Terrace

golfer |

| tops men 's |

seniors |

Veteran Terrace. golfer John

Yasinchuk shot a 157 to win §

overall low gross honors for men

at the annual Northwest Open.

men’s and women’s 36-hole
seniors’: golf tournament: at

‘Prince Rupert on the Aug. 8

weekend,

Qn the women’s side,

Rupert's Rose Marion shot a 186 |

win to take her section.

In the overall low ‘net |
. category, Al Manson shot 131

for the men’s win while J.D.

_ Arney had a 150 for the women.

In men’s. play for the champ-

‘ionship flight, Buster Patterson

of Terrace took the gross with

- Sergio Cachero of Rupert win--

ning the net.

The first flight gross and net
winners, John Ross and Doug
Kerr, are both from the coast
community, while local golfers
Dave Diotte and Wally Antilla

did likewise for the third flight. |

The tournament attracted 53

‘golfers. — 15 women and 38

men.

Terrace |
teams in
Smithers,

Kamloops

” Westpoint Rentals went to the
Senior. ‘B’. men's slo-pitch |
championships at Kamloops on

the Aug. 8 weekend. They didn’t :

win this 16-team series.

Four other Terrace men’s slo-

— pitch teams went to the first an-

nual Smithers Tournament on

the same weekend. They did.
much better.

- Westpoint posted a win n over
Prince George Engine in their

first game, but they lost their
next two matches and were elim- |

inated. Richmond \ won the B. C.
title. .

_ At Smithers, the. hometown
Hudson Bay Lodge Blues down-

ed Terrace Kluss ‘Trucking in the.

12-team final to win top. money.

. of $1,000. Kluss took home $500 -

for second place.

Another Terrace team — Ter- -f,
‘race Builders won $300 for third
- place. In the consolation play-

off, Hetherington and Hooper

’ beat out Telkwa Merchants to
win $200.

Three individuals won $50
prizes. Glen Thomsen of Terrace
Loggers was named most valu-
able player. Randy Brandeville
of Smithers Oldtimers was best
outfielder, and Gord Young of

’ . Hudson Bay was best infielder.

Ina special fun event, Terrace
Loggers picked up $50 ‘for win-

ning the ‘Ball Olympics’. .

Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 19, 1987 9

Slo-pltch prize v winners.

The Prince George Video Pop team won’ ‘top money of $1,500 at ihe recent B.C. Day weekend man’ J slositen softball
tournament in Terrace. They beat Westpoint Rentals 9-6 In the deciding game. ot

_ Skateboarders seek track

TERRACE — ‘Skateboarding i is |.

a sport that has faded in and out
for many years, but while the

fad appears to emerge for only © —

short periods of time enthusiasts
are born.

by Phil Musselman

A fair number of Terrace
_ youths have been skateboarding
all over town this summer, prac-

paced activity.

James McGettigan, Blake

- Rossiter, and John Hall are
_ three of these enthusiasts,
> always looking for a place to
- skate.

‘tAs skateboarders we receive
a lot of -harassment, said

. McGettigan,° “people are con-
~ Stantly: telling us to ‘get off the
‘get off the sidewalk’,

road’,
‘get out of the parking lot’; it’s

~ getting so that-there’s nowhere

left to. skate. "

_ tising and just enjoying the fast- |."

Torrace skateboard enthusiasts (left to right) James McGettigan, John Hall
and Blake Rossiter are finding. their chosen sport difficult to practice in the

community. Constant harassment and an overall negative attitude towards

skateboarding have made It hard for the three. youths to find a safe place to.

exercise. - «

ed. The friends feel that they

. have just as much right to utilize- :

The three friends have been
kicked out of ‘anywhere from
school grounds to empty park-

ing lots. ‘‘People just don’t like ©
-skateboarding,’’ Rossiter com- .

mented, ‘‘it appears as if they.
think that we’re juvenile delin-
quents or something.’’ For the
biggest part the group hates be-
ing treated like irresponsible
people. *‘All we want to do is en-
joy. the sport,”’ the three friends
said.

According to Hall none of the
group have been able to skate-

' board in a single place for much

more than ten minutes without

‘being chased away by angry
‘ residents.

“We're not doing
anything wrong, -we'’re just
skating around,’’ Hall explain-

_ public: property as. cyclists | do;:’

they feel that.the sport is just’ as

_safe or ‘safer than cycling:

-“‘J've heard of more accidents

concerning bikes than I have of

people getting hurt on skate-

-boards;”’ McGettigan said. ;
The group is constantly look- .

ing for a perfect place to practise
their sport, where the pavement

isn’t covered with stones,. and

there is a little bit of a hill to
skate down. A main concern is
staying away. from people who
dislike skateboarding so that

hard feelings aren’t a problem.
“We'd like to see the city or -

someone build a place just for
skateboarding,’’ McGettigan
admitted, ‘‘no one could be an-

“noyed if we had a place where fy

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we could safely skate and where
we were supposed to be.”

- ‘As it stands the-local enthus-
iasts will have to keep searching

' for good surfaces where they can

practise and have fun. *‘It would
keep us off the streets,” Hall
said, ‘‘but it’s a constant strug-
gle. >

‘‘We think that if there are
facilities provided for tennis,

‘baseball, BMX racing, swim-

ming, "and the like, why
shouldn’t skateboarders be able
to have the same advantage?’’
McGettigan concluded. _

Bikers

blanked

at world
contest

Four ‘Northwest area
youngsters failed to gain top
positions at the World B.M.X.
bike. racing championships at
Orlando, Florida‘ earlier this
month. »

Up against more than 2,000

|. competitors from 23 countries,
~ only one of our riders managed

to get into the second section of

||, Motos.

Kitimat’s Reg McNab scored
‘enough points’ in his three
preliminary races to move up
against stronger opposition, but

was later eliminated in his Se

cond round,
Prince Rupert’s Jeff Babuin

‘lost out in advancing by one
point to an Australian rider.

Both Darren Connolly of

| Kitimat and Clayton Stephens of

Terrace also missed on moving
up. They each took a spill or
wipeout which curtailed chances
of moving up.

American riders cleaned up on
all the visitors, winning more

. than 90 percent of the events...

The only Canadian to win a
trophy was a nine-year-old On-
tario girl who picked up a

fourth-place award. Fifty-six —

Canadians participated.

_ Next year the championships
will be held in Chile. Australia
hhas the 1989 championships.and
have announced they'll hold

theirs indoors. France holds the _

event in 1990, |
Allison
Pe ratt

Kitimat: Marlin club swimmer’
Allison Barriscale picked: up two -
honors during ‘the far western.

age group swim’ championships

at Concorde, California earlier
“this month. | a
The talented 11-year-old

cracked the American record for
the 11 and 12 age group in the
50-meter butterfly race.

Allison's effort earned her the

‘award for the outstanding fe-
male swimmer on the B.C. team.

More than 1,000 swimmers from

around the world took part in

this prestigious event.

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