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The annual Caledonia grads’ b

asketball. tournament was a huge success just before Christmas. Following the

final game, we gathered most.c

Coming events in sports

Freestyle. ski playoffs for

Zones 7 and 8 of the B.C.

. Winter Games are on this com-.

ing Saturday and Sunday at
Prince George’s: Tabor Moun-
tain, Phone Joey Gervais at
563-6957 to enter.

A power-skating course under
the sponsorship of the Terrace.
Figure Skating Club’ runs: this
Friday to March 3 at the arena..
It’s for seven-to-nine-year-olds.
Phone Kelly at 635-5133 to
register. ae
. Several curling playdowns are

Another |
Smithers

wrestler

“Another Smithers High

School athlete is adding to the
success story of B.C; wrestling.

Bighteen-year-old Cam
Johnston is following in the
footsteps of former Smithers’
-athletes like Craig Roberts,

' Heath Bolster and Darryl Simp-

son by attending, Simon Fraser
University. He trains and com-
petes out of the school’s na-,
tional center for wrestling.

SFU Clansmen coach Mike
Jones says Johnston is a pleas-
ant surprise. ‘We thought it
would: take a little longer for
‘Cam to find success at our
level’? Jones said, ‘“‘but he’s
really come on strong.”

_ As a freshman wrestler,
Johnston finds the only difficul-

ty in the transition from high

school to university wrestling is
making the weight.

He has to’ squeeze into the
134-pound class, but it hasn’t
stopped him from-early. success.

His record stands at 14 wins
and ‘five logses, including a vic-
tory at the Pacific Lutheran In-
vitational and runnerup in
another miajor series. Johnston
was a 1987 weight-class: cham-
pion in-high school, and placed

tionals; aha

fifth-at the Canadian junior na- ©

on this weekend. Terrace is

hosting the Zee 6 men's:

playoffs from Friday to Sunday.
Interior playdowns for junior
men run from the 8th to 10th at
Cranbrook. The ladies’ District
Four playdowns are being. held
at Vanderhoof this Friday to

Sunday. The junior ladies have
-their District: Four~series. at the

same time at Houston. .
’ Curling fans are reminded

that Prince Rupert will host the

B.C. ladies’ ‘Scott Tournament
of Hearts’ from Jan. 26 to Jan.
30 at the Rupert Curling Club.

The 10 best teams in the prov-

ince will compete for a berth in
national finals at Kelowna in
February. — ;

The Kitimat Cross-Country
Ski Club has two items this week
— 1.) tonight at 7:30 in room
two at Kitimat’s Northwest
Community College, there’s an
introduction to all aspects of the
sport. Call Cheryl at 632-4359
for information; 2.) an in-
termediate level ski‘ tour. to the

' Dahl Creek area is planned for

Saturday starting at 10 a.m. at
the Chamber of Commerce. For
information, phone Jim at
632-6055. . :

teams just prior to Christmas,

but couldn’t come up with a win |

against any of them. |
First, it was ‘an exhibition
triple ‘AAA’ senior

Windsor, the number one-

yanked teamin B.C,
The: seventh-rated Birds ran:
up an early 32-16 lead, but:
Windsor came back to win in the -
final: minute by a 68-64 score. |

Rainbirds got 19 points from
Nina Phillipson, and 16 each
from Susie Jarosch and Audrey
Dennison. . 7 |
Then it was on to Vernon for
an eight-team tournament.
They opened against Kam-

. loop’s Westsyde and pulled off a.

f the more than 70 men’s players for a group photo. —_ es ms a

girls’.
basketball game at North Van’s.

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Three teams of current and past Kermodes played on the girls’ side of the annual grads’

basketball tournament at Caledonia high school just prior to Christmas. We got most of.

them in this picture after the final game. -

Rainbitds 4th at Vernon

The Prince Rupert Rainbirds
played three top-10 ranked.

77-73 win with Phillipson scor-
ing 23, and Jarosch and Den-
nison getting 20 each. Westsyde
was an un-ranked team.

Next was sixth-rated ‘New -

Westminster in the semi-finals.
The Birds! big three ran into
foul troubles near the end and
then wound. up losing 66-52. In

_ scoring it was Jarosch with 16,

Dennison with 14 and Phillipson
with 12. ,

Their last game — a playoff
for third and fourth —- saw them
whipped 84-57 by third-ranked
Vernon, This gave them fourth
place. Audrey had 20 points,
Nina.16 and Susie 10, Susie was
named to the all-star team. New
Westminster wor the tourna-
ment, .

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