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By MARGARET SPEIRS:

LOCAL RINKS outplayed

the” competition, « sweeping

“the events’ in the 51st Legion ,

- Bonspiel.

«Local ‘John’ Evans. won a
the A event. Smithers’ Glen :

“Baker finished: second, ‘fol-

; “lowed by Kevin Jeffery in:
“third and fourth place to -
~". “We had a couple of real .
close calls, once against my :
nemesis Glen Baker who

* Maurice Bullied.

Local rinks swept the. B

event. .

"Dino Diana won,” Paul
Bibby took ‘second, Cin-’.
» dy. Dumont : scored third

and fourth: went ° to Kevin
Sparks. a

The C event -s ‘saw. local

"junior team Jordan Johnson:
beat -Kitimat’s. junior ‘rink

* _ Skipped by Darryl: Bourque. -

Third went to Lyn Apol-

 CZer and Allan Boles took,

~ fourth. . ‘
"Rounding out play, the D

“event went to Warren Cope- ©
_ day night that this was going

‘land. Heriry Rauter finished

second. ‘Bill Drinkwater of
Kitimat took third and Cher- -

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weet victon

"Evans rink beats : nemesis’ in Legion ‘spiel

“knows: the strategy’ of the oo
game very well. I'never un- °:
‘derestimate him.”
- He'credits the rest of his v8
rink, which « ‘included: his
wife and second Kim, buddy: .
and third'Gordie Olson ‘and.’ ;
friend and lead Kelly Nunn, ~

-yt Wyatt came fourth.

Evans celebrated his vic-,”
tory at the bonspiel he’s at-
tended regularly since he

was a teenager.
“Tt was a great bonspiel, ”

he said...
“We had a lot of fun ‘and .
it. was’ nice ‘to win after all -

the years I’ve curled in it.

I’ve played for years in the

final.”

_Atvone down inthe final”
end, Evans had the hammer |
and scored two with a draw’

to the four foot for the 4-3

victory...
A sweet victory indeed:

after ‘Evans’ previous losses.
to Glen Baker, the last time
in 2002 in the semifinals of ..
the Loggers’
event.

Bonspiel A
“Sol told him on Satur-:

be my round,” Evans said.
¢ “He’s very crafty and

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with exemplary, solid play. «
Evans recalls _ being

kicked out of his first Legion |

bonspiel in 1978.

‘The then-13- year-old en-:

tered with a team of adults

_and. played: the team’s first

game on opening night, but
his. early Legion Bonspiel

career ended when organiz-

| ' JOHN EVANS, left, + skipped his rink to vietory in nthe A-event at the St st Legion Bon- - :
” Spiel after many years of competing in the event. His team. included. his wife Kim, -
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ers decided they didn’t want,

any juniors. to compete that _
’ 'year.. «

“Pm not sure what the .

-feason was other than they.
just felt.I was ‘too young,”
“he said...
.... He believes his team lost: |

out after his departure, but he
_has no regrets, saying “they ~

were nice enough to ask me
in the first place.”
At 19, Evans returned to

the Legion ‘spiel. .
“Back - then, . the larger :

event . welcomed men’s
teams only, but now that’

. women and juniors are wel-

come, the bonspiel is that
much better, he said.
He acknowledged
outstanding play of the three
junior teams, especially the

. local juvenile girls rink.

“Tt was really nice to see
the juniors out there,” he
said.

“The girls did really well :
- too..I did watch a couple of J

their games.. They played. a

won.”

_. Organizers. planned ev-.
erything perfectly, from the

food and drinks to the “fan-
tastic” ice, he said.

the —

* few of the men’ s teams and |

Out of town: teams num- :
bered five or six of the 30 -

Tinks who > competed.

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