The annual Teirace Men’s Loggers’

‘Bonspiel at-

tracted: a full house of 64 teams on Easter weekend, with |
three of the six major awards going to Prince Rupert en-

tries.
Outside : teams came from:
Kitimat, . Prince: “Rupert,

Smithers, Hazelton, Houston,

‘Burns Lake, ‘Quesnel, Cassiar,
Calgary, Prince George, Lantz-.
ville and. Vancouver. |
Ken Bazansky’s Prince Rupert
foursome won the grand
challenge playoff which featured
finalists in ‘A’ and ‘B’ events.
In the grand challenge semis, :
Bazansky downed clubmate Bob
Mintenko 10-4 while’ former
Terrace curler Allen Jacques of
Quesnel was losing 9-8 to John
Heighington of Terrace i in an ex-
‘tra end.
Bazansky then beat Heighing-
‘ton 9-5 for the G.C, title.
In ‘A’ event, Jacques stole

two in the 10th end. to beat

Bazansky 6-5.. Veteran Kitimat
curler Gary Habinger. wound up
in third place while Dale ‘Walker
of Terrace finished fourth.

‘Mintenko won ‘B’ event by.
scoring a 7-0 victory over
Heighington in the final. Charlie
Radford of Calgary picked off
third spot. Allen Hobson of
Lantzville won fourth.

’ ‘Smithers? Ed Collinson came

on to: win “oO event by” beating

Terrace’s Doug McKay. 8-3 in
the deciding contest, Ken Blanes
wound: up" ‘third while. Walter
Worsfold took. fourth. Both
rinks are local. “~ my

It was another Rupert win in
‘D’ event as Brian Holkestad
scored a 7-3 victory over. Ter-

‘race’s Dennis’ Williams in the
final. Third. and fourth places

went to Larry Burke and Dennis
Booth. Both are local rinks.

In ‘E” event (the survival-of-
the-fittest. event), Ron Townley

_ of Terrace came out on top by

beating Glen Baker of Smithers
7-4 in the title game. Dan Har-
rison of. Cassiar placed third
while Bob Cammidge of Terrace
was fourth.

The spiel ran over five days.
They had two local draws on
Wednesday the 22nd, then went
into round-the-clock | curling
starting next night.

It finished on Sunday the 26th
before a packed house at the
rink.

Walker to curl in:

postal championship

were allowed to pick their teams
from post offices other than
their own, so Walker ended up
with ‘third . Jim Griffiths of

Terrace will be represented at
the Canadian National Postal
+ Curling Championships .. this

week in Summerside, Prince Ed-

<vard' Island. .
Sy Terrace postie Dale Walker i is
.. skip of the B. C.. entry in. the
''42-team round-robin: tourna-
ment, having won the provincial
title ata 14-team playoff in Vic-
toria in late January.
Skips at the B.C.’ playdowns

Chilliwack, second Don

Hegstrom of Victoria, and lead |

Rick Filleul of Vancouver. - .
- Fhey left for P.E.1. last Fri-
day and return about April 10th.
Walker told us the tep teams

‘hold: a sudden-death playoff at

the completion of round-robin.

Kitimat team tops
non-contact hockey

The Wee Geordies. team came
out the winner at Kitimat’s an-
nual non-contact hockey league
tournament on March 25
weekend. They downed Weldall
4-] in the championship game.

Third place went to Alcan”
‘with their 5-4 victory over North

Coast Wranglers.
It was a seven-team series with

Boxing in
Terrace

- Boxing fans can see the best of
the Northwest this Saturday
night when the Terrace Boxing

Club hosts eight to 10 bouts at.

Cassie Hall school.

Organizer Gary Lok has fight-
ers coming from Prince Rupert
to Burns Lake to fill out the

card. Action starts at 6:30 p.m. —
Admission Is $3 for adults and

$1.50 for students and children.

each entry playing three round-
robin games. The top-four then
advanced to semi-finals and
finals, .

Several individual awards
were handed out, as.,well as
MVP honors to each’ of them.
Individual winners were as
follows:

High scorer — Mike Corriea,
Weldall.

Most Valuable Player — Brad
Owen, Wee Geordies.

Best goalie — Jim Morris,
Alcan.

Best forward — Crain Inge-
brigtsen, Wranglers.

- Best defenceman +"
Aiken, Wee Geordies. ©

Sportsmantike player — ~ Brad
Riley, Alcan,

"Team, MVP winners were Ian
Buick (Schooley Sports), Ron
Egan (Weldall), Kevin Graham
(Wee Geordies), Angelo Cap-

John

pello (H-A-K), Charlie Porter: .
(Wranglers), Andre Jean (Old-—

timers), Ron Wakita (Alcan).

Ken Bazansky's Prince Rupert team won the grand challenge award, plus second place in
‘A event at the Terrace Loggers’ annual Bonspiel on Easter weekend.

The only Terrace team winning an event at the annual Loggers’ Bonsplel Easter weekend
was: 5 the” ‘Ron fownley entry. The won 'E’ event over Glen Baker of Smithers.

Coming events in local sports

Kifimat’s youth soccer annual.

general meeting is on Wednes-

day night at 7:30 at the
Riverlodge activity room. All in-

terested please attend.

Kitimat’s minor ‘Fun’ softball

league fér boys and gitls aged .
eight: to 16, .and T-ball for
youngsters aged five to seven”

will have registration this com-

ing Saturday from 10 a.m, to 2. .
p.m. at the City Centre Mall, In--

formation is available from
‘Austin - Byrne: (639-9478) or
Kevin Finn (632-2585). ;

Terrace Minor Softball is
sponsoring a level-one coaching
clinic April 22nd and 23rd. The
fee is $30. To sign up, contact
Barb Cooper at 638-0452.

Another coaches’ clinic com- .
ing up is Kitimat’s youth soccer
level-one clinic April 15, plus a

youth referee clinic on April 22.

For information and registra-

tion, phone Muriel at 632-3618.

A cotiple of upcoming items

‘from Terrace Minor Hockey.

Their annual awards banquet is
Wednesday, April 19 at 6 p.m.

at Thornhill Community Hall.

Youngsters are asked to bring
‘one parent with them. Minor
‘hockey’ s annual general meeting
-is Monday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.
in the library basement (use rear

door). Nominees for executive -

positions will be posted at the
atena by April 10th, —

Terrace Youth Soccer plans a.

referee’s clinic in conjunction
with the Northwest Soccer
Referee’s Association on April
15th. To sign.up or get informa-
tion, phone Richard Hassett at,
635-6849, - °°:

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