10 Terrace Review- — Wednesday April 5, 1989 . OMe

‘Terrace Inland Kenworth ban-

_tams came out. of the 10-team .

B.C, minor hockey bantam trip-
le ‘AAA’ “championships at
Comox witha surprising fourth-

~ place” ‘finish during the ‘March -

25- to-30 series.

- Against the strongest. bantam
teams in the province, “Terrace
produced: a two-win, one-loss
and one tie record in their five-
team section: to earn a berth in
the semi-finals.

‘It was there they met the best
and dropped ¢ two lopsided. ef-
‘forts: ;

In their opening game against
“Quesnel, they came up on the

short.end of a 6-5 score’ as -
Quesnel tallied the winning goal
, tle for third and fourth, the boys
‘had run out of steam and suf-

in the last minute. —_
‘Game two saw Terrace ‘sur-

prise the favored Victoria entry.

by. counting a 4-3 victory. It
evened their record at one-and-
. one,

Game three put - them up
against Fort St. John, a team
' they’d had little success against
in meetings this season. The
teams battled to a 6-6 tie, which
meant Terrace would need a vic-
tory over Cranbrook in their

_ Prince Rupert's Bob Mintenko came on strong to beat J
"final of ‘B’ event at the Terrace men’s annual Loggers’

final round:robin contest.

‘Cranbrook - went into the
playoffs with \an ~ undefeated
season to back them.up, but Ter-
racé put.an.end to this string by
enon apr pel 74.

advanced to the semis with Ter-
race. Gaining berths from the
other section was Burnaby

‘Winter Club and Kamloops.

Terrace drew Burnaby as their
semi opposition, but as usual,
the Winter-Club had loaded up
on talent, We ended up on the
short end of a 10-1 score. Mean-
while, Cranbrook was beating
Kamloops 4-3 in the other semi.

' Against Kamloops in the bat-

fered an 11-2 beating.
Cranbrook, the team we beat
in the round-robin, came out

strong and downed Burnaby 6-5 a
Hockey to change categories in

to win the championship.

Finishing fourth was a super
effort for our underdog ban-
tams, They were playing in the
highest-caliber division ((AAA’)
when they actually deserved to
be a double ‘AA’ entry.

- The Terrace Inland Kenworth bantam hockey team surprised everyone with a fourth-place

finish in the ‘AAA’ championships held in Comox March 25- 30...

Picture by Ken’s Photo.

All efforts by Terrace Minor

the past three years have met
with failure as the B.C.A.H.A.
continues to hold us to ‘AAA’,
even though our registration
doesn’t warrant the number one
class.

ohn Heightington of Terrace in the

‘g’ event at the annual Terrace Loggers’ Bonspiel Easter weekend went to the Allen:
Jacques team witha victory over Ken Bazansky In the final.

Bonspie! on Easter weekend. -

“class.

No national berth -
for Bolster, Roberts _

Freestyle was a wipeout, but
Greco-Roman was okay for
Smithers’ Craig Roberts and
Heath Bolster at the Canadian
wrestling championships in Ed-
monton March 24-26.

The two Simon Fraser Univer- -
sity wrestling stars were, out-..
‘in -freestyle events. .

classed
Roberts’ placed-' sixth. -in . his-
-134-pound | class while. Bolster
- was seventh. in his: ‘163-pound |

Greco-Roman provided a dif.

. ‘geveral

- ferent. picture, with three-year *

veteran Roberts picking up the:

second-place silver - for -his: °: —
weight. class and rookie Bolster‘. -

earning a third-place bronze for

‘his effort.

: Neither. ‘performer. gained a
place on Canada’s team for the

World Cup championship: held
in Ohio last weekend. However, *
.they are expected to take part in
: _internationally —.
prestigious events this summer,

Kitimat bantams third...

Kitimat bantams wound up in

_ third place at the B.C. single ‘A’

bantam minor hockey finals
played at Lake Cowichan last
week.

Kitimat’s record of two wins
and two losses came about over
a four-day series. They started
with a 10-2 loss to the host team.

Juvenile ski

Smithers skiers failed to get
into the medals when they
hosted the Canadian Juvenile
Ski Championships two weeks
ago,

came in the female downhill

where Shelley Klopfenstein -

Kitimat atoms win

Kitimat Minor Hockey’s atom
reps came up with three wins
‘and one loss to place first on ‘B’
side of Killarney’s atom tourna-
ment on March 25 weekend. :

Kitimat lost their opening
game 5-4 to Port Moody, but

came back to blast East Van-.

couver 17-2 in their second en-

The best Smithers showing -

Kitimat came back next day i to”
post an 11-2 victory over
Golden. On day three, Kitimat

took a 12-2. pounding -from

Revelstoke.
‘Jn: their last game, Kitimat

-faced Golden again and came up

with a 10-8 win, Lake Cowichan
came. out as champions.

successful

thrilled the hometown crowd
with a fourth-place finish. In the
same ‘race,
placed ninth.

22nd and Claire Challen 25th: °

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counter.

After whipping Hastings 7-2" 7
in. game three, they took-on |

Chilliwack in the ‘B’ side final:
Kitimat needed double overtime
to beat the Fraser Valley team
and bring the ‘B’ championship
trophy back home.

Orcas’ Kinton to be
on provincial all-stars .

Only one player from this area
has been selected to compete at

the annual Pepsi provincial high -
school all-star basketball game -
on April-ist at B.C.LT. Cheryl

Kinton of Kitimat Orcas will be

on the Sirls’ roster. The boys’

and girls’ games feature the top

male and female players who are:

graduating this year. Chris Bren-

nen, a former Skeena Junior.
High player who performed for
Variderhoof this season, was

“selected for the boys’ team,

Nicole Collison —

In the ‘super-G event, Nicole —
came in 10th while Shelley was. -

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