Reds team chan - OC. Ripley The lowly Reds who should have become a much improved club . to after going to an in- termediate status and ' adding players like Cochrane, Kushner and Art Frenette to their roster two weeks ago continue to slumber along -in the PNWHL basement. ~ In the last four outings they have scored just seven oals while allowing their opposition to pump in forty-six. Inadequate defence or maybe lousy goalkeeping, either way you look at it does not explain the lack. of scoring punch. ; The Luckies who out- scored the Reds 10-3 did some other things that the Terrace club did not do. Houston took 15 trips to the sin-bin totaling sixty-three minutes, while the Reds took five minor and a major in the dying seconds of the game. I am not saying one has to take penalties to win hockey games or Kitimat curling bonspiel Kitimat Ladies Curlin Cub will hold its annu bonspiel November 25-27 at the Kitimat curling rink. Cost per rink will be $48 with a limit of 48 rinks to be entered. Times for the events have not been decided. Prizes will be awarded to a total of $1,000 and a closed banquet will be held Saturday, November 2 at River Lodge Recreation Centre. Closing date for - yegistration is Nov. 22. Contact Heather Pittle at 632-5595. Surgery sets back swimmer TORONTO (CP) — Steve Pickell, the WEST Vancouver, B.C., Olympian who has tured the fastest backstroke times in the world this year, was Gealt a shat: tering setback in his bid for No. 1 recognition recently when he un- derwent surgery on his left shoulder. Surgery was required to tighten up the shoulder muscles atter he twice suffered dislocations while playing with the University of Southern California water poio team. He is attending USC on a swimming scholarship. “He'll cornpete in the Commonwealth Games and world championships next year,’ his father, Bob, said Monday. ‘But ai it really yet him back so far as the NCAA championshipsare concerned and from the school’s point of view." Pickell’s chief rivals in backstroke competition come from NCAA universities in the United States, It's unlikely he'll be ready for the NCAA go out there on the ice and punch the hell out of the opposition, but if you go war you had better take some bullets just in case the enemy has some. Steve Radford, who like to mix it scored early in the first period on a play set up by Art Frenette. The Reds bench was ecstatic until fifteen seconds later when Dave Marko tied up the game while most of the Terrace players stood around center ice. Before the period ended the Luckies had added two more to go ahead three to one. Another goal by Marko who should have been lying on his back instead of being in front of the net standing up, and the other one by Steve Sigmend who stole the puck from a defen- ceman and pul it away. Marko gets two goals, a nalty and makes things appen. Radford gets one goal, misses a good chance and draws a penalty: This reporter 5 to think that if you go out there to play and get into things, there is going to be some action and just maybe some results. The Reds came out in the second period and did some hitting. Wayne L’Estrange handed out a couple of solid checks. Doug(Robot} Matheson and Dale Kushner bowled over a couple of Luckies and it looked like the Reds were out there to play. But it was only a matter of minutes before the Luckies were again running at the Terrace players and again dominating the play particularily in thier own en Rick Misner who is a rough on on and comes to play scored twice while singes went to Lansdale Sigmond and Jesse Epps. The Reds did score twice though, one a real picture goal. Gord Cochrane, the one time bad man for the Cents was his old self for a couple of ‘shifts’ and teamed up with Frenette and atheson and banged one home. Near the end of the period Lance lLagouffe fed ee oat IDEne. Warren Campbell Cochrane a pass who took it into the corner waited for Frenette to station himself in front of the net and put it on Art’s stick. Art wasted no time in putting it into the net. In the dying seconds of the period Marke became incensed with the penalty timekeeper and slashed at him viciously with his stick. Referee Wayne Braid did not take this to be a kindly act up one of his monor officials and assessed a match penalty to Marko. I presume Marko will sit out at least three games and hear some fatherly advice from league President Chuck Whitney. The Reds started the third period with a two man advantage. Six of the supposedly best were out on the ice. Tibor Mandur, who early in the season had the hot hand replaced Roy Garb in the nets. Barb, quite frankly did not play very well. Up front Legouffe, Fren- nette, and big Gord Cochrane, on defence, Guy Farkvm and Tim Kolner, with a shot that could take the end off the building if he vever let it BO. The Reds kept the puck for a good protion of the first two minutes, twice they were able to get it across the Houston blue line on rushes by Legouffe and again b Cochrane. One hait- hearted shot from the point, which was ill timed, hit Steve Sigmond in the shins and he raced out and down the ice on a break-away to beat mandur, to get the goal that gave him a hat-trick. The Reds spent the rest of the t period in pretty much the same way that they have performed in the last few games, down by man goals, doing little hitting, d passing, and generall around on one occasion, there was some good acting b Tim Kolner, the six foot, 180 pound, candy stick defenceman, who might have bruised one of his teeth when he was belted to the ice. ~ There was no acting by Radford, who was either butt-ended or slashed, and was taken to Mills Memorial for a sew job above his eye, and came back to finish the game. One of his teammates, Barry Brown, who was checked into the boards early in the game, and sent off in a stretcher, was resting comfortably. He is just coming off a - shoulder injury. He is reported to be O.K., the extent of his injuries are bad bruises. The Reds are not a bad team. They have everything the other Pacific Northwest Teams have. There have beeensome injuries, and some of the players have had some bad colds. But, basically, they are just Y not playing as a team. By just running|" e ice, However, |: Art Frennette this, they are not talking to each other on the ice, they appear, quite often, to over trying, left- wingers are meandering from there positions to help right wingers in- stead of doing their own jobs. They seem to have ittle confidence in each other’s ability. They-te passing at times on par with the Pee Wee Pups. Richard Smoley, the promising young player with the great legs, either chokes up or cannot see in front of the opposing goal. Heit, who can go like heck one way, has not been willing to back check very often. THE HERALD, Tuesday, November 22, 1977, PAGE 3 ges don’t improve game scores i - Doug Matheson David Wakefield seems happy to wear number 12, shows a lot of team spirit, and plays hockey for the last two minitues of every game. Wakefield ot ahat trick in the Reds rst game and has been confused ever since. 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