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Flexible, easy installments. Ask about our Autoplan Kootenay Savings q D &, Insurance Services Losing streak - concerns coach By CasNews Staff In the wake of Saturday's 9-1 loss to the Kimberley” Knights, Castlegar Rebel head coach Darry! Weir is looking for some way to turn around his team's five-game losing skid. The Rebels are now winless in their first five KIJHL regular-season starts and Weir is justifiably concerned. “We have got some problems we need to address,” he told the Castlegar News. “The needs are really quite realistic.” While the first three games for the Rebels were closely contested, the last two have been lopsided victories for the opposition and Weir is looking. for the right ingredients to get his charges on the winning side of the scoresheet. He said a quality starting goaltender would benefit the Rebels at this point, along with a big skating defenceman to anchor the blueline corps. “We're looking for a number one goalie and a big mobile defenceman,” Weir said. “We need- exper ience He pointed out other teams in the league, including Nelson and Trail, which have recruited players from elsewhere in the province. The Rebels have acquired a couple of players from other areas in the province forwards Jarret Watts and Glenn Ormsby of Kelowna — but they need more, he said With the exception of Jason Hughes, Wayne Salikin, Rick Crowe and Lorne Kanigan, the rest of the Castlegar skaters are youngsters gleaned from the “You can't exist in a league where other teams are bringing players in,” he said. “We have a young team.” Saturday's 9-1 defeat was partially due to the fact that the Rebels were without the services of Kanigan and Watts who were both out serving three-game suspensions. As well, Brian Findlay, Rod Fayant and Brian Wilson all sustained injuries in the Kimberley game, leaving the Rebels with two forward lines and three defencemen. Two of the defencemen were forwards who filled in for the duration of the matchup. Weir said the team has to turn things around quickly to develop a much needed winning cttitude He's not. pressing the panic button just yet but he’s adamant that the Rebels. must start winning immediately “In a 46-game season schedule, you can't always say there'll be a next time,” he said-W don't want them to stop working.” Despite the early losing skid, Weir said the players have to stay confident to turn the tide. The team game is just as important as realizing individual skills, he said “In order to be a success in this league, you have to work as a five-man team,” he said. “You can't get down you've got to believe in yourself and the system.” The Rebels are in Rossland to play the Warriors on Friday before returning home to take on the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks Saturday night at the local minor system Community Complex Athletics prepare OAKLAND, CALIF. (AP) Storm Davis waved a bat menacingly and yelled “Everybody out of the way out there!” to his teammates deep in the outfield as he stepped into the Oakland Coliseum batting cage Then he hit a ground ball If the Athletics pitchers are taking batting practice, it must be World Series time. At Oakland's first pre Series work. out Tuesday, A's manager Tony La Russa announced Davis, Dave Ste wart and Bob Welch will start the first three games. Coincidentally, all three are ex National Leaguers with hitting ex perience that could come in handy in Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 when designated hitters will not be used in the National League park They won't be able to do enough (batting practice) in the next couple of weeks to the disad vantage we La Russa said. “But our starters are all good ath letes, so I think they'll be all right.” La Russa is more focused on a couple of decisions he will have to make this week Regular second baseman Glenn Hubbard, who was left off the playoff Dewalt WINNIPEG (CP) Quarterback Roy Dewalt's frustrating stay with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ended Tuesday as he was dealt to the Ottawa Rough Riders for future considerations. Dewalt, 32, had arrived in June as a free agent after eight seasons with the B.C. Lions. He had expectations of replacing Tom Clements, who had retired fol: lowing 12 CFL seasons. He found himself on the reserve list. watching third-year pro Tom Muecke and newcomer Sean Salis bury direct the offence. “I know it didn't work I don't know why,” the soft-spoken Dewalt said Tuesday “I wanted to do well from Day 1. I was quite frustrated to say the least I guess my time ran out here.” Bombers general manager Cal Murphy said the Rough Riders, in the cellar of the East Division with one win in 14 starts, called Tuesday morning to inquire about Dewalt TIME TOGO We had decided basically that we were going to go ‘with our younger people,” Murphy said. “It’s in Roy's best interests that he get a fresh start elsewhere.” In eight years with the Lions, Dewalt set club records by complet ing 1,705 passes for 22,863 yards and 129 touchdowns. He was the offen sive siar in B.C.'s 1985 Grey Cup win roster due to a hamstring pull, will be back for the Series if his leg is healthy by Friday's World Series roster deadline. Otherwise, Mike Gallego and Tony Phillips will again share the second base duties. La Russa also hasn't made up his mind whether to play Dave Parker or Luis Polonia in left field against right-handed starters in the first two games: Because there is no DH in those games, whoever doesn’t start will have to sit on the bench. AFFECT PLANS “If it's Luis we don't have our leadoff guy, and if it’s Dave we don't have our No. 4 hitter,” La Russa said. “So it will affect our plans either way.” He said he won't commit to a fourth-game starter until he sees how the first three games go. He said left-hander Curt Young, who spent the playoffs in the bullpen, could get a start Stewart, who started twice in| the playoffs and won Sunday’s finale, 4-1, hit some line drives and long fly balls during his turn in the batting cage, but said he’s not looking forward to hitting in the World Series. “['m looking forward to pitching, because that’s what I do best, said. In 1983, his last séason in the National League, Stewart, had one hit in seven at-bats for the Los Angeles Dodgers before being traded to the Texas Rangers. But like most pitchers, he clearly remembers the few hits he has had. “In 1981, I hit a three-run triple against Cincinnati,” he said His lifetime average is .196. Davis is a worse hitter, going only 1-for-16, .063, last year for the San Diego Padres in his only NL season. Welch, a career .151 hitter with the Dodgers, doesn’t figure to get an at-bat early in the series because he’s scheduled to start Game 3 at Oakland Relievers Dennis Eckersley and Rick Honeycutt are recent AL ar rivals. Eckersley, a career .133 hitter, last batted in 1986 with the Chicago Cubs and boosted his average to .159 with two home runs and 10 rung batted in Honeycutt is not much better than his bullpen mate at 134 lifetime, but last year he hit .233 for the Dodgers in 30 at bats. traded to Ottawa over the Hamilton Tiger Cats. The 6-foot 2, 210-pounder’ had joined the Lions in 1980 after being drafted out of Texas-Arlington Uni versity by the NFL's Cleveland Browns as a running back Only Clements, the CFL's out standing player last season, threw for more yards than Dewalt in 1987 But in 11 games this year, Dewalt completed 58 of 130 passes for 719 yards, two touchdowns and six in terceptions He struggled early with tendinitis in the bicep of his right arm, and many of his passes ended up in the turf in front of his receivers. Muecke took over the starting job and Dewalt was placed on the re. serve list before the Sept. 17 game agsinst the Calgary Stampeders Tyson injured NEW YORK (AP) — Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was reported to have refractured his right hand, possibly putting a crimp in his Dec. 17 title defence against Frank Bruno. Bill Cayton, Tyson's manager, confirmed Tuesday he had been called by promoter Don King from Cleveland with news that may affect the champion’s fight schedule. The latest revelations were cont ained in a story in today’s edition of the New York Daily News. Reports said Tyson was hitting the heavy bag in a gym on King’s farm in Orwell, Ohio, when the injury oc curred. Tyson originally had been scheduled to start training Monday in Catskill, N. yton said he could not confirm whether the apparent hairline fre ture on the third metacarpal of the right hand, which Tyson injured in a street fight with Mitch Green in August in New York, was new or old The initial injury forced postpone ment of the fight with Bruno until October. Further problems moved the fight back two more times, to December. The News reported Cayton as saying he spoke to the doctor who treated Tyson in Cleveland and was told the injury was “minor.” Cayton said it is still possible Tyson will keep his date with Bruno. “There are nine weeks to the fight and a hairline fracture usually takes only three weeks to heal,” said. FACE OFF Kalesnikoff Lumber faced-off against Bill's Heavy Duty in Castlegar Gentle- man's hockey league action last night at Pioneer arena. The two teams battled to a 4-4 draw SERIES TIED Mets bea LOS ANGELES (AP) story and manager Davey Johnson rewrote his lineup card. As a result, the end is yet to be written to this year’s National League playoffs. Cone, awful in Game 2 after writing a controversial newspaper column, was brilliant in Game 6 Tuesday night, pitching the New York Mets to a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers and tie the best-of seven series at three games each. So it's on to Game 7 tonight, with probable NL Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser pitching for the Dodgers against Ron Darling of the Mets. A berth in the World Series opposite the Oakland Athletics goes to the winner. Cone, 20-3 with a 2.22 earned run average during the season, overcame a shaky start to stifle the Dodgers on five singles, with two outs and nobody op in the ninth inning. Cone then retired pinch hitter Mike Davis on a fly to left to end the game. Kevin McReynolds, 3-for-20 in the first five games, sparked the Mets, becoming the eighth player in the history of the league playoffs to get four hits in a game. McReynolds, batting in front of a hot hitter, Gregg Jefferies, instead of a cold one, Howard Johnson, drove in three runs, two on a fifth-inning homer off losing pitcher Tim Leary which gave New York a 4-0 lead In the celebrated column which appeared last Tuesday, Cone said Hershiser was “lucky” to shut out the Mets for eight innings in the opener a night earlier and that ace Dodgers teliever Jay Howell “reminded us of a high school pitcher” because of all the curveballs he threw David Cone rewrote his When asked how he would write Tuesday night's performance, Cone said: “I don’t think I should probably answer that. I've tried to put it all behind me, but it just won't go away “I wanted to do so well tonight, but I was a little jittery at the start,” he continued. “Fortunately, I made some big pitches to get out of it and that is the way I would write it.” Cone appeared jittery. After the Mets opened scoring for the first time in the series, with a run in the t Dodgers top of the first, Cone'’s first seven pitches in the bottom half to Steve Sax and Mickey Hatcher were balls. Cone walked Hatcher on five pitches, putting runners at first and second with nobody out With the Dodger Stadium 55,885 screaming, up stepped Kirk Gibson, whose home runs in the fourth and fifth games helped the Dodgers to a pair of wins which gave them a 3-2 lead in the series. Gibson, playing despite a hamstring injury he suffered a day earlier, took a strike before popping up to Cone on a bunt. Mike Marshall then flied to left and Cone struck out John Shelby to end the threat. “Kirk Gibson bunting probably turned the game around,” Cone said. “I really wasn't thinking situation baseball at the time. I was just trying to throw strikes.” That's what he did the rest of the way, walking only one more batter and finishing with six strikeouts. BID FAILS Gibson's attempt to move the runners didn't work. and the Dodgers got a runner past first base only twice after that, both with two outs. The changes manager Johnson made in his lineup got results immediately After Len Dykstra reached base on an error to start the game, Wally Backman elevated from the eighth spot to second in the order — delivered a hit-and-run single, sending Dykstra to third. He then scored on a sacrifice fly by MeReynolds. In the top of the third, Darryl Strawberry and McReynolds singled, and Strawberry later scored on a two-out double by Kevin Elster, who replaced Howard Johnson at short and batted eighth McReynolds, who hit his homer following a leadoff walk to Strawberry in the fifth, said he saw better pitches batting ahead of Jeffries than he did with Howard Johnson, who was 1-for-17 in the playoffs. The Dodgers got their run in the bottom of the fifth with two out. Dodger reliever Brian Holton singled, Sax walked on four pitches and Hatcher singled home Holton. * The Mets stranded 13 runners, seven in the first three innings, but in the end, it didn’t matter crowd of Johnson charged with gun TORONTO (CP) — Sprinter Ben Johnson was charged with assault and possession of a dangerous wea pon Tuesday, five days after a motorist said a man in a sports car pointed a gun at him as he drove by Johnson, who was stripped of his Olympic gold medal after testing positive for banned steroids in Seoul last month, is to appear in provincial court Oct. 25 on the charges, said police Sgt. Pat Tallon He was released on his own recog nizance about an hour after he went to a suburban police station about 10 minutes drive from his home for questioning. Johnson said nothing as he dashed from his car into the back door of the station, or as he left, accompanied by criminal lawyer, Marty Kerbel Kerbel was hired to represent Johnson by Edward Futerman, a civil lawyer who is also representing Johnson as he fights the charges of steroid use The new charges came after a motorist told police the driver of a black Porsche pulled up beside him at a busy intersection last Thursday afternoon and pointed a small hand gun at him TOOK NUMBER Police said the motorist, whose name was not released, took down the licence number of the high performance car. They later found a starter’s pistol in Johnson's car Johnson, 26, has said he was driving his car at the time, but denied pointing a gun at another driver. The maximum penalty for the assault charge i8 five years in prison and the maximum sentence for the weapons charge is 10 years in prison The charges come after weekend allegations by sprinter Angella Is sajenko that she and Johnson had knowingly taken steroids for yeadrs, and that those close to them were aware of it Futerman rejected the allegatio: in an interview with the Toront« Globe and Mail Ben , -nies Angela's allegation Futerma sai: