PAGE Al2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, February 9, 1977 Eight teams battle for basketball title Terrace basketball fans are in for a weekend of top flight basketball action as the 17th Annual Terrace Men’s’ Basketball Association Invitational Tournament begins on Thursday, February 10. Four days of action will see eight teams from as far away as Prince George involved in 14 games of double knockout format to decide the championship, currently held by the Terrace All Stars. On the eve of the openin tip-off, we can look bac over the years and come up with some of the names that have made this one of the most looked forward to men’s events of the year in the northwest. It all began in 1961 in the old Terrace Civic Center (ater to burn down in 1971 as the Terrace Community Center) as the Terrace Retailers were the first winners of the then four team tournament. Berrie Champoux of the Retailers was selected as the Mxst Valuable Player of that inaugural year. In 1962, a great tour- nament name — Prince Rupert Sunrise — captured tournament honours and began a domination which, although interrupted in 1963 by Terrace Doc’s Cartage, ran through the 1964 and 1965 events. In 1964 it was Ken Shields, now the coach of the University of Victoria Vikings, whose shot in the dying seconds clinched the victory for Sunrise 68-67 over another great tour- nament team, Prince Rupert Chiefs, led by Art Helin, MVP that year. Then in 1965, John Olsen, the former Rainmaker great Midgets hit win column The big surprise in weekend Minor Hockey Rep Team action came from the Terrace Midgets who finally won their first game of the season. After dropping a close 3-1 decision to Kitimat Friday night, Terrace came through with a 5-2 victory against the same team Saturday afternoon, ending the season-long frustration of not winning a game. Carmon Brown paced Terrace with a two goal effort. Richard Kolner, Don McColl and Ray Garneau each scored once. In Friday's game, Larry Nordstrom got the only Terrace goal. Terrace Pups travelled to Prince Rupert where they recorded another pair of victories. Troy Kaye set the- - pace with two goals in Friday night's 6-4 win, Dave Kawinsky, Trevor Hendry, Henry Reimer and Terry Zaporzan got the others. In Saturday’s 8-2 victory, Hendry had a hat trick whule Michael Rouw scored twice. Eddie Di Giovanni, Rod Philpott and Reimer scored the others. Terrace Bantams finally lost a game to Prince Rupert Bantams on the weekend. In their 9-6 loss to Rupert Saturday, Simon Dodd and Doug Ritchie each scored a pair. Darry] Carter and Troy Farkvam also scored. On Sunday, Terrace came up with a 4-3 victory. Bruno Hidber and Emile Gagnon handled the scoring with two goals each. The Bytown of Terrace travelled to Granisle to play their Peewee Reps. Bytown lost both games by scored of 6-3 and 8-3. In Midget action at Smithers, Prince Rupert lost 5-4 and played to a 7-7 tie. In Peewee action at Smithers, Kitimat beat Smithers 6-3, then Smithers beat Kitimat 12-7. Provincial Curling Finals in Terrace The Terrace Curling Club will have the unusual honour of hosting a major sporting event for Terrace next weekend when the Provincial Girls’ Curling Championships are hel here. Eight rinks from all over the province will arrive in Terrace on Monday, February 14 to take part in the competitions, They will start round-robin curling the following day to determine who will represent British Columbia in the Canadian Championships, The girls will have a practice session on Tuesday, February 15 between 10 and 12 noon. They will then attend a luncheon, then will draw for opponents for the first draw. is will be played begin- ning at 2 p.m. : Opening ceremonies will take place that evening at 7 p.m. and the second draw will get underway at 8 p.m. On Wednesday, February 16 there will be draws at 9 a.m,, 1 p.m, and 7:30 p.m. The final draws will be played on Thursday, February 17 at 10 a.m. and2 p.m. The closing banquet © will take place at 6 p.m. If an extra draw is required to break a tie, this will be layed following the anquet, Skips for the eight teams competing are Vickie Collins of the North Van- couver team; Suzan Billing of Prince Rupert; Debbie Weir from Dawson Creek; Margaret Carlisle of Vancouver; Lorrie Newsom from Coquitlam; Marty Vallee from Courtenay; Donna Robertson from Kelowna and Bey Avis from Creston. Terrace and District Hospital Society ANNUAL MEETING Wednesday, March 23rd, 1977 Date: Time: §:00 p.m. Place: Caledonia Lecture Theatre, 3605 Munroe Street ‘The business will consist of the election of members to the Society, the election of the members to serve on the Hospital Board of Trustees, and presentation of reports covering the year 1976. a a ‘ a Mills Memorial Hospital Diesel | . Peewee House League team and member af Canada’s 1970 Olympic team, led the Sunrise club to the cham- pionship and was named MVP The most successful native team in the tour- nament’s history began its .rule in 1966 as Kitamaat Village, led by Gary Grant who holds the record for most years of first team All Star selection with six, took the title. This same team returned the following year to win the last tournament to be played in the Community Center, defeating the Rupert Sunrise crew who were led to the final by the 1967 MVP, Derrick Slack. In 1968 the tournament moved to the Skeena High School gym to ac- commodate the crowds that were now being drawn to the event. The final that year proved to be an em- arrassing one’ for the Terrace Tippers, as they won the opening tip and scored into the wrong basket to give Rupert a 2-0 lead. The Rupert team, once again the Chiefs, went on to win 101-83 behind a record sa-point final game per- formance by MVP Wayne Halda: ne. In 1969 it was Kitamaat Village again as_ they defeated the Prince Rupert Orphans who were paced by MVP Tuffy Howe and bi John Newton. The fina score in that contest was 76 74, as John Walbergs, then playing for Kitamaat, scored six foul shots in the last two minutes to put the ame away in a come from hind victory. The title finally returned to Terrace in 1970 as the All Stars led by tournament MVP Larry Davies, defeated Prince. Rupert Savoy, 7-70. This marked the first year that Rupert’s Mirko Colussi, a big 65” forward made his ap- pearance on the tournament all star team, as he led the Savoy attack. The 1971 tournament brought the tournament’s biggest name, Prince Rupert Crest All Stars, to the limelight. With big guns such as the returning John Olsen, Mirko Colussi, Mike Lemmon - the 6’8” centre and smooth John Lambie, Crest began its record five year donimation of the tournament by defeating a game Terrace All Star unit ed by Davies and Phil Jack, a former New Zealand national team member. The powertui Crest boys shat- tered a tournament record by scoring 444 points in their four games, including a game high of 129. Olsen went wild with a record 51 point performance on his way to setting an individual record of-147 in those four games. In spite of this awesome attack, the Terrace club orily lost the final 72-62. In 1972, behind Kirby Holkestad, 1973 behind MVP Skip Cronck, another Rainmaker hero of the past, 1974 behind Mirko Colussi and 1975's great MVP erformance by another ‘ormer Rainmaker, Jim Ciccone, the Crest swept to four more consecutive titles, in each case beating Terrace All Stars. The 1975 performance was another ef the classic battles in the title game as the Crest with Jim Ciccone and Kirby Holkestad defeated the Terrace crew led by Jon Gurban and Rudy Embury, 83-62 with a thrilling last minute basket. Earlier in the tournament, Ciccone, who starred at SFU after his Prince Rupert high school days, scored a record 56 points in a single game. Finally, last year the Terrace All Stars overcame Rupert Crest’s psychological edge and thrashed them 90-60 on their way to the final game against Port Simpson. Port Simpson was paced by a high scoring trio of former university stars, MVP Mel Bishop, Mike Vaira, who in his senior year was second among all Canadian university basketball scorers, and his former Brandon University team mate, Bill Warren. The final developed into another shootout in which records ‘were broken, as a close, hard-fought contest saw Terrace, behind 51-46 at the half, come back and run away with the game in the last minutes by a_ 107-98 score, a new record for a winning team and for the total for both teams in the final game. The individual record for the final game was also broken as John Walbergs of Terrace hit for 41 and Mel Bishop found the range for 39, both sur- passing the former record of 38 This year promises to be another fine series as Terrace coach Jon Gurban sends the men’s league's most talented player. Mike Ireland, in to lead the All Stars to what he hopes will be their second consecutive title, The tournament will be a tune-up for the following weekend for the Terrace club, as well as for three of the other teams, as they will travel to the B.C. Northern. Winter Games to be among 16 teams to clash for the gold medal there. The competition here will come from two Prince George teams, led by for- mer UBC and national team star, Ron Thorsen and 6'7” Ryan Collins, Houston will be back with largely the same strong team that finished third last year, with rugged 6'7” Jon Bron, a tough competitor with four years of A university ball to his credit. Kirby Holkestad will lead the Prince Rupert Savoy Hotel team into this year’s battle. — Port Simpson will also be back, but without Bishop, Vaira and Warren. Warren will be back however, in the colours of the Prince Rupert ‘Chiefs and a second Terrace team from a sirong men’s league here will round out the entries. 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