SPORT SCOPE Volunteers ce ana . Still needed It’s now just nine weeks un- lil the 1992 Skeena Valley ' Triathlon hits the water-road and organizers are still in need of more voluntecrs to help put the event togeiher. __, The event has been growing year by. year but will take a ... big jump this year because it Will: also be the provincial =a championship, : ‘Dale Greenwood. says a volunteers are needed before, + during and afler the race. a ‘Helpiig ‘hands can assist in | im a number of areas including “) setting up for thé event, man- iting water stations. along the "route and Aearing down at the “end of the day. ' . + Also required: are drivers to” 2 provide transportation for the “‘imany.. out-of-town © ‘entries some of whom will also re- “ quire billets. Anyone who ¢ can help out is _» asked to. phone the Volunteer | Hoiline at 635- 9100. a Incidentally, | ‘Greenwood this year’s triathlon offers lo- eal ‘competitors an op- portunity ‘to become provin- ~~. Gial champs. That's beacuse : the: face is -split into age aN groups | and any competitor “finishing, fi fi rst in.their group, “regardless of whete ‘they fin- -- ish--overall, eams bragging » Nights as the best in B.C. Alive in '95? With : ‘volunteers probably still trying to catch their = breath’ from last year’s event, the city’ ds being asked to, bid oe again on the: Norther Bcc : Winter Games,.° Challenging the comminity ~ fo be “alive in-'95", Games _saciely secretary’ . Eleanor *. Kendell ‘said the venue would “. be decided at the board’s Sep- : tember mecting. ; Rupert gets ‘Seniors. - | While’ Terrace” ponders, _. Prince Rupert has just. got ‘word it has been awarded the _ 1994 B.C. Seniors Games. . The coast city’s bid of . $118,000 won out over chal- - lenges from Prince George, _ Quesnel «and the Osoyoos- - Oliver combined effort. It was also fully backed by + Terrace and Kitimat members of the Seniors zone £0 argani- : gation. _ . It will be the first time these Games have been held in the ‘northwest. . - a with all RED TIDE. The goalie having been drawn out to smother one attack, the Sanberry defender. | (above, In grey shirt) throws himself in front of two Overwaitea attackers in a desperate and suc- cessful attempt to keep the red shirts at bay. Below, Sanberry goalie Jim Casey can only watch as Cory Doll’ s chip shot sails over his head and into the net to tie the game. Youth invades soccer The °92 Youth Soccer season kicked off Saturday in fine style teams and literally hundreds of players in action. Among the first to take to the pitch were the Overwailea and Sanberry under-14 elevens who batiled ta a 2-2 tic. Sanberry had the better of the | chances in the first half aud early minutes of the second, capitaliz- ing twice on goals by Chris Woodward and Ryan Orr. And Overwaitea were fortunate not to find themselves further down than thal. Only a diving save by the goalie and the help of the crossbar im- mediately after had kept Sanberry from scoring another late in the first half. However, the momentum began to shift in Overwailea’s favour pitches once Josh McLaughlin narrowed J the gap to one, Slarting to move the ball more f and threading passes to the open. man, Overwaitea took command of the match. Time aud again the red shirts swept into the Sanberry end in search of the equalizer and ‘they were [inally rewarded when Cory Doll chipped one over the head of Satberry goalie Jim Casey, For the remaining minutes of the games, Casey was under’siege but came up with a couple of | point blank saves to preserve the tie, Teams it ‘all seven divisions play the remainder of the season in their. assigned day and time § slots. For a rundown on matches being played next week, check Sports Ment on Page | C2. Boxers go two for three - "Local ‘boxers: arrived back in’ town again with championship. honours, a habit they’re more than happy to keep up. Three fighters went down to the Golden Gloves compe- tition, two returning as champions. Clint Belk showed‘ he’s definitely got the number of Queensborough’s Paul Shaw, scoring a unanimous decision to take the Junior B 125lbs, Golden Glove. With no competition at his 132Ib. weight class, Joey Losier once again had to move up, to the 139Ib.. class this time, . Not that it made much dif- ference to the result as Kevin McCoy of the Astoria Club found out when Losier dropped him for the 14 Clint Bell count at 2:05 of the first round. Jazzy Gill drew Albertan Jason Smith in the (39Ib, In- Joey Losier termediate despite a Open strong where, per- formance, came out on the wrong end of a 4-1 decision. Terraca Standard, Wednesday, May 6, 1992 — Page C1 Northmen triumph, Gnaturally © The Terrace Northmen are once again the team to beat in north- west rugby. That’s the clear message from their opening two matches of the Tlew season. First victims were the Prince George Gnats, in town Apr, 25 for the two teams’ annual exhibi- lion game. The Northmen’s defence threw up a stone wall from the begin- ning, rarely allowing the visitors inside their 25 yard line during the first half. Meanwhile on offence Tony Pavao carried in the Northmen’s first try which Doug Wilson con- verted for the 6-0 lead, In the dying moments of the half, some impressive passing and cross field movement set up Northmen newcomer Tyler Rudd ta go over in the comer. Wilson missed this conversion leaving the score at 10-0, And that was how it stayed through the next 40 minutes, With this year’s large team, the Northmen were able to make wholesale substitutions in the sec- ond half but the Gnats still managed to keep the home team at bay. Next day if was on to Prince Rupert for the Northmen’s league opener. Undaunted by having to play on a pitch that was in appalling con- dition, the Terrace squad opened quickly when Wilson converted his own try to give the Northmen a 6-0 lead. Al the 20-minute mark, Wilson struck again, this lime kicking a penalty to open the gap to 9-0, Brent Rogers closed out the half when, following a clever up-and- under by Wilson, he sct off on a 40 yard charge to the comer and the Northmen’s second try, Wilson couldn’? convert this time leaving the score 13-0 at the half. . That scoreline did not tell the whole story, however. Prince Rupert on a couple of occasions had been within yards of scoring only to be thrown back by a determined Terrace defence. That defence held up in the sec- ond half with Prince Rupert, despite pressing on numerous oc- casions, unable, to get on the board, The Northmen, meanwhile, added to their total with forwards Alvaro Dacosta aud Kerry Friend going over for unconverted tries to rack up the 21-0 final. Prince Rupert will have .a chance to avenge the defeat this Saturday when they come here for the Northmen’s home opener, That match is being played at the Northwest Community College pitch and begins at 7:30 p.m.. The following day, the second leg of the weekend double-header gets. underway at 2p.m., agaii at, NWCC, with Smithers as opposi- tion this time. | League needs help to ensure There won't be a mén’s soccer league here in Terrace this year unless a couple of volunteers s step forward . The outgoing ‘organizers have decided they uced a break after three years of looking after the league but no replacements have come forward yen There’s nat a lot of work in- volved, Joe Duben emphasized. The league is solvent, has equip- ment and jerseys and he and Rick Fagan are ready to give the new guys as much help as they can, Two volunteers are needed be- cause there have to be two sig- ‘natories for cheques, he ex- plained. The sooner the new duo step forward, the better, he added, pointing out the longer the delay, the shorter the season. . In the meantime, men’s soccer players are getting together for practices at 6:30 p.im. each ‘Thurs- day and Sunday eveneing al a season Caledonia school, From those sessions, a. 20-man Select team will be picked for the B.C. Summer “Games: playdown entry and various cash tournamententries, =~ ‘Although that number of players may scem high, Duben explained it’s necessary because: - not everyoue can make every ’ tourney. Selection of the Summer Games squad must be made by this Fri- day so anyone wanting to have a shot at making the team should be at Caledonia tommorrow night. If players can’t make tomorrow night, that doesn’t mean they - can’t make the tournament teams. The first of those will be in ac- tion at Greenville May 17 when there could be as much as $5,000 in prize money on the line. - Anyone interested in taking charge of the men’s league can ghet more information on what It entails by phoning Duben at 635- 9338, : “You hear rumours, Rumours . of — steelhead “(streams so full of fish that a “day on them will leave your [> arms, too tired to split wood “f° forthe campfire. There are’ yams about * residential rainbows as long a8 your forearm sipping bugs “from the surface of a jewel- like lake nestled at the base of - flowering: bluc-green _ Mountains. “These are: fragments: un- ‘substantiated bits of myth as , “ ephemeral as the mists that * appear aud disappear from the colouured’ valleys of - the _Skeenacach Fall. — - '. But. some fish stories are more substaritial than others. One of those tales’ has a Nisga’a fisherman netting a * forty. pound steelhead some- where in the lower Nass River. The Skeena bas steel- . head close to that size in some _ Of its tributaries, so why - shouldn't a river system only a few miles to the north/ Big silver summer fish stop- ping momentarily somewhere below Kincolith before sliji- ping into the cloudy sunumer - water of the Nass -- a credible © ‘and. compelling image. But ‘where do these fish go? Chasing the shadows: of summer steelhead is exciting. I looked at the maps, tracing the blue line that stood for the Nass - upstream past Ishkheenick, Kincolith, Tseax then further inland Kwinamuck, Kiteen,’ Meziadin but none had the ar- chiteclure of an important ~ summer steelhead system. At 56 degrees norta, where, may thousands of years past, _ Massive glacial ‘hands scraped - over the country leaving _ Strangely shaped lakes behind, ~ mvy finger rested. . Here, rising in the same land as the . most famous of ~ Skeena’s big Gish’ rivers, the _ Kispiox, was Kwinageesc. The Skeena Angler -by Rob Brown Kwinageese: headwatered by lakes, thundering through canyons containing the deep, dark pools for over-winlering Vstecthead) was the. likely destination for Nass trophies. Then, to give further weight tothe theory, came the trap- per’s tale of a -thirty-five pound, September-caught ’ Kwinagecse steelhead. And there is more. to the Kwinageese than. steelhead, | There are sockeye and the. bears’ that -feed on . them, there are three or four. ‘salmon, | ’ there are pinks, there are coho . ‘as well as rainbow trout and-a: ‘Drown ‘thousand - chinook unique strain of char. It ap- pears Kwinageese is an un- setled, unlogged version of. the Kispiox. A logging plan for the Kwinageesc is in the develop- mental phase. ue _AS logging plans go, the one we saw was good, Proposed roads are to be far away from sensilive areas, there. is a leave chain of trees a kilo- metre wide running the length one proposed crossing. A .. migratory corridor is laid out -- for grizzly bears. Still, .of the river and there is only. -the culblocks are too | Inventory must precede any logging big. The rate of extraction seems too quick. And, who really knows how big an ecological island the grizzly needs to be secure? _ As usual, no comprehensive wildlife inventory has been. done. on- Kwinageese. . All the... information the planners had on sleclhead was that they were present, What was more surprising to us was the Ministry of En- vironment had no input iuto the plan. This is unacceptable. If the Ministry of Environ- ment, the poor brother of provincial government mini- siries, says it does not bave the time or the staff to give a thorough review of the log- - ging - plans for the Kwinageese, then more: staff ‘will have to be hired or the companies salivating over the wood in Kwinageese will just ‘have to wait until the job can be done by existing personnel. An intact summer steelhead — - - chunks) overseas, before we valley is a rare and precious thing, a very rare and precious — thing. Before we export big chunks of the Kwinageese (and the jobs attached to those pulp its parts’ to make maga- zine paper, we should consid- er if it will, in the long run, be more valuable left intact. Preservation should be one of the options for Kwittageese as it should be for all logging plans. If, after careful considera- tion involving all interested and affected parties, it is de- cided the Kwinageese will be logged, then. the logging blueprint must be the product of careful planning involving all ministries. Before one stick is cut, the company wishing to log should be made to post a large bond to help ensure the plan is adhered to. There isa lot at stake in Kwinagecse, ZOne .