Sports Menu TONIGHT Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 10s - 6:30 p.th. Surveyors v Skeena Cellulose Co-op v Centennial Lions Copperside v Carlyle Shepherd AGK v Shoppers GIRLS - 6:30 p.m. Kinettes v Tide Lake Terrace Travel v Richards THURSDAY, MAY 28 Try-a-tri-athlon Youth triathlon sponsored by the Terrace Blueback Swim Club. Start time 3:30 p.m. at the pool. Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 12s - 6:30 p.m. Sight and Sound v Bandstra Finning v Brady’s FC Cedarland v Wildwood SATURDAY, MAY 30 Running (Ferrace) KERMODEI CLASSIC 10 a.m. start te 1km, Skm and 10km walk, jog or run. Tennis (Kitimat) B.C. SUMMER __ GAMES ZONE TRYOUTS -- For more information contact Richard at 635-2347 or 638-0385 Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 7s - 9:30 a.m. Tilden Tigers v All Seasons _ Terrace Shell v N. Motor Inn Philpots v Vic Froese W’kinson Canons v Kinsmen Jets Safeway v Rotary UNDER 8s - 10:30. a.m. Totem Ford v Dairy Queen Skecna Sawmills v Cramptons Terrace Chrysler v McAlipne SUNDAY, MAY 31 Rugby Terrace Northmen vy Smithers 2 p.m. at Northwest Com- munity College pitch. Hiking Zymacord cross-country ski trail, 11km total. Meet at library , at 10 a.m. athe MONDAY, r, JUNE 1 Youth Soccer’ (Christy Park) UNDER 17s + 6:30 p.m. Takhar v Manuels Braids v Northern Drugs GIRLS - 6:30 p.m. Pizza Hut v Tide Lake TUESDAY, JUNE 2 Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 14s - 6:30 p.m. Sanberry v Overwaitea Terrace Builders vy Bavarian Inn. . ‘ The Terrace. Standard offers Sports Menu as a public service to its readers and local sports organizations, If you have an event Planned for which there is no admission charge, bring the details in and we'll add it to the Menu. To. make the following week’s paper, submissions must be in by 5 pan. Thursday. BeveaGali en ig uae uc ate fie ni diste ; NUMBER ONE, AGAIN. Kitimat's Alex Kotai makes another powerful return on the way to a straight- sets victory over Matt Cachia of Smithers in the Terrace Tennis Open men's final. Kitimat’s Alex Kotai made history in the Terrace . Tennis Open over. the Jong weckend as he became the first back-to-back winner of the men’s singles title, Playing a strong bascline game and taking full advantage of what opportunities they were to charge the net, Kotai beat out Smithers’. Matt Cachia in two straight sets. Although Kotai had little trouble in the first, win- ning it 6-3, Cachia made him work for the title - _ clincher. However, Kotai managed to edge his op- ponent in the tie-breaker to take the sct 7-6. In carlicr semi-final action Kotai had swept aside fellow Kitimatian Norm Lee 6-1, 6-1 while Cachia had been taken the distance by "Terrace? s Richard Krieg! 6-1, 2-6, 6-4. In other singles action, Fran Mann showed the form that has made her the dominant force on the northwestern ladies’ circuit with a straight sets win over Diane Cey, 6-1, 6-2, in an all-Terrace final. Both finalists had earlier wasted no-time dis- patching their semi-final opponents, Mann drop- ping Shannon Butler 6-1, 6-0 while Cey cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Alaine Fleischmann. The ladies B side went to Nancy Condon who — beat out Marilyn Earl 6-3, 7-5. Condon had reached the B final with an 8-3 win over. Jackie Thomsen while Earl had blanked Anna Nosck 8-0 (ibe pro- set format was used in B side climination matches), The men’s B side final was also an all-Terrace af- , fair with Kelly Gingles edging Brad Holmberg 7-6, 6-4. Both had scored convincing wins to get there, “| Kotai, Mann ace Open Gingles 8-1 over Jeremy Lafontaine and Holmberg 8-3 over Andrew Brown. In ‘doubles, the local duo of Swarn Mann and Krieg] took the title for an unprecedented fourth ’ consecutive year, knocking off Matt Cachia and fcl- ’ low Smithereen Dan Olmstead 6-3, 6-2, Doug Jenion and Emmanuel Robéris teamed up for a B’side victory over the Caledonia Senior ’ Secondary pairing of Lafontaine and Gingles. Krieg] picked up his second top spot finish of the weekend when he’ and Shannon Butler recovered from a first set-loss to defeat Diane and Chuck Cey in the A side mixed 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, ' The Ceys’ earlier semi-final victory had proved to be the match of the tournament. Shut out in the first set by Swarn and Fran Mann, the Ceys fought back to squeeze the next two after lengthy tie-breakers for a 0-6, 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (11-9) scoreline. In the other semi, Kriegl and Butler defeated Nancy Condon and Guy Kiland 6-1, 6-0, The B side mixed saw Kotai and Fleischmann come out on top of a five-team round robin with Gingles and Thomsen taking the runner-up spot. Fran Mann recorded her second win of the weekend in the ladics’ A doubles: when.she and partner Nancy Condon beat out Diane Cey and Dee Jenion 6-3, 7-5. For Cey, the result was another case of so-near-and-yet-so-far -- she finished sec- ond in cach event she entered, ‘ B side ladies mixed winners were Jill Redpath and Nora Phillips, defeating Shicla Caddy and Bileen Birkedal in three sets. ° Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 27, 1992 — Page C1 Are you getting ready for the summer by working oul, trying te get rid of that winter, um, pad- ding? Well it’s time to put your newly defined muscles to the test! The annual Kermodei Classic, Terrace’s oldest walk-run event, is this Saturday, May 30. Sponsored by the Inn of the West and the Skeena Valley Run- ners’ Club, the Kermodei Classic has become the largest such event in the northwest, attracting more than 180 participants last ycar, says organizer Ed Ansems. The Classic offers entrants a choice of challenges with dis- lances of ikm, 5km or 10km, The tkm walk/run is open to male and femaie competitors but is intended primarily for children. The 5km, also a walk/run event, is aimed at both teenagers and adults while the 10km distance is done al the run only. It’s open to both teenagers and adults but, be- cause it’s more difficult, Anscms said most competitors in the past have been adults. He also emphasized all courses are restricted to runners, joggers, walkers, lers. Dogs, skateboards, wagons, tollerskaters and bicycles are prohibited. wheelchairs and strol- Specially designed Kermodei Classic medals will be awarded to the top 3 finishers in all categori- es in the Skm and f0km events. , Framed Kermodei Bear Photog- raphs will be presented to the top female and male finishers in the Skm and 10km events, All chil- dren in the 1km run will be given participation ribbons. In addition’ there will also be 25-30 prizes drawn from the names of all registered competi- Weekend race truly Classic Ed Ansems lors, including a trip for two to Vancouver. ; The course records for the 5km event arc: female - Kelli Mas- kiewich at 20:44, male -- Ed Ansems at 16:55 and wheelchair - Paul Clark at 14:23. For the 10km run the record holders are: female - Rose-Marie Cheer 40:49, and male - Richard Harrison 33: 58. Entry fees for the Kermodei Classic range from $2 for the 1kmn event to $15 for an adult. All participants, exccpt those in the ikm event will receive a t-shirt. So why not get those running shoes on and jog down. to All Seasons Sports or the Inn of the West to pick up an entry form? The Classic not only offers an opportunity to get those leg mus- cles well and truly limbered up, the event could also serve as the first step in preparing for the King of the Mountain Race. That annual test of strength and . stamina is set for July 26. _Lure of saddle. draws Ken back Ken Hendricks Ken Hendricks is back in the saddle and apparently just as good as ever. Two-time champion rider at Winnipeg’s Assiniboia Downs track, the 20-year veteran hung up his silks in November, 1990. took up a different kind of horsepower as courier driver for the local Greyhound outfit Interviewed by the Terrace Standard early last year, Hendricks admitted he would miss the action and the people. "My whole life has been spent on the race track," he said. "Everything and everyone I know is there and that’s what T'J] miss." Not surprising, therefore, to find he’s back in action, this time at Calgary’s Stampede Park. Given Hendricks had ridden mere than 1700 winners before his temporary retirement, it’s also no surprise he’s immedi- ately fot back Into the win- ner’s clrcle, First past the post on six of his first 16 mounts of the new season, Hendricks finished in the first three no fewer than 13 / \ There was a soft glow behind the mountains when Webb climbed into his pickup and fired the engine. He’d never had to get up this early before to fish spring steelhead on the Lakelse River but many more fishermen were on the river these days, ico many. IE you wanted first water you had to have your breakfast down before first light. A new compitative element had be- come -part of his favourite sport. He didn't like it one bit. As he rolled along Queens- way, Webb thought about the fine fishing he’d had before roads -had been cut through Thunderbird to the middle river, a time when only a fist full of anglers knew of the small run of steelhead - that. settled into the Ballpark, the Claypool, Gledhill’s and the . Moose Run cach spring. . There was enough light to make the puddles along the rod ” ness to sad, senseless slau visible. They were clear. There were no tracks on the roadbed. Webb was pleased. It didn’t take long to get 1o the Leaning Alder. It never takes long to get to the river. | when you're going. ; _ Webb knotted on a dark pat- tern and slipped into ithe river. Soon. the fly was ‘swimming through the best holding spots. The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown SS From time to time ‘he felt the , pluck of small (rout unable to - swallow the big fly. Webb fished on quickly but accurate. . ly. The river. was low enough thal the wade trail to the top of the Ailey. © Some small, olive mayflies were coming: off the water.’ - Webb watched them rise slow- ly until they were caught by a and flung gust of wind downstream, His cycs moved “From the ‘bugs: toa flicker of light a and a below the: Ballpark was possible, Webb | made it casily then took the bitof movement a fair distance downstream where Webb -made out the form of another fisherman tossing’ a line out over the Claypool. The man’s casting rhythms quickened, he fished as if he were in a hurry to get to anoth- - ’ er piece of water, perhaps a run; “which had been kind to him in “the past. ° Soon the other man was out ~ of sight. Webb continued to "fish at the same pace. Soon he- was casting into the Claypool. A fish took/:The bend of the | - rod. told ‘Webb: it Was a large fish. He wrestled it ta shore. It was male, not new but not too old cither, Webb out the fish at about 14 pounds, It had a large bite out of its tail fin. . He freed the hook and watched it disappear into darker water. Near a rock, where there had to be fish, there was one.. It leapt from ithe. water once. _twice then. tired quickly. Webb levered i{ to the bank with the ~ tong rod. The fish, a female ’ this time, was small and bright, Webb was glad the other fisher had not covered the -pool ‘thoroughly, He sat down: for the first time and puiled a times. Moving here to Terrace, he chocolate bar from his vest. Webb ‘stood up slowly, In the tail of the pool Webb made out the form of another fish. It was a spawner. Webb had had an eye out for _, spawning fish’ all day. At this lime of year there were usually plenty of daik fish digging nests in-the sandy riffles. Not this year. In two miles of river he’d just fished Webb had scen none, As be watched the fish Webb thought about how much il had _ endured to get this fan the ju- _venile years in fresh water dodging a host of predators; the long, dangerous migration in salt water; the difficult return to fresh water past the nets that take so many steel- head cach summer; then up the Skeena avoiding the in-river nets of the natives, resisting the lures of the sportsfishermen; and, finally, the many months of vul- nerability hiding. in the low. waters of its home river. hoping to move downriver withoul disturbing the fish. It notice him. Slowly it: drifted downstream. Webb sighted the fish again, a short way downriver. Again it spooked, drifting back to the next run. As Webb resumed fishing, the two men emerged. from the brush on the far side of the river. They were packing spin- ning rods, The men looked into the river. One pointed to the spot where the dark stcelhend had setiled, the other made a hurried and crude cast. The fish took the Jure. Webb couldn’t believe It. Webb watched helplessly as the fish was winched to shore on heavy line. It. was ripe fish, red and black with some white fungus on its tail. — One of the two men crushed its skull with a fallen limb, the other then grabbed the catch by the gill plate then they dis- appeared into the bush.