Castlegar News —©«tobe: 15. 198 SPORTS Penguins win 4-3 By The Canadian Press A not-so-bad 40 start to the National Hockey League season has Pittsburgh Pen guins coach Bob Berry mut tering to himself. “Our record is encourag ing, but we can't keep getting down by two or three goals,” Berry said Tuesday after his club rallied once again for a 4.3 overtime vietory at home against the Los Angeles Kings. Pittsburgh's record ties the best start in the Pen. guins' history, set in 1975-76. It also is the first time in 20 years the Penguins have won their first three home games. But, in all three home games, Pittsburgh has had to come back from at least a two-goal deficit to win. And the last two home victories have been in overtime The latest thriller was de cided by Mario Lemieux's second goal of the game with 1:20 left in overtime after the Kings had led 2-0 at the start of the third period. “We just better not make a habit of this.” said goalie Roberto Romano. “We'd bet ter change our ways right now.” In the only other NHL games Tuesday, it was: Bos ton Bruins 2, Winnipeg Jets 1, and St. Louis Blues | Toronto Leafs 1 Lemieux said the Penguins were lucky “The first two periods we didn't play well at all.” he said. “We didn't skate and we didn't forecheck. We can't expect to win all the time by playing one period.” Bruins 2 Jets 1 At Winnipeg, Boston got first-period goals from Rick Middleton and Randy Bur ridge, and rookie goaltender Bill Ranford kicked out 35 shots to lead the Bruins over Winnipeg Ranford saw his shutout bid disappear at 11:04 of the third period when Paul Mac Lean beat him with a low shot The victory evens the Bruins’ record at 2-2. The Jets are 2-1. Blues 1, Leafs 1 At Toronto, veteran Brian Sutter scored on a power play with 1:12 left in the third period to enable St. Louis to tie Toronto. “It was typical Brian Sut- ter,” said rookie St. i front of the net you can always count on him for a second effort.” Todd Gill's power-play goal at 8:00 of the final period had given the Leafs a 1-0 lead. We Still Have Room for More Curlers SHSS athletics report s REC LEA GUE . . . Woodland Park Shell goaltender Stan Makortott lets goal slip in during game against San dman Inn Sunday. The two teams played toa 5-5 tie Mixed: Call Mal Dawson Ladie: Call Ruth Trickey Mens: Call Denny McArthur 365-5006 Curl Canada Lessons Oct. 25 & 26 365-3531 CAS GAR Calendar THURSDAY HOCKEY — RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Sondmon Inn vs. Castlegar Playboys. 10 p.m.. Castlegar Community Complex BASEBALL — MAJOR LEAGUE: Ployotis. 6 p.m. channel 13, 6:30 p.m.. channel 4 FRIDAY HOCKEY — KUHL: Costiegar Rebels vs. Tras! Jr 8:30 p.m.. Castlegar Community Complex SATURDAY Smoke Eaters LL — WORLD SERIES: Game one. Boston Red Sox or Calitornia Angels vs. Houston Astros or N.Y. Mets 5 p.m chennet 6 HOCKEY — MINOR: Castlegar Pee Wee Reps vs. Beaver Valley 5 p.m.. Castlegar Community Complex. NHL: Detroit Red Wings vs. Calgary Flames, 5 p.m.. chonnel 9 Full Line Of ™ Casilegar : Hockey Equipment Sports Centre ." 365-8288 By TAMMY HARSHENIN Mr. Bilesky's senior soccer team led the train of sports activities for this last week when they slid by Trail 3-2 on Tuesday, Oct. 7 Although they won that game, they were beaten 5.1 by Salmo at Salmo on Wednesday, Oct. 8. Unfortunately for the senior field hockey team, their game played last Wednesday against J.L. Crowe was a loss. The Trail team squeezed by the girls 2-1. The team is playing a host game against Nelson this evening “< There was a volleyball playday held at Mt. Sentinel on Thursday. The senior girls won one match out of three. The girls’ winning match was the one played against the opposing Nakusp team There was also a playday on Thursday for the senior boys volleyball teams. This was held in Nelson, and the boys didn't do as well as they expected, as they lost against Nelson, Mt. Sentinel and Salmo There is another playday scheduled for this Thursday Also on Thursday was a cross country meet held at the Castlegar Corhmunity Complex. Winners, representing SHSS were Stephanie Harmston with a second place for the senior girls, Brandy Howard with a second placg-for the junier girls, and Geoff Ball who. was rewarded with a sixth place for the senior boys. So far the team has done extremely well for themselves this season, and their next meet will be held on Thursday in Grand Forks. School spirit for these events is high, however, we would appreciate more community support for future GET UP AND GO THIS WINTER WITH QUALITY NAPA AUTO PARTS Knights defeat Checkers By CasNews Staff Checkers/Mallards suffered three losses“in Castlegar Recreational Hoc. key League play in the past week, while Castlegar Knights, Woodland Park Shell (formerly Hi Arrow) and Castlegar Playboys all recorded wins. In games played Sunday, the Knights defeated Checkers/Mallards 8-5 while Woodland Park Shell and Sandman Inn played to a 5-5 tie. On Thursday, the Playboys clobbered Checkers/Mallards 15-1 and Woodland Park Shell beat Checkers/Mallards 8-5 Oct. 7 In the Knights’ win on Sunday Deschene scored five winning team. The Knights led 2-0 after the first period and made it 5-2 after the second period before matching three goals in the third frame by Checkers/Mallards’ with three goals of their own for an 8-5 win. Besides Deschene, others scoring were Chief Mercer with two and Wayne Zino with a single Don goals for the Frank Costa scored twice for Check ers/Mallards. Singles went to Don Savinkoff, Dave MacKinnon and Peter Tischler. In the afternoon game which saw Woodland Park Shell and Sandman Inn play to a 55 tie, the first period was scoreless. After two periods, the Shell team led 3-2. In the last frame, Shell opened the scoring, but Sandman Inn replied with one of their own. The Woodland Park team scored again, but Sandman Inn scored at 4:49 and tied it up with 24 seconds left in the game. Lyle Stoushnow scored Sandman Inn. Tony Markin and Bill Cheveldave also scored. Doug Makortoff got two goals for Woodland Park Shell. Singles came from Kelly Keraiff, Bruno Tassone and Wes McPherson. In the Playboys’ 15-1 win over Checkers/Mallards, the winning team held the opposition off the scoresheet until the third period. The Playboys led 5-0 after the first period and 9-0 after the second period. twice for DaRosa, Dan The Playboys scored a goal in the third frame, before Checkers/Mallards finally managed to score. The Playboys scored five more for a 15-1 final. Rod Zavaduk. Bill Nazaroff, Randy Martin and Tony Nazaroff scored three goals each for the Playboys, Terry Halisheff got two goals and Perry Samoyloff scored once. Don Savinkoff got the lone goal for Checkers/Mallards On Oct. 7, in Woddland Park's win Checkers/Mallards, the Shell shut out Checkers/Mallards in the first two periods. Shell scored two goals in the first period and three in the second frame for a 5-0 lead Woodland Park scored the first goal in the third frame and Checkers/Mal- lards replied with two. Woodland Park Shell scored two more before the op- position completed the scoring with two more goals. In Recreational League action Thurs day, Sandman Inn and Castlegar Playboys square off at 10 p.m. in the Community Complex over team Mid-Week Wrap-up HOCKEY = WALES CONFERENCE erick Division tained Wednesdey Ladkes Hugh Single Linde Glendening 2 Serresamen 79 20. 9:30 Loses High Segie” Ele Encnson nee Noychuk 643 : Ale: Donald 628 Povi Kereker 618 oo ‘ sgh Three Mugs Season Pass Sale CASTLEGAR ADULT Outgoing NL IN CFL president proud Defences dominant? of selling job By HAL BOCK Associated Press NEW YORK — To this day, Chub Feeney insists it wasn't raining that hard in Philadelphia during the fourth game of the 1977 National League playoffs between the Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers. “Believe me, it really wasn't,” the retiring president of the National League said. “It looked worse on TV than it really was.” The Dodgers were leading the series 2-1 and going for the pennant-clincher. Feeney, sitting in his field box, remembers telling home plate umpire Bruce Froemming “if you have any problems, let me know. “In the second inning, Bruce came over and said, ‘I'm having a little trouble seeing.” “I told him, ‘Let's flag it, then.’ He was going to, but then he came back and said the players wanted to continue. “In the sixth inning, it started coming down harder and I got seared. I didn't want to stop it then. You don't want a post-season game decided in less than nine innings.” So the teams played on in the rain. The Dodgers won the game and the pennant. Feeney, once vice-president of the San Francisco Giants, is a baseball traditionalist, permanently opposed to gimmickry like the designated hitter Yet he approaches his final days as president of the National League proudest of his part in convincing clubs to accept one of the game's most radical changes. Feeney was not father of the playoffs, but he assisted at their birth. EXPANDS LEAGUE In 1968, baseball operated with two 10-team leagues and was preparing to accept four new franchises — Montreal and San Diego in the NL, Kansas City and Seattle in the American League 2 The AL had decided to split its 12 teams into two divisions of six teams each, creating post-season playoffs. The NL wasn't enthusiastic about the change and it fell to Feeney, the traditionalist, to sell the plan. Geography was sacrificed but baseball's symmetry survived and both leagues began pennant playoffs in 1969. Feeney did such a good selling job on the playoff project that when Warren Giles retired as NL president, the Giants boss was named his successor. Had the owners made their selection based on the early success of the new post-season system he sold them, Feeney might not have had the job. The playoffs were something less than an attendance bonanza in their early years. Once they caught on, capturing the drama previously reserved for the World Series, sellouts became routine. Feeney's first playoff as NL president was in 1970 and his reign opened with an umpires’ strike. The dispute was settled quickly but it was an indication of the labor strike baseball would face during his term in office There have been two other umpire strikes, the last one in the 1984 playoffs. The players also struck twice, once for seven weeks in the heart of the 1981 season. CHANGES LOOK Economies continue to change the look of the game Baseball is celebrating its first season in which every franchise drew more than one million fans. “Attendances are great.” Feeney said. “But today’s one million isn't always a profit situation.” Feeney sees the new seven-game format as a positive evolution of the playoff system and ammunition for battling against the two-tiered playoffs used in football and favored on some baseball fronts as well. “Seven games gives added television revenue, which is the reason people considered the two-tier playoffs,” he said. “I don’t think two-tier is alive anymore “I haven't heard much talk about it lately. When you have anemic races like we did this year, that's another argument against them “Who wants to see a team that finishes 12 games behind in the playoffs?” SEARS Nobody Can Beat Our Portrait Prices* Limited Time Offer: Reg. $38€5 Package Press Canadian Football League teams scored an average of 25.3 points a game in 1984 and through the first 14 weeks of 1986 the average slipped to 24.1 That's hardly a noticeable decline for a league that lives on offence. Ha@wever, even that decrease has created concern that defences are becoming too strong. ‘The focus of the discontent was the recent Edmonton. British Columbia home-and-home series that was dominated by defences. If the season was based on those two games a strong argument could be made for reform, but any season is much longer than two games. Still, the weekly league statistics provide interesting reading. For instance, despite the claim that defences are too dominant, to this point in the season only the B.C. Lions have shown a decline in scoring from last year. A comparison of the first 14 weeks of 1986 and 1985, when the scoring average dropped to 22.7 points, indicates teams are scoring more but doing it with less offence. SHOWS CHANGE Seven of the nine teams have increased their average points per game while six declined in average yards passing, seven declined in average yards rushing and six were down in average net offence. Jackie Parker, coach of the Edmonton Eskimos who have increased their scoring despite a decline of nearly 100 yards in average net offence, says too many games have been played in bad weather and teams are being more con servative in the latter stages of games. Part of the reason that offences become conservative Is because of the increasingly aggressive defences. The statistic showing the greatest shift is the number of quarterback sacks — an increase of 89. That type of pressure, combined with improved kickoff and punt return teams, has led to better field position for By JOHN KOROBANIK Canadian offences and a natural decline in yardage. The emphasis on defence is most evident in Edmonton. The Eskimos are first in the West because of a defence that has reduced total offence against by nearly one third, to 3,342 yards from 4,884. Drastic declines like that have sparked comments about teams stacking their defences with non-imports. “That's what's happening,” said Don Holtby, the Ottawa Rough Riders’ general manager.” If teams are stacking, it's nothing new. Since the Eskimos introduced the all-Canadian offensive line during its five straight Grey Cup victories, 1978-82, all teams have gone that route. r PLAYS FOR ESKS Today there may only be two or three starting import offensive linemen. One, Rudy Phillips, is in Edmonton. “You're now getting a shortage of good Canadian offen. sive linemen . . . and teams are stacking imports against them,” Phillips said. The suggestion, of course, is that the good American will win individual match-ups most times. Looking at the defensive statistics, one would assume the Eskimos would be among the most guilty parties. However, Parker says the Eskimos have always played seven or eight imports on defence and were to start nine on Friday night. “It just seems the offensi where Canadians can play well,” who plays where.” It’s accepted that defence wins championships, so coaches will stress defence. The problem is that offence sells tickets. Holtby said general managers have talked about the non-import-to-import ratio on defence and it will be dis- cussed again by the league No matter what arguments are advanced in support of the offence and the marketing of the league, ultimately, winning is what matters. > side has more positions Parker said. “That dictates October 15, 1986 Casthéfiit News. Bs URGENTLY NEEDED Male or Female adult volunteers to work with young people. in the Scouting ‘Organization. The following groups desperately leoders One male and one female advisor required. No experience necessary. Training available Oct. 17 and 18. if you ere in- terested please MONTGOMERY — DORIS LATTA — 365-7586 JUA WALDIE — 365-5674 The groups will have to close without leadership. STRAND a mossy REALTY trp. 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