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Salekin victimized two Beaver Valley goalies for five goals and contributed one assist in the one-sided game. “f'm more than happy with the way the guys played last night,” said Rebel coach Gary McQuaid today. “Everything was going for us.” McQuaid said one of the big factors in the Rebel vietory was their tough defence. The Rebels shut out the Nite Hawks early in the opening frame when the Beaver Valley squad had a two-man advantage for four minutes. He also singled out the exceptional play of netminder Nick Colvin who stopped 29 of 30 shots. “Nick played very, very well,” McQuaid said. The Castlegar team peppered both Nite Hawks goalies with 48 total shots. McQuaid said the lopsided victory does not mean the Rebels will have an easy go with the Nite Hawks in the opening round of the KIJHL playoffs. “I think it'll still be a tough series,” McQuaid said despite the Rebel whitewash. “There's no freebies.” The next playoff game in the best of seven series against the Nite Hawks goes in Beaver Valley Friday Rebels defeat Hawks tion at the complex last night. The Rebels trounced the Hawks 12-1. CastewsPhoto by Doug Hervey night at 8:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the final game of the KIJHL regular season for the Castlegar Rebels was a shootout against the Spokane Braves on Sunday night in Spokane. The Braves 18-12. Castlegar goals went to Lorni Kanigan, Taylor Harding, Jeff Adams and Wayne Salekin. Kanigan, Renwick, Kevin Koorbatoff, Jason Hughes and Walter Sheloff provided the assists. Six Spokane players scored the goals in the Braves winning effort. Castlegar netminder Tim Horcoff faced 39 shots. The Rebels were more successful on Saturday night as they beat the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks 10-8 at the complex. Walter Sheloff scored three goals, Dave Terhune scored two, Adams netted two, Salekin contributed two and Kanigan got one. The Rebels ended the regular season with 27 wins, 15 losses for 54 points to win the KIJHL West division. Terhune was high-scorer 112 points scored in 36 games. Tim Horcoff played 1,055 minutes in goal this season for the Rebels and let in 91 of the 569 shots he faced for a 6.2 goals against average. Nick Colvin stopped 98 of the 716 shots he faced in 1,479 minutes of regular season play for a 7.3 goals against average. By ALAN ADAMS CALGARY (CP) — Poland and Switzerland — future Olympic hockey medallists?, The weak sisters at the 15th Winter Games are supposed to be the tournament's push-overs. But they haven't been playing like it. “We've played each team and all I know is it's been down to the final whistle in each game,” said Canadian coach Dave King after his players needed three third-period goals Tuesday to beat Switzerland 4-2. “They are now employing tactics that Canadian teams have used against the Soviets. “It is making it tough to play and it makes for more competitive hockey.” Against Poland on Sunday, fourth-seeded Canada was the thickness of a crossbar from a tie, but King’s crew hung on for a 1-0 triumph. “The teams that appear to be the lesser teams are really improving and it means that international hockey in the future will be tougher and tougher,” King said. “In future Olympies, in future world championships and in future Canada Cups, you will find the competition closer and closer all the time.” Eighth-seeded Poland held world champion Sweden to a 1-1 draw in a Group A game, while No. 5 Finland hardly broke a sweat in a 10-1 mismatch over No. 12 France. TEAMS IMPROVE “I think they are closer to the top teams,” said Sweden's Peter Anderson of the Poles. “They are getting close to us. “The so-called B teams (like Poland) play good defensive hockey. They need to play that way because if they switched to offence, they will lose games by eight or ftine goals.” The Canadians’ second triumph moved them into first place in the Group A with four points, one more than Sweden. Switzerland and Finland are tied for the third and final qualifying spot for the medal round with two points each, one ahead of Poland. France is winless in its two matches. The Americans, whose 7-5 loss to Czechoslovakia left MOUNT ALLAN, Alta. (CP) — Pirmin Zurbriggen moved into position to win his second Olympic gold medal by finishing first in the downhill section of the Alpine combined competition Tuesday. The Swiss champion was clearly the best skier from top to bottom of the 2,967-metre course — shorter, than Mnday’s regular downhill, which Zur- briggen won — and finished in one minute 46.90 seconds. Franck Piccard -of France was second in 1:47.38 with Felix Belezyk of Castlegar, B.C., third in 1:48.24. “The course was much faster this morning,” Zurbriggen told a mass of reporters crowded in the finish area. “My line was too straight through the gates, that's why I entered the first curve too low.” The combined medals are awarded on the basis of results from the downhill and today’s slalom. Racers are awarded points in each race, based on their finish, and those points are totalled to determine the final placings. situation; pointing out personal tax planning oppor- tunities. And it doesn’t cost a cent A full range of Kootenay Savings RRSP options a includes Variable Rate RRSP, Term Deposits and Equity programs. Contact the Kootenay Savings Credit Union branch near you. 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Dudley Stokes, a helicopter pilot in the Jamaican Defence Force. “But I'm also disturbed by the underlying feeling that we are not serious, that we are here only to rub shoulders with World Cup athletes. “We are serious athletes. There are no jokers on this team.” Serious? Maybe. But this is a team better known for innovative marketing — reggae smash Hobbin’ and a Bobbin’ and its Jammin’ Jamaicans T-shirts — than its ability to rocket down a bobsled run. A four-man sled bought in Lake Placid, N.Y., in January took such a beating during training that it was left there. The Jamaicans will race in the four-man event at the Olympies on a sled just purchased from the Canadian team. DEFEND EFFORT Decked out at a news conference in their green and canary yellow Olympic jackets, the five-member team and its American mentor defended its hastily prepared effort to test Calgary's icy concrete serpent. The idea for a Jamaican bobsled team originated last August with George Fitch, a business consultant and former U.S. attache to the Carribean island. He saw a “tremendous challenge” in taking a group of athletes from a. warm-weather country to the Winter Olympies in a sport none of them knew anything about. “The idea of going forward in a short period of time was a very strong motivation,” Fitch said. “The litmus test for any athlete is how quickly can you learn a new sport.” He chose bobsled after watching a Jamaican sport called push-cart, in which teams of men push wheeled carts down hills at breakneck speeds. Both sports require great leg drive and quick acceleration at the start. Fitch, who has sunk about $50,000 of his own money into the $100,000 venture, began advertsing for prospective bob- sledders, but was most successful when he managed to per- suade a Defence Force colonel to recruit some of his men. WAS SKEPTICAL Stokes, from Kingston, said he was skeptical at first until he realized it wasn't just a “roller coaster.” “When I discovered it had to be driven, that fired my imagination,” he said. Fitch enlisted some coaching help from the U.S. Bobsled Federation, purchased a couple of two-man sleds and headed for Calgary in October to train. Brakeman Lieut. Devon Harris, a platoon commander and former middle-distance runner, said “there was a great fear of the unknown,” when he and Stokes made their first run. Was it the scariest thing he'd ever done? “Oh no, I don’t think so. I was probably more scared when I did parachuting.” Last December, Stokes and Harris ran a World Cup in Igis, Austria — a requirement to get into the Olympics — and finished 35th with the fastest time ever for a first-time team in the competition. Coach Howard Siler thinks they can finish in the top 30 at the Olympics. “We want to win the bottom half — the have-not nations.” The remainder of the team includes Infantry Signalman Michael White and student Caswell Allen — both from Kingston — and Freddie Powell; an electrician and aspiring reggae singer from Junction St. Elizabeth. White is an alternate, while Allen and Powell will race four-man with Stokes and Harris. Of Tuesday's top three finishers, only Zurbriggen is given much chance of being in the medals after the slalom. And even he isn't willing to accept the gold medal yet. Chased by a few journalists as he was hustled away to the team trailer — he refused to talk to the print reporters about an hour of television interviews — Zurbriggen said it's hard to judge his chances. Blood CALGARY (CP) — Cross try PIRMIN ZURBRIGGEN favored to win “Slalom is very hard for me. There are a lot of other guys who ski slalom very well. I go and practice it now.” Piccard, who won the downhill bronze medal on Monday, is regarded as a strong technical skier. But even he isn't confident of his medal chances. area. has created an up- ski star Torgny Mogren of Sweden roar. wants his sport taken out of the Olympics if blood doping keeps spread International Olympic Committee spokesman Michele Verdier said Hall's Tough competition them tied for third with the Czechoslovaks, meet the unde. feated Soviet Union, which is tied with West Germany for first place with four points each. The match will be the first time the Soviet and American national teams have met since 1980's Miracle On Ice, where the Americans won and went on to capture the gold medal at the Lake Placid, N.Y., Winter Games. The West Germans, also unbeaten, will try to keep pace with the Soviets when they play winless Austria. Czech oslovakia can put itself in good position to advance to the medal round if it beats winless Norway. The three top teams from each group advance to the medal round, carrying with them points earned against the other two squads from their respective pools. Games are then played against the three teams from the other pool to decide the medals. BREAK TIE Canada and Switzerland went into the third period tied 1-1, but Gord Sherven made it 2-1 at 4:56. Goals 57 seconds apart, by ken Yaremchuk at 15:04 and Mare Habscheid at 16:01, put the game away. Meanwhile, Leszek Lejezyk, coach of the upstart Polish team, sported a smile from ear-to-ear after his team con- tained the Swedes. “We achieved our goal,” said Lejezyk. “Our plan was to tie up the defence, which is very hard. “To play for a tie is harder than to play for a victory.” It was Poland's first tie with Sweden since they drew at the Izvestia tournament in Moscow in the early 1970s. “We have to work harder than other teams because we aren't as skilled,” he said. While Lejezyk beamed with pride, Frenchman Paulin Bordeleau was dejected after his team's second lopsided loss. Sweden beat them 13-2. “Our goal is not to get discouraged,” he said. “We know they are stronger than us but we always try to do better. “We knew we wouldn't beat them, we had no hope, but it is tough to get beat like that.” Alpine combined event heats up “I don’t slalom too good. My best result is 19th place . . . so I don't think it's possible to catch a medal.” Piccard said Markus Wasmeier of West Germany, who was ninth in the downhill section, and the Austrians, led by Hubert Strolz in sixth place, have to be considered the best medal pos sibilities. Belezyk didn't have a great start and was 13th at the first interval. But his gliding and bump-riding ability were superb, enabling him to move into medal position. DOESN'T LIKE CHANCES Like Piccard, however, he doesn't rate his medal chances too highly. “The only way to do it is to ski as aggressively and taking as many chances as possible,” he said. “Who knows, with a little luck and taking all those chances and making it down I could well, with a LOT of luck I should say.” Except for Belezyk's strong per. formance, Tuesday was another dismal day for Canadian downhillers. The only other Canadian to finish was-Don Stevens of Rossland, B.C., who was 22nd in 1:50.97. Rob Boyd of Whistler, B.C., and Mike Carney of Squamish, B.C., missed gates and didn’t finish. “I think I was just too quick up there,” said a dejected Boyd as he tried to push his way out of the interview oping alleged Mogren finished 11th after he and his teammates had waxing problems. ‘THINGS HAPPEN’ “Such things happen,” he said ly no sub "Tm i we'll do much better in ing. charges had “ab ‘STUPIDITY’ “Of course, I hope that cross. country skiing remains an Olympic sport, but we have to do something if the cheating continues,” Mogren said Tuesday. His comment came after Canadian cross-country coach Marty Hall had suggested that Soviet skiers used the banned technique to win four of the top five places in a women's race and three of the top four in a men’s event. Blood doping involves taking blood, perhaps a litre or more, from an athlete well before competition, storing it while the athlete's body makes up the shortage, then reinjecting it just before a race. This adds oxygen-bear-. ing red blood cells, increasing'stamina. After Soviet skiers finished 1-2 in the first two Olympic cross-country races, Hall said blood doping was “the most logical thing” to explain the Soviet success. Added Canadian Olympic Associa tion president Roger Jackson: “The stupidity is... he’s made an accusation he has absolutely no ability to back up.” Mogren, winner of the World Cup for the last two years and leader in the current overall standings, accepts that doping happens, but said he doesn't suspect the Soviet skiers. “No, I don’t think so, because the Soviets compete quite often on the World Cup circuit,” he said. “And the tough cources here suit their style. They're power skiers and have always done well in the classical style.” Soviet coach Alexander Grishin said the Soviets trained 20 days at high altitude in Soviet Georgia to prepare for the Olympics. Swedish skiers, who had domi- nated men's cross-country skiing in the 1980s, lagged far behind the Soviets. the 15K (15 kilometres).” Mogren said the primary moti vation for doping would be eliminated if cross-country skiing were dropped from the Olympics. “I don't think anybody would be so stupid that he would try to cheat his way to a win in a single World Cup race,” said Mogren. International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch lashed out against blood doping at last week's 93rd 10C session. “As means of detection have im proved, they now attempt to cheat scientifically by using artificial means to provoke natural physiological reac tions or by attempting with various tricks to hide the irrefutable evidence of their dishonest actions,” Samaranch said.