ee es cee ae Ea lino ce ae Sn se er ee ee ee Booth Raven girls get B.C. hoop title Northwest zone high school basketball teams had eight cracks at provincial titles on the ‘March 12 weekend, but only Booth. Memorial. Junior High girls of Prince Rupert managed to sock away a championship. The Ravens were not even considered potential winners going into the series at Rich- mond, but they put together a string of four straight victories to bring home the bacon. Ravens started by downing Blackburn of Prince George 48-25 in their opener. Then they took out Penticton 57-29 in the quarter-finals. Their semi-final match was a 54-44 win over favored New Westminster. That put them into the final against the host R.C. Palmer squad, which had won their semi over Abbotsford. Against Palmer, Ravens had to come back from a late eight- point deficit to record a 53-48 victory and a well-deserved B.C. Fastball Registration for the Terrace and District Men’s Fastball League is now available at All Seasons Sports store. Organizers hope to start the second weekend in May, with Kitimat hosting a tournament on the Victoria Day weekend. Workouts will be scheduled early in April, or when grounds are solid. Riverside Park will be the games’ location. Each player pays a $60 fee for the season. Richard Mason of Kitimat is ' the new president. Full information is available from Dale Mason at All _ Seasons. title. Ravens picked up their share of individual honors as well. Nina Phillipson was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, and also won a scholar- ship to a summer basketball school. This scholarship was donated by University of Vic- toria coach Ken Shields, who was amember of the 1964 Prince Rupert Rainmakers champion- ship team. Audrey Dennison-Charron won a berth on the first all-star team, and Susie Jarosch picked up a second-team spot. Joanne Viera was given honorable men- tion. As for the Raven boys in their B.C. championship at Maple Ridge, they came home with a fourth-place finish. had been ranked first in the pro- vince during the season. The boys started off with two victories to place them in the semi-finals. Both wins, over Pitt Meadows and top-ranked R.C. Palmer were 51-47 scores, They went up against host Maple Ridge in the semis where they wound up on the short end of a 54-40 score. Then in the playoff for third and fourth, Ravens lost 67-50 to Killarney. Another area team winning fourth-place honors was Hazelton boys at the first annual under-100 enrolment tourna- ment for senior high school boys at Lillooet. ' Hazelton lost their opener 69-48 to Vancouver’s St. Pats. But they came back to win two in a row — 71-64 over Nakusp and 68-57 over Ucluelet. Hazelton’s Kevin Mowatt was named to the all-star team of this eight-team tournament. Ke rm od es “—" continued from page 8 outscore them 16-2 and carry a 37-18 lead into the second half. Each team scored 12 points in the third frame, but Kermodes ‘catch up’ style didn’t work the way they wanted and we ended up losing 57-44, Hendry was held to 14 points while Dams contributed 10. This dropped them into the second-to-last game of the tour- nament against Vernon, who lost the other semi-final 50-39 to Centennial. Vernon held slight leads all the way in the battle for third © and fourth. In the second half we held a four-point margin, but Vernon roared back into a seven-point lead. Kermodes pared this down to two, but time ran out and we had a 57-55 loss. Quarter scores all favored Vernon — 15-14, 26-24 and 38-37. Hendry netted 27 big ones while Dams and Cox tossed up nine each. Centennial of Coquitlam went on to beat Windsor for their se- cond consecutive championship. — $Qqgoo DOWN O.A.C. _ vn Get You Behind the Wheel of: MAZDA — 323, 626, MX6, RX6, RX7, PICKUP, 4x 4, CAB PLUS. 1988 MAZDA 626 DX SPORT SEDAN OFFER EXPIRES MARCH 31, 1988 MAZDA B2600 4x4 CAB PLUS Call or drop In today as supplies are limited Best In the Business Warranty Included ~SKEENA AUTO METAL 635-6571. 638-8171 4942 Highway 16, Terrace, 8.C, The boys’ Perfect game | Skip Lowell Croft, right, posed with his senior citizens team after they scored a pertact elght-ender at the Terrace Curling Club during play in the Tuedsay morning league. Croft had another elght-ender many years ago In the old curling rink at Emerson and Davis. Croft counts perfect end It. was a long time between the first and second gems, but veteran curler Lowell Croft toss- ed the second eight-ender of his .career on March 15 while play- ing in the Tueday morning league at the Terrace curling rink. _Croft and his team of senior citizens ran off his perfect end in finish Two Terrace men’s leagues wound up their winter seasons on St. Patrick’s Day. Inn of the West won the Com- mercial Hockey League cham- pionship with an 8-4 victory over SKB Wreckers in the third game of their best-of-five final. In the men’s basketball league, Ev’s Clippers added the championship playoff to their regular league title by beating ‘All Seasons 74-70, Earlier, All. Seasons won the semi-final by beating Kluss and Sons 69-56. DL 5179 the fourth end of his game against the Joan Toovey rink.. He had scored his first eight- ender many years ago in the old curling rink at the corner of Emerson St. and Davis Ave. Members of his team of oldtimers were third Jan McKin- non, second Fred Annett and lead Gert Grundmann. They play together as a team in the ladies tuesday morning league. It was the fifth perfect-score end at the rink since it opened in 1973. Ray Flaherty. scored the last one in 1982 in the Monday mixed league. Don Collinson recorded two of the perfect ends, including one in a men’s loggers bonspiel where he counted his eight in the first end, then went on to lose the game. Sally Barry scored the other eight-ender. Minor hockey roundup The best-of-three Minor Hockey tri-city playdown at Prince Rupert on the March 12 weekend went down to the wire. Terrace Skeena Cellulose won the opener 6-1, but their hosts came back to win the next two games 6-4 and 2-1. These were March 29 to April 1 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Get Ready for Spring... TERRACE BOWLING LANES Register now for Spring League Short Season May and June Evening Leagues: Mixed and Ladies Leagues Morning Leagues: Babysitter available Join as a team or individual Lessons available on technique and scorekeeping COME JOIN IN THE FUNI Public Bowling During Spring Break 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. RESERVE A LANE NOW! Special rates available for groups and Birthday Parties FOR MORE INFORMATION PHONE 635-5911 the final games for the tri-city season, In an exhibition game on March 11, Terrace Totem Ford midgets defeated the Commer- cial Hockey League’s Inn of the West, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m, to 4:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m, to 9:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.