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Saturday, October 3, 1992

College team up and running

NEWS STAFF

Some Selkirk College stu- dents will be putting their best feet forward today.

Five members of the col- lege’s cross country team are in Abbotsford for a meet today, and first-year coach Derek Peregrym doesn’t know what to expect.

“I haven’t seen a race yet,

but I have good feelings about a few of (the team members),” he said.

Those team members are Nelson’s Barbora Brych and Blueberry Creek’s Vernon Remesz, the winner of last weekend’s Double Dam Duathlon in Trail.

With the loss of Jennifer Small, the team is minus an

important member from last ear.

. But that doesn’t bother

Peregrym, who says he can

feel good things about to hap-

n.

“Just from seeing them run,” he said. “That’s the rea- son I can give you.” ee

The team’s next meet is in Victoria in two weeks.

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The Castlegar Tom Kats have stopped purring and are starting to hiss.

Two weeks ago, the Kats were dumped by the Dam Inn Mates 44-30 in Trail Flag Football League action, and weren't about to let that hap-

m again. ne Scoring early and often,

the Kats beat the Mates 42-6 Saturday then dumped the Trail Hawks 14-12 Sunday.

This Sunday, they’re up against the undefeated Trail Bulldogs, and coach Randy Renz says there’s no secret to beating the league's top dogs.

“We've got to have a full team out to beat the Bull- dogs,” he said.

Kats and Dogs set to scrap on Sunday

Renz said new faces on de- fence hampered the team two weeks ago, but that has changed as the team has since come together on both sides of the ball.

“Our defence grows off our offence,” he said.

In other action Sunday, the Mates face the Hawks at Mt. Sentinel.

Do or die for Dynamos

Wi Local men’s soccer squad fighting for their playoff lives tomorrow

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Forgive any members of the Chaves family if you see them with fingers, toes or any other body parts crossed today. They need all the luck they can get.

Coach Ed, sons Kevin and Jason plus brother Mario,and the rest of the Dexter’s Dy- namos will be out looking for a road win in West Kootenay Men’s Soccer League action to- morrow against Nelson Her- itage.

A victory means a good chance at advancing to the playoffs. A loss means the sea- son is over.

Mario Chaves said the team is focused.

“Everyone’s working to- ward the same cause,” he said.

Chaves said he likes the Dynamos’ chances if they per- form like they did in a 3-1 win over Nakusp last week.

As much as the game is im- portant to the Dynamos, it’s meaningless to Heritage.

A point back of league-lead- ing Nelson Savoy for most of the season, Heritage found themselves three back this week after a league decision on an Aug. 23 game.

That game, between Savoy and Heritage, was postponed when Heritage couldn’t field a team.

Savoy offered Sept. 12 for the rematch, a date that Her- itage couldn’t make. Since the Nelson squads have agreed to disagree on a date, league president Dave Kienholz ruled this week that the two points would go to Savoy.

“(Under league rules), if the two teams can’t agree upon on an agreeable date, the team that postpones loses the two points,” he said.

Heritage coach Ian Mason said his squad will put the league’s decision behind them and start to think about the

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_ Please excuse me if I’m seen look- ing at a calendar every five minutes, counting the days until next weekend out loud.

Like a kid who can’t wait for Chris- tamas, I’m anxiously awaiting the Thanksgiving long weekend for sev- eral reasons.

One of them is that I’ll be enjoying the company of some people in Cal- gary I haven't seen in ages, and an- other is that it’s the first weekend of the 1992-93 National Hockey League season.

And even though I won’t be in at- tendance, I’m excited for the Castle- gar Rebels as they begin the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League season on Oct. 9 under first-year head coach Gary Sauer.

When I strolled into Castlegar dur- ing the dying days of 1991, the Rebels were just under two months into the 1991-92 campaign, one that would see them accumulate a whopping two dozen points in 39 league games, of which only four of those points were picked up on the road.

The team was a model of consisten- cy for most of the season, yet this isn’t a compliment. You see, they were con- sistently bad.

The Rebels started off slowly and things only got worse from there. Ev- ery victory seemed to be followed by a loss, or two or three.

And even when they put some wins together after Gordie Walker assumed

the coaching reins in the New Year, it was very much a case of shutting the corral gate after the herd had headed for the hills.

The team’s performance openly re- flected attendance as, not surprising- ly, people seemed to have better things to do when the Rebels played at home last year, things that just might have reached the realm of varnishing the family cat or microwaving stuff that could best be described as com- bustible.

In all, Castlegar’s team had the du- bious distinction of being the West Di- vision’s doormat, and would have been the all-round doormat if the East Di- vision’s Elk Valley Raiders weren't better at being worse.

The season ended mercifully in February when the eventual champi- on Nelson Maple Leafs sent the Rebels packing after a four-game sweep in the first round of the play- offs.

But as much as the Rebels were lousy last season, they look just as good this year.

I know, I know, you're all probably saying that it’s still the exhibition sea- son and what happens now makes no difference once the regular season starts.

“So what if the guys only lost once in their seven pre-season games. So what if they outscored their opposition 45-23. And so what if people have been turning out in the hundreds to see the

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locals do what they didn’t do last year: win. It’s exhibition,” you will say.

“Well,” I will say, “sit back and watch.”

But, before I go too far out on a limb and say the Rebels will do this or do that, I will say that prognosticating before a season is.a total waste of time and that any moron can predict what will happen by guessing.

Because of that, I will only say the people of Castlegar will be pleasantly surprised by their team this year.

The Rebels have shown they can compete with everybody in the KI- JHLs West Division in the pre-season, excluding the Maple Leafs since they haven't faced them yet.

They bounced the Beaver Valley Nite Hawks in two games to start things off, outscoring them 11-1, they

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ripped Rossland at home 13-5 and then rallied to tie Grand Forks, beat Spokane in the last minute and won in Spokane the next night for five out of six points in three nights.

The only freckle on an otherwise unblemished pre-season was a 4-3 loss in Grand Forks Wednesday.

In all, the Rebels have shown they can compete on both sides of the puck as well as in net.

And though coaches Sauer and Walker have stressed discipline and will continue to do so when the season starts, the team can also rough it up’ when necessary.

Sure, they did that very well last year, but it usually came at times when it was unwise to do so and end- ed up costing them.

All things considered, this year’s version of the Rebels should resemble the hockey team last year’s group didn’t, and their timing couldn’t be better.

With the additions of Rossland through expansion and Spokane through a division shift, a playoff spot in the West will be that much harder to come by this season.

But with the group that will wear the Rebels’ colors this year, I don’t think that will be a problem.

Just one thing.

Before you head to Vegas to put some money down on your Rebels, re- meber that I’m the guy who always picks the Winnipeg Jets to do well.

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“If we play like we did last Sunday, I don’t see why not,” he said.

Chaves said the team is

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He said if that continues, the other playoff teams could be in for a surprise.

“T think we'll have the same guys we had out last Sunday,” he said. “If we can keep get- ting that kind of commitment, we'll be one of the top teams.”

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“We'll just try to play a sim- ple game, keep everything tight and not be stupid,” he said. “We want to end the sea- son on a bright spot.”

In other league action to- morrow, the Hi Arrow Devils will attempt to break a third- place tie with Nakusp when they host Fruitvale at the Community Complex at 2 p.m., Nakusp travels to Nel- son to face Savoy and Trail is at home to Rossland.

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