; PAGE Ai, THE HERALD, Wednesday, December i 34 Centennials clobber Bears, lose to Kin The Terrace Centennials swamped the Vanderhoof Bears Saturday and then turned around and dropped a Sunday match lo Prince George in weekend PHNWHL action at ihe Terrace Arena. Saturday, the locals were paced by Lance Legouffe, wha scored twice and assisted on Iwo other goals, leading the Cenls to a 10-3 victory over the , disorganized and short handed Yanderhoof Bears. Sunday, despite a come back from a 2—0 deficil, the Cents wound up on Ihe wrong end of a 7-6 score at the end of a wild, see-saw third period. The Cents had little trouble over-coming the Vanderhoof Bears: and one of the reasons was a lack of man power on lhe Bears bench, Only len players . were dressed for the outing and two of those wore goal pads. The first period 'was exciting enough, though with the Cents moving into a 2-1 lead on goals © by Harvie Pocza (from Larry Woods) and Lance Legouffe from Bevington and’ Hostland. Den Borno. was the marksman for the lone Van- derhool marker. : The- second period was anotherstory. TheCenis scored, six unanswered goals against the weak Bears. staried the period slowly, playing as,though they intended to maintain the one goal margin and ‘play for the breaks’, When the breaks broke, they brake the Bears. Gord Cochrane started the action afLer six minutes of play, taking passes from Harvie Pocza and Tom Marriot before scoring the Cenls third goal. A minule anda half later Legouffe had his second of the game, scoring from right out front Mark Hamilton The Bears . after Kenny Hostland did all the work. ‘ OO Al the mid-way point in the period Vanderhoof's Vinnice was assessed a roughing minor and a len minute misconduct, When asked te pul a second man in the penalty. box for the duration of the minor, the Vanderhoof bench responded with their spare goal tender. Referee Pat Hayes responded to that quickly and emphatically. Al 14:44 Dave Sharpe scored after Vanderhoof net-minder George Belsham had cleared , $35-6357 Dakins alone, back on top Dakin’s Construction has emerged from a three way tie al the top of the Terrace Men’s Baskelthal] Associalion slan- dings with sole position of first place. ‘ ; Dakins took on the Orphans, who along wilh: All Seasons were tied for-top spot, last Tuesday and emerged on the. right side of a lop-sided 85-42 score. Gordon Dumas led the Dakin team with a 34 paint effort, with Mike Ireland contribuling 23., Marty Adams was high scorer for the Or- phans, dunking twelve points. In the second game Millers: Mens Wear kept All Seasons from moving inlo_a first place lie with Dakins, downing the sperting goods sponsored team 80-76., Dale Prest paced lhe winners ‘with 19 while Ed - _ DeVries scored 25 for the losers. With ihe 1974 portion of the season fast approaching it’s , end, Dakin's have a slim two point lead on the Orphans and All Seasons, Dakins have 9 wins and four losses, (he Orphans and All Season have each won eighi of Lhirleen games. Millers Mens Wear is four points aff {he - pace with a 7 and 6 win- lossrecord. The Twin River Chiefs are in the cellar of the - ‘league, still without a single _Boint in twelve games. ' Leading the seoring race is : Ed DeVries of All Seasons who ’ has dunked 276 points in twelve . games for a 23 poinl per game Yaverage. The Orphan's Jon ' Gurbanis second with 231 points + scored in (welve games. Rod ' Kluss of Millers Mens Wear is ' third with 219 points scored in thirteen games, Fourth place is ; held by Larry Stevens of the : Chiefs with 202 points in twelve ‘ games. Arne Janzen is running j fifth, scoring 198 points in 13 ; games, Mike Ireland of Dakin’s tis sixth with 195 points, Jim ‘ Checkley of Millers is seventh with 193 points, Hugh Bruggen- ; Cale of the Orphans is eighth ; with 177 points, Rudy Embury : has 173 poinis for nineth place | Free skating | ‘for children HAPPY HOLIDAYS : The Terrace & District Chamber of Commerce will be ; Sponsoring “free" skating for and Ken Christiansen of All Seasons is tenth highest scorer with 170 points. ' There are two more evenings of basketball action for Terrace fans and forthe Orphans and All Seasons lo lake a run at Dakins. Last night Dakins and All Seasons met and Millers Mens Wear taok on the Twin River Chiefs. No scores were avallable to press lime. * Thursday night at 9 p.m. it'g All Seasons against the Orphans and at 10:30 Dakins against the Twin River Chiefs. - The season will end Tuesday, | the 18th with Millers Mens Wear against the Orphans at 9 p.m. and All Seasons against the Twin River Chiefs at 10:30, All games are played at Skeena Secondary School gymnasium. l< TIRE STORES A917 KEITH 635-6235 TERRACE . le Dave Sharp carries the puck in over the blue-line... - ihe puck from Mel Christensen, — Unfortunately.for the net guard he steered the puck. right to Sharpe who flipped the disk Into the net for goal number five. Goal six was scored against Handy Huston, who replaced Belsham after the fifth Terrace marker. That goal came less than two minutes later with Graeme Bevington deflecting a shot from Casey Felker into the nel, The seventh goal was the second for Dave Sharp. He took a pass from Robin McFee and walked in alone on Huston. His hard low shot hit the top of Huston’s goal pad and bounded up into the net, lucking itself in just under the cross-bar. ; With thirtean seconds left in the period Bob Bremer made it 8-1, scoring from oul front with awrist shol after laking a pass from Rob McFee, : Following the second period the ranks of the crowd were thinned somewhal as almost one hundred spectators left the arena for other parts - either home or one of the several dozen or so Christmas Parties. Or it could have been they left to “gat. some sleep. ‘The second period was perhaps the most yawn-inducing the Cents have played this year, The remaining fans proved that in the third period when they switched loyalties, tem- porarily, and began cheering for the Bears. Rick Silver. was the man who provided the catalyst for the change when. he coaxed a - substantial cheer from the crowds, scoring the Bear's second goal after a minule and a half of play in the final frame.. The Cents got thal one back four minules later when Graeme Bevington pul the puck” past Belsham, who was back in the nets, to give the Cenls a 9-2 lead. That goal didn't receive the cheers that the Vanderhoof marker had and didn’t come near lo the yolume of the boos: some six minules later when Roy Huston of Vanderhcof was quick 2-0 lead, scoring goals -period had been reached. The: ‘Dave Wood; the second fram -Phil Roy after a near-perfect. Gets bo called for closing his hand on the puck, The puck appeared to have been caught in Huston’s jersey, but referee Pat Hayes had other ideas. He was booed soundly by about 98 percent of the crowd. With three and a half minute to play; Vanderhoof closed the gap tosix goals with their dying gasp. Gord Campbell scored _one of the nicest goalé of the evening, carrying the puck into the Cents end and dashing around the Cents defense. He skated across the Certs net in . front of Barry Dubnyk, drew the big goal tender to the left and | then popped the puck into the right hand corner for the final . Bears marker. . Larry Woods gol that one back and sent the final score inlo double figures with a minute and cighl seconds to play, taking a pass from Lance. Legouffe, putting half a dozen choice moves on Bear defenders and then sweeping a back hand into the nat. Sunday the Cenis had a lot more trouble than the Bears had given them when they tackled ihe Prince. George. Spruce Kings, Althoughi'the- Cents managed to fight back ‘from a 2-0 deficit and into & 3-2 lead near the end of the second period, the Kings held on and in a wild and free scoring third period, won the game 7-6. Thal game was one of the roughest played in recent Himes at the Terrace Arena with a tolal of seventy-one minutes in’ penalties and a game- misconduct to Spruce King net minder Claude Bertoli, a penalty that caused con- siderable delay in the first period. : Prince George jumped into a filly seconds apart before the fiye minute mark of the first first goal was scored by. Lyle. Sande who skated into (he slot to © take a centering pass from: sel-up from Lyle Ongman. " Carpets - Vinyl Tiles 1 E & G INSTALLATIONS Residential & Commercial: BERT’S ‘DELICATESSEN Fine quality foods from all over the world . 4603 Park . 635-5440 , 4646 Scott DURAGLEAN RUG & UPHOLSTERY: _ ‘GLEANERS. Clean is Clean when we do the job 635-4847 Terrace - PLEET SERVICE LTD., 4910 Hwy 16 W 635-7665 QUALITY USED CARS ‘Are our Speciality - Votre Centre Recreatif Estival TERRACE EQUIPMENT SALES Tea! Pied ep pied, unced off the boards.... . The Cents didn’t get either of those goals back until just shy of ‘the mid-way mark. They en- joyed a man. advantage, with one man in’ the sin bin: to George’s two, when Kevin - Willison scored a goal on a play reminiscent of the Kings first marker. He took a pass in the slot from Graeme Bevington” and beal Bertoli cleanly. It was shortly after that Ber toli was ejected to the game. Bertoli objected to the presence of Bob Bremer in his goal ‘crease and, when. play was stopped, dropped his gloves and tried to get al the: Terrace winger. He was inlercepled by, local linesmen and, given the thumb. by referee Red L'Estrange. : That brought about a shor! . intermission while the King’s back up goal tender, Doug Waterhouse, changed into goal tenders gear, - . . Play resumed and, lwo minules later it appeared Bob Bremer had the game tied for ihe Cants, re-directing a shot fram Rob Mec¥ee in front, of Waterhouse. The goal was credited to McFee however. ” Four diiniitée diler the: Cents : jurnped fnitouKe fe “Bevington ko ~~ pee ye sf US nie ae Shopmate 3/8 Double Insulated : McGraw Edison SABRE SAW KIT POLISHER- _ scoring from. Felker at the tail. end of a 3-1 break for the locals. Tt looked as though the Cents wauld end the period in the lead but two penalties late in the frame proved costly: - Gor : ¢ for. tripping al 16:30 and Bob Bremer was assessed a high sticking minor at 17:53, leaving ihe Cents two men short for 37 seconds, The Kings needed only half that time ‘to again tie Lhe score, Phil, Roy netting his second of the game from Danny Andersen and Brian Berg. .~ The first half: of the second period was by far the roughest sirelch of the game. Lyle Sande received a len minute misconduct after 1:42 of play. A minute and a-half laler Kon Kolman joined ‘him for in- terference. ; . Kolman served his sentence: and had just returned to the ice when Gord - Cochrane’ gol tangled with Butch Stewart. ‘The linesmen moved in quickly and got between the two but, in the heat of the battle, received several punches for their ef- forts. Finally L’Estrange = waved the two linesmen out and a ¥ They" just’ hung ‘ori"tigh .Cochrane gol ~two- 2 Jel Cabhitane and Slewatl po ‘at-- eet ok Serr - Picks the-puck up out front and scores no decision could be given in the non-fight other than that of Red L'Estrange. He gave ‘em both- fighting majors... Less than a minute later. Tommy. Marriot of the €ents. and the King's Rod’ Wiese tangledandeach wound up with a minor and a fighting major. Harvie -Pocza got the lead back for the Cents, after the fighting was done, redirecting a shot from Bobby Des Champs | past Walerhouse, bui the same Rod Weise who had tangled with Marriot, came oul of the penalty box and put the Kings into the lead, \ Weise scored goals a minule and 17 seconds apar! lale in the frame to boost the Kings into a 4 lead. ~ _ Weise scored his first off Kolibaba's shoulder and his second on the secand rebound of shot’s from Dave Wood and Ron Kolman. : The third period was by far the most salisfying of the af- lernoon match as the leams finished the game playing see- saw hockey. , Mel Chrislensen sel the pace - after two minutes and twenly- two seconds, poking in-a:loose puck aller Waterhouse couldn't caver up on Woods.) : wee Gerry Gardner pul ‘the Kings back in the lead al 14:37 but the Cents roared back, Dave Sharp tying the game al 6-6 from Bob Bremer and Kevin Willison. ‘Wilh a minute and 16 seconds lo play Rick Adams proved the unlikely hero of the game, firing home the rebound of his own “shot to seal a 7-6 victory. The Cents pressed hard an the dying minute, pulling the net minder. in favaur-of a. sixth * allacker, but couldn't connect.” In that final minute Dave Sharp had: several scoring chances bul was robbed. by ~ Waterhouse. - Bobby. Des Champs also had a stiol at goal, from a face-off but missed the cape. The Kings managed to get contrat of. the puck-in the last seconds and the game, ended with the. puck in the Centennials ends, - ' . The Centennials will finish their'1974 schedule over the next -week, playing in Prince Rupert tonight, then in Prince George Saturday and Houston Sunday, before returning home of the _1fth to battle the Smithers Chiefs: .in -their last . regular © - season game before Christmas.” roe 9938 —6