as Castlegar News June 13, 1990 it’s time to think about your A,B,C’s! Start the search... in the attic, in the basement, in the closet ... and collect those things you no longer need or use. A simple phone call starts your Classified Ad on its way to people who are looking for your “don't needs.” No matter what you have to sell, Action Ads do the trick quick. Su Castlegar News 365-2212 June 13, 1990 Castlegar News 81 Castlegar News SPORTS GET THE PERFECT Fit WITH A KOOTENAY SAVINGS RRSP. Kootenay Savings NHL VANCOUVER (CP) — Meet the Fabulous Five, the fuzzy-cheeked teenagers NHL insiders insist are ean’t- miss prospects in Saturday’s entry draft. “It's a dream year,’’ says Brian Burke, vice-president of hockey operations for the Vancouver Canucks. ‘We'd be satisfied with any of the top five kids.”” ; All the fuss is over 18-year-olds Mike Ricci, Owen Nolan, Keith Primeau, Peter Nedved and Jaromir Jagr, apparently the cream of the draft crop in 1990. The Canucks pick second in the draft -of eligible junior, college and European players, barring any last- minute trades. Vancouver finished 20th overall in the NHL standings with 64 points. The Quebec Nordiques select first for the second straight year. Quebec finished a distant last with 31 poin- ts. The Nordiques and the Canucks have’ indicated they are willing to swap first-round picks, prov! ling they still get a crack at the top five. The rankings by the Central Scouting Bureau, which supplies its list to all 21 NHL teams, are: Ricci, centre, Peterborough Petes; Nolan, right wing, Cornwall Royalss; Primeau, centre, Niagara Falls Thunder; Ned- ved, centre, Seattle Thunderbirds; Scott Scissons, centre, Saskatoon Blades. Central Scouting does not rate Europeans; goalten- ders are listed separately. Jagr, a right winger from the Czechoslovak national team, is considered by many scouts to be the best player, along with goaltender Trevor Kidd of the Brandon Wheat Kings. “These are impressive kids, a dream for teams picking in the top five,”’ said Burke. “Everyone is raving about this year’s crop."’ Scheduled to follow Quebec and Vancouver early in the reverse draft, based on the 1989-90 standings, are the Detroit Red Wings, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins. All missed the playoffs. . Most observers feel the Nordiques will draft Nolan because they need size-and strength on the wing. The six- foot-one, 194-pound Nolan scored 51 goals and recorded 110 points in $8 games in the Ontario Hockey League, plus 240 minutes in penalties. “Nolan is a prototype NHL winger, with size and skating skill,"” said Burke. “‘He’s big-league belligerent.” Ricci, captain of the Canadi team that won the world junior championship in Helsinki, has bee: at the top of the Central Scouting list for months: draft has|teams drooling $2 goals and 116 points in 60 OHL.games. “Ricci is the safest pick,” Burke said “He's a quality player, a born leader."” Jagr skated in the world tournament in April and may be the most complete player available. He'll attend the draft, but apparently will play for Czechoslovakia in the next world junior tournament in Saskatoon. “He's a 200-pounder who is a superb puckhandler,’’ said Burke. ‘What we don’t know is when he’ ll play here, so he’s a bit of a gamble.”” Burke calls Nedved an artist who some day will win an NHL scoring title. Nedved defected from Czechoslovakia in January 1989 during a midget tour- nament in Calgary. Nedved, six-foot-two and 178 pounds, had 65 goals and 145 points in 71. TEE FOR ONE Seven-year-old Ashley Kilford has ple: seem to bother her as she tees it up in school Tuesday night. cosNews photo by td Mills nty of room in her batting helmet but that doesn’t T-ball game at Valley Vista elementary Walker, McArthur singing in rain By ED MILLS Staff Writer Leave it to a pro to predict a win: ner. “Danny Walker's always going to be there. I'd put my money on him,” said assistant pro Wayne Gamborski when asked last Thursday who he liked in the Club Championship at the Castlegar and District Golf Club. Well, they might have to start calling him ‘‘right on the money Gamborski’’ now because it was in deed Walker who shot a two-over-par 74 to win the rain-shortened event Saturday by four strokes over defeny ding champ Bill Perehudoff. Ron Konkin was five shots off the pace with a 79 while Al Akselson, Wayne Cox and Len Darnbrough all shot 81s. On the women’s side it was Diony McArthur with an 82 to win her third club championship, but first in several years. McArthur was nine shots better than Ruth Trickey who won the low net event, while Dianne McAfee was second low gross with a 95. Gamborski’s prediction wasn't sheer guess work because Walker — having shot a respectable 151 at the rain-marred Sunflower Open June 2 and a win at the West Kootenay Zone championships May 27 — had to be considered the hot shooter heading in More rain Sunday, in what has already been another soggy month for: Castlegar, forced the cancellation of round two because greens and fair- ways were becoming too soft and prone to damage, said Gamborski Walker, 32, said the secrét to playing on a soggy course (it didn’t rain in the first round Saturday) is to just accept it rather than trying to fight it “You have to accept that you're going to have some fad soe because of the weather, andfeverybody else is too. So you just can’t let it get you down,”’ he said. With scores in the low 70s, Walker isn’t likely to complain about much “For the amount of rain we've had the course was in pretty good shape I'll take a 74 any day,”’ he said. If Walker has to be considered hot, then McArthur is scorching the women’s side, with her third tourney win so far this year. She also won the Castlegar Ladies Open and the Trail Sweepstakes tournament. “ve been really lucky so far this year. I'm not, putting particularily well (but) I’m staying in the fairways. That's about thé size of it,’’ she said. It’s as if McArthur doesn’t want to break the-spell_by_talking-it-up-teo- much. “Sure, at the: moment I guess I'm hot but they come and go — hot streaks — they're here for a while and then they’re gone.”’ McArthur's next chance tose if the iron’s still hot comes this weekend at the two-day Castlegar Savings and Credit Union Ladies Open in Castlegar It's soccer sorcery as upsets continue WORLD CUP '90 Egypt Became the third Cindetella team of the World Cup in Italy when it held the mighty Netherlands to a 1-1 draw Tuesday, baffling the European champions with some surprising soc- cer sorcery Unawed-by-the reputations of Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten and com- pany, the Egyptians decided to stress offence in the Group F game and the strategy worked. Substitute Wim Kieft gave the Netherlands the lead in the S8th minute but a penalty converted by Magdi Abdel-Ghani seven minutes from the end gave the Egyptians a draw they richly deserved. In the end, it was the Dutch team that went off the field in Palermo relieved to have earned a point and not to have suffered the humiliation of defending-champion Argentina, beaten 1-0 by Cameroon on the opening day last Friday, or of Scotland, which lost 1-0 Monday to tiny Costa Rica. “If, with the talent we have, we cannot win a match like this, then it is a debacle,”’ Kieft said. ‘‘Such a team {as Egypt) can only play well when we play badly.” South Korea tried the opposite ap- proach to the Egyptians’, shoring up their defence in their group E encoun- ter with Belgium. Though the South Koreans held on until halftime, spec- tacular long-range goals early in the second half from Marc Degryse and Michel De Wolf gave the Belgians a 2- Owin at Verona “It was a well-deserved, routine victory, although I would have liked to have seen two more goals," said Guy Thys, Belgium’s veteran coach Today, Spain plays Uruguay at Udine (11 a.m. EDT, TSN) and Argentina faces the Soviet Union at Naples (3 p.m. EDT, TSN). Carlos Bilardo, Argentina’s coach, said his team’s game is ‘‘a matter of life or death.”” Outsiders have produced more shocks in the first five days of this World Cup already than in any other previous tournament and the Egyp- tians’ performance must be giving their next rivals, England and Ireland, cause for concern. One man record book adds another to a long list Most baseball fans found out Tuesday morning that Nolan Ryan had pitched his sixth no-hitter — a 5-0 gem in Oakland Monday night Somehow, no one was really sur- prised. At 43, Ryan already had a one- hitter this season. Twice last season, he lost a no-hitter in the ninth inning. He has pitched 12 one-hitters and 19 two-hitters. “It's come so late in my career,” the veteran Texas Ranger said. ‘Last year, I got close a couple of times and it just didn’t look like it was going to happen.”” Ryan is the oldest pitcher ever to throw a non-hitter. Cy Young was 41 when he no-hit the New York Yankees in 1908. Want some more records? Ryan is the first pitcher to throw no-hitters for three different teams and the first to toss a no-hitter in three different decades. His first no-hitter came on May 15, 1973, as a member of California when he beat Kansas City, 3-0. Ryan’s cat- cher in that game was Jeff Torborg, now manager of the Chicago White Sox. “Nothing impresses me more than longevity,” Oakland A’s manager Tony La Russa said after watching Ryan dominate his World Series champions. ‘‘You have to take your hat off to him.”” The left fielder on the 1973 Royals was Lou Piniella. He’s managing in Cincinnati this season On July. 15, 1973, Ryan tied a record with his second no-hitter of the season. He struck out 17 and beat Detroit 6-0. The losing pitcher in the game was Jim Perry. Before the designated hit ter rule was established, Ryan had fanned Perry twice There were two more no-hitters with California (1974-1975) and one in the National League for Houston in 1981 to break Sandy Koufax’s Please see RYAN page 82 Halfway home for fastballers By CasNews Staff Though no team has emerged from the pack at the midway point in the season in the Castlegar Men’s Fastball League, plenty of players have made an impression As far as the league goes, President Terry Taranoff uses the key word of sport in the 80s and 90s — parity “Nobody's surprised me, it’s a pretty even league,’ said Taranoff. ‘Any team can beat any other team on any: given night. I's an old cliche, but that’s the way it is."” The league standings bear Taranoff out Banjo’s Pub put a pair of wins together this week to up its record _ CASTLEGAR MEN'S FASTBALL LEAGUE wok Pp Banjo’s Pub 7 3:0.) Frainor Mech 5 3 1 Labatts 4 6 2 6 T 0 i] 0 Salmo Hotel 1 4 ‘ 8 5 Pie to 7-3 and take over top place from Trainor Mechanical of Nelson which sits at 5-3-1. Satmo Hotel is about the only team fading in last spot with a 2-64 mark while defending champion Labatts has to be disappointed in third-with a4-7 record But if no teams have come to the fore-the-same-can’t be said about some players and if the feague were handing out the all star hardware today there would be some obvious choices. Top of the list has to be Ron Gretchen because without him, Labatts might have slipped into the abyss by now. A third baseman, Gretchen leads the league in hitting, curren: tly banging out hits at a .519 clip, fills in as a pitcher and is just about Mr. Everything for Labatts which needs more solid everyday players to move up in the stan- dings On the mound, it’s no contest with Eli Soukeroff leading the pack by far. In a game where good pitching is the difference, Soukeroff is the class windmiller in the league. Soukeroff picked up his league leading seventh win last night, a 5- © shutout over Trainor at Kin- naird, and is just getting into the groove according to Taranoff, who is player-coach of Banjo’s “It’s been so cold and wet out there it’s just too cold for the pitchers. Eli is just starting to throw better,’ said Taranoff. And that's bad news for hitters throughout the league who haven't been able to solve Soukeroff yet. in the rookie_of the-year-rece; Taranoff said Adrian Markin is quickly making a name for him- self around the league. Labatt’s will certairily\remem- ber the stocky Markin, who hit a second inning home run Monday which proved to be the winning run in a 2-1 Banjo’s win Honorary mention on the mound has to go to Labatt’s Pete if they were handing out the end of the season awards today, Banjo's Pub hurler Eli Soukeroft Soukeroff leads the league in w one loss. cosews photo by Fd Mills Evdokimoff, 3-1, who pitched the league's only no hitter to date against Trainor June 4 Evdokimoff walked one and Please see FASTBALL page 82 would be a shoe-in. ins with seven against only