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By CasNews Staff

You've heard of missing it by an inch, well, Debra Bray missed it by exactly 13 inches,

One foot, one inch was precisely how much taller than Bray was the U.S. girl who beat her in the Ski For Light competition Feb. 23 at Kananaskis, Alta.

Bray, 33, who has won gold medals in the event the previous two years, had to settle for silver this time.

And .the four-foot-eleven Trail athlete said height had a lot to do with it.

“The reason I lost was that three of my strides were equal to one of hers. Silver's OK though,” she said.

More than 40 racers competed in the 14th annual event for blind and partially blind skiers sponsored by the Sons Of Norway Lodge.

Bray finished the five-kilometre course, with the help of Castlegar guide Olwyn Ringheim, in a time of 31 minutes 53 seconds.

Ringheim said Bray, who has just four per cent of normal vision, held her own on the course against the bigger skier.

“She’s a good little skier,” said Ringheim, who’s in her first year as a guide. “It was a pleasure being with her.””

Ringheim, 63, herself an accom- plished skier who has competed in- fernationally in the Masters of Canada program, said she got into being a guide because she wanted to give something back to the sport she doves.

“it’s the least I can do, to help Someone learn. I wish you could see the joy in their’ faces, they're so delighted,” she said.

&: Castlegar staged the first Ski For- Light competition ‘in 1978, a year prior to the formation of Ski For

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West Kootenay title for seventh straight year. All told, Closkey,

Kootenay championships.

—CosNews photo by Ed Mills

SCHOOL SPORTS

If they gave out rings for win- ning the West Kootenay basket- ball championships, Jack Closkey’ would need an extra hand to ac-

On Saturday, Closkey’s senior girls won the AA Senior Girls

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who has coached senior girls basketball at the school since 1969, has won 10

And, as it’s been in a majority

of those years, it wasn’t even close Saturday in the gym at SHSS.

Kristy Lees scored 16 points

and Carilyn Briscoe had 14 as the

“ Rockettes beat the Grand Forks Wolves 81-34 ip front of sparse hometown crowd,

Kelly Davidoff — who didn’t see the floor until the second half — had 14 points for SHSS, which led 32-18 at halftime.

The Rockettes beat L.V. Rogers of Nelson 79-24 to ad- vance to the final,

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The victory means the Rocket- tes will travel to Armstrong, just outside of Vernon, for the Provincial championships March 13-16.

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With this team, curerntly ranked fifth in the province, Closkey said he probably has his best shot ever at a provincial title.

Kristy Lees (with ball) is the Rockettes rocket woman. Coach Closkey calls her the fastest irl on the court in the province. if she can maintain contro! of the ball she'll be a force ir SHSS as the senior girls travel to Armstrong for the provincials from March 15-17.

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Still, he’s not buying polish for the trophy yet.

“‘When you know you're really g00d, it’s very hard to play up to your. potential,"’ the SHSS vice- Principal said Monday. ‘But if we do play up to our potential, we're going to do very, very well,”

With such a broad range of talent, Closkey’s loath to put any one girl above another on this team, Pressed on the issue, the veteran coach admits there are a few girls who have to show up to Play if the Rockettes are to be successful.

“If Briscoe doesn’t play then we're in trouble. She’s kind of the anchor,”’ he said.

Others Closkey mentioned were Lees and forwards Rory Perrier and Sherry Makortoff.

Lees, who was unstoppable in the Grand Forks game, is the Rockettes’ rocket woman.

“‘She’s the fastest kid in the Province, no question,” said Closkey. But, he added, she doesn’t always have ball control to go along with that speed.

“But when she does put it all together, she can go with that speed and she’s very impressive.’’

Makortoff has to can points from the baseline and Perrier, the talest player on the Rockettes at six feet and a bit, has to rebound, especially against teams with big girls, SHSS is going to be effective, said Closkey.

Briscoe, a five-eleven forward who started playing senior ball in Grade 10, said this team is closer knit than the last two senior teams she’s played on.

“‘We work. as a team, everybody works together,”” said the Rockettes co-captain, adding the girls collectively know their

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Strengths (speed) and weaknesses heading into provincials.

“I think one of our biggest weaknesses is we have to toughen our defence,"’ said Briscoe. “We have to want to play defence bet- ter, We can play it when we want to. We just have to want to.”

Besides defence, Closkey said the girls need to get tough, not on the cgurt but in their minds, before provincials. Lack of local competition has often meant lack of intensity for the senior girls so Closkey will be tuning them in to the task ahead.

“I think the Grade 12 kids (Lees, Makortoff, Briscoe, Deanna Bankert and Lisa Baker) are very focused, they've been there before, they know what they want to do. I would hope the Grade 11 kids (Perrier, Davidoff, Carolyn Chernoff Laurel Closkey, Denise Grey and Shelly Blessin) feel the same.’’

The Rockettes play their first game in the provincials against St. Patrick’s, a private school on the Lower Mainland and the 12th-ranked team in the provin- ce.

Even with the game won and the West Kootenay championship trophy in his hand, Rockettes coach © Jack Cleskey, who's coached the team since 1969, is as intense as ever.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Toron- to’s Donovan (Razor) Ruddock Predicted Tuesday he’ll knock out Mike Tyson in their March 18 heavyweight bout in Las Vegas, but he didn’t go so far as naming the round.

“*L have a lot of confidence in my

Ruddock ‘said during a news con- ference with Tyson. “I don’t know what I’ll do, but

“I'll do what I have to do.””

Ruddock accused Tyson of ducking out of a fight against him in November 1989, when the then-

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“I felt Mike was ducking me,” Ruddock said. “‘I believe it. We gave him the opportunity to postpone, not cancel."*

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“I’m glad to be in proper shape now,”’ Tyson said. ‘‘I hope you all get to see the fight because you won't forget me for a long time. I’ll do well.””

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“He'll find his fists full of 270- pound jolly brown giant,’’ King said. “Foreman is the real draw in that fight. Holyfield couldn’t draw flies in a dump.”

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Midgets play Nelson in final

The Castlegar Midget Reps will meet Nelson in the West Kootenay Minor Hockey Association championship series this weekend.

The first game of the best-of-the-three series goes Saturday at the Community Complex at 3:45 p.m,

The winner of the series advances to the Midget provincial finals which are being held in Nelson tater this month,

Castlegar got a bye into the finals after finishing first overall in the WKMHA regular season standings and was waiting for the winner of a first-round series between Nelson and Beaver Valley.

In the meantime, the Castlegar Midgets played an exhibition game last weekend against a Castlegar Recreational Hockey League All-star team. Shane Cutler and Derek Kazakoff each scored twice as the Midgets beat the All-stars 7-4. Dustin Rilcof, Ryan Jolly and Derek Lalonde scored the other goals for the Midget Reps.

Bill Voykin, Clay Martini, Kelly Keraiff and Bob Dunsmore scored for the All-stars,

Peewees tie Rossland-Trail

Rob Case scored two goals and added one assist while Kyle Grant and Fred Jack both had two-point games as the Castlegar Peewee House team played to 4-4 tie with Rossland-Trail No. 3 team in a game Feb. 23 at the Castlegar Community Complex.

Trailing 3-1 after one period, Castlegar got back into the game when Case scored five minutes into the second, then scored his second to tie the score, converting passes from Jack and Kevin Short.

Dennis Harding scored for Rossland-Trail at the 15-minute mark of the third but Jack set up Grand to tie the game again with 3:41 remaining.

Jamie McKendry opened the scoring for Castlegar in the first Period on assists from Case and Grant. .

Jamboree set for Valley

The Dairyland Sportsmanship Jamboree, played in Castlegar last year, will be hosted by the Beaver Valley Minor Hockey Association at the Beaver Valley Arena from March 8-10.

Players are selected for teams in the Jamboree based on good sportsmanship on and off the ice as well as demonstrating respect for fellow players, coaches and officials.

About 150 players, coaches and managers from across the Kootenays will participate this year, the B.C. Amateaur Hockey Association said in a news release.

Based on spo ip and skill and teams in the event are given points for winning but lose points when players take penalties.

Kelowna hosts Disabled Games

The B.C. Games for the Physically Disabled will be held July 17- 21 in Kelowna, B.C. Sport and Fitness Council for the Disabled said in a news release.

“*The council is extending an invitation to all sport oriented British Columbians with disabilities to take part in these games,”’ B.C. Sport said.

Transportation will be provided free of charge for participants while meals and accommodation are covered.by a minimal registration fee.

Among the events included in the Games are swimming, slo-pitch, ing, goalball, ifting, ian and cycling. For registration information, contact Jennie Virtue at the Sports Council in Vancouver

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rookie at the Labatt Brier, but Ran- dy Woytowich played as precise a game as any of his fellow skips have at the Canadian men’s curling cham- pionship Tuesday night.

The veteran from Regina saddled Ontario’s Russ Howard with his third straight loss, 5-4, in sixth-round play to push Saskatchewan's record in the 12-team competition to 5-1 and a first-place tie with Alberta's Kevin Martin.

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HAMILTON — Standings at the Labatt Brier Canadian men's curling champions after sixth- round play Tuesday night:

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Canadian junior championship, beat the Prince Edward Island rink skip- ped by Robert Campbell of Chariot- tetown 6-4.

Saskatchewan and Alberta meet in this afternoon's seventh draw.

Woytowich, a former Canadian mixed champion and veteran provin- cial qualifier, needed an extra end against Howard after his attempt to hit and stay with his last shot in the 10th rolled out.

When Howard, who skipped the Brier and world champions in 1987, drew up short in front of a clean house with his last rock in the 11th, Woytowich confidently drew for the count.

“That's what | like — a free draw to anywhere in the rings to win a game," he said. “It was a nice shot for us to finish on.""

In other sixth-round play, Gary Mitchell's struggling Moncton, N.B., tink — with third Grant Oldishaw calling the shots — upset Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg 6-5; John

Gerry Kent of Cranbrook, 6-3; Rick Lang of Thunder Bay, Ont., beat Dan Bentley of Halifax 9-3 and Chuck Haines of Whitehorse, soun- dly beat Kevin Adams 8-4, prom- pting the veteran Montreal skip to Prounounce, ‘‘We’'re toast.””

Woytowich, a 36-year-old veteran of 20 years curling, said his lack of previous Brier competition didn’t af- fect his shot-making, even after he split and rolled out with his last rock in the 10th.

But Woytowich said he didn’t feel in control even after building a 3-0 lead through five ends.

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CosNews photo by Ed Mills

Rink just a whisper away

By CasNews Staff

May Perehudoff called it a.wick of a whisper.

It’s what cost her rink the A division championship on her last rock in the 32-team Castlegar Ladies Barbee bonspiel at the Castlegar Curling Club last weekend.

Trailing by two in the 10th end and needing last rock to tie in the championship game Sunday,

Seniors complete 4th draw

By BUD LOWTHER

The rink skipped by Péter Obedkoff won the just-completed fourth draw in the Castlegar Pen- sioners Curling Club with a record of eight wins and two losses.

Obedkoff was backed up by lead Mike Kurnoff, second Frank Steevenvoorden and third Frank Holdsworth.

Tied for second spot in the fourth draw were the rinks of Arnie Akselson and Gerry Rust, each with records of seven wins and three losses.

The local senior club held its an- nual match with the Nelson seniors in Castlegar on Feb. 28 but came out on the short end of the tournament with three wins against five losses.

Castlegar club winners against Nelson included rinks skipped by Akselson, Wally Brunn and Ray Heagy.

The fifth draw got under way Tuesday at the Castlegar Curling Club.

Last rocks go out to the club’s “senior’’ senior Cecil Bradford who passed away last month. A popular fellow, Cec will be missed.

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Perehudoff was faced with a doozy of shot, as she explains.

“They had two guards and it was @ very narrow port right down the middle. I got past the first guard, and it looked like it was past the second, and it just wicked it, just a whisper, and threw it off line,’’ she said.

Lois Cutler’s rink out of Nelson

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WEDDING INVITATIONS

was the beneficiary of that wick of a whisper. winning 8-7 to take home the Anderson Insurance A-side trophy.

Out of 17 local teams entered, Castlegar’s only event winner came in the B-event with Lorraine John

skipping her rink to the Super Valu trophy.

Dorren Boisvert of Trail won the Kats Trophies and Engraving trophy in the C event and Fruitvale’s Eileen Galamour won the Castlegar Realty trophy in the D event.

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