6-Trail Times-Friday, February 5, 1982

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This weekend Rossland
Minor Hockey Association is
sponsoring and playing host
to an eight-team House
League tournament. Entered are two teams each
from Beaver Valley,
Castlegar-, Trail and
Rossland.
The competition will be a
round-robin,
total-point
formula with sportsmanship
the aim. One of those
responsible for setting it up,
Clyde Moore, told me they
have received a great deal of
help from the Rossland
business community for
which they are grateful. He
will be looking forward to a
strong showing from

Ross1and fans.
The dates for the tourney
are February 6-7 and the
first game starts at 8 a.m. in
the arena on Saturday. This
is a house league tourney
and the competition should
be keen enough to make for
some pretty good hockey.
On Wednesday, some 48
. people left Trail for Japan,
among them are the
members of the Trail Smoke
Eaters hockey club who are
participating in a five-team
international tournament
there.
As I understand it they will
play six games in three
different cities and will be
returning to Trail Feb. 15.
While I was a little surprised
to hear they had accepted
the offer while in a struggle
for the top spot in the WIHL,
I certainly wish them well
over there. It will be a big
boost for senior hockey in

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this area if they should come
home with a good record in
the tournament. Go,
Smokies, Go!
The Warriors, m~while,
have got themselves into a
must-win sltuation and not
only must they win but
someone has to give them a
lot of help. Beaver Valley
has two games in hand and
have a four-point lead over
the Rossland team. The
situation books pretty
hopeless.
The Warriors play
Columbia Valley Rockies
tonight at the ar.ena. They
defeated this same team on
the Rockies' ice earlier in
the season, but the Rockies
have been playing good
hockey of late. Should the
Warriors lose this one and
Beaver Valley win their
game in Nelson, it would
make our hopes rather
remote.
This year the Warriors got
off to a good start and even
held first place for a while,
but they have fallen on bad
times of late. Instead of 60minute games they have
played 40-minute ones losing
substantial leads.
The Nite Hawks and
Rebels have sustained
themselves through 60
minutes but the locals have
played very few games in
which they were able to win
in the third period or
overtime.
If they don't make the
playoffs, it will be a case of
wait until next year. I
suppose some will ask "are
you not being a little fast on

the trigger?" Maybe. I'm
willing to admit while
there's life there's hope, but
we haven't seen anything to
make us hope for a miracle.
Nobody will be happier than
I, if by some stroke of magic,
the kids can make it happen.
So let's go Warriors, win all
the rest of 'em and you can
then rest on your record and
hope.

In one month from today
we shall be into the B.C.
Winter Games. This event is
one of the most highly-rated
in the province. The four
days will probably be the
busiest four days in the lives
of quite a number of people
in the area. Personally, I am
helping with the parking
around Rossland. Here,
events will be held in the
arena, the high school and
Red Mountain. A bunch of
Legion members are going

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to give a hand on this project
and it seems everyone you
talk to has been approached
to give a hand. This bodes
well for the operation of all
the facilities that will be
necessary to make the
games a success.
Red Mountain will be the
centre of alpine skiing action
(cross-country at the case).
The high school will be
headquarters for netball and
there will be girls' hockey
competition in the ·arena.
Cook Avenue school will
house athletes, coaches,
trainers, etc. and some of
these people, I understand,
will be located at the high
school too. The regulation of
the parking in these areas
will be the responsibility of
the group assigned by Bill
Kassian of Trail, of which
our Legion group is one.
It sure looks like as are in
for a busy time. It's a once in
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area on the map and it looks
like a lot of people have
taken the challenge to heart.
We have word a team
sponsored by a well-known
local restaurant will be one
of the entries in the masters
basketball section. Moslt of
the action will be at Selkirk
College.
The team is composed of
women from Rossland, Trail
and the general area. They
play in the West Kootenay
Ladies' Basketball League,
against teams representing
Trail, Salmo, Nelson,
Castlegar and Selkirk
College. Rossland reps on
the team are Bonnie
Szekeley, Betty Jenkins and
Shirley Donald.
I am grateful to Deanna
Keraiff for the information
regarding this part of the
girls' basketball scene in the
coming games.

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