Sports Dept. John Van Putten 365-5579 The Castl ORTS Sidelines Aquanauts set to start ‘The Castlegar Aquanauts Swim Club are pleased to welcome back ‘Wendy Pilla as head coach for the 1994 season. Wendy has years of 1 as her coaching level 3 and a Free swim lessons . those swimmers who are in the blue, green, grey or white levels, this is your chance to cash in on a free lesson at the Castlegar Recre- ation x. Only four dates apply to this offer May 2,4, 7, and 8. Call 365-3386 for information. Horseshoe club ready to throw In their recent spring meeting the Castlegar Horseshoe Club elected its new officers. The New Officers elected are: Jim Feeney, President; Stan Langille, Vice-Presi ; and Michelle Feeney, y/Trea- strer. With Castlegar-Trail hosting the 1996 Summer G: s the Club is i i d Castlegar anyone in throw- ing a few shoes to contact a member of the executive. One of the goals of the club is to ensure this area is well represented at the games, and the way to ensure that is to start practicing in preparation for the major event. For information call 365-7854 or 693-2288. increase your strength and efficiency in the pool. Registration is cur- rently taking place at.the Complex. Each course costs $22. Perfect your Kayaking skills indoors Stroke for stroke this is a hard offer to beat. Kayaking in the safety of the pool gives paddlers a chance to perfect their stroke and master their rolling techniques before heading out on to the area rivers. The drop in class takes place Friday May 6 from 9:30 p.m-10 30 p.m. and the cost is $9 including boat rental. Swim camp ‘There will be a Kootenay Region mini swim camp in Castlegar on May 20, 21, and 22. The cost of the camp is $35, for more informa- tion call 365-643 1, evenings. i Phone 365-5579 overcome a one goal deficit. They were behind 1-0 at In their West Kootenay Soc- cer League season opener last Sunday, at the Warfield soccer field against Trail, the Castle- gar Dexters Dynamo found themselves fighting back to half-ti and fully bat- tled back to take the game 2-1. With this come-from-behind victory, the Castlegar club earned its first win of a new action-filled season. Entering this new season, the Dynamo kickoff comeback WKSL is comprised of six teams, down from seven last year. Missing from the sched- ule is Fruitvale’s squad which had been struggling with a numbers problem throughout last season. “Fruitvale packed it in, there were not enough committed players. A few oftheir play- ers are with Rossland and & few of the younger ones are playing with Trail,” said League President Peter Korn. “You can only beat your head against the wall for so long.” The reduction of teams in the league, down to six, means an end to the days where one team, each weekend, had no game scheduled or were double booked on any given weekend. These changes also bring an end to a team earning a bye in the play-offs. Other changes coming to the WKSL field this season include a tougher policy to combat players who are repeti- tively handed disciplinary red cards throughout the year. “If a player gets two red cards, then it will be taken in front of the disciple committee and we will be looking at it from there. If they are violent infracti then the suspensi will be bigger.” The WKSL season continues until June 26 when the league breaks for the summer. Play for the final half of the season is set to resume on August 21 and the regular season comes to a close on October 2. The league takes a break for the Thanks- giving weekend, only to host the play-offs on October 16 and 23 with the league champs to be decided following those two weekends of play. In other WKSL action this past weekend Nakusp, and the Nelson Heritage Innkeepers, who are last season's defending champions, played to a score- with your sport brief studded showcase of basketball skills. The fast paced end-to-end action, held at Stanicy Humphries Secondary School in Castlegar, was everything it JOHN VAN PUTTEN _ pk.) Inthe annual tops-of-the- East and finest-of-the-West high school West K All- star basketball game, the best play from each bined their efforts to provide a star was players from the players resulted in the creation of two evenly-matched teams. Once divided into the Gold and Blue teams, the game was set to go. The Gold squad took off tak- dto ing a 19-14 first-quarter lead. At the half-time break they had extended their advantage to nine points, 39-30. A Trail player out maneuvers a Castlegar Dynamo forward during Sunday's WKSL game, which was played in Warfield. East,.West battle for supremacy With player performance on the court also showing well on the scoresheet the Gold team's lead grew to 63-45 before the start of the fourth and final quar- ter. As in many sports, when players have their backs against the wall, they perform to excep- tional levels. Being down by 18 points motivated the Blue team members to close the gap to a 78-71 final score. Instrumental in the Gold team's win, according to Coach Jack Closkey, was Rosie Albert, who was the game's leading scor- er and Gold team Player of the Game, from Salmo Secondary with 15 points. For the Blue team, another grade 12 Salmo player, Laurel Wright a 5° 10” forward, was the high scorer with 14 points. The Blue team player of the game, ‘maine the S: 5 almo of the event, was 5° 10” Guard, Megan Field. Four SHSS players took part in the event, which marked the end of the high school basketball season: Melanie Strelive; Jen- nifer Fayant; and Lisa Datchkoff, all guards; and Treena Goolieff a forward for the Rockettes during the season, rounded out the local members of the All-star squad. “Lisa scored seven points and d really hard the game,” Closkey said. Game two of the night featured 29 of the top senior boys from the season. From the onset to the final buzzer, this was a fast-paced high scoring match-up. In the opening quarter, the East Kootenay boys took a 34-30 lead, then extended it to 59-53 at the half-time break Closing to within one point after three quarters of the game had. been played, the West used their momentum to edge the East- em opponents 115-113 when all was said and done. Andrew Fish- er scored 23 points during the game, 16 of them coming in the fourth quarter. Fisher, a L.V. Rogers player, was a major factor in the West's win. Corey Anderson, standing 6°3”, was named East Kootenay Player of the Game. He added 16 points to the team’s total. For the West's team the player earn- ing those honors was Nelson's Brad Berikoff. en less tie. Rossland was on the losing end of a 1-0 match-up SUN SPORTS PHOTO / John Van Putten against Nelson Savoy. Local golf team shows advantages JOHN VAN PUTTEN Armed with their woods, irons, wedges, and putters, the Stanley Humphries Secondary School Golf team has been con- sistent throughout the season. Last week the team took to the links in Nakusp and finished second behind the host team. The finish was enough to keep them in first place in the team standings after three regular sea- son contests. Nakusp and L.V. Rogers, from Nelson, are cur- rently in second and third place respectively. Leading the SHSS’s team was Chris Gray who shot 75 on the Nakusp course. Devon Cheveldaeff was close behind at 77. Kyle Niessen, 80 and Pat Biln, 82, rounded out the team’s top four. The combination of scores of four from the team’s five players are added together to come up with a team total. The team with the lowest total wins. In this case Nakusp beat the SHSS team, using the home course advantage, by six strokes. “We were really happy with the result,” Coach Bill Lunn said. “It was a good team effort considering we didn’t have some of our big guns there.” Team member Devon Cheveldaeff said the team is still trying out different combinations of players to decide who will keep their name on the scorecard as members of the school’s final golf team roster. It’s the consistent play of each player that is making the deci- sion tough on coaches. By finishing ahead of Nakusp in their next league match, the team will be ensured of maintaining their first place position. With that overall first place finish comes home course advantage. “If we win in Nelson, we clinch home course (for the zone play-offs),” Cheveldaeff said. After the match in Nelson, the team has scheduled an exhi- bition match in Colville, Washington, to see the true strength of players. Coach Lunn is hoping the team can lock-up first place in Nelson, which will give the players vying for the final team positions an opportunity to show their stuff in their final league match, the following week in Salmo. Wednesday, April 27, 1994 The Castlegar Sun Thundering aro quite a of is the din racing year in Northp i and gh some The checkered flags were fly- ing high south of the border last weekend, in this the first race of Castlegar drivers didn’t have as good a day as they would have liked, others came home with Dan Scott was having the day dreams are made of—until he blew his transmission late im the day. With two wins and a second Dan Scott, in only his second s Thunder Valley Race track returne: day races with a collection of race trophies. Pro Wrestling fundraiser at SHSS Sun Sports The obelis at Stanley Humphries will be ringing on Wednesday, May 4, but they will not be for the start of classes. Those ringing bells will sig- nify the start of SHSS's fundraiser, at 7:30 p.m., which will bring West Coast Champi- onship Wrestling to Castlegar. All the action any wrestling fan could want. In the main event, a battle royale, the win- ner will collect $1,000. In matches such as this there are no friends, only enemies and even anew feud. Other; week event will se¢ One’ of the hottest feuds in WCCW Pro Wrestling history, Lumberjack Johnny Canuck and Gorgeous Michelle Starr tangle in the ring. These two wrestlers have been at each other's throats with the sole purpose of climi- nating the other. Former tag team partners, their violent split has made for the toughest match you will ever see. There is a lot of bad blood here and some might possibly be shed as the two grapple and face each other head on. Diamond Timothy Flow- ers, one of the toughest wrestlers on the west coast and former Unified Champi- on, will face a young grap- pler named Stunning Steve. fies athe mif-~ “Steve is tt for # cadgh Hight with Flowers, still angry over the loss of the title and looking for someone to take it out on. Flowers has been eason of racing at Northport, Washington's d home to Castlegar after Sunday's opening SUBMITTED SUN SPORTS PHOTO looking for an opponent on which he can perfect his new version of the Diamond Driver, while the muscular Steve would love to get a win over the tough veteran of the squared circle. Also appearing will be a tough Native Indian wrestler, Cheechuck Chippewa of Newash, from Northern Ontario, who will square off against the Olympian. The Olympian has not been too popular as he thinks he is the greatest, all will be settled in the ring. Advance tickets are avail- able at-SHSS-for $7: At the door the night of the event tickets will be $9 for adults and $9 for seniors and children 12 and under. und in Northport p finish to that point, Scott already won the Lawrence Heberling Memorial Trophy. This Sunday marked the start of Scott's second season of racing at Northport's Thunder Valley: “Last year he did really good, Dan is cleaning house right now,” said Bill Whitehead, a local race supporter and driver. Randy Steep returned home with a second place performance in the main event, Modified class, Hank Raveftein took second place in the Trophy Dash, and third in the Main Event. Gordi Zaitsoff took first in a heat race for the Modified class. Not having as much luck were Martin Whitehead and Niki Hyson, who were among the Castlegar drivers who ran into mechanical trouble. In total, 22 drivers and their teams took to the course, (19 Super Stock cars and 13 Modi- fied). 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