PAGE AS, THE HERALD, Wednesday, March 2, 1977 pervvrrrrTtrtrrrreveQT" Tw,YTTYT.* PP PPPOE OTT CEE EE PwC eT CCT CCT TT TTC. wT" ort v —wewreTTTvT"vuCr" werewwwvurve.™ ¥ POPSET ET EY simi LARRY HACKMAN scores goal number six for Totem Ford. From left to right are: Bob Peacock,. ~weTrverTTCTTerTrTererrTeTrerevVYYTY rw Lewis leads GMs to victory ‘of G&A players a Ail til teal Darryl Dewynter, Sev Piatfoni, Maurice Ebel, Brian Kormandy, Hackman, Dick Shinde and Jeff Pocha. py EE SS ae ERR EERE ROG, i) Kings 7 Burns Lake 3 Kings 10 BurnsLake2 - “The Prince Rupert Atom Jotor King scoring machine Bontinued lo operate in high dear in serni-final playoff action ith Burns Lake Braves this weekend al the Civic Centre preia. °° WN Na TNH EE EL He vp! a The Kings overcame a sluggish start Saturday to post a @-3 victory and followed that up saves on Sunday. As a result of those triumphs, fiupert grabbed a 2-0 lead in heir best-of-five series which e a Avith a 10-2 drubbing of the ¢ . ill resume Saturday in Burns Lake, The Kings are now unbeaten n six playoff games — they olished off Terrace Cen- ennials in four straight in uarter-final action — and have Editor's Quote Book There is nothing more frightening than a bustling ignorance. senTATAta ATID Goathe Paar iT Ean a ak aI nN a Na acacia 4SKEENA BOYS AND PORT “SIMPSON GIRLS WIN THE YNORTHWEST ZONE JUNIOR BASKETBALL * CHAMPIONSHIP by Mike Ireland ; The Skeena boys and the Port Simpson girls won their erespective championships in tjunior basketball at Prince “Rupert this past Saturday. {The Skeena Tsimshians tdefeated Nisgha in the #championspip game 56-36. EThe Tsimspian only had.a three point lead at half time but went to work in the second half to win by a comfortable margin. To get to the final, Skeena had defeated Thornhiil by the score of 89-18 while KNisgha defeated Hazelton 49-39, With their win Skeena Enow travels to Prince %George for the Northern ‘Regional Playoffs. Dave sMetzmeier of Skeena was velected the M.V.P, of the yplayotts. Team-mates Mike eMcIntyre and Richard Klein Swere elected to the first ail Sstar team along with Brian #Muldoon (Hazelton), Ted *Gosnel} (Nisgha) and Ernie sVanderbrock (Thornhill), Port Simpson won a Snarrow 40-37 victory over Sthe Skeena Tsimshian girls *in the final game. The local *pirls had led the whole game ALLE, Rupert holds 75-12 edge in. playotts Kings’ scoring machine still in high gear outscored their opposition by a whopping 75-12 margin through those six games. Saturday, the Kings rebounded from a 2-1 first- period deficit to oulscore Burns Lake 4-1 during the final forty minutes of play. The outcome of the game was in doubt, however, as late as the midway mark of the third stanza. The Kings were nursing a 4-3 lead when John Vaudry tallied ta make it 5-3 with 9:11 remaining and then, less than a minute later, Rick Spracklin pui the Kings up by three when he lashed a wicked shot high into the net past Braves’ net- minder Dave Stanyer. Other Kings’ marksmen were Art Frenette, with a pair, Gord Stephens, Richard Wright and Wayne George while Dave Mitchell scored (wice and Chris Riarnason once in reply for burns Lake, Sunday, the Kings asserted thejr superiority early as they rushed to a 4-0 lead in the first period. Strong forechecking by Wayne George and Stuart until the final minutes when Port Simpson went ahead to stay. Port Simpson had earlier defeated Smithers 39-24 while Skeena had defeated Thornhill $1-24. Sharon Wesley of Port Simpson was named the M.V.P. while named to the first all star team were Mamie Lawson and Carolyn Wesley (Port: Simpson), Bonnie Ware and Lisa Checkley (Skeena), Debbie Hidber (Smithegy) and Jo-Ann Raushenberger (Thornhill). WINTER GAMES RESULTS Junior Boys Basketball The Skeena junior boys won the gold medal by PNWHL RESULTS Tuesday, February 22 Kitimat 6 Burns Lake § (Kitimat wins series 4-2) 4 SEMI-FINALS Friday, February 25 Kitimat 6 Smithers 7 ; Saturday, February 26 f Burns Lake 3 Prince Rupert 7 Sunday, February 27 titimat 1 Smithers 3 Marshall resulted in the first goal when they combined to set uplinemate Mike Vannier in the slot; Vannier mage no mistake as he rifled a shot ‘past Barry Hennessy, ==” * Wright finished off a pretty three-way passing play in- volving Gord Stephens and Dave Pickett two minutes later to make it 20 Rupert and the Kings, who outshot Burns Lake 48-25 in the contest, then got goals from Vaudry, when he jammed his own rebound through Hennessy’s pads, and Pickett, on a slap shot with 7:31 left in the period, to go ahead 4- 0. . The clubs then traded tallies in the middle frame before Rupert outscored the visitors 5- 1 in the third period. Wright and Pickett ended the game with three and two-goal performances respectively, while Stephens, Don Gillespie and Frenette picked up the other goals for the Kings. Blaine Campbell and Mitchell were the only Burns Lake shooters to beat Rupert goaler Jerry Kurka. The Kings took sixty-two of Skeena Boys take Zone Title defeating Bert Bowes of Fort St. John’ in the final. They had earlier defeated Port Simpson and Dr. Kearney of Fort St. John. David Metzmeier was named the tournament M.V.P. along with Richard Klein who was voted to the first all star team. Junior girls basketball The Skeena girls won the bronze medal by defeating Kitimat in the consolation final, The girls won the first game over Grassey Plains but lost in the semi-finals to Frank Ross of Dawson Creek, who were the eventual gold medal win- ners. {Smithers leads bast of § seml-final series 2-0) Burns Lake 2 Prince Rupert 10 (Prince Rupert leads best of 5 seml-final series 2-0) the game's eighty-six penalty minutes and also had their leading scorer (Vaudry) and coach (George Kuntz) thrown out of the game with seven minutes left in the encounter when Vaudry got in an alter- cation with Herb Conato of the Braves. ‘ oo, After the game, Kuntz ad- mitted that he Felt the referee (Len Trudeau) was justified in giving him the heave-ho, but he did question the call on Vaudry, who received two minutes for charging, five minutes for fighting as well as the game misconduct and automatic two minute minor which goes along with misconduct penalties. Kuntz was naturally pleased with the two victories and stated, “if we play our style of hockey, nobody in this league can stop us,’’ The Kings’ mentor also said he believes his squad stands an excellent chance of taking Burns Lake in three straight games. “Tt'll be tough playing in their building, but if we play our game — and by that I mean lots of skating and hitting — we'll take ‘em in three.” In other PNWHL playoff action this weekend, Smithers Totems beat Kitimat Winter Hawks 3-1 and 7-6, in overtime, to open up a 2-0 lead in their series. In Friday's opener, the teams were tied 5-5 after regulation time and then traded singles in the ten-minute overtime session. They then went into sudden- death overtime, and Jim McAloney scored with 4:55 gone to give Smithers their 7-6 triumph. Saturday, the Tolems got two goals from Ed Lychak to grab a stranglehold on that series, whieh resumes this week in Kitimat. Loose Pucks: The Kings held a Trophy Night Saturday and presented league trophies from the 1973-76 season as well as team trophies from the current season between the second and third periods. Recipients of league trophies from last year were Dave Pickett (most valuable player and high scorer}, Don Gillespie thest defenseman) and Don Olmstead, who shared top goaltending honors with Richard Samson. © Winners of 1976-77 team trophies were as follows: Don Gillespie (Frank Gomez Memorial for most inspirational player and Haida Coach Lines for best defenseman), Dave Allen (Prince Rupert JCs for mest sportsmaniike player), Mike Vannier (Apollo Printers for outstanding . rookie) and John Vaudry (Daily News for most valuable player). “Yaudry also received a Tommy Adams silver pendant as part of his MVP award. McEWAN MOTORS 8&8 GORDON & ANDERSON 3 McEwan Motors con- tinued their winning ways Monday night with a well deserved 8-3 victory over a shorthanded G&A squad. Ken Dean. fed Wilf Tripe de Roche a perfect pass at the five minute mark of the first frame to start, McEwan on their way. Steve Dillabough gave McEwan a 2-0 lead 10 minutes later after several passes from team mates, Lanny Nevison and Rick Lewis getting the assists. Shortly after the second period started GM had a 3-0 TOTEM FORD 6 POHLE LUMBER 1 Terrace Totem Ford held onto their slim lead atop the Commercial League standings Monday night as they hammered the Pohle Lumber team by the score of 6-1. Pohie was never really in the game although the score was tied one each at one point. Larry Hackman got Ford moving with a hard shot from the left face-off circle. Less than two minutes had reve veveerveveveVeN lead. Rick Lewis from — O’Brien and Sewchuk on a three on one break. Frank O’Brien game GM a 4-0 lead on a power play coal less than three minutes ater, assists going to Lewis and Colwell. Gordon and Anderson finally got on the scoreboard at the midway mark of the period. Losier, Bogart and Letham all hit the post before Brad Letham finally fired it in. Harold Olsen put G&A within two when he checked a GM defenseman, went all alone and scored easily. elapsed in the game. Dick Shinde and Mike Scott drew assists on the play. Brian Kormandy tied the count at one each five minutes later, firing home a rebound off a hard shot by Darryl Dewynter. Sey Piattoni got the second assist. The first period ended that way — tied at one Totem Ford started pressing shortly after the second frame got underway and it paid off with Shinde Some sloppy defensive work in the G&A end was responsible for the next McEwan goal. A G&A player put the puck on Pat Flynn's stick, He fed the puck to Keith Colwell who in urn gave it to Wilf Tripe De Roche. Wilf found the open corner, 5-2 for GM. McEwan continued their onslaught in the third. Rick Lewis scored his second of the night on a shot from outside ithe blueline and picked up the hat trick minutes later, sliding the disc past Bullen from 10 feet out. Keith Colwell stickhan- died his way through a maze Fordmen hold slim being the marksman on passes from Larry Hack- man and Bob Peacock. Rino Michaud made the count 3-1 for Ford, taking a pass from Bob Middleton who had checked a Pohile player in his own end. Ford scored three unanswered goals in the third period. The final shots on goal were 45-16 for Totem Ford. Dick Shinde scored at 2:10 with a high shot off the for McEwan’s eighth goal, scoring easily with a hard wrist shot. Gordon and Anderson got the final goal of the game. John Losier. outfought a _ defenseman for the puck, rounded the net and jam- med it past the goaltender. Rick Lewis picked up five points for the night — three goals and two assists — tieing Larry Hackman for the scoring lead. Rick also played almost 40 minutes of the game in centre, right wing and defense when McEwan had the man ad- vantage. lead crossbar, assisted by Hack- - man and Peacock. Bob Middleton gave Ford a 51 lead with a shot that bounced off the goalies pads and into the net, Owen Greaves assisting. Larry Hackman slid the puck into the corner of the Pohle cage for the final goal of the game while Ford was playing a man short, Bob Peacock and Dave Grant getting the assists. Final score: Totem Ford 6 Pohle Lumber 1. — Pohle helpless before G&Asquad GORDON AND _ AN- DERSON 9 POHLE LUMBER 0 Gordon and Anderson pounded out a 9-0 victory over the hapless Pohle Lumber club last Thursday night in the Commercial Hockey League. G&A took a one goal lead with 3:40 left to play in the first period and as it turned out that was all they needed to sew up the game and two more points in the stan- dings. G&A broke out of their own end on a three-on- one break. Don Clifford took COMMIERCI PLAYOFF SCHEDULE the first shot. It was stopped but Bob Bogart tipped in the rebound. Gordon and Anderson took a two goal lead shortly after the second frame got un- derway — Ken Klippert with a screened shot to the corner; Brad Letham and Harold Olsen getting the assists. Don Clifford intercepted a pass in the Pohle end of the rink, fed it to Harold Olsen, who in turn passed -off to ‘Brad Letham and G&A had a3-Olead. | Richard Bruggeman was the next marksman for 9:30 Tuesday March& Quarter Finals ? Thursday March 10 Last of Quarter or Ist of Semi-finals 8:00 Saturday March 42 Semi Finals 8:00 Monday March 34 Semi Finals 9:30 Tuesday March 15 Last of Semi or Ist of Finais 2? - Thursday March 17 Last of Semi or ist of Finals 8:00 Sunday March 20 Final 8:00 Monday March 21, Final 9:30 Tuesday March 22 Final ? Thursday. March 24 Final Ifiall serles go the full number of games. final game will be held after tournament. WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 26, 1977 Games Win Totem Ford 24 McEwan GM 24 Gordon & Andefson 25 Pohle Lumber ° 25° SCORING RACE Name Team Larry Hackman T.F. Rick Lewis NicGM Bob Peacock T.F. Dick Shinde T.F. Rino Michaud T.F. Marcel Tookenay McGM Darryl Dewynter ’ PL. Frank O'Brien McGM Minor baseball meeting Terrace Minor Baseball Association will be holding its annual meeting ‘on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30. p.m. in the Senior Citizens Room of the Terrace arena. All those interested in seeing minor baseball continue in Terrace are urged to attend. This is a most important meeting as election of of- ficers will be held for the — coming season, THE KING DOTH PROTEST! In 1349 Edward III of England complained to sheriffs of London that his soldiers were spending more time playing soccer than practicing their ar- chery. B.C, also has a rich soccer heritage and it’s all displayed in the B.C, Sports Hall of Fame. Loss =‘ Tie Pts. 9 4 1 _ V 6 1 35 é 16 3 15 4 20 1 3 Goals Assists Pts. 32 38 70 38 Ky 69 24 35 9 20 27 57 28 2) 4 ” 29 48 Ww oo 40 10 30 “40 AL G&A. Barry Heinep and Richard on a two man breakaway — Heinen took the first shot and Bruggeman flipped home the rebound. Gorden and Anderson scored their next goal on a powerplay Ken Klippert lasting the puck into the net, assisted by Barry Heinen. John Losier gave G&A a 6- “0 lead. before the. second period ended, Losier, LaBlanc and Heinen on a three and nothing break, Losier being the goal scorer. COMMERCIAL RESULTS Tuesday, February 22 Exhibition - Juveniles 6 Totem Ford 6 Thursday, February 24 Pohle 0 Gordon & Anderson 9 Monday, February 28 Pohle 1 Totem Ford 6 McEwan GM 8 Gordon & Anderson 3 EXPERT SKATE SHARPENING Gordan and Anderson kept rolling along in the third, scoring three more for their 9-0 victory. A three-on- one break shortly after the period ended netted a goal y Don Clifford, assist to Olsen. John Losier scored to make it 8-0 after a faceoff in the Pohle end. With only 50 seconds left in the game Gordon and Anderson scored their final marker. Losier, Bogart and Bruggeman all had shots on the net. Bruggeman finally found the range for a 9-0 victory. HE WAS MR. BASEBALL Bob Brown of Vancouver was such a success as a ~ baseball manager that his teams were known all over North America in the °30's as the New York Yankees of minor baseball. Bob Brown is a member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame. While you wait TERRACE CENTENNIALS BOOSTER CLUB ishavinga — BANQUET & DANCE Saturday, March 5 in the Arena Banguet Room 6:00 - Ceektails 7:00 . Dinner, Trophy Presentations 9:00-1:00 - Dancing to ‘Live’ Musie Everyone Welcome ! phone 635-7635. First real hollow-ground ' sharpening in town. RED’S EMPORIUM —-: 3213 Kalum (across from the Herald) $6.00 per person Tickets available from any Centennial hockey player or