’ SS 82s Castlegar News Febrvory 20. 1985 Jr. team atop league With half of their league play completed, Stanley Humphries Junior Rockettes basketball team took the weekend off to rest, and to contemplate their lofty posi tion atop the West Kootenay league standings. League position is so im portant to the girls, says Rockettes coach Doug Pilat- zke, because the league champion not only receives a bye through the playoffs, but also gets to host the West Kootenay Championships on March 16. Five of the girls’ league victories have been blow- outs: 59-6 against Salmo; 64-12 versus L.V. Rogers; 58-22 against Trafalgar; 46-21 over Rossland; and a 68-10 wipeout of Boundary Central. The Rockettes’ other two wins against J.L. Crowe however have been much closer. In their first league en counter’ played in Trail the locals broke in front 6-2 at the quarter on baskets by Karen Popoff, Kim Tarasoff, and Tina Baker. Some hot outside shooting by Tarasoff kept the Rockettes in front 13-12 at halftime despite a flurry of fast break hoops by the Trail squad. In the second half the. Rockettes’ man-to-man de- fense tightened and scores by Tarasoff and rookie Pam Braun opened up a 22-14 margin. In the final frame Leigh Halisheff got untrack- ed and hit for 10 points while the defense remained solid for a well-earned 34-18 final result. “The key was our defense, it usually is,” said Pilatzke. “Kim, Karen, and Leigh neu. tralized their checks and Pam held her check to seven points -while scoring six points herself.” The return match, played in the quaint confines of the SHSS gym, was a replay of the first game, with an un- forseen twist at the end of the game. The contest was knotted at the end of the quarter, and the locals led narrowly at halftime 14-12. Again it was Tarasoff, with six third-quar- ter points who ignited a rally to give the Rockettes a 28-18 lead with about five minutes left to play. At this point an error in judgement by Pilat- zke promptly backfired. “Each team’s starters are fairly evenly matched, but with the 10-point cushion I wanted to get our younger players some game experi- RECREATIONAL LEAGUE ence in a pressure situation,” Pilatzke said. The Crowe squad didn't waste any time taking ad- vantage of some defensive errors and costly fouls and began cutting away at the lead. Four baskets cut_ the margh} to 28-26 with time running out and still Pilatzke declined to put the starters back into the game, and the buzzer sounded with the Rockettes still in front. “It was a bit scary near the end of the game but Trail only played five girls and if some of our younger players can get into a close game for afew minutes it'll help us come playoff time.” This weekend the girls participate in a tournament in Rossland. They play their final home league game next Friday against Rossland. Playoffs set to begin By CasNews Staff First-place Williams Mov- ing will play Valley Contrac- tors and Carling O'Keefe will meet Sandman Inn in the up- coming Castlegar Recreation- al Hockey League playoffs. Castlegar Playboys, in fifth place at the end of the reg- ular season, will miss the playoffs this year. Playoff dates have not yet been confirmed for the best three-out-of-five semi-finals. Williams Moving finished first in regular season stand- ings with 22 wins, four losses and two ties for 46 points. Sandman Inn was second with 36 points, Carling Blazers double Royals FERNIE (CP) — Doyle Wankel performed a hat trick as Elk Valley Blazers scored an 84 Western International Hockey League victory Tues- day at home over Cranbrook Royals. Leroy Huestis added a pair for the third-place Blazers, while Craig Williamson, Dale Skibinski and Ken Federko had si Greg Barber, Brent Dem erais, Ken Clement and Enzo Caceavo scored for Cran. brook, which is in a fight to hold fourth place. O'Keefe was third with 22 points, while Valley Contrac- tors finished the season with 21 points. Castlegar Playboys had 15 points. In individual scoring, Dan Walker of Sandman Inn was first with 49 goals and 39 assists for 88 points. Team- mate John Obetkoff was sec- ond with 86 points, while Dean McKinnon of Williams Moving was third with 69 points. For complete statistics, see Mid-Week Wrap-Up, page B2. Meanwhile, in the last two Recreational League games played Sunday, Carling O'Keefe and Castlegar Play boys played to a 4-4 tie on Sunday night. In a high-scoring afternoon game, Sandman Inn beat Valley Contractors 17-9. In the tie game, Castlegar Playboys opened the scoring at 8:48 of the first period. Carling O'Keefe then replied with a goal at 11:14 to Knot In the tie game, Castlegar Playboys opened the scoring at 8:48 of the first period. Carling O'Keefe then replied with a goal at 11:14 to knot Stefoniuk captures bronze Thirteen skaters from the Castlegar Figure Skating Club participated in the West Kootenay competition held in Trail on the weekend. Christi Stefoniuk was Castlegar’s ‘only medal winner, with a bronze. Sports Calendar SKING—ALPINE: U.S Mountain, Colo., noon, channel 6. BALL—HIGH SCHOOL: Stonley Humphries Rockers vs L.V. Rogers (Nelson), 8 p.m., SHSS gym HOCKEY—NHL: Quebec Nordiques vs p.m., channel 9. SATURDAY national championships from Copper Vancouver Canucks, 5 X-COUNTRY SKI RENTALS Weekdays — $8 Per Day Weekends — $9.50 per day 365-3522 ‘A Public Service hes Sports tbemtoper) sd. Salomon keg ico. * 129 feo $130 ‘99 Reg. $190 ‘89 bee $74.95 a9 reo. $65 ‘ag 35 Castleaird Plaza SKI BINDING SALE Mountain Ski & Sports Hut Tyrolia Reg $185 *155 reo io 129 too $130 ‘99 Reg. $110 *89 Reo $55 *35 Hurry while stock lasts! 365-3525 the score. A goal 12 seconds before the siren gave O'Keefe a 2-1 lead heading into the second period. Scoring the opening-period goals for Carling O'Keefe were Chief Mercer and Don Mair. Wayne Kinakin, Dan Cahill, Jerry Antignani and Wayne Zinio got the assists. Terry Halisheff scored’ for the Playboys, assisted by Dave Susanna and Clay Mar. tini. In the second period the Playboys scored two goals just three seconds apart to go ahead 3-2, but a goal by O'Keefe with 4:44 left in the period tied the game again. Lawrence Halisheff and Bill Nazaroff scored the goals for the Playboys. Terry Hali sheff, Perry Samoyloff and Martini assisted. Wayne Kinakin scored the goal for Carling O'Keefe and Bob Evans assisted. In the third period, Naz- aroff scored his second goal for the Playboys at 7:14 to put his team ahead 4-3. But a second goal by Carling O’Keefe's Kinakin tied the game up 4-4 and the game remained scoreless the rest of the way. In Sandman Inn's crushing of Valley Contractors, the hotel squad trailed 4-3 after the first period. In the second period, Sandman Inn held the Contractors to just one goal, while scoring seven goals to make the score 10-5. In the third frame, Sand- man Inn poured in seven more goals, while the Con- tractors added four. John Obetkoff had six goals for Sandman Inn, Dan Walker four, Dan Markin three, Vince Antignani two, and Sheldon Sookachoff and Mike Nevakshonoff one each. Getting the assists were Nevakshonoff with six, Al Isackson and Vince Antig- nani with five each, Obetkoff with four, Dan Markin, Sookachoff, Tony DaRosa, Walker and Perry Klit-with two each. Aaron Stoushnow had one assist. 5 Nick Voykin scoredfetr+ goals for Valley Contractors. Bear Cats win bowling tourney The 14th annual Ladies Bonnett Bowling Tourna ment was held at Castle Bow! on Feb. 10 and 11 followed by a banquet. Seventeen teams partici. pated in the event, with the following teams declared winners: First place went to the Bear Cats with 5,693 points. Team consisted of Mary Bermel, Irene Cahill, Louise Gjennestad, Marge Lalonde, and Dorothy Martini. Valley Mites placed second with 5,667 points. Team members were Marilyn Ker. foot, Marion Williamson, Shelly Ross, Mary Strelaeff, and Verna Osachoff. Third place went to the Minks with 5,632 points. Cheryl Closkey, Kay Me. Gauley, Gaye Coleman, Carol Montgomery, and Anita Mc. Leod made up the team. Question Marks placed fourth with 5,595 points. Team members were Pearl Mott, Mona Chernoff, Sharon Taylor, Annette Waywood, and Elaine Boolinoff. Team High Single went to WOODLAND PARK ESSO Gas & Groceries im. - 10 p.m., Mon. - Sat. the Hotshots with 1,221. Team consisted of Blythe El- liott, Judy Koftinow, June Rourke, Karin Mykyte and Erma Mykyte. Indi jual High Five in the A Division were Annette Waywood, first with 1,248; Blythe Elliott, second with 1,159; Marge Lalonde, third with 1,146. In the B Division Irene Cahill was first with 1,099; Ani McL.eod was second with 965; Betty Evin was third with 957. In the C division, Verna Osachoff was first with 961; Carol Montgomery was sec- ond with 909. Individual High Single in the A Division went to An- nette Waywood, first with 296; Annette Waywood, sec ond with 295; Annie Koochin, third with 296. In the B Division, Irene Cahill was first with 304; Doris Zoobkoff was second with 279; Betty Evin was third with 275. In the C Division, Del Lutz was first with 249; Liz Chrush was second with 240. Getting strikeouts were: Karen Mykyte, Erma Myk- yte, Annette Waywood, Dor- is Zoobkoff, Debbie Horst, Chery! Closkey, Anita Me- Leod, Bonnie Horswell and Lorraine McGuire. in Steen Trait A.M, FORD “Your ‘Ford Country Headquarters” DEL! - DENNIS “YOU DESERVE THE BEST & GET IT AT AMFORD!"” = during cont reiff goes high to beat legar Pee Wee Rep game Sunday in Spokane. scores of 8-4 and 4-1. Spokane took both games by Cashews Photo by Doug Horvey JR. ROCKERS TAKE CRESTON Stanley Humphries Ju- nior Rockers basketball team participated in a four-team round-robin tournament in Creston this past weekend. The team won three straight games to take top honors in the Junior Blue and Gold tour- nament at Prince Charles Secondary. In its opening game on Friday evening the locals had little trouble defeating the Jr. Wolves of Grand Forks 49-20. Rod Gritechin led the team in scoring with 24 points while Glen Lefurgey afided 10, Eric Dillon and Norm Higgins each had four, Fernando Ferreira netted three and Ward Johnson and Harold Russell chipped in with two apiece. The Jr. Rockers had a poor first half as they en- tered the dressing room with a' nafrow 16-12 lead. The second half was a TOURNEY TITLE different story as SHSS outscored Grand Forks 33-8. Stanley Humphries went on to defeat Creston in its second game 34-30. Grit. chin scored 13 points, Le- furgey and Dillon added six each. Scott Bole, Fer. eirra, Russell and Johnson had two each while Fit. chett added a single. SHSS had a 12-point lead at the half but went into a lapse defensively in the third quarter allowing Creston to get back in the game. In its final game the Jr. Rockers defeated the Jr. Tigers from Cranbrook 43- 20. Fitchett led a well: balanced scoring attack with 11 points. Dillon who played superbly through- out the tournament, ac- cording to coach Barry De- Paoli added eight points. Lefurgey and Gritehin scored five apiece while Norm Higgins, Bole and ERIC DILLON . all-stor Fereirra all had four. Har- old Russell rounded out the scoring with two more. Gritchin and Dillon were selected to the all-star team, Gritchin for his offensive contribution and Dillon for his all-court, heads up play. Dillon set up Gritehin with some excellent feeds of the wing. The Jr. Rockers’ bench is beginning to play with confidence. DePaoli noted Jarrett Clay and Eric Om. mundsen played well when called upon along with ROD GRITCHIN «+. all-star Harold Russell and point guard Ward Johnson. Norm Higgins continues to do a fine job inside for starter Gritchin, said De Paoli. “He is a fine rebounder and a good defensive play er,” DePaoli added. Fer. nando Ferierra is also play ing well as of late at the hight post position. The Jr. Rockers have a legue game against the Wolves from Grand Forks this week as they begin preparation for the West Kootenay playoffs. Pee Wees drop 9-4 decision Castlegar's Pee Wee B hockey team travelled to Creston on the weekend only to come home on the low end of a 9-4 score. Creston completely domin. ated play in the first half of the game by running up a 6-1 score. The only goal for Castlegar being scored by Ryan Jolly with assists to Jason Batchelor and Shane Cutler. Castlegar found its skating legs in the second half of the contest and traded goals with Creston from that point on. Scoring for Castlegar in the second and third periods were Lonnie Schmidt with two goals and Shane Cutler added a single. Assists went to Jolly with two, Batchelor and Shane McAfee. Mid-Week Wrap-up 1 2 2 2 3 3 oar Wotker one Ober “2 & McKinnon, Williorne as Mercer, Corling nue Kinokin, Corling B 0 Holahelt Pi 2 2 6 Nevor 2% 38 6 8. Kerod!, Williams 3S 4) 56 i Keralt Vatoy 1 33 52 ‘setson, Wi 1S 36 51 ets wil be beet o ove gomen: Deter yet t0 be confirmed. KOOTENAY INTERHATIONAL HOCKEY (Tap 18 Scorers) Otvieion GAP Alliaon, Cronbe 50 79.129 Porent. Col Vel 57 51 108 Pruss, Col Vol 20 7 taher. Cronbrook 7% 2 Walters, Col Vel 2% 60 8% McKee. 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Scurfield, 58, and Randy Paige Broyhill, 26, of Arlington, Va., were killed Monday when an avalanche buried them on Mount Duffy in the Monashee range northwest of Revelstoke. “Ralph skied right into the slide,” Mike Wiegele of Wiegele Helicopter Skiing, said in an interview Tuesday. “Everybody was yelling for him to stop. He wasn't out of control. He must not have heard them or seen it coming.” Helicopter pilot Duan Ho dropped off a guide and 12 skiers near the summit of the 2,250-metre mountain just before the slide occurred. The weather was clear and a trace of fresh snow had fallen that day. “There was nothing to show the danger of avalanche,” Ho said. STOPPED GROUP The guide stopped the group to traverse a steep section when they reached the 1,800-metre level. As lead skier the guide crossed the slope first to test the stability. Wiegele said the guests were aware of a procedure in which the guide signals each person to come across one at a time. It is a standard technique used to avoid putting too much weight on the snow and reduce the chance of more than one person getting caught. “Pwo or three got across when the first victim was caught,” Baruta said. “From my understanding it was a CANADIANS TOO avalanche natural release (of snow down the slope). It started from the top of the mountain. It was not caused by the skiers.” The avalanche broke loose in a 10-metre-wide section and broadened into a 50-metre-wide slide. The path stretched 150 metres down the mountainside. “You couldn't outrun it,” Ho said. Scurfield, who was following Broyhill across the slope, was carried less than 50 metres down the “He skied into it,” Ho said. “If he had waited he wouldn't ' have-got caught.” oe Cin MAN, i Be» Broyhill, in the direct path of the slide, was carried down to the base of the avalanche and buried under 2.5 metres of snow. Scurfield was found under one metre of snow in a deposit in the upper part of the slide path. All skiers in the group wore electronic avalanche signal devices and a search was started immediately. Rescue workers brought in from a base camp dug out the two victims within an hour But Baruta “all efforts to revive them at the scene proved negative.” Wiegele said the avalanche hazard in the Monashees, 345 kilometres west of Calgary, has been high because of accumulation of 30 centimetres of snow but conditions had improved for three days prior to thesaccident. He said it was the first fatality in 15 years of operation for the company But the accident was the second fatal slide to hit helicopter skiers in Western Canada this winter. Jeffrey Philip Elzinga of Calgary was one of two skiers killed Dec. 29 near Rossland. Lucas says he killed 360 plus CALGARY (CP) — Henry Lee Lucas, a convicted mur- dered who claims respon sibility in the killings of more than 360 people in the United States, could be linked to numerous unsolved killings across Canada, RCMP said Tuesday RCMP investigators inter viewed Lucas, 48, at a Georgetown, Tex., earlier this month after the one- eyed drifter told police he had travelled in Canada four or five times and killed 12 women. At a cautiously-handled news conference, Supt. John Sebastian said RCMP con. sider Lucas a suspect in five so-called Highway Murders between Calgary and Banff, the rest in British Columbia over a 12-year period. Most of the victims were believed to be hitchhikers, and the killings seem to have been sexually motivated. Police interest in Lucas extends beyond Alberta and British Columbia. REQUESTED INFORMATION RCMP have received re- quests for information from at least one other western province and Sebastian noted Lucas’s wanderings took him as far east as the Ontario Quebec border. Lucas was sentenced to death for several Texas mur- ders. He has been convicted of murdering a male police officer in West Virginia and 5 Alta. faces 35 other murder indic. RCMP wanted to trace the tments. movements of Lucas and Since his arrest Lucas has talked about other unsolved murders across the United States. The random killings involved people of both sexes and every age group. Lucas was interviewed by Cpl. Al MacIntyre of Calgary and Sgt. Ronald Babcock of Vancouver. MacIntyre, a 13-year vet. eran of the force, said the in- terrogation was routine. Lucas was unemotional as he sketched his activities in Canada, said McIntyre, re companion Otis Toole, ano- ther convicted killer, on trips to Canada between 1975 and 1983. Sebastian wouldn't give details of which murders the pair might be connected with. “We don't want to cause any undue anxiety to the families of the people who were killed,” he said. The killings involve the unsolved murders of 28 women, seven in Alberta and ferring to three ring binders full of information on the in terviews. Lucas and Toole, along for all but one of the trips in Canada, were on the move almost constantly, travelling by car and supporting them selves by petty theft. Lucas apparently has a re markable memory and pro- vided details on several kill- ings and described victims, Sebastian said, but was often hazy on dates and locales. Sebastian played down speculation Canadian author- ies might seek Lucas’s ex- tradition to stand-trial in Canada. DR. HACHMI HAMMAMI M.D.-C.S. (P.Q.) - F.R.C.S. (C.) D.S.U.L. (C.H.) - A.B.D. (U.S.A.) - $.C. (B.C.) Ophthalmologist (Diseoses of Eyes, Surgery and Loser Vision Examinations) The office is now open at 203 Victoria St., Nelson. Appointments can be made through your Doctor or by calling 352-7737. ACTION © CONTINUES In 1982, 1983 and again in 1984 The Castlegar and District Teachers Association gave up salary to pay for clauses in the agreement that was negotiated and signed with the Castlegar School Board. Those clauses provided for paid noon hour supervisors and elementary school preparation time. Students benefit from this agreement in many ways. Some of the ways in which students benefit are: AEROBIC EXERCISE ART CLUB AUTOMOTIVE SHOP BADMINTON CLUB BAND PRACTICE BASKETBALL CATCH-UP CLASSES CHECKERS CHEERLEADERS CHESS COMPUTER CLUB CONCERT PRACTICE COUNSELLING CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING CYCLING DANCES DEBATING DOWNHILL SKIING DRAMA EXTRA HELP FOSTER CHILD FLOOR HOCKEY GAMES ROOM GRASS HOCKEY HANDICRAFT CLUB INDIVIDUAL LEARNING ASSISTANCE INTRAMURALS INDOOR TRACK MEET JAZZ BAND LIBRARY LUNCH CLUB METALWORK SHOP PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLIC SPEAKING REACH FOR THE TOP SOCCER SOFTBALL SEWING AND TEXTILES CLUB STORE STUDENT COUNCIL STUDY HALL TABLE TENNIS VOLLEYBALL WOODWORK SHOP YEARBOOK... In that agreement we bought the time to provide a quality service to the best of our ability. As of January 29, 1985, the School Board decided not to live up to their part of the agreement by laying off the noon hour super- visors. Castlegar and District Teachers Association