Chernoff gets due Wi Making a difference is what Verna Chernoff's being doing around:here for 24 years. NEWS STAFF é After 24 years in the game, you might think Verna Cher- noff would be expecting some- thing like {to happen. Instead, the veteran high school teacher and coach ex- pressed shock at the honor be- stowed upon her in Vancouver last weekend by the B.C. Women’s Field Hockey Feder- ation. “I never even dreamed something like this was going to happen,” said Chernoff, who was named one of 25 recipi- ents of the Barbara Schrodt Award, given “to those who made a difference to the devel- opment of field hockey in B.C.” The award, and another for athletes, was instituted by the federation to mark its 25th an- niversary. Twenty-five builders and 25 athletes were honored for ev- ery year the federation has been in existence. Chernoff was the recipient for 1984, but her contributions to the sport began long before then and have continued long after, said BCWFHF executive director Judy Broom. Broom said Chernoff was an easy choice. “When you look back, you can see the total commitment that she made over a long pe- riod of time. “Verna has contributed an enormous amount to field hockey generally, both at the regional level in the Kootenays and at the B.C. high school lev- el. She’s played a big part in the development of field hock- ey in the Kootenay area.” Chernoff, a native of Nova Scotia, said it was a honor just to be named in the same breath with all the others who won the award. “Those people who were rec- ognized are very prestigious athletes and administrators who literally built field hock- ey in this province. For me to © stand in there among them, it was awe inspiring,” Chernoff said. Among her credits in B.C. field hockey is a three-year stint on the Federation execu- tive and chairman of junior de- velopment in B.C. Goal drought has team bedevilled NEWS STAFF If there’s one thing a coach doesn’t want his play- ers to forget, it’s this. “Our guys just dont know how to score any- more,” said coach Carlos Amaral after the Hi Arrow Devils were shut out for the second straight time in the West a. Men’s Soc- Nakusp Saturday, dropping its record to 1-2 in the eight- team league. Amaral said his club’s lackluster offensive effort was a combination of Nakusp’s work on defense and the lineup he had to work with. Five starters, including the club’s biggest offensive threat, Vahid Pour- mokhtari, didn’t make the trip. But even if those players had been there, they would have had trouble penetrat- ing Nakusp’s wall on de- fense, Amaral said. “We couldn’t get the ball through their defence, we just couldn't. ‘Tm not going to say Nakusp is any superstar team, but they play tough and rough and they don’t give you any room to move.” The supply of space to manoeuvre dwindled even more after Nakusp scored twice within the first 10 minutes of the game. “After that, they didn’t even make any plays any- more, they weren’t even try- ing to score. They would just kick the ball out of bounds if we got close,” Amaral said. In the other game Satur- day, Nelson Savoy Inn and Nelo Heritage Inn tied 1- “No games are scheduled |. in the league this weekend. News photo by Ed Mills Verna Chernoff has put 24 years of her life into women’s field hockey in this province. Last week- end the Stanley Humphries Secondary School teacher was honored for her efforts. Labatts turns tables NEWS STAFF someone the bird, Arse- nio said it to Jay Leno and most of us just do it with a snide grin and a‘so there.’ However you want to do it or whatever you want call it, Labatts did it to Banjo’s Pub Mon- day night in the Castlegar Men’s Commercial Fastball League. A week after getting bombed by Banjo’s on the very same field, Labatts returned the fa- vor in spades with an 8- “I think what I said if you make one or two defensive errors in this eee each team is ca- pable of beating the other on any given night, ra I think this game is a prime example of t. Jeff Maggs earned all eight runs in taking the loss for Banjo’s, which drops to 2-2-1 on the season. “We're terrible , that’s all I can say,” said Banjo’s_ player/coach 1 win at Kinnaird Park. A three-run homer by third basemen Kurt Zwick keyed a five-run fifth inning for Labatts, which has won its last ‘““We’re going to have batting practise Wednesday and Thursday. And we need it.’ Terry Taranoff. “As a team, in the last two games we haven't done anything offensively, and as a - Mike Callaghan team we've done a lot defensively but noth- two after starting with an 0-2-1 record. Banjo’s failed to score a run in the bottom of fifth so the mercy rule (the game is called af- ter five innings if one team leads by seven runs or more) was invoked. For Banjo’s, which lost 8-1 to the Castlegar _ Merchants last Tuesday, it was the second straight game the mercy rule has been used against them. Veteran hurler Pete Evdokimoff, 1-2, who was shelled by Banjo’s last Monday, got the win on the mound for Labatts. “It’s pretty hard not to feel better about this one,” said Evdokimoff, Labatts player/coach. ing right,” he said. Taranoff scored Banjo’s only ran when he singled in the fourth inning, advanced to third on two pass balls and scored on an errant throw on a fielding play. Banjo’s No. 1 pitcher, Eli Soukeroff, is out with an injury, and the team was missing sev- eral other starters, but assistant coach Mike Callaghan said his club’s woes can’t be blamed on players who aren't there. “It was just terrible. We’re going to have bat- ting practise Wednesday and Thursday. And we need it” The two teams meet again in a Monday night matchup at Kinnaird May 25. a Ee @ Wednesday, May 13, 1992 SchoolSPORTS NEWS STAFF SOCCER Bridesmaids — again. In a carbon copy of last year’s West Kootenay Cham- pionship, the SHSS girls soc- cer team made it to the title game in Castlegar last Wednesday, only to lose it in a heartbreaker. And just like last year, it was Nelson’s L. V. Rogers Sec- ondary School that provided | the brick wall SHSS ran into in its quest for its first cham- pionship. “Every'team was capable of beating the other this year (but) Nelson was just a little better than everybody else. They deserved to win it again,” said Don Lust, who co-coached the team with Tammy White ‘an Alicia Lust. SHSS went undefeated in its four-team pool through the round robin portion of the ~ tourney, but it had a couple of scares on the way. SHSS opened with a 1-0 win over Trail, then won its next two games in sudden death shootouts — 2-1 over Midway and 1-0 over New Denver. Nelson, which went unde- feated in the other four-team pool, ended SHSS’s season with a 1-0 win in the final. Lust said junior goaltender Mandy Giraud was a star in net for SHSS throughout the tournament. GOLF Any sports fan knows hock- ey players book tee times Mandy Giraud Todd Archambault when.their season ends. So what do golfers do? Judging by the activities of the SHSS team, apparently golfers play golf... “I guess you just enjoy the summer,” said SHSS team member Todd Archambault reached Tuesday at the Castle- gar Golf Course.. SHSS’s season ended in Nelson last weekend when the club finished third in the West Kootenay Championship. Archambault led Castlegar with a 74, but SHSS sealed its own fate when the rest of the team couldn't break 80 on the par 68, nine-hole course. Jody Carew and Mike Myhra shot. 80s for SHSS, while Pat Biln had 82 and Scott Clifford shot 88. The hometown team from L.V Rogers team won the event with a four-player total of 287, while Nakusp sur- prised SHSS finishing in sec- ond place at 303. “We kind of overlooked Nakusp, we didn’t think they would play that well,” Ar- chambault said. SHSS coach Bill Lunn, while admitting he was disap- pointed in his team’s play, said his golfers had several factors working against them. “J think they might have been intimidated by the course a little because they’re not fa- miliar with it. That and the fact that it’s nine holes (they played the same holes twice to simulate 18) and it’s short, didn’t play to our strengths. 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