Wednesday, January 15, 1992 @

@ Despite three more
losses on the weekend
and a losing streak that
has reached nine games,
Castlegar Rebels’
co-coach Kevin
Koorbatoff remains con-
’ fident his players are
gettin it together

News Staff
Given the circumstances of

- the Castlegar Rebels latest

road trip, you might expect co-
coach Kevin Koorbatoff to be
climbing the walls about now.

Reality is, however, on the
contrary, as Koorbatoffis quite
happy with his team and its
performance.

“In the last four periods the
boys were starting to do what
they’ve been doing in practise.

“They’re starting to play re-
ally disciplined hockey. So, for
me, is was successful from that
point of view,” Koorbatoff said
Monday.

Koorbatoff’s comments
come on the heels of what, on
the surface at least, appeared
to be another disastrous week-
end for the Rebels.

Not only did the Rebels lose
all three games they played in
a swing through the Kootenay
International Hockey League’s
East Division, they also lost
two against the only two
teams in the league that have
poorer records than they do.

- The Elk Valley Raiders beat
Castlegar 8-4 Friday night, the
Golden Rockets beat them 9-5
Saturday and the Columbia
Valley Rockets — the only
team with a winning record of
the three — completed the
sweep with a 3-2 win Sunday.

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score-a-second CRHL

CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL
HOCKEY LEAGUE TO JAN. 6

News Staff

The Castlegar Recreational Hockey League.
has added a new twist to that old sports axiom
about a given team beating another given team
on any given night.

In the CRHL, not only can any team beat
any other team, but more often than not, any
team can blow out it’s opposition on any given

And that’s exactly what the teams were do-
ing at the Community Complex in the five
games over the week in the CRHL.

Banjo’s Pub, which went into the week's play
on a three-game winning streak, left it on a
three-game losing streak as the recipient of

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Dwayne Weir and Lorne Anderson both had

hat tricks.

League scoring leader Gord_Walker had a
three goal and a six-point night in Pressure
Wash’s win over Banjo’s and was noticeably ab-
sent in his team’s loss to Shell.

Chris Brodman was a standout for Shell in
its win over Pressure Wash for the fact that he
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goalie Rick Rogerson — who didn't get a point.

from
from Rod Zavaduk, Petrick,Weir, Mitch Quaed-
vlieg and Chris Owens in the win over Ban-

jo’s.

Petrick also had three assists in the game, .
giving him 11 points in two games.

Frank Costa had a hat trick and Larry Price
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Kevin Koorbatoff

The losses extend the
Rebels losing skid to nine
games and sinks them further
into the cellar of the KI JHL’s
West Division with 16 points.

The losses also mean Koor-
batoff and coaching partner
Maynard Fauth remain win-
less since taking over the team
from Kevin Cheveldave, who
quit on Boxing Day.

Despite the results and the
horrendous losing streak,
Koorbatoff feels confident
enough in his team to all but
predict wins this~ weekend
when the Rebels host Eastern
Division leading Spokane
Braves Friday and the West-
ern rival Beaver Valley Nite
Hawks Saturday.

“We'll have an even better
weekend coming up. If we
work hard in these two prac-
tises (during the week) I can
almost guarantee two wings
he said.

With seven points each, Nie
no Da Costa and Mike Hunter
provided much of the offence
for the Rebels in the three
games.

Hunter had two goals and
an assist in the loss to Golden,
while Da Costa had three as-
sists.

Kevin Dewar and Dave Dol-
lack also maintained a point-a-
game pace for the Rebels.

Joel Casey played goal for
the first two losses, while
Vaughn Welychko was in net
against Columbia Valley.

Meanwhile, the Rebels an-
nounced that they released de-
fenceman Brad Schock prior to
the weekend trip. ¢

“If it’s for disciplinary rea-
sons (why he was released) I

would tell you, otherwise he
baer just released,” Koorbatoff

Schock is the second player
released by the Rebels in as
many weeks and is the third
player they’ve lost in the last
two weeks.

Start time for both weekend
games is 8 p.m.

Ed Mills
SPORTS EDITOR :

For most teams a 3-1
record and third place in an
out-of-town hockey tourna-
ment is good.

For the Castlegar Bantam
Reps, it’s a bit of a disap-
pointment.

The AA Reps, who are
used to having their way
with most Bantam teams in
the province, got cooled off by
a AAA team from Cranbrook

ley last weekend.

The Numbers, page 15

The Reps lost 6-1 to Cran-
brook, which finished second
in the 12-team tourney be-
hind a team from Nanton, Al-
ta.

Castlegar beat league ri-
vals Spokane 3-2 and ham-
mered Fernie 12-2 and Cal-
gary 15-2.

“In a way (it’s disappoint-
ing) because (at a tourna-
ment) in Kelowna we lost one
game and still played in the
final. But in this tourney it
was a different set up,” said
Brent Neumann, who had
Castlegar’s only goal in the
loss to Cranbrook.

“It’s not fair to bring a
AAA team into a AA tour-

Cranbrook thwarts —
Bantams Reps

at a tournament in Kimber- *

Craig Swanson
rad said the Reps’ Jeff Mof-
Bryan Yackel,
and Ted Hi
bed hat tricks for the Ban-
tams in the tourney.

Both Neumann and Mof-
fat said tournaments are nice
to win, but league play re-
mains the Bantams major fo-
cus this season.

The team remains unbeat-
en this season and on top of
the standings in the West
Kootenay Minor Hockey As-
sociation.

Craig
all

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i Wednesday, J y 15, 1992

SchoolSPORTS

Rockettes on a roll!

pares

Skill is Dous sneilgars chemistry
another, but if the SHSS se-
nior girls basketball team has
one advantage over its compe-
tition in AA basketball in this
province, it’s history.

“All our starters, I’ve been
playing with them since Grade
8,” said Rockettes guard Lau-
rel Closkey.

“We're all really close. And
that makes it easier because
we all tryst each other, that
when we're playing, every-
body’s going to pull through
and do what they have to do.”

As she’s done all season,
Closkey led the way for the
Rockettes being named most
valuable player last weekend

-in the club’s tournament victo-

ry in Kelowna.

It was the third straight
tournament win for the Rock-
ettes and the fourth straight
time Closkey has been singled
out for individual honors at a
tournament this season.

Closkey did it on offense in
the first game, scoring 18
points in a 61-30 win over
Quesnel.

And she did on defence the
rest of the way as SHSS beat
Vernon 79-42, then dumped

__- Prince George 51-44 in the fi- _
nal.

“We don’t have any weak
players on this team,” Closkey
said. “All 10 of us are really
good. It’s like we have 10
starters.”

Rory Perrier shot in double ~]

figures in all three games of
the tournament, including a
season high 32 against Ver-

non, and was named to the all- |

star team.

Kelly Davidoff led SHSS.
with 16 points against Prince
George, while Perrier had 14.

The win over Prince George,
who were ranked third in the
province going into the tour-
ney, should move the Rock-
ettes into the top five in the AA

rankings.

Coach Jack Closkey, while
not complaining about the
Rockettes roll, doesn’t want his
team to develop too high a pro-
file with the provincial cham-
pionships still two months
away.

“You don’t want to be
ranked too high this early,”
said Closkey, who took the se-
nior team to a bronze medal in
the provincials last season.
“Because then every one’s af-
ter you.”

The girls warmed up for the
tourney with 49-47 loss to Mt.
Baker, a AAA school out of
Cranbrook.

That loss did a lot for the
girls confidence heading into
Kelowna, said Laurel Closkey.

“That was a really big game
for us. We thought it was pret-

@ The Aussies are com-
ing! Three Australian
basketball teams touring
North America will make
a stop at SHSS for games
against the Rockers and
Rockettes. The action
starts with the senior
girls game at 2:15 p.m.
The senior boys are on

ankle injury and was named
the second all-star team.

Coach John Ritchie expects
Grand Forks to be in the Rock-
ers face all year.

“Our big thing is getting in-
to the provincials. And it’s ei-
ther going to be them or us,”
Ritchie said.

Backed by Dusseault’s 25
points and 15 each from Bob
Baulne and Curt Ross, the
Rockers beat Lillooet 68-43 in
their first game.

Eddie Furlan had 15 points
and Di ilt canned 20 in a

the court at 6 p.m.

Laurel Closkey

Todd Bondaroff

ty good losing by two points. It
helped us last weekend for

A game that could have
went either way, went the
wrong way for the SHSS se-
nior boys team at a tourna-
ment in Princeton last week-
end.

The Rockers won their first
two games of the tourney but
ended up iosing 68-64 to West
Kootenay rival Grand Forks in
the final.

Marcel Dusseault, who led
the Rockers in scoring with 20
or more points in all three
games, was named to the
tournament's first. all-star
team.

Ryan Vatkin led the team

._on defence despite suffering an

71-66 win over Princeton in
the semi-final.

Dan Kooznetsoff had 20 in

the loss to Grand Forks, while

It was a similar story but
with a different West Koote-
nay rival thwarting the junior

_ Rockers at a tourney in Trail °

last weekend.

L.V. Rogers of Nelson hand-
ed SHSS its only loss in three
games, with a 55-22 pasting in
what was otherwise a solid
tournament for the Rockers.

The Rockers beat Kelowna
58-47 in their first game and
spanked Grand Forks 49-29 in
their last game.

Todd Bondaroff led SHSS in

~ all three games with 24 points

in the win over Kelowna, 13 in
the win over Grand Forks and
seven points in the loss to Nel-
son.

But it was David Perever-
soff’s defensive play that
earned him all-star honors at
the tourney.

“He was just a tiger on de-
fence,” said coach Doug Hick-
ey. “He was all over the floor
for us.”

JUNIOR GIRLS
BASKETBALL

Junior girls coach Colette
Pilloud called it a tournament.
of ups and downs for her team
in Vernon last weekend.

On.the down side, the girls
lost two of three, including a
heart-breaking 54-50 loss to
Vernon in the game for third
place, to finish sixth in the
eight -team tournament.

On the up side, coach Pil-
loud got strong performances

from Lisa Datchkoff, Treena ~

Goolieff and Stephanie Rezan-
soff, who were all named game
all-stars.

Pilloud was also happy with
the progress of her young
team.

“Each game they got much.

stronger and hopefully that’s
how the season’s going to go,”
Pilloud said.

Datchkoff was the Rock-
ettes top scorer in all three
games with eight in an 39-26
loss to Kamloops, 14 in a 48-29
win over Kelowna and 15
against Vernon.

TheNUMBERS

WEST KOOTENAY

MINOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

Pee Wee Rep League
Stats to Dec. 22
PC ER |
Rossland/Trail 12
Castlegar 13
Spokane 8
Beaver Valley 11

Robinson, Ross/Trail 38

Horcoff, Castlegar 26

Caron, Ross/Trail 17

Andrews, Ross/Trail 9

Fauth, Castlegar

Pucci, Castlegar

Linnen, Nelson

Moore, Castlegar

Murray, Spokane

Tagami, Nelson.

Makway, Ross/Trail

Gallo, Ross/Trail 2
Bantam Rep League

Castlegar 13

Beaver Valley ~

Spokane

Nelson

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