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82 Castlégar News February 4, 1990

SPORTS

Final four finally decided in Trail

TRAIL (CP) — Eric Wiltzen of
Kamloops advanced to the provincial
curling championships Friday with a
pair of wins at the Interior playoffs
in Trail.

Wiltzen defeated Wayne Kuroy-
ama, also of Kamloops, 8-7 in the B

final and edged Kevin

of Williams Lake 6-5 in the after-
noon draw.
In the C-division q finals,

Kevin 9-4, and Barry
McPhee of Kamloops doulbed
Wayne Laface of Vernon 63.

berley Monday.
Those losses, combined with a Sun-
day loss at the hands of Sandy

Rick Folk of Kelowna beat Sandy
McDonald of Prince Geroge 7-4,
Doug Bradley of Kelowna routed

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In. the draw, Ki
edged Laface 8-7 in extra ends,
while McDonald beat Nelson's Rick
Thompson 8-7, and Folk defeated
Jim Hill of Trail 7-1,

Wiltzen advances with Paul Dev-
lin of Trail and Gerry Kent of Cran-
brook to next weekend's B.C. cham-
pionships at Delta.

It was three strikes and you're out

It was three strikes and you're out
for Castlegar’s lone entry in the
championship.

The rink, skipped by Castlegar
resident Kelly Johnson, lost by iden-
tical 5-4 scores to Pete Sherba of Prin-
ce George and Elgin Smith of Kim-

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1d, sealed the fate of the
local rink in the triple knockout
tourney.

The one bright spot for the Johnson
crew of third Rod Morrison, second
Alvin Caron and lead Doug Stamm
came in its second game Sunday which
was an easy win over a Trail rink,

Meanwhile, in the Pacific Coast
playoffs in Vancouver, Brent Pierce
of New Westminster scored a 6-5,
12th end decision over Jim Arm-
strong for his second win of the day
ito advance to the quarter-finals of
the B event.

The loss was Armstrong’s second
of the day — in the morning draw he

was dumped 4-2 by al Heath of
Maple Ridge.

Heath, who is on a seven-game
win streak after a five-game sweep
of the Fraser Valley zone playdowns,
was joined in the semifinals of the A
event by Craig Lepine and Dan
Cleutinx of Vancouver and Rick
Pughe of New Westminster.

Cleutinx won his second consecu-
tive blowout, beating Barry Moore
of Victoria 8-3 in eight ends. Lepine
beat Brine Gessner of Vancouver 7-5
and Pughe defeated Tim Horrigan of
Victoria 7-S.

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16-team, triple knockout playoffs
— which end today — to the B.C.
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Curling Club Friday night. Safe to say It probably

It's not the Brier, but
nobody ever said it was

By CasNews Staff

Skips smoking cigarettes on the
ice.

Sweepers, coordination @ little
muddled by the effects of the
pre-game brews, falling down on the
job.

No, it isn’t the Labatt Brier folks.

It’s the Groundhog Bonspiel at the
Castlegar Curling Club and what it
may lack in top-flight competitive
curling, it makes up with top-flight
competitive carousing.

Thirty-two teams from across the
Kootenays are taking part in the
annual affair including 18 from
Castlegar.

And if you lose a couple games, so

going to have live music or not.
Nobody’s even pretending curling is
the main reason for this get
together.

To be fair, ‘there are some who

Rust wins

By BUD LOWTHER

The Gerry Rust rink has won the
third draw of the senior men’s
curling league with a lofty record of
seven wins against one loss.

Like a relentless juggernaut that
would not be denied, Rust and third
Walter Fields, second John Strelieff
and lead Joe Schell have swept all
aside.

what. It’s a qi so
don’t worry about it.

Action got under way at the Club
Friday night but the big topic among
the curlers wasn’t the curling, it was
whether the party that night was

The fourth draw begins this week.

On the side, a good curler is in
most cases also a pretty good
hollerer.

Hollering is an important part of

have come for the curling, but the
majority aren't going to go home uh-
happy if they lose.

The finals in the A, B, C and D
divisions are set for today at 6 p.m.

3rd draw

the game. Ostensibly to call in the
sweepers on a rock, it can also serve
to intimidate and unnerve,-as well as
be an indication of despair.

Sweeping itself is certainly a
major’ part of curling tradition.
Whether it’s done beside the rock,
in front of it, or behind, it seems to
get curlers into the game.

Just how much sweeping actually
affects the course of the rock is
certainly open to conjecture, but
most won't argue with years and
years of tradition behind sweeping
in the game.

TIM PRETTY
... outstanding game

Pretty. gets
gold again
By CasNews Staff

Castlegar resident Tim Pretty
backstopped the Nelson Silver Kings

* through three straight wins and to

the gold medal at a floor hockey
tournament in Vernon Jan. 20.

Pretty said he stopped about 50
shots (no shot count is taken) in the
final, a 6-4 win over Kamloops for
the gold.

“It was a tough series, everybody
was playing hard,"’ he said.

The Silver Kings beat Vernon 14-6
in the first game of the tourney, and
then Kelowna 9-1, to gain a berth in
the championship.

Pretty, 27, whose team won the
Canadian Championships in Edmon-
ton last year, is a six-year veteran on
the squad which competes in Special
Olympics and other tournaments
throughout the year.

Hot dog is
the top dog

VANCOUVER (CP) — Grant Con-
nell was accused of being a hot dog
after a between-the-legs return Fri-
day night but Canada was the top
dog by winning the opening singles
matches in a Davis Cup tennis series
against Brazil.

Connell’s rarely-seen return,
which ticked the sideline for a
winner, set up match point in a 7-5,
6-3, 6-4 win over Danilo Marcelino.

“My dad called me a hot dog
right after the match but there was
nothing else I could do,’’ Connell
said after making his first appear-
ance in Davis Cup singles.

“I've only done that once before
in a match and that was against
(Czech Miloslav) Mecir.”’

While Connell, of North Vancou-
ver, coasted after a nervous begin-
ning, Andrew Sznajder, of Toronto,
turned up his baseline game a notch
to grit out the second singles 6-4,
over Luiz Mattar.

Weekend

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BASKETBALL

February 4, 1990

Hi Arrow takes top

By CasNews Staff °

Hi Arrow took sole possession of
first place in the Castlegar Recre-
ational Hockey League with a 9-5
win over Woodland Park Shell at the
Community Complex Thursday
night.

The win caps a remarkable turn-
around for Hi Arrow which before
Christmas was sitting in the cellar of
the CRHL but has won eight of nine
games since January.

Shell opened the scoring at 2:24
of the first period with Mal Stelck
connecting unassisted. The lead was
stretched to two goals as Chris
Brodman scored from Kelly Keraiff

and Joe Bell. Danny Stelck made it a
three-goal margin from his father
Mal and Bell got his second point of
the period. *

Hi Arrow’s double-trouble trio of
No. 44 John Obetkoff, No. 77 Niki
Hyson and No. 66 Doug Knowler —
who between them have accounted
for 213 points in 29 games this
season and sit three, four and five in
league scoring respectively — were
involved individually or collectively
in every Hi Arrow goal in the game.

Knowler got Hi Arrow on the
board with three minutes remaining
in the first with his 24th of the
season from Obetkoff and Darrell

Bojechko.

Hi Arrow got to within one before
the first ended as Obetkoff got one
of his own, his 37th of the year, from
Bobby Larsh and Tony Darosa.

In the second it was more of the
same as Hi Arrow kept coming and
Shell wilted under the pressure of
the attack.

Knowlder added his second of the
night on an unassisted effort to tie,
the game. Then Bojechko, fro
Knowler and Dean MacKinnon, and
Obetkoff from Larsh, scored 12
seconds apart to make it 5-3.

Knowler completed his hattrick
four minutes later from Obetkoff and

spot in CRHL

Bojechko who collected their fourth
and third points of the night respec-
tively.

Keraiff, who sits in second place
in CRHL scoring with 52 as nd
80 points, scored for Shell to cut the
margin to two goals before heading
into the third.

But Hi Arrow just kept coming
with Bob Essaunce getting into the
act with his first of the game from
Knowler. Knowler got his fourth of
the game’ from Larsh and Obetkoff
to give Hi Arrow a commanding 8-4
bulge.

The teams traded goals late in the

Gwen McCargar grimices as she pounds the weights in the weightroom at the Community
Complex. McCargar and a dozen ‘others are taking advantage of the Castlegar and District
Recreation Department's program of circult weight training offered at various times during

the week. Other programs ore

10 being offered. —cosnews Photo by Ed Mills

SR. NOVICE 2 SPOKANE 0
SR NOVICE 5 SPOKANE 2
SR NOVICE 3 BEAVER VALLEY 2

Eremenko Sr. Novice won 9-2 and
5-2 over Spokane and a hard fought
3-2 win over Beaver Valley during
minor hockey week celebrations
here Jan. 19-21.

Bruce Davis picked up a goal and
two assists while his linemate Jason
Quiding potted three goals and one
assist. Brian Watt had three goals
and two assists while Craig Davis
continues to score with two goals.

Jeffery Craig, while playing
strong in goal in one game, also
scored a goal while playing right
wing in another. Nicholas Baal,
Daniel Evdokimoff and Dennis Pod-
ovennikoff each collected an assist.

Paul Oster and Nicole Archam-
bault, while not collecting any
points, played outstanding defence.

Aaron Kinakin, Cliff Waldie, Aar-
on Kastrikoff and Dan Chernenkoff
contributed to a total team effort for
the successful weekend.

On Jan. 27, the téam travelled to
Rossland and participated in a suc-
cessful Jamboree.

ATOMS 5 KIMBERLEY 2
ATOMS 4 SHERWOOD PARK 5
ATOMS 9 REDCLIFFE 2
ATOMS 10 CALGARY 3
ATOMS 4 CALGARY 6

The Castlegar Atom: All-stars
lived up to its name by playing some
all-star hockey against big-city
teams in the 20-team, Sixth Annual
Bavarian Classic Tournament ) in
Kimberley last weekend.

The- Atoms finished the tourney
with a respectable 3-2 won-loss
record but out of the hardware as it
lost the B final 6-4 to Calgary last
Sunday.

The All-stars split a pair of games

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MINOR LEAGUE
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wind up in second place in its_
division and a chance at the B
Division title on Sunday.

Two Calgary teams stood in the
way of that title but Castlegar
handled the first contest against the
Calgary Properties Blazers with ease
skating to a 10-3 win.

The win put the All-stars into the
B final Sunday afternoon against the
other Calgary contingent called the
North Stars.

Castlegar took the lead in the first
with Shawn Horcoff blasting his 12th

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goal of the tourney. But Calgary
came back in the second period with
four unanswered goals.

The All-stars’ Grady Moore cut
the lead to two with his fourth of the

_gary, scored twice with the man ad-
vantage. Horcoff with his second of
the game and David Pucci did the
damage for Castlegar on the power-
play.

But Castlegar would get no more
as the North Stars went on to win it
by a 6-4 count.

Individual MVP awards for games
went to Horcoff, who finished the
tourney with 13 goals in five games,
Moore, Darren Belanger, who had
six goals, and goaltender Justin
Evin who, along with Robbie Blier,
split the duties between the pipes
for Castlegar.

Other scorers for Castlegar were
Pucci with two, Jay Antignani, Kent
Fauth, Wayne Markin and Cory
Quiding with one each.

The All-stars skate back into
action today against Beaver Valley
at the Pioneer Arena at 10:45 a.m.

third with Kevin Kirby scoring» for
Shell from Bell and Mal Stelck while
Hyson got his first point of the
game, a goal 30 seconds after
Kirby’s, from Larsh and Essaunce,
to complete the scoring.

The win gives Hi Arrow a 14-12-3
record, good for 31 points, two
better than Sandman Inn. Shell is
still within striking distance with 26
points.

Shell plays a pair of games, with
Sandman Monday and Hi Arrow
Tuesday at the Complex. Game
times are 9:30 and 9:15 p.m.

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