Sunday, December 29, 1991

Rebels
on the
ropes

TheiNUMBERS

prema INTERNATIONAL

DECEMBER 22, 1991
EAST DIVISION

Spokane
Col. Valley

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Ll T GF GA P
6 1 165 126 33
13 1 141 123 23

Gold. Rockets 7 17 0 131 187 14
Elk Valley 5 19 1 105 204 11

WEST DIVISION
Nelson 16 6 1132 69 33
Grand Forks 16 8 1 150 118 33
Beaver Valley 15 9 1 130 117 31
Ceatioger 8 140 92114 16

@ Castlegar drops all
three contests before
hitting Christmas break

Jonathan Green
NEWS REPORTER

If intensity and concentra-
tion could be packaged up and
put under a Christmas tree,
Kevin Cheveldave would be a
very happy man.

The coach of the Castlegar
Rebels, Cheveldave said it’s a
combination of things that
have hurt his team through
the first 22 games of the KI-
JHL season.

“A lack of intensity on every
shift, too many lapses, bad
play in our own end,” he said.

“A bunch of little things
that all boil down to concen-
tration and intensity.“

Going into a three game
weekend set before Christ-
mas, the Rebels were 12
points back of nearest division
rival Beaver Valley. ~

But the lack of a scoring
touch that has plagued them
all season continued to haunt
them, as ‘they lost: all three
games by a combined score of
19-5.

One of the games, a 2-0

Kevin Cheveldave

home loss to the Nelson Maple
Leafs, marked the first time
the teams had met since a
bench clearing brawl a week
earlier in Nelson.

Cheveldave said that al-
though the game was physi-
cal, none of the events from
the previous week’s game car-
ried over.

“There weren't any fights,”
he said, “It was very physical,
but it was a good game.”

Though the penalty minute
totals were down, Cheveldave

doesn’t think the teams will be
any fonder of each other when
they meet in the first game of

1992 for both teams on Jan. 3.

“There is a definite hate,”
he said, “We hate them and
they hate us.”

“It makes for good hockey.”

So with nowhere to go but
up, Cheveldave says he will be
looking at injecting some new
blood into the line-up.

- “We're not going to let it
run, I can guarantee you that,”
he said.

“We're looking at a couple of
player moves in the new year.”

With the second best de-
fence in the league, Chevel-
dave says that putting the
puck in the net is a bigger con-
cern than keeping it out.

“We've got the second best
goals-against in the league,”
he said. .“We've got to get a goal
scorer,” he said. “Someone to
lead our power-play.”

With the playoffs some two
months away, Cheveldave is
confident in his defence, but
would really like to revive a
lethargic offence with the ad-
— of a bona fide goal-scor-

* Maybe there’s one in San-
ta’s sack of gifts that was over-
looked. If so, Cheveldave is
one person in Castlegar who
would be more than happy to
overlook the delivery delay.

Sweeping technique key to cared game

Linda Moore
B.C. Curling Council

The sweeping of a curling stone is
probably the least understood skill in
the sport.

Non-curlers talk endlessly about
the fact that curlers can practice this
skill on the kitchen floor and laugh at
the way players race up and down the
sheet with what appear to be few ben-
eficial results.

The skill does require some vigor-
ous activity, during short durations
(the rock takes an average of about 20
seconds to travel down the sheet off
ice.) The amount that sweeping assists
a stone, in making it go further and
straighter, depends on a number of fac-
tors. These include: the strength of the
sweepers; their technique; the types of
brooms used; and the ice surface. Gen-
erally, a rock can be taken about 60 to

10 feet further with ping, than
without any help.

My tips on sweeping involve — the
tools; proper techniques; and judge-
ment of curling stones.

The tools:

There are two main types of tools:
corn brooms, and push brooms or
brushes. The corn broom has gone the
way of the dinosaur in many parts of
Canada, as it requires more strength
from the sweeper, and often causes
sore hands and arms. It involves a
slapping * motion on the ice, thus pol-

the surface. A side effect in the

use of this broom is that small pieces of
straw get into the ice, making the
rocks curl more, and slow down faster.
The brush is the more popular tool.

A player leans on the handle, applying
pressure to the brush head, and moves
the brush back and forth in a 6 inch
path in front of the stone. This polish-

Ed Werenich knows all about technique.

ing action is most effective with the
maximum amount of pressure that a
very strong sweeper can apply; but all
ages can use this tool quite well. There
are a number of new types of brushes;
originally, they all had either horse or
hogs hair in the brush head, but a
problem with bristles dropping out
and stopping stones does exist, so now
there are types with a carpet-like ma-
terial on the head.

When purchasing a brush, the size
of the head can vary (usually from 6 to
10 inches). Choose one that is not too
heavy, and has bristles that aren't too
stiff for you. Take care of the brush;
don't throw it in your car or locker. You
can“groom” your push broom, by using
a hair-brush on it, and removing dirt
and old bristle.

Its made him one of Canada’s best.

Technique:

‘The new methods of using the brush
involve a more upright stance. One
hand is placed about 1/3 of the way up
the handle from the brush head (this is
usually the and on your stronger arm),
and the other hand 1/3 of the way from
the top. The idea is so that you can
sweep, with good downward pressure,
and still look up to watch other stones
in play and judge the weight of the

stone.

Many sweepers are now using a
gripper over their slider, so that they
can jew better traction when using this
uy Some try
ona Mifferent side of the stone (most
right-handed players “normally”
sweep on the thrower’s left side of the
sheet), so that the two sweepers can

get us close together as possible. This
takes time to learn, and I recommend
it only for experienced players. Keep
in mind that you must not have the
handle of the brush over the stone, so
your positioning is important.

It is most effective to keep the
brushes close together, and fairly close
to the rock. (A'new rule states that you
must sweep within 6 feet of the stone.)
However, remember that if a running
stone is touched by the delivering
team, it is removed from play (unless
the opposing team sees its removal as
not being beneficial). As well, don’t
waste motion by sweeping too large an
area in front of the stone. You should
keep the area in front of the stone
(which is 12 inches wide) clean and
polished.

Judgment:

Many players work on technique
and forget about one of the most im-
portant skills in sweeping — judging
the weight of the stone. A shot will be
made if the skip calls the right ice, the
thrower gives the stone the right
weight, and the sweepers are able to
properly help the stone down the ice.
Remember that sweepers can carry a
stone at least 6 feet further down the
ice, which is the difference from a
stone being a “bitter” in the house, to it
sitting on the button. The sweepers
are responsible for judging the weight
of the stone, and brushing when the
rock is “light” of the desired weight.
They should communicate the reason
for their brushing actions to the skip,
but the skip only relays back informa-
tion on the line of the stone. As the
rock nears the house, the skip may
take over the sweeping decision, tak-

ing into account any problems with the
line of the shot.

@ Sunday, December 29,'1991

Bud Lowther
NEWS COLUMNIST

Skips Rene Archambault
and John McGillivray led their
rinks to 6-1-2 records and vic-
tory in the second draw of the
Castlegar Pensioners Curling
Club played over the month at
the Castlegar Curling Club.

Archambault was backed
up by lead Jim Beattie, second
Bill Oleski and third Gerry
Wichert, while Joe Schiavon
was lead for Archambault,

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Rocks roll for Pensioner curling

Dave Adshead was second and
Buzz MacDonald played third.

MacDonald, who was also
part of the winning rink in the
first draw — new rinks are
formed for every draw — is an
all-around athlete who can al-
so hold his own on the golf

course.
Otto Walker’s rink, which

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Merc an ise

led at the halfway mark of the
draw, finished with six wins
and three losses.

Harry Bate’s foursome,
which was the only rink to
play 10 games in the draw,
ended up with a 6-1-3 record.

Bate is a fast shooter which
probably would have made
him a good sheriff, while Art

‘Toews, a second on Bate’s rink,
threw with his hands despite
his name, is as accurate as
they come.

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citing draw with tempers flar-
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tations of the rules.

With that in mind the fol-
lowing is taken from the 1992-

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92 edition of the Canadian
Curling Association's rule book
11 (1) Ifa stationary stone(s) is
moved by a player, it is to be
replaced as nearly as possible
where the opposing skip con-
siders it originally lay.
The Pensioners Club re-
sumes play Jan. 7.
Merry Christmas to all and
Happy New Year.
May all the curlers hit the
broom and all the golfers get
their handicaps down.

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