™ Wednesday, August 23, 1995 ip Page AQ Rebels sale leaves KIJHL questions The Castlegar Sun Sports Dept. = v Jeff Gabert S OR &. 365-5579 e Castlegar Sun WEDNESDA August 23, 1995 A8 _The hard way rz ae RE he Stop thief! Trail Blue Jay third baseman Todd Thom Thompson missed him but the runner ended up being pson attempts to nab this base rustler from Nederland, Texas. SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert SIDELINES Take Me Out To The Baligame _ In case you've been ¢: in concrete for the past year, it } might be a good idea to check out Butler Park in Trail this week. The Babe Ruth World Series has finally arrived and even if you're not a huge baseball fan, it will be an event not to be missed. Teams of 16-18 year old. players from all over North America will be there npeting for the Ch i ip and there will be plenty of excitment for the whole family outside the park as well. There are two games scheduled for today and tommorow Starting at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. respectively. The loser bracket semi-final will be played Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the final on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.. If nec- essary another game will be played Saturday at 4:00 p.m.. For more information on, game times, tickets and special events call the Babe Ruth Headquarters Office at (604) 368-8999 Coolin’ Down a Hot Summer Summer can be hot and if you don’t have your own personal air conditioning the best way to keep cool is with ice. The Castlegar Skating Club knows all about ice and they'ré hoping you'll enroll in a couple cool at the end of August and the beginni of September. The Figure Skating Program runs August 22 - Si 22 with a deadline of August 14. Contact person is Donna Van Vliet at 365-3168. The second program is Power Skating and it runs September 5- September 22 with a reg- istration deadline of August 28. The contact person is Elaine Davidoff at 365-2358. Registration forms may be picked up at the Recreation Complex. Do not delay, programs are filled on a first- come, first-serve basis. Fun and Fitness For Seniors The Canadian Red Cross Society's Fun and Fitness Program offers seniors a chance to be more Physically active, meet new people and have fun. The Red Cross provi training for vol s to lead fitness classes for seniors. This Program is very active in the Kootenays with classes being held on a regular basis from Cran- brook to Rossland, The Fun and Fitness Program has exercises designed specifically for seniors and includes easy to follow rou- tines. Courses are currently being planned in both the east and west Kootenay, and the Red Cross is looking for your input. If you are interested in running a class or would like more information, you can contact Lynda Parker at the Castlegar Red Cross Office, 365-3911 or 1-800-761-0099, Sentinel Summer V-Ball Mt. Sentinel Secondary School in South Slocan has always been known for producing quality volleyball players ‘and the reason for that is quality intruction. If you would like to get in on some top- notch volleyball teachings from some of B.C.'s top coaches they have just the thing for you. The 6th Annual Kootenay Summer JEFF GABERT Sun Sports The conference room at the Sandman Inn saw a little hockey history last Wednesday night as Castlegar Rebels President Robin Tomlin officially announced the sale of the club to Bucci Sports Holdings Ltd. At the same time the KUHL now had its first privately owned hockey club. The announcement was made shortly before a KUHL meeting, with all teams except Spokane on hand to greet the new mem- ber and deal with other league matters. The KIJHL is entering its 26th season as the Kootenays main hockey league but recently two Junior ‘A’ leagues, the RMJHL and the BCJHL, have made their presence known in the area. “We have some concems with the competition of the other leagues trying to put Junior ‘A’ teams in the Kootenays,” said KUHL President Vince Morelli “The Kootenays are starting to get crowded with Junior ‘A’. Unfortunately for Morelli, Bryan Bucci’s main reason for purchasing the Rebels was to move them to the BCJHL for next season. “The original plan was not to purchase the Rebels,” said Bucci who originally just intended to move the BCJHL's Kelowna Spartans to Castlegar. for this season. “But the more Ii thought about it, the more it seemed the right thing in order to make a smoother transition into Junior *A’.” The executive of the Castlegar Rebels knew exactly what Bucci was thinking and they were read to make some moves themselves. "We were burnt out vid Robin Tomlin, the President of the hockey organization. “We tried for the last three years sing, I've been there to get new people on the board. There was also the fact that Junior ‘A’ was coming and the fact that he [Bucci] need ed the the team to make a smoother transition. [ just wanted to go in the right direction and make sure we get the best Junior ‘A’ league here.” . Tomlin said the agreed upon price was approximately $26,000 and the Castlegar Rebels Society gets to keep all the money in the bank. Bucci was given all the equipment and the franchise title The executive held an informa tion hearing last Thursday 11 order to officially announce ‘tt = Babe Ruth Ball off a high of their own after beating Newark, Ohio in their opener Again Trail fell behind early as Sarasota scored a run in the opening two innings to take a 2-0 lead. The inning when Sell launched a off the inning score remained ticd until the fifth last to straight-away centre field to lead deal to all interested people including past members of the Rebels executive It was a lot of information said Tomlin, “There was a lot of old dichards that didn’t want to see it happen. But time marches on. “T think a lot of people came to the meeting sort of against the deal but they ended up leaving happy.” The Castlegar Rebels Will con- tinue to exist as a non-profit orga- nization and they are looking to build a trust fund in order to sup- ply deserving young athletes with scholarships and bursaries. The fund now stands at around $45,000 and Tomlin said he hopes to build it to a peak of $100,000. As for Bucci, he’s looking for- ward to hockey season. I expect we'll have a very entertaining brand of hockey,” said Bucci, “It will be a very physical brand and the kids will play at their optimum or they won't be here. We expect to win.” As Bucci promised, renova- tions to the Castlegar Recreation Complex have already begun The first stage of renovating the players dressing room has almost been completed and the new coaches office and press box are on schedule, Bucci also plans to put in new trophy cases and a souvenir booth which will sell Castlegar Rebels 20th anniver sary merchandise The 20th anniversary logo has already been placed on the ice at the arena and the new jerseys have come in. The jerseys will be similar to the St. Louis Blues style with the same colors. In addition, all players will get new helmets. “We're gonna look good, we're gonna play good and we're gonna feel good about our selves,” added Bucci The Castlegar Rebels head office will have Bucci as Presi- dent and General Manager of the team with Pat Price as assis tant GM and head coach. Randy Grant is the Director of Hockey Operations, Fred Fomenoff is the director of advertising and Gary Fleming is the director of marketing. Randy Kirby main- tains his position as assistant coach of the club. As for the rest of the KUHL, it’s business as usual. All teams are set to play this season and the schedule was finalized Wednes- day night. Morelli said he hopes to expand the league into the South Okanagan as soon as the following season and said he believes that is where the future of the league may lie He is clearly tired of watching Junior ‘A’ teams barging their way into the Kootenays. “The way the RMJHL started was from the position that they would never hurt the KIJHL,” said Morelli. “Sounehow when we lose a team to another league, I can’t see that helping us ....10 any league.” As for the future of the league’? “It may well all be in the Okanagan, but there will always be a KUHL.” said Morelli SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert That girl’s got a game! Svetlana Rilkoff is one of Castlegar’s bright young basketball stars and she is just one of many young players at the annual SHSS Bastketball Camp all this week. Airy Mountai Ropliance Service cai uM ONLY *20 For friendly service anytime call ANTIQUES Come iin and browse among. Greasures of the past Trail Jays sho rea ae SRA AEE ? . | Volleyball Camp runs August 28:10 August 31 at Mt. Sentinel and is specially structured for all levels of players, Three sessions will be run daily based on age. Grades 6-8 learn from 8:30 to noon while grades 9-10 take the court from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.. The final session is for grades 11-12 and runs from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. The goal of the camp is to focus on sound skill development. For more information call Joe Moreira at 359-7941 Sarasota responded in their half of the inning with two runs but Trail refused to give in and scored a run of their own in sixth inniny after Mason drove in Dave Caron with two outs. However Sarasota again replied in the bottom of the inning with a run off of an error. It was the third error of the game for the Jays and it gave Sarasota a 5-2 lead Trail looked prepared to go quietly in the ninth inning atter the first two batters sat down swinging but Mark Profili continued his loud play with a solo home run to rally the troops. Then Trail managed to get [wo Your Pontiac e Buicke GMC Dealer Is having an early ’95 clearout. ANADA-WIDE CLE Like any other young baseball team, the Trail Blue Jays are looking for respect. How- ever, unlike other teams, they have decided to get it with their brains rather than their bats. The Jays are the host team at the Babe Ruth World Series which has taken the entire sports community of Trail by storm. The team of 16-18 year old players has 15 players from Trail and one each from Castlegar, Grand Forks and Bellevue. ~ Their first game came Saturday night before 5,804 ing fans at the italized Butler Park which is only a shadow of its former self. The opposition was a team from Tsukui, Japan. It was clear from the outset that the local boys were harboring some early jitters as they fell behind 2-0. But soon the players settled down and the bats started swinging. Todd Thompson, Darren McCarthy and Chris Florko all hit home runs for the Jays as they rung up 19 hits en route to the 12-4 victo- ty. McCarthy was the main force for Trail both at the plate and on the mound as he recorded three hits and four strikeouts. Castlegar player Brad Maloff went 4 for 4 at the plate. “I did good.... really good,” said Maloff, who recorded the games first RBI in the sec- ond inning. “I went 4 for 4 and made a throw- ing error but overall I was happy.” Maloff has been playing on the Trail Babe Ruth team since he was 13 years old. At 17 years of age he's now an old veteran on a very good team. It’s a team that has progressed well over the years and has been on a roll lately. “We played excellent so far this year,” said Maloff. This year we had a sports psychologist come in and talk about negative and Positive thinking. That guy helped us out a lot “If we lose, it's because of mental errors, not physical.” The name of that psychol- ogist is Dr. Lee Pulos. Pulos has worked with the Canadi- an Olympic volleyball team, the National Ski team, the Edmonton Oilers, and the Vancouver Canucks during their Stanley Cup run two years ago. He spent two days with the/ team dis- cussing positive thinking and visualization “They loved it,” said Jays assistant coach Jason Startup. “They got a lot out of it. We've been telling the kids stuff all along and he just reinforced it.” . The Jays appeared to use their newfound Mental fortitude in their second game of the Series Sunday afternoon versus Nederland Texas. Once again they fell behind by a run carly but they never gave up and came out on top when the pressure mounted Nederland got a run in the top of the second inning on a home run by Jeremy Seymour but went on to strand the next 14 base-runners it BABE RUTH BASEBALL Up, up and away! Jay runner Dave Caron didn’t havy this play as the ball sailed into centre field. ? would get including leaving the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth innings. Trail tied the score in the bottom of the third inning as David Profili drove in his brother Mark. The exact same situation pre- sented itself again in the bottom of the sixth inning as Mark Profili walked to lead off the inning. He was quickly replaced by Chad Craig who ended up scoring on a David Profili single while D.J. Ashman went to third. Ashman was thrown out at the plate with Profili standing on third and Todd Thompson at first base when Trail manager Jim Wasem called for the forced balk. The play calls for the run- ner at first to leave just before the pitcher begins his wind-up and force a balk, bringing the runner home from third. If the pitcher manages to stay out of the balk and make the throw to second, the runner must keep the fielders busy long enough for the run to score from third. Thompson did that and Profili scored the insurance run on a close play at home plate We were trying to force a balk but it ended up being a double steal,” said Startup. “We've been working on it all year wanting to use it in to be too quick on IN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert this game and it worked.” The play lifted the Jays to a 3-1 lead and they held off a late charge by Nederland to Pick up their second straight win. Startup char- acterized it as a key victory. “I was good for our team.... just excellent,” said Startup after the game. “That was proba- bly one of the best teams and to beat them right now says just great things about us.” It was also an extremely pressure-packed game. Nederland had runners on base every inning including runners in scoring position with less than two outs in the last two frames. But none of the Jays succumbed to the pressure “The pressure was the first game against Japan,” said assistant coach Dave Colquhoun “They ‘ve worked the kinks out now.” “These kids are used to pressure,” added Startup. “They've been playing under presstre all their lives.” Two of the Jays players, Thompson and Jeff Sell, play on the National team while two oth- ers, David Profili and Matt Mason, play on college teams. Most of the other players were part of the 11-12 age World Series a few years back and all have played in pressure-packed tournaments over the past couple of years. However, their mental toughness would be Put to another huge test Monday night against Sarasota, Florida. The Floridians were coming See BABE RUTH BALL EL) Marken-Lightle Winners The 6th Annual Marken-Lightle Memorial Golf Tournament was held on Sunday, August 6 at the Castlegar Golf Course. The Cana- dian Cancer Society received $2,200 in proceeds from the event. The Pro-shops Denny McArthur, the golf course and all the staff pitched in to make it another successful event. The winner of the event was Denny McArthur’s team which included Cara McArthur, Randy Morris, Patti Morris and Steve Johnson. Second Place went to Ron Sherstobitoff, Jeff Townsend, Mike Veribioff, Mike Beland and Les Gyrkavitz. Third Place went to the team of Phil Sherstobitoff, Ken Sherstobitoff, Rob Sherstobitoff, Joe Mykyte and Gord Zaytsoff. Scott Jones took the award for closest to the pin and Steve Johnson walked away with the longest drive. The winner on the ladies side was Lorene MacGregor’s team of Lisa Walker, Nadine Larsh, Shelly Kirby and Kathy Horcoff. Ldies closest to the pin winner was Patti Morris and the longest ladies drive was recorded by Pat Chemenkoff. Coaches Deserving Cudos Do you know a local coach of any sport who deserves special attention? The Castlegar Sun and 3M are once again looking for nominees for Castlegar Coach of the Year and it just might be that you know the most deserving coach in the community. Nomina- tion forms can be found in every issue of this week's Paper and in future issues. The deadline is August 31 and remember to make your choice wisely, young grasshopper. All coaches at all levels are eligible. Beaver Valley Bound Beaver Valley Nite Hawks General Manager, Terry Hanik, was in town last week and he wants everybody to know that he likes Castlegar hockey players. The Nite Hawk training camp opens at the end of August and he invites all area Players to enroll in his open camp. If you're interested give Hanik a call at 368-9500, Sports Comment of the Week The world of sports is a big ball of excitement most of the time but sometimes you have to wonder what it’s made of and who's Push- ing it from behind. That's where the sports comment comes in. This week's comment comes at the expense of one of the biggest human comments in existence, Don King. How does this guy con- tinue to promote fights when his end product is always less appe- tizing than a bow! of liver jello? The Mike Tyson fight last Saturday night cost $70 on pay per view and lasted barely oyer a minute. It was clear from the start that McNeele never had a. chance and shouldn't have even been in the ring. The return of Iron Mike was as unimpressive as his departure to say the least Somebody should stand King up with a left uppercut and cut his hair. Praise Allah. Got a sports sideline, call Jeff at 365-5579 = men aboard to make a game of it before a strikeout ended the game The final score was 5-3 “We didn’t execute and there's your two runs,” said Wasem of the errors. “At this calibre of ball we gotta execute.” The Jays are now forced into,a situation where they must win three straight games in the losing bracket to make the final. The first of those games is Wednesday at 8:30 against an Opponent yet to be determined. Wasem still has faith in his players, especially after seeing them win the B.C. Provincial tournament last year after eight str: ght wins in the losing bracket saw them win the title. “After the game, | told them don’t hang you heads, we've been in this situation before,” said Wasem. “Now we play spoiler. We send people home now. “We feel we're the best team in the World Series. 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