Page 8, The Herald, Wednesday, October 10, 1979 CLOSER, THOUGH ‘Winterhawks take T’men Kitimat Winterhawke met the Terrace Timbermen in Kitimat again last night at the Kitimat Arena, and once again came away with a win, this time 4-2. The win boosted the Winterhawks exhibition record to two wins, one loss, and dropped the Timbermen’s to two ‘wins, three losses. The game was close and exciting, with the Tim- bermen ocutshooting the Northmen come By DON SCHAFFER Herald Staff Writer The Terrace Northmen went to the Third Annual Gobbler Rugby Tournament in Abbotsford over the long weekend, and came back with a third-place trophy to show for their trip. The Northmen played in the B Division of the tour- nament, for second and third division clubs. They lost their first game to the Portland Pigs, but bounced back to defeat BCIT and Trail to take the third-place trophy. In the first game, Ken Lipinski scored the first Terrace points right off the opening kickoff. The Por- tland club kicked off, a Northman kicked the ball back, a. Portland fullback home team 33-31, Kitimat was never behind in the game, although the score was tied twice in the second period. Mark Schooley scored his first goal of two in the first period, this coming at the end of a good period of hockey. Dave Sharpe of the Timbermen and the Win- terhawk’s Stacey Smeader traded goals in the second, Sharpe getting the first and misplayed the ball and Lipinski alertly jumped on the ball for the try. This made the score 4-0, The Pigs scored a try just prior to the end of the first half to make the score 4-4, Midway through the second half, Bill Warcup scored a penalty kick to put Terrace in the lead 7-4, but with two minutes remaining, Portland scored another try and converted it to make the score 10-7. Terrace pressed throughout the last two minutes, but couldn't score on their opportunities, so the game ended 10-7. The second game saw the Northmen take out their frustration on the BCIT Squad 20-6, Ken Gordon ran the opening kickoff back for 4 quick try, and Bill Warcup Minor of October 13, A low registration year. SMITHERS OUT OF REP LEAGUE Due to registration problems, all Smithers teams have been dropped from the Inter-City Hockey Rep A revised team schedule involving Pup, Peewee, Bantam and Midget teams from Prince Rupert, Kitimat and Terrace has been compiled and the league will start operating the weekend problems getting organized lead to the decision to drop Smithers. If Smithers can get themselves arranged, they could be re-admitted by the new Team _ league. (less than 100} and Series start rained BALTIMORE (AP) — The 1970 World Series still was Hed 0-0 today because not even baseball's annual fall classic can fool around with Mother Nature. It rained on the scheduled Tuesday night opener of the best-of-seven series between Baltimore Orioles and Pitts- burgh Pirates, It marked the first time in the 76-year history of the games that the opener was postponed. And It wad the 26th time a series game bowed to the elements — 25 to rain and one because of cold weather. Basebail commissioner Bowle Kuhn called off the game at 8:32 p.m.,, just two minutes after the scheduled Starting time. The decision was booed by the fana, but justified by the continuing downpour and dire weather forecast for the rest of Tuesday night. There was no way the American League champion Orioles and National League winning Pirates could have played on the sopping wet natural grass and dirt surface. Although a tar- paulin covered the infield, the outfield was full of puddles. Tt wouldn't have taken long once the tarp was off to tun the intleld into a quagmire. And, the valuable talent on both teams would have been subjected ta possible injury, AS a result of the firat World Series postponement aince 1976, when the fourth dame between Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees was delayed a day by rain, the Orioles and Pirates will forego their travel day Thursday. The series opens tonight and continues Thursday night. The teams will hustle to Pittsburgh for a third game Friday night. The fourth game is scheduled for Pittaburgh on Saturday afternoon. Tf needed, a fifth game is acheduled for Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon, with Monday off and a return to Baltimore if the sixth and seventh games are necessary, out Managera Earl Weaver of the Orloles and Chuck Tanner of the Pirates, sald the rainout would not affect their Lineups for the delayed opener, Weaver said Mike Flanagan, whose 23 victories led the majors during the regular seagon, still would open for the Orioles, Weaver also held to his plan to we Mark Belanger at shortatep for more defensive strength. Weaver sald John Lowenstein, a left-handed hitter, would be In left, and awiteh-hitter Billy Smith at second base, to give Baltimore more offence agalnst Pirates' starter Brice Kigon, a right-hander. Weaver went so far as to name his starting pitchers for the next three games — Jim Palmer, Scott McGregor and Dennis Martinez. Tanner disclosed only that he would use Bert Blyleven and John Cande- laria in the next two games. Tanner sald that if Flanagan was the Orioles’ starter tonight, he would stick with Bil! Robinson in left-field. and rookie Steve Nicosla behind the plate. Both swing from the right side and would make the Pirates more effective against the left-handed Flanagan. Weaver and Orioles’ fans still were concerned about how the non-use of the American League designated hitter rule in the series would — affect. Baltimore, Weaver expecta it to make a difference since he will have to let hia pitchers bat Instead of Lee May, the club's designated hitter during the regular seaaon. May hit 19 home runa and had 69 RBI. Flanagan hasn't batted since he was In the minor leagues three years ago. Kison had eight hits and drove in six runs, including four with a grand slam durlng the regular season. Flanagan was 23-9 with a 2.65 ERA In the reégular American League season while Kison was 13-7, with 4 3.14 BRA. third goals and Smeader Betting the second and fourth. Kitimat led 3-2 at the end of the second. Schooley got the game’s final goat with about three minutes remaining .in the third period, which was, marred by short tempers and an indecisive fight. Thirteen penalties were called in the game, eight to the Timbermen and five to Kicked a penalty soon after to make the score 7-0. Archie DeMarchi blocked a penalty kick and ran the ball in for the second try, and Bill Warcup got a try to make the halftime score 15-0. Ken Summerfelt opened the second half scoring by faking out the BCIT defenders with a dummy pass and running the ball in to score making the score 19- 0. BCIT then scored a con- verted try to get on the board 19-6, but Vie Couture scored soon after, and Ken Gordon converted to make the score 25-4. Lipinski finished the scoring With a try, making the fina] score 23-6. The Northmen finished thelr tournament off Sunday morning in a game against trail. Although the Terrace club dominated the game, the final score was 4-3 Terrace. Trail led 3-0 at the end of the first half after scoring a penalty kick, Ken the Winterhawks, The PNWHL regular season schedule starts next Thursday, Oct. 18, when Houston meets Burns Lake, The Timbermen play Smithers and Houston before they meet the Winterhawks in Terrace on Wednesday, Oct. 24, Kitimat's league opener is at home against the Prince Rupert Kings, Saturday, Oct. 20. : third Lipinski scored the Nor- thmen’s only points on a try with only ten minutes remaining in the game. In the final game of the tournament, the Royal Roads team, from Victoria beat Portland 6-3. Charac- teristic of most games in the tournament, there were no tries scored in the final game. Lipinski said that most of the games were v low-scoring, and that the Northmen’s second game was one of the highest scoring games of the weekend. The Northmen brought home a trophy for thelr third-place finish, which was determined after playing two games for placing in the final game, which was for the trophy, Lipinski said that the team had lots of fun, played well, and are looking forward to going back again next year. Blues win first game By GRANT KERR VANCOUVER (CP) — St. Louls Blues didn’t miss Garry Unger at all Tuesday night as they used superior skating to create sc chances and easily defeat Vancouver Canucks §-2 in the opening game of the 1970- 8) National Hockey League SEASON, Unger missed his first start after playing in 833- consecutive games;: the all- time..NHL record, after playing out his option and shopping hia services around the league. The ironman has apparently made a deal with Atlanta Flames. - The youthful Blues got a good effort from goaltender Ed Staniowskl and their penalty-killers as they took period leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in an impressive win aver the disorganized Canucks. “It was a good effort by everyone, but especially by the goaltender and the penalty-killers,"" said coach Barclay Plager of the Blues, “We're a skating team and ‘we created two of our goals by skating and being in good positlon in thelr end.’’ St. Louis got goals from rookie Bob Crawford, Blake Dunlop, Wayne Babych, Brian Sutter and Hartland Monahan as the Blues took advantage of the few ‘good acoring opportunities they got, Monahan’s goal was into an empty net. The Canucks had nine power plays against the Aggressive Blues, but many times didn’t even get a shot on goal as they tended to overpass instead of taking the obvious shots. On other occasions, Staniowski waa able to smother the puck Ln close when Vancouver -Bhooters failed to get their shots up high. Vancouver goal scorers were defenceman Lars Lindgrem and opportunistic winger Ron Sedibauer as the Canucks outshot St. Louis 25- oring 22 after a horrid first period, “We got ordy three shots in the opening period and that showed we weren’t skallng,”’ said coach Harry Neale of the Canucks. "We were a little better the last two periods, but you've got to start better at home against askating team like St. Louis. ‘The Blues took the game away from us in the opening period and we got kind of frustrated and made a lot of bad plays. We had lots of scoring chances, but those shots never seem to go in when you get off to a bad start like we did tonight.” Plager said his team was nervous in the first period, “but we settled down and played our positions well, I don't think we got caught out of position more than once or twice in the Inst two periods,” Staniowski made two brilliant saves against centre Thomas Gradin, one of the few bright spots in the Vancouver lineup. The Canucks played without captain Don Lever, who was sitting out a one- game suspension imposed by the league after belng detected as the first player off the bench Oct. 6 in Colorado during 2 brawl with the Rockles, Vancouver also lost defen- ceman John Hughes after the first period when he reinjured his ankle while blocking a shot. Hughes also was involved in two of the four fights during the game. 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