Play_well, but lose two straight

Kings come up

Kings 3 Prince George 6

Kings 2 Prince George 4
The Prince George Mohawks
took the first step towarda
winning their fifth Coy Cup —
indicative of intermediate
hockey supremacy in British
Columbia — in the last seven

“years when they beat Prince

Rupert Atom Motor Kings in
two straight games in their
best-of-three quarter-final
series this weekend in Prince
George. of
The hosts dumped the Kings
by a 6-3 margin in Friday's
opener and then collected a 4-2
overtime triumph on Saturday.
Even though they falled to
come home winners, however,
there was certainly no shame in
defeat for Prince Rupert.
They played perhaps their

best hockey of the year in the

series, and were extremely

fortunate to not come up with a
victory, in Saturday night's
encounter, .

The Kings carried the play to
the Mohawks throughout that
game, but simply could not
solve the ptzzle of - Prince
George netminder, Brian Claus.

Rupert was also in an &x-
cellent position to win the
opening game on Friday after
rallying from an early 2-0
deficit to go ahead 3-2 with four
minutes gone in the middle
frame.

However, the Mohawks, a
solid, well-balanced hockey
club who reached the Canadian
Intermediate Hockey final last
year, took advantage of a let-
down by the Kings to score four

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Terrace Men’s Basketball report

by Mike Ireland

Monday night, there were
two. games played in the
T.M.B.A., with both games
coming out as they should.
All Seasons. defeated the
Terrace Reds, 113-02, in the
first game. Leading all
scorers was Tom Marvin
with 41 points for All
Seasons. He was followed by
Mike Ireland and Doug
McKay with 24 and 22 points

’ respectively, Willie Chemko
led the Reds with 35 points
followed by Nick Tooms and
Kevin Earl with 18 points
apiece.

In the second game, Ev’s
Clippers defeated Skeena
Hotel 96-69. Paul Walker and
Dale Prest were high
scorers for the Clippers with
28.-and . 23 points
Goodwin was the leading
scorer for the Orphans wit!
20 points.

ednesday, the top two
teams continued to win as
All Seasons defeated Ev’s
Clippers and the Terrace

s)-stomped the Skeena
Hotel Orphans. The first
game was fairly close as All
Seasons won 98-91 over the
Clippers. Ed Devries, Tom
Marvin and Doug McKay
led All Seasons with 28, 21
and 20 points respectively.
Rod Kluss scored 22 points
and Paul Walker added 21
more for the losers.

The Terrace Reds walked
over the Skeena Hotel Or-
phans 102.59, John Walbergs

ad 3: points for Reds
followed by Willie Chemko

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unanswered times in the last
half of the game.

Kirk Mclvor gave the ‘Hawks
a 1-0 lead with 5:22 gone in the
game when he lifted the puck
past Don Olmstead after the
yeteran Kings’ goaltender had
made at least three good'saves
in a row.

Grant Evans, the Mohawks
top scorer during the regular
season, made it 2-0 nine minutes
later before the Kings finally
came to life and tallied three
quick markers late in the first
and early in the second period.

Gord Stephens, at 15:10 of the
opening stanza, got the Kings on
the board when he lifted a
backhander over Glen Beuckert
after converting passes from
Dave Pickett and Richard
Wright. ;

Pickett, out of the Kings’ line- .
upfor the past two weeks with a
back injury, then went to work

and scored a pair of pretty,

unassisted power-play goals.-

The first came three minutes
after Stephens’ tally while the

second put the Kings in front by -
‘a goal with 3:34 gone in

the second period.

That was it though for the
Kings, and the Mohawks got
goals from Glenn Johnson and

Melvor to open up a 43 lead |

after forty minutes of play
before Dennis Bergeron and

FINAL STANDINGS

G.P. Won Loss -P.F. PA. Pts.
All Seasons a 31 «9 (8407. 3129 62
Terrace Reds 40 9418 4B 3442 43
Ev's Clippers 40 «615 5s 3000 40
Skeena Hotel Orphans 40 10 3006-277) 5278. 20

TOP TEN SCORERS

Player _ Team G.P. Pts. Aver.
John Walbergs Reds 34 857 25.2
Red Kluss - Clippers 36 898 24,9
Mike Ireland All Seasons 35 857 24.5
Albert Olson Orphans 9 453 23.8
Ed Devries All Seasons a4 728 21.4
Willie Chemko Reds 49 854 21.4
Tom Marvin All Seasons 25 518 20.7
Joe Prokopchuk Orphans 19 336 77
Doug McKay All Seasons 37° 635 17.2
Dale Prest Clippers Ww 320 16.8
with 20 points and Al Glover finishing tirst followed by

with 19. For the Orphans,

This concludes the regular
season play with Ail Seasons

Mike Zylicz had ‘16 points,

Reds, Ev’s Clippers | and
_Skeena Hotel in last place.
The leagué’ now takes a
week off to allow for the All
Stars to travel to Vancouver

“He who knows when to

stop runs into no danger.”
Lao-Tse

Evans picked up unanswered
goals in the final stanza.

Saturday night, meanwhile, a
combination of Claus’ fine play
and Rupert's inability to finish
off good scoring opportunities
did in the Kings..

They could have been
ahead by three or four
goals and had the game locked
up by the third period, but as it
was, they held only a 2-1 ad-
vantage late in that stanza
before MclIvor tallied a power-
play goal with 3:12 left in
regulation time to force a ten-
minute overtime session.

The teams had battled
through a scoreless first period
before Richard Wright blasted
one past Claus after taking
a feed from John Vaudry early
in the second frame.

Rupert had a couple of
glorious chances to extend their
lead to 20 when defenseman
Don Gillespie walked in from
the point only to see his shot Aip
off Claus over the net and then
shortly thereafter Pickett
narrowly missed scoring on a
partial breakaway. .

Prince George drew even
when, with the Kings holding a
man-advantage, Brian Toll beat
Jerry Kurka for a short-handed
goal midway through the
second period. .

That goal ruined what had
been a flawless performance tn

for the Senior “B” Cham-

. pionships. When action
resumes, it will be the play- -

offs with All Seasons playing
Skéena Hotel and the
Terrace Reds playing Ev's
Clippers ‘in a single
elimination semi-finals.

In the final individual
scoring statistics John
Walbergs of the Reds came
out on top with a 25.2 points

r game average followed
by Rod Kluss of Ev’s with
24.9 points per game, Mike
Ireland of All Seasons with

5 points per game and

24
Albert Olson of Skeena Hotel ¢

with 23.8 points per game.
Rod Kluss led all scorers in
total points with 898 (36
games) with Mike Ireland
(35 games) and John
Walbergs “(34° * games)
second with 857 points, .

that point by Kurka, who came

.up with a sparkling per-

formance of ‘his own in the

me.

He made point-blank saves on
Brian Back and Darcy
Alexander in the first part of the
conlest and then, with the score
deadlocked at 1-1 In the third
period, made sprawling stops

on Pat Keough and Alexander to -

keep the Kings even.

Rupert, meanwhile, narrowly
missed collecting goals of their
own when Gord Stephens shot
wide of an empty net from-right
in front and Mike Vannier then
slid the puck just wide on 4
breakaway.

The Kings finally went ahead
2-4 with 2:15 lest in regulation
time when strong work by
Wayne George, Ben Pyde and
Vanier paid off with George
popping home a backhander
from the side of the Prince
George goal.

The Mohawks had a power-
play chance with 6:06 left when
referee Alex Wick handed Moe
Kmyta a roughing penalty, but
Rupert did a strong job of
killing it off and actually had
the best scoring chance when
Rick Spracklin was robbed by
Claus,

However, as soon as the Kings
had killed off Kmyta’s penalty,
Norm Stephens picked up an
interference minor, and this
time it took the Mohawks just
four seconds on the power-play
to get the equalizer.

The Kings, who outshot
Prince George 35-31 in
regulation time, never really
got going in the overtime
session.

They were outshot by an 8-2
margin in overtime, and spent
miost of their time struggling to
get the puck out of their own
end.

Keough scored following a
face-off in the Kings’ zone to
make it 3-2 with 3:39 gone in
overtime, with Alexander
rounding out the scoring with an
empty-net goal in the last
minute of play.

However, immediately prior
to eee to be goal, Piette
appeared to be tripped while
cutting around a Mohawk
defenseman; no penalty was
forthcoming from the referee
and Kings’ coach George Kuntz
was given a gross misconduct,
for protesting vehemently the
lack of a-call on the play.

short against Mohawks

In the final analysis, it waz
perhaps the Kings’ lack of depth
which hurt them more than
anything else, especially along
the blueline. .

With captain Dave Allen out
for the year with a broken leg
and Joe Ciotoll only able to see
limited ice-time because of a
back problem, Kuntz only had
two regular defensemen left at
his dispaal in Kmyta and
Gillespie.

He moved Al Sidoni back to
join Kmyta and Gillespie, and
those three alternated almost
all the way along the blueline;
all played well, particularly on
Saturday, but all were very
tired and probably saw tor
much icetime to insure tor
performance.

Upfront,, meanwhile, the
Kings had at least five players
suffering minor aches.

John Vaudry (ankle), Dave

‘Pickett (back), Gord Stephens

(neck), Mike Vannier (thumb)
and Stz Marshall were all
operating at less than one
hundred per cent.

By comparison, the Mohawks
had no one out with injuries and
almost every player in the line-
up was totally healthy. |

In spite of the fact his club got
beat, Kuntz expressed his pride
in their own ice showing.

‘We played our best hockey
ever,” he declared, “and when
you consider our injury
situation, I can’t help but be
proud of the boys — they really
gave it all they had.”

Kuntz also stated that he
believed the Kings are as good
as the Mohawks, and saw the
two games this way: “we let up
a bit Friday and they were good
enough to take advantage of it
— Saturday, we really should
have won; their coach (Don
Wilkie) even admitted to me

they were quite fortunate to win.

on Saturday. |

Our club didn’t get the
breaks, but those things happen
in hockey and you've just got to
accept them.”

Loose Pucks: The Mohawks
will now advance ta play Fort
St. John in provincial semi-final
action.

In other matters, the Kings
still do not know the status of
their Fowler Cup series with
Smithers Totems, although they
expect to get a decision one way
or another early this week.

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THERE'S NO JOB WE'D RATHER DO.

I's. pleasure forusto wander .
after hours or on a weekend.
' Almost everywhere we look, we
can see the results of the things
we do for our communities and their

people...

Take Linda. We helped her find a
teaching position in a special re-
medial school. She loves it, you can.
tell by the look on herlace.And
the kids love her, tco. ©
Her new job has brought her’
financial security and added some-
thing important lo the quality of
life in her community.
_ In our factories and offices, there
are more people working and
_contributing because we were able to
help.them help themselves to some-

thing better.

We're the people al the Canada
Manpower Centre.
Itis not our job to push paper, fill in
forms cand mail letters. We work
first for you as an individual, then for
_ the community and Canada. .
We deal with all the people and
groups of people who are con-
cerned wilh making this community
prosper and grow. It lakes us
everywhere from the downtown office
towers to the rural oulskirts.
And it takes a lot of dedication.

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‘documentary style

The Terrace
Recreation Department is
sponsoring another Team
Handball Clinic. This will be
on Saturday, April 2, at
Caledonia School Gym-
nasium, to start at 9:30 a.m.
and last for three hours. The
clinic will be an introduction
to the basic skills and
training and conditioning
routines. All participants
will get the opportunity to
take part in a scratch game.
Anyone interested please
phone Roger Dufty at the
Terrace Recreation Office,
638-1174.

News of another B.C.
Coaching Development
Clinic; this time the course
covers Level 1 Technical for
Baseball Coaches.’ The
clinic is being run by the
B.C. Baseball Association.
The location has to be

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Terrace. The course will be
of interest to all coaches of
baseball in the local area to-

include Kitimat and",
Hazelton. All interested
persons phone 638-1174 ands
ask for Roger Dufty. The
course is on April 30.and
more complete details will
be made available as soon
as possible.

Tony Gillard, the Terrace
Arena Branch Head, was
really impressed with the
Jaycees Commercial ,
Hockey League Tournament *
this past weekend. The:
organization and control «
exercised by the Jaycees .,
was exemplary. The calibre .
of the hockey was excelient.;,
and everyone is en-::
thusiastically looking for- ;
ward tonext year. Well done. :
Jaycees! a

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