2 News February 20, 1901 * SPORTS SCHOOL SPORTS That's the line, according to coach Grant Lenarduzzi, on the three members of the SHSS Olympic Weightlifting team who By CasNews Staff WEIGHTLIFTING They're young, they’re raw, but they're ready. head to Duncan tonight to com- pete in the B.C. Winter Games which begin tomorrow, Grade 11 student Carlo Masini is the veteran team member, but & The Largest "IMEINIUTE & Mutton a Broke Shop in the East SAR AUFELER Shp inthe cos that’s in terms of age only. Masini and teammates Erin Hit- chens and Jeff Lewkowich are all weightlifting rookies on Lenar- duzzi'’s squad. L said he wasn’t Ss BRAKE Yo! Kootenoys! Authorized ICG Auto Propane Conversion Centre Government Certified Vehicle Inspection Station (including propane powered vehicles) “FREE INSTALLATION OF MUFFLERS AND SHOCKS INSTALLED WHILE YOUR WAIT, FOR MOST AUTOS” 2929 Highwar Drive behin the Mohawk in Glenmerry Pa PHONE 368-5228 . 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ROSSLAND SNOW PHONE 362-5500 GENERAL INFO. 362-7384 4 4.91 EFI 6-cy/. eng. bumbper * headliner $24,343 ...*$2,000 -*3,448 18,895" hoping for the world from his rookies when the team got star- ted, but as time went by he saw them emerge as the best of the bunch. “These are all very dedicated athletes," he said. ‘‘They’re training well, so well, they've got to the point where I think we have the possibility for getting in the medals.’” Simply because not many females participate in the sport, Hitchens, in the women’s open category, may stand the best shot of the three for a medal, said Lenarduzzi. Still, it will be tough for her to step into the shoes of SHSS’s Suzanne Powell who: won weightlifting gold the last two years at the Games. But the Grade 10 student says she’s not even trying to compare herself to the more experienced Powell, who isn’t with the team this year. “‘She’s done more lifting then me, so she’s obviously better. I’m just going to do the best I can.”” BASKETBALL It's getting down to crunch time for three of the four high school basketball teams. The fourth, SHSS’s junior boys team, got its crunch last weekend when it was squeezed out of contention in a 58-57 loss to Trail in the West Kootenay “Quality Used Ve SHSS Olympic Weighthting team (left to right) Jeff Lewkowich, Erin Hitchens, Carlo rant Lenarduzzi. Masini and coach playoffs on Trail’s home court at J.L. Crowe. As for the others, the senior boys and junior girls West Kootenay crunch time is set for this weekend as coach John Rit- chie takes the boys to Nelson and Collette Pilloud leads the girls to Trail. The pride and joy of SHSS basketball this season, Jack Closkey’s senior girls team, currently ranked fifth in the Province in AA, continues to prep for its playoffs which are set for-March-2-at SHSS; Junior boys coach Doug Hickey, said ‘he couldn’t have asked for anything more from his team in the West Kootenay semi- finals. “It was a great game, played Pretty squeaky clean all the way through. We put a little run on (Trail) for a while, but we just couldn’t maintain it.’’ What killed SHSS, said Hickey, was missed free throws and sloppy rebounding. Jody Carew scored nine points CostNews Photo for SHSS while Bob Baulne and Todd Bondaroff had eight apiece. BRITISH COLUMBIA SECONDARY SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL ATION ruary Lambfick Park (1) Garibaldi (2) Pitt Meadows (5) Pleasant Valley (3) Stanley Humphries (6) D.W. Poppy (4) Duchess Park (7) . Sentinel (—) . George Elliott (—) . Westsyde (8) SS PNOgaoON~ But it was the performance of rookie Vince Antignani, who led SHSS with 12 points, that Hickey was talking about. “He comes off the bench and just plays exceptional. He scored eight in the second quarter and four in the third and played solid defensively,” said Hickey. Trail, which had soundly beaten SHSS in all three previous matchups between them, went on to win the West Kootenay title. Closkey’s senior girls, easily the class of the West Kootenay, hi seeking com- tial provincial playoff appearan- Saturday in the first game of a home-and-home series agaifist a triple-A team: from Cranbrook. The girls make the return trip to the East Kootenay this Saturday. In senior boys, Nelson’s L.V. Rogers is the heavy favorite to win the West Kootenays on its home court “this weekend, “but Ritchie would sure like a chance to knock them off. “If they get upset then it'll be a major upset, but if we get to the finals, I’ll have a few tricks up my sleeve.’* Ritchie says his main shooter, Wade Forrest, has to come up big, and his inside men, Dan Kooznetsoff, Alex Fasthuber and Peter Dahl, have to play it tough if SHSS has any hope of taking out LVR. Ski For Light is an event steeped in local tradition By CasNews Staff can do , CSIA SKIINSTRUCTOR MARCH 1,243 PRICE: $130 (15 hours, includes menval and membership) PRE-REQUISITE: 16-Yeors or Older REGISTER: Red Mountain Ski Schoo! 2715, les 1986 MERCURY RLS ine cor has only 14,000 kis. Mint condition, fully loaded (A rate URUS 4-door, air, Hilt, crvive. AM/EM stereo cossetio, SERVICE SPECIALS COMPLETE DIAGNOSTIC CHECK 39°5 WHEEL ALIGNMENT cz. 39°? ze, Phone For Appointment, February Only OlL & FILTER SPECIAL 19° 4g TRAIL © 364-0202 CASTLEGAR © 365-0202 OUT-of TOWN CALL COLLECT! Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ® Sat., 8.0.m.-5 p.m { Their motto is, ‘If Iean do this, I With that on their minds, Debra’ Bray of Trail and. her Castlegar guide, Olwyn Ringheim, will represent the West Kootenay in the annual Ski for Light competition in Kananaskis, Alta., Feb. 19 to 24. The cross-country skiing event, an outreach program of the Sons of Norway Lodge, is for skiers who are visually impaired — either totally, or legally, blind. And though Castlegar won’t be sending an athlete this year, the city has deep roots with the event and wth Bray. For starters, Castlegar staged the first Ski for Light competition in 1978, a year before the official for- mation of Ski For Light Canada. It was two years ago in’ Castlegar that Bray, in her first ever Ski For Light competition, surprised everyone by winning a gold medal. She followed that up last year in North Battleford, Sask., by moving up to the five kilometre category and winning gold again. The Castlegar connection con- tinues with the likes of Ringheim and Conrad Brattebo who trained with Bray over the winter in preparation for her Ski For Light appearance. Their job is to direct Bray through the course, shouting out which paths to follow along the way. Then there’s Nordic Lodge No. 76 in Castlegar which contributed $150 to cover Bray’s registration expenses. The event is open to all ages and attracted about 90 people this year, including guides, athletes and organizers. The race will be held Feb. 24, while the rest of the week will be filled with everything from practising and waxing clinics, to sing songs and entertainment nights. THE NUMBERS HOCKEY Ht CAMAPRELL CONFERENCE 7 x-$1. 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Joy Anderson, Beckett Boker, Bask: a Women) m nate Mevenaia Boskerball (Women) oo " TRANSACTIONS 4 Reps rule in Kootenays Not bad for a team that almost wasn't By CasNews Staff The Castlegar Midget Rep hockey team wanted to do just two things this season. Currently, it's half way there. “Our first goal was to get to the (B.C.) Winter Games,"’ said ¢o- coach Paul Phipps, who doesn’t need any ‘encouragement to talk about this team. On Friday night the Reps, representing the entire Kootenay region, will take on a team made up of players from Northeast ‘B.C. in the first of its two guaranteed games at the B:C. Winter Games in Dun- can/North Cowichan. To get there, the Reps beat league rivals from Beaver Valley and Nelson Messages clear in CRHL By CasNews Staff With the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League playoffs set to begin in two. days, Hi Arrow Hotel, and Sandman Inn's Wayne Salekin, have delivered a message to the league. With wins over both Inn to advance to the Kootenay final best of three series against Golden. After losing the first game of that series the Reps came back to take the next two, making the team's first goal a done deal and time to move on to the second. i “Our second goal was to get to the provincials,’’ said Phipps, Last Sunday, the Midget Reps tied Trail 6-6 at the Community Complex to wrap up first place in their division of the West Kootenay Minor Hockey League. That means the team gets a bye in- to the championship game where it will play the winner of a series bet- ween Beaver Valley and Nelson. (Trail is classified as a AAA club Lyle Stouchnow’s six-point night for Sandman — two goals and four assists — was also overshadowed by Salekin’s heroics, which saw him score seven points, including his hat trick, in the first period alone. past Gar} and Banjo’s Pub in the last week of the season, the message of Hi Arrow’s players is clear: We're the team to beat. With 16 points in two games, in- cluding a Gretzky-like 10-point night, Salekin’s message is also clear: Try and stop me. Kelly Keraiff scored three times and added two assists as HI Arrow slapped Sandman 9-6 Tuesday night at the Community Complex. And Keraiff scored twice and ad- ded one assist the night before in a 6- 4 Hi Arrow win over Banjo’s at the Complex. But Keraiff’s dutput was dwarfed by what has to be the one-game point performance of the year in the CRHL by Salekin in Sandman’s 10-8 win over Banjo’s at the Complex on Friday night. Like a one-man highlight show, Salekin was in all his team’s goals, scoring three himself and setting up seven others. only had six skaters and goalie Tim Swanson show up for the game, ice time for Salekin wasn’t a problem. Banjo’s manpower situation wasn’t much better with just eight skaters and goalie Rick Rogerson. Soroke scored once and assisted on three more, and Wayne Batchelor scored twice and had two assists for Sandman in the win. Dave MacKinnon and Darwin Anderson scored Sandman’s other goals. Chief Mercer led Banjo’s with three goals and two assists while Vin- ce. Antignani Sr. scored twice and had three assists. Adrian Markin, Chris Brodman and Doug Knowler scored Banjo’s other goals. But even Salekin’s one-man point show wasn’t good enough against Hi Arrow last nght. Despite his second hat trick in as many games and three assists, his output was checked by Keraiff’s five point night. Besides Keraiff’s three goals, Hi NO FRILLS © NO GIMMICKS Brand Name Furniture Mattresses for less... A LOT LESS! PRICES as little as and automatically goes to Vernon for the provincials while Castlegar, Nelson and Beaver Valley are classed as A teams.) Add a second-place finish in the tight-team Spokane Christmas tour- fament, and Phipps says the team’s accomplishments are something to take note of in this town. And that’s especially so when you consider that if Phipps hadn't organized the Midgets with co-coach Rick Welychko, there wouldn't have been a Midget hockey program in Castlegar. “We've accomplished one of our goals and we're working on the other, and all this from a team that didn’t have much of a future in Sep- tember." Phipps said the players ahd coaches have done their part, now he’s hoping the community will get befiind the team. **We've been playing really well Arrow got two-goal nights from Rod Zavaduk and Steve Simonen in the 9- 6 win over Sandman. Clay Martini and Dave Terhune scored Hi Arrow’s other goals while Zavaduk led the assists parade with three. Soroke, Stouehnow and MacKin- non scored Sandman’s other goals. In the 6-4 Monday win over Banjo’s, Gary Sauer, Mitch Quaed- Fuhr's return gives Oilers some options EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Grant Fuhr came back from a fi h ion for abuse intent on proving he was still one of the NHL’s top goaltenders. He accdmplished” that Monday night in a 4-0 shutout of the New Jersey Devils in’ his first NHL game in almost 11 months, but the game created some interesting options for the Edmonton Oilers with the league’s trading deadline of March S. Do the Oilers keep Fuhr and go with two No. 1 goalies, alternating Fuhr and Bill Ranford, who led them to the Stanley Cup last season? Or do they try to unload Fuhr, once called by Wayne Gretzky the best goaltender in the world, for some scoring punch? Pat LaFontaine of the New York Islanders recently asked to be traded and he is certainly someone the Oilers would covet. “I’m not worried about it,” said Fuhr, who missed Edmonton’s first 59 games because of the suspension. “I'm just happy playing hockey right now..You just want to go out and play well for whoever you're playing for.” Oilers coach John Muckler gave no indication of a trade after the game. Instead, he leaned the other way, saying Ranford and Fuhr give the Oilers one of the top goaltending tandems in the league. His only con- cern is not pushing Fuhr. “I’m sure it’s going to take him a while to get his game conditioning down,”’ Muckler said. ‘You can’t expect to play Grant back to back right now. We'll alternate, but going into the playoffs it makes us a lot stronger. It’s a great situation.” Fuhr led the Oilers to Stanley Cups in 1984, °85, °87 and '88. FIELDS * CORRECTION * There is an error in our tlyer effective February 13-Februory 24 We regret ony inconvenience this may have caused our customers! = representing this town really all year long,” he said. 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