The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 8, 1995 - C1

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LINDA MOORE

Hots shots add
to excitement

OR THE FIRST time ever, a

curling skills competition for

individual players has: been

added to the men’s and

women’s national events. The

top prize? A new Ford vehicle, valued at
$25,000.

Each curler that was a member of one of

the teams participating in the Scott

Tourament of Hearst and Labalt Briar was

cligible to enter the contest which was run -

just. prior to the start of the
championships.

Points curling has long been a part of
the game. A type of points competition
was used to help select the final
participants for the 1988 Olympic curling
trials, where the chosen teams played for
the right to represent Canada at the
Winter Olympics in Calgary.

A skills competition for junior curlers in
B.C. will be available-next year in which
certain on and off-ice skills are
accomplished and one of five badges is
cared by the player,

The Ford Hot Shots competition will use

six types of shots to score the curlers, The ,

“objective is to score the highest number of
_poinis -by. throwing one each of the
following shots:

# takeout;

« takeout and roll;

u double takeout;

w draw;

-« draw through a port; and,

a raise.

A maximum of five points is. given per

shot depending on where the shooter ends

up. The button is worth five, four-foot
four, cight-foot three, 12-foot two and the
free. guard zone one.

For the raise the points are the same but
‘itis the raised stone that has to end up in
the rings, With takeouts, one point is
. scored when the takeout is made but the
shooter rolls out of the house. Note that in
the takeout shot the stone that was in the
house must be completely out of the rings
for any points to count. Either the in turn
or out tum can be used for the shots.

In the preliminary round sweeping is not
allowed. After all the players have thrown
the five shots, the points are totaled and
the top eight advance to the playoffs. Ties
are borken by a draw to the button.

In the playoffs, cach player chooses two
sweepers and the shooters go head to
head, An official holds the broom and the
shooter cannot go beyond the far hogline
to sec how the scoring is determined.
There are additional prizes for second and
third places and for the top two sweepers.

This type of cvent can be run at any
curling club for any level of curler. The.
~ competition can be organized for one
evening or on a weekend, or points can be

totaled over an entire season.
~ As well, clubs can set up challenge

ladders, similar to tennis, so that players
‘of like abilities can face off. For longer
events, players can be required to throw
two of cach type of shot — perhaps one
_ of cach turn,

The positioning of the stationary stones
— required for all but the draw shot — is
(exible for club events and can be moved
depending on ice conditions an players’
abilities,

For example, more difficult shots are
“when the takeouts are on the sideof the
house, the stone to be raised is further
from the rings, the port to draw through is
narrow, and the stones for the double
takeout far apart,

In some of the smaller curling countries,
this type of skills competition is used as a
national contest with medals as prizes.

Try it at your club. You may not win a
cat, but you'll have fun.

Technical - difficulties prevented the
appearance this week of Skeena: Angler
Rob Browr’s column, He will be back in
this snace next Wednesdav.

Debut: team n strike silver

a 15th spot in the 15-16 years
division, just behind teammate
Josh McDonald.

Saturday saw a dramatic

IT WAS A debut to remember
for Terrace in mixed bowling
al the B,C, Winter Games in
Comox.

Robyn Brown, Mike Cooper,
Steven Miller, Corey Trogi
and Michelle Wiebe, coached
by Eva Wilkinson, were the
first local team to compete in
the competition.

And when the final pin fell,
they were tied for top spat.

Under the rules, however,
there’s no sharing of the gold

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so a roll-off was required. The
Terrace quintet rose to the
challenge, bowling 200 pins
above their average for a 1067
total,

But it was not quite enough
and ihey had to settle for the
silver,

Meanwhile, atop Mount
Washington, Chris Paziuk was
poised in the gate for the start
of the slalom event.

In the previous day’s GS,
Paziuk had raced in the rain to

yielded gold for alpine
skier Chris Paziuk (at
left) while skater
Grace Mitchell (right)
and bowlers (above,
back row, left to right)
Michael Cooper,
Michelle Wiebe, coach
Eva Wilkinson and
(front row) Steven Mil-
ler, Cory Trogi and
Robyn Brown earned
silver medals.

Wrestlers put up

a strong showing

THEY CAME home from the
provincial championships
without a medal, but coach
Dave O’Brien says Terrace
wrestlers showed they are
right up there.

Three near misses of bronze
medals and five top six fin-
ishes certainly underlines his
point.

For Michelle Genereaux, it
could hardly have been closer.
Eliminated from gold conten-
tion by the eventual 44kg win-
ner, she then narrowly lost out
in the battle for bronze, '

While admitting the referee
has a better, up-close view of
the action, O’Brien said it
looked as if Genereaux had
successfully pinned her op-
ponent in that match.

“She had control and both
shoulders (of her opponent)
were certainly close to the

mat,’’ he recalled. But the. pin ~

was never signalled . and the:
bronze slipped away, -.-:

One of the team’s main
hopes going into the competi-
tion, Greg Buck, also came
close,

Looking forward to facing
zone rival Jay Clark for the
gold, Buck’s progress to the
final was stopped in the semi
when a late throw put him be-
hind. His opponent then went
into a tight defensive shell that
Buck couldn’t penetrate in the
time left to be edged 5-4 on
points.

Buck suffered his second
loss in the bronze match, one
in which O’Brien suggested
the other wrestler enjoyed
“extremely favourable reff-
ing.’

For Karyn Audet and JP
Lebreque, the results showed
just how narrow the gap is be-
tween the wrestlers at this
level of competition.

Audet fights in the Sékg
class, an extremely competi
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THE ‘Comox. ‘Valley

change in conditions, the
skiers facing a brutally steep,
bullet-proof iced course which
made just finishing a chal-
lenge for many racers.

And Paziuk took up the chal-
lenge in style, overcoming a
number 32 start position to fly
down the course for the gold
in his division and post the

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fourth fastest time overall,

McDonald fell and was un-
able to complete the race,

Terrace athletes picked up
two more gold at the. Games,
both coming in the ring as lo-
cal boxers once again proved
why the club is known as one
of the best in the province.

Jonathan Doane took com-
mand of the Jr. B 178lb. class
while Lee Maximchuk was
unstoppable in Jr. C 125 Ibs.

On the ice, Grace Mitchell
provided zone 7 with another
silver in the Juvenile Ladies
singles to add to the silver she
picked up at the Northern
Winter Games as part of Ter-
race’s precision skating team.

George Joseph and Jeff
Kirkaldy also brought home
runner-up medals from the
wheelchair basketball event
while Joe Mandur added to his
remarkable gong collection
with a silver in Male 50-59
years swimming.

And there were bronze
galore including another
strong pool performance, this
one from Kevin Andolfatto in
the 200m Breast. He had fin-
ished only one spot out of the
medals in the earlier 100m
Breast.

Janine Arnold and Paul
Fleming added a couple more
in the team Kumite karate
competition.

A double bronze _ per-
formance was tumed in by
gymnast Eva Mateus in
Provincial ‘A’ all-around and

- team while out on the slopes.

Todd Taylor was duplicating
with third Place finishes in
both senior men’s singles and
senior mixed doubles luge.
Completing the Terrace con-
tribution to the zone tally were
the Terrace Totem Ford ©
Midget Reps. The squad of
Gord Armstrong, Vic Basanti,
Dave  Bretherick, Ronnie .
Cullis, Joe Derrick, Mark
Dhami, Steve Downie, Frank
Gration,. Joe Hadley, Mitch
Hobenshield, Trevor Johnson,
Rod McInnes, Kurt Nester,

Matt Nichols, Ryan.
Stevenson, — Mike
Vandermuclen and Jason

Wamer, coached by Bruce
Nichols and John Sandhals
finished in third.

Kitimat athletes helped the .-

zone cause with five gold,
seven silver and four bronze
while Stewart’s lone represen-
tative, Charlene Auger ‘was

_part of the women’s hockey

team that finished just out of
the medals.

a 1 Crunch

HARD BUT clean checking was all part of the
Midget hockey action at the arena over the
weekend when Prince George came to town. PG ©
used Its depth and better conversion on power
plays to take both games in the series,