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astlegar Aquanauts _
take Colville swimmeet

Jim ia
Sun staff

What makes the Colville win
so impressive is that Castlegar

According to Castlegar Aqua-
naut coach Tom Carew, he’s treat-
ing the regular swim meet
schedule as a warm up for the
Regional and Provincial Champi-
onships.

If that's true, the Aquanauts are
going to literally blow the other
swim clubs out of the water come
game time,

Carew and a group of 65
Castlegar swimmers took first
Place in their third straight meéct
of the season last weekend in
Colville, Washington,

The locals finished with 963.5
points, and more importantly, they
beat their rivals, the Nelson Nep-
tunes, who placed second with
889 points.

“I was pretty sure we would be
up in the standings dueling with
Nelson,” says Carew,

The Neptunes, who hosted—
and won—the first meet of the
year, are the only team to win a
local meet the Aquanauts have
been in.

“We have a bit of a Tivalry,”
says Carew, “Although it’s not a
bitter rivalry—more of a friendly
competitiveness.”

had to travel to Wash-
ington for the meet. And because
the more people who compete for
a club the more points the club
gets, the host teams usually have
an advantage.

“We don’t usually get our full
tumout,” says Carew. Adding he
hopes for more of the club's 100-
plus swimmers to be out this
weekend as Castlegar hosts the
next mect,

In Colville, the host team fin-
ished third with 837 points.

“Colville has a lot of really
young kids and new kids,” points
out Carew,

Six Castlegar swimmers won
aggregate medals and the team
managed to break meet-records in
four events. Medals are awarded
for overall performance and not
individual results,

Chris Cook, Aimie Chemoff,
and Justin Kanigan took home the

gold while Wende Gouk received
a silver. Chris Chernoff, Jodi
Young, and Mario Fehrenberg
won bronze,

The records fell in two boys’
relays—the Division-2 200 free
and the Division-7 200 medley.

Kanigan's time of 37,60 in the
50 free was a record for Division 2,
and in Division 7, Fehrenberg
broke a record in his strongest race,
the 100 back, with a time of 1:10.1.

Carew said he thought a num-
ber of the club's swimmers stood
out including Kanigan and Divi-
sion 7 swimmer, Justin Phillips.

.. “Phillips had a really good 100
Meter breast stroke,” said Carew,
“At the Provincials last year he
won the event in Division 6.”

Another Division 7 Boy, Neil
Jones, 18, placed third in the 100
free and was on the record break-
ing relay team.

“The 100 free is my best
stroke,” says Jones who has swam
with the club for 11 years. “We

have a strong, relay team dis year
and should be in ‘the ries at the
Regionals." '

He says this weekend's meet is
an important one for him.

“I’m hoping to get ‘my times
down in the coming weekends,”
he says, “The coaches expected 2
little more out of me at the begin-
ning of the season but, now ‘Tom
says I’m back on track.”

Carew said Jones:is progress-
ing well, “This was the first meet
of the year he swam under one-
minute in the 100 free.”

For their host meet, the Castle-
gar coaches are working on tums
and on lowering disqualifications.

“I view the meets during the
year as warm ups for the Region-
als and Provincials,” says Carew.
But, he agrees, four wins in a row
would be nice.

“Last year we lost our home
meet to Nelson for the first time in
a number of years,” he says."We're
looking to win it this year.” H

River Otters keep the pace

JIM ZEEBEN

place Ki

Sun staff

Fora community of 1500, the
Robson swim club is wielding
quite a bit of power against teams
from much larger centres.

Ata swim meet in Colville last
weekend, the River-Otters fin-
ished seventh out of a field of 11
teams—most of who came from a
larger population base.

“We earned 212 points which
is the most we’ve ever had this
season,” says Robson coach
Marie Seghers. “It was a really
good team weekend.”

The Otters total was only 60
points behind Grand Forks and
more than 70 ahead of eighth

The Beaver Valley Dolphins, a
club which draws from a similar
sized community and with an
almost equal travel distance as
Robson placed ninth with 47
points.

Eleven Robson swimmers
made the finals including Kristy
Verigin who also won a Bronze
medal in Division 3 Girls.

Seghers says most of the

“The team is definitely where I
want them to be at this point in
the season,” says Seghers.
“There's still room for improve-
ment but they're coming along."

She says the club will work on
it's stroke techniques and swim-
mers will be given a choice of
what strokes they want to concen-
trate on.

A few problems the Otters are

working on are disqualifications for

's have imp: d their
times,

“Dana Harison, a Division 1
boy, finished in the top 8 (finals)
which he’s never done before,”
she says, “Karen Shingler, from

strokes and false starts.
Their next meet will be close
to home, across the river, in
Castlegar.
“Tm looking to get a lot more
kids out,’ she says. “And I want

the-Division-3- Girls; - Pieced) teen te go through the meet without

in every.event she was in:* :

“any. disqualifications. "4 SGV

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After practising a flip turn, a Robson River Otter emeges from the water on her back. |

Provincial softball championship
coming to Trail July 19 —- 21

The Provincial Softball Cham-
pionships will’ be held in
Warfield next weekend at Haley
Park.

Although no. teams from
Castlegar will participate, two
teams from Trail and one from
Nelson-will be in the seven-team
tournament.

“The caliber of ball is really

good,” says softball coordinator,

, Robin Tomlin. “It’s really close

to fastball, the only difference is
the pitcher.”.

The games start on Friday
night, under the lights, at 8 p.m.,
and resume at 8 a.m. on Satur-
day.

Tomlin says one team to watch
for is Larustica from Surrey.

“They’ve won the national
championships two years in a
row,” he says. y

‘The winner of the | tournament
will travel to Bow Island, Alber-
ta, for the Canadian Champi-.
onships on August 5 to 11.

At the Warfield tourney, beer,
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‘used. to control the ‘number, of:
people authorized to hunt inva

er 35,000 hunters from
around the iprovince will begin
‘Plann heir fall Nacations this

8 10 a pre:
see by BC Environment, Lim-

\quited Entry, Hunting authorizations,

«have, been: mailed to. all hunters
~ whose applications were ‘selected
yin the random draw held in Victo-
tia on June 25...)
>i Hunters whose applications
‘were not drawn or were received
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~ (are also being notified.
vu Applicants. who) have: not
received notice yet:may contact
. ‘BC Environment's: Nelson office
} at 354-6333 or any Government
Agent office for i

area during ‘a cestain
period of time for a particular
type of animal. iat

\ooM"It's a, good System. because it ‘

"allows biologists to keep track of
the game by age, class and where
they're being taken,” said Castle-
gar Conservation Officer Barry
Farynuk.

» The system limits the age, sex,
and the total number of animals
‘hunters may harvest, } \/:!\:

There are:683° limited: entry
hunts across the :province this
season, involving nine species of
game animals in 56 areas.’

A total of 126,049. applica-
tions were submitted for the
34,416 available authorizations.

“Tt was an average year as far as
go,” said Farynuk.

She limited oe, system is

The number of applications

27, teams in the Castlegar Com-
mercial Fastball League are look-

With only one. week of play
deft before ees begin on July

ving for

Banjo’s, an almost unbeatable
team for the first Asses quasters of

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‘Applicants receiving’ authoriza:
tions to hunt were randomly select-
ed with the aid ofa computer.

) Jack Boomer, Licence Officer
with BCE 's wildlife

; released

~The odds on drawing an autho-

branch, and Dawn Sutherland of
Onkdale Consulting Services,
officiated at the draw, :

depend on the
number of applications received
for a particular hunt, relative to
the number of authorizations

the season, are ¢ still j in first but
have lost their mystique and are
starting to lose.

The Nelson Athletics, who
mayed near the 10P. all year,

4, For Banjo’s, :
+ knocked a home min over the out-

For example, the odds on get-
ting an authorization to hunt clk
in the Princeton area in the
Okanagan region were one-in-52,
and the hunt for California
bighorn shcep from the easily
accessible Chilcotin Junction
herd, carried odds of one-in-318.

More typically, the 10,695
applications received for 3,175
authorizations for white-tailed
deer in the Kootenays gave each
applicant one chance in 3.4 of
receiving an authorization.

More specifically, in manage-
ment unit 409, which includes
Castlegar, Trail and the

lower,

A few cxamples were the 70
draws for White-Tailed Deer; 20
for Elk calves, two for male Elks,
and three for Mountain Sheep,
Although the latter were from a
herd closer to Salmo and not the
Syringa Creek area,

A few hunts located in areas of
the province that are remote or
difficult to access were actually
under-subscribed.

For example, 42 authorizations
to hunt mountain goat in the
Skeena Region went unassigned.

The authorizations to hunt. -
each species begin at varied
times, but start around the carly
fall.

Limited Entry Hunting seasons
do not have any consequence on
regular open hunting seasons to
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recently won a tournament in
‘Midway and are getting hot at the
tright time,

The Castlegar Merchants and

Labatt's Blues know they can beat
anyone in the league—on the
right day.

And Salmo, the season-long

‘scellar dwellers, just want to ‘get

lucky come the year-end tourna-
ment.

Last Monday, the Merchants
managed to steal some precious
momentum from Banjo’s beating
the league leaders 15-11.

. As indicated by the score, bat-
ters had a field day at the plate as
both teams rested their starting
pitchers.

On the mound, Duane Weir
eamed the win for Castlegar while
Terry Taranoff recorded the loss,

Castlegar’s Adrian Markin led
the way for his team with five
runs batted in off of two home
runs.

On offence, Weir batted in
three runners while Clay Martini
and Greg Bergeron both picked
; up two RBIs in the game.

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