day. oe
. - So-said Dr. Paul Clark, Ter- °

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Clark 0 off ‘the mark —

~ at Montreal marathon |

**Montreal was a fairly tough
race this year..1 know I’m saying
this quite often lately, but. there
were a:lot of good racers lined
up, and it was a cold and windy

race's wheelchair racing. expert

in a-conversation with us from .
Halifax on Sept. 25; It was the:
‘day .after the- prestigious Mon- .
treal marathon where he struggl- ©
ed to a 13th place finish.

“Clark told us it was the same

; hilly course as last. year and that

he lost the main n pack early i in the
event,

_ “My time was two hours, 13°

minutes, 10 seconds which was

> probably my worst time.in two.

years,” he told us, The winning
time. was slow at one hour, 48
minutes, This was slow for Mon-
treal, which had a winning time
of 1:43 last-year. The wind and

_ Junior volley

Thornhill’s junior boys and

Skeena’s junior girls came out as -
winners at. the high school
volleyball tournament held at

Thornhill junior high school on
Sept. 23.

_ Skeena won the girls’ side by
downing Kitimat ‘A’ 15-12,

14-16; 15-12 in the final series.
-’ Thornhill picked up the sports-

manlike team award.

Final standings for girls had
‘Skeena first, Kitimat ‘A’ sec-
ond, Kitimat ‘B’ third, Thorn-
hill fourth, Prince
Booth fifth, and Nisga’a sixth.

Thornhill took the boys’ sec-

tion by beating Skeena 15-10,
15-7 in the final. Kitimat ‘A’ -

placed third and Kitwanga

” fourth.

The. most sportsmanlike team

a ‘award went to Nisga’a.

Caledonia Kermode boys ran
into top-class opposition on the
weekend at University of Vic-
toria’s annual 40-team volleyball
classic.

Their preliminary round-

_ robin portion was relatively easy

as they downed MEI 15-8,

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cold held us down.’’

‘The top Canadian was [ime

Quebec's Andre Viger. with 2 [ie
_ fifth-place showing. Two Fren- [ii

chmen placed: one-two at the

‘finish line.

- “I just didn’t go. fast,’? he

went on. “I sat around after the | -

face wondering where I went
‘wrong. ”

‘We asked if his new chair was -

‘the culprit. .

“The chair was new this year &— eae ' Sogn
Coach h Clayton Lloyd-Jones’ 1989 edition of Caledonia high school’ 5 senior glris* volleyball

and I got:a lot of work done on
it, excellent work in fact. I-think

_itsa really good chair, but I just

haven’t had any good time with -
it. I’m not too sure if’ its the
chair or me. I think it must be
me because my. training -times
are as fast or faster than last

. year.-Its just my race times that

are poor.”’
When we talked to him he was
spending some time in Halifax

on a physical problem. He had
one more race on this trip — at
Heidelberg, West Germany this

coming Sunday.

“TI know nothing about the
German.course, but if its hilly I
may not fare so well again.’’

‘It’s difficult this year

because I haven’t been doing:

weight training workouts or hill
training workouts since late
June due to some medical ad-

. Vice.’?

He was receiving tests at

Halifax prior to a flight to West :

Germany.

“Pm still able to train, but
not as hard as I normally do.”

He returns home after his next
race; but is off again in early
November to Japan where the
course is relatively level. :

“There’s a. good corp of
wheelers set for Japan, including
those first and second Fren-
chmen at Montreal. It should be
a great race.” .

_ 15-10; beat Victoria’s Belinus
15-8, 15-12; and took out

Semiahmoo of White Rock

15-12, 15-11.

They were among the best 16
moving up for championship
play, but Nelson’s L.V. Rogers
quashed their hopes with a

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{Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 4, 1989: 9°

team posed with their famous Kermode bear wall painting during.a workout last week. They .
started their season of volldyball this past weekend at Prince:George. Team members are
(not in. order) Krista Soules, Kyla Palagian, Kristi LeBlond, Dani St. Thomas, Rochelle

Pelletier, Carma Clarke, Nicole Fick, -Alesla Lloyd- Jones, Kim Rempel, Wendy Biffle, Carly .

Krebs, Shelley O’Brien and Jessle Carroll.

Consolation for Kermode girls

Caledonia Kermode girls
didn’t have the horses to win the
championship.side, but they did
come: back to capture the con-
solation division ‘of Prince
-George’s annual 16-team senior
high school volleyball tourna-
ment on the weekend,

Two losses in preliminary ac-
tion knocked Kermodes into
consolation. They lost 15-12,

15-10 to the eventual champs -

from Prince George Senior Sec-

ondary, then went down 15-8, .

8-15, 15-12 to Chetwynd,
Three straight victories gave
them the consolation award. °
They took Prince George Kel-

_ ly Road.in two matches, beat out
2-1. and whipped

Smithers.
Quesnel 2-0.

Meanwhile, . Kitimat’s girls
earned an overall tie with Ver-
non for fifth. place. In _pre-
liminary, Kitimat. lost 15-11,
2-15, 7-15 to Vernon; beat Kelly
Road, 15-7, 15-4, and took out
Corrileau 15-7, 15-4.

So-so classic for Kermode boys"

15-12, 15-10 defeat.

That dropped Kermodes to
‘B’ side of the championships
where they blew out Maple
Ridge’s Garibaldi 15-0 in the
first match, but then lost the
next two 15-12, 15-9 to fade to
the sidelines.

In, the championship series,
they lost 15-9, 15-3 to Paul Kane.
of Edmonton; 15-7, 15-13 to
Prince George’s D.P. Todd;
then defeated Chetwynd 15-13,
15-1.

By winning the consolation,

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See is vow. going iu!
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| Rink 635-5583 |
Norah Jacques 635-2361

(Membership Chairperson) —
Registration Tuesday, October 3rd and
Wednesday, October 4th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Terrace placed ninth,

Kermodes head for Victoria’

this weekend for a 28-team
tourney, They start in a seven-
team pool where they play six
matches.

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