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Half isn’t

@ Consistently splitting
weekend series’ is
hurting the Rebels in the
KIJHL's West Division.

Split.

If you had to pick one word
to describe the Castlegar
Rebels’ season in the Kootenay
International Junior Hockey
League, split would be it.

If there was one word the
the Rebels would like applied
to describe their season,
streak would be it.

Just past the quarter-way
mark in the season, the
Rebels have split four of four
weekend series’ and lost the
other..four games they've
played.

The team has yet to put to-
gether a string of two victories
in a weekend and last week-
end was no exception.

The Grand Forks. Border
Bruins beat the Rebels 6-3 in
Grand Forks Friday night, but
the Rebels got the split by
beating the Columbia Valley
Rockies 5-4 the next night in

As had been the case in pre-
vious losses, the Rebels out-
shot the Border Bruins 42-32,
but came up short on the

score!

Brad Schock scored in the
first period from Mike Jodoin
and Kevin Nisse to give the
Rebels a 1-0 lead, but the Bor-
der Bruins came back and led
led 2-1 heading into the the

Derek Lalonde tied it for

Mike Hunter

Shayne Cutler, from Chris
Babakaiff and Lalonde, made
it 4-3 in thethird but that was
as close as the Rebels would

In their first game against
East Division competition, the
Rebels jumped out to an early
lead against Columbia Valley
and were never caught.

Mike Hunter scored from
Jodoin and Dave Dybal to put

the second and Jodoin made it
3-1 heading into the third.
Hunter did it again in the
third period scoring 35 sec-
* — in to give the Rebels 4-1
ead.

The Rockies made it close
coming back with three
of their own in the third, but
Jodoin’s second of the night,
from Kevin Leiman and
Hunter, secured the win, and
another split, for the Rebels.

Columbia Valley outshot
the Rebels 34-33.

With eight points, the

trail the Border Bruins

by 10, the Nelson Maple Leafs
by 11 and the first
Beaver Valley Nite Ha by
14.

News photo by Ed Mills

They might be short on size, but they're big on determination and
drive in the Mini-Basketball League, which wrapped up its inaugural

season at SHSS Sunday.

big su

The little kids who are big on «

ball wrapped up the first season
of mini-basketball at Stanley
Humphries secondary school
Sunday.

Led by Kevin Carlson and
Nicolle Binnie, the Brusiers won
the Mini-Basketball League title
beating the Dream Team 6-4.

The Junior Jordans came
third and the Pistons fourth, but
all the players were winners on
pizza day at the gym.

“It was a terrific success,” said
SHSS athletic director Doug
Hickey, who organized the league

ccess

along with teacher John Ritchie.

The League, for players in
Grades 4, 5, and 6, was an intro-
duction to the game for many of
the 48 kids who signed up.

“We were really excited about
the turnout, the enthusiasm,
skill development of the kids and
the development of our senior
(high school) kids as young
coaches,” Hickey said

The coaches included Laurel