Page 10, The Herald, Monday, December 17, 1979 Fa PERE AGE-AREEEMAL } daily herald SPORTS with Don Schaffer ; oa The Duchess Park Condors, winners of the Kinsmen Invitational Basketball Tournament: standing, left to right, coach Bill Gook, Karl BEAT CAEL 111-74 Bush, Pat West, Mike Suderman, Brian Frenkel, Brad Frenkel; kneeling, left to right, Kent Stanley, Wade Beallle, Dan Foucher, Condors win second By DON SCHAFFER Herald Staff Writer The Duchess Park Condors fave just about everything~ including the Kinsmen In- vitational Volleyball Tournament title for the second straight year. The Condors were ranked number one in the province. They have big, strong, fast: forwards, guards that can handle the ball and shoot, and a reasonably disciplined offence. They met the host Caledania Kermodes in the final, and dominated the game throughout eventually winning 111-74, The Condors really only won the first and fourth quarters of the game, Cal playing even with them for the middle two, but the Prince George team 50 contratled the first and last quarters that even during the middle the Kermodes couldn't gain any ground at Duchess led 35-13 after the first quarter, largely on the play of Mike Suderman who scored 15 points and some very good defence against tournament Most Valuable Player Jim Kellar. Suder- man denied Kellar the ball all through the quarter and, combined with the steady team defence, shut down the Kermodes’ offence. Duchess advanced to the final by beating Prince Rupert Senior Secondary's ERIC METZMEIER... Honorable mention Rainmakers 99-78 Friday evening and the Burns Lake Secondary Lakers 134-41 Saturday morning. The Kermodes advanced to the final by winning their initial two games. They beat the Prince George Senior Secondary Folars 72-52 in Friday night's feature game, and took the Mount Elizabeth Chief- tains convincingly earlier Friday afternoon, 90-66. Kellar scored 29 against Kitimat and 23 against PGSS, as well as 21 against Duchess. Tournament allstars were PGSS's Allen Dawson, Rupert’s John Lewis, and Suderman, Brian Frenkel and Pat West from the Condors. Kellar was MVP, and honorable mentions went to Burns Lake’s Dee Peterson, Kitimat's Rod Neuman, Rupert’s Joe Basso, Duchess’s Kar] Bush and Kermode Eric Metz- meier. Duchess Park and Caledonia finished first and second, with Rupert finishing third, Kitimat fourth, PGSS fifth and Burns Lake sixth. Prince Rupert beat Burns Lake 98-64 Friday afternoon, lost to Duchess 99-78, and then beat Kitimat 91-73 in the con- solatian final Saturday night. Rupert's Joe Basso scored 31 and John Lewis got 16 in the game, that Rupert led 47-25 at half-time. The PGSS Polars beat the Burns Lake Lakers for fifth by coming back from a bad first half to’ win 73-59, Burns Lake led 21-14 after the first quarter and 43-33 at the half, but PGSS began to come back and took the lead with 2:50 left in the third quarter. Prince George’s Brian Sheir scored 80 points and all-star Dawson got 23, While the Laker’s Peterson scored 19. Kitimat wins on weekend Minor Hockey Inter-City ltep Team League action over the weekend saw Terrice and Kitimat teams playing all the games. The Pups and Bantams played in Kitimat, but the Pups only got one game out cf the weekend as their Sunday game was cancelied. Kitimat’s Pups edged the Terrace Pups 6-5 Saturday, but nu scorers were wvailable. Kitimat’s Bantams took two games away from the Terrace Inland Kenworth Bantams, winning 5:4 Saturday and 6-2 Sunday. Saturday Lyle Marleau scored twice with Steve Turner and Russell Benzer each getting one. No scorers were available for Sunday's game, Kitimat’s Midgets also enjoyed a good weekend against the All Seasons Midgets from Terrace, winning both games. Friday the score was 9-4, with Terrace goals coming from Rob Collins, Brian Fugere, Ron Rae and Larry Swan- son. The game was a rough one, with the Kitimat team Ham's year over-hurt PITTSBURGH (AP) — Allpre Hnebacker Jack Ham of Pittsburgh Steelers will mias the rest of the National Foolball League season because of a dislocated ankle that may require surgery, the team sald Sunday. Ham was helped off the field during the Steelers’ 20- 1i logs to the Oilers last Monday in Houston. He waa replaced In Sunday's 28-0 win over Buffalo by Dennia Winston, with Loren Toewa pieaying the position on poasing cowna. Ham, 31, has hecn a hallmark of the Pittsburgh defence, taking a match penalty and four game misconducts. All Seasons received one game misconduct. Saturday’s game was cleaner, but the result was basically the same, Kitimat winning 10-4. Terrace goals came from Collins, Colin Parr, Bruno Hidber and Emile Gagnon. The Twin River Timber Peewees were the only Terrace winners on the weekend, as they whipped the Kitimat Peewees 11-1 Friday night. Trevor Hendry had five goals for Twin River, with Troy Kaye getting two, Cliff Furnseth with two, and Albert Wat- mough and Gerry Lambert each with one, Kitimat’s A Peewees, the team that played Twin River Friday, beat the Terrace B Peewees 8-1 Saturday af- ternoon. Mike Bee got the lone Terrace goal. There are no league games scheduled for the Dec. 22 weekend, All age levels will participate in tournaments over the Christmas holidays. Schedules and places will be announced when details become available. Allstar hoop game sees Kitimat beat Terrace The Kitimat Men's Basketball Association Allstars made a_ long, miserable trip worthwhile Sunday afternoon by whipping the Terrace Men’s Basketball Associatian Allstars 107-82 at Skeena Junior Secondary School in Terrace, ; After making the drive to Terrace in the blowing snow, the Kitimat squad controlled the game from the outset, leading at the half 46-38 but really pulling away in the fourth quarter. Chris Fox led Kitimat with 26 points, getting most of his baskets on fast-break layups resulting from steals made fram the Terrace side. Gerald Amos scored 22 points for Kitimat, and John Walbergs, who arrived in the middle of the first quarter, made up for his late arrival with 15 points in the second half and 21 for the game. Dale Prest was top scorer for Terrace with 14 points, while Bruce Johnstone and Dave Metzmeier each contributed 12. Colin Chasteauneuf, coach of the Terrace side, said that the Kitimat team played a more aggressive game and outran the Terrace Allstars. Kitimat’s men's league play is finished until after Christmas, but there are still, four games to play in the Terrace league before the holiday. Next games are Tuesday at Skeena, when All Seasons plays Ev's Clippers and Kluss and Sons meet the Skeena Hotel Orphans. Game times are 8 p.m. and §:30 p.m, MESS playday has Simpson boys win Mount Elizabeth Secon- dary School in Kitimat hosted a junior A basketball playoff for both girls and boys Saturday. Details from most of the games were unavailable at press time, but some scores were available. Port Simpson's boys won at least two games, beating Mount Elizabeth 69-68 and Skeena Junior Secondary School from Terrace 62-58. Darry] Reese led the Simp- son team with 42 points against Kitimat and 41 against Skeena. In their game against the Terrace school, they trailed the whale way until 2 minutes left in the game, when they overcame a 47-40 halftime deficit to win, The Skeena boys also lost to Hooth Memorial Junior Secondary from Prince Rupert, dropping a 4-31 decision. Skeena’s girls had a better day, beating Booth 41-23 and Port Simpson 41-26, Karen Wideman led Skeena with 17 points in each contest. Stephanie Cousins had 12 against Booth and Linda McConnell also contributed 12 against Port Simpson. Record set JASPER, Ala. (AP) — Tom Hardman of Gaineaville, Ga., set a world powerlifting record when he bench-pressed 691.5 pounds in the heavyweight com- petition of the Heart of Dixie powerlifting championships. Hardman, 28, won the 275- pound class with a lift of 545.56 pounds Saturday, He broke the record on his second attempt at 691.5 pounds, Hardman then tried and falled to bench-press 601 pounds. The old mark of 589 pounds was held by Doug Young of Brownwood, Tex, ‘threw three LAST GAME TONIGHT Playoff teams ready By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It's Chicago Philadelphia and... And we'll tind out the rest tonight when Denver Broncos visit San Diego Chargers with a National Football League division title at stake. The loser winds up with the wild card and a trip te Houston, The winner gets the American at Conference Weat title. Chicago Bears can thank their lucky stars — or, rather, the blue stars on the sliver helmets of Dallas Cowboys — that they're in the playoffs at all. Thanks to the NFL's tie- breaking system to deter- mine playoff teams, the Bears not only had to beat St. Louis but had to win big, and needed some help from Dallas. They got it all. First, they routed the Cardinals 42-6 to wipe out Washington's for-and- agalnst points edge — a 33- point differential. Then, they watched the Cowboys beat the Redskins 35-34 in one of the most thrilling NFL games of recent years, Had Chicago scored one less touchdown against the Cards — infact, one lesa touchdown the whole season Washington would have gotten the second wild card and faced the Eagles next Sunday. Dallas’ Roger Staubach touchdown passes, two of them — 26 yards to Ron Springs and eight yards to Tony Hill — in the closing minutes to wipe out Washington's 34-21 lead and propel the Cowboys to the championship of the National Conference's East Division. Staubach’s floater to Hill and Rafael Septien's tle-breaking extra point came with 39 seconds to play. Two other division champions were crowned Sunday. Pittsburgh Steelers, already guaranteed their eighth straight playoff ap- pearance, locked up their sixth successive title in the AFC's Central Division by beating Buffalo 28-0. And in the NEC's Central Division, Tampa Bay's once- laughable Buccaneers shook off a choke collar, halted a three-game skid and, in a . near-monsoon, beat Kansas City 3-0 to nail down first place, Philadelphia, already assured a playoff berth, defeated Houston 26-20, The Oilers are at home for the AFC wild-card game next Sunday at 4 p.m. EST. The Chicago-at-Philadelphia NFC wild-card affair is scheduled to kick off at 12:30 p.m, EST. The Rams, NFC West champions, bid farewell to Los Angeles (they move to Anaheim next season) by losing 20-14 to New Orleans. Oakland and Cleveland, two other teams that nurtured slender AFC wild-card hopes, saw them dashed, with the Raiders losing to Seattle 29-24 and the Browns falling to Cincinnati 16-12. Elsewhere, Atlanta best San Francisco 31-21 with 0.J. Simpson playing his’ final NFL game for the ‘49ers, New England defeated Minnesota 27-23 and Bal- timore blasted the New York Giants 31-7, On Saturday, New York Jets beat the AFC East champion Miami Dolphins 27-23 and Green Bay Packers defeated Detroit 18-13. The Lions and 'dfers finished tied for the worst record this year, 2-14, with Detrolt get- Ung the Nol pick Im the college draft next April 29 because ita opponents won fewer games than San Franciseo's. The usually placid Staubach had seen just about everything in his 11 years in the NFL — but nothing could match the Cowboys’ game agalnst Washington. “We were out of it... then we were in it, . . then we were out of it... then we were In it. I’ve never played in a game like that before,'' sald Staubach, who passed for 336 yards against the dazed Redskins. The Redskins led 17-0 before Staubach brought the Cowboys back within three points just before halftime, one of the TDs coming on a 26-yard pasa to Preston Pearson. Bears 42 Cardinals 6 “We had to go out and win by more than 33 and we did it,” said Chicago coach Neill Armatrong. "Inever gave up because . . . [ thought something good was going to happen.” Just about the only thing ‘the Cardinals were playing for was rookie Ottis An- derson'a chance for the NFL rushing title — but the Bears held him to 39 yards before he left in the third period. Anderson finished with 1,005 yards while Walter Payton gained 157 yards and scored three TDs for the Bears to finish with 1,610, But neither of them won the rushing tle, Eagles 24 Oilers 20 Earl Campbell did — for the second successive year — with 1,097 yarda following his 134-yard, one-TD showing against the Eagles. Quar- terback Ron Jaworski ran for Philadelphia's first TD and his backup, John Walton, passed for the winner, Steelers 28 Bills 0 Pittsburgh did what it does so well — smother the op- position — by permitting Buffalo just eight first downs, and three of them came on penalties, Mean- while, Franco Harris ran for TDs of one and 11 yards and Lynn Swann made an acrobatic scoring catch of a 20-yard Terry Bradshaw pass. Buca 3 Chiefs 0 For Tampa Bay, the playoffs are, indeed, something new, Four years ago, the Buccaneers were winless, lovably laughable. But when Neil O'Donoghue kicked a 19-yard field goal with 8:60 to play, they became the fasteat-rising ex- pansion team in NFL tory. Saints 29 Ram 14 Mike Strachan sored from the 10 and the one on short runs sed ugh rons fanning pa elght yar Saint, finablng, with thelr . Ww best record ever, 8-8, took advantage of six turnovera to beat Los Angeles, Seahawks 29 Raiders 24 Jim Zorn threw two touch- McCullum, aa Seattle dashed Oakland's playoff hopes. McCullum: caught eight passes for 173 yards, ' Bengals 16 Browns 12 Cleveland's even slimmer hopes of a wild card went under when fullback Peta Johnson and rookie quar- terback Jack Thompson each ran for a touchdown for Cincinnati. Falcons 31 49ers 21 0d. Simpson finished his magnificent career with 11,236 rushing yards — just 12 of tham Sunday in two rushes for San Francisco -~ but went out on the losing side once again as Steve Bartkowski's seven-yard TD pass to Jim Mitchell and Robert Pennywell’s 39-yard interception for another score gave the Falcons their victory. Patriots 27 Vikings 23 The Patriots’ Steve Grogan came up with a 40- yard TD pass to Harold Jackeon in a 20-point fourth quarter to turn back the Vikings, Colts 31 Giants 7 Don McCauley scored on a pair of one-yard ruins as the Colta closed out the season by snapping a fivegame Toalng streak. Flyers one game out By THE CANADIAN PRESS Pittaburgh Penguins are the lone obstacle impeding Philadelphia Flyers’ march to a share of the National Hockey League record for consecutive games without a loss. And the way the Flyers have been storming the league this season, Boston Bruins had better be prepared because they're next in line after the Penguins. Said Flyers’ coach Pat Quinn in looking to the game in Philadelphia against the Penguins: ‘'We'd be classified as idiots if we said we're not playing Thursday to tle the streak.” The Flyers won their seasonopener Oct. 11 and loat their second game, 9-2 back on Oct. 13 to the Flames in Aflenta, That score was a bit embarrassing and the Flyers got mad — and haven't icst in 27 games since, | Sunday night, the Flyers came out of Madison Square Garden in New York witha 1-1 tie against the Rangers. The Flyers had won.3-2 at home the night before over Buffalo Sabres — with the second-best record in the NHL and entering the game with nine straight victories were considered the one team that might have killed Philadelphia's hopes of prolonging the string. The record for moat con- secutive games without a loss is 28, set during the 1977- 78 season by Montreal Canadiens, the current edition of which might v well wish time had stood st two years back. Their coach quit last Wednesday, the Canadiens lost in Edmonton on Friday and lost again Saturday, 6-2, in Winnipeg to the Jets, With four setbacks in a row, the defending Stanley “Cup champions now find themselves doing something unfamiliar — looking over their shoulders in the Norria Division. In other Sunday games, Chicago Black Hawks dropped Detroit Red Wings 7-3, Winnipeg capped a productive weekend with a 4- 3 win in Edmonton over the Qilers, Boston went into Buffalo and won 61 and Quebec Nordiques beat Pittsburgh 4-1 to keep thelr Undefeated home record intact. Joining the Flyers and Jets in the win column Saturday were Washington Capitals, who rallled from a four-goal deficit to edge the Rangers 5- 4, Toronto Maple Leafs, who shelled Atlanta Flames 6-1, Colorado Rockies, whe shaded Hartford Whalers 6- 5, Los Angeles Kings, 4-3 winners over Vancouver Ca- nucks, Minnesota North Stars, who defeated St. Louis Blues 3-1, and Chicago, which edged Boston 2-1. Pittsburgh and New York ‘Islanders tied 3-3 while Quebec and Detroit, playing the final NHL game in the Olympia which has been replaced as the Red Wings’ home rink by a new arena, drew 4-4. Flyera 1 Rangers t Despite the low score, the Flyers and Rangers played aggressively, with out- standing goaltending of Philadelphia's Phil Myre and New York's Steve Baker highlighting the game, Myre faced 35 shots and made at least six difficult stops in the third period, including two on Phil Esposlto. Steve Vickers scored for the Rangers during a power play in the first period. If Philadelphia gets past Pittsburgh, a consecutive- game undefeated record could be set next Saturday in an afternoon game at Boston Garden. Bucks snap streak ‘By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When Milwaukee Bucks break out of-a losing streak, they do ft right. *] think we're over it, whatever it was,’’ said Marques Johnson after scoring 21 points to lead the Bucks to a 104-79 National Basketball] Association victory Sunday night over Utah Jazz, The Bucks had lost six straight games before their latest victory. They didn’t look particularly well through the firat quarter, Sunday night, when they fell behind by 10 points at one stage, but coach Don Nelson told Jolnson: “Hey, the shots will fall,"’ They eventually did, with Johnson contributing most of the key points, Before long the Bucks were off and winging. . Elsewhere Sunday, Boston Celtics beat New Jersey Nets 115-112 in overtime, Kansas City Kings edged Indiana Pacers 107-105, Seattle SuperSonics turned back Denver Nuggets 123-121, Los Angeles Lakers beat San Antonio Spurs 121-119, San Diego Clippers beat Detroit Pistons 133-126 and Portland Trail Blazers hammered Houston Rockets 123-101. On Saturday, Boston beat New York Knicks 90-06, Atlanta Hawks downed Philadelphia ‘Téers 112-98, Cleveland Cavaliers beat New Jersey = 117-111, Washington Bullets defeated Chicago Bulls 115-113, San Antonio shaded Golden State Warriors. 102-101, Phoenix Suns tapped Detroit 126-105 and Portland beat Denver 106-55. After falling behind by 10 points in the firet quarter, the Bucks soon cut the margin to 25-19. They rallied to 30-30 with 7:26 left In the haif then went aliead to stay 34-32. Celtics 115 Nets 112 Larry Bird's 19 points helped Boston beat New Jersey, despite a season- high 52-point output by quard Mike Newlin of the Nets. The Nets had a 112-107 lead after Newlin’s shot with 1:96 left in overtime, But Chris Ford made a three-point goal from the left corner 13 seconds later for Boston. Kings 107 Pacers 105 Centre Sam Lacey hit a jayup with 15 seconds left to rally Kansas City over In- diana, The Kings, who en- tered the game one-half game behind the Bucks in the Midwest Division, got an Insurance free throw from Phil Ford for 4 107-103 lead before Alex English's basket at the buzzer for Indiana. Sonics 123 Nuggets 121 Fred Brown's running jumper with two seconds remaining lifted Seattle over Denver, Clippers 133 Platous 126 Lloyd Free equalled his NBA career-high scoring total with 49 points. Kitimat all-stars beat Chrysler Juv’s The Kitimat Commercial Hockey League Allstars. hosted the Terrace Chrysler Juveniles Sunday afternoon and came away 9-5 winners on the strength of Trevor Sandburg’s hat trick. The Terrace team got away to a 1-0 lead on Doug Middleton’s goal with three minutes gone in the first period, but the period ended in a 1-2 tie as Larry Black- more knotted the score late in the frame. Terry Qlson put Chrysler ahead 2-1 early in the second period, but from then on it was almost all Kitimat. Mark Hammarquist tied the score, then Sandburg's first two goals and Dave Chor- ney’s marker put Kitimat up +2 at the end of the second period, Terrace Chrysler almost tied the game early in the second period, scratching their way back to a 5-4 score when Cookie Vandenbroek and Darcy Mallet scored quickly in the third period. Steve Lindenback supplied the eventual winner soon after Mallet scored, and Barry Boudreau, Sandburg and Paul Knight finished the Kitimat scoring, Simon Dodd got the game's final goal with 19 seconds left to play. Winterhawks go — through snow to split The Kitimat Winterhawks were the only team brave enough to go out in the cold this weekend, and they came home from their road trip with a split from games in Housten and Smithers. : Saturday night they lost an overtime decision to the Houston Luckles, 6-4 in overtime. No further details are available, Sunday iternoon in Smithers Kitimat beat the Totems €5 in regulation time. Kitimat came back from a two-goal deficit to take the win, after they went down 2-0 in the first period on goals by Doug Graf and Ken Noulton. Mark Perry got two for the Totems in the second period, but the Winterhawks also gol four goals, one each by Mage! Fournier, Dan Fournier, Randy Schooley and Steve Kerbrat. Paul Cormier got the final goal for Smithers in the third period, but Magel Fournier's second goal and Mark Schooley's winner gave Kitimat the twa points, All other games in the PNWHL on the weekend were cancelled. No dates have yet been set for the Bates to be made up. Next scheduled action In the league is Thursday, when Smithers might be in Burns Lake, and Granisleis to be in Houston. |