College recruiting of athletes.
is the norm, and has been for
. several years.

It’s’ also known’ there’s

recruitment’ in high school
sports, especially.in areas where
there’s an abundance of popula-
tion — like the lower mainland. :

In recent weeks, the Van-
couver Province riewspaper has.
carried a series on this conten-
tious issue of-student transfers
and athletic eligibility.

Among schools receiving
publicity over alleged recruit-
ment is Richmond High School,
home of the top-ranked. senior
boys’ basketball team — ~ Rich-
mond Colts.

This is the same team that .

came to Terrace and beat : our .
Caledonia Kermode boys i in two
exhibition games.

At least two Colt players were
interviewed about cross-
boundary transfers. They more
or less felt it was a storm in @
teacup.

One of the players — Graeme

Lindsay — wrote a letter to the
Province in response to the
paper’s article on transfers.
- Lindsay wrote: ‘‘Both An-
drew Zawada (another Colt
player) and I feel your article has
left a dark shadow over Rich-
mond High and ourselves. We
had spoken to you for about 20
minutes and listed several
reasons why we made the
transfer.

“‘All you could gather from

that was that I went because of |

’ the trips and that Andrew was
recruited by a university coach.
“You stated. that recruiting
“does happen; that may be. so,
“put as I told you before in the
. case of Andrew and I, absolutely
- #0 recruiting occurred, Unless
_.; winning and playing good teams
* is.a recruiting tool?’’

Lindsay apparently feels it’s.
okay to look around for the best
‘deal’ if you’re a six-foot-five-
inch top provincial prospect.

In another letter to the Prov-
‘ince, Mark Donahue of Burnaby -
had this to say: ‘‘I feel a student.

~ must play in the school district
- he or she resides in. ;

‘‘An athlete who lives in one

. district, such as Andrew Zawada

Locals place in
Rupert bonspiel

 -.: Terrace teams came out with a

. win and a runnerup placing at
March 4 weekend’s 37th annual
Prince Rupert Ladies’ Bonspiel
‘at the Rupert Curling Club.

- Linda Movold of the home- .

‘ town club needed an extra end to

defeat Kathy Butterfield 10-7 in

the final of ‘A’ event.
_.Terrace’s Kim MacDougall
came out as winner of ‘B’ event.
“She beat .Sue Comadina of
“Rupert 9-4 in the final.

<<[t-was an all-Rupert final for

ic event. Jenny McLean won
_ that 13-7 over Penny Brown.

: For 'D’ event, Wendy Atchi-

son came on top.with a 6-2 vic-
. tory oF Terrace’s: Anna Le-

orn

who resides -in Vancouver and

attends school in Richmond,

should not be eligible to play for
Richmond. How often do teams
‘from the lower mainland or the
Fraser Valley travel to the
north? Thus, transfers: from the
north to the south. will

continue,”’. , 27) -dnainland for’ his final year, of “matter, ene
“ Some feel there’ sa fairneis i in high. school. Big private. schools. in. the

volved. How about the: 13th
player? A talented star gets lured
to a.schoot and cuts out a
youngster who’s worked hard all
his life to earn a place on the

team. Lt the iower inainland for, his final
Our area remains. , untouched’ year'of high school:
by the wagging finger of recruit-

concerned. : -
*. There’s ‘the case of Srnithers .

~ Bolster

‘3992 Olympics, -

sore thuriab..- . fo ae
One player. from . “the: 1964 ee
It’s paid off for. Bolster, who Prince’ Rupert - ‘Rainmaker.
ment, insofar as. basketball . is. is now definite material for the basketball ‘team. who ‘won ‘the: a
. B.C. title, can verify how.he was“...
‘But, basketball. in.our area is ‘chased?’ -by..a private school: °°:
High School wrestler Heath ot, a recruitable “school. sport: whose academics were obviously... --:
Bolster, who moved to the lower . Nor. ‘are other sports, for that. secondary to the youth’s basket~ o
ball skills. ofc we
ob ‘It’s a smalli irritating. matter in:
réally~ wasn’t: lower,,. mainland ‘do. have school politics, but. can. ruin:
’ pecruited. As a top Canadian borderline recruiting tactics...
wrestler with . better - coaching “
- and stronger competition needed . matter how you look at it,’
to hone his skills, he moved to °

sports programs if” allowed to.
They butter: it over, but no. flourish.

Yow. For the time being, we appear
‘recruitment’ stands out like a to be safe in the Northwest...

The Caledonia Kermodes boys’ basketbal! team emerged laden with medals and a trophy after their victory in the
_ Northwest zone finals played the first weekend of March in Terrace. -- :

Bantams |

. .
win three
| Terrace Inland Kenworth ban-

‘tams warmed up for this
-weekend’s four-team  mini-

- minor hockey tournament at

Houston by beating Prince
George ‘B’ bantams in three ex-
hibition games at Terrace on
March 4 weekend.

In the Friday night opener,
Terrace got goals from six dif-
ferent players as they beat the
visitors ‘6-3. Rich Piattoni, Ivan
Laschenko, Ryan Mathews,
Dawson Kelin, Davey Jones and
Jared Ewart were the marks-
men,

' The game at noon Saturday
was an 8-1 rout for Terrace with
-Laschenko, Piattoni and Dennis
Bannister each firing a pair of
goals.

The windup game on the Sun-
day morning turned out to be
the closest — 4-2 for Terrace.

Jones, Bannister, Ewart and

Laschenko scored our goals.
This weekend Terrace goes up

against three tough teams at

Houston. They meet . Prince

Rupert ‘A’, Houston and Burts a
4 Lake. wee a .. ’ °

~ Quarter finals

March 9 _ North Coast Auto 7, skeena Hotel 6 .

The scores are... eee

cee, ‘TERRACE MEN'S BASKETBALL LEAGUE

Marchi 9— 'Ev's Clippers 108, Kluss and Sorts 80 (high scorers — Richard Klein. 44, Emile. Froese 29).
March 9 — All Seasons 85, Skeena Hotel Masters 63 (high scorers. — Jim Kellar 22, Roland Barton 18)

These are the final regular season games. Prayer bagins this week.

TERRACE MEN’S RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE |
PLAYOFFS

March 4 — Inn of the West 7,1 Northern: Motor inn Okies 5

Inn of the West wins the one game series, Northern Motor inn: Okles se n

March § = . Skeena Hotel 3, North Coast Auto 2 (Shoot out)
Skeena Hotel laads the best of three, 1-0.

March 7 —.Norm’s Auto Refinishing 3, Inn of the West 2 -
Norm's Auto Refinishing feads the best of three, 1-0."

Best of three series tied, 1-1..

sot .. eet a :

‘Finale stert March 16, 8:15 p.m., a best of three series. Second 1 game setury, Maron %8 5 pm. and if

necessary, Sunday, 5:45 p.m. for game ti tires. -

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