Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 6, 1992 — Page B5

July

Gorrer Dan Rosengren
cruised to a 13-stroke win at the
Skeena Valley Open men’s folf
tournament.

Tur Northern Stealers
women’s. fastball team won

> their‘own tournament, taking a

provincial berth with their win
in the final over the Prince
. Rupert Rainettes.

Abr a disasterous series
of provincial-level cycle races,

- Terfaéerider-Mike Christensen ~

- decided ‘to “take ‘some time off
fromm competitive racing, But it
was ‘to be the beginning of the

end for Christensen in 1991, He . f

_- injured his knee mountain bike
: acing ‘and. then exacerbated

that injury when he raced in the |
447, ‘Skeena. _ Valley :

July.
. Triathlon, ~ :

: Jumox “hational champion
~ Eric Myllymaki won the Skeena |

“Malley Triathlon with a course
_ record time of just under one
_ hour and -§0 minutes, Colin
Parr was’ the fastest Terrace

- "finisher. in--the -annual swim.

-_ eycle-run race, finishing 13th in
atime. of (2:07:26. Terrace’s
Diana Wood was’ the fastest
local woman, finishing fourth
‘behind’ Vancouver’s Carolyn
 Hubbard- Brougham, whose

time of 2:03:29 carved nearly
“nine minutes off the women’s
- record in the race.

Ryauarp Krieg] won dou-
“ble tiebreakers on his way toa
“three-set victory in the men's
‘Singles final at the Terrace Ten-
‘nis Ciub's open tourney.

“Terrace NORTHMEN
‘finished their season with an
undefeated 9-0 record in North
-> Coast Rugby Union competi-
“tion, They capped the year. by
Capturing first. place in the an-
nual. Smithers ‘Seven-a-Side

_tournament on the August lo wii
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SPORTS ‘91

The Year In Review

short-handed but spirited Sinjur Masonry team.

SOCCER PLAYOFFS saw league champions North Coast Road Maintenance fall in the playoff final to a

Mocueue Hendry scored
nine points to boost the national
team to a 70-685 silver-medal vic-
tory over China at the World
_ University Games in Sheffield,
“Brlglard,

Garon Coxford, of the
Terrace Blueback Swim Club,
won five gold medals at the
B.C. Swimming Champion-
ships at UBC. The young Ter-
race swimmer also. Picked up a
silyérand a bronze i in wistesper
evehts’ * etre

Mounran KING Richard
Harrison, of Smithers, won the
annual King of the Mountain
footrace here for the seventh
time. Terrace runner Colin Parr
was second, about four minutes.
backies-kons-

Octo ber

~Novem ber

Pau De Jong was the win-
ner in singles, doubles, mixed
doubles and team competition
‘at the Terrace Open Darts tour-
nament.

A FORMER Terrace Nor-
thman rugby player competed
on the Canadian national team
at the World Cup Rugby Cham-
pionships in. Europe, Eddie
Evans was a prop on the Cana-
dian team that made the
quarterfinals — the country’s
best ever performance at the in-
ternational rugby champion-

~ Ships, Evans was born here but

“now lives in the Lower

Mainland.

Suane De Jong shot a I72
~over 36 holes to win the Skeeng

’ Malley Golf club’s junior tour-
nament,

Prince RUPERT'S Nelson
brothers turned in the fastest
times at the All Seasons Haif-
Marathon. Charles Nelson was
first overall for the second time
in a winning time of one hour
and 12 minutes, Brothers Joe
and John Jr. were less than a
minute behind. Gord Buxton
was the fastest Terrace runner
in the 21km event, finishing
about four minutes back of the
Nelsons.

Cacepona's Megan Reid
was the fastest Terrace runner
in a zone track meet, placing se-
cond in the senior girls division,
The meet was dominated by
Smithers runners.

Terrace swimmers won
the team relay trophy at a
regional swim meet in Prince
Rupert.

Carevonia’s Kermode
boys soccer team crushed Prince
Rupert in the best-of-three zone
final to take the northwest zone
title and a berth in the provin-
cialis, Cal didn’t have to face the
Kitimat Rowdies this season.
Several Kitimat players had
been suspended and the team
had been disbanded after
unsportsmanlike conduct in an
earlier game.

W HEELCHAIR racer Paul
Clark left for Holland, where he
is now training and competing
in an effort to return to com-
petitive racing,

V otteveALL action here
saw Thornhill’s boys team —
the Timber Wolves beat
Hazelton in a tournament here.
And Skeena’s junior girls beat

TRATHLETE ‘Carolyn: Hubbard-Brougam was the “Tastest | woman competing in the ‘skeena Valley =
Triathlon, this year, blowing nine minutes off the women’s record. It was a banner year for the tathlan °
“end 1992 should be even bigger when the event hosts the provincial championships. ... whe

Thornhill’s girls.

SURINDER Dhaliwal and -

Tony Bromon won the men’s ti-
tle. at the Terrace Badminton
Club's open doubles tourna-
ment. Nancy Condon and

Norm Parry won the mixed.

doubles,

Tue Orangemen of Terrace
won the Prince Rupert Com-
mercial All-Star hockey tourna-
ment with a 4-1 record,

Tae Terrace Bluebacks beat
out Rupert by 200 points to win
an invitational tournament
here.

Goroie Judzentis pulled
out a 7-6 win in 1] ends to beat
John Heighington in the annual
Terrace Cash Spiel here.

Locat competitors brought
back more than 20 medals from
the fall provincial karate cham-
pionships in Kitimat. Terrace's
Ron Levesque won the bronze
medal in men’s brown belt kata
and took the bronze in sparring.

C aeponta’s Kermode
boys soccer team went 0-5 at the
provincial championships.

T wornnie's Timber
Wolves junior boys volleyball
team captured the zone title to
go undefeated in northwest
volleyball’ action. Caledonia’s
senior boys volleyball team beat
Prince Rupert in three games to
take the zone.

W AYNE Epp's rink cruised
unbeaten through the . Totem
Mixed Bonspiel to emerge vic-

torious in ‘A’ event at the Ter-.

‘race Curling Club.

Tae New Town Sharks, of:
. New Hazelton,.Were the winners . ~

of “a -10-team. recreational

hockey tournament here. |

August

Tue Skeena Valley
Triathlon’s 1991 success paid
off with the announcement that
the race will be the site of the
provincial championships in
1992,

Tue Northern Ladies Open
golf championship here went to
Terrace’s Debbie Carruthers,

' who’ defeated Smithers: golfer

Verna Zavaduk in a playoff
round.

Locat RUNNER Ed
Ansems raced to a first place
masters division finish at .the
Delta Half Marathon, His time
of 1:16:13 was a minute faster
than last year’s winning masters
time.

Roper Chiron Kantakis
sprinted to victory in the Skeena
River Challenge 100-mile cycle
race from Prince Rupert to Ter-

race, He blasted past Kamloops
rider Glen Buchanan at the end
of the course,

Buussacxs swim coach
Shelley Morgan resigned and
was replaced by former national

. team. member and. ex-Kitimat

Marlins coach Bill. Nash.

SisUR Masonry played a
strong shorthanded game
against North Coast Road
Maintenance to win the men’s
socecr league playoff final.

Hester Flewin and Nancy
Condon. won the women’s side
of the Smithers doubles tennis
tournament, And . Richard
Kriegl and Erna Motschilnig
cruised to singles titles wins in
the Terrace Tennis Club’s clos-
ed tournament. Kriegl also won
the men’s singles event at the
Telkwa Demolition Tennis
Tournament on Labour Day.

Septe

mber

\ y ADE FLAHERTY signed
a two-year contract with the
NHL expansion San Jose
Sharks. The Terrace goalie was
sent back down to the Kansas
City Blades in the International
Hockey League, where he
played last year.

Terrace Inn won the. an-!
nual Larry Swanson Memorial
slo-pitch tournament on the
Labour Day weekend, The team
finished with a 4-1. record,
beating Westpoint Rentals 6-3
in the final.

Mors players than . ever
before competed in Terrace
Youth Soccer teams in. 1991,
which wrapped up with annual
playoffs: in September.
Organizers warn more
volunteers are needed or else the,

“stumiber of+ teams’ wilt Beeael
“ext season

bye ad
o Muara ies

Gy unastics finally
found a home in Terrace as the
Terrace Peaks Gymnastits Club
opened the decors to its new
gymnasium in the Thornhill
Community Centre. The new
gym was the preduct of months
of fund-raising and construc-
tion.

Mors than 60 northwest
seniors participated in the B.C.
Seniors’ Games in Coquitlam.
Terrace masters swimmer Joe
Mandur won five gold medals,
and Bud Kirkaldy won three
golds and a silver in track-and-
field action. A number of other
local seniors brought back
medals. ;

Tie Simon Fraser University
Clan’s Michelle Hendry was
named outstanding senior
female basketball player of the
year... ,al. Basketball... €.'s
awards banquet. J

BURNT OUT: Cycler Mike Christensen lost steam in his drive for the

national cycle racing scene after injuring his knee mountain biking.

December

Terrace’: .Michelle. Hen-
dry was named tournament
MYP following SFU's victory
al a major NAIA women’s
basketball tournament in Plain-
view, Texas. The victorles there

~ gave the team a first-place rank: ~

ing in the NAIA,

beat Kitimat and Hazelton: in
zone playoffs to earn berths: in
the .Northern B. C, _, Winter
Games.. - os

Bivesacks. swimmer

Aimee Peacock was a bronze -

medalist, qualifying for Youth
Nationals in the 200-metre
backstroke in a swim meet at
UBC,

Tue Skeena Tsimshians won

a junior boys basketball tourna-
ment in. the.Nass Valley.

J, - cee Cyreponta’s “Kermode
UNIOR boys curlers here.

boys finished third in a Prince
- George ‘AAA’ boys basketball

~ tournament,.-

Terrace Bluebacks, Swim
“team finished «third overall at
the Kitmat Marlins invitational
swim meel. Aa