Terrace Standard, Monday, December 24, 4991 — Page.B3 SPARRING pariners Joey Losier and Darren Bell put i in solid perfor? mances throughout the year to box their way to gold medals in the in the Junior ‘B' event, February Auetes -from Terrace returned from the B.C. Winter Games bringing back several medals and experience in local competition.: _ ‘ Among the many winners was boxer Joey Losier who came back with a gold medal in the junior B division scoring a first- round technical knockout on his opponent. Members of the Terrace- Kitimat Chito-Ryu karate club captured several medals in karate, and the zone’s junior badminton team placed fifth. -~ In the masters swimming event, Joe Mandur. won: four. golds, a silver and a bronze, Tue KERMODE Friendship Centre basketball team gained experience in its first year at the ali-native basketball tourna- ment in Prince Rupert, but were unable to pick up a win. . Corter Larry Burke skip- ped his Terrace RCMP tink to “victory at the Terrace Legion Bonspiel which hosted 48 rinks in the three-day event, March Terrace air pistol shooter, Ali Johnston, was named to the Canadian -national shooting team travelling to the the World Cup champicnships in Los Angeles. Caepomia Senior Secon- dary badminton players kept-up a long-standing winning “tradi- tion by sweeping the zone playoffs in Terrace. Wor A 430-point- performance, Michelle Hendry led the Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball tearn to their first-ever district cham- pionship title, The championship win ' was the final touch in the week which saw Hendry named player-of-the-year for the se- cond time in District One of the National Association of Inter- collegiate Athletics. Hendry had previously set ‘a new one-game scoring record: - for SFU, dunking 42 points in a’ single game in a 96-45 win over the Central Washington Wildcats. . Terrace's atom rep hockey team pulled off an upset victory to. win “the Tri-City Minor Hockey League cham- pionship beating the Kitimat team which hadn’t relinquished the title for several years, A TERRACE TEAM out- skied and out-biked the com- Petition , at the Smithers’ Ice Man - winter triathalon . with Mike Christensen clocking. the fastest team biking time and teammate Tony Falcao grabb- ing the fastest time in the super giant slalom section of the race, The team's combined time was good enough to put them on top of the four | teams com- peling. April Boxers Joey Losier and Darren Bell turned in more im- pressive performances at the Jr. Golden Gloves boxing tourna- ment in Vancouver to capture gold medals in the Junior ‘B' division, The Terrace duo actually defeated the gold medal winners in the age division above them, and would have gone to the na- tionals, but were disallowed because they were in the younger age classification. Tue TERRACE BLUEBACK swim team pulled off a victory at a regional meet in Kitimat regaining their ‘number one” title. Two TERRACE masters runners — Ed Ansems and Sue | Simpson — charged to the. finish line at the eighth annual Rupert Runners Half Marathon . and two-person relay. Ansems ‘turned in the best overall time of the race and Simpson was the first woman “across the finsish line. -.. - Locat 1 DART. . Player Bill. M Robinson arrowed his way ta ° second ‘place finish in - men’s - single darts obtaining a spot on the B.C, team. The win gave Robinson an oppportunity to go the the na- tional finals in Toronto. SWORDSMAN Roland Lagace draws his laido blade in practice after returning from an intense training trip to Japan in the spring. ‘pionships in” Vancouver,’ “Aprrer BEING bounced around between three different NHL teams this season, Ter- ‘race’s Jeff Sharples says he’s ready to come home for the summer and run the summer hockey school, . The’ defenceman was first drafted by the Detroit Red ~ Wings then traded to Edmonton - and finally sent to the New Jersey Devils. Fo.towine another spec- tacular, record-setting year with the Simon. Fraser’ University Clan; Michelle Hendry’ was given one of the highest honours in North American col- legiate women’s basketball — a place on the All-American team. Sunior Golden Gloves provincial boxing championships last spring Bowers ‘HERE got a chance to watch local high roller and B. C. five-pin champion John Rasmussen take on the na- tion's’ best on CBC ’Sport- ‘“sweekend’s nationally. televised Labatt's ‘Lite bowling cham- * ‘ pionships. Rasmussen — who threw a 272 average to win the provin- cial title ~- was eliminated in his ° first game of the sudden death . championships. lL WAS THEIR first major provincial boxing tournament, and Terrace’s. Darren Bell and Joey Losier put on a perfor- ‘mance that could be a sign of things to come ‘The local fighters both won their fights to claim gold medais in their divisions at the annual Silver Gloves boxing tourna-_ Meuerte HENDRY w: ‘twice:named district: pl -portant - victories. ment. the-week after: : leading © the ‘Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball team to im-, els ea college basketball. Trerrace's Cory Holland was selected to the B.C, provin- cial swimming team after rising to the top in his age group in local competitions, Kinmars Rassame - Ling was. named Canada's female athlete of the year‘in karate for 1989, Among her achievements is’ her capture of the world cham- pionship in women’s kata at the Soke Cup in Vancouver. SPORTS '90 _The Year in Review PEGE eves ae oe’ i a ok oad ON THE BALL: Local tennis player Richard Kriegl leaps fo for the return on his way to-victory i in the men's singles avent in May when the Terrace Tennis Club hosted a northwest tournament, May June Tue SKEENA Valley Golf and Country Club tock a step towards course expansion when it voted in favour of buying an adjacent property which would give them a full 18-hole course. , Terrace's Richard Kriegl came out on top in men’s singles .-. competition at the Terrace Ten-_ nis Club’s first tournament of! the season. Ar THE B.C. Karate Cham-; Deborah Casey of Terrace won a silver medal-in kumite — the: fighting event — and a bronze adn the, ‘kata event. Tue Terrace Peaks Gym- nastics Club was given assurance it would receive a lot- tery grant for one third of a pro- posed $120,000 project to con- : struct its own building in | Thor- ohill. NA SERIES of hard-fought ‘games, ‘number two-seeded Len- ox, ‘Brown knocked -off ‘the cory petition to claim the Ter- “squash society’s 1990 h championship. ~ Brown took the top spot by beating David. Fraser, - the number three seed in the final -mateh. : back ~ Micuente HENDRY was in a Team Canada uniform and playing basketball in Europe, for the second straight year in a row. Seventy RUNNERS from across the northwest tuned cut to compete in Terrace’s annual § and 10 kilometre spring run, Most ‘of the runners were» from Terrace, but entrants from all over the northwest competed with the out-of. towners sweep- ing up the top Spots. : Terrace PLAYERS made their ‘presence felt at the. Smithers’ Spring ¢ Classic olf “in the. requir Terrace’s Dan Rosengren placed third behind winner Steve Kerbrat, Cacevonta Senior Secon- dary dadminton player Callie Swan was honoured with a $1500- Nancy Greene. scholar- ship for her performance on- Caledonia’s. badminton’ team which went to the provincial championships in spring 1990, Prince RUPERT residents ‘trounced Terrace and Kitimat in _ the ‘annual - tri-city Participac: tion Fitness Challenge." Over 9000 coast resideits put ‘physical activi mpar over $000-Terra ites exer ing.