TP eae rr ¢ Kermodes up for a sirong season ~; TERRACE’S senior bays basketball team May just be this 2 year’s team to beat if coach Cam MacKay has anything to ~* do with it, 2 He sces the always competitive Prince Rupert teams as ++ favourites but knows that with work his team can beat the “size and strength of Charles Hays and consistency of Prince Rupert Senior Secondary’s Rainmakers, He said Hazelton could be the zone rival because of their size and skill. - “SUPER, NATURAL BRITISH COLUMBIA® Ee, NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA x THE SCOTTI erperreana TOURNAMENT OF HEARTS. “Ié all their players play weil they could be a dark PROVINCIAL PLAY DOWNS horse,”* said MacKay, SMITHERS CURLING CLUB = But Terrace will have to improve over their performance January 25-30 * in Ketchikan, Alaska in late December, “We weren’t ready to play,’’ said Kermode coach Cam _ MacKay. “We lacked disciplinw’’. =... He said the team was hard to settle down because of the -size of the Ketchikan gym and energetic crowd. American style ball is also played in cight-minute quarters with a mining shotclock, His team lost to Charles Hays 67-56 and bad trouble stopping Hays player, Steve Kaluski who scored 28 points. Their first game of the tournament the boys played Hous- ton in a 66-54 match. Terrace’s Kevin Braam and Mike . Hovanes pulled their weight with 27 and 18 points cach. In their-second game, Terrace played Kitimat’s Mount | Elizabeth who were missing a few of their larger players. MacKay said Terrace could have won by a lot more than the 64-41. score revealed. , In their final game of the tournament the Kermodes played Ketchikan's Kay-High team. The score after the first quarter was all Kay-High in a 25-7 game, But by the end of the first half Terrace cut the lead down 10 33-27, . The third quarter featured a 10-10 run in four minutes that saw John Simmons and Kevin Gillanders place tricky shots and practice good defence to come out 43-37 Ketchikan. — mo In. the fourth quarter Kay-High scored three quick hoops only to have the Kermodes return three shots, From there, Mackay said both teams missed easy marks. At two and a half minutes left in the game the score was 46-43 and Kay-High. played defence running the clock down to a 50-44 final. Three Terrace boys, John Simmons, Mike Hovanes and Kevin Braam were named to the All Star team, Two weeks prior in Terrace’s Kermode Classic, the boys played well, considering the team’s lack of practice time, The Kermodes finished fourth behind D.P. Todd, Prince Ruper! Senior Secondary and Reynolds. Terrace’s Kevin Braam was named to the first All-Star team. ' Mens’ team sweeps basketball tournament THEY WERE determined Dylans team — the same The double-knockout 16- not to make this year’s team they lost to'last year, team tournament saw Ter- Prince Rupert Mens’ Christ- But the game didn’t look race go undefeated with a 5- mas basketball toumament a so promising at the half 0 record over four days. remake of fast year’s second when the rainy city’s host Terrace’s team consisted place finish. _;., ,leamywagup by five, . of, Wade Loukes, Fraser Aud they didn’L . With three minutes left in, DeWalle, Tony Poole, Kurt. . Terrace’s senior men’s ‘the game Terrace pulled Moller, Geoff. MacKay, basketbali-team finished the ahead with solid defense Mike Johnson, Simon Dodd tournament with a 61-53 and a few key hoops down and Scott Stewart. 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