High school sports

Northern wrestlers
make headlines

When the highschool
wrestling season started
late last ‘year, it was ex-
pected that Smithers
Senior High School Mat-
Men would likely crack
the top-10 ranking of the
best in B.C.

They not only cracked
it, they were named
number one. Smithers
will likely prove this true

when they perform in the
B.C. high school finals
at Port Moody on the
Feb. 22 weekend.
_ Proof of their poten-
tial came on Dec, 18
when five members of
the Smithers team took
part in a huge invita-
tional elite meet at
Simon FraSer University.
Four of the boys —

Kermodes two-
straight losers
at Sugar Bowl

It was one wipe-out
and one heart-breaker.
That sums up the Ter-
race Caledonia Kermode
High School Boys’
Basketball Team in an
appearance at the Sugar
Bowl tournament in
Raymond, Alberta, be-
tween Christmas and
New Years.

The thrashing came in
the first game when the
Kermodes took on top-
ranked Cardston and fell
75-56.

They were never really
in this game that saw
Dave Kirkaldy score 14
points to lead their scor-
ing. Garth Schmidt and
Kevin Moldenhauer each
contributed 10 points. —

Game two was some-
what different in this
double-elimination
series. Kermodes and
McGrath went neck and
neck, and with two
seconds remaining it was
tied up at 76-76.

McGrath put the ball
into play from out of
bounds, and a shot went
up. The shot missed, but
as the buzzer sounded a
foul was called against
the Kermodes. |

The McGrath player
sank his shot and gave
McGrath the 77-76 vic-
tory.

Coach Phil Letham
called it strictly a home-
town decision, claiming
the Kermodes were job-
bed on the foul call.

‘It wasn’t even close
to being a foul because
our player didn’t even
touch the shooter,’’ he
said later after cooling
down.

Scoring statistics for
the McGrath game had
Moldenhauer leading

Basketball

On Thursday, Jan. 16,
All Seasons men’s
basketball team takes on
Skeena, and Kluss plays
against Ev’s,

with 18 points, followed
by Kirkaldy and Schmidt
each with 16.

However, the damage
was done and the Ker-
modes were eliminated
from the eight-team
series.

Next on the agenda
was a series of three ex-
hibition games before
leaving Alberta for
home.

The Kermodes first ex-
hibition game was
against Winston Church-
ill High at Lethbridge.

They held their own
before fading in the
fourth quarter and drop-
ping a 73-64 decision.

Harry Dahmi came off
the bench to lead the
scoring with 15 points,
while Kirkaldy had
another double-figure
game — 13 points this
time.

They finally pulled off
a victory in their fourth
Alberta game against
Lethbridge Collegiate In-
stitute. Kermodes
outscored the number
one-ranked southern
Alberta team by an 84-76
score,

They got a 20-point ef-
fort from Kevin Molden-
hauer, plus 19 from
Kevin Maki and 18 from
Kirkaldy.

Then the Kermodes
took on Chestermere in
the final game at Calgary
on Dec. 31.

Chestermere turned
out to be their second
victory as the visiting
Kermodes beat their
hosts 79-65. It was the
Maki/Kirkaldy/ Mol-
denhauer scoring com-
bination leading the way
again with 19, 17 and 10
points respectively.

The Kermodes finish-
ed up with a two-win,
three-loss record against
the Albertans, and now
look forward to the
Coca-Cola Invitational
tournament at Chilli-
wack in mid-January.

Graig Roberts, Daryle
Simpson, Heath Bolster
and Leon Poirier — won
their weight classes to
give Smithers 73 points
and third place overall.
Smithers finished 19
points behind winning
Charles Tupper of Van-
couver, but then Tupper
entered a full slate of
wrestlers for the 16
weight classes.
Smithers, with two
potential Canadian
champions in Roberts

and Simpson, had the .

smallest number of com-
petitors in this
300-wrestler competi-
tion.

Roberts already has a
national title notched on
his belt when he took the
junvenile gold for his
weight class three years
ago.

The reason only five
attended this prestigious
meet was simply money.
A limited travel budget
meant most of the team
had to stay home.

However, all of the
team will be at Port
Moody come February.

Simpson and Roberts
are defending B.C.
champions.

Bolster and Poirier
were both third-place
finishers at the B.C.
meet last spring.

With provincial and
national prominence
coming their way, both
Simpson and Roberts are
being groomed for the
1987 world Espoir
(under 20) Champion-
ships which will be held
in Burnaby.

They are both 17.

The boys are coached
by Mike Richey and
Greg Peters in Smithers.

The zone season winds
down with a meet
scheduled for Prince
Rupert this Saturday,
and the zone finals at
Terrace on Feb, 1.

Fans are urged to get
out to see these future
champions in action, as
there’s no doubt they’re
Olympic material.

Schedule

On Tuesday, Jan. 21
Ev’s takes on Skeena and
All Seasons plays Kluss
in the Terrace Men’s
basketball league.

On Thursday, Jan, 23
Kluss competes against
Skeena and All Seasons
plays Ev’s.

On Tuesday, Jan. 28,
Kluss plays Ev’s and All
Seasons competes a-
gainst Skeena.

On Thursday, Jan, 30,
it's All Seasons against
Kluss and Ev's against
Skeena.

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Christmas tourney

Westar Peewees find
Kamloops puzzling

Terrace Westar
Peewees didn’t expect to
win the Kamloops
Peewee Minor Hockey
Christmas Tournament,
and they didn’t. They
ran into triple ‘‘A”’ com-
petition in the eight-
team, three-day series,
and that doesn’t hold out
too much hope for a
double ‘‘A’’ team like
Terrace.

But the boys gave it all
they had, and managed
one victory and one close
game in five attempts.

They started with an
11-5 loss to the host
Kamloops team. Five
players shared the Ter-
race scoring — Richie
Piatoni, Darcy Zlotlik-
ovits, Rhett Gibson,
Jared Ewart and Matt
Shinde.

Then they ran into
Fort St. James — the
team that swept them in
an earlier exhibition
series at Terrace.

The Fort kids did it
again, by a 15-3 score
this time. Ewart with a
pair and Jason Krug
handled Terrace’s scor-
ing,

The Westar lads made
a game of it against
Quesnel before losing 8-6
in a wide-open contest.

Doug Stewart had a
three-goal game. Krug,
Gibson and Shane Mait-
land had one apiece.

The boys took it on
the chin again from Pen-
ticton when the
Okanagan boys ran up
an 11-2 victory. For Ter-
race, it was Gibson and
Stewart denting the
twine.

Terrace put it all
together in the last game
after four losses in a
row. It was Quesnel
again and this time Ter-

race came out on top by
a 9-4 score.

Clint Prest had a hat
trick, while Zlotlikovits
and Maitland had two
each. Ewart and Shinde

also scored.

The win gave Terrace
the “D”’ side title. They
also picked up the tour-
nament's most sports-
manlike team award.

Bantams hold own
in Kelowna series

The Terrace Inland
Kenworth Bantams ran
into tier-1 talent in the
eight-team Kelowna
Christmas minor hockey
tournament, but the Ter-
race tier-2 boys more
than held their own
against some of B.C,’s
best.

Terrace finished with a
record of two wins, two
losses and one tie, One
of the victories was a
high-scoring 12-10
outing over Quesnel in
the ‘*B”’ side final.

It was their last game
of the three-day tourna-
ment.

Terrace started out
with a 5-4 win over
Nelson, Jason Wiley,
who was named the
game’s star, picked up
two goals. The others
went to Mitch Shinde,
John Almgren and
Derek Phillips.

In their second outing,
Terrace blew a 4-0 lead
against Quesnel and had
to settle for a 4-4 tie,

Graham Thomas did
not get into the scoring,

but he picked up the
game MVP honor.

Phillips potted a pair,
while Shinde and Rod
Epp had one each.

Phillips continued his
fine play in game three,
but to no avail as the
boys were thumped 8-2
by the host club. Wiley
and Thomas did the
scoring, but Phillips won
the game award.

Terrace entered the
semi-finals where they
ran into Nelson again.
This time Nelson came
out on top by a 7-6 score.

Phillips added a hat
trick to his laurels, while
Shinde had a pair and
Wiley notched a single.

In the semis, officials
picked two game stars
from each team. For
Terrace, Shinde and
Robert Holmberg.

In their 12-10 win over
Quesnel, just about
everyone hit the
scoresheet. Holmberg
was top man with a
three-goal effort. Jason
Wilson and Ken Lavalle
got the game star
awards.

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