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Skier
settles

for the
silver

By CasNews Staff

You've heard of missing it by an
inch, well, Debra Bray missed it by
exactly 13 inches,

One foot, one inch was precisely
how much taller than Bray was the
U.S. girl who beat her in the Ski For
Light competition Feb. 23 at
Kananaskis, Alta.

Bray, 33, who has won gold
medals in the event the previous two
years, had to settle for silver this
time.

And .the four-foot-eleven Trail
athlete said height had a lot to do
with it.

“The reason I lost was that three
of my strides were equal to one of
hers. Silver's OK though,” she said.

More than 40 racers competed in
the 14th annual event for blind and
partially blind skiers sponsored by
the Sons Of Norway Lodge.

Bray finished the five-kilometre
course, with the help of Castlegar
guide Olwyn Ringheim, in a time of
31 minutes 53 seconds.

Ringheim said Bray, who has just
four per cent of normal vision, held
her own on the course against the
bigger skier.

“She’s a good little skier,” said
Ringheim, who’s in her first year as
a guide. “It was a pleasure being
with her.””

Ringheim, 63, herself an accom-
plished skier who has competed in-
fernationally in the Masters of
Canada program, said she got into
being a guide because she wanted to
give something back to the sport she
doves.

“it’s the least I can do, to help
Someone learn. I wish you could see
the joy in their’ faces, they're so
delighted,” she said.

&: Castlegar staged the first Ski For-
Light competition ‘in 1978, a year
prior to the formation of Ski For

By CasNews Staff.

commodate them all by now.

West Kootenay title for
seventh straight year.
All told, Closkey,

Kootenay championships.

—CosNews photo by Ed Mills

SCHOOL SPORTS

If they gave out rings for win-
ning the West Kootenay basket-
ball championships, Jack Closkey’
would need an extra hand to ac-

On Saturday, Closkey’s senior
girls won the AA Senior Girls

the

who has
coached senior girls basketball at
the school since 1969, has won 10

And, as it’s been in a majority

of those years, it wasn’t even
close Saturday in the gym at
SHSS.

Kristy Lees scored 16 points

and Carilyn Briscoe had 14 as the

“ Rockettes beat the Grand Forks
Wolves 81-34 ip front of sparse
hometown crowd,

Kelly Davidoff — who didn’t
see the floor until the second half
— had 14 points for SHSS,
which led 32-18 at halftime.

The Rockettes beat L.V.
Rogers of Nelson 79-24 to ad-
vance to the final,

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The victory means the Rocket-
tes will travel to Armstrong, just
outside of Vernon, for the
Provincial championships March
13-16.

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Rockettes’ best finish was seventh
two years ago. Last year the
Rockettes finished ninth.

With this team, curerntly
ranked fifth in the province,
Closkey said he probably has his
best shot ever at a provincial
title.

Kristy Lees (with ball) is the Rockettes rocket woman. Coach Closkey calls her the fastest
irl on the court in the province. if she can maintain contro! of the ball she'll be a force
ir SHSS as the senior girls travel to Armstrong for the provincials from March 15-17.

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K. Davidoff 24
R. Perrier 22 r

Still, he’s not buying polish for
the trophy yet.

“‘When you know you're really
g00d, it’s very hard to play up to
your. potential,"’ the SHSS vice-
Principal said Monday. ‘But if
we do play up to our potential,
we're going to do very, very
well,”

With such a broad range of
talent, Closkey’s loath to put any
one girl above another on this
team, Pressed on the issue, the
veteran coach admits there are a
few girls who have to show up to
Play if the Rockettes are to be
successful.

“If Briscoe doesn’t play then
we're in trouble. She’s kind of
the anchor,”’ he said.

Others Closkey mentioned
were Lees and forwards Rory
Perrier and Sherry Makortoff.

Lees, who was unstoppable in
the Grand Forks game, is the
Rockettes’ rocket woman.

“‘She’s the fastest kid in the
Province, no question,” said
Closkey. But, he added, she
doesn’t always have ball control
to go along with that speed.

“But when she does put it all
together, she can go with that
speed and she’s very impressive.’’

Makortoff has to can points
from the baseline and Perrier, the
talest player on the Rockettes at
six feet and a bit, has to
rebound, especially against teams
with big girls, SHSS is going to
be effective, said Closkey.

Briscoe, a five-eleven forward
who started playing senior ball in
Grade 10, said this team is closer
knit than the last two senior
teams she’s played on.

“‘We work. as a team,
everybody works together,”” said
the Rockettes co-captain, adding
the girls collectively know their

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Strengths (speed) and weaknesses
heading into provincials.

“I think one of our biggest
weaknesses is we have to toughen
our defence,"’ said Briscoe. “We
have to want to play defence bet-
ter, We can play it when we
want to. We just have to want
to.”

Besides defence, Closkey said
the girls need to get tough, not
on the cgurt but in their minds,
before provincials. Lack of local
competition has often meant lack
of intensity for the senior girls so
Closkey will be tuning them in to
the task ahead.

“I think the Grade 12 kids
(Lees, Makortoff, Briscoe,
Deanna Bankert and Lisa Baker)
are very focused, they've been
there before, they know what
they want to do. I would hope
the Grade 11 kids (Perrier,
Davidoff, Carolyn Chernoff
Laurel Closkey, Denise Grey and
Shelly Blessin) feel the same.’’

The Rockettes play their first
game in the provincials against
St. Patrick’s, a private school on
the Lower Mainland and the
12th-ranked team in the provin-
ce.

Even with the game won and
the West Kootenay
championship trophy in his
hand, Rockettes coach ©
Jack Cleskey, who's coached
the team since 1969, is as
intense as ever.

Cosnews photo by Ed Mills

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Ruddock declares Tyson is toast

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toron-
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Predicted Tuesday he’ll knock out
Mike Tyson in their March 18
heavyweight bout in Las Vegas, but
he didn’t go so far as naming the
round.

“*L have a lot of confidence in my

Ruddock ‘said during a news con-
ference with Tyson.
“I don’t know what I’ll do, but

“I'll do what I have to do.””

Ruddock accused Tyson of
ducking out of a fight against him in
November 1989, when the then-

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cancelled when Tyson’s camp said he
was suffering from a lung virus.

“I felt Mike was ducking me,”
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him the opportunity to postpone, not
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his only loss in 40 fights, including
35 knockouts.

“I’m glad to be in proper shape
now,”’ Tyson said. ‘‘I hope you all
get to see the fight because you
won't forget me for a long time. I’ll
do well.””

Association, World Boxing Council
and International Boxing F i

Tyson’s manager, Don King, lam-

Ruddock is 25-1-1 with 18
knockouts. With his only loss
coming in 1985, the 27-year-old is
rated No. 2.

Ruddock, six-foot-three, expects
to weigh about 230 for the bout. The
fi

Tyson, 24, is as the No.
1 contender by the World Boxing

fe iT Tyson should be
about 10 pounds lighter.

basted Evander
for fighting George Foreman in what
the promoter called ‘‘a flimsy
disguise to avoid Tyson.””

“He'll find his fists full of 270-
pound jolly brown giant,’’ King said.
“Foreman is the real draw in that
fight. Holyfield couldn’t draw flies
in a dump.”

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SIDELINES

Midgets play Nelson in final

The Castlegar Midget Reps will meet Nelson in the West
Kootenay Minor Hockey Association championship series this
weekend.

The first game of the best-of-the-three series goes Saturday at the
Community Complex at 3:45 p.m,

The winner of the series advances to the Midget provincial finals
which are being held in Nelson tater this month,

Castlegar got a bye into the finals after finishing first overall in
the WKMHA regular season standings and was waiting for the winner
of a first-round series between Nelson and Beaver Valley.

In the meantime, the Castlegar Midgets played an exhibition game
last weekend against a Castlegar Recreational Hockey League All-star
team.
Shane Cutler and Derek Kazakoff each scored twice as the
Midgets beat the All-stars 7-4. Dustin Rilcof, Ryan Jolly and Derek
Lalonde scored the other goals for the Midget Reps.

Bill Voykin, Clay Martini, Kelly Keraiff and Bob Dunsmore
scored for the All-stars,

Peewees tie Rossland-Trail

Rob Case scored two goals and added one assist while Kyle Grant
and Fred Jack both had two-point games as the Castlegar Peewee
House team played to 4-4 tie with Rossland-Trail No. 3 team in a
game Feb. 23 at the Castlegar Community Complex.

Trailing 3-1 after one period, Castlegar got back into the game
when Case scored five minutes into the second, then scored his second
to tie the score, converting passes from Jack and Kevin Short.

Dennis Harding scored for Rossland-Trail at the 15-minute mark
of the third but Jack set up Grand to tie the game again with 3:41
remaining.

Jamie McKendry opened the scoring for Castlegar in the first
Period on assists from Case and Grant. .

Jamboree set for Valley

The Dairyland Sportsmanship Jamboree, played in Castlegar last
year, will be hosted by the Beaver Valley Minor Hockey Association at
the Beaver Valley Arena from March 8-10.

Players are selected for teams in the Jamboree based on good
sportsmanship on and off the ice as well as demonstrating respect for
fellow players, coaches and officials.

About 150 players, coaches and managers from across the
Kootenays will participate this year, the B.C. Amateaur Hockey
Association said in a news release.

Based on spo ip and skill and
teams in the event are given points for winning but lose points when
players take penalties.

Kelowna hosts Disabled Games

The B.C. Games for the Physically Disabled will be held July 17-
21 in Kelowna, B.C. Sport and Fitness Council for the Disabled said
in a news release.

“*The council is extending an invitation to all sport oriented
British Columbians with disabilities to take part in these games,”’ B.C.
Sport said.

Transportation will be provided free of charge for participants
while meals and accommodation are covered.by a minimal registration
fee.

Among the events included in the Games are swimming, slo-pitch,
ing, goalball, ifting, ian and cycling.
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rookie at the Labatt Brier, but Ran-
dy Woytowich played as precise a
game as any of his fellow skips have
at the Canadian men’s curling cham-
pionship Tuesday night.

The veteran from Regina saddled
Ontario’s Russ Howard with his
third straight loss, 5-4, in sixth-round
play to push Saskatchewan's record
in the 12-team competition to 5-1
and a first-place tie with Alberta's
Kevin Martin.

Martin, who won

HAMILTON — Standings at
the Labatt Brier Canadian men's
curling champions after sixth-
round play Tuesday night:

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Canadian junior championship, beat
the Prince Edward Island rink skip-
ped by Robert Campbell of Chariot-
tetown 6-4.

Saskatchewan and Alberta meet in
this afternoon's seventh draw.

Woytowich, a former Canadian
mixed champion and veteran provin-
cial qualifier, needed an extra end
against Howard after his attempt to
hit and stay with his last shot in the
10th rolled out.

When Howard, who skipped the
Brier and world champions in 1987,
drew up short in front of a clean
house with his last rock in the 11th,
Woytowich confidently drew for the
count.

“That's what | like — a free draw
to anywhere in the rings to win a
game," he said. “It was a nice shot
for us to finish on.""

In other sixth-round play, Gary
Mitchell's struggling Moncton, N.B.,
tink — with third Grant Oldishaw
calling the shots — upset Jeff
Stoughton of Winnipeg 6-5; John

Gerry Kent of Cranbrook, 6-3; Rick
Lang of Thunder Bay, Ont., beat
Dan Bentley of Halifax 9-3 and
Chuck Haines of Whitehorse, soun-
dly beat Kevin Adams 8-4, prom-
pting the veteran Montreal skip to
Prounounce, ‘‘We’'re toast.””

Woytowich, a 36-year-old veteran
of 20 years curling, said his lack of
previous Brier competition didn’t af-
fect his shot-making, even after he
split and rolled out with his last rock
in the 10th.

But Woytowich said he didn’t feel
in control even after building a 3-0
lead through five ends.

Skip Ab Culle

gets into his work Tuesday morning as the Ca:
Club hit the ice at the Castlegar Curling Club for the start of its

jor Pensions Curling
ih draw.

CosNews photo by Ed Mills

Rink just a whisper away

By CasNews Staff

May Perehudoff called it a.wick of
a whisper.

It’s what cost her rink the A
division championship on her last
rock in the 32-team Castlegar Ladies
Barbee bonspiel at the Castlegar
Curling Club last weekend.

Trailing by two in the 10th end
and needing last rock to tie in the
championship game Sunday,

Seniors
complete
4th draw

By BUD LOWTHER

The rink skipped by Péter
Obedkoff won the just-completed
fourth draw in the Castlegar Pen-
sioners Curling Club with a record of
eight wins and two losses.

Obedkoff was backed up by lead
Mike Kurnoff, second Frank
Steevenvoorden and third Frank
Holdsworth.

Tied for second spot in the fourth
draw were the rinks of Arnie
Akselson and Gerry Rust, each with
records of seven wins and three
losses.

The local senior club held its an-
nual match with the Nelson seniors
in Castlegar on Feb. 28 but came out
on the short end of the tournament
with three wins against five losses.

Castlegar club winners against
Nelson included rinks skipped by
Akselson, Wally Brunn and Ray
Heagy.

The fifth draw got under way
Tuesday at the Castlegar Curling
Club.

Last rocks go out to the club’s
“senior’’ senior Cecil Bradford who
passed away last month. A popular
fellow, Cec will be missed.

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a week!

Perehudoff was faced with a doozy
of shot, as she explains.

“They had two guards and it was
@ very narrow port right down the
middle. I got past the first guard,
and it looked like it was past the
second, and it just wicked it, just a
whisper, and threw it off line,’’ she
said.

Lois Cutler’s rink out of Nelson

Castlegar News

WEDDING
INVITATIONS

was the beneficiary of that wick of a
whisper. winning 8-7 to take home
the Anderson Insurance A-side
trophy.

Out of 17 local teams entered,
Castlegar’s only event winner came
in the B-event with Lorraine John

skipping her rink to the Super Valu
trophy.

Dorren Boisvert of Trail won the
Kats Trophies and Engraving trophy
in the C event and Fruitvale’s Eileen
Galamour won the Castlegar Realty
trophy in the D event.

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