a14 Wednesday, December 16, 1992 @ Computers snap losing skid NEWS STAFF Some consider the No. 7 to be quite lucky, but the Koote- nay Computers wanted noth- ing to do with it in Castlegar Recreational Hockey League action Saturday. Facing off with Banjo’s Pub, the Computers were in danger of slipping into a last place tie with their opponent with a loss, their seventh in a row. But rather than give the pub squad any company in the basement, the Computers got four goals from Rick Shukin and as many assists from Perry Hysen in a 9-2 drubbing to snap that streak. Rob Hill and Darwin An- CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE (As of Dec. 13) G TP Shell 15 018 Sports Centre 15 117 Pressure Wash 13 313 Computers 14 212 Banjo's 13 26 derson each had three points for the winners while Don Soroke had a pair for Banjo’s. In other action, first-place Shell got a rare taste of defeat last Thursday, falling 11-6 to Castlegar Sports Centre. Garry Sauer was the game’s top gun, scoring once and adding four assists in vic- tory while Mike Flegel and Dean MacKinnon each had four points. Doug Knowler and Greg Simard had three points each for Shell. Sports Centre had little trouble winning their eighth game of the year, leading 5-0 after one and 9-4 after two. A team not used to losing, Shell got revenge two days later by thumping Castlegar Pressure Wash 15-6. Wearing No. 14, Bruno Tassone played like a man in- tent on matching that in points, scoring twice and adding seven assists while league scoring leader Kelly Keraiff had six points. Chief Mercer was tops for Pressure Wash with two goals and an assist. Midget Reps rip weekend opponents NEWS STAFF The Castlegar Midget Reps snapped out of a slump over the weekend and did it in a big way. It all began Friday with a visit to Rossland, where Brian Grycan led the visitors out of a three-game losing streak with trio of goals and an as- sist in a 9-4 win. Fred Gienger, Jason Boden and Derek Read each had three points for the winners while goalie Blaine Wilson kept the home team at bay. Saturday, the opponent may have been different but the result was similar. Squaring off with Spokane in Nelson, the Reps got goals ai | — + Sara Ofer Bore ae pe 4 ee Je) i, a Ape = * Ona eS = om +t WA Holiday Hours: —s =f ad AS po = Trail 1501-2nd Ave. 364-0440 from eight different players in an 8-2 whipping of their Lilac City opponent. Gienger was a factor once again, picking up three points while Doug Taylor did his job in net. Finishing off the weekend at home Sunday, the Reps were up against Spokane once more and put an even bigger win on the board, this time 11-1. Bryan Yackel helped him- self to a pair of hat-tricks for the hosts, who were anything but gracious. 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A member of the New York Is- landers’ American Hockey League affiliate in Troy, N.Y., the 21-year- old returned to his Empire State home Friday to find the big club had called and wanted him back. A veteran of five National Hock- ey League games already this year, Green hadn’t even been back in Troy two weeks from his last stint when the phone rang. He and two others drove four-and-half hours in a blizzard to Long Island Saturday and were in the lineup in a 4-3 overtime loss to Winnipeg Saturday. Sunday, he picked up a first period holding penalty then assisted on linemate Steve Thomas’s winning goal in a 4- monton in Oklahoma City, Okla. Reached Tuesday in the hockey hotbed of Dallas, Tex. Green said he knows that anoth- er one-goal performance won’t be enough to stick around this time. “I think that they’re expecting a lot more from me,” he said. Proving that we do live in a small world, Travis Green club Green is taking injured Trail na- tive Ray Ferraro’s place in the line- up. Playing on a line with Thomas and Pat Flatley, Green said the nervousness he felt last time wasn’t as much a problem this time. “In the back of my mind I was (nervous), but it wasn’t as bad,” he said. “I feel a lot more comfortable.” After last night’s neutral site game against St. Louis, the Is- ~ landers headed home for a date with Ottawa tomorrow. Following that, the team has three big games on the road before Christmas against Pittsburgh, Quebec City and in Montreal, a team Green cheered for as a kid. But as far as rooting for the bleu, blanc et 1 win over Ed- the season. rouge next week, Green said he’s more con- cerned with how he does than what his child- hood heroes do. “Hopefully I'll be here for a while,” he said. “The best would be being here for the rest of “I’m just going to take it one day at a time.” But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t taken the time to temporarily enjoy the Texas climate. “It’s a nice change from the blizzard we had in New York.” NEWS STAFF An expansion team al- ready facing enough adversi- ty, the Rocky Mountain Ju- nior Hockey League’s Cre- ston Valley Thunder were dealt a cruel blow Sunday. Assistant coach John Steven Takacs died in Trail Regional Hospital Sunday from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident earli- Thunder coach killed in car accident er that day. Salmo RCMP Const. Al Witwicki said Takacs was travelling eastbound on Highway 3 about half-a-kilo- metre west of Salmo Sunday afternoon when his car was struck by a vehicle driven by John R. Gallo of Trail. Witwicki said Gallo’s vehi- cle struck Takacs’ car head on and continued down the driver’s side. The three ocuupants of the westbound vehicle were treated for minor injuries at Trail hospital and released. Witwicki said both the road conditions and visibility were good and doesn’t be- lieve them to be factors. Salmo RCMP are still in- vestigating. Charges are pending. KIJHL West @ Braves, Warriors mix it up in The Golden City Jonathan Green SPORTS REPORTER It shaped up to be an emo- tional game, but things got a little too emotional. Last Saturday, the Spokane Braves paid a visit to Rossland for a Kootenay In- ternational Junior Hockey League tangle with the War- riors. The meeting marked the first time the Warriors had seen action since the death of first-year defenceman Chris Johnson last Tuesday. He was 19. Team vice-president Steve Howes said the Warriors were fired up when they hit the ice. “When something like this happens, you want to go out and win it for that person,” he said. “You know, it was like ‘We've got some kids out here full of energy, let’s use it.” And use it they did, as the KIJHL West Division door- mat Warriors were all over their American counterparts, leading 4-1 at one point. teams hit the warpath KOOTENAY INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE (As of Dec. 12) EAST DIVISION W_U7ET fF Columbia Val. 9 17 0 126 Golden 8 18 0 120 Elk Valley 7 20 0 125 WEST DIVISION Grand Forks 21 2 0193 Nelson 20 41179 Spokane 17 8 1189 Castlegar 14 5 1116 Beaver Valley 8 18-0 140 Rossland 6 18 1 130 222 But the visitors rallied in the second period, tying it at four before things got a little out of hand. Two skirmishes broke out late in the second period and, as the teams were leaving the ice after 40 minutes, several fans made efforts to get at the Spokane players, forcing the referee to call the game pre- maturely. Howes said a comment by a member of the Braves about Johnson touched off a near ri- ot. “One of the Spokane play- ers said something and all hell broke loose,” he said. “That’s basically how it hap- pened. “Nothing would have hap- pened if that one Spokane player hadn’t said anything.” Howes said some young adult fans were the ones most interested in getting at the Braves, but added that cooler heads prevented things from becoming worse. “The conduct of the fans turned what could have been an ugly scene into something that was brought under con- trol relatively easily,” he said. “I want to thank the Rossland fans for that.” A team that started the season winless in 11, the War- riors have played close to .500 hockey since then. 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