82 Castlegar News May 2, 1990

SPORTS

By ED MILLS
Staff Writer

Veteran seniors.

It may sound redundant to you,
but to Earl Rourke and Beulah
Wright the term makes perfect
Sense, because that's exactly what
they are.

The two Castlegar seniors are
the veteran bowlers on their
respective teams which left this
morning for Kelowna and the
Golden Age Provincial Triples
Bowling championships.

A win in the 26-team provincial
tourney means a trip to Saskatoon
in June for the national cham-
pionships.

Both Rourke and Wright have

1960,

Wright,
“rookies,’’
their belts.
with

“I bowled a

about the same amount of ex-
perience in the game — some 30
years or so — or ever since the 7 ,
Castle Bowl opened its lanes in

Compared to that, the other
members on both teams are brand
new babes of bowling.

70, calls teammates
Doris Shukin and Alice Lecouffe
though both have a
couple of years in the alley under

Rourke, 73, is in a similar spot
triples partners

Ferguson and Jim Shukin.
le before the war
and Beulah, yeah, she’s an old-
timer at it too.

could say we got a bunch of
rookies,"’ said Rourke,

The men’s team qualified for
the provincials by winning the
East-West Kootenay champion-
ship in Kimberley last month
while the. women came in second
in the same event to qualify.

When the games begin Thur-
sday afternqon, both Wright and
Rourke know they'll be counted
on to be the steadying forces for
their teams when the pressure is
on at the provincials.

“Oh yes, there’s pressure,"”
Rourke said. ‘Especiaily-if you
Start good, then the pressure’s on
you to go more and more. Then if
you don’t start out good, there's

Gordon

I suppose you

Seniors count on veterans

Pressure on you to get going."’

But both Rourke and Wright
have been there before, each
having won a major event in the
Past.

Though the two team captains
are similar in many respects, they
take differnt lanes when it comes
to predictions.

“I think we’ e’ll win it all,” said
Rourke. “‘Why not? We're as
good as anybody else, I guess."’

‘Nope, no predictions,”’ she
said. **All we can do is try and
we'll see what happens.’’

Both~the-women’s~and- men's
teams will play once — a three-
game set_— Thursday afternoon
and will return Friday.

Miler

By CasNews Staff

At a meet where firsts were few and
far between, Amy Chernoff’s num-
ber-one run was nice to see for high
school_track and field coach Jessie
Zielkie.

Chernoff snagged the only first for
Stanley Humphries secondary
school’s track-and-field team in its
first meet of the season in Vernon last
weekend.

The Grade 10 student clocked in
‘with a time of five minutes 33 seconds
to top 13 other runners in the Vernon
Times Metric Mile.

Zielkie said Chernoff’s win was no
surprise.

“You could tell after the first -200
Mmetres_that-she-had-it. She's a good
athlete and she’s in great shape,”’ said
Zielkie.

Despite having no other athletes

SHE'S GOT MOVES . . . Tammy Bezaire cuts a quick corner and goes
for the net during high school girls soccer action at Selkirk College
won all three of its games in the all-day

noon. SH:
CasNews Photo by Ed Mills

Tuesday
tournament.

finishing in the top three, Zielkie said
the first meet was a chance for
athletes to get their feet wet in com-
Petition and gauge their progress
against other athletes.

leads

SHSS
Vernon meet

“The. first meet is always tough
because you don’t know how you
stack up against the competiiton,’’

Sports shorts

Stars force NHLs hand

TORONTO (CP) — The National Hockey League may expand as

it season with a team operating in San Francisco.
rene ‘of the Minnesota North Stars, George and Gordon

roposed San Fran-
Gund, hav moving half of the Minnesota roster to
sie: asi ein general nr ae Ferreira, the Toronto Sun said

jerda:
ma The other half of the team“would remain in Minnesota under the
new ownership of Howard Baldwin, a league source told the newspaper.
An expansion draft would then be held to fill out both rosters.

The plan doesn’t yet have overwhelming support by the NHL
board of governors, but the prospects of saving the Minnesota market
and adding an expansion team for $50 million could convince the

wi accept the Gund proposal.
. nents wasn't scuedaled to start until 1992. The governors will
meet May 8 to further review the North Stars* future.

Daoust to leave Leafs

TORONTO (CP) — Dan Daoust has said goodbye to the Toronto
Maple Leafs.

Daoust said Tuesday he has turned down a one-year contract offer
and a $15,000 pay raise from the National Hockey League club in favor

’of a one-year deal with Ajoie, a B Division club in Switzerland.

While Daoust said he would have returned to the Maple Leafs had
he been offered a two-year deal, his contract with Ajoie is for one year
and for slightly less money than the $167,000 he would have earned as
an NHLer next season. N

The key motivation appears to be the opportunity to be more than
‘a fourth-line player.

“I played 65 games tast- year, but I don’t think I was supposed to
play that many except that (Dave) Hannan and (Tom) Fergus got hurt,’’
said Daoust. ‘If everybody stays healthy, I probably wouldn't play that
many games next year.

Oakland signs Eckersley

NEW YORK (AP) — Oakland reliever Dennis Eckersley on

she said. “‘So now some of them
(SHSS athletes) know they have to do
@ tittle “more work, which is always
good,

“It makes them realize where they
are fitness-wise, skill-wise, then
they’ll just try harder for the next
meet,’’ she said.

Zielkie added’ that since it was a
relay meet in which most of the events
were team oriented, the SHSS team.
got a chance to try out a few different
things.

“It was an interesting meet. We
had runners in throwing évents and
throwers in running events. We had a
lot of fun.”” a.

season.

It was a shorthanded team with 16
members attending SHSS’s first_meet
of the season. Prior commitments
kept many away this time but Zielkie
said she expects a full contingent for a
meet in Penticton this weekend.

Tuesday agreed to a two-year contract extension for $6 million.
Eckersley; who has seven saves this season, has helped the A‘s win

two straight American League championships and the World Series

title last season as their bullpen ace. He had 45 saves in 1988 and 33 last

Eckersley, 35, is in the second year of a two-year deal that will pay
him $787,500 this season.

Under the terms of the contract extension, Eckersley will get a $2
miltion signing bonus, $2 million in 1991 and $2 million in 1992.

Stewart pitcher of month

NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics has
‘been named the American League's pitcher of the month for April and
‘outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. has been chosen the AL’s player of the mon-

Stewart, the most valuable player in the 1989 World Series, was 5-0
with a 1.32 ERA during the first month of the 1990 season.

Griffey hit .388 during April, with 31 hits in 80 at-bats, including
five homers. He also drove in 17 runs and scored 10.

Toronto’s Kelly Gruber, with a .325 average and 20 RBIs, was the
runner-up in the player of the month balloting.

Broom comes out for 3 in NBA playoffs

The Detroit Pistons wasted little time clearing the fir-
st hurdle to a successful defence of their National Basket-
ball Association title.

Isiah Thomas scored 23 points and Bill Laimbeer had
12 points and 19 rebounds Tuesday night, leading the
Pistons over the Indiana Pacers 108-96 for a three-game
sweep in the first round of the playoffs.

“That's my job, to rebound for this club,’’ said
Laimbeer, Detroit's six-foot-11 centre.

The Pistons built a 15-point lead in the third quarter,
then withstood an Indiana rally within five points midway
through the final period. Detroit put the game away with
three baskets each by Laimbeer and Dennis Rodman
during a 12-4 spurt in the closing minutes.

John Salley added 17 points for Detroit, including 16
in the first half, when the Pistons built a 54-45 lead.

Reggie Miller had 22 points and Detlef Schrempt added 20
for Indiana.

The defending champions were one of three teams to
wrap up their first-round series Tuesday. The Portland
Trail Blazers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 106-92 and
the San Antonio Spurs downed the Denver Nuggets 131-
120.

Four teams forced a fourth game with home vic-
tories. The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Philadelphia
‘76ers 122-95, the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Chicago
Bulls 119-112, and the Houston Rockets knocked off the
Los Angeles Lakers 114-108.

The Boston Celtics can sweep their Eastern Con-
ference opener tonight "With a win’ over Knicks in New
York and the Utah Jazz take a 2-0 lead into Phoenix
against the Suns.

TRAIL BLAZERS 106 MAVERICKS 92
Jerome Kersey and Terry Porter took command, af-
ter Buck Williams suffered an eye injury, to lead Portland
into the next round against San Antonio. The Trail
Blazers also lost centre Kevin Duckworth in the third
period with a broken bone in his right hand. Kersey
scored 29 points and Porter and Clyde Drexler each had
20. Rolando Blackman led Dallas with 20.
ROCKETS 114 LAKERS 108
Sleepy Floyd scored 23 points and set a club playoff
record with 18 assists as Houston broke Los Angeles’ 20-
game winning streak during the first round of the post-
season. Otis Thorpe had 27 points for the Rockets, while
James Worthy dropped in 26 for the Lakers.
CAVALIERS 122 76ERS 95
Craig Ehlo scored 10 of his 16 third-quarter points

during a 22-4 run that broke the game open as Cleveland
stayed alive. Ehlo finished with 25 points and 10 reboun-
ds.
BUCKS 119 BULLS 112

Alvin Robertson scored 28 points and Fred Roberts,
Brad Lohaus and Jack Sikma hit key baskets in the stret-
ch. Roberts had 23 points and Sikma hit a three-pointer
with 25 seconds left. Michael Jordan had 48 points for
Chicago.

SPURS 131 NUGGETS 120

Terry Cummings scored 28 points, and David Robin-
son and Willie Anderson added 26 each to lift San An-
tonio over Denver. The Nuggets drew to within five points
in the third period, but Cummings hten hit five jumpers
over a span of 3:tt to help extend the Spurs* lead to 13
points. Alex English paced Denver with 24 points.

SPORTS

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moy2. 1990 CastlégarNews

Love him or hate him, Sather's a Weer

By CURTIS STOCKE
Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON (CP) — Glen Sather is a) brash; b)
ayrogant; 3) cocky; or d) all of the above.

Easy choice wasn’t it?

“There isn’t a guy in any successful business that
doesn’t have a big ego," Sather said of the assessment.
“You have to have one, P. are pulling at you from a
lot of different directions."”

ry call Slats, named
jakes er game. An
can't Le blotted: ul

could fit all the above descriptions but, above
a winner. And in his walk of life, that's

‘For the mai
is ahi

ks the part of a winner, dresses the part and
a little scar on his lip that gives him a permanent

sneer. The kind that says if you don’t like me, who cates.
And who does care? Win, baby, that’s all that counts
in the National Hockey League and few have done it bet-

ter than Sather.

When Sather turnes! over the coaching reins of the
Edmonton Oilers to John Muckler and Ted Green last

TORONTO (CP) — Mike Ricci,
the six-foot-one centre with the
Peterborough Petes of the Ontario
Hockey League, is the top-ranked
junior prospect for the 1990 NHL en-
try draft, the Hockey News reports,
based on rankings obtained from the
NHL.

Ricci, ranked No. 1 all season by
the NHL's Central Scouting Bureau,
held on to the spot in the end-of-
season ratings list’ for all North
American and European players had
goaltenders.

Ricci had 52 goals and 64 assists in
@ games with the Peies, who were
eliminated from the OHL playoffs by
the Oshawa Generals in the
semifinals. Highly touted youngster
Eric Lindros plays for the Generals
but-won't be eligible for the NHL
draft until 1991.

Late in the season there was
speculation that Owen Nolan, Keith
Primeau or Peter Nedved would sur-
pass Ricci

Nolan, a six-foot-one right winger
with the OHL’s Cornwall Royals is
ranked second. He had 51 goals and
59 assists in 58 games with Cornwall.

Primeau, a six-foot-four centre,
had 57 goals and 70 assists with the
OHL’s Niagara Falls Thunder and is
ranked third.

LEADS THE T-BIRDS

Nedved, who defected from
Czechostovakia in 1989, is a six-foot-
two centre with the Seattle Thunder-
birds of the Western Hockey League.
He had 65 goals and 80 assists with
Seattle.

Scott Scissons, a centre with the
WHL’s Saskatoon Blades is No. 5.
He had 40 goals and 47 assists

Darryl Sydor of the Kamloops
Blazers of the WHL is the top-ranked
The NHL has Sydor, 29

Recreation news

goals and 66 assists, ranked sixth
overall.

Trevor Kidd is the top-ranked
goalie. -He was 24-32-6 with a 4.15

summer, he retired with a record of 446-250-104 and a
winning percentage of .623. Only Scotty Bowman (671)
and Toe Blake (.636) can claim better.

He guided the Oielrs to four Stanley Cups and also
led Team Canada to a Canada Cup victory. And what do
his peers think of Sather?

Cliff Fletcher, generat manager of the Calgary
Flames: ‘The bottom line is results and Glen has
delivered the ‘results. You can say what you want about
him but he’s a competitor, a proven winner.”’

‘HE RANKLES’

Bill Torrey, New York Islanders president and
general manager: ‘‘He rankles people but he’s a winner
and in our line of work that is what we get hired to do. His
main priority is winning and he has won. He’s won big.

Muckler, his coaching prodigy: ‘'The most important
thing to Glen is winning. He hates to lose and he’ll win at
any cost, He doesn’t care whose feelings he hurts or how
he gets it. Win and be successful. That’s all he wants.””

Surrounding himself with’ talent and winners,
eschewing losers, Sather got where he is by taking chances
and steadfastly believing there is only one way to_lose:
hard, with a bullet in your teeth.

For the man they call Slats, hockey is a

igh stakes
poker game. And he can’t be bluffed, i

bores him; he wants to run the table, break the bank.
Bored by life’s banalities, Sather never did things
half-ways, never went looking for sales. He owns exten-
sive real-estate holdings. He has climbed the Matterhorn,
fished in the Arctic and has gone on African safaris, ar-

med only with a camera: If there’s a challenge, s

there to meet it — head n.

“He's good for the game,’ "says Torrey. “He's

smart and

even

EASY FOR YOU TO SAY MIKE . . . When you're as good a golfer
as former Castlegar and District Golf Club Professional ‘Mike Verzuh,
81, It's easy to smile en the links. But many know just how frustrating

Baseball

‘Sather believes money, and more itmportantly, pride,
should motivate a player. But he also knows that good
managing is simply understanding people.

“‘He breeds that winning attitude into his players,”
said former Oiler Dave Hunter. ‘*When you see the drive
in him, how hard he worked and how much he hates to
toed you couldn't help but be driven yourself, He knew
we could win no matter what. He commanded respect and
he got it.""

Publicly tough, Sather will rant; he'll curse and he'll
swear. He'll leave you with the impression he keeps pet
snakes in his closet, bats in the belfry.

And if he can get your goat he'll yank it,and pull you
all across town. But he’s also astute, a great motivator
and he knew how to handle different personalities. 4

And, said Hunter, while he made everybody feet ign-
Portant, he wasn't afraid of change. Of ‘course,
sometimes fate makes you change and move sooner than
you want; the Great Gretzky trade, the Paul Coffey and
Jimmy Carson holdouts.

The Gretzky! deal was tough ‘on Sather. Gretzky's
“*not like anybody else that youll have the opportunity to
be with as far as a coach is concerned. If anybody thinks
there is going to be somebody else ‘around like Wayne,
they are He’sa i

begins crackdown

ither is

on all those mammoth mitts

NEW YORK (AP) — Make way
for the great big gloves — and
another big controversy

Baseball began its crackdown on
mammoth mitts Tuesday. Umpires
have been issued tape measures and

hands will have to wear a smaller
glove.”

concerned. ‘‘I’m going to keep using
my glove until I’m told otherwise,”
he said. ‘‘]’ll have two ready for every
game.”*

Mets outfielder Darryl! Strawberry
also got-a-new-glove. In the past, he

BUT NEED

‘One week from today, Castiegar
will see an influx of 350 people from

p-m._to-9-p.m.at-the-complex. For
only $5, you will learn the types of
plants, locati and_ plant com-

all over B.C., Alberta,
Washington state and the Yukon.
They will be participating in the 1990
B.C. Recreation and Parks
Association annual provincial con-
ference to be held May 10-12.

FITNESS CLASSES

Fitness classes will be held as usual
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. (Intense) or 10
a.m. to 11 a.m. (moderate). Saturday-
morning classes are from 9 a.m. to 10
a.m. There are also aerobic classes
Monday and Wednesday from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m. (INtense),; Tuesday and
Thursday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. (In-
tense) or Tuesday and Thursday from
7 p.m. to 8 p.m. (moderate). Drop-ins
are on a first-come basis.

GARDENING CLASSES

Register now for hanging basket

containers on Monday, May 7 from 7

binations to make your home the envy
of your neighborhood.
SUNFEST BIATHALON
Brochures are now available for the
second annual Sunfest biathalon to be
held Sunday June 3 at 10 a.m. The
race will consist of a 5.8-kil

Mid-Week Wrap-up

run, 35-km bike race and $.8-km run.
There are age categories and you can
enter as a single, double or team. T-
Shirts will be available to purchase.
‘Start your training now and enter this
fun event
DAY HIKES

This is a seminar to introduce you
to day hiking in the Kootenays. Learn
about local trails, equipment needed
and how to pack for your hike. We
will also discuss outdoor safety. Plan
to attend Thursday, May 17 from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Community
Complex. Fee is $2.

*

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Edmonton at Chicago, 8:35 p.m.

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Only four in
big leagues now

By TERRY SCOTT

. The Canadian Press

The number of Canadian-born
players currently in the major leagues
can still be counted on the fingers of

Puhl was doing while | was growing.
up, right,’ Walker said, an-
ticipating a question. ‘*Sure I did!
“The guy’s famous, and to be in
the majors that long is such a great

one hand. So it’s when
two true northerners are in the same
ball park, as Terry Puhl and Larry
Walker were at Olympic Stadium on
Monday night.

They are at diverse junctures in
their respective careers.

Puhl, a Houston Astros outfielder
from Melville, Sask., is in the twilight
of a 14-year career, which, with more
than 5,000 at-bats and almost 1,500
games played, \makes him the gold
watch récipient ‘among_non-
Canadians who ave ever been entries
on big-league scorecards.

Walker, a 23-year-old Montreal
Expos outfielder from Maple Ridge is
approaching No. 14 — weeks not
years — of major-league service. Yet
he shares a distinction with Puhl, with
Kirk McCaskill of Kapuskasing, Ont.,
and with Steve Wilson of Victoria as
excl ¢ members of the majors’
Canadian club this season.

**You want to know if I ever looked
im the boxscores to see how Terry

The fact he’s been
here for 14 years is a message to other
Canadian kids who are coming up,
that, if they want to try, they can do it
too.’

Tim Harkness, a former New York
Mets first baseman in the early 1960s
who hails from Lachine, Que.,
recalled an anecdote from that era.

“Roger Craig was sitting beside me
in the dugout one day,’’ Harkness
recalls, referring to his teammate who
is now manager of the San Francisco.
Giants.

“*He turned to me and said, ‘I wish
we had more Canadians playing this
game because they can always be
counted on when it gets rough out
there.’ And Terry Puhl is like that;
he’s made from good Saskatchewan
stock, a guy who just puts his head
down and goes to work.

“I think the reason Terry's been
able to stay around so long is that he
does everything well. He’s a threat on
the basepaths, he’s a solid defensive

outfielder and he’s got almost 1,500
hits with that line-drive style.’"

As he pulled on his Astros jersey
before facing the Expos on Monday
night, Puhl was asked if he still

LARRY WALKER
the new

remembered the day he left Melville
Comprehensive School in 1974 to em
bark on a professional baseball career
in Covington, Ky

“It was the first time I'd ever been

are making sure gloves aré fio more
than 30 centimetres (12 inches) from
heel to tip.

“It’s a picky rule,’’ New York Mets
outfielder Kevin McReynolds said.
“I’ve never heard anything like it

“I guess pretty soon we'll be

glove.
“Most
change gloves,’’

always used a 13-inch (33 centimetres)

outfielders will have to
Strawberry said. ‘‘I
don't think the rule is necessary.

“| don’t see why someone with big

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definitely against it."”

So are most outfielders, some of
whom use 35.5 centimetre (14-inch)
gloves to make home-run-robbing
catches.

But will the edict affect the game,
or, like the corked-bat inspections of
a few ed tee ago, quickly go away?

"re hoping it won't be a big
ee said Marty Springstead,
supervisor of American League um-
pires. ‘‘We're noes it doesn’t get

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“*We don’t want glove checks to be
some sort of tactic, something to
disrupt the pitcher. But I’m sure that
if one manager makes a glove check,
the other manager will, too. That's
the nature of baseball.**

The glove rule has been inthe
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Under the arrangement now in for-
ce, a player caught with an oversized
glove must change mitts. If he con-
tinues to use the glove in other games
he’ll be disciplined.

Managers will be allowed to make
two glove checks a game. Umpires
can inspect mitts at any time.

“It’s like the spitball — I think it
caused more trouble with the guys
that were worrying about it,'’ said
Chicago White Sox manager Jeff
Torborg.

“I don’t care about that,” said San
Francisco manager Roger Craig. ‘I
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scared to death. I didn’t know
anything about professional baseball.

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with a number! on ‘his sleeve and his
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“I was drafted right out of high
school, so by the time others had
completed four years of college, | was
already well into pro ball.

“But don’t get me wrong, there
have been a lot of sacrifices. Since
I've been 16, I've never really had the
opportunity to do common things.’ **

Pressed to elaborate, Puhl quickly
says “family.”

‘People don’t realize that when I
left home to play baseball, that was
basicalty-one-of the last times I did
anything with my family in Canada
How many people can say that they 1
haven't seen their parents, basically
for the rest of their lives after they left
home as a teenager?”’

Now, Puhl’'s shoulder is aching and
the Astros are in a rebuilding mode.
He is a role player, perhaps in the
final months of his career. But the
urge by many Canadians to peek at a
boxscore to learn how the native son
is doing has not diminished and
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