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Hill cashes in at bonspiel

Jonathan Green
SPORTS RERPORTER

One shot can break a curl-
ing game wide open, some-
thing Brian LeMoel found out
first-hand Sunday. :

Squaring off with Ross-
land’s Jim Hill in the Castle-
gar Cashpiel final, the Fruit-
vale skip found himself down
4-2 with last rock in the sixth
end.

Lying third shot, LeMoel
wanted to spill Hill’s two
counters and stick around for
a deuce to tie it.

But something went wrong
on the way out of the hack, be-
cause instead of being even,
he found himself down 8-2
when the score went up.

Two ends later, with the
score 8-4 for Hill, LeMoel and
his foursome took off the
gloves and shook hands.

Monday, LeMoel said his
rock curled too much upon re-
lease and the rest is history.

“I didn’t throw it as well as
I could have,” he said.

Advancing to the final with
wins over Fruitvale’s Paul De-
vlin and Nelson’s Bill Sweet
Sunday, LeMoel said he’s not
unhappy with second place.

He said the Cashpiel was
the first tournament his rink
had entered, so a trip to the
big game was enough in itself.

“We were very happy to go
as far as we did,” he said. “The
fact we got to the final was a
real bonus.”

Hill drew first blood in the
final, using last rock to score

two in the first end.

Using the hammer equally
well, LeMoel came back with
two of his own in the next end.

Lying second shot in the
12-foot, he hit Hill’s shooter
and stuck around to make it
2-2.

Building on that, the Fruit-
vale skip forced his Rossland
counterpart to be sharp, stick-
ing his last rock behind cover
to lie one in the third.

In what could have come
back to haunt him, Hill’s last
stone stuck around after re-
moving LeMoel’s counter,
forcing him to take one for a 3-
2 lead.

But if the mistake got to
him, Hill didn’t let it show.

Putting all of the house to
use, he was lying two in the
eight-foot when LeMoel
stepped up with last rock in
the fourth.

Coming in wide, LeMoel
removed Hill’s shot rock but
rolled too far afterwards, giv-
ing up a single to trail 4-2.

LeMoel blanked the fifth
end with his last stone, hop-
ing to put something on the
board in end No. 6.

It never happened.

Looking at a crowded
house, LeMoel set his sights
on removing Hill’s two coun-
ters and sticking around, ty-
ing it at four.

With one shot, LeMoel
went from making it 4-4 to be-
ing down 8-2, pretty much
nailing his own coffin shut.

Hill said 8-2 after six was

deceiving.

“The score wasn’t a true
measure of how the game was
going,” he said. “If(Brian) had
made the shot, it would have
been tied.

“It was pretty much a six-
point shot.”

Hill reached the final with
wins over Castlegar’s Jim
Ross and Noel Cutler’s mixed
rink from Nelson Sunday,
saying the quarter-final win
was the biggest.

“We probably played our
best game against Cutler,” he
said. “We were really psyched
up.
“It was almost like playing
the ladies. You never want to
lose.”

Meeting up with LeMoel in
the final, Hill said revenge
was on his mind.

He said a measurement in
the 10th end of a Saturday
match was the only blemish
in the tournament and he had
Lemoel to thank for it.

“Our only loss over the
weekend was to Brian, so it
was a bit of a grudge match,”
he said.

With the win, Hill and com-
pany picked up $1,500 while
Lemoel’s crew took home
$750.

Hill said the money will go
toward financing further
tournaments and bonspiels, a
luxury most teams can’t af-
ford.

“It’s nice,” he said. “It takes
a lot of pressure off financial-
ly.”

of Castlegar Lightning

NEWS STAFF

Lighting struck in the
Okanagan over the weekend
and it was felt as far away as
Mission.

Competing at a AA Rep
Tournament in Westbank,
the Castlegar Lightning
Atom Development team lit
up the sky with a trio of wins
before settling for the B-final
championship.

On their way to the title,
the locals knocked off squads
from Westside, Kelowna and
Mission with their only loss
coming at the hands of Mer-
ritt, the tournament’s even-
tual champion.

Up in the Midget Rep
camp, the team returned
from a weekend in Cran-
brook after splitting both
games with the hosts.

Saturday, the Reps
jumped out to a 2-1 first-pe-
riod lead but were outscored
6-1 over the final 40 minutes
to come out on the losing end

of a 7-3 decision.

Goalie Doug Taylor did his
best to keep Castlegar in the
game but ended up taking
the loss.

Sunday, things were shap-
ing up to be a carbon copy of
Saturday's game before the
Reps turned it around in the
third.

Fred Gienger paced the
winners with two goals, Bey-
nan Price pitched in with one
goal and a couple helpers and
Blaine Wilson picked up the
win in net.

The visitors scored twice
in each of the first two peri-
ods but watched as the hosts
scored four in the second to
tie it 4-4.

Never saying die, the Reps
made things interesting in
the third, rebounding for four
goals to Cranbrook’s three to
win.8-7...

Next action for the Reps is
Sunday when they take on
Rossland-Trail in Nelson.

Linda Moore
CURLING COUNCIL OF B.C.

a lot of fun for everyone.

rocks in play every end.

style of play.

Did you see the recent skins curling game
on TSN? Been reading this column and hear-
ing about the free guard zone rule? Think
that only the competitive curlers can try
these different curling formats? Not so! Any
curling club can vary the rules of play, for ei-
ther league games or bonspiels, and provide

The skins format rewards teams for every
end that they win. To win an end, a team
must either take two or more points with last
rock, or steal a point without last rock.
Blanking an end means losing the “Ham-
mer”, or last rock advantage.

On the TSN skins game, large cash prizes
(up to $3000 per end) were the incentive for
the top teams to go for points each end, mak-
ing for some very exciting play.

In a club bonspiel, teams can be drawn
from a hat, and small cash prizes (such as
$25 per end) can be paid to each team imme-
diately after the game. The team with the
most cash at the end of eight or 10 ends of
play continues on in the event (points are not
kept), while the losing team drops to another
event. The fund comes from mixing up play-
ers; trying new strategy; and having a lot of

The free guard zone rule, where leads can-
not remove opponents guards from play, can
be fun and is great practice for the “draw”

Curling becoming fun for everyone

Both this rule and the skins rules encour-
age a lot of the play to be in the centre of the

for cars.

ice, as the first rock is often placed short of
the house on the centre line, and both teams
try to draw around it to get to the button first!

The rules make a skip really think, as po-
sitioning the lead’s and second’s stones is cru-
cial, with the third and skip often using these
early stones to play raises or come- arounds.

Other modifications to the traditional
rules can also mean fun for club players. Try
rotating players reach end; or counting rocks
farthest from the button; or throwing blind-
folded (very difficult). Just sit down and
think of something unique to try at your club.

And if your bonspiel wants to add real ex-
citement to their weekend event, there is
something new on the curling scene.

“Spiels for wheels” resembles the insur-
ance used in the popular hole-in-one promo-
tions in golf. Any bonspiel (with a maximum
of 32 teams) can pay a premium (usually
$300) to the Calgary Insurance company, and
set up a “shoot-out” (or draw to the button)

It is done on a team basis, and if all four
team members draw to the button during a
special part of the spiel (not during a game),
they all win cars! A few spiels have tried it,
but so far no cars have been won. Your club

could be the first!

game.

Curling is a sport that was invented cen-
turies ago. To keep it fresh and fun, clubs
have to be creative with all aspects of the

Rockettes hope to keep
win streak rolling in ’93

NEWS STAFF

As a teacher, Jack Closkey’s
job is to help students learn.

That.doesn’t change when
he’s out on the basketball
court and it shows.

The coach of the Stanley
Humphries senior girls bas-
ketball team, Closkey has
seen his squad win their first
nine games of the season.

But unlike some coaches
who would sit

should probably lose a game.”

Closkey said the KLO tour-
nament will be just a part of a
swing that sees the Rockettes
play eight games over two
weeks.

In that time, he said they'll
put the things they already
know to use and, at the same
time, get to know more.

“We'll use those eight
games as major learning

back and enjoy
their success,
he said there is
still work to be
done.

Heading in-
to a tourna-
ment this
weekend = at
KLO in Kelow-
na, Closkey
said a team’s

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tools,” he said.
| Although
happy with
team’s
success so far,
Closkey said
its been a bit
of a shock.

He said
that starting
the year with
such a young
team had him

record
meaningless.

“Wins and losses are not
that significant,” he said Tues-
day. “It’s how good were get-
ting.”

And a good indicator of that
will be the team’s performance
in Kelowna.

Squaring off with provin-
cial heavyweights from Kam-
loops, Langley and Salmo as
well as the hosts, Closkey said
he’s expecting the undefeated
streak to come to an end.

“I'd be very surprised if we
won this tournament,” he
said. “This weekend, we

is bee

thinking any-
thing but un-
beaten two months ago.

“If you were to have asked
me in November ‘Would we be
undefeated going into Janu-
ary?’, I would have said no
chance.”

That in mind, Closkey said
Kelowna will prove whether
the Rockettes are really as
good as they are on paper.

Ifso, he said they'll keep do-
ing the things they’ve been do-
ing. If not, a fall from the
ranks of the undefeated won’t
mean the end of the world.

“We'll see this weekend.”

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