as Castlegar News August 22, 1990 SPORTS Locals finish top 20 By CasNews Staff Castlegar’s Derek Peregrym placed fifth and five other Castle- gar competitors had top 20 finishes Aug. 12 in the Cysowg‘n’ fun Triathlon in Nelson. Competing in the 20-29 age category, Peregrym, 22, finished with an overall time of 2: the event, which con: one-kilometre swim, 40-kilometre bike ride and a 10-kilometre run. Peregrym’s time was just over 12 minutes behind the winner, Tony Theriault of Abbotsford, and six minutes behind fourth- place finisher Brian Dunn of Syd- ney, N.S. Wayne Stupnikoff, racing in his first triathlon, ran into equip- ment difficulties — a flat tire — and didn’t finish the race. The best Castlegar finish of the day was clocked by Paul Henrik- sen who placed second in the men’s 40-and-over age category. Henriksen, 40, put in times of 15:54 in the swimming event, 1:27:49 in cycling and 47:03 in running, to complete the race seven minutes behind winner Con Diamond of Nelson. Wily Konkin of Castlegar came fifth in a time of 2:40:11. In the 30-39 age division, Calvin Herle finished 13th and Dwight Wilson was 18th in their triathlon debuts. ; Gerlad Klassen, who won the Castlegar Sunfest triathton in June, clocked the best overall time of the event posting a 2:01:03. Lui's moment bittersweet VANCOUVER (CP) — It was a night to remember for Lui Passaglia. And it was also a night to forget. Passaglia earned the king-of-the- kickers title with 10 points in a 36-34 loss Monday to the Hamilton Tiger- ‘Cats. The B.C. Lion veteran, in his 15th CFL season, set the league's career scoring record — and a pro football milestone — when he erased Dave Cutler's mark on a routine con- vert. But Passaglia also missed three field goals, including one from 41 yards that would have sent the game into overtime. Even though the snap was high, it was one Passaglia normally would make and he knew it. “I felt I let the team down,”’ he said after reaching 2,244 points, seven more than former Edmonton Eskimo Dave Cutler, who witnessed his record being broken. “*Ejust wish I'd had a better night. I’m happy about the record and I’m kind of glad that’s over with but I defintely feel I let the team down. “It’s probably one of the worst games of my career.’’ Passaglia also missed from 33 and 47 yards. All three misses went for singles. He ad- ded a 26-yard field goal and four con- verts. “There’s mo excuse for missing those field goals," he said. ‘I probably should have been more men- tally prepared.” Lions quarterback Doug Flutie also Telt Passaglia’s disappointment. “*That’s just not supposed to hap- pen to a guy like Lui. He’s Mr. Clut- ch.” Coach Larry Kuharich added: ‘‘It could happen to anybody. It would have been great if it had been a per- fect night.”” But that’s what Hamilton kicker Paul Osbaldiston had. He was five for five on field goal attempts, with the longest coming from 49 yards late in the game. Cutler set the record of 2,337 points during a 16-year CFL career with the Edmonton Eskimos. He retired in 1984. Passaglia’s scoring total surpasses the NFL record of 2,002 points gathered by George Blanda during a 26-year career. While there were no last-minute heroics, Cutler said there was nothing Big money soccer tourney on tap By CasNews Staff Seven B.C. teams will compete in Castlegar’s richest ever soccer tour- nament which gets underway Satur- day at the Kiwanis field. Organizer Herb Amaral said $2,100 in prize money is up for grabs in the Castlegar /Stars Invitational men’s soccer tourney with top place worth $1,200. Teams lined up to play include the Penticton Rippers, Nelson Heritage Innkeepers, Selkirk College, Rossland, a team of tree planters, Oilver United and the host Castlegar Westars. Action begins Saturday at 8 a.m. and continues until 6:30 p.m. An al star game will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday. Play resumes Sunday at 9 a.m. with the finals set for 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. THE NUMBERS BASEBALL BATIONAL LEAGUE East Divis Pirburgh trait Kansas City. 312, Trammell, Darrow) 310 Runs Ooklond (Deirelt. 99: J. Conseco Oaklond McGwire, Ooklond, 84 Gruber. Toronto, 83. Bell ove 77 Sierra, Texan. 77 Was — Griffey. Seottie. 149: Polmeio, Texos Kelly New York, 140: Trommel kent Min Derro, lenderson. Ocklond 30. Sox 29° Kelly New wi 97 2 83, 8 Win Texas #165 Monson Seattle, 155.8 John hicogo. 41. Eckersley Ooklond 38D Jones Cleveland "33. Schooler “Seotle. 30 Olson, Baltimore. 29 SWIMMING Pumsburgh 30. Mc ples n_Gincinnai 9 Coleman 1 Lows & Lo’smith. 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WANTED TRAINER & EQUIPMENT MANAGER For 1990-91 Hockey Season PLEASE CONTACT: Team Manager Don Joice At Home 365-7747 Work 365-7111 — CASTLEGAR REBELS HOCKEY CLUB — wrong with breaking his record on a convert. “You want something nice and easy when your reflexes just take over. Converts got you there. What's wrong with one more?”’ Passaglia, 36, also punts, kicks off, runs or passes occasionally on third Past steroid use could cost coach SASKATOON (CP) — Sins in the past have cast doubts on the future of track coach Bishop Dolegiewicz. The throwing-events coach for the Saskatchewan Track and Field Association has found out he will probably lose federal financial assistance as punishment for using and supplying steroids while com- peting for Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s. That could lead to removal of provincial financial aid, which would end his career as a coach in Canada. tell what the plans are. I’m just trying to figure out what the next step will Dolegiewicz testified about his in- down — and is the team’s emergency quarterback. He has maintained records will matter only after his playing career end: came back to play and win another Grey Cup,” he said. volvement with steroids during the Dubin inquiry in 1989. Justice Charles Dubin recommen- ded’ witnesses not be punished for their testimony, but Marcel Danis, the federal minister for amateur sport, in- cluded Dolegiewicz-among those to be cut off from federal aid. It is expected Dolegiewicz will have an opportunity to appeal the decision. Dolegiewicz receives about one- third of his salary, or between $10,000 and $15,000, from money provided by the federal government. The remainder is paid by the provincial and the Track and Field Association. The provincial government has not responded to the Dubin report or the federal decision. 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MERCURY 2795 ene sme Out-of Town Call Collect Ca ores, rail, B.C. summer Hours: Trail 364-0202 stlegar 365-0202 Mon.-Fri. 8:00-6:00 - Saturday 8:00-5:00 Grand Forks ball tourney a gem By ED MILLS Staff Writer On fancy, full-color, brochures it’s called Diamond in the Rough."’ And why not? glossy ada’s ‘With $30,000 in prize money any one of the teams entered could buy a whole lot diamonds of the ring variety — or build a fait one of the baseball variety, for that matter, But it’s not only the prize money in the Grand Forks 16th Annual, Credit Union International Labor Day Baseball tournament that’s gained it the reputation as the best senior men’s baseball tournament in North America — it’s also the talent and calibre of play at the tourney, tour- nament coordinator Larry Seminoff said. But you don’t have to take his word for it. You could ask any one of the 14 scouts from major league teams who will be in Grand Forks to take a look-see at the prospects when the tournament opens next Wednesday. With tournament alumni like Toronto Blue Jays rookie John Olerud, who played in the tourney in 1987 and 1988, and Expos rookie JOHN OLERUD ... played at tourney Jays blow chance to gain on BoSox ‘NEW YORK (CP) — Just when George Steinbrenner got going, so did the New York Yankees. Less than 12 hours after Stein- brenner faxed his letter of resignation to commissioner Fay Vincent, the Yankees beat Toronto 3-2 Tuesday night. Chuck Cary won for the first time in 11 starts and Roberto Kelly got three hits and stole two bases as the Yankees won their fifth-straight game, matching their longest streak of the season. New York has also won seven in a row at home. Toronto stayed one game behind first-place Boston, which lost 9-5 to Baltimore. The Blue Jays, who start a four-game series at home this weekend against the Red Sox, held back their best pitchers against New York, and it costthem. + The Yankees won the first two games of the three-game set, each time by one run. That clinched ‘New York’s first series victory at home against Toronto since 1986. Early in the evening, the scoreboard showed the Red Sox losing by a big score. Given a chance to move back into a tie at the top, the Blue Jays did not take advantage. Kelly hit a leadoff double in the first inning for the third straight game and later stole home as part of a double steal with Oscar Azocar. MOOKIE WILSON .+.ona tear Kelly singled in the third and scored on Azocar’s groundout, and Balboni followed with his 13th home run for a 3-0 lead. Cary (5-8) did not give up a hit un- til Fred McGriff, Pat Borders and Glenallen Hill opened the fifth with singles, loading the bases. Manny Lee hit a line drive to third baseman Jim Leyritz, who made a leaping catch and doubled Hill off first. Wilson followed with a broken-bat single, giving him nine RBIs in four games. Bullpen rescues Expos once again SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After both starting pitchers left with miserable outings, it turned into a bullpen contest between Montreal and San Franciso. And when it’s the Expos bullpen, that’s really no contest at all. Montreal's relievers continued to sparkle, while San Francisco’s hob- bling arms served up five runs in the final three innings in the Expos’ 10-5 victory Tuesday night. Rojas (1-1) pitched three scoreless innings of one-hit ball to earn his first major-league win. “We feel if we can go bullpen to bullpen, we're in pretty good shape,"’ Montreal Manager Buck Rodgers said. ‘‘We don’t have any weak links down there. It’s more of a committee cqneept.”* ‘That committee has combined to give up three runs in its last 40 in- nings; an -earned-run average of 0.66. Four relievers combined to allow only one run Tuesday night after starter Oil Can Boyd lasted 3 1-3 innings. Giants manager Roger Craig may voluntarily come out of retirement to help his shattered pitchers. Starter John Burkett lasted five innings, then his first reliever, loser Trevor Wilson (8-6), had to leave after re-injuring an oblique muscle below his rib cage. “Trevor is pretty bad off,’’ Said Craig, who announced Wilson would BUCK RODGERS ... committee concept be placed on the 15-day disabled list. “It’s almost like having a broken rib.” Burkett, who gave up two-run homers to Mike Fitzgerald and Larry Walker as the Expos rallied from a 4-0 deficit, said he ‘‘never really felt good the whole game."” “*I should be able to hold a 4-0 lead — I threw terrible,"" said Burkett. “I think they should have put the L next to my name not Trevor’s.”’ Larry Walker, who was scouted and subsequently signed by the Expos af- ter playing in the tourney in 1985, scouts want to make sure they don’t overlook their own diamonds in the rough. Expected at the tourney this year are former major leaguers Dave Kingman, who is coming with the Tahoe Stars, and Frank Williams, who was just cut from the Detroit Tigers last month. As for the youngsters, their names won’t be familar to anyone—yet. “Really, there are top-quality prospects,’” Seminoff said. ‘‘They are young men whose future is to be professional baseball players. The “Rough” in the slogan is Grand Forks itself, but it’s not meant to be a slight to the city of about 7,000 people, Seminoff said. “It’s just that people don’t expect a tournament of this calibre in such a small centre. It’s (Grand Forks) not a Los Angeles or Florida or even Ed- monton, where you might expect to see a tournament like this. This is like finding a jewel in the rough."’ The reputation the tourney’s got is one organizers try hard to Sustain by improving the quality of competition every year, Seminoff said. A tournament tradition of having teams from Taiwan and Japan will be broken this year because those teams had commitments at the Goodwill Games in Seattle last month and the World Baseball C! i exhibition games before the tour- nament. They are just couple of countries were looking at.”” Seminoff said the tourney’s come a long way since 1969 when he organized the first one with eight local teams. This year, the 12-team contingent includes a semi-pro team from San Diego and two other teams from California, two teams from New York State, four teams from Washington, one from Idaho, one from Surrey and the local Grand Forks Gold. 's when he nab- which just concluded in Edmonton. Taiwan and Japan will return next year and Seminoff hopes to add’ a couple more teams he made contact with when he was in Edmonton. “‘Italy and the Soviets are very in- terested. We're not sure if the Soviets are ready for this calibre of play yet but they could come up for some bed the tourney’s first big-name team from Seattle in 1975. “L'il never forget what that guy said when I asked him if they wanted to play. He said. ‘Yeah, we're coming, where the hell is’ Grand Forks?’ That's when it became big news all of a sudden and it’s just got- ten bigger and bigger every year."” Importing.a team is fine Canadian ball tradition By ED MILLS Staff Writer "Like Canada’s professional, better- known baseball teams, the Grand Forks Gold doesn’t have a lot of home-brewed talent on the club. In fact, the Gold doesn’t have a single player from Grand Forks, or Canada for that matter, on the team. they have Maple Ridge’s Walker and the Toronto Blue Jays can point to Torontonian Rob Ducey as their Canadian content. The fact is, if Grand Forks didn’t host North America’s largest in- vitational baseball tournament every year, the city of about 7,000 people wouldn’yhave a baseball team at all. But when the $30,000 12-team In- ternational Labor Day tournament opens at James Donaldson park next Wednesday, Grand Forks will have done what the Blue Jays and Expos have done for years in a fine Canadian baseball tradition — impor- ted a team. And if baseball fans in Toronto and Montreal don’t seem to care that their teams aren’t stocked with hometown boys, why should the folks in Grand Forks? “Fhat’s-why-the home town crowd will cheer the players on like they've known them all their lives when the collection of players from Washington and Oregon pull on the gold and black Grand Forks unifor- ms. “You put a Grand Forks shirt on the team, the people are going to cheer for them, they’re your team,”’ organizer Sherry Pepin said. Tournament coordinator Larry Seminoff said what Grand Forks does is no different than what any professional team in any sport does and he points to the National Hockey League as an example. “How many players on the (Van- couver) Canucks are from Van- couver?’’ Seminoff asked. He said the main reason Grand Forks doesn’t put together a local team is the home town crowd and players got tired of being embarrassed in the tournament by U.S. teams boasting former and future major league talent. So Grand Forks hasn’t had a team of all locals in the tournament since 1979 and has had only token Canadians on the team for the last three years. Not being able to field a Canadian- made team in a tourney of this calibre puts Grand Forks in the company of just about every other city and town inthe country, Seminoff said: **We can’t find a Canadian team to match the level of play in the tour- nament. About the only team that would be competitive is the Canadian National team and after seeing them play (in the world baseball champion- ships) in Edmonton I'd have to say they’d have a tough time finishing in the top 10 in our tourney.”” Of the 12 teams only one is from Canada — from Surrey — while another_is-made-up-of_a_mixture-of Canadians_and Americans. All the rest are from the U.S. Once assembled, the Grand Forks Gold couldn’t exactly be called a rag- tag team of imports. Last year the team lost to Japan in the final and, since going to an all- import format, has made the final four in two of the last three years. The team finished dead last in the three tournaments prior to opting for all imports. Still, even if the team won the $12,000 first-place prize money every year, baseball fans in Grand Forks know the players they cheered on will probably go home and spend the money on cheaper beer, gas and groceries. It’s just not the same as if it were truly a local victory. Which is something Sherry Pepin hopes will panes on day. ‘*Maybe one of these days we'll have a team composed of all Grand Forks players,”’ Pepin said wistfully. Trail wins its opener WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — The selection of a girl as starter for the first game of the Little League baseball World Series proved to be more hype than sub- stance, but it wasn't planned that way. Trail manager Andy Bilesky wanted a full game out of 12-year- old Kelly Craig, but didn’t get even one out. “If she was on, she would have gone the whole way,”’ Bilesky said after Canada’s 8-3 victory over Matamoros, Mexico, in Tuesday's quarter-final game. In the day's ‘second game, Kerrie Cordero struck out 12 as Cypress, Calif., beat Brooklyn, Mich., 9-0. Craig, like Matamoros starter Ramon Macias, loaded the bases before being pulled in the first in- ning. The diff in the game was the relief pi Craig’s reliever allowed only one run after taking over in the middle of a jam. Macias’s threw a wild pitch and let two runs,in. Bilesky replaced Craig with David Caron, who he had hoped to use in Thursday’s semifinal against Taiwan or West Germany, which played today. **I didn’t want to use him at all, but when we got the jump, we decided to go forthe win,”* Bilesky said. “If we had been losing (when Craig ran into trouble), somebody else would have gone in.’” Under Little League rules, pit- chers can’t pitch in consecutive games. Where Caron succeeded, Matamoros relievers failed. Macias walked three of the first batters he faced. Arturo Puig, in relief, let Keith Morris score from third on a wild pitch and Jason Bay scored on Todd Thompson’s sacrifice fly to centre. Puig walked Bay and Craig to open the third, Matt Mason singled and Thompson walked to drive in another run, giving Canada a 3-1 lead before Macias’s home run in the bottom of the third. Canada added to its lead late in the game with walks, two Mexican errors and three bunt singles. Club saves best for last By ED MILLS Staff Writer If the Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club members were looking for a product to endorse it would undoub- tedly be Bic or Gillette. And after their performances at the incial Aquatic al the Wright Pool in Trail last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they might just i idates for endorsemen- ts. Team members shaved their entire bodies (excluding their heads) and then went out and shaved seconds off their personal best times to produce what both coaches are calling the club’s best meet of the year. Against their toughest competition, in the biggest meet of the year, Aquanauts brought home medals and the club topped every other team in the Kootenays, finishing 15th overall. Coach Tom Carew said the 28 club members who qualified did everything he wanted them to do and more. “I figured we'd win a couple of medals somewhere along the line in the meet but the ones we did win, it was kind of shocking.’’ Carew said his team gained momentum on the first day of the meet when co-coach Wendy Pilla won gold in the $0-metre freestyle and Aimie Chernoff, in a surprise swim, won the bronze in the same event. **Aimie swam the 50 free as a four- th event and we weren't really op- timistic that she'd get a medal out of that, but she just had a great swim,”” he said. ‘‘Those two medals sort of set the tone for the rest of the meet."” Chernoff, who had never broken 30 seconds in the 50 freestyle and whose strongest event is the butterfly, came in at 29 seconds. **1 was shaved down and pumped up,’’ said the diminutive Grade 12 student, adding that she was trying to make up for what she thought was a poor performance at the regional finals three weeks ago. Pilla, in her last competitive meet of her career, picked up where Cher. noff left off by winning a silver in the 100-metre freestyle on Saturday. Pilla, 22, leaves for Vancouver this ‘week for-back surgery to-correct-@ problem that has left 90 per cent of her right leg without feeling. But the one-time national level competitor, wasn’t going to let thoughts of the operation ruin her moment. “It was the best meet of the year for the team. We had some incredible swims,’’ she said. And even she was talking about the merits and sensation of shaving. “*It brings your nerve endings up so it doesn’t even feel like you're getting wet. You feel faster, only other gold cutting 3% seconds off his personal best time to take first place in the 100-metre breaststroke. Mario Frehenberg slashed $% seconds off his best time to win the bronze in the 100-metre backstroke and Alex Hartman teamed up with three area swimmers to account for Carew got into the act himself as he joined a regional team to win the gold medal in the freestyle relay. His brother Colin didn’t let the family down as he took bronze in the 100- metre backstroke. Justin Philips won the Aquanauts’ the A other medal. Besides the individual efforts, there was—a—bonus for the Aquanauts—as- they finished eight spots ahead of rival club the Nelson Neptunes. The Neptunes and Aquanauts) usually finished one-two in meets all summer so it was especially Sweet to beat them in the provincials, said Pilla. Fhe Kootenay _region—_finished, seventh out of the eight regions — ac-~ counting for about 1,500 athletes — at the meet. Vancouver’s Simon Fraser club won the overall title. Meanwhile, the three Robson River Otters swimmers who qualified for Pprovincials didn’t come home with any medals but all turned in personal, bests at the meet, which is something coach Curtis Ready had asked from them. Kim Verigin broke the 30-second mark for the first time in his career in Division 4 boys 50-metre freestyle to finish second in the consolation finals and ninth overall with a time of 29.81. He added a seventh-place finish in the 100-metre freestyle consolation event. Kristy Verigin also set a personal best with a time of 51.28 seconds in the $O-metre butterfly to place 2ist overall in Division 2 girls. She placed 25th in the $0-metre freestyle and 24th in the 100-metre freestyle. Lisa Woykin of the Otters swam her best time with a 34.66 to place 18th in Division 3 girls SO-metre freestyle. She also picked up a 20th place in the 100-metre freestyle.