5 ngines: pull : dm
spoasibly-long trains along right: i
{Ways ‘chiselled: int the: base.

be The Skeena.
+.“ Mfontie' oF them: headed for the:: covets tn Angier —
| /eerpemting. twists ne turns: f. Ee ae g
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ce |

80" _ tains, After bacon and eggs. sand

h 1 on: River,’ <a couple” of. cups of. steaming —

“ eg teelkend = coffee.we don. dayers of clothes,

-seVetywhere i in aquiet but: effec. ~ pull-on: “waders then cleats,

fi won ~. assemble our rods and kot ona:

fai rite fly Ia the: cold wid
Is r

-Untended. land. is qu ri

“¢ountry; so- it, is: with the: dead.
: ; ie ;

id Place; over the
bridgé! ahd: ‘past: the” Steelhead
Ann: The owner. of -the- house
_mext td ithe graveyard has: left
in: town: before the abrupt’ change

‘sin the | weather, He's left ‘the

and Ww seri on tinaffected by
it.The rest of ‘ tive

edt pa Ray as

"players ‘slammed thelr way to
:a.15-7,,15-2 final match vic-
over “Houston. ‘in a
tournament’ “hére
“ Saturday:” That's: ‘Cals’ Chris
Wilkinson, at. eh, following

above}. cores Tater for
Op. the | ‘Kermodes. . Caledonia
[finished “fi rst. In= ‘the’ ‘round
robin, beating Prince Rupert
15-2; 15-8, edging. Smithers .
18:11, 15-6, and defeating
: Housto a hom 16-14,; ~Kurt ;
ed.

a ‘Soules. hammer | in

: .Rughy. Fést_in.Reno, Nevada.”

in pre-season

: : TERRACE — Michelle Hendry Is looking.

oh hibition scion: wis the Simon Fraser; niversl
“ty Clan, ee"

? “She's stariing out ight where she left’ off.

_ lust. year,” ta sald SFU ‘Athletics spokesman

Hendry had 15 points in the 75-52, win, over.
Vie Oct. 22. She boosted.that to 26'polnis tn
ir 64-60 victory. in thelr next encounter. And a
: agatiet UBC, she scored 25 polis in the 28
~minates she played. to pace the Clan to an i
: 82-47 flaal, She led’ scoring in two. of the tree .
; games.
Hendry « now. w has 2, 445 career points, after"

bivale the 9,000-puint barrier,’* tail
“s right up there.” a
s conference game pits, SE
deata

our left shoulders, “I thought
this was: Supposed. to be fun,’’

: Bays Art: The conditions remind
-me: of winter “steelheading. In
-deferrence-to. the weather I put _
. Otta fast sinking line and one of'
’-Webb’s -piant,
. Hallowe’en: flies; It’s the right
_inedicinte: Near:the pull of the
“jeclaimed by: ‘the. desert’ In--this

-undulaat

heavy ¢ currents ‘at: the tail of the

) ‘bucks under the strain, then all
goes slack. I bring.in the line to

fini the: leader half its origifial

fe: Jéngth: - broken. where I'd ac:
: identally. tied:a wind. knot. dur-
1 ing, an awkward-cast.~

“With: -a- new’ ‘leader. and

“another: black. marabou. on the
end of it,'T. wade as far out'as 1.

dare;and blast out along cast. ;
A short- time: ‘later, ‘a ‘magnifi-
cent fish ‘smacks. the fly ‘and

: leaps into’ the icy air before bur. .
: ‘toward Shaw: .°b sed:

high desert |

TERRACE — ‘It -was. Desert

Storm all over again,’ but this
time it was . Terrace rugby |

“players — instead, of: ‘American

generals ~~ calling the shots.
Yes, the Terrace-.Northmen

Capped off: their’ ‘hugely suc-

cessful: rugby : season’ this year
with another intérnational tour
— this time to the Wild West

The-team thit: Gnished:‘un
‘disputed “champions. in the

North: Coast ° Rugby Union's ©

regular season took -thelr hard-
hitting, - fast-paced style to the

high desert Oct. 19. for one last

hurrah to cap.off 1991...

The tourney featured 30
teams in four division. The Ter-
race team competed in the very
competitive Festival division.

The Northmen opened the
tournament with a 3-0. victory

over ‘the Péntaluma Leghorns.

from Monteray, California.
Terrace dominated the. game
from the opening whistle kick-
off, but neither team managed
to cross the.try line. .The game
was won'on a kick-off, with
‘ Willie McCleary putting: his first
kick through, while the Leghorn
kicker was off the. mark:
- Overheard during the first
game was the comment that
Nevada could do well with im-
porting some - oxygen. With
most.of the teams coming from
close to sea level, the 4500-foot
elevation put. 4 ‘strain on the
lungs and body...
Terrace’s second game was a
close loss to the eventual divi-

t

Tetra Standard, Wednesday, November, 6, 1901 —

_awims "beller. A Att, Bot. aiid’ ;
"cover it-with floating lines. and _
: -Sparsely dressed filles, farced by
"- the steady wind to spey cast off

— Pago a1

wtilpe thréugh. the guides and:

“the, backing knot.jams against: —_
the “ite: stuck: in. the ‘stripping ©
_ guide. The leader snaps with a _

jolt, | “
Shaking from’ the’ excitement’

aid cold; I te at the nylonand -

cominiserate. ‘Art slides. out into
_ the river. [ move out behind. Lo
him: A’ third: fish: comes‘ after -
my: fly and: ‘leaps : into ‘the: ‘air’,
"otic, twice anda third time). . -
“There he is!’ shout’ ‘to Art. ole
as forty: yards of flyline's streams erro y gt
through’ the - ‘guides. and“ ¢con- vee HO
tinues on downstream. ‘The tod.
goes limp;: ‘and Y-realize that. for:
" the'first:time in my career Tve neer
lost an entire fly. Tine; : ;

_The next day I leave Taylor

and Lingren and boaid the Grey
‘Dog. ‘for Varicouver, , satisfied,
after the mugging I’d'gotten the no

day before, that Thompson

- steelliead ‘are Indeed a special

sion champions. the Saiita Bars:
bara Grunions. edged: ‘past: the
“Northmen 18-0,"

Third game of the . four
played in the one-day rugby ex-!

Si rere ed

travaganza saw the Northmen: —

Tun rampant. in, the high, hot‘

desert: over the Santa ‘Rosa I's,

with. a. “commanding. mw ‘vice

‘the Grinions.

Northen held: their. ‘Own in

the set play and. line-outs, and
were ‘strong. in. the: balance’ of.
play. But, alas, in: the: ‘end the
Zephyrs: eked. out a Slim” 16-8
‘victory,
The elevation - ‘and: the
unseasonably warn weather . _
“ highs of 28. and lows near freez-
‘ing — made‘ games a challenge.
Northmen - Captain “Ernie
‘Dusdal commented after’ the
four games ‘back-to-back that
‘the Northmen had played up to

". their very best and that he’ was

“very pleased. with the team’ ‘asa
‘wholes °-.
One of ‘the oitstanding: ine

dividual - “efforts for ‘the Nor- —

thmen came from Pedro Rego
whose. very mobile. and ag-
gressive style as a prop” “and,

loose forward was a key to the .

team's successes;
Northmen : wind. up ‘theiz:
season activities with an awards
dinner and dance Nov. 16, For
details, call. David Hull at’

"635-6225 days or 638-1327 eves,

Ca lling ;
the shots.

GORD JUDZENTIS calls off.
his sweepers during. his
- rink’s second game against:
Vernon's Mike: Perepolkin
rink, Judzentis had a.tough:
weekend at the 18th annual:
. Motson..Cash Spiel! in Ver-
fon... -They. first “lost “to.
Yellowknife's Schonn fk,
dropped: the second “to
Perepolkin, before beating
Vernon's Bergen tink In the
third. game and being’
eliminatéd by -Kelowna’s |
McKenzie rink. All -the
games were close. (PHOTO
— BRAD MOORE, “THE
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