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Local swim clubs meet
with success in Nelson

Wi Aquanauts splash to
second place in swim
season’s inaugural meet

Jonathan Green
SPORTS REPORTER

‘om Carew thinks the dif-
ference between first and sec-
ond at the recent Nelson Nep-
tunes Swim Meet came down
to home pool advantage.

“They got kids out-that
don’t generally travel to
meets,” he said. “That defi-
nitely was an advantage-to
them.”

Carew is the co-coach of the
Castlegar Aquanauts, who fin-
ished second to the host Nep-
tunes up in Nelson over the
weekend at the first meet of
the swim season.

He said the Aquanauts re-
alized the Neptunes would be
tough to beat at home, so ex-
pectations of finishing first
weren't high.

“We didn’t go expecting to

win,” he said. “Nelson has a
pretty good club this year.”

Carew said the team’s suc-

cess was linked to the younger

swimmers, like gold medal

winner

Adam

Kristian

pleased
with the

Adam Kristian

younger kids,” he said. “There

were a lot of personal best
times.”

But as happy as he and
coach Wendy Pilla were with
the younger swimmers, Carew
said they were less than im-
pressed with the more senior
Aquanauts.

“They didn’t swim up to

Creston gets Fernie

NEWS STAFF

Although the Kootenay In-
ternational Junior Hockey
League will lose a potential
franchise next week, Vince
Morelli won't lose any sleep.

“I don’t think it’s bad for
anybody,” the KIJHL vice-
president said Tuesday.

Tuesday, officials from both
the KIJHL and the Rocky
Mountain Junior Hockey
League will meet in Cran-
brook to offically transfer Fer-
nie’s RMJHL franchise to Cre-
ston for one year.

It was originally thought

that a KIJHL team would be
moving into Creston next sea-
son. But when Fernie asked
for a one-year leave of absence,
RMJHL expansion co-ordina-
tor Ed Mountain said it would
be easier for Creston to take
over an existing team. j

“This way they have a set of
players,” he said.

Mountain said the league
will monitor the situation in
Fernie this season in the
hopes of returning the Ghost
Riders to their home.

“This way, if they want to
come back into the league,

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their potential,” he said.
“About a third didn’t perform
they way they should have.”

Although he acknowledged
their victory, Carew said the
some 20 additional swimmers
the Neptunes had out was the
difference, something he
didn’t expect to see again.

“They'll have a tough time
geting kids like that out for fu-
ture meets,” he said.

In all, Aquanaut swimmers
brought home 12 medals, in-
cluding two gold and four sil-
ver from Nelson. Carew thinks
Castlegar will build on that as
the squads go toe-to-toe all
year.

“It will be close,” he said.
“We usually duke it out with
them all year.”

Meanwhile, the Robson
River Otters picked up a coup-
le of medals at the same meet,
bronzes to both Kristy Verigin
and Tara Paulhus, and fin-
ished sixth in the nine team
meet.

franchise

they’re welcome,” he said.
Morelli said the move to
Creston works well two ways.
First, it would give the Fer-
nie executive a chance to get
their hockey affairs in order.
Second, the interest created
in Creston during the season
could see an expansion team
set up if the Ghost Riders re-
turn to Fernie.
“It could be enough to get a
team into Creston,” he said.
Creston’s decision leaves
the KIJHL with six teams in
the West Division, while only,
three sit in the East Division.

Wi Shortage of
manpower keeps the
Dexter’s Dynamos on
the outside looking in
for first win

NEWS STAFF

With most West Kootenay
Men’s Soccer League teams
in or around the midway
point of their schedule, Mario
Chaves says the same thing
still continues to dog his
squad.

“The problem is we’re hav-
ing a tough time getting a full
team out,” the acting coach of
the Dexter’s Dynamos said
Tuesday.

With coach Ed Chaves
overseas, the Dynamos lost
for the fifth time in seven
games Sunday, 2-0 to Nelson
Savoy. The win leaves Savoy
undefeated in seven games,
while the Dynamos still
search for their first win.

Chaves said the Dynamos
have been without a complete
squad since an opening game
4-3 loss to local rival Hi Ar-
row Devils.

Since then, he said they've
had to shuffle players around
to unfamiliar positions, that
is when they’ve had players
to shuffle. ;

“There’s not much you can
do if people don’t show up” he
said. “You can’t put a good
squad together when people
are he

Although the Dynamos re-
main winless, Chaves said he
saw encouraging signs
against Nelson, who scored
their second goal in the late
stages of the game.

“I was really proud of the
guys for what they did,”

’ Dynamos’ soccer
struggle continues

adding that the Dynamos on-
ly had one spare compared to
Savoy’s half dozen.

“It was really encourag-
ing.”

Across town with the Dev-
ils, coach Carlos Amaral said
he isn’t pleased with the Dev-
ils position in the eight team
league.

“I’m a little surprised we're
in fourth place,” he said. “I
was expecting us to be in sec-
ond place.”

Amaral said with a little
luck, the Devils would be
higher up in the standings,
blaming one-goal losses to
both Nelson teams, and a 2-0
loss to Nakusp.

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“If we had just put one goal
in, it would have been a dif-
ferent story,” he said.

The Devils return to asc-
tion at home tonight against
Nakusp, while the Dynamos
travel to Trail.

Heading into this
evening's game, Amaral said
he would alter his lineup in
the hopes of changing the
Devils’ fortunes.

“I think we'll shake a few
things up, and see if that will
make a difference.”

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Big O Tire came up big against the Castlegar Merchants in local men’s fastball i i
week, as the blue shirts beat the red shirts 3-2, wos peste

12-3.

Last place Big O catches
Merchants taking it easy

@ Big O Tire puts ona
defensive show in
winning back to back in
local fastball action

NEWS STAFF
The West Kootenay expe-
rienced a full moon Sunday
night, which might help ex-
plain what’s been going on
lately in local men’s fastball.
Last Monday, the league-
leading Nelson A’s swept last
place Big O Tire in a double-
header, holding them to just
one run over both games.
The next night, though,
the A’s took it on the chin,
falling 10-0 to the second
place Castlegar Merchants.
Thursday, Big O came up
big against the Merchants in

a 9-1 win.

Finally, on Monday, the
same two teams squared off
again, with Big O coming out,
on top again 3-2, the first
time they’ve put two wins to-
gether this season.

Merchants coach Kelly
Keraiff said Thursday’s loss
was understandable.

“Because they’re in last,
we might have taken them
too lightly,” he said.

But in Monday’s game, he

said the runners who got on *

base ended up staying there.

“We got guys on base,” he
said. “We just didn’t get the
hits when they were néeded.”

Big O coach Pete Evdoki-
moff said he thinks the two
games against the Mer-

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chants are an indication of
how things will go for the
rest of the year.

“I think we’ve turned the
corner,” he said. “We played
better defense than we had
for the first half of the season
and we hit the ball.”

Although last place Big O
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the Merchants, Evdokimoff
said closing the gap isn’t un-
realistic.

“As I said at the start of
the season ‘Any team can
beat anyone on any night’
and I stand by that.”

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local softball action

Wi Competitive League
leaders looking to extend
winning ways in playoffs

NEWS STAFF

Things are starting to wind
down in the local softball
leagues, and the T-Birds are
hoping to take their regular
season success with them into
the playoffs.

Leading the way in the
Competitive League with 13
wins in 17 games, coach Ivan
Salekin said familiarity has
been a key in the T-Birds perch
atop the nine-team league.

“Our team has been togeth-
er a long time,” he said.

The T-Birds finished last
season with a record of 18-3,
but were stopped short of a
championship in the playoffs.

This year, Saliken said

things are a little different.

“We're playing better as a

team this year,” he said,
adding that the team has been
able to overcome player losses
in its quest.

“We’ve lost two of our better
players and we're still playing
well.”

Saliken said a lot of the
team’s success has come from
the bats of Corey Ross, who is
now in Kelowna and Tom Tru-
betskoff . ;

“Ross and Trubetskoff) are
two big parts of our lineup,” he
said. “If (Ross) comes in for the
wind-up, we'll be competitive.”

Heading into Monday’s ac-
tion, the T-Birds held a four-
point lead over Woodland Park
Shell, with Castlegar Realty

another two points back.

Williams Moving remained
on top in the Recreational
League with 28 points, one
point up on Avenue EHS, with
three other teams at 26.

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