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Castlegar News — Maorch7, 1990

SPORTS

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It's a newgame in the CRHL

By CasNews Staff

If the first game of the playoffs is
any indication, the days of run and
gun offensive shows in the Castlegar
Recreational Hockey League are
over.

In a league where a combined total
of 20 goals a game are commonplace,
the playoffs opened last night at the
Community Complex with Woodland
Park Shell eking out a 5-4 win over
Sandman Inn.

Dan Stelck scored an empty-net
goal with 1:05 remaining to clinch the
victory for Shell, which had 13 players
for the game — almost twice as many
as the team had for both of its last
two regular-season games.

The rest of Shell's goals came in the
first period as Dan Walker, Mal
Steick, Bruno Tassone and Chris
Brodman scored to give Shell a 4-2
lead after one.

Sandman's Dave Terhune opened
the scoring in the game with a goal
from Clay Martini and Vince An-
tignani 46 seconds in.

After Shell tied it at one, Lorne
Anderson put Sandman up again,
converting a pass from Adrian
Markin at the 16-minute mark.

The second period was scoreless as
neither team was able to capitalize on
the one powerplay opportunity each
had.

In the third, Antignani brought

Wrench per

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. (CP)
— Ed Werenich says he didn’t come
to the Labatt Brier under the illusion
he was a heavy favorite to win his
second championship.

He hasn't changed his mind,
despite a perfect 6-0 record after eight
rounds of the Canadian men’s curling
championship.

“The favorites thing doesn’t really

bear out the facts,"’ the 42-year-old
fireman said after his Toronto
Avonlea rink won twice Tuesday in
the 12-team round-robin portion of
the week-long tournament.

Werenich noted he was touted
favorite at the 1984 Brier in Victoria
and 1981 in Halifax. He won the
Canadian and world championships
in 1983.

Sandman within one, scoring from
Terhune and Mitch Quaedvlieg.

That’s the way it stayed until the
final two minutes when Sandman
Pulled goalie Tim Swanson for an ex-
tra attacker and Stelck scored.

But just when you thought it was
over, Anderson scored his second of
the game with 50 seconds left from
Markin and Terhune, but Sandman
couldn’t get the equalizer.

The regular-season league cham-
pions Hi Arrow Arms will be looking
to knock Shell off the winning track
when the two meet in the second game
of the round-robin format playoffs
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Com-
plex.

Sports briefs

Hi Arrow offered Shell
to think about going into that playoff
game when the two met in the final
regular season matchup at the Com-
plex Monday.

Doug Knowler scored twice and set
up five others as Hi Arrow bombed
Shell 9-4, preventing them from over-
taking Sandman for second spot in
the three-team league.

Dean MacKinnon had @ goal and
four assists, Bob Larsh had two goals
and an assist and Tony DaRosa, Bob
Essaunce and Darrell Bojechko
scored singles for Hi Arrow.

Rod Fayant had two goals and an
assist to pace Shell while Dan Stelck
had three assists.

ect at Brier

The favorite’s role will be put to the
test this afternoon against local
favorite Al Harnden.

Harnden, a 36-year-old local steel
company office worker, saw his Nor-
thern Ontario rink drop to 5-1 after a
5-3 loss Tuesday night to Jim Sullivan
of Fredericton.

That dropped the Northern On-

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Saints

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hours (three courses) he doesn’t need to be wasting his
time playing sports,’ says Johnson.

As for a program like SFU’s, Johnson says Selkirk
was going to implement a similar one for the entire

athletic department at the college, but the manpower to.

staff tutorials and organize the program just isn’t
available.

He added that the athletic program at the college has
enough experienced people to help athletes avoid the
trouble spots.

That is if the students will make it known that they’re
having difficulties.

That's the biggest problem according to Johnson,
who says a lot of athletes will’ just go along and not tell
anybody they are having difficulties until it’s too late.

Johnson has learned to recognize warning signs. The
main one is a student trying to juggle too many things at
one time.

“*The thing that does it, is when a player has to have a
job and play sports too,”’ he said. ‘You can go to school

and play sports or you can go to school and work, but
when you try to do all three, then you're in trouble.’’
LIFELONG REGRET

Perra says it wasn’t all that terrible to miss the first
half of the season because it gave him a chance to rest
some nagging injuries.

But it’s a different story for Friml, whose error in the
classroom could turn out to be a lifelong regret if the
Saints go on to glory without him.

“Theo (Friml) is crushed,” says Perra. ‘‘He wants to
be here so bad. And you know he feels bad because it
didn’t have to happen. It’s preventable.

“‘If it was me and I was an intregral part of the team
like Theo is, | would be crushed and feel I let down the
team, because that’s how you feel.’”

And it’s not just the player who has been nailed who
feels bad — it’s the whole team, says Perra.

‘All the players feel a little responsible,’’ he said.
“Even the athletic director feels that way. It just goes
from the coach all the way down to the players because
we're a team.”

Soviet skaters
on top at worlds

Browning
in second

By NEIL STEVENS

HALIFAX (CP) — Put two Soviets
on the ice at the same time at the
world figure skating championships
and it’s game over.

They’re gunning for six consecutive
titles in both the pairs and ice dance
events and grabbed the early lead in

Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov
are third.
IMPROVE SHOWING

Isabelle Brasseur of St-Jean-sur-
Richelieu, Que., and Lloyd Eisler of
Seaforth, Ont., are fourth. Christine
Hough of Waterloo, Ont., and Doug
Ladret of Vancouver are seventh
among 16.

In the ice dance, defending cham-
pions Marina Klimova and Sergei
Ponomarenko won the compulsories,
with Soviet teammates Maia Usova
and A Zhulin second.

both at the 1990
Tuesday night.

The Soviets don’t need any help but
they got some when a rut in the Metro
Centre ice swallowed what was expec-
ted to be a strong pairs challenge from
Canadian champions Cindy Landry
of Pincourt, Que., and Lyndon
Johnston of Hamiota, Man., last
year’s world silver medallists.

“It was just bad luck,’’ Johnston
said of his. botched landing of a
double Lutz jump that contributed to
the 10th-place hole he and Landry
find themselves in after the original
Program presentations. ‘I’m not
trying to use this as any kind of ex-
cusee

“It was where I chose to do my
Lutz and it just happened to be where
there was a chunk out of the ice. The
edge of my skate caught the rut. It
was fate.’"

The top three pairs heading into the
long program presentations tonight
are all Soviets, led by defending
champions Ekaterina Gordeeva and
Sergei Grinkov. Natalia Mishkutenok
and Artur Dmitriev are second and

Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay, the
sister-brother entry from Aylmer,
Que., but representing France, were
third.

Jo-Anne Borlase and Martin Smith
of Toronto are eighth heading into
the original set pattern presentations
Thursday. Michelle McDonald of
Abbotsford, and Mark Mitchell of
Sackville, N.

The women’s singles begin today
with compulsary figures, and the
men’s singles entrants skate their
original programs with Canadian and
world champion Kurt Browning in
second place

For Brasseur and Eisler,
cellent showing was redemption for a
disappointing seventh at the worlds
last March in Paris.

“We've been waiting a whole year
to come back and skate a clean
(original) program and to come four-
th for us is great,” said Eisler. ‘We
‘wanted to prove to a lot of people that
we-ean skate better than tast year.**

Eisler said he's not conceding vic-
tory to the powerful Soviets.

their ex-*

tario rink to 5-1 and improved the
New Brunswick team to 4-2.

Tied for fourth were Nova Scotia
and Saskatchewan, each 3-3.
Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island
and Quebec were each 2-3. British
Columbia, Manitoba and the
Territories were each 2-4 and Alberta,
14,

The top three teams at. the end of
the preliminary round Friday advance
to the medal round with first place
getting a bye into the final on Sunday.

LAYS IT DOWN

Werenich played down the role
today’s game with Northern Ontario
will play in deciding first place.

**We’re not in the finals and neither
is Northern Ontario,”’ he said. ‘‘From
previous Brier betories, a lot happens
at the end of the week.’

How long they hold first position,
Werenich admitted, will depend on
how well they can read the ice.

“John (third John Kawaja) said in
practice he thought the ice was
straightening,’ said Werenich.‘‘I
rolled out twice today in key
situations.

“*We're taking two feet (of ice) for
hits and making sure and it looks like
a tight edge, but you've got to believe
the brooms.

In other games Tuesday night, Alan
Darragh of Dartmouth, N.S., saddled
Harold Breckenridge of Calgary with
a 10-3 loss; Ted MacFadyen of
Crapaud, P.E.I., downed Craig
Lepine of Vancouver, 8-2; Kevin
Adams of Montreal edged Glenn
Goss of St. John’s, Nfld., 6-5; and
Edwards took an extra end for a 9-8
win over Schneider.

Also on Tuesday, the Ontario rink
posted a 5-2 win over Duane Edwards
of Deloraine, Man., and a 7-4 victory
over highly-regarded Jamie Schneider
of Kronau, Sask.

Werenich and Trevor Alexander of
Yellowknife had the evening byes.

Along with the Ontario-Saskat-
chewan game in the afternoon draw,
it was: Northern Ontario 10, Alberta
3; Territories 6, Quebec 5; B.C. 7,
Newfoundland 3; Nova Scotia 6,
P.E.I. 3.

In the morning, it was: Ontario 5,
Manitoba 2; and New Brunswick 7,
Territories 6.

B-ballers get awards

Victoria Place and Kingfisher Bobcat Services didn’t win the big
title but the two teams took home all the other hardware as the Trail
Men's Basketball League capped the season with an awards banquet at
the Colander in Trail Saturday night.

Castlegar Realty, which finished first over-all in the regular season,
and Smelter Pub which won the league championship, were shut out of
the individual honors but were remembered with selections to the first

and second all-star teams.

sportsmanlike player.

respectively.

and 18.

on Sunday.

at Whitewater.

Chad Coupland of Victoria Place was no surprise as the league’s
most valuable player — it’s the third time he’s won the award — and
league president Ernie Rella of Victoria Place was selected as most

It was a good omen for the future for Kingfisher with Duane
Donald taking rookie of the year honors and teammate Dave Cox being
selected as the most improved player in the league.

Kingfisher also had two members picked to the first all-star team —
Steve Plaa and John Denison, while Castlegar players Brian Turlock
and Wayne Tamelin also made it. Rella and Coupland were shoe-ins for
the team having finished 1-2 in league scoring at 350 and 272 points

Castlegar placed two more players on the second all-star team as
‘Wayne McCarthy and Lou Cicchetti got the honors. Smelter Pub made
its only appearance on the honor role the entire night with Ed Canzian
and Dave Vaness being selected to the second team while Kingfisher's
rookie winner Donald rounded out the team.

Old Koot race set

Whitewater Ski resort is holding its ninth anntal Old Koot
Downhill and Giant Slalom for skiers 19 years of age and over March 17

The downhiltis set for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and the giant slalom

Skiers who register before March 14 pay $25 per event or $30 for
both. After March 14, the cost is $25 per event but $35 for both. Skiers
can register at Mallard’s Ski and Sport in Castlegar, Nelson and Trail or

SPORTS

PLAYOFFS
PEEWEES 4 NELSON 2
PEEWEES 6 NELSON 1
The Castlegar Peewee Reps are the
West Kootenay hockey champions af-
ter sweeping Nelson 6-1 and 4-2 in a

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(trainer), Tom Biln (manag

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best-of-three series on the weekend.
The peewees will now travel to Port
Hardy for the Provincial champion-
ships starting March 17.
With Castlegar up one game to
nothing after a 6-1 win at the Com-

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munity Complex Friday, the Peewees
travelled to Nelson for game two in
the series Saturday expecting a much
tighter affair.

Castlegar opening the scoring as
Jeremy Ross set up Rick Fauth at

stant coach), Graham Read
Mark Perrier, Rick Fauth (assistant), Jeremy Ross, Mark

Coulson, ioe Laporte, Craig Swanson, Teddy Hunter, Tim Horcoff (assistant coach),

Maynard Faut

(coach). FRONT L-R: Wayne Stolz, Derek Read, Ryan Coulson, Mike

Kooznetsoff, Shawn Mosby, Pat Bilin, (assistant), Darren Pottle, Ryan Stoochnoff.

STRIKE OR NO STRIKE

10:57 of the first period.

But Nelson fought back to tie the
game on a powerplay goal 39 seconds
into the middle frame and took a 2-1
lead at 1:18.

Darren Pottle evened the game
from Gary Hunter seven seconds later
and then it was Pottle’s turn, along
with Mark Carlson, to set-up Hunter
for the go-ahead goal at 10:18.

Pottle put the final nail in the
Nelson team's coffin with an in-
surance marker, his second goal of
the game, on an assist from Josh
Sookero, at 3:48 of the third.

Castlegar held Nelson off the rest
of the way to take the championship
in two straight games,

In game one Thursday night at the
Complex, Pottle again was the
pacesetter scoring the opéning goal
from Craig Swanson and Mike Kooz-
netsoff at 6:50 of the first.

Pottle made it 2-0 late in the
opening frame, tucking in a rebound
off a shot by Fauth, who was set up
for a scoring opportunity by Derek
Read.

Hunter took the puck from the
opening faceoff of the second period,
weaved through the Nelson team and

March 7, 1990 Castlégar News 83

Peewees West Kootenay champs

scoted to give Castlegar a 3-0 lead.

Castlegar goalie Wayne Stolz lost
his bid for a shutout as Nelson scored
on a screened shot at 7:25.

Fauth restored the three-goal lead
converting a pass from Sookero at
13:08, and Philip Laporte made it 5-1
with assists from Sookero and Ryan
Coulson.

Hunter notched a short-handed
goal with help from Swanson at 19:27
to round out the scoring.

PLAYOFFS
BANTAMS 9 TRAIL 5
BANTAMS 4 TRAIL 9
BANTAMS 6 TRAIL 6
BANTAMS 2 TRAIL 4

The Castlegar Bantam Reps fell 4-2
to the Trail Bantam Reps: at the
Cominco arena Monday night in a
final attempt to make the Provincial
championships.

Castlegar won the first game of the
best-of-three playoff series 9-5 over
Trail Feb. 25, then lost 9-4 in the
second match-up of the series two
days later.

The third game, played Saturday in
Castlegar, ended in a 6-6 tie forcing
the fourth contest Monday in Trail.

Trail took charge right away and

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jumped ahead 3-0 in the first period.
Two of the goals were scored in the
last two minutes of the period on
powerplays.

The only goal of the second period
came from Castlegar’s Johnny
Strilaeff on assists by Chris Cavaghan
and Neno Da Costa.

It looked like Castlegar had a chan-
ce to get back in the game when
Cavaghan scored on a powerplay with
seven minutes lefi assisted by
Strilaeff.

But a minute later, Trail scored an
insurance goal which deflated the
Castlegar squad.

Trail will travel to Aldergrove Mar-
ch 16-26 to play in the Provincials.

Hats off to the 13 players that made
up Castlegar’s Bantam Rep team for
their gallant efforts. In addition to
Cavaghan and Strilaeff, the team in-
cluded goaliesVaughn Welychko and
Jayce Moore, Tom Phipps, Ken
Skibinski, Neno Da Costa, Mike
Hunter, Steven Brown, Jeff Ev-
dokimoff, Dustin Rilcof, lan Dudley
and Fred Gienger, manager Larry
Braun, and coaches Paul Phipps,
Rick Welychko and John Ev-
dokimoff.

Baseball captivates fans... physicists?

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) —
Cork-filled bats are nothing for pit-
chers to fear, there’s no such thing as
a rising fastball, and ground balls
don’t pick up speed bouncing over ar-
tificial turf, a Yale physicist says in a
book that gives a scientist's spin on
America’s favorite pastime.

“The flight of balls, the liveliness
of balls, the structure of bats and the
character of the collision of balls and
bats are a natural province of physics
and physicists,’’ says Robert Adair in
The Physics of Baseball, published
by Harper and Row.

But ‘‘in all sports analyses, it is im-

portant for a scientist to avoid hubris
and pay careful attention to the
athletes,’’ writes Adair before step-
ping up to the plate with his
calculations, worked out mostly on a
personal computer.

“If players think they hit better af-
ter illegally drilling a hole in their bat

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Tarrys sweep foiled

Tarrys elementary school came within a basket of making ita clean
sweep in the District E! y School Cc at
Stanley Humphries secondary school March 2.

More than 150 students from District 9 elementary schools com-
peted in the championships with the girls fielding seven teams and the
boys six.

Tarrys entries in the tourney — one boys’ team and a girls’ squad
— made it to the finals but only one came out on top.

The Tarrys girls’ team beat Twin Rivers Elementary 15-4 in the
final for its third straight victory and the title as Castlegar’s premier
elementary girls’ basketball team for 1990.

The Tarrys girls rolled easily to the finals with a 22-6 win in its
opener over Kinnaird Elementary and then blasting Woodland Park 25-
10.

Kinnaird Junior won the B side of the girls’ draw with a 13-10 win
over Kinnaird Elementary.

It was Kinnaird Junior on the boys’ side that foiled Tarrys attempt
to sweep the championships, edging the team 17-15 in the final.

Kinnaird Junior got a bye into the final after beating Robson 20-5
while Tarrys beat Woodland Park 15-4 and Kinnaird elementary 16-15
to reach the finals.

Woodland Park won the B side in the boys’ draw with an 18-8 win
over Twin Rivers.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Getting in shape doesn’t
have to be an expensive hassle, says personal trainer
Jamie Nicholson.

“There's nothing magicat-about exercise,"’ he
says. ‘The most important thing is changing your at-
titude toward fitness.

“‘Fitness is never easy, but you don’t have to hurt
yourself, either.””

It can cost less than $100 to set up a personal
home gym, says Nicholson, also a program consultant
for the downtown YMCA.

Almost every home has a couple of dumbbells and
a stationary bike gathering cobwebs in the basement,
he says. ‘‘People buy them with the best intentions,
but they're not committed to them

“‘A lot of people don’t understand training prin-
ciples. You have to overload your system, make it
work harder than it is now to get stronger.””

Heavy-duty rubber bands. or surgical tubing are
Nicholson’s best bets for inexpensive strength training
equipment. A Vancouver-made brand, Rhombus
tubing, costs about $20, which includes exercise in-
structions.

“The tubing offers resistance, which increases
strength and can be incorporated into every floor exer-
cise done in fitness classes,’ he says. ‘‘But if you don’t
know how to use it, you'll find yourself wrapping it
around boxes for moving.”*

WARMUP FIRST

her is ugly, try climbing stairs. Cycling,
walking are also great for an aerobic

Fifteen minutes of strength training is next.
Someone completely out of shape should start without
the tubing and introduce it when the muscles feel
ready.

The workout ends with 10 minutes of stretching,
holding each exercise for 30 seconds.

For those who say they have no time for exercise,
Nicholson says the workout doesn’t have to be done
all at once.

“You can do your stretching all day. When you
get out of bed, but the cardio should be done all at on-
ce. How about a brisk walk on your lunch hour?”’

For his inexpensive, compact home gym, Doug
Pirozek, a programmer at a fitness centre recommends
a pair of five- or six-kilogram sand-filled dumbbells
and a skipping rope.

“Tubing is good because it’s cheap, but your
range-of motion is limited unless you have enough
strength to do all the motions,"’ he says. “‘You can do
everything with dumbbells.’”

His workout begins with a five-minute warmup,
followed by 45 minutes of cardiovascular activity and.
strength training

“A 10-minute skip is equal to about a 25-minute
run or jog, but it it a high-impact activity,’’ he says, so
he mixes skipping with strength training.

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Nicholson suggests a five-minute warmup first —
a brisk walk or easy aerobic moves and light stretching
— followed by at least 15 minutes of
training. That means sustained activity, which élevates

Choose one exercise for each large muscle group
— the larger the range of motion the better — and do

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and filling it with cork, they must be
taken seriously. The reason they give
for their ‘improvement,’ however,
may not be valid.’’

Adair wrote the book at the urging
of the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, who,
as president of the National League,
had asked his old Yale friend in 1987
to advise him on a few elements of
baseball physics.

Among the findings he reported to
Giamatti, who later became baseball
commissioner, Adair compared the
weight and other characteristics of a
Louisville Slugger before and after it
had—been_filled—with-cork._He-con-
cluded that the illegal modification
provides the hitter no benefit that he
cannot generally obtain theough _ a
legally constructed bat.

ENERGY CAN'T TRANSFER

In fact, he found that while drilling
a hole in the bat will make it lighter,
the energy of the cork or rubber used

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Recreation news

ie , 1990 B.C. Parks and
Recreation Conference is being held
im Castlegar May 10-12: at the
Castlegar Community Complex. This
conference will attract between 300
and 400 delegates from throughout
B.C., Alberta and Washington state.
This three-day conference will include
a variety of keynote addresses,
educational sessions, commercial
exhibits and social events.
F any conference to run
smoothly, volunteers are needed. The
BCRPA conference is in need of

NEW SESSIONS

The next session of aqua fit, circuit
weight training, aerobic fitness,
preschool playtime and babysitting all
start March 26. The recreation depar-
tment is currently taking registration,
so don’t be disappointed’if you miss
out on the class because it is full —
register early.

PRESCHOOL PLAYTIME

If you have a preschooler who has
just turned three and has never par-
ticipated in a recreation program,
why not register him or her for
playtime. The recreation

to act as hostes run
computers, help with nutrition
breaks, drive vans, help with
registration and various other tasks.
If you are interested in donating your
time for either one, two or all three
days, the recreation department
would like to hear from you. Stop by
the recreation office and leave your
name or give Marsha a call.

WINDING DOWN

Winter activities are slowly winding
down. The last day for public skating
at the Arena-Complex is Thur§day,
March 22. So.if you haven't got
enough wear out of your skates this
season, be sure to laceagpy thitwetk.
Parent and tot skating happens Thur-
sday from 11 a.m. to noon and Fri
from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Public skating
is Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Friday 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sun-
day from I p.m. to 3 p.m. Don’t
forget, lunch-hour hockey is still
going strong.

department has an excellent instructor
who guides the children through a
variety of activities. The program is
designed to allow children to par-
ticipate in a group setting with their
peers. There is large-muscle play,
music and singing, group snacktime,
art for the act of doing it and
storytime. This session runs March 26
to May 18. .

For more information on
recreation programs and information
on skating/swimming give the
recreation office a call Monday
through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9
p.m.

NOON FITNESS

Just because a person works is no
reason to be out of shape. The
recreation department offers the per-
fect solution — a noon-hour class
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:10 to
12:50. Shower facilities are available.
Register now. The class runs March
27 - May 7.

VALLEY VIEW GOLF CLUB

Annual General Meeting
March 12, 1990

7:00 p.m.
At the Club House

CASTLEGAR MINOR SOCCER

Annual General Meeting
Thursday, March 8

7:30

p.m.

Conference Room Community Complex

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1403 Bay Ave.

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as a filler cannot be effectively tran-
sferred to the ball. Therefore, the ex-
tra_materialwill only slow the bat
down a little, slightly reducing the
distance the bat hits the ball.

The book was written with baseball
fans, not physicists, in mind, Adair
said Friday. He said he borrowed_ex-
tensively from the work of others,
and relied on several scientist friends,
more well-versed in the finer points of
baseball.

For fans who take their statistics
seriously, the 106-page book places a
new realm of intriguing facts and
figures at their

For instance:

— There is no such thing as a rising
fastball. Backspin on a ball will only

~imifke it fall less than it would other-

wise as it crosses the plate. As far as

the hitter is concerned, however, s
real and not an illusion’”’ because it is
seen as a higher pitch, Adair said.

— Ground balls cannot possibly
speed up ag-they bounce across ar-
tificial turf infields. Long home runs
are typically hit so the initial backspin
is near 2,000 rpm, and ground balls
have similar rates of overspin
Ground balls would not speed up even
with _an_overspin_as great as 4,000
rpm.

— From the perspective of the bat-
ter or pitcher, a wide-breaking cur-
veball thrown at 70 mph with a coun-
terclockwise-spin-rate-of 1,600 rpm
and aimed toward the inside corner
has curved 14.4 inches to pass over
the outside corner. But the largest
deviation from a straight line from
beginning to end is only 3.4 inches.

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SNOW CONDITIONS:

Excellent spring conditions on machine-groomed
turns with a total snow depth of 198 cm. in the Alpine.
Conditions are cloudy with good visibility.

Granit and T-bar lifts will be operating from 9
to 3:30 p.m., Red from 10’a.m.
Paradise from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Black Jack Cross-Country has 25 km. of trails
groomed and set for classic and skating.

to 3 p.m. and

362-5500

GENERAL INFO. 362-7384

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T-ball
Recreational
Competative

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Girls Softball

Boys Softball

Competative: ages 12-18

Registration Deadline - March 16, 1990
Registration Fees - $25.00

Registration forms are located in schools
and at the Castlegar Recreation Centre

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ages 5-7
ages 8-18
ages 8-18