the U.S. Army's military establishment at Hof, and the war exercise, Rebel Saddle, in the Hohenfels training area in Bavaria. This is the second of Campbell's three-part report. By BURT CAMPBELL Publisher War is hell. This is an old bromide, but a true one. For some, the heat of battle would best exemplify the truth of these three words, even mock exercises complete with the rumble of advancing tanks, the ki of radio icati the fre- juent roar of gunfire, and the mud and rain. But for me, the reality of war was the visit to the war exercises’ command centre: Two armoured personnel vehicles (APVs) are separated by a tent. Inside the tent, command post personnel work quietly on tables under dim lights, the musty smell of ‘the dirt floor in the air. s Outside, barbed wire surrounds the command post and the guard on duty a rifle loaded with real ammunition, not blanks, He has his ‘expert marksman’ ranking. The tent and the two APV’s are expertly camou- flaged and set in amongst tall treés in a heavily bushed area, Back inside, the radio communications are at both ends in the APVs. A coffee urn gets constant use, and an officer casually tells me: “The object of war is to kill as many of the enemy as you can, Nothing demoralizes troops faster than to see theit comrades fall around them.” Radio transmission are sent from sources other than just the command centre to confuse the “enemy” about the centre's location. But, just in case, another command centre is set up elsewhere, ready to be used should this one be taken out. But while the war threat at the exercises isn't real, the terrorist threat is considered real. So much so, that Brig.Gen. Tom de Faye, commander of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (4 CMBG), is always accomp- anied by a sharpshooter when he visits the field. And, like the sentry, at the post, the has real ammunition in the chamber of his rifle. BATTLE TANK . . . CasNews publisher Burt Cam- pbell spent some time inside tank similar to this DO WOMEN WANT TO GO TO WAR? In the continuing debate about the “equality” of men and women, the argument is inevitably advanced by males: “Do you (women) want to go to war?” Well, women are going. But at this point, it’s in such field services as medical unit# that they will potentially see action. Speaking last fall in West Germany with a group of Canadian community: newspaper journalists — who included women — Brig.-Gen. Tom de Faye said it’s the mixed gender unit that is on trial, not women. He said “people” must pass qualification standards to be an infantryman. They must pass tough basic training, including being able to snowshoe to a high standard, operate equipment and weaponry, and shoot to a‘ set standard. The commander of the 4th Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (4 CMBG) also noted that men and women SENTRY DUTY . . . Cpl. Tom Disterhoett of Delta, B.C. takes turn at sentry duty at entry to resupply. depot during Canadian Forces Eyrope annual Leopard C1 battle tank. Tank represents an impor- tant past of CFE's armoured vehicle arsenal. react differently in stressful situations. Maybe, he wondered, both men and women will react yet differently again when mixed in war situations. oO ional effici i he luded. deciding factor. Maj.-Gen. John Sharpe, at a separate briefing, reported there are just under 300 women soldiers in Canadian Forces Europe. “Opening up the service battallions and the medical units was a logical step,” he said, adding that the air force is pretty well open now” with one of Canada’s foremost jet pilot instructors being a woman. Maj.Gen. Sharpe, commander of CFE, said he must be the personally has “no problem” with women in the forces but . wondered if there would be enough women wanting to serve in combat units. He said tests of women in combat units are slated to begin, but added that there should be at least 20 per cent “if you are going to mix . . . if minority groups are to survive, socially and so on.” He then asked a female member of the media group if women should be conscripted in time of war if they're allowed into combat forces. He received no answer. Officers in the field say women are terrified of being taken prisoner and the built-in tendencies in men to protect women would affect operating efficiency, perhaps seriously. military exercises last fall in the Hohentels training rea in West Germany. Command centre Campbell's ‘hell’ WAR IS HELL... BRIG.-GEN. TOM de FAYE . » accompanied by sharpshooter Radio communications in the bat- tle command centre are in armoured personnel vehicles located at both ends of the tent that serve as headquarters. LOCAL LAD... . C iblisher Burt C b chats with Private Brian Hall of Castlegar durin: military exercises last fall in the Hohenfels area West Germany. With the logistics element of Adam Company of the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, Hall has been with the Canadian Armed Forces in Europe for the past year-and-a-half. A 1984 SHSS graduate, Hall is the son of Catharine Hall and the “late Lloyd Hall War exercises conducted by Canadian Armed Forces in Europe extend beyond the huge special training area leased for war games. Activities extend out into the countryside, and into such small towns as Offenhausen. Here a whole resupply depot was camouflaged. As a group of Canadian media representatives drove through the town nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But then the comment: “Something doesn’t look just right... .” Our driver slowed down, we started to look more closely, and — sure enough — there were jeeps and trucks of all sizes parked up against buildings or in side roads, and camouflaged so expertly they would never be seen from the air. CFE has 40 new 12-tonne trucks, and even a few of these were here and camouflaged so well you had to look twice to see them _‘NeiaaaenammrrenRS S n HIDING OUT. . . Canadian armed forces vehicle. is expertly hidden in German town of Of- fenhausen. Camoutiage is used extensively throughout ‘Something isn't right' (These trucks are something else again. The eight-wheel-drive vehicles can forge water up to 48 inches deep and are equipped with 365 hp motors. One truck tire alone weighs 613 Ibs. and the trucks can carry up to 52 tonnes hauling a trailer.) Security was also evident throughout the town. While children playing wore Adidas runners, clothing that was identical to that of North American kids and a few had Walkmans glued to their ears, only meters away Canadian soldiers were perched on woodpiles or behind out buildings, weapons at the ready. Soldiers are consciously aware of the terrorist threat, and these resupply depots have many items such as weapons that are highly desired by extremist groups. — Burt Campbell.