The Castlegar Sun Wednesday, June 3, 1992 Wednesday, June 3, 1992 The Castlegar Sun Page 11A een Ryanna Westhoff and her team mates suffered a heart- breaking semi-final loss at the Provincials. HOW TO SELECT THE RIGHT TOOLS FOR YOUR POOL Is this you? Armed with a curious collection of pails, household brushes, and something that looks like pantyhose stretched on a coat-hanger frame, the new pool owner gleefully grins as he thinks about all the money he saved by not buying all that stuff his pool store recommended. His glee tumed to gloom, however, when the heavy-duty steel brush he bought to control algae ripped his viny! liner to shreds. After all, it looked like it would do the job... Simple as it may sound, the right tool, used the right way, can save you from this scenario and expensive, unnecessary repairs. 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VALKYR AQUATICS Pool Care Products Replacement Gary 365-7389 SUN FILEPHOTO Season over for SHSS tennis team JASON KEENAN Sun rts It was oh so close for the SHSS tennis team at the Provin- st weekend in Kim- berley, In the 11-match semi-finals against Lambrick Park from Vic- toria, Stanley Humphries was up five matches to three. Only two points away from winning, it slipped past them and they lost both matches. “We had a lot of trouble with the pressure,” said coach Barry DePaoli The SHSS girls A-team was playing the Lambrick B-team, and was leading 4-0, and ended up dropping the match 5-6. Meanwhile, the SHSS B-team led the Lambrick A-team 5-3 in the tie breaker match, which after a 5-5 tie, they dropped 5-6. “We just had some bad luck in the tie breaker,” said DePaoli. “If we had to do it all over again, we'd get second place.” To their credit, the team took their lumps like pros, and came back to win the third place team match 7-4 over Vernon Sec- . ondary. Okanagan Mission took first place. Finishing second in their flight in round robin play, the team had a 5-6 loss to Okanagan Mission Local Hoopster B.C. Games bound Sun Staff MJason Arc could He hits it for about an hour per day, squeezing practice in have his way, he'd play basketball like the Chicago Bulls school and golf. Getting ready for the Games, wo covers his bedroom walls. I'd like to be fairly well rounded like Jordan.” The 14-year-old point guard from Kinnaird Middle School made the cut on the B.C. Summer Games team bound for Port Alberni, and is looking forward to his first trip to the games. “T think it’s going to be great to go down there and see what the competition is like,” he added. Playing since he was four or five, the asphalt drive way and hoop on his post is his practice court. the team every Wednes- day night, and every second Sat- urday with coach Wally Chemoff. “Right now, were getting used to playing with each other, and developing an offense,” Archam- bault said. “The coach really stresses the fundamentals.” Basketball continues even after the Games for Archambault, and he’s planning to attend the camps this summer. He said they are great opportunities to learn a lot from good coaches. And playing eight hours per day really builds up skills. Devils take second in Creston tourney Sun Staff One minute and two crossbars is all that separated the Hi Arrow Devils from a berth in the B.C Summer Games. With 15 minutes left in their game against Kimberley last Sun- day, the Devils hit the crossbars twice in the span of a minute Losing the game 2-1, the Devils ended up finishing second at the Creston tournament, one point behind Kimberley. The tourney winner will represent the region at the Summer Games in Port Alberni. “We just Couldn't put the goal in the net,” said team coach Car- los Amaral. Before the weekend began, he knew that the game against Kimberley would be the key match. “We didn’t know what Kim- berley was like,” he added. They used to play in the East Kootenay league against Kimberley, but not since the Devils moved in to the 90 CASTLEGAR ARENA COMPLEX SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Early Bird 6:00 p.m. Licence 772699 Kegular Bingo 7:00 p.m. ALL PAPER West Kootenay league. By combining with players from Dexters Dynamos they were able to fill two or three of the weak spots on the team. “It was a good weekend of soc- cer, it was fun, but it would have been better to be going to the B.C. Summer Games,” he added. The Devils hit the field again this Saturday at 6 p.m. in a league game against Nelson Savoy at the Soccer field next to the Castlegar aaa aaa a Sunfest G2 : Be Part Of The 20th Anniversary Sunfest Parade ! 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Jeff Evdokimoff had a perfect tournament, taking his singles matches 6-5, 6-5, 6-4, 6-3, and 6-1. “He was easily the best singles player at the Provincials,” said DePaoli. “He was really prepared mentally for every game.” He also said that Ryanna West- hoff had a really strong tourna- ment. She and doubles partner Laurel Closkey surprised him with the level of their play, and the came out of the tourney with a 4-5 record. The boys doubles A-team of Mitch Stoochnoff and Graeme Basson finished the tournament with a 6-3 record. The game scores were 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6- 1, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, and 6-5. Every one on the team put in a solid effort in finishing third in the province. The rest of the team are Kelly Davidoff, Ryan Vatkin, Marcel Dusseault, Kurt Roberts, Wayne Stoltz, Jacyin Kalesnikoff, Christina Evdokimoff, Andraya Hughes, and Angela Stoochnoff. It was DePaoli’s last tourney as coach of the tennis team at SHSS. He's off to a middle school in Kim- berley as their new vice- i “I'm really going to miss the kids, and Castlegar.” Jason Archambault practices for at least an hour every day on his driveway. SUN STAFF PHOTO / Jason Keenan Award handed out to Gibson Sun Staff — the look in their eye when they acc! goals, or when you Gord Gibson received the Investors Group Community Sport Achievement Award last Saturday at the Kootenay Coach- ing Conference at Selkirk College. The award is given to recog- nize a volunteer who has dedicat- ed his or her time to community Sports, and is often in the onsen Position of an “The award should ro out to see them on the podium,” he added. Gibson also had compliments for the coaching conference, and the high calibre coaches it was helping to produce. “As a kid growing up, I didn’t have the chance to be involved with such well trained coaches and officials.” Gibson was a coach in the girls ftball league for three years, and was ident of the Castle- and help make Castlegar a better Place to live,” said Gibson. “A lot of the rewards are non- verbal rewards from your athletes gar league for three years. He has been involved with the Aqua- nauts since 1982, and played an instrumental role in starting the swim club's bingo fundraisers. Gibson is currently involved with biathlon, and has been coach with the provincial team, as well as president of Biathlon B.C.. After presenting Gibson with the award, Jim Latkin from the Castlegar Investors Group office Denise Chernoff with a cheque for $1,000 as a part of Investors’s sponsorship of the event. Silver Rattle Antiques 301-11 Ave. Castlega (in Tulips Building) 365-5191 Sun Staff There were 43 participants at the Fast Lane Youth Triathlon held at the Castlegar Complex last Sunday. In the boys and girls six and seven age group, participants had a 50 metre swim, two kilometre cycle, and a half-kilometre run. The top three finishers were Brady Blair, Danie] Ferguson, and Kelly Burke. In the boys. and girls eight to 10 age group, participants swam 100 metres, cycled four kilome- tres, and ran one kilometre. The top three finishers were Kerry Jones, Trevor Greene, and Scott Anderson In the 11 to 12 age group, par- ticpants swam 200 metres, cycled eight kilometres, and ran two kilometres. The top three girls were Carey Livingstone, Kortney Hiller, and Megan Pederson, while the top boys were George Gray, David Anderson, and Jason Leslie. In the 13-14 Boys category, with a 300 metre swim, 10 kilo- metre cycle, and four kilometre run, Jamie Proctor, Andrew Hooper, and A. J. Nichols fin- ished one, two, three. Scott Trousdale and Mike Byers were the only two com- petitors in the 400 metre swim, 15 kilometre cycle, and six kilo- metre run for boys 15 to 16. Patrick Blanch was the only 17- 18-year-old to brave the 800 metre swim, 20 kilometre cycle, and eight kilometre run. Slocan Valley sweats through Participaction Day Wednesday, May 27 was the Third Annual Participaction Day in the Slocan Valley and once again many gave their hearts a work out. There is an inter-valley chal- lenge that takes place within the Slocan Valley which sees those living on the west side of the Slocan River taking on those from the east side. A variety of activities take place and this year saw a few new additions in the activity category. This year’s totals showed the East Side with 327 participating while the West Side had 231. Many activities took place within the school in the valley. They included aerobics, hula- hoops, hacky-sack, tug of wars and an ice cream race. Many also did individual activities which were all duly recorded by the Slocan Valley ion Office — s of the event. Valley seniors came out and did their part also. The seniors went for a walk and did some gently aerobics at Passmore Hall. The seniors totals will also be submitted to the National SPACETREK 2000 campaign, which has seniors across Canada walking their way across the uni- verse. A hearty well done goes to all those who went out and got their hearts thumping — at least for a little while. Lane Youth Triathlon a test of their ‘stamina and strength WORKHORSE GUTS. YOUR LOCAL CHRYSLER DEALER HAS A LIMITED EDITION TWO TONE DODGE DAKOTA MAGNUM CLUB CAB LE EQUIPPED THE WAY YOU WANT IT. 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