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- Tat-the’ Smithers’ Merchants
. Cash Spiel last week.°
“Keith: “Melanion’s ' crew |

Pty: ‘scoring with 231 points

fred South’ West Oklahoma
<t4-75-70. in’ overtime. ‘Hendry
“| -had 24. points and six. re-

|] Games; when Hazelton. drew.

‘ ‘Webster dnd: Tara O'Coffey:
=2° “victory overs].

“Herbert Lau and ‘Henry Lim
— of was it Henry Lau and

"Herbert Lim? I could never get
it right, just ‘as 1 could never

match: ‘the right. name to the
right’ person, ° “Its alright, "
sald Henry (or was it Herbert?)
to me one day, “The guys in the
club always. ‘Bet, us’ mixed: UP’,
too,” a :

: The: “club was - the "Osprey
Flyfishers, a Lower: Mainland
outfit. boasting 50: members.
Herb. and Henry: were. of
Chinese descent; they were both
studying to be doctors, they
wore the same khaki-coloured
fishing vests, the same brand of.
Neoprene...waders shod ...with.
identical ‘wading - brogues, both

packed 9 by 9 brown gtaphite |

flyrods to which were fastened
Hardy Marquis reels and both®
were at that obsessive stage of
development - in their
steelheading careers when: the
pursuit of the silver beast takes
precedence over lesser drives

~SPORTSCOPE-
Hendry MVP

at tourney

“MICHELLE HENDRY. was
the tournament MVP in
“SFU's triumphant victory at
‘a ‘major NAIA women’s
basketball tournament in
Plainview, Texas fast week.

oe errace’s ° ‘Hendry, who
‘leads Simon Fraser Universi-

‘this season, averaged nearly

‘the Clan to first-place.

An, their first game SFU
“hammered © ‘Doane College
82-69, ‘with Hendry. scoring
-19 points and five rebounds.
pes exte they.” “beat. the],
previously, number-one rank-

bounds before fouling out.

- And: in the championship
game, Hendry had 22 points
and 13 rebounds to beost
SFU to a 70-60 win over
Arkansas Tech.

Hetidry was named tour-
nament MVP, and she was
named — along with team-
mates Andrea Schneider and
Jennifer Currleigh — to the
‘first-team all stars.
~The victory: bumps the
Clan from number two to
number one in. U.S, women’s
collegiate basketball’s NALA
pational, rankings.

game is Dec. 17 against the
Central Washington
Wildcats. Then they’ re on
the road for. games in

Bahamas.

* Jr. curlers

- take zone

'TERRACE'S ‘BOYS «zone
curling | team defeated
Kitimat and -Hazelton two
‘weekends ago -.to’ earn the
tight to represent the zone at

Cox and Trevor ‘Muller ‘- —
beat Kitimat.12-3, and’ edged
Hazelton’ §-3 to take the zone
playoff. Bg

The. girls: team, however,
failed to- qualify . “for * the:

in for three on the last’énd | to
win the girls, zone final 8-7.

Before‘ that ‘Lynne. Wilson:
kipped "Terrace “teammates
ilden, , Melissa.

Kitimat:. . Hazelton also’ ‘beat
Kitimat 9.4,-" s
a eee
“In other curling action, a
Terrace Hnk fought their way
ta, consolation final victory.

dafeated the Smithers’ Baker
‘hk to clatm first in the: con-

22 points per: game to- pace |:

Their first district league!”

‘Hamilton, Toronto and the

like eating and sex,
Looking like a pair of Orien-
tal hit’ men with their wrap

around polarized sunglasses, .

the two°Ospreys. prowled the

banks of the Zymoetz for two:
- Successive seasons, They looked.
for’ steelhead to catch and.
steelheaders ; to interrogate,
. “What are.you. using?: Where -
are the best pools? ‘What is the:
best part of the river at this time’

Of year?”’ they asked;-

A few loose-lipped fishermen:
volunteered all they knew, but:
most of us stingy, steelheading
curmudgeons kept our cards to.
our vest; fearing our secrets
-may- move. along. the ‘Osprey.
pro-.
‘liferation’ of feathered - fi ishers
upon our hallowed waters: «I-

avoided them like the Asian’ Flu
until, one day, 1 was cornered’
by Henry (or was it Herbert?), °

I emerged f)rom the trail irito”

grapevine and lead to a’

the Bread and. Butter Run and
there he was, waiting beside my

ls eee

The Skeena
Angler
by Rob Brown .

truck. After ¢ a barrage of ques-
tions and some evasive answers,
it became: clear that today it
would not be easy to get free of
the Osprey’s talons, What was
to be done? ;

“Listen, I'm-going upstream
to the Fossil: ‘Beds,”"" I. said.
“Why don’t we take my truck,
put in the raft and float back to,
your car?”?

Herb/Henry broke into a

wide grin. “Sounds good, ” he -

said.

For the: last: few miles ‘to the -

fossil beds the road moves away
from the river. I'd-never_ seen,

much less floated any of ‘it.
Fine, | thought, / won't be giv-
ing away any secrets,

We threw the little dinghy in
the water. The Osprey sat ten-
tatively in the stern, We were
off, soon around the bend and
into the worst piece of water the

little inflatable had ever seen.

“Is there much more of this?’’

thé Osprey asked as we emptied

water from the boat. “No,?’ I

-” Said like [ knew.

‘I was wrong, almost dead
wrong.

Another rapid, another bend

On the sweep

~ SWEEPING DUO of Benno Kuemper and Al McGowan bear down on a travelling rock. The pair
"“patticipate i in weekly seniors games at the curling rink. ‘You'd see top- “notch seniors ladies curlers
“Tin action next February wher the city hosts provincial champlonships.

and we were hurtled into a.

’ frothing hell. The waves looked

. like tsunamis, we bounced over

them, glancing: off rocks and
spinning uncontrollably when
the oars got caught momentari-

' ly on bits of rockery, The boat

was goon full to the gunwales, -

Volley teams fa fall

“TWEXt year.

Creek, Brittanla, ¢ d.

‘solation tound ‘and $430,

zs TERRACE. _ Caledonia’ 8 Senior boys’ volleyball
team: came up with, one win arid seven-losses to
finish ©15th at? the “AAAT’ provincial boys

oan remee Oldham, Brian |: :

yalleyball championships. in-Comox,
The team beat West Vancouver in two straight

co ‘in the final-match playoff for 15th place.

But before that’ they narrowly: lost to three

. tOugh teams, They went down ii, their first match
° ta] Kelowtia — the school that ‘eventually took the
rn isl ver —

16-14; 15-10,
‘We played well against. the good |tams,” said
ach Shawn Krienke. ‘It: was ‘against the

weaker teams that we weren't up ‘to snuff,”

Krienke credited c ¢ Carl: Redmond as one

° “opie Kermadeés best | p layersin the tourney. ‘He

ran a huridred miles every game; he said. “The

other. boys were shanking. the'balls all over the ©
a place, and he.was there tracking them down.”

«: He sald Kurt Muller,’one of the team’s return-
ing Grade 11 players, also played well. “He was
the steadlest of our attackers," Krienke said,

_ About half of the team’s players wil be back

“Wt was an unforturiate: Way: to cha. a ‘season

that: we Worked ‘really hard. for;'* Krienke said.
' “It's.a-shamie to work like that-and fall short.

But overall: we: hada good: seagon. “And this is
ood experi enc ies for’ everyone next, year. "
e team'p

oe Kelé n a, |
Max ‘Cameron, ain Gp:

Cal's girls team,. meanwhile, went 0-10 to

. finish. 16th at the senior girls provincials i in Rich-
- mond, - ,

“They were a little inexperienced for the kind
of ball being played down there,”’ said team
coach Clayton Lloyd-Jones. ‘It was the best
senior girls volleyball: I've seen in a number of
years down there."

He said the team was badly beaten i in their first
two games when they went up against the top two
teams in their pool. ‘But we got better and better
as we went along,"” -he.said.

They: were close to- defeating Nelson in their
last game, but fell short: Part of it was due to the
loss of number one’setier Marsha Postuk, who
suffered a painful faceplant when she dove fora
save that game, >

“They tried as hard @ ag they could," Lloyd-

Jones said, ‘The first Match was certainly a little .

intimidating, but they came back after that.’?

But he sald Cal teams will likely never be able
to match: Lower Mainland teams’ “in the ex-

perience ‘depariment; nae
"Some of the teams down there probably play

_as many games in a weekend as we play in a
~ year,”* he said. “They'll: always have mote ex- .

perience.than-us because we simply can’t afford

_ to.travel for toumanients every weekerid,

ind that, he said, ‘was the.key in Richmond,
“Experience really:

had a little bit left to ‘finish us off.’

 Herbert/Henry. laoked at the

*" even more deadly maelstrom we |

were being carried‘ toward. He |
looked | back at me.. He was

white, “Out — we gotta get to
shoré,’? he screamed, -

“We'll be fined," I said in. an
amazingly calm ‘voice, then’
wondered if this last outrageous’
lie would be put on the debit -
side of my-soul ledger after I
died :-— an event which looked
as if it would be. happening
quite soon.

* The Osprey was not Teassured
when he saw I-was still rowing
furiously even though the cars
had popped from the oar locks’
and were flapping meaningless-
ly against the side of the boat.

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secrets

We were out of control. in a fit
of desperation I leaped out of |
the boat, keeping holdof. the

side. At this bit of insane
* bravado, Henbert’s eyes got
‘round like saucers and he
' started to scream louder,

Water poured into my
waders, My. feet came up
against one rock as the boat
simultaneously pushed up
against another. We stopped
then and, with great diffi iculty,

‘Managed to wrestle the boat
ashore, After emptying the hun-
‘dreds of gallons of water, I

looked at the panting Osprey.
“I think. we: should take out
here," I said, .
- We deflated the raft and
made our. way back to the truck,
The ‘Ospreys, Herb and Hank,
were around for ‘another
month.

1 saw: them: a few times, but
only from a distance. And they

“always seemed to be headed in

the opposite direction.

Bluebacks
look strong

TERRACE — Terrace's Aimee
Peacock knocked a full second
off the time to beat at a swim
meet last week to qualify for the
Canadian Youth Nationals in
the 200-metre breaststroke.

She picked up a bronze medal
in that event with her time of
2:51.1 — which came in under
the Youth National qualifying
time of 2:52.1 and was seven
seconds under her previous best
time in that event.

The --13- -year-old Terrace.

Bluebacks swimmer was one of
three local competitors in action
at the meet at the University of
B.C, Twenty-nine other clubs,
with 360 swimmers, were there.
Also impressive was 10-year-
old Garth Coxford, who swam
in the age 12-and-under division
against swimmters who were in
many cases two years older.
Yet in the finals, Coxfard
came through, finishing second
in the 200-metre butterfly.
**He’s just a little guy,'’ said
coach Bill Nash. “He should
have never even been close to se-

cond in that event.’

Jocelyn Coxford also finished
second, and Aimee Peacock was
sixth.

Garth Coxford finished sixth
in the 400-metre individual
medley. Also in that event,
Aimee Peacock finished ninth,
and Jocelyn Coxford finished
fifth,

Peacock again failed to
qualify for Youth Nationals in
the 100-metre breaststroke. She

, Narrowly missed making time at

the recent Bluebacks’ meet in’
Terrace, and this time she miss-
ed it by just four-tenths of a:se-
cond,

In other events, she was
fourth in the 100-metre
breaststroke. Jocelyn Coxford
was second in the 100-metre
butterfly; and third ‘in= the’
200-metre individual medley,
while Garth Coxford was 9th in
the 400-metre freestyle.

‘They swam incredibly fast
for this time of year," Nash ad-
ded. ‘‘All things considered, we
had a Bret | meet. ”

‘ ‘makes a difference, When . :
It got-doWn to the crunch the other teams always, bi

‘Close one;

FRASER McKAY goes in against the Esquimalt defence | in Ker-
modes basketball action here Friday night. Caledonia got off
to a slow start but stormed back, narrowly lasing 60-58. Down...
nine points with two minutes left, the Kermodes got to within -
two and despite several good. chantes were unable to tie the.
“game. High scorers for Cal were: Fernando Mil-Homens with 7
15:and Mike Newhouse. with 13, The Esquimalt Dockers’
Frank Konig scored 17. The weekend before Caledonia fell bys:
». More decisive margins to the Ketchikan: Kings. They dropped :
those two games 84.74 and, 5:54