“216 Wednesday, February 5, 1992 @ Fruitvale rinks on fire In bonspiel Castlegar rinks fall victim to Fruitvale juggernaut in Groundhog Bonspiel News Staff Fruitvale rinks won three of four events and Castlegar rinks did the opposite in the 32-team Groundhog Bonspiel at the Castlegar Curling Club last weekend. The Fruitvale foursome skipped by Ron Dergusoff were the big winners Sunday as they beat Larry Beebe’s Creston rink to win the A event. Rob Ferguson took out Castlegar’s Bill Gattrell to win the B event, while anoth- er Castlegar rink fell victim to the Fruitvale juggernaut as Jack Startup beat Arne Ak- selson for the C event title. Castlegar’s Bill Perehudoff, who skipped a rink that in- cluded his sons Barry and Jim, won the D event, but it came at the expense of anoth- er local rink skipped by Bill Van Yzerloo Jr. “A bonspiel is funny, you know-you get in there and you have to play well. Because all you have to do is make a cou- ple mistakes and you end up losing,” said John Horcoff, whose rink was beaten out Saturday. “When you get toa bonspiel some teams are really hot or they get a couple of breaks and that’s all it takes,” he said. Dergusoff’s foursome was made up of Harold Skulnec, Brain Becker and Craig Re- ichmuth. Phil Babakaiff, Stu Dever- ney and Jim Draper played on Gattrell’s rink, while Akselson was joined by Tom Wilson, Abe Culley and George Cross- ley. Sixteen Castlegar rinks competed in the annual event, while Fruitvale sent six. Rinks from Nelson, Trail and Salmo also competed. SPOILS OF VICTORY ent = © & oR MM % c ane Kosowan also competed in the event. A" ee News photo by Ed Mills Castlegar Figure Skating Club’s Karen Skibinski came home with a bronze medal from the Kootenay Championships in Trail last weekend. Club members Vanessa Kastrukoff, Alexis Rideout, Ashley Price, Michelle Kooznetsoff, Meghan and Chelsea Van Vliet, Selena Fodor and Laura Time runs out for CRHL team Computers holds Pressure Wash’s guns silent in one-goal game, while Sports Centre wins rough one in CRHL action over the week News Staff Time ran out on Castlegar Pressure Wash in a Castlegar Recreational Hockey League game at the Community Complex Monday t. Pressure Wash got three third-period goals but it wasn’t enough to.overcome the deficit as they lost by one to Kootenay Computers. Dave Terhune scored two goals and set up another for Computers, which led 3-0 after the first period. Gary Sauer scored once and assisted on two more for Computers, while Bill Nazaroff also scored and Ralph Humphrey had two assists. League scoring leader Gord Walker had an uncommonly quiet night with a goal and one assist, the same output as Pressure Wash de- fe Don Soroke. Tom Trubetskoff had the other Pressure Wash goal, while Wayne Kinakin set up two. In the other game over the week, Dwayne Weir scored three goals and had three assists as Castlegar Sports Centre beat Woodland Park Shell 8-5 in what turned into rough game at the Complex. Grant Pilla scored twice and added an as- sist for Sports Centre, while Niki Hyson had four assists. Rod Zavaduk had a goal and three assists, while Dan Walker and Chris Owens also scored for Sports Centre. 4 Benton Hadley scored twice for Shell, while Kelly Keraiff and Dave Rugg had a goal and an assist each. Al Conroy also scored for Shell and Chris Brodman added two assists. Sports Centre, which never trailed in the game, broke open with three goals in the third period. All of the game’s 11-minor penalties were called in the final period with Shell getting six including four for roughing. Other Reps pound Nelson News Staff Call them Castlegar’s other Rep hockey team. While the Castlegar Ban- tam Reps get all the press with their potent lineup and unbeaten record, the Peewee Reps are quietly going about their business in their quest for a berth in the provincial championships. The A provincials are set for the second weekend in March in Squamish and the Peewees need only beat Beaver Valley — a team they have owned in the few times they’ve met this season — to advance. “We've got a few things we need to work on, but I think we'll be all right,” said coach John Horcoff. Like their elder cousins in the Bantam division, the Pee- wees proved they have a po- tent offense of their own with a 13-1 pounding of Nelson in Nelson Jan. 26. _Peewees’ scoring leader Shawn Horcoff added to his totals against Nelson with five goals and five assists. Horcoff scored three goals and set up four more in the first period as the Reps built an 8-1 lead. Rob Bleier had two goals and two assists and Darren Belanger scored once and set up four. David Pucci with two, Ryan Leckie, Kent Fauth and Grady Moore also scored for the Reps, who improved their season record to 13-3 in the West Kootenay Minor Hockey Association. Justin Evin got the win in net for the Peewees. The Reps had less luck in a pair of exhibition games against a AA team from the South Okanagan last week- end at the Community Com- plex. Castlegar was given a taste of its own medicine in a 10-2 loss Saturday, but came back to post a 4-4 tie Sunday. Horcoff and Bleier set up Moore for both goals in the loss. Nick Antignani, Moore, Bleier and Horcoff scored in the tie, while Jay Antignani and Cory Quiding picked up assists. The Peewees are in Beaver Valley Monday and play Trail at the Complex Tuesday. ™@ Wednesday, February 5, 1992 SchoolSPORTS News Staff SR. BOYS BASKETBALL You don’t have to be a NBA coach to know how valuable Ryan Vatkin is to the SHSS se- nior boys basketball team. All you have to dois see him play. “He’s a team leader,” said Rockers’ coach John Ritchie. “He’s the guy who runs the show for me, he’s my exten- sion on the court.” So if Vatkin is out of the lineup it’s something like the team flying without a pilot. That’s the way it was at the Rockers Invitational Saturday at SHSS as the Rockers, with- out Vatkin, lost 60-45 to L.V. Rogers of Nelson in the final. Vatkin, who was named a tournament all-star — as he has been in most of the tour- naments SHSS has played in this season — was forced to leave the final game after spraining his ankle in the first quarter. Trailing by one point at the half, SHSS were easily domi- nated in the last two quarters. While hoping his team doesn’t have to do without Vatkin, Ritchie said the play- ers have to learn they can’t re- ly on one player. “Without him there the flow of the game has to change, and we didn’t handle it. well against LVR,” Ritchie said. “Someone, or maybe two or three people, are going to have torise up and take charge ifhe gets injured or gets in foul trouble,” Ritchie said. The Rockers opened the eight-team tourney with a 63- 40 win over Kaslo Friday and followed that with an 83-40 victory over Princeton to ad- vance to the final. _ Dan Kooznetsoff — who might just be the guy capable of doing the job with Vatkin out — and Bob Baulne both scored 13 points to lead SHSS in the loss to LVR. Marcel Dusseault led SHSS with 20 points against Prince- ton and Kooznetsoff led with 14 in the win over Kaslo. Vatkin scored 19 against Troll means fun for cross-country fans News Steff Say troll to some people and you’re likely to get a cringing reply invoking images of hideous monsters who dwell under bridges. Say the word to cross-coun- try skiing fans and you'll prob- ably get all the information on one of the Castlegar Nordic Ski Club’s biggest events of the season. The event is the eighth an- nual Troll Loppet which is set for Paulson Country Trails Saturday beginning at 8:30 a.m. Skiers of all ages and abili- ties are invited to attend and are asked to meet at Mud Lake, five kilometres west of Nancy Greene Lake on High- way 3. Four categories have been established: eTiny Troll, an eight-kilo- metre course for seven and eight year olds. e Super Troll, a 16-kilome- tre course for eight to 12 year olds . - ¢The women’s category in- cludes bronze, silver and gold events of 16, 23 and 30-kilo- metre courses respectively. ¢The men’s category has bronze, silver and gold events at 23,30 and 40 kilometres re- spectively. There is also a team event in which families are encour- ‘aged to enter. All skiers completing any category will receive a certifi- cate and all participants will get a Troll Loppet badge. The Loppet is dedicated to Lars Taylor, who had been a high performance, competi- tive cross-country skier and an Olympic hopeful until he was paralyzed in a mountain bike accident last year. Funds raised from the Castlegar Loppet, and others across the province, will be forwarded to Taylor, who is from the Okanagan area. The fees for the event are $8 for skiers aged 13 and over and $4 for those 12 and under, who must be accompanied. LOAN-OUT CAMERA Arrangements for the use of these cameras should be made through our News Department at 365-3517. Ryan Vatkin B.C. SECONDARY SCHOOLS GIRLS BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION : AA DIVISION Top 10 to. Feb. 4 1. Lambrick Park (1) Van. island 2. Stanley Humphries (3) W. Koot. 3. Westsyde (2) Okanagan 4. Duchess Park (4) N. Central 5. Garibaldi (7) Fraser Valley 6. Little Flower Acad. (8) L. Mainland 7. D.W. Poppy (9) Fraser Valley 8.Pitt Meadows (5) Fraser Valley 9.Windsor (8) L. Mainland 10.John Barsby, (H.M.) Van.Island Honorable mention: Fernie,Parkland, K.L.O, Kelly Road Princeton and 11 against Kaslo. The Rockers travel to a tournament in Grand Forks this weekend. SR. GIRLS BASKETBALL The senior girls moved into the No. 2 spot in the AA provincial rankings after win- ning the consolation of a tour- nament in Penticton last weekend. After losing 77-44 to the No. 1 ranked AAA team in the province from Salmon Arm, the Rockettes won two straight to finish fourth in the eight- team tourney. Ranked third going in, the Rockettes dumped the No. 2 team from Kamloops — who were the only other AA team.in the tourney — 52-50. Kelly Davidoff was the hero in the game sinking two free throws with 16 seconds left. The Rockettes beat a AAA team from Surrey 66-60 in the . consolation final. Perrier, who hit in dou- ble figures in all three games, led SHSS with 11 points, while Laurel Closkey and Tamara Rezansoff had eight each. Closkey, who had 15 points to lead SHSS in the loss to Salmon Arm, was given honor- able mention to the tourney’s all star team, making it six tournaments in a row where she has been named the team’s best all-around player. Perrier had 11 against Salmon Arm and 27 in the win over Surrey. The girls travel to-a AA tournament in Vernon this weekend. JR. BOYS BASKETBALL The junior boys lost two of three games to place a disap- pointing fifth in a six-team tournament in Nelson last weekend. They play Trafalgar at SHSS today at 4 p.m. UNITED BUY @ SELL Furniture Warehouse No Frills - No Gimmicks - Low Prices! Low Cost Warehouse Operation! SAVE AS MUCH AS on Furniture for every room in your Home