Page 12A Football playoffs approach | 0: the South Slocan Skydome behind Mt. Sentinel School. The roof on the dome was once again left open which meant a good old fashioned snow bowl. The Mates were the class of the league this season and they would lock up first place with a win over the last place Hawks. ‘The Hawks kept the Mates within a touchdown at the half thanks to an improved defence that fea- tured returning veterans Mario Lioce and Brian However, Les Yard and the Mates were too much for the Hawks as they pulled away in the second half for a 31-12 victory. Yard was the game star with five touchdown passes on offence PP d by three i tions on defence. The victory means the Mates will play the Hawks again next week at 1 p.m. at South Slocan in Lou Cicchetti of the Lions tries in vain to catch slippery Kats quarterback Ron Coe. the second semi-final match. “It’s the first time we finished in first place in our eight year his- tory,” said Mates player represen- tative Dave Loukianow. “Hopefully we'll be able to carry our winning ways into next week for the playoffs.” The other Sunday match saw the Lions Head Pub play the Castlegar Tom Kats. The Kats have been tailing the Mates for first all season but have never been The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, November 2, 1994 SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert able to catch them. They have had The Kats victory leaves them tied for first place with the Mates at a 7-2 record but the Mates gained first by virtue of a better head-to-head record. The Kats and the Lions will face off again this Sunday at 11 am. in the other League semi-final. Datchkoff prepares for Comox Valley ‘Sun a Nobody has ever asked Jen- 14-year-old Castlegar native knows her That's because Datchkoff is one of only ten figure skaters from the Kootenay region who will be travelling to the Comox Valley in February for the B.C. Winter Games. Datchkoff made the team after finishing second in the Juvenile Ladies Division at a competition in Trail two weeks ago. She will be joining five skaters from Trail, one from Beaver Valley and three from Cranbrook. Jennifer Datchkoft Last year, Datchkoff finished sixth in the same division at the ‘Winter Games which were held in Smithers, This time she hopes to do better by employing a new and challenging skating program that is strongly athbetls; Datchkoff started the program in September and is still working out the assorted kinks. She will be competing along- side Trail skater Robyn Moore who gained first in the Trail com- petition. Moore gained first by taking four of a possible five first place votes from judges. Datchkoff had the other first place ranking. The next competition for Datchkoff and her compatriots from the Castlegar Figure Skating Chub will be later this month when they take to the ice in the Grand Seniors honor worthy golfers SUN SPORTS STAFF Not even the energizer bunny can outlast a Castlegar senior golfer, or so it would seem. After all, the only thing stop- ping a senior golfer is the curl- ing season. The Castlegar Mens’ Senior golfers, accompanied by their wives, marked the end of another golf season with their annual banquet held at the Castlegar Golf and Country Club. After a delicious meal, presi- dent Wally Brunn wished all mem- Mike Kumoff then presented trophies. to this year’s winners. The Anderson Trophy winner was Andy Popoff while Wilf Sweeney picked up the Evans Trophy. The Chivon Cup went to Bob Foubister. 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Ne ee lg ce 6 1878 ae bn 2 i Ghage oS 06 /cdomeme Lchemnlareoerrtap apy Tore wt she ther, amenty patie me (erie (xt (at Tas ee fl Sete ev, the year was the Tombstone Open which was won by Ken Price with Ian McDonald and Mike Bermel following close behind. Price shot a round of six under to claim the title. All golfers promise they will be back out after the snow clears in the spring. =Fleld Hockey —— Continued from 10A Humphries was already the offi- cial winner but you don’t put on a skirt and brandish a heavy wooden stick all day without having a deciding game. The Blue team eventually won the final 3-0 but all the girls were winners on the day. Clow picked out Marnie Nevokshonoff and Angela as two players who gave their best all day for Stanley Humphries. Nevokshonoff played goal while Osmachenko was challenging defences all day at centre half-back. Clow has been junior field hockey players at Stanley Humphries for three years and this is the second year in a row that the junior team has been pro- claimed West Kootenay champi- on. She now has a break until the when she will be involved in picking the team representing the West Kootenay in the B.C. Summer Games. Women's field hockey is cer- tainly a sport on the rise and Clow estimates that the West Kootenay area has about 100 grade seven and cight players and close to 70 junior players. That means she will have her work cut out for her but it is no doubt one problem she can handle. In other field hockey news, the Stanley Humphries Senior Field Hockey team played Rossland Secondary School last Wednesday for the right to trav- el to Burnaby for the Provincial Championship. Unfortunately, Rossland came out on top by a score of 2-0 but Stanley Humphries head coach Verna Chernoff was still pleased with the result. “I thought the team did excep- tionally well,” said Chernoff. “The Rossland team had been together and practising for three straight years and the fact that we held those guys to only two goals says alot for our girls.” Star players for Stanley Humphries were goalie Mandy ‘Giraud and lead fullback Janice Hawley, who is also the team captain. The game may have been clouded over and rainy but judg- ing from the last week, Ladies Field pokey in Castlegar has a NOW DOES RADIATORS The Castlegar Sun WEDNES PROFILE A COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT In 1992, the taxpayers of Castlegar voted through referendum to borrow $1.7 million to begin construction of a new building for local police. Exactly two years later, the building was officially opened. In recognition of this community achievement, the following two pages will take readers back to where we were, and how far we have come. Castlegar — once owning the worst RCMP detachment in the province — can now boast of having built one of the country’s best. re en eee eee EA , November 2, 1994 | rw a