Castlégar News January 28, 1990 SPORTS _ Canadians gun gold as Games gear up AUCKLAND (CP) — It took a little extra grit for Lori Strong of Whitby, Ont.* to rally for a gold medal Saturday in the women’s individual all-round event and maintain Canada's i of the C Games gym- nastics events. K Strong was third going into her fourth and final discipline on the uneven bars where she rallied to score a, 9.925 and grab her second gold medal of the Games ahead of two Australians. “IL knew I had to do the best routine I could to get the highest score I could get,’’ said Strong who won her first gold in the women’s team event on Friday. ‘‘I feel really . . . awesome. I was glad I could do this for Canada as well as myself.”* Also winning their second gold medals today were Curtis Hibbert of Mississauga, Ont., in the men’s in- dividual gymnastics all-round, and shooter Guy Lorion of Longueuil, Que., who overcame sweltering heat to win the individual air rifle title. Synchronized swimmer Sylvie Frechette of Montreal ~ handily defended her Games title in the solo event and swimmer Gary Anderson of Brampton, Ont., won Canada’s other gold medal of the day in the men’s 200- metre backstroke. ‘There were only two finals on the first day of track and field competition but Australia won gold in the first one when Sean Carlin captured the hammer throw with a Games record fling of 75.66 metres. TAKES BRONZE England's Eamonn Martin won the 10,000 metres and Paul Williams of Vancouver took the bronze medal behind second-place finisher Moses Tanui of Kenya. Gymnasts’ Hibbert and Alan Nolet of Brampton, Ont., finished 1-2 in the men’s individual all-round. They were also members of the Canadian foursome that took the team event two days earlier. Hibbert, 23, and Nolet, 22, held off the challenge of Englishman James May by scoring well on the high bars in the last rotation of the all-round event. 184,79. No bronze medals were awarded because there were only four finalists. For the third day in a row, the Australian swimmers won four of five events and now lead the Canadians 12-2 in gold medals and 25-10 in total swim medals. Under a blazing sun that around 38 degrees on the shooting range, Lorion, 36, won his second gold with a score of 583 ouf\of a possible 600. Mart Klepp of Guelph Ont., took the bronze with a score of And picked up only the second gdld for Canadian in_the 200-met ke, over- taking Paul Kingsman of New Zealand down the stretch to win in a Games’ record of 2:01.69. Kevin Draxinger of 577 — one less than silver medallist C! Hector of England. On Thursday, Lorion and Klepp, 26, won the air rifle pairs, Canada’s first gold medal ofthe Games. In the ig solo final, 22, scored a near-perfect 196,680 — out of a possible 200 — with a routine built on thesong Amazing Grace. Kerry Shacklock of England won the silver medal with , Settled for the bronze. ‘ Nicole Livingstone of Australia won the women’s 100- metre backstroke and the Aussies captured, their 12th swimming gold in the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay in 3:46.85. The Canadian foursome of Calgary’s Allison Higson, Erin Murphy of Winnipeg, Kim Paton of Bran- tford, Ont., Patricia Noall of Beaconsfield, Que., took the silver in 3:48.69. SPORTS Du Mighty have fallen in CRHL By CasNews Staff How the mighty have fallen in the Castlegar Recreational Hockey League. Sandman Inn, which held a com- manding lead atop the CRHL's stan- dings in November and December, lost its sixth in a row, 8-7 to Woodland Park Shell, at the Community Com- plex Thursday night Sandman still sits tied with Hi Arrow for top spot in the league with 27 poin- ts, but the days when the team used to first sixin a row. Dave Terhune fired four goals and Clay Martini had four assists as San- dman still hasn't won a game in 1990. Bruno Tassone opened the scoring ‘for Shell at the midway point of the fir- st and Brad Makortoff made it 2-0 just 46 seconds later. Terhune got it going for Sandman at 6:01 of the first converting a set-up from lan Stewart and Tim Nazaroff. Then Duane Weir tied it before the period was out from Martini and Vince A walk over the appear to be gone. And Shell lurks below, only three points behind. Shell's Kelly Keraiff was the big set- up man collecting assists on seven of his team's eight, goals, including the The game opened up in the second as Terhune took over with three more goals and Weir picked up his second of the night. Afitignani and Martini picked up a pair of assists each along with Adrian Markin, while Nazaroff and Stewart added their second helpers of the game. Shell responded with three of its own late in the period with two by Kevin Kirby sandwiched around Tassone's second of the night. Keraiff assisted on all the goals while Jason Hughes quietly picked up his third assist of the game and Chris Brodman his first Trailing 6-5 heading into the third, Shell's Joe Bell scored to tie the game at the 17-minute mark of the period. But Sandman restored thé one-goal lead when Nazaroff connected from Mitch Quaedvilieg and Martin. Now it came down to five minutes left for Sandman to try and protect the one- goal margin. Baker a leader on Rockettes Superquiz By ED MILLS Staff Writer She doesn’t get all the points and she’s not the flashiest player on the court, but Sunny Baker is one thing every successful team needs a leader. Not tall for a basketball player, the five-foot-five point guard for the Stanley Humphries senior girl’s it takes to win. teammates Play,’ coach Jack C roy. ship on the team,’’ basketball team is a tower when it comes to showing her teammates what “She's really having a-major Positive influence on the way her difference when she’s on the floor. “She's really showing super leader- said Closkey, ad- ding that it’s not something totally unexpected considering Baker and Denise Pottle are the only two seniors on theteam. But while Pottle — a multi-talented athlete — can score in double figures every game, Baker isn’t the same kind of player. Sure she may break into the top three in scoring-the odd game, but she is relied on more for the intangibles says Rockestges “It makes a lot of 2 HALFTIME ADVICE. . . Coach Jack Closkey offers his senior girls basketball team some strategy as the SHSS Rockettes took on the L.V. Rogers Bombers of Nelson here Thursday night. Closkey's Rockettes won it 71-15. CasNews photo by Ed Mills Castlegar Cougars Athletic Association 1 EVERY MONDAY BI INGO! 6p.m.-11 p.m. BINGO! BINGO Regular Bingo Starts at 7 p.m. Come Out & Help Support Our Club SCOUT HALL — 216-8th Ave., Castlegar ° 30 GAMES — 60 % PAYOUT Early Bird Starts at 6 p.m. CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT RECREATION DEPARTMENT of leadership — like presence, and maturity on the court Baker says she and Pottle, the team’s co-captains, just try to keep the players loose prior to the game and in- tense during it. “In the warmups we talk to them (teammates) and we get them going.’’ Otherwise, she says, she doesn’t really think of herself as the team’s leader as such. “Most of the other girls have played before so we (her and Pottle) don’t really have to teach anything. ‘‘We’re agood team.”” The Rockettes gave the L.V. Rogers Bombers an example of just how good they are with a 71-15 win at SHSS Thursday night Carilyn Briscoe with 19, got more points for SHSS than the Bombers got as a team. Pottle came through with her usual double-figure game, with 11 points, while Lisa Baker had eight. On Friday, Sherrie Makortoff scored 21 as the Rockettes beat Fernie 55-43 in the first game of a tournament in Creston. Results from the other games weren't available at press time. Meanwhile, Laurie Boskov’s junior girls’ played host to seven teams in the Hi Arrow Classic at SHSS this weekend. The junior Rockettes bombed the Rossland Royalettés $4-15~ in~ their opening game of the tourney Friday night. Laurel Closkey led the team with 13 points while Rory Perrier had 10 and Kelly Davidoff eight Check the Castlegar News Wed- nesday for full high school basketball- results. Atoms have a good week The Castlegar Atom House No. 1 team Legionaies wound up “Minor Hockey Week with a record of, 3-1-1 against Spokane teams. In the fourth game of the series, Castlegar goalie Jamie Jmieff was sparkling in goal to earn the shutout in al-Ovictory. In game five, Jmieff gave way to Jamie Ross between the pipes who was given strong support from defenseman Ryan McLachlan, Dustin Heagy, Stacey Bublitz and Darren Crockett as Castlegar recorded another win. Castlegar’s Kelvin Bezaire, Kevin Short, Ryan Davis, Ryan Biller, Rance Hall, Joseph McInnes and Mark Bosse did the scoring for the local squad. Nathan Dalla Lana and Jason Wid- dington picked up assists. continued from BI Answers 1. Jim O’Brien. 2. The AFL-NFL World Cham- pionship Game. 3. Minnesota (Kansas City, Miami, Pittsburgh and Oakland); Danver (Dallas, N.Y. Giants, Washington and San Francisco); Oakland-Los Angeles Riaders (Green Bay, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Washington). ~ 4. a) Marcus Allen, 74 yards vs. Washington, 1984 Super Bowl. 5. False. New Orleans is hosting its seventh Super Bowl this year. Miami has hosted six. 6. Don McCafferty, Baltimore, 1971 Super Bowl. 7. Miami. They attempted seven paises in the 1974 Super Bowl and 50 in the 1985 Super Bowl. 8. c) Harris has four career touch- downs for 24 points. 9. 19 points. Baltimore was favored over the New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl. 10. b) McGee on a 37-yard pass from Bart Starr. 11. False. Don Shula lost in 1969 with Baltimore and in 1972, 1983 and 1985 with Miami. 12. Mike Mercer, Kansas City 31 yards in the 1967 Super Bow! 13. The Los Angeles Rams, they were 9-7 in the 1979 season 14. b) Karlis; d)Stenerud 15. Chuck Howley, Dallas in the 1971 Super Bowl 16. False. Max McGee had 138 yar- ds in the 1967 Super Bowl. 17. Denver had eight turnovers (four interceptions, four fumbles) in the 1978 Super Bowl. 18. The 1982 Super Bowl between San Francisco and Cincinnati had a 49.1 rating. 19. Miami and Dallas played in five each. 20. Dwight White downed Fran Tarkenton in the end zone in the first half of the 1975 Super Bowl. 21. Los Angeles Rams beat Tampa Bay 9-0 in the 1979 NFC champion- ship; Miami beat New York 14-0 in the 1982 championship; Baltimore beat Cleveland 34-0 in the 1968 NFL cham- pionship. 22. c) Herb Adderly of Green Bay returned an interception 60 yards for a TD in the 1968 Super Bowl. 23. False. CBS will televise its 12th Super Bowl, NBC has televised 1! and ABC has televised two. CBS and NBC each televised the first Super Bowl. 24. Preston Pearson played with Baltimore in 1969; Pittsburgh .1975; and Dallas 1976, 1978-79. BONUS — Quarterback Bob Berry of Minnesota did not play in the 1974- 75 and 1977 Super Bowls. Scoring 95 or more — MVP 90-94 — First Team All-Pro 85-89 — Second Team All-Pro 80-84 — Honorable Mention All- Pro 67-79 — Starter 40-64 — Benchwarmer 0-39 — Preseason cut. Figini wins SANTA CATERINA, Italy (CP) — Switzerland’s Michela Figini collected her first World Cup victory of the season while Kendra Kobelka of Lynn Lake, Man., continued her comeback from knee ligament charge with an cight-place finish at the Santa Caterina downhill Saturday. Kobelka, unhindered by her late Starting position (30th), was clocked at 1:29.09 on way to Percy hurt posting her best World Cup result ever When Karen Percy of Banff, Alta., injured her knee during Thursday’s final training run it became clear Canada’s best hope for a good result rested with Kobelka after she recorded the fastest practice times. “I felt pretty good all week; I was doing sections of it really well,”’ said Kobelka Weekend Wrap-up JAN. 28 — Public Swim 1:30-4:30, a.m Family Swim 4:30-6:30, Adult Swim and Adult Lessons 6:30-8:30. 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Makortoff scored the winner, his second of the night, on the ensuing powerplay from Hughes and Keraiff to give Shell the 8-7 win Sandman and Hi Arrow will meet Monday at the Complex in game for first place in the CRHL. Game time is 9:30 p.m. On Tuesday Shell and San: dman stage the rematch at the Com- plex at 9:15 p.m. Castlegar on top By CasNews Staff It's eight in a row and counting for Castlegar Realty in the Trail Men's Basketball League. The Castlegar squad beat Victoria Place 66-47 at Trail’s Cominco Gym Wednesday night for itseighth straight win and to remaina game up in first place in the league. Kingfisher Bobcat Services kept pace with a 76-61 win in the early game Wednesday to temporarily sit in a tie for first with Castlegar. But Lou Ciccetti tossed 18 points and Brian Turlock had 15 as Castlegar continues its hot streak with the playoffs less than three weeks away. Brad Arness added 14 points for the winners. Castlegar showed. it-was more than just @ one dimensional team by holding Victoria Place to 19 points in the first half while scoring 30. Victoria Place’s Chad Coupland led all scorers with 25 while Ernie Rella — who probably needs knee surgery but continues to hobble around the court — scored 10. Rella, who is also the league president, said the Castlegar team has really pulled it together since the beginning of the season. Turlock added that the team has started playing some solid defence which it was lacking early in the season and the shooters are putting up the points consistently. Duane Donald-seored 20 points and John Denison potted 19 for Kingfisher while Jody White responded with 10 points for Smelterr Pub. which falls deeper into-the cellar of the four-team league. Castlegar Realty and Kingfisher will meet in the final two games of the season to decide first place. The first of the two meetings goes Wed. nesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Cominco Gym. \ Mirror, mirror on the wall Department. Ruth Parteniuk checks out her tone and technique in the mirror during the circuit weight training class at the C lex Friday many:activities offered all winter at the Colon by the Castlegar and District Recreation CasNews photo by Ed Mill g- The co-ed class is part of Logjam for lead in curling By BUD LOWTHER Five rinks are tied for the lead at four wins and four losses in the third draw of the Castlegar Senior Men’s Curling League. But with one game in hand, Gerry Rust could break the tie with Mike Verzuh, Ernie Mills and Tom Wilson, and put him in the lead as the third draw comes to a close next week There have been some rumblings of discontent among the players in the league of late over the question of skip selection Frustrations have grown as com. petitive players are matched with less. skilled skips whi¢h reduces their chan: ces of winning. Players are asking: Does the league want to take itself seriously or is ita fun league with no place for serious com petitors? The league has some soul-searching to do in the coming months and Some action or discussion should begin before next season Last week, the senior curlers travelled to Nelson as part of an annual curling swap between the twoclubs. The local seniors compiled a 3-5 record against their rivals from the northeast Verzuh, Rene Archambault and John McGillivray were at the helms of the winning rinks from Castlegar The unfamiliar ice in the Nelson club caused problems for some Castlegar curlers. By the time they figured out its speed, the game wasall but over The Castlegar seniors return the favor in March as the Nelson Club will come here for a rematch. The ‘club welcomes new players to Trail hosts Interiors By CasNews Staff Fifty-one rinks from across B.C have converged on the Trail Curling Club for the weeklong B.C. Interior Curling C hampionshop which began today Familiar names like Kelowna’s Rick Folk, Pat Ryan, Barry McPhee of Kamloops and Paul Devlin of Trail are among the competitors vying for a chance to move closer to representing the province iM the Labatt’s Briar in March Of the 51, just 10 will emerge and will join the zone winners to compete in a 16-team playoff next weekend The 16 will be whittled down to three who will be joined by the top zone team for provincials in North Delta in mid- February and achance at aBriar berth Castlegar’s lone entry is the rink of third, Rod Morrison, second, ‘Alvin Caron, lead Doug Stamm and skip Kelly Johnson Johnson drew a tough one for his first game at 9 a.m. today as he faces 1986 provincials runner-up Sandy MacDonald of Prince George. Check Wednesday's Castlegar News for Johnson's progress and a full report on the curling the league, Wally Brunn, Leo Quaia and Bill Moore. 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Computer program has the answer for stats nuts © EDMONTON (CP) — Deep in the chips and bytes of Lawerance Elliott's computer, where statistics and num- bers reside, there’s a projection by his program: the Buffalo Sabres will win the Stanley Cup Elliott is president of Intellectools Corp. of Edmon- ton. A hockey fan, acomputer user and a statistics nut, the former journalist has devised a program that’s primarily.a game for people like him It allows users to try to beat the program at predicting the outcome of National Hockey League games And the program, which bases its predictions on past performance of each team — specifically, by the scores in volved in all games dating back to the start of last season — usually beats him But Elliot found another use for his program — it also project longer-term performance trends of individual teams. Up to Dec. 31, it projects Buffalo as the best team overall by the end of the season with 114 points. Edmonton (106), Los Angeles (103), Boston (94), New JeMy (92), Calgary (92) and Toronto (90) are right behind The rest of the 16 playoff teams: St. Louis (85), Washington (84), Chicago (83), Philadelphia (81), Win- nipeg (80), Montreal (78), Minnesota (77), New York Rangers (74) and Hartford (74) Out of luck, as far as the program is concerned, are Detroit (68), New-York Islarmders (62), Pittsburgh (53), Vancouver (52) and Quebec (38) In the playoffs, it projects, Edmonton will beat Toronto to win the Campbell Conference and Buffalo will oust New Jersey to take the Wales Conference, with the Sabres defeating the Oilers for the Stanley Cup. The studious-looking Elliott, 48, makes no apologies for projections that many fans might strongly disagree with. He says it’s all arithmetic and numbers don’t lie, although that doesn’t mean the projections will always be accurate. “The problem with streak figures and past-10 figures is that good teams usually have winning streaks and bad teams usually have losing streaks and that doesn’t tell you very much,"" he says. “The idea with these figures is it takes every game, looks at what the score should have been and what it ac tually was, and compares to give you an idea of how a team was performing in terms of expectations.”* The program says Toronto was the most improved team in the NHL this season to Dec. 31, followed by Buf falo, New Jersey and Edmonton At the other end of the scale were the underachievers, led by the Canadiens in 21st place. Just ahead of them were Calgary, Vancouver, Quebec and Washington. The other clubs are somewhere in between Elliott concedes none of his program's projections take into account injuries, changes in team personnel or other circumstances that cquid lift the team or knock it into the doldrums “Hockey stats are all for fun,"* all it’s intended for. Hockey fans can sit around in a bar arguing for hours and hours about whether their team will win the Stanley Cup this year “They do it on the basis of virtually no information,’ he adds. “I say you put more information into that and they can spend even longer at it. It’s altgrist for the mill.” Ed notes: The Program is compatible with IBM stan- dard or compatible personal computers and is available by contacting Elliott at Intellectools Corp., Box 1213, Ed- monton, TSJ 2M4. Tel (403) 488-9056. says Elliott. ‘‘ That's Financing - 48 mos. Full Term O.A.C. OR te oO DOWN PAYMENT AND N re) INTEREST FOR 90 DAYS O.A.C. THIS INCREDIBLE FINANCING OFFER EXPIRES FEBRUARY 3, 1990. SO DON'T DELAY! 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