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It will give them a good indication of how they can expect to do at the provin cial championships in Squamish, which run from March 22 -25. “This is the farthest this team has ever gotten,” said the reps third-year coach John Horcoff. “But | haven't got a clue how we'll do at this tour- nament.” The reps earned the right to compete for the B.C. title by sweeping Beaver Valley in a two-game series in late Febru- Castlegar won by scores of 8-1 and 8-5 in the West Koote- nay qualifier. The team had gone through their regular season with 11 wins, five loss- es, and one tie. The 15 players on the Pee- Wee team range in age from 12-13-years old. Ladies curling On March 6, the Ladies | Curling Club will start a week | end of fun and good curling when their annual Barbee | bonspiel kicks off with the first draw at 4 p.m. Curling will | continue during the weekend with the finals scheduled to go ‘on at 6 p.m. on Sunday evening, after which the tro- phies and prizes will be awards. The rink will be a beehive of activity as one again a full slate of 32 rinks are entered. Dinner and entertainment will be provided on Saturday fol lowed by a dance at 9 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday morn: ings, coffee and refreshments will be available for those lucky ones who get the early draws. > Besides rinks from the home | Club, teams have entered from Kelowna, Summerland, Ainsworth, Fruitvale, Ross- land, Nelson and Trail. There will be lots of good curling dur. ing the weekend, and fans are welcome to come out and | watch some of the games. Only a week and a halt remains in regular club play. On the local front the season is winding down after which | the play-offs will start with the | top rinks from each division | vying for the club ch. On Tuesday evenings, with | 2 draws remaining, the Dionne | McArthur rink has nailed down | the top spot with 25 points. | The Moore rink is in second place with 21 points followed by Command's foursome with | 19 points, then Bridge's rink with 18 points and John’s rink | which has 17 pints. These four | rinks will fight for the two other | play-off spots in this division. On Wednesday afternoon the race will be decided this week. Mary Perehudoff s in front with 20 points, followed by Nazaroff with 18 points and | Gray with 17 points. The two | play-off spots available in this | division could be decided with | the last rock thrown in regular play. . On Thursday evening the =| fight for the thee top spots and | a chance to participate in the | club championship is extreme- ly close. The Perehudoff rink is | in the lead with 23 points, | closely followed by Prokop with 22 points, while McArthur | and van Yzerloo are tied with | 21 points, Trickey, in last place still has a chance to make the | play-offs with 19 points. The championships will start on March 12 with all qualifying ninks playing The wind-up banquet and | presentation of trophies will |take place on March 26. Watch the notice board or check with your skip or members of the executive for the time and location. On that day a new executive will be elected, so if you are interested please con: tact Mary Perehudoff Young atheletes shine at B. C. Winter Games T WAS A HEAVY MEDAL PERFORMANCE for Castlegar athletes at the 1992 B.C. Winter I games. ht of 35 athletes who went to the Vernon compe! n brought back 1 and three silver. medals including two gold The brightest among them was 15-year old Melanie Gibson. ver—in the girls biathlon: xibson won two medals—one gold and one sil- Melanie Gibson earned It's an event which combines the endurance of cross-country ski- ing with rifle marksmanship. In Gibson’s first event, the individual girls, she missed gold the first time out by the narrowest of margins. It was a 7 km race with three stops for shooting five rounds at targets. Gibson was nearly perfect but the one shot she missed added one-minute in penalty time to her score. That bumped her time to 38:19—32 seconds behind the eventual winner. In her next competition, the 5 km sprint, Gibson would have made even Davey Crockett proud. shooting was like awe- .”’ she said. And it was. Gib- son went a perfect 10 for 10 on the targets while racing around the course.’ “My skiing was strong in the sprint too.” Her time of 24:01 was well ahead of the silver medalist who took nearly 26 minutes to com- plete the race. Gibson said she wants to keep training and competing, with her ultimate goal being to make it all the way to the Olympics QO00 A reverse punch to the solar plexus was what gave Castlegar its second gold of the games. Jeff Nielsen surprised everyone two medals at the games including himself by winning three straight fights in the boys aged 15-16 Karate competition. ‘I didn’t have the same experi- ence as the other fighters because I didn’t have to fight anybody to get to the games,” Nielsen said, explain- ing that he made the zone-one team by acclimation. “I was really shocked when I won,” he said. The 16-year old Nielsen was competing in a semi-contact style of Karate which relied on the three-point system. Fighters score one point every time they demon- strate an ability to strike within their opponents defense. The first to reach three wins. “My instructor helped me pick a strategy,” he said. “Just to stay calm and hold my ground.” In the first two fights Nielsen won without having a blow struck against him. The title fight was a little tougher. “I was up by two points and I guess it got to my head,” Nielsen recalled. “I slowed down and he got to me.” The other fighter tied the match at two-hits each before the Castlegar fighter pulled out his main artillery. Nielsen struck gold when he landed a reverse punch to the solar plexus—a move he says got him 75 per cent of scores at the games. Another Castlegar martial artist brought home a medal. Martin Noel finished third in the 17-18 year old division. QO On the ice, two Castlegar hock- ey players picked up bronze medallions for their efforts with another city's midget rep team. Jacey Moore and Jeff Evdoki- moff were picked up by Nelson after Castlegar was unable to sup- port a team. “We were hoping for first place but everyone was really happy about how we did,” said Moore, the club's 16-year old starting goaltender. The team had its gold medal hopes dashed early, losing 5-4 in the first game against Chetwynd. “We had a two-goal lead,” said Evdokimoff, 17. “Then we got down and they scored four quick goals and that was it.” The Nelson midgets came back to win their final two, 4-0 over Kitimat and 6-5 against Enderby, earning them a bronze. Q00 For weightlifter Jeff Lewkowich a silver medal was an improve- ment from a bronze at the games last year. For fellow lifter Ken Parkes a silver medal was one heck of a surprise. Parkes, 14, only began train- ing in November and according to his father, a medal wasn’t real- ly expected. “It was a real shock,” said the senior Parkes. “He's only been doing it for a couple of months.” The 14-year old competed in the 52 kg class where he lifted 52.5 kilos in the clean-and-jerk and 40 kilos in the snatch The 15 year-old Lewkowich has been lifting with his high- school club for two-years. This year he won the silver in the 100 kg class, snatching 70 kilos and chean-and-jerking 92.5 kilos. “I wasn't too sure I was going to win a medal,” he said about his per formance. “I was a litle nervous.” ; Lewkowich and Parkes yain , three to four days a week-for about two hours at a time. Both plan to make the B.C team but Lewkowich thinks he needs to raise his totals by 70 per cent in each lift to qualify. Parkes plans to wait until after high-school to try for the provin- cial team, but he’s already caught the competition bug. Another provincial champi- onship happens in March and Parkes says he hopes to go along with Lewkowich. Q00 The rest of the Castlegar ath- letes who participated at the games were as follows. One of only two, fourth-place finishers was cross country skier Averil Sheppard. She just missed a bronze in the juvenile girls free- technique. Sheppard also placed seventh and ninth in the relay and classic events respectively. Paul Semenoff was the other Castlegar athlete who came close to a medal. He placed fourth in 30- years & under men’s racquetball. The women's basketball team was a surprise at the games, finish- ing a very respectable fifth in B.C. The team was coached by Col- lette Pilloud and consisted of: Joy Andersen, Cordlyn Angrignon, Wendy Baker, Brenda Balahura, Jeff Nielsen won gold in Karate Debbie Cawte, Chris Datchkoff, and Barbara Kinakin. In intermediate-ladies “A” fig- ure-skating, Heather Sheppard fin- ished sixth representing Castlegar. Local badminton player Don Poole placed seventh in the open muxed team event A team of hroomballers came home with an eighth place ribbon. for their efforts. They included: Ak Ambrosio, Walter Ambrosio, Brads Croteau, Steve Croteau, Clay: Martini, Stew McCullagh, Robert; McGregor, Graham Menzies; Gerry Rodgers, Wayne Saliken Alan Schuepfer, Jason Schuepfer; Peter Stuchnow, and Terry Ward. Story and photos by Jim Ze: Weightlifting partners Ken Parkes and Jeff Lewnowiert each won silver medals Rebels wrap-up season The Castlegar Rebels held their year-end awards banquet on Saturday. + Sportsmanship and ability Dustin Rilcof Safeway Itd. + Most inspirational Veregin Industries + Most popular player Rebel booster + Most improved player Rebel booster + Rookie of the year Mike’s Mobile Homes + Most valued team player Anderson’s Insurance + Best forward Johnny’s Grocery + Best defenceman Rebel booster + Most valuable player Castle Realty Shane Cutler Kevin Leiman Dave Dollack Nino Da Costa Dave Dyball Chris Sannutti Aaron Hackman Mike Hunter The Jim Corbett award for high school education and hockey Dustin Rilcof MVP during the play-offs Outstanding service Aaron Hackman Pat Rilcof.