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JEFF GABERT Sun Sports

Although the weather outside was frightful the action inside the Stanley Humphries Gymna sium last weekend was quite delightful The annual

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Rocker/Rockette Remax Invita tional basketball tournament is known for its hot action and this year was no exception

The eight-team tournament began last Friday with the senior boys and girls teams taking tums on the SHSS hardwood.

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The SHSS girls squad has been the stronger of the school's two senior programs this season and that trend continued this past week- end. They crushed Fernie in their opener on Friday by a score of 90- 45 and then went on to defeat KLO from Kelowna 61-54.

That set up the final between SHSS and Mt. Baker High School from Cranbrook. Mt. Baker had a slight height advan- tage but they never really had a chance as the Rockettes mowed

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Lisa Datchkoff and Treena Goolieff were named tournament all-stars for the Rockettes while Stephanie Rezansoff took hqme the honor of being the tourna ment's most valuable player.

“We're playing very well right now,” said Rockettes coach Jack Closkey. “We're playing tough and very physical which is the way we have to play.”

The Rockettes have been on quite a roll this season and have only lost three games. All of those were outside their West Kootenay division and it seems a safe bet that they will once again be repre- senting the region in the Provin-

\ cial Championships next month.

Their next game is this Wednes- day against Grand Forks who are their chief rival in this area Despite their unblemished record so far, Closkey says their is still some improvement to be made.

“We have to improve our shooting and be more patient on offence,” said Closkey.

On the boys side of the tourna- ment the Rockers hoped to mirror the success of their female counter- parts. They started out strong beat- ing Princeton 58-53 on Friday and then Midway 55-49 on Sunday.

They met the South Okanagan team from Oliver on Saturday night in the final and seemed determined to show their own championship aspirations. They led the game at the half and seemed to have control of the game but Oliver turned on the offensive charm and pulled away for a 20-point victory.

The Rockers finished the tournament in second place but coach Doug Hickey liked what he saw from his young club on the weekend.

“J thought we got progressive- ly better throughout the weekend which was important,” said Hick- ey. “We're still a young and inex-

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Wednesday, February 15, 1995

Lisa Datchkoff leans in for an easy two points in the

tournament final Saturday night.

perienced team so we're bound to make a few mistakes. But the boys did well in building on their mistakes from the weekend.” Hickey is already looking for- ward to the West Kootenay play- off which will be held in Nelson in two weeks. The top four teams in the region make the playoffs and

SUN SPORTS PHOTO / Jeff Gabert Hickey figures the Rockers will be number three and face Grand Forks in the semi-final round.

“We're meeting Grand Forks and that means we have to play the whole game with some seri- ous intensity,” said Hickey. “That means we still have lots of work to do.”

“It was a hard fought game and I hate to see it come down to a shootout,” said Sauer. “As far as, our success in, shootouts - we haven't had any. I don’t see there as being any contributing factor, there's just a lot of pressure on the shooters and goaltenders You never know how those things turn out.”

The shootout loss did give the Rebels a single point but it also left a bad taste in their mouth when they prepared to face North Okanagan the following night The Kings are only second to the Eagles in the league standings and also have the top two scorers.

Mike Kooznetsoff started in goal for the Rebels and he expected to see a lot of rubber, but if that was the case he was playing for the wrong team. The assault on the Kings started early and it was consistent to the very end. The Rebels dominated every facet of the game en route to an impressive 8-1 victory.

Scoring came from all over the line-up. Nino Dacosta and Mike Hunter had a pair each while Craig Moisey, Vince Antignani, Casey Grant and Kevin MacGillvray added singles. It was

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“Going into the weekend we were looking at two tough games to get first place,” said Sauer. “But as a coaching staff we felt it was a plus playing tougher games down the stretch. The guys played good defence and we got good goal tending but the biggest contribut ing factor was good discipline and following our game plan

“We got the response we want- ed fronr the players and we were successful.”

Rebel veteran Nino Dacosta knows what an up-and-down sea- son is all about and he knows what it takes to win - a total team effort

“Everybody showed up early and prepared and everybody put in 110 per cent,” said Dacosta. “We all sat down together before the game and had a couple sec- onds of silence to think about things and that prepared us.

“We've had times when our chemistry is great and then other times when it’s not. Right now things are coming down to the wire and we're all coming together. This is peak time.... crunch time.”

And when all was said and done the Rebels’ effort was rewarded

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with first place and home-ice advan through the playoffs.

The Rebels next action is this Friday at the Complex when they take on the lowly Revelstoke Griz- zhes. Sauer plans to keep his team together and give some of the third and fourth-line players more ice time. He hasn’t ruled out bringing up a few Midgets for the game but don’t expect a mass exodus.

The Rebels finish up the sea- son with two tough road games against Sicamous on Saturday and North Okanagan on Sunday.

Rebel Rousings: The Rebels have managed to heal a few injuries over the past couple of weeks but it seems the pain parade never totally subsides. Kevin MacGillvray sat out the third period of Saturday’s game with shoulder problems and is also expected to miss this Fri- day’s match-up. Wade Burt sat out both of last weekend’s games with a knee hyper-extension and is said to be day-to-day. Jeff Mof- fat and Jordan Marlatt suffered through the flu and should be ready this week.

Marlatt and Jeff Evdokimoff were called up to the Creston Val- ley Thunder last week and most reports said they played pretty well despite being a part of a loss. Evdokimoff picked up and assist.

Like any good boy scout, all Castlegar hockey fans should be prepared because playoffs will like- ly begin the middle of next week.

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The Selkirk Saints cross-country team.

Top from left:Rhonda Te Bulte, Susan

Deane, Christine Clay, Wendy Thompson, Derek Peregrym. Front from left: Steve Musgrave, Malcolm Menninga, Daryl Carter and Ryan Archibald. Gideon Musgrave

and Greg Roberts are missing from the photo.

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Making tracks in L.A.

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For most people, a leisurely trip to California would entail a cruise through Beverly Hills, a look through Disneyland and maybe some quality time spent on the beach. But not the Selkirk Saints cross- country team. They decided it would be a lot more fun running a marathon in sweltering heat

Hot on the heels of their championship season, lit- erally, the Selkirk runners travelled down to compete in the Long Beach Marathon held Sunday, Feb. 5 The Long Beach course was a certified marathon distance of 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometres) and 10 Castlegar runners took part. Eight are members of the-Selkirk team while their coach’ Derek Peregrym and team nutritionist Jeff Krueger also took part

Peregrym didn’t expect much out of his runners but he did expect them all to finish. But even that was in doubt thanks to temperatures that soared above 90 degrees.

“There was only one day to acclimatize and I told everyone to hold back on the water,” said Peregrym. “You have to take advantage of every water stop in situations like that.”

Despite the intense heat every single member of the group managed to finish the race. Peregrym said a few struggled to make it but they all achieved their goal.

“Everyone finished and that was our goal - especial- ly since this was their first marathon,” said Peregrym.

The top Saints runner was Malcolm Menninga who finished the course in three hours and 58 min- utes. Menninga has been a strong runner for the team all season long but Peregrym was also impressed with the performance of Ryan Arcffibald who finished in four hours and 44 minutes.

Just to show that the master can still teach his stu- dents a few things, Rexegrym led the group and fin- ished with a time of three hours and 16 minutes. Peregrym is an avid marathon runner and triathlete who plans to run in his fifth Ironman Canada Triathalon this August in Penticton. He has also competed previously in the Boston Marathon.

“T didn’t do too bad considering it was the middle of my off-season,” said Peregrym of his race. “It's not a personal best but my peak season isn’t until mid-August.”

Peregrym hopes the California pilgrimage will now be an annual event for his team because he can foresee great benefits from this excursion.

“The team’s endurance is going to be a lot better and they are now going to be motivated to run,” said Peregrym. “They all want to do another one and this will mot ie them through the summer to train harder. That will mean a good base for the track sea- son in September.”

Of course that will mean more money and a better fundraising campaign but Peregrym says he and his team are dedicated to making it back. After all, when they start something this big, Selkirk now has a tradition of never stopping until the finish line.

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