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Jonathan Green
SPORTS REPORTER
The Castlegar Rebels put
another win on the board Fri-
day, but it wasn't pretty.
Overlooking the fact that
hockey games are 60 minutes
long, the Rebels showed up for
about half that to dump the

games.

Mark Graff scored his
fourth and fifth goals of the
season while Kevin Leiman
added a goal and an assist to
lead the way for the home
team, who had period leads of
2-1 and 3-2.

Coach Garry Sauer' said
some penalty trouble after
jumping out to a quick 2-0
lead almost cost the Rebels.

“Basically, what we did is
give Golden a chance to get
back into the game,” he said.
“We could have had four or
five goals in the first if we
hadn't had the play slow down

at 17:17, then watched as Ni-
no Da Costa and Corey Ross
set up Shane Cutler to make it
2-0 35 seconds later.

With little or no response
from Golden, the Rebels shift-
ed into neutral and sat back to
watch the game.

Seeing that, the Rockets
narrowed the gap to one on a
power play with just under
four minutes left, and went in-
to the dressing trailing 2-1.

Still stuck in neutral, the
Rebels put on a clinic of how
not to play in your own end in
the second period and it cost
them when the visitors tied it

at 14:42.

With no one else willing to
step forward and turn the
game around, Darren Pottle
put the Rebels back in front
when he scored solo at 7:13 to
round out the scoring for the
period.

“I thought he was the moti-
vator on the team, the spark-
plug, whatever you want to
call it,” Sauer said of Pottle.

Coming out for the third,
Sauer juggled his lines in an
effort to get the team going
and it worked when Graff
scored unassisted at 19:46.

Three-and-a-half minutes
later, Bill Brewer increased
the lead to three on a pass
from Aaron Hackman and
Graff was back for No. 2 at the
8:05 mark to make it 6-2.

Though the game goes

down as a win for the Rebels,
Sauer said things could have
been much different after Pot-
tle’s goal.
“If Golden had tied it or
gone up by one, we would have
had a tough time coming back,
that’s my personal feeling,” he
said.

With road games tonight in
Beaver Valley, Friday in Ross-
land and Sunday in Spokane,
with a home game against
Grand Forks mixed in Satur-
day, Sauer said there’s poten-
tial for a big move up in the
standings.

“I don’t see any reason why
we can’t win the majority of
these games coming up this
week,” he said, adding that he
could live with one loss.

“Winning three out of four
would be nice.”

Game time Saturday is 8
p.m.

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Golden's Tom Veselic got a bit of a scare Friday night after being checked into the boards.
Fearing a neck or spine injury, ambulance attendants took Veselic to hospital but later returned

Rebels win ugly
as Rockets fizzle |

him to the Complex when everything checked out alright.

News photo by Jonathan Green

Logjam atop the CRHL

NEWS STAFF

You might think that scor-
ing 11 goals would be enough
to win a hockey game, but not
in the Castlegar Recreational
Hockey League.

Doug Knowler scored five
times and Kelly Keraiff and
Clay Martini each had five
points for Woodland Park
Shell, but it wasn’t enough as
they fell 14-11 to the Kootenay
Computers Saturday.

Perry Hysen paced the win-
ners with four goals while Du-
ane Weir was good for six
points.

Things looked pretty nor-
mal after one period, with
Shell leading 3-2, but that was
about as close as it got as the
Computers struck for six goals

in each of the next two periods
on their way to the victory.
, In other action, Garry
' Sauer and Mike Flegel each
scored twice in Castlegar

’

Sports Centre’s 7-6 Thursday
win over Banjo’s Pub.

Gordie Walker did every-
thing but drive the Zamboni
for Banjo’s, scoring five times
and assisting once in a losing
cause.

CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL

HOCKEY LEAGUE
(As of Oct. 19)

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Computers 2
Shell 2
Sports Centre 2
Press. Wash 1
Banjo's 0

In Saturday’s late game,
Chief Mercer’s fourth goal
with 35 seconds left gave Pres-
sure Wash a 7-7 tie with Ban-
jo’s, while on Tuesday, Knowl-
er and Keraiff each had a hat
trick in Shell’s 11-5 win over
Sports Centre.

Chernoff takes the blame for
disappointing field hockey trip

NEWS STAFF
When it comes time to lay
blame, human nature has us
looking for a scapegoat.
But if you’re Verna Cher-
noff, that’s not necessarily the

case.

The coach of the Stanley
Humphries senior girls field
hockey team, Chernoff looked
no further than herself for a
disappointing showing at a
tournament in Agassiz over
the weekend.

She said that finishing fifth
out of sixth teams will go down
as one of the poorest showings
for Stanley Humphires, and it
can be blamed on her.

“It was one of the worst re-
sults we've had in our history,”
she said. “The coach hadn't
done the things which would
have allowed them proper

warm up time.”

The team arrived for their
first match five minutes before
game time Friday, and it
showed in a 3-0 loss.

Although the result would
have been the same, Chernoff
said a proper warmup would
have made for a more compet-
itive effort.

“They still would have beat-
en us, but I think we would
have done better,” she said.

The Rockettes were back in
action Saturday morning
against Vancouver’s Notre
Dame, this time falling 1-0 in
a game Chernoff said should
have been a win.

“We were a more complete
team,” she said, adding that
the team went in once again
unprepared.

“Our kids weren’t warmed
up physically or mentally and

I'll take full responsibility for
that.”

The tournament endéd that
afternoon with a 3-0 win over
Comox’s Highland.

Though generally known as
a low scoring sport, Chernoff
said the team’s lack of offence
hasn't gone unnoticed.

“So far, we’re not scoring as
well as I thought we would,”
she said. “We've had lots of
chances, they’re just not going
in.

And with Rossland in town
at Kinnaird Park today, Cher-
noff said some offence would
be nice.

“Hopefully we'll get some

The junior girls, coming off
back-to-back wins over Salmo,
face Rossland’s junior team
across the street at Kinnaird
Middle School.

@ Wednesday, October 21, 1992

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@ First place on the line
as Trail Flag Football
League’s top two teams
face off on Saturday

NEWS STAFF

A lot of us look forward to
Saturday because it’s a day
when we don’t have to go to
work.

But for the Castlegar Tom
Kats and the Trail Bulldogs,
Saturday is a day off and
more.

At 11 a.m., the two Trail
Flag Football League teams
will meet to decide the dif-
ference between first and
second in the league’s final
standings.

Each having identical 5-
2 records, both teams are
travelling in different direc-
tions.

The Kats come into the
game on the heels of 28-24
Sunday win over the Dam

Inn Mates, while the Bulldogs
lost for the second straight
time, 24-18 loss to their
crosstown rival Hawks.

3 LL
LEAGUE
(As of Oct. 21)
WLFEF A P
Bulidogs 5 2146 93 10
Tom Kats5 2 179 128 10
Mates 4 41922278
Hawks 1 7 134203 2

The Kats jumped out to an
early 20-0 lead before the
Mates closed the gap to 20-6 by
the half.

Tom Kat Tom Campbell
said the game was an aggres-
sive one, a sign that the Mates
were looking to avenge a Sept.
26 42-6 loss to the Kats.

“They wanted to beat us bad
over the weekend from the last
game we played,” he said.

Playing with a skeleton

squad, the Kats were able to
hold-off the-Mates inthe sec~
ond half, a sign that Campbell
said showed their team depth.

“Everybody played well,” he
said. “Everyone who came out
played their positions and did
their jobs.

“It shows we have a well
rounded team.”

Dave Terhune led the way
for Castlegar with two touch-
downs, while Jeff Scheupfer
and Gord Sandrin added sin-

es.

John Gilchrist added a cou-
ple for the Mates, while Ian
McMillan and Mark Mc-
Dougall each had one.

Sunday, the Mates got three
touchdowns from Dom
Droucker to down the Hawks,
31-24.

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