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Dan Godlien of Stanley Hum- tires for jumpshot, despite pressure from George Pringle (Westbank) players The game played Friday nigh, which Stanley Hum- nited Way eliminates. athletic association By CHERYL CALDERBANK Staff Writer The Castlegar United Way has asked the Castlegar and District Athletic Association to no Jonger act as the “mid. dle man” for minor sports or ganizations applying for funding. However, the Association is “concerned” that the move may be the first step in elim inating all United Way fund ing for minor sports groups. The Association recently received a letter from the United Way stating that the Association will no longer receive United Way funding. Instead, individual minor sports groups will have to apply directly to the United Way for support “The board (United Way) has decided that rather than contribute to a middle man, the board will accept appli cations from grants from each of the organizations in the community and treat them each individually,” United Way chairman Dana Peterson said in an inter view Peterson said the action is partly as a result of feedback from sports groups which wanted to apply directly to the United Way for funding. He said the change also came about because the United Way wants to im prove the information it re ceives from groups which re ceive funding Peterson said the sports organizations will be treated on an individual basis. “Some will get more (money), some less, depend ing on their (financial) status and needs,” he said. The Athletic Association was formed in 1964 at the request of the United Way to act as the vehicle for award ing financial assistance to the various minor sport organi zations, the Association says in a prepared release. The Association consists of representatives from all minor sport organizations and presently provides fi nancial assistance to the Castlegar Figure Skating Club, Minor Hockey and Baseball Associations Castlegar Aquanauts swim club, Robson Otters swim club, girls softball and minor soccer. Other organizations which received funding over the years included Little Lassie Softball, boys basketball, minor tennis and gymnastics. Yearly, these groups repre sent between 1,000 and 1,400 local young people. However, the Association is concerned that under the new system United Way dir. ectors will not be as know ledgeable or understanding to the needs and operating costs of the groups. As well, the Association says it's concerned that the minor sports groups will “eventually lose all financial assistance from the United Way.” Peterson says, the purpose of eliminating the Athletic Association is not to reduce funding to the sports organizations. “We aren't planning to de crease what we give,” he said. “We want to get a better look at where (the money) goes, and make sure they (the recipients) can make good use of it “All we get (from the Association) is a summary that says they need so much to service all the groups,” Peterson said “Things are very tight for us,” he said. “We don't have a lot of money. We want to en sure the money goes to or ganizations that need it the most, not to say athletic as sociations don't need it.” Peterson said groups will start a directly to the United Way beginning in 1985. The United Way gives between $6,000 and $7,000 to minor sports gropus each year. The Athletic Association adds in a press release that sports groups — not unlike other community groups — are experiencing increasing operating costs. “They have attempted to overcome these costs by fundraising such as the cash bingos run by the two swim clubs or substantially in creasing their registration fees, such as what minor hockey has done,” the Asso ciation says. “If financial funding from the United Way is severely reduced, the organizations are concerned that further registration fee increases will be necessary “With such increases the concern is always that cer tain persons will be unable to pay the fees and then be deprived of palying an ac tivity.” The Association says that as the organizations prepare to make their individual sub- missions to the United Way they do so with “concern and caution.” sports NHL LAST NIGHT Bruins snap winless streak phries lost, was part of Blue and Gold basketball tournament at SHSS this weekend. CostewsPhoto by Ryan Wilton Austrian wi VAL GARDENA, ITALY (CP) — Helmut Hoeflehner of Austria won the first men’s downhill race of the World Cup ski season Saturday, while Canada, which domin ated the course last year, placed only one skier in the top 20. Hoeflemner, considered one of the favorites to cap ture the downhill title this year, was clocked in two minutes 6.66 seconds down the 35-gate, 3,395-metre Sas long course in capturing his third career victory Comradin Cathomen of Switzerland was a distant one second back, taking sec ond in 2:07.66, while another Austrian, Peter Wirnsber. ger, crossed the finish line in 2:08.25 for third. Klaus Gatermann of West Germany was a surprise, posting a career-best fourth in 2:08,34. Karl Alpiger of Switzerland was fifth in 2:08.42 and Austria's Anton Steiner was sixth in 2:08.61 Todd Brooker of Paris. Ont., was the best Canadian, finishing in a tie for 20th in 2:09.97. However, World Cup rookie Don Stevens of Ross. land, posted a surprising 26th-place finish in 2:10.67 Felix Belezyk of Castlegar was close behind in 2:10.85 for 29th place, but the rest of the Canadian team finished well back. In other Canadian results: Gary Athans of Keowna, was 45th in 2:12.63; Paul Boivin of Montreal was 56th in 2:13.36; Chris Melver of Rossland finished 62nd in 2:14.43; Daniel Moar of Revelstoke was 63rd in 2:14.94; Scott Wolley of Vancouver placed 66th in 2:15.33 and Jim Kirby of Toronto was 67th in 2:15.48. Brian Stemmle of Aurora, Ont., did not finish after he fell and suffered bruised leg. Canada placed five skiers in the top 20 in a downhill race here last year, and head coach Glenn Wurtele thought things could have gone better this year “I guess we're probably a little bit disappointed,” he said. “Todd was looking pretty good “As the first six or seven racers came down, he was sitting in fourth position. And then, all of a sudden, it seemed that the track got a little bit faster. Guys started coming down later with better times. “So for our top-seeded guys, I think it was a little disappointing. We did see some sparks of light — Don Stevens had a fairly decent run.” Brooker said Friday's snowfall, which dumped about 15 centimetres on the icy hill, changed the race significantly. Three skiers from the third seed, including Alpiger, cracked the top 11 as the snow gradually be came hard-packed. Chiefs By the Canadian Press First-place Spokane Chiefs won their 15th straight game downing Kimberley Dyna miters 8-5 Friday night in Western International Hoc key League action In other league action, Nelson Maple Leafs scored two goals in the final period to beat Cranbrook Royals 6-4 Spokane led 4-0 at the énd of the first and 6-2 after two periods. For Spokane, Bruce Cullen and Dan Gerarden scored two goals each, while singles went to Gary Harpell, Ken Cakder, Jeff Fenton and Bill Hobbins. For the last-place Dyna miters, playing coach Ray Creasy and Randy Maxwell ns downhill “It's not very cold outside and as the snow gets packed down it brings a little bit of moisture to the top,” Brooker said. “The skis just run faster on that kind of snow “The first guys down are at a disadvantage. As soon as there's all that glistening moisture, it gets faster and faster.” Athans, who was 15th, in the race last year, said it was a poor performance for him. “| just didn’t adjust prop erly to the snow,” he said. “I was trying a little too hard, and in th esoft snow you can't be too hard on your edges, which I have a tendency to do.” Defending World Cup overall champion Pirmin Zur briggen of Switzerland earn ed nine points with a sev enth-place finish and padded his lead in the overall stand ings. Zurbriggen has 84 points to 70 for runnerup Mare Girardelli of Luxem. FELIX BELCZYK . 29th place bourg, a slalom and giant slalom specialist Olympic downhill cham pion Bill Johnson of the United States had a miser able week of practice, but proved on race day by finishing 23rd in 2:10.10 win 15th game got two goals each, while Ray Gregorash had the single. Jim Penson blocked 33 shots in the Kimberley net, while Randy Kirby made 18 saves for Spokane. The loss leaves the Dyn. amiters in the basement of the WIHL with seven points, four behing fourth place Elk Valley Spokane leads the league with 35 points. NELSON 6 CRANBROOK 4 Nelson and Cranbrook 44 going into the third in Nel son, before Dave Elliott got the winner for the Leafs with a man advantage. Allan Per. ich added the insurance goal, his seeond*of the night. Brian DeBiasio also pro vided = pair for Nelson, which led 2-1 after the first period and outshot the Roy als 53-37 on the night. The other Nelson goal was by Rick Williams. For Cranbrook, single goals came from playing coach Jim Allison, Troy Fark van, Ken Clement and Greg Barber. The second-place Leafs now have a 13-point lead over the third-place Royals. There were no brawls but the game was rough. Allison said a shoving match early in the third may have sparked the two-goal Nelson outburst. “You never want to wake them up.” Allison said of the Leafs. “Most of them play asleep the whole time.” BOSTON (AP) — Ken Linseman scored on a close-up shot 33 seconds into overtime and Boston Bruins snapped an eight-game winless streak Saturday ‘with a 2-1 National Hockey League Canucks. Linseman took a pass at centre from Keith Crowder, charged over the blueline, steaked around defenceman Doug Halward and slid the puck under goalie Richard Brodeur’s outstretched arm for his eighth goal of the season Linseman struck back after Vancouver shocked the Bruins by tying the score 1-1 with just nine seconds left in regulation vietory over Vancouver ISLANDERS 6 FLYERS 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) John Tonelli scored two goals, including one during a first period five-goal barage, as New York Islanders jumped to a 5-0 lead and defeated the Flyers 6-2. The victory ended a four-game Islander losing streak, while Philadelphia lost its third consecutive game for the first time this season The Flyers, first in the Patrick Division at 17-7 the third-place Islanders by six points. Rookie Pat Flatley got the Islanders on the board at 4:18 of the first period when slapped a 30-footer from the right faceoff circle past Flyer goaltender Pelle Lindbergh after taking a pass from behind the net from Greg Gilbert 5 lead DEVILS 8 NORDIQUES 3 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Paul Gagne scored two power-play goals in a 35-second span in the second period and rookie Bruce Driver matched a team record with four assists as New Jersey routed Quebee 83 The victory extended the Devils’ unbeaten streak to three games (20-1) and stretched Quebec's winless streak to four (0-2-2) Gagne snapped a 1-1 tie at 6:40 with his ninth goal of the season, just 11 seconds after Quebec defenceman Mario Marios was penalized for high-sticking. Driver set the play up with a perfect pass to Gagne in the faceoff circle and the left winger fired a 20-foot wrist shot by goalie Mario Gosselin WHALERS 4 CANDIENS 3 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Pat Boutette converted a pass from Mark Paterson from the slot at 3:23 of overtime Saturday to give Hartford a 43 come-back victory over Montreal. The victory, extended Hartford's unbeaten streak to four games The Whalers answered from a two-goal deficit with two goals in the second period. After Mark Hunter had put Montreal ahead 58 seconds into the third period, Ron Francis scored with 18:26 left in regulation to send the game into overtime. PENGUINS 5 LEAFS 2 TORONTO (CP) — Pittsburgh got consecutive goals from Andy Bricley, Mark Taylor and Kevin McCarthy to break a 2-2 tie and defeat Toronto 5-2 for their fifth straight victory Moe Mantha and Warren Young also scored for the Penguins, who improved their record to 11 143 and moved within one game of the club record for consecutive victories. John Anderson and Walt Poddubny scored for the Leafs, who outshot the Penguins 37-24. BLACK HAWKS 5 NORTH STARS 3 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Darryl Sutter and Curt Fraser scored a minute apart in the first period and Chieago never trailed as the Hawks held on to defeat the Stars 5-3 Ed Olyezyk scored what proved to be the winning goal 21 seconds into the final period, beating Minnesota goalie Gilles Meloche on the glove side to give the Hawks a 4-2 lead Sutter scored his 14th goal of the season into an open net with 14 seconds left in the game to make it 5-8 after Steve Payne knocked in his second power-play goal of the game for Minnesota at 12:09 OLLERS 8 BLUES 2 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wayne Gretzky moved to within a point of the 1,000 mark in his National Hockey League career with his third lifetime five-goal performance, while adding two assists in sparking Edmonto to an 8-2 triumph over St. Louis Gretzky's performance helped Edmonton’ snap a two-game slump, the 23-year-old centre, who had recorded only two points in two previous games, is headed toward becoming the youngest NHL player to toal 1,000 points. a level reached by only 17 players in league history Four of Gretzky's goals came during the opening 35'/ minutes off St. Louis goaltender Riek Wamsley, who was replaced in the net by Mike Liut during the final period Nacka, the touring Swedish first-division amateur team was outshot 31-18 by the leading Kamloops Blazers, but came away with a 32 exhibition night. adian majer junior hockey, outshot the Swedish team Swedes beat KAMLOOPS: (CP) were foiled by the play of Nacksa goaltender Mikael Westling. Richard Rauge scored twice for the Swedes, and the winning goal eame from Jan Kollberg, unassisted, early in the third period. The game was tied 1-1 and 22 by Western Hockey League vietory Friday The Blazers, who have the best won-lost record in Can. Mark Thietke and Rudy Poeschek scored for the Blazers. 18-5 in the second period, but “This game meant a little Kamloops 3-2 more to us than others on the tour,” said Nacka coach Tor gny Bendelin, whose club now is 28 on its Canadian tour. “We knew Kamloops had the best record in Cana dian junior hockey. We ex pected a much more physical game from Kamloops. “We played a tight de fensive game in the first period to try and frustrate them.” Bendelin said. “In the three games we lost on this guys 16 years old against guys 26 Lee 4 Bendetin seid two players * are 26. tour we did not play well. We were still adjusting to time changes and a very busy year®”per man. We've got