Saturday, February 8 , 1992 @ Who Millsie Called, And Why @ Saturday, February 8 , 1992 Wire to wire for Oglow in Pensioners curling LETTING GO Despite what The News’ office man- ager/accountant (dare I say, bean counter) Warren Chernoff may believe in his heart of hearts, it’s part of my job to track down topical stories about local personalities, regardless of where said personalities may be re- siding at the moment of my inquiries. Still, the red-headed guy who counts the paper clips, pens and pen- cils around here is usually at my desk once a month, B.C Tel bill in hand, in an apparent state of confusion about how reaching out and touching some- one in Istanbul relates to any local sports at the Crossroads. This week alone I phoned France (several times), Montreal, New York, Vancouver (several times) and Spokane. Last week it was Germany, Calgary (several times), Ottawa and Seattle. And mostly none of the calls involved exchanging pleasantries with relatives in far away places. I like to think I’m injecting a little vicarious excitement into the red head’s life by chocking up record long distance calls to China and points be- yond that are paid for by someone else. Just between you and me, much of the information gleaned over the long distance lines falls into the category commonly known as b.s. — just things I’m interested in and, as far as Warren knows, will add color and knowledgeable input to whatever top- ic I happen to be writing on. However, of late I have begun to realize that in these days of fiscal re- straint (times are tough young man), free phone travel may be coming to an end around here. Unless of course, I can come up with a plan to justify my extravagant living at The News. So here’s the plan. Let’s dub it, Who Millsie Called And Why. Among the more affable people I talked to over the week is Trail native and former NHLer Steve Tambellini, who is now doing a public relations gig with the Vancouver Canucks. Let’s say I was phoning to find out if extra stress or pressure is added to a hockey player’s life as a result of hockey pools. You know, not only do players have to perform for their coaches and management, but also for every nascent gambleholic who ‘owns’ them in a hockey pool. “I don’t think so, I think there’s enough pressure in just the game it- self without worrying about whether you're in a pool or not,” Tambellini said. “To be honest,I think players are more worried about their bonus (mon- ey) for scoring 25. “I think the only time you joke about hockey pools is when you go back to your home town and someone says, ‘yeah, what happened to you? I took you in my pool.’ Or someone says, ‘yeah, I got you in the 10th round.’ You feel like drilling them.. What do you ' mean you got me in the 10th round? How was I available then?” Free Agent Then there was Canadian Alpine Ski Team public relations guy Michel Beaudry, who I flagged down on his cellular phone in Val D'Isere, France, while trying to get a hold of Felix Bel- czyk. We got talking about how the French organized the Games as com- pared to Calgary in 1988. “This is so crazy, in all the writings they said this was going to be very complicated and it’s turning out to be very complicated, but that’s the way it goes.” Tn what sense complicated? “It’s just that the cites are.so far apart that communications get very difficult. The guys in Albertville don’t know what’s going on in Val D’Isere and so on so forth. There’s 12 differ- ent sites spread all over. It’d be like racing in Nelson, racing in Rossland, racing in Trail and racing in Castle- gar and racing up in Slocan some- where. That’s what it’s like for all the different sports. : “In Calgary you could be based in in the city and easily travel to all the different sites. Here, if it snows and the passes close you're out of luck.” (Incidentally, thanks to Beaudry I did find Felix and that story will be in Wednesday’s paper.) In the update category, I was talk- ing to Eric Sawyer of the Greater Spokane Sports Association about the possibility of Spokane getting a CFL franchise. A topic I wrote on in this air space last week. “I was approached by the promoter over in Seattle just to help facilitate bringing a CFL team to Spokane, and we discussed it and I sort of told him what the feelings were in the sports community,” Sawyer said. What are those feelings? “Oh, they’d love it! I mean there’s no question a CFL team would goa long way to impact the community, not just from an economic level but al- so a social level. “The reality of it is, that ’m not sure we can support a CFL team. There may just not be enough people here. That’s the bottom line.” And there you have it, a fairly com- plete accounting of at least a percent- age of the calls I made this week. I feel good, fiscally responsible, a company man and all that. Uh, boss? Can I have a raise? . No sympathy for RHC @ It’s business as usual for Selkirk as they pound hapless RHC Realty in men’s basketball KOOTENAY WEST MEN'S BASKETBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS TO FEB. 4 L Cast Realty Ed Mills SPORTS EDITOR Castlegar Realty had the night off and RHC Realty might have wished it did in the Kootenay West Men’s Bas- ketball League Tuesday night. Still looking for its first win ever in the KWMBL, RHC got little sympathy for its plight from Selkirk College in one of two league games played. Darren Ettles had 23 points as Selkirk handed RHC its 10th straight loss, 70-59 at the college. Mike Perra had 16 points and Wade Forester had 15 for Selkirk as it climbed within a win of league leading Castle- om Selkirk and Castlegar meet for the third, and last, time during the regular season at the college Tuesday at 8:30 Po Willy Evdokimoff led RHC while Jim So- game, Stan Soukeroff canned 27 points for o Selkirk College 2 Winlaw Pistons 6 Cowan OfficeS. 6 RHC Realty 10 Tuesday's Games (At Selkirk College) Castlegar vs. Selkirk 7 p.m. RHC vs. Cowan 8:30 p.m. TRAIL MEN'S BASKETBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS TO FEB. 5 w Victoria Place Rock Island 8 Castlegar Realty 5 Flying Steamshovel 1 SCORING LEADERS TP MacConnell, Rl C. Coupland, VP E. Canzian, VP B. Turlock, CR G. Larson, CR L. Cicchetti, CR D. Donald, FS B. Baker, Ri J. Denison, W. Tamelin, CR D. Lucas, FS Wednesday’s Games (At the Cominco Gym) Rock Island vs. Castlegar Victoria Place vs. Steamshovel the Winlaw Pistons in a 71-69 win over Cowan Office Sup- plies at Mount Sentinel Sec- ondary School. Chad Coupland and Gar- rett Turta had 17 each for Cowan, which lost another close game and is probably a better than team than its 3-6 record indicates. RHC will again try to break its goose egg when it meets Cowan in the other game Tuesday at the college at 7:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Castlegar Re- alty’s entry in the Trail Men’s Basketball League knocked off league-leading Victoria Place 57-56 Wednesday night at the Cominco Gym. : Lou Cicchetti had 22 for Castlegar, which has won three of its last four and is making a move in the TMBL standings after an early sea- son four-game losing streak. Coupland scored 18 for Vic- toria Place, which lost just its third game of the season while giving up a share of first place in the four-team league. - Rock Island Tape Centre beat The Flying Steamshovel 61-58 in the other game at the’ toria Place. CRHL shootout is goalies nightmare Wi One player’s dream night is another's nightmare as Sports Centre beats Shell News Staff You really can’t blame Woodland Park Shell goal- tender Tim Horcoff if he has bad dreams about Dwayne Weir for the next few days. With three goals and four assists Weir’s dream night was’ Horcoff’s nightmare Tuesday as Castlegar Sports Centre beat Shell 11-7 in a Castlegar Recreational Hock- ey League game at the Com- munity Complex. Playing almost as scary a role as far as Horcoff was con- cerned was Sports Centre’s Niki Hyson, who had three goals and three assists in the win. Then there was Lorne An- derson, who also had a six- point night for Sports Centre with two goals and four as- sists. Mitch Quaedvlieg and Rod Zavaduk were the play mak- ers for Sports Centre with four assists each. Hyson scored two in the first and set up another as Shell built a 4-2 lead. It was a similar story in the second as Quaedvlieg set up two of Shell’s four goals to make it 8-5 heading into the third. Dan Walker, with two goals and one assist, and Tony Rego with a goal and an assist, also scored for Sports Centre. Dave Rugg, Jim Nazaroff and Benton Hadley were a deadly combination for Shell and might have provided Sports Centre’s goaltender Dan Wallace with some flash- backs he’d care to forget. Hadley set up all of Rugg’s four goals, which included Shell's last three of the game, while Nazaroff was in on three of them: Rugg and Hadley got the assists on Wayne Batchelor’s first-period goal, while Nazaroff got the assist on Al Conroy's goals in the second. Chris Brodman also scored. for Shell, while Kevin Gay had two assists and Kel- ly Keraiff, who had been on fire of late, had one assist. News photo by Ed Mills Janie Phipps eyes the broom at the other end of the rink while displaying perfect form Wednesda during a Women’s Curling Club game at the Castlegar Curling ad af ¥ Bud Lowther NEWS COLUMNIST It ended the way it started in the third draw of the Castle- gar Pensioners Curling Club. The rink of lead Mike Zoobkoff, second Mike Bermel, third Frank Holdsworth and skip Nick Oglow led from wire to wire to win the third draw with an 8-2 record at the Castlegar Curling Club. Mike Verzuh’s rink, which was second at the halfway point of the draw, was the bridesmaid with 7-1-2 record, while Rene Archambault fin- ished third at 7-3. Oglow’s play is steady and he seems as unflappable on the rink as hé is on the golf course. Holdsworth is known for his fast shooting — he could out draw Matt Dillon — not only on the curling rink but al- so on the golf course. Bermel was making his first appearance in Pensioners curling after an eye injury kept him out of the first two draws. Another newcomer, Mike Zoobkoff appears to have a feel for the game. 7 Nelson seniors hosted the Castlegar Club Jan. 29, and though we were treated well off the ice I can’t say the same for the games played as Ralph Clay and John McGillivray were the only winners from our eight-rink contingent. We will hope for a little re- venge when Castlegar hosts ie Nelson Pensioners in TIP OF THE WEEK: Stay outside the hog line until the thirds have made any neceSsary measurements and have counted the end. Don’t move any rocks until you are sure it is safe to do so. Second guessing thé thirds, after the points have decided and the rocks have been moved will only cause doubts, confusion and hard feelings. It will ruin the fun for all. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH 809 Merry Creek Rd. 365-3430 PASTOR: BOB MARSH . — SUNDAY MINISTRY — 9:45 a.m. — Bible School 11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship 6:30 p.m. — Evening Fellowship Home Growth Groups (Bible Study PLEASE NOTE: Copy changes taken once per month only. 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