MMR ARS BitlEN yt season Sharples and team would like to forget : _ JEFF SHARPLES: We ‘just had too much turmoil sur- rounding the team. It" wasn’t a ‘season ‘to write © home about! In fact, as far as Terrace’s: Jeff Sharples is concerned — “‘It was. my worst season ever in hockey.” The’ Detroit Red Wings defenceman was expressing his _ own and the team’s feelings in- sOfar as. the 1988-89 NHL season is concerned. The Wings’ previous season led the media to tout them as om potential Stanley: Cup con-. "we never wor more than. two - tenders. Such was ‘not to be. - ““You can ask any one of the guys on the team and they’! tell you they’re very ’ disappointed i in the way ‘things - turned out,” Sharples told us on arrival home the first week in May. Sharples said the poor show- ing can be attributed to a few. things. “First of all there’ s the Pro- bert incident. He was never right - when he came back. I thought management did all they could to handle the situation properly. But there’s only'so much you can do with a runaway train.’! _ Sharples said they’d have to start at training camp this fall by going with more discipline than — | shown this past year. ‘‘It was really an embarrassment the way Youth soccer to get academy in Ter “The dream has’ ‘come true for . Terrace Youth Soccer! B.C.’s second residential soc- cer academy will open at Ter- race’s Northwest College _this July for one week (23rd to 28th). The only other such camp is located on Vancouver Island. The school is taking boys ranging in age from 11 to 17 years. Girls will be considered for future camps. Costs run from $125 for day” students (from immediate area) ‘and: $235 for out-of-towners who get meals and accommoda- tion at the college. . These costs include a souvenir leisure shirt and ball for each _ youth. -Coaching will be top notch. “The academy staff is being "selected on the merits of exper- tise. and the ability to com- _ ‘ municate with “young players. . | The B. Cc. Soccer ‘Association is race presently finalizing details with guest coaches and B.C.S.A. staff coaches to form the team - that runs the show. Players are graded into groups ‘according to age and ability. ‘Emphasis will be placed on in- dividual “techniques and decision-making abilities. _They’ll construct small game - situations and infuse players “with an understanding and ap- preciation of the necessities of teamwork. Skills learned are evaluated objectively and tested in matches to be arranged between academy players and visiting teams. Registration forms are available from local soccer groups, recreation offices, band council offices, sports shops and school P.E. departments. Further questions can be an- swered by calling Liz Ball at (638-8995. 7 : y Ex Terrace athlete wins, major triathlon Gary, Moen, 26, a former Ter- race athlete and: graduate of -Caledonia high ‘school, ‘earned “ some glory on ‘May 7 when he béat out 149 other competitors to win the gruelling Kamloops _-¢y? mini-triathlon race. ‘Moen, who now lives in "Kamloops and works in the : restaurarit ‘supply business, was aking a comeback after being “inactive. last year due to a knee injury: kilometer run, 750-meter swim, kil “gd 20-kilometer, bike race in a ‘time of one hour, . 17 minutes. “the runnerup, and about two- ~ giid-a-half. ‘minutes up on the thd place finisher, Ron Allen, “We finished the eight- Gary was 40 seconds in front of ~ whto is 3 another ex-Tetrace.. tesi- dent. io coe cue Moen told -us:dhe. trains by - ‘swimming every “thorning, then | alternating running and bike - racing.each night. Now that he’s rully recovered from the knee - ailment, he has big plans for the - summer, “Tt was my first win, so] want . to put a string of victories together if possible,” Gary told us by phone. Next on his list is the Terrace . triathion which is quite similar in distances to the Kamloops event. After that,,it’s a major race at Victoria, then the Cana- dian championship event at Kelowna. Many of the beat triathlon athletes competed at Kamloops. wert we performed i in the playoffs.” - , (Detroit had won their division “yather handily, in spite of. head- lined: problems). “Towards the end of the year, games in a row, and you can’t do that if you expect to win the ‘Stanley Cup.’’. “We asked. Jeff’ to take a look at his future in-the game, con- sidering how last. season. he sat out a number of games due to injury, plus some time in. the minors and a lot of time watch- ing Detroit from the press box. ‘*]*ve heard Tumors about. me getting trad ‘ In fact, according to the sida News newspaper, Sharples is on a Red Wing list of players with uncertain futures in | Detroit... In a story by Keith Gave, it says:- ‘‘Defenceman Jeff Sharples,-.whose season. began. with the Wings hoping he. would become their trigger-man on the power play, became a perma- “nent fixture in the penalty box.’’. However, in a meeting with coach Demers and general manager Jimmy Devellano before heading home, Sharples said he was told he was not go- ing to be one of those on the . trading block., “I don’t know how much y you. » can put into that. If they -get the ing my. ‘bags.-° “But they gave me a vote of “confidence, _ considering: the. season. “1 have another year left on my contract, so I'm not worried ‘about that. I think the. biggest. thing is that when I get back to training camp, I’m going to have to come up with a super camp. I’ve got to get my foot in the door and establish I’m-going to _ be a regular on the team. If this doesn’t happen, I’li have to con- sider my future, even a possible trip to the minors.” - Sharples says he knows he can ‘do the job in the NHL. All he _ The scores are. - "TERRACE YOUTH SOCCER. _ UNDER EIGHT DIVISION - Dalry Queen ‘- — Terrace ChryslerO — * ‘McAlpine 4 — Totem Ford 1 es Ken’ 's Photo 2 — Tilden Tigers |. ., Totem Ford 3 — Ken's Photo2. McAlpine 4 —-Terrace Chrysler 2 “ “Tilden Tigers. 0 —xDiary Queen 0 “UNDER SEVEN DIVISION Wilkinson Canons 3 — Sundance | Safeway.4.— All Seasons 1 . aon Terrace Shell 1 — Vic Froese } _ "Terrace. Builders 2— Kinsmen Jets 0. "UNDER DIVISION 2 2 Norttiernt (Drugs 3 _ Bud's Trucking” a “1s Bavarian inn 10 — Rotary ? ‘UNDER 10 DIVISION Surveyors $—A.G. K 0 . Lions 6 — Co-op 0 _ $keena Cellulose 3 — Shoppers 0 Thunderbirds 2— Skeeno Sawmills 1. Carlyle Shepherd 7: — Terrace Travel v -_ UNDER'12 DIVISION ~ Aqua | Plumbing 2 — Sight & Sound 1 Cedarland 4 — Bandstra 1 4 Northwest Sportsmen 3 —- Finning 2. “-" .:. UINDER 16 DIVISION Braids 4 +— Philpot's Forestry 2. "GIRLS DIVISION i Richards 3 = Pizza Hut 2 “TERRACE MIXED $LO-PITCH SOFTBALL LEAGUE | * Skeena. Hotel 11 — Skeena Cellulose 6 .” Family Connection 21 — Royals 2” . Skeeno Sawmills 3 — All Season Expose 2 Brewmasters | — River Rats.0 : ra Connection 10 — Skeena Hotel 8 _Skeena Cellulose 18 «— Re “All Seasens Expose 3 —“Tertate’ Athletics, Zz Skeena Sawmills 10 — ‘bre masters 6 - aS tp wey 7 WES. 'S TERRACE MEN’ s $LO-PITCH LEAGUE _tnn of the West’ 4 — Rudon Rowdies” 1 ” §.K.B. Molson Wreckers 1} — Thornhill Motors 3 at cecograms erp eH At right offer, I’m sure I'll be pack- ; oy. Vie Froese 10 — Shell's Little Oilers 10 River Rats 17 — Realty World 14 a a a woh : _ Northwest Sportsmén:? — Unknowns 0 Royals 6 —- Independent.Industrial 5... =. -. soa ns ty. World 9. ; Le needs is the opportunity. RRACE MINOR BASEBALL faokle Division a _ Co-op 15 — Elks 14 Petrocan 6 — Northern Drugs | Northern Drugs 14.— Co-op 1 Elks 20 — Petrocan 3 Bambino Division -. Farko 11 “ MeDonalds 8 " Qverwaltea 14: Shoppers 6 | McDonalds 13 — Shoppers 9 - Farko 10 — Overwaltea 6 Junior Babe Ruth. ; . Speedy 4 — Kinsmen 3 oo Kinsmen 3 — ‘All Sddsons 7 -" ) RQOKME DIVISION Northern Drugs 19 — Petrocan 9 BAMBINO DIVISION *. gAcDonalds 13 —- Overwaitea’3 © + JUNIOR BABE RUTH DIVISION : Speedy 13 — All Seasons 11 _ TERRACE MINOR SOFTBALL BALL artennia Lions 14 — Shell's Little Oilers 13 EMCO 10 — Vic Froese 10 ; EMCO 10 — Shell's Littler Oilers 10 EMCO 15 — Centennial Lions 14 Centennial Lions 10 — Vic Froese ? Lala SQUIRT BOYS Co-9} Stars 10 — Operating Engineers 6 _ Operating Engineers 1 — Copperside 0 > PEEWEESOYS — MIDGET BOYS. . ’ Kinsmen 3 — Legion 2 Kinsmen 9 — Skeena 4 PEEWEE GIRLS - * Teriace Drugs 19-— Cedarland Tire 16 4 MITES DIVISION ee gost End Eupremes 15 — Swifty Muffler 5 a Tune! & Rock’ 15 — Swifty Muffler 11: : « SQUIRT GIRLS “Little: Gassers.9 — Middleton Trucking 8 : Mr. Mikes 10 — Hawkeyes 5. . EVENINGS 635- 201 5