>! AAARREA Aes RA Page 10A The Castlegar Sun ¢ Wednesday, July 6, 1994 West Kootenay Sun staff The Kootenay South Selects des have Be been rampagi through British Columbia and it's unlikely they are going to stop until they have vanquished all of hei ns The Kootenay Under-12 Selects are a soccer team made up of Trail and Castlegar kids and they are continuing to win on’ their way to the provincial championship. The streak con- tinued through the 1994 Safe- way Challenge Cup playoffs where the team destroyed their opposition en route to taking the Interior Championship from Prince George. The final score was 2-1. “We have good goaltending,” said Selects’ defenceman Ernest Lerose, tryin to explain his team's success. “We also have good for- wards that have good shots and speed; and [they] can score.” The win means the team will be travelling to Richmond on July 10 for a winner-takes-all Provincial final. They are attempting to acheive the same feat as the U-15 Selects who won the title last season. Renegades pill games against Nelson (4-1 and 5- 0), a thrashing of Penticton (8-0) and an easy game versus Kelow- na (5-0). This string of victories led them to the Final Four tourna- ment held in Prince George where they easily dispatched of Kittimat 5-0 while their fourth straight shutout and advancing to the final, As the results indicate, none of the matches were incredibly tough for the team. The game against Kitimat saw Renegade goals by Kris McKinnon of Trail, Brodie Rutherglen of The Renegades imp ive through the first part of the playoffs came courtesy of two Castlegar Com Early Birds start at 6:30 p.m. * Regular Bingo 7:00 p.m. * 60% payout Thursday, July 7th, 26th & August 18th TUN BIN¢O munity Complex Rossland, Darren Schimell of Castlegar, Joseph Naccarato of Rivervale and Jeff Parker of Rossland. The f Selects game MVP was Shaun Dickie of Castlegar. The final game against Prince George was a much more challenging affair for the Selects. ff Brodie Rutherglen opened the scoring for the Selects but | Prince George quickly came back to tie the score 1-1 at halftime. The Selects jf seemed to suffer a bad break in the sec- Hopkins, was helped off the field after a pileup in the six yard box. Colin Stein quickly stepped into action in the met and watched his team play with a new vigor. Kris McK- innon eventually came up with the game winner in the last ten min- utes of play, giving the Selects the goal they needed to advance to Back row, from the left; Assistant non, Jeff Parker, Jonas Peddigrew, Jarrod Prevost, Chris Kalesnikoff, Da coach Don McKinnon. Front row; John Thomas, Ashley Phillips, Brandon Pasqualotto, Matt Hopkins, Shaun Dickie, Joseph Nac- carato, Darcy Brisco and Brodie Rutherglen. age Prince Ge ich d and remain feated. The team is now gearing up for the big event on Sunday, July 10 when they play Napoli of the Italian Canadian Soccer Corn orge ae “SES coach Rob Prevost, Kris Mckin- Collin Stein, Darren Shimell, n Porier, Ernest LeRose, Federation on Hugh Boyd Field No. 2 at noon. Spirits are high and the will is strong so it looks like the Renegades are ready to pillage again. Salmo Slo-pitch a great success JEFF GABERT Sun staff There is only one true recipe for long weekend sporting suc- cess. You take one small com- munity called Salmo ‘on the July long weekend, add two cups of slo-pitch in the form of the Salmo Slo-pitch Tournament, and a heaping tablespoon of old wrecks crashing into each other at outrageous speeds. Mix hearti- ly until you get a lot of smiles, and then serve to as many people as possible. The ahnual Salmo Slo-pitch tourney last weekend was anoth- er huge success thanks to the 24 iastic teams that competed and the great prizes on hand for the winners. Eight to 10 Castle- gar teams took part in the three- day tournament that ran from Friday to Sunday. Salmo resident Rick Bueckert organized the tournament and he was extremely pleased with the tumout, but not surprised. “We have lots of good prizes,” said Bueckert. “ They (the teams) like to come away with something. As an example, we gave away $300 in tickets to Trapper John’s and that was a popular item.” || COKE DIET & REGULAR 2 Litre plus deposit OLD FASHIONED HAM Deli Department * By Fleetwood “We had a couple of rain delays but other than that, every- one seemed to be happy with it.” It isn’t easy to put on a suc- cessful slo-pitch tournament, but Bueckert has been doing it for awhile and he knows the keys to success. Instore Bakery ¢ 8" “It takes a lot of work and attention to detail,” said Bueck- ert. {Field allocation is important and patience is a virtue. We worked Thursday night on the draws for over four hours.” Besides hard work, you also need great support from spon- sors, like Castlegar businesses ds Source for Sports and FRESH PAPAYA 2 =] $ 4°9 | ea. Cat's Trophies. The tournament gave away approximately $800 in prizes in everything from hats and shirts to meal tickets to fine restaurants. The weekend finshed with a huge demolishion derby that drew fans and cars from all over arr the Kootenays. It’s always a big attraction for the Salmo July weekend festivities and they managed to make it a success once again this year. In fact, the entire schedule of events was as successful as any of past years. Ki EVERY SATURDAY 365-6739 Wednesday, July 6, 1994 The Castlegar Sun Page 11A It almost seems that you can't get up in the morn- ing without a good dose of O.J. to start your day. Never in the history of sport hasan athlete who reached the pinnacle of fame in his sport reached such an enormous low away from it. It brings cre- dence to the phrase “Only in America.” Now, don't get me wrong - there have beén a lot of athletes who have become famous as much for their athletic prowess as their scandalous inde- scrésions and they haven't all been Ameri- cans. Recently, Diego Maradonna of the Argentinian National team was punished yet again for using banned substances. This type of publicity is nothing new for Maradonna who has always lived the “high life” and it's many an athlete has fallen into. Just ask Darryl Strawberry, John Kordic and Mark Duper. Vince Coleman has been known to hit the serious side of the six o'clock evening news and so has Jose Canseco. Ben Johnson has been there once or twice himself. But then there was O.J.. Simpson set a new standard for NFL running backs as he raced to fame with the Buffalo Bills. ‘Then he set a new television standard as an athlete turned commentator who genuinely won the atten- tion of sports fans ¢' . And now he has set an entirely different precedent, one that has hocked the very ions of A ican life. Violent death is nothing exraordinary im the United States. In fact, it has become commonplace in the land of the free and the home of the Rem- ington semi-automatic. What makes this story spe- cial is the icon involved. Little did O.J. know, he had become bigger than human, he became a sym- bol. A symbol of the great American athlete on the cover of the “Wheaties” box who had a fairy tale career and lived the perfect life: OJ. Simpson isn’t on trial, rather it is that symbol and everything it represents. When the whole Michael Jackson fiasco was going on, people were interested Mutterings’ & Musings #® ofa Sports | Flend Just a littie glass of juice JEFF GABERT But people know O.J.. He's the guy who danced across the T.V. screen for years, carrying his team like a tough work hotse to win after win. Heidi Fleiss are just some of the accusations swirling around what once was the great American symbol of heroism, toughness and brav- y ery. But when you look at O.J. -~ Simpson, you don’t see him anymore, you only see the tar- ‘e nished symbol of what the American public made of him. Right now, people are ask- ing questions. What's in the sealed envelope? Is O.J. being framed? Is the media treating him fairly? Is O.J. guilty? Everyone in America is innocent until proven guilty, but you still have to figure O.J. is guilty. He's as guilty as Nixon, Jackson, and Tyson. He's guilty of being good at football, he’s guilty of making it to the bigtime, he’s guilty of being rich and he is also guilty of making some big’mistakes in his personal life. In America, they forgive you on the first three of these counts, but they could sentence you to death on HOMETOWN PR@UD 100% B.C. 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FRO MEAT DEPARTMENT PRODUCE DEPARTMENT Hail to the Little League champs JEFF GABERT Sun staff The Castlegar Little League season is officially over for. another year after a tough playoff heduie saw champi ¢rowned in both the minor and major divisions. The winners of the minor divi- sion of Little League were the Lions who made it through the double-knockout format unde- feated. The Lions, coached by Mike Davidoff, only had a .500 winning percentage during the season but tumed their game up a notch when they reached the playoffs. The Lions played their arch- nemesis in the final game, NRS Realty. They had met NRS the last two years in the final and had suffered crushing defeats both times. The Lions had been wait- ing a long time to roar. ‘They got out of the gate early, scoring five runs in the first inning with NRS only able to answer with a on, it was all Lions as they clawed out another five runs in the third inning and the game ended 11-5. the team is known as being one of the best hitting teams in the league, they did come up with some good defence thanks to a double play in the third inning tumed beauti- fully by Max Voykin. The defen- sive gem by Voykin came with the bases loaded and kept NRS from getting back in the game. “It was a fantastic season,” said Davidoff. “They were a great bunch of kids. They were very attentive and they showed great respect for coaches and officials. We also had a great group of parents.” Both the team and Davidoff were extremely happy for this victory which seemed a long time “There was a lot of emotion,” continued Davidoff. “Three or four kids had tears in their eyes. We were glad to come back against this team and get the monkey off our back.” The pitchers for the Lions in the final game were nine-year-old Logan in with two innings and 10-year-olds Billy Trubet- skoff with one inning and Jake Davidoff with two innings. Tru- betskoff and Davidoff are two of the eight players from the Lions who will be moving on to the major division next year. ‘The minor division is made up of players from eight to ten years old. The major division has kids The Castlegar Lions are the 1994 Minor Little League champions. It took a lot of sweat and hard work but it was well worth the effort. 11 and 12 years of age. The champions of the major division were Safeway who had a much tougher road to the final than the Lions. Safeway finished the season with a record of 11 wins and only one loss, and they entered the playoffs with high Their first game was against Mallards who they beat 13-12 in a tough seven-inning affair. The second game saw them lose 6-0 to a very tough Legion team and it looked like their season was over. However, Safeway bounced back in the double knockout sys- tem by quickly dispatching Local 480 by a score of 14-4 and ham- mering Big O Tire 11-0. This brought them to the final where they were destined to face the Legion team who had casily beat- en them in the second round of the playoffs. It was time to try ing different. “We did a little ‘more running on them to create a few more Photo submitted row Safeway has taken the cham- pionship and Byers credits his players as well as the enormous support he received from his assistant coaches, Harry Lebedoff and Terry Phillips, admirably filled in for him on numerous occasions. Two of the star players for Safeway were 12-year-old pitch- ers Ryan Byers and Darren Fontes. Both Byers and Fontes contributed in the final game with excellent pitching in diffi- cult situations. 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