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The past weekend was a rather Oat-looking object in
good one for the Ross1and your hip pocket.
Warriors. The kids who
have been the doonnat of
This weekend the
the KIJHL West Division got Warriors again have backtheir act together well to-back games, an enenough to beat their counter with the cellarnemisis, the Beaver Valley dwelling Grand Forks
Nite Hawks, 5-4 on Friday Border Bruins on Friday
evening and then on evening and then on
Saturday they took , on the Saturday they play the team
second-place team in the that they are trying to
East Division, the Columbia replace in the standings, the
Valley Rockies and won Nelson Junior Maple Leafs.
again by the same score. It This could prove to be a real
took overtime for them to do classic, the green and whiteit and, incidentally, clad Leafs have fallen on
reversed the score by which hard times of late, but they
the Rockies beat them in have kids capable of putting
Invermere earlier in the the puck in the net and will
schedule.
certainly be no pushovers.
Both of the weekend
The Warrior coaches
. games were p~yed in the · Lloyd McLellan and Kenny
rugged style which seems to Kosbey, have their charges
be the vogue in the league playing the style of hockey
now and I can't help but that can win games in thif
think tha~ this direction league. It just bas to be that
along with the more sixty-minute effort that
stringent rules on fighting makes it pay off and the
are making for a type of ability to bounce back when
game which will ~w the you're down, as they did
fans away from their TV. against Beaver Valley.
Say what you will but I think What can one say about the
the lounge facilities at our netminding of Bert Brooker
arena are also an en- except be is marvellous to
couragement to a lot of fans. watch but one bas to feel a
I think a lot of my readers little for young Darryl
will remember the "good Lindgren who is Brooker's
old days" when you went to backup. 1be big RossJand
a cold old barn and along youngster hasn't bad much
with your blanket and foot · chance to play as Brooker's
warmer you took along a talents have been needed to

keep the Warriors within
hailing distance of the rest.
Watching the games this

season bas been a pleasure
for me, despite the fact the
team bas been struggling.
New skills are beginning to
become evident and the play
of the kids who came up the
hill from Trail - Demchuck, cahoon, Pastroand
Porcellato bas been
pretty inspiring to the local
youngsters like Danny
Ferguson, Gordie Stanton,
Terry Karenko and John
Howes. While the returnees
from former campaigns
when they didn't have too
many things to shout /about
Kenny Davis, Bart
Cammarata, Murray
Walters, Peter McLellan,
Scott Armour, Kevin McMuter, Dean ~yer and
Tim McNulty - have done
their best and you can see
them getting better with
every game.

The young fellow who
came along with Brooker
from Moose Jaw, Rod
Diebert, bas certainly held
up bis end on the defense
and you can see bis confidence growing with every
game. I guess that's the key
to the whole thing - confidence. It bas to be in place
before those skills which are
needed can be acquired.

Back before Christmas I
told manager Doug Buhr,
that "if these kids stay
together, we should have a
good chance next season."
Doug said, "Just don't count
us out this year yet." He
must have known something
I didn't and it looks like be
just may be not "Whistling
Dixie".
Unfortunately for me I
won't see the weekend
games as I will be in Nakusp
at the Legion spiel, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Five
rinks from Branch no. 14
will make the trip. Our rink
is composed of Carl Osing,
Chuck Harkness, Bert
Morrow and myself. George
Beaudry bas Ted Wiltshire,
Phil Bateman and Mike
Delich. Jim Schuck, Jim
Bateman, Mike Kraftchick
and Lee Flanders. I understand, they will try for
the regular title.
Bill Leaman will have
Tommy Clark, Bill Vickers
and Freddy Munro while
Angus Popplewell will be
backed by Russ Broughton,
Gil Besso and Cleve
Cowland. Angus', George's
and our rink will enter the
seniors while the status of
Bill's rink is unknown to me
at this time, whether
regular or seniors.
That's it for this week.