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KERMODES WERE WINNERS of the Northwest

Zone Basketball Tournament and will shortly be
leaving for the provincial finals in Vancouver. They
are (back row) Bob Sheridan, Craig Mcintyre, John

Vienneau,

Kermodes earn provincial berth

March 3, 4 and 5, in the
Caledonia gym, the Ker-
mode “A” boys mounted the
victory platform as they
drove a three game win
against teams from Kitimat
and Prince Rupert, for the
tile as zone champions..

“The Kermode team
opened up playing the
Kitimat Chieftans Thursday
evening, rendering a score
of 93 to 60. At halftime the
Terrace team was ahead 60
to 40. High scorers for
Kitimat were Art Mercer
with 21 points and Mike
Frazer with 12 points. High
scoring ‘for Terrace were
number 13, Clayton
Williams, gunning 21 points;
number five, Tony Czink
with 18 points and John
Vienneau with 17 points.

March 4, the Kermodes
drew a 103-70 win over the
Prince Rupert Rainmakers.
Showing all the strength of a
top notch team, Clayton
Williams went ahead to
score 25 points while John
Vienneau put up 15 points
and both Ernie Froese and
Scott Wittke gave 14 points
each. Halftime showed the
Kermodes in the lead 74 to
60. High scoring for the

Scott Wittke,

Ernie Dusdal, William

Rainmakers was Mario

Santurbano with 20 points.

M.V.P. CLAYTON
WILLIAMS

In the final game the
Kermodes once again strode
to the top, winning 104 to 69
against Prince Rupert,
scoring 68 to 50 at halftime.
The Rainmakers Mario
Santurbano played hard for
17 points. -

Again Clayton Williams
was high scorer with 17
points, followed by Scott

Pictured above is one of the young competitors in
the tri-city swim meet held Sunday at the Prince
Rupert Swimming Pool. Kitimat won the meet,

Harvey, Kevin Earl, Clayton Williams and Mr. Ed

DeVries; and (front row) Caroline Smaha, (team
manager), Ernie Froese, Tony Czink, Jim Place and

Lindsay Coburn.

Wittke and John Vienneau
totalling 14 points each.

Named to the first all star

team were Kevin Earl,
Ernie Froese and Scott
Wittke (all of Terrace) and
Mario Santurbano --Prince
‘Rupert-and «Art: Mercer -
Kitimat.

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Named’ most valuable
player was Clayton
Williams of Terrace.

The Kermiodes have hada
very successful season with
a winning margin of ap-
proximately 30 points. Now

with Rupe
respectively.

rt and Terrace placing second and third

AS. SCOTT WITTKE

they will proceed on to the
B.C. Provincial Finals
played in the Vancouver
Colliseum, March 16 to 19.

Finally, the team would ”
like to thank all those who .

-have helped them
, throughout the year, namely
the cheerleaders, the
spectators and the people
who have helped with
billetting. Thank you.

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THE SKEENA JUNIOR HIGH TSIMSHIANS who
will be competing in the Provincial Basketball
Championships. (L to R Back Row) Coach Mike,
ireland, Bob Kawinsky, Dave Metzmeier, Jim Kellar,

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Albanio Marques, Manager, Richard Klein, Candy

Guerreiro and Doug Anderson. Missing at the time of.

photo, Colin Abernathy.

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Northern Title :

The Skeena Tsimshian
Junior -Boys basketball
team won the Northern
Regional

George this past weekend.
None of their. games. were
really close as they won
three straight games by

playing excellently as a

team.

In their first game,
Skeena defeated Quesnel 68-
37 in what was supposed to
have been a close game. The
Jeading scorers for the
Tsimshians were James
Harvey with 26-points and

Dave Metzmeier with 16.

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Their second win was a 51-

team led by 16 points at half
time and really coasted in .
the second jaalf. Mike
McIntyre and James were
Jeading scorers with 15 and
10 poifits respectively.

The championship game
saw Skeena defeat the
Duchess Park 9's, the
Prince George number one
team, 57-41. The Tsimshians
played a very conservative

Men/’s
| Basketball
report

by Mike Ireland

There were two upsets of
sorts Monday night at the
Caledonia gym. For the first
game, the Terrace Reds
efeated All Seasons, 74-70,
as Willie Chemko scored a
game high of 32 points,“
followed by Andy Ruygrok
with 20 points. For All
Seasons Ed Devries and
Dave Goertzen scored .30
and 15 points respectively.

In the second game,
Skeena Hotel Orphans
continued winning by
defeating Ev’s Clippers 99-
83. Joe  Prokopchuk
returned to action with a 30

int performance foliowed
y Pat Kofced with 24. Rod
Kluss was high man for Ev's
with 38 points. He was
assisted by. Dale Prest who
scored 15 points.

‘and Bil

All Seasons lost their
second game of the week, 81-
77 to Ev’s Clippers ‘Wed-
nesday night. The Clippers
got fine performances from
guards Rod Kluss and Jon
Gurban, who scored 22 and
19 points respectively. For
All Seasons, Ed Devries and
Doug McKay played well in
a losing cause, scoring 26 —
and -25 points respectively.

In the second game, the”
Reds moved within seven ‘
games of first place All
Seasons with an 81-74 come
from behind victory over the

‘ Skeena Hotel Orphans. Al

Glover hit for 24 points,
followed by Willie Chemko.
with 21 points. Albert Olsen
Gair led the Or-
phans with 18 and 16 points.

and Centennial coach

up in the junior coaching
ranks for the second time
this season.

When the season began
Phillips was coaching the
lacal Centennials. Last
fall he was moved up to
Pincher Creek and last,
Wednesday he was
named head coach of the
Calgary Centenniais in
the Western Canada
Hockey League.

Former Terrace resident

Wes Phillips has moved »

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game in the first half,
trailing 26-22 at half time. In

excellent defence ran away
with the game. Dave
Metzmeier and James
Harvey were the leading
scorers with 18 and 16
points.

For his excellent per-
formance, Dave Metzmeier
was voted the most valuable
player, while team mates

. Mike McIntyre and James
Harvey were voted to the
second all star team. The
Tsimshians now travel to

_ the second half, they opened -
things up ‘and by playing .

Vancouver for
Provincial Junior Boys

- Championships this coming
weekend, March 10-12 as the

north’s “number one

representative. Duchess . _:

Park 9's also qualify as the
number two rep.

The Tsimshians meet

West Vancouver, the North
Vancouver number one rep
in their first game on
Thursday. The Provincial
Tournament has 14 of the
province's top junior teams
competing in a- single

elimination tournament for .

the number one position. -

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Kings, Smithers —
to meet in final

Kings 9 Burns Lake7

Smithers 4 Kitimat2
. Prince Rupert Atom Motor’
Kings and Smithers Totems will
oppose each other in the best-of-
seven final for the Fowler Cup,
indicative of playoff supremacy
in the Pacific North West
Hockey League. .

This was decided Saturday
night as both clubs posted
narrow victories to win their
respective best-of-five semi-
final series in three straight
games,

The Kings nipped Burns Lake.
Braves 9-7 in overtime in Burns
Lake while Smithers got by
Kitimat Winter Hawks 4:2 in
‘Kitimat.

John Vaudry, who saw only
Iimited action because of an
ankle injury, with his second
goal of the game netted -what
proved to be the winner for

Rupert after 3:30 of overtime in °
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urns Lake. ‘
“The clubs split four goals in
the opening twenty minutes of
play before the Kings went
ahead 64 after the second
period.

Burns Lake then fell behind 7-
4 early in the third stanza, but.
rallied with three goals to send
the game into overtime.

‘Gord Stephens, who scored
Rupert’s ninth goal in the last
seconds of the extra session,
paced Rupert with a three-goal
performance while Vaudry and
Art Frenette.each tallied twice
with Wayne George and Rick
Spracklin chipping in singles.

Larry Davies and Tom
Gornall showed the way for
Burns Lake with three and two
goals respectively while
Murray Hawse and Blaine
Campbell collected singles for
the Braves.

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The triumph was costly for
Prince Rupert, however, in that
they lost defenseman Dave
Allen for the remainder of the
season when he ‘suffered a
broken leg while handing out a
check in the third period, |

Allen, who also serves as the
club's captain, was one of four
blueliners coach ‘George Kuntz

relied heavily upon during the.

regular season.

Following ‘the injury, Kuntz
used forward-defenseman Al
Sidoni in Aljen's spot, and has
tentatively decided to use Sidoni
with Moe Kmyta — Allen’s
usual partner — from here an
in, .

In Kitimat, meanwhile, Jim

McAloney tullied.a hat trick to ©

lead Smithers past the Winter
Hawks,

That game marked the third
narrow win Smithers picked up
against Kitimat — the scores in
the first two games were 7:6 in
overtime and 3-1 last Saturday
and Sunday iin Smithers,

In spite of the fact Rupert

held a decided edge during

regular-season games with the .

Totems (the Kings recorded

four wins and a tie In six .
meetings), coach Kuntz expects
a good, tough series in the final. |

“They're a big physical
club,’’ states Kuntz, ‘‘and don’t
forget, they're hungry for the
Fowler Cup too.”

Kuntz feels his squad will
have a definite “speed ad-
vantage, but they’ve got: the
home-ice advantage, and that,
in my opinion, means a goal or

a.” ,

The final will probably get
under way with a palr of games
next weekend in Smithers,
although the dates and times do

still have to be worked out. |

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