Paga B4 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 13, 1981 JUST WHEN sweet visions of green, aromatic woods and — fry-filled, ice-free shallows were dancing through our heads like mayflies mating in a spring breeze,:a. cold “front sweeps down. from tlie pole and we slip back into a winter coma. Ice an- chors to the rocks and the river- banks tighten up once again. _ Oh cruel:twist of fate when the rivers such a short time ago seémed so pregnant with piscatorial possibility! When is the best time to go fishing, -asked angler/philosopher Roderick Haig-Brown rhetorically, When you can, was his answer. Heeding that advice, Webb and [ strike ‘out across the recently brittle, now rock-hard crust of snow to the lower Kalum River, fifteen-foot, two-fisted Flyrods _ Tasping against the alders we've rSPORTSCOPE 7 Ansems 2nd in Vancouver LOCAL MASTERS runner Ed Ansems placed second overall in the masters divi- sion Mar. 3 at a 10-kilometre road race in Vancouver. Ansems entered the sixth annual Spring Classic 10-K — the third race in the Timex/Asics Road Runalng Series. His time of 35:44 was about a minute off his usual early summer 10-kilometre times, but he said he was pleased nevertheless because it’s so early in the racing season, beating out all but one other. Masters. male runner, and coming in ahead of all open and masters category women, Masters division for men is age 40 and over, while for women it’s age 35 and over. His next out-of-town race is the Vancouver Sun Run in mid-April. It’s expected to attract more than 16,000 run- ners and walkers, and will be the largest race Ansems has ever entered. He'll be on the streets of Terrace for the next month and a half in preparation for that event. Valentine victors CURLING ACTION at Ter- race’s annual Valentine's ladies .bonspiel saw the hometown Rusty Blanes rink fend off tough competition to win the ‘A’ event title here two weekends ago. Blanes fought off a challenge from Cassiar’s Joseph rink in the final to clinch the bonspiel title, in ‘B’ event action, Col- lison, of Smithers, prevailed over Kamioops' Hendry tink, A battle of the Terrace rinks in ‘C’ saw Vicki Gar- diner’s crew emerge vic- torious over their local rivals on Kathy Simpson's rink. Smithers’ Jackson rink edged Rupert's Val Flint for the ‘D’ title. Umpires clinic SOFTBALL SEASON ap- proaches, and those in- terested in getting their um- pire certification can take in a local - cumpire clinic next month," . It all: ‘happens Sunday, April 14.: Registration is 8:30 a.m, to 9, The. clinic starts at 9 a.m, ‘and ‘runs, to about 4; 30. * For more information con- tact Rob. Barg'at 635-2068 or Latty’ ‘Yeske, at 638-8688; famous | That time was good -enoughfor second overall.in }..[ ride ~with+«Ansems- just passed as we 50. When we arrive astream. the river is flowing, but only- just: - big chunks of newly hatched ice bob downstream: and slush curdiles on the bottom, We shrug Our shoulders and, at my suggestion, make for the truck. From there embark on the highway. 16 tour to Prince Rupert. My logic: the weather will get. milder as’ we near the coast. Webb, having heard man y a hairball idea from me before, looks skeptical but agrees in the spirit of adventure, It’s cold but clear and sunny. It's impossible to tire of the trip from Terrace to tidewater. We've had enough adventures at spots along this raute to kin- dle plenty of fond recollections. The tide is coming in bringing with it big chunks of ice. Cold- looking eagles sit in the trees pa- The Skeena Angier by Rob Brown - tiently waiting for the oolichan to appear. We stop at the Green River, It is mud brown and frozen, I suggest the water will be flowing, further. upstream. We shoulder the rods and move out once again. There is a snow- covered logging road following the contours of the valley. Once we're a short way up it, out of the wind, it starts to feel a little like spring. PORTS! NORFHCOAST. * WARGAMES proctalms a large sign set in the middle of | logging . slash. : - Spread Out throughout the area are ‘crudely thrown . “. logether shacks on stilts, Head- }. quarters “for. the opposing forces, no doubt. 1 remember .’ feading about. characters who We follow a set of wolf tracks to the first clearcut, There are more and more people using the . forests. these days: snowmobilers and skiers in the winter, hunters, fishermen, hikers, sightseers, mushroom- “pickers ° among others, But here, a mile up: the Vali ty of the Green, Webb and I ccane.acrass evidence of a new . and bizarre outdoor recreation with its roots firmly planted | in run around in ‘catchy camo clothing and. shoot each other wilh paint-filled pellets. - With the: conflagration in Kuwail. ongoing, this ‘remnant battle’ scene in the midst ot u clearcut, no-man's. fand seems_ particularly absurd. Haag, bang... splat... iver dead? and anot her paint-splattered warrior bilds the newly ‘exposed ‘forest floor. One i imagines the ersatz com. mandos arguing over who will. “JEFF NAGEL 638-7283 TERRACE STANDARD Cal heads south TERRACE — The Ker- modes are off to Vancouver for the provincial champion- ships this week. Caledonia beat their perennial zone rivals — the Prince Rupert Rainmakers —- two weekends ago in the best-of-three northwest senior boys high school basketball zone finals, the second-place team from the north central zone in a final provincial berth playoff, they'll be entering the 16-team provincials ‘to- day. ‘ And beaten Rainmakers coach. Mel Bishop says the Kermodes may well have a chance of placing against the tough Lower Mainland teams, “This is probably the best Terrace team ever,”’ he said. “They're big, they’re quick and they’re good jumpers.” Bishop credited the Ker- modes’ size as a factor in the Caledonia zone victory. “‘They’re a very big, athletic team,’ he said. “They're bigger and, at the beginning of the year, they were ranked, It’s not as if we were playing a bunch of chumps.’* Cal coach Cam MacKay said he's confident his players will give their all. “They'll be there — there's no question about that,”' But he said the three-game knock-down drag-out duel with Rupert has been hard on the Kermodes. He said he'd pen Tp they: were’ successful'in’ ™ yesterdays smatéhup ragailtet * ag like to see a restructured zone system — merging this zone with the north central Zone | — to allow both Terrace and | Rupert a shot at two provin- cial berths. ; “The way it is right now isn’t good,”’ he said. “Both teams come in here and everybody knows this is it, there's nowhere else to go. And it’s a dopgfi ght. It's unhealthy,” makers: JUBILANT JUMPS: Caledonia Kermodes leap with the fever of vic- tory after their best-of- three win over the -Prince Rupert Rain- in. northwest zone basketball cham- pionships two weekends ago. Midgets set for playoffs TERRACE — The skates are being sharpened and the sticks taped as Terrace’s ‘AA’ midget hockey players prepare to head south and vie for the provincial midget championship. The date for that contest is Mar. 31- Apr. 5 and team spokesman: Steve Smyth said the players hope to get in a few more rounds of high calibre action beforehand to tune up their game. On Mar, 15-16, the Terrace midgets will’ pit themselves against Prince George's number-one ‘AAA’ squad, a perennial championship con- tender in their division. After that, and a few more local warmups, _ Smyth said the team will head for the 10-team midget ‘AA’ provincial championship in Nelson. “We-should be very competitive,” he said. ‘We should stand quite a good chance of winn- ing the thing. ". Terrace this year has last to only one of their ‘AA’ rival they might meet in Nelson, and that was a 3-2 defeat to 100-Mile House while the ‘team had six players injured. The local midgets earned their shot at the pro- vincials during the zone playoffs here Feb.:8-10..- Terrace opened the zones ‘with a 4-0 win over - Kitimat ‘and: then. went on’ to eliminate Burns” Kitimat. an 8-1 blowout. . That set up the final between Terrace and And what looked like another big Terrace vic-’ tory was nearly turned around as the Kitimat for- wards staged a big comeback. With eight minutes: left in the third period, the hometown kids had a commanding 6-2 lead. By the final 90 seconds, they were still in the lead, but Kitimat had pulled to within a goal and the scoreboard read 7-6, The final-seconds of fast and furious action went on until Terrace’s Ivan Lashchenko ended the speculation’ with an empty-netter in dying moments to clalm his hat trick. Smyth also credited defencemen Ben Strain and Tim Link: for their work in anchoring down - the’ Terrace ‘blue’ line against opposing forwards _ Lake — = which had already I fom to Kitimat — in the it _ throiighout ‘the tourney... oo) “Te was ‘great hockey. We must have had 400 spectators In. the arena — “filling almost: one _- whole side of the’ building — and these kids had a never. een owd: ke that before." tion on: ‘the ice, Smyth “the ‘team:is now seeking sponsors to help. mater $13,000 c cost of making vines. cadena Clan in open FERRACE — Last Thursday was a bittersweet day in the life of Michelle Hendry. Her SFU Clan teammates fell 79-77 to the University of In- diana to be eliminated in the first round from the NALA na- tional women’s basketball championships in Jackson, Ten- nessee, . But Hendry’s legendary 41-point 13-rebound _perfor- mance in that game ensured me a special. 1 place in the | _Frasée Uni nivergity histor * The" game™gave sher "3, "8 career points in her three years with the Clan, shattering the all- time career scoring mark of 2,357-points held by SFU's Gail Klaver since the mid 1970s... But that will -hold little significance for Hendry. — a player for-whom the team is everything, On this occasion, the team wasn’t there — it was all Hen- dry. : darker and deadlier recesses of. " ‘time. * ; SRA hep hearing y ie ott Se 9 clap chang Ne Hani ggg ida Age ef fe eto te, ere Ls ap Ma af de ey RE Phe eg Bg ag Bg ag Wag "Pa int-ball warriors c d uel in bi ‘ re be Norman Schwarzkopf | and who will play the dastardly Sad- : dam. The: mind boggles at- the opportunities for technalcgical expansion forthe weekend war- tiors: dud scuds filled ‘with‘in-~ terior latex; tiny tiger tanks” capable of volley after'volley of watercolour; apache: helicopters - bristling with egg’ tempra smart bombs = the ultimate in Bapco- filled’ ‘ballistics’ for’ this * the mother of ‘all’ phoney battles. -: ‘We leave the war zone, con- tinue a short way then make our way through ‘the trees ta‘the ‘river. Still life — it’s frozen. The ice crystals on the stream- side glint in the-sun:A grouse hoots from somewhere in the thicket. Webb and I enjoy.a steaming cup of;tea;and ‘think: once again of spotted cutthroat chasing slim, silver-bodied flies through tea- coloured waters. falls er Sth y The Vancouver press pre- game reports trumpeted headlines like ‘“‘A lot depends on Hendry’* coupled with predictions that her ‘‘extraor- dinary ability gives her the burden of largely determining SFU’s success or failure.” She accounted for more than half of the team’s 77 points despite a seven-minute stint on the bench after collecting her third foul just into the second half, a?) a Clan, led a gas Rjust 39 seconds’ left Bef Tndiata. scored’ three ‘ more to put it away. The defeat and Hendry's 4] points that: game- proved: her long-standing contention that a star basketball centre from Ter- race does not a championship team make. Then again, there's always next year. All of SFU coach Alison MeNéeill's: players — in- cluding Michelle — are eligible to return next year, Thornhill wins on final foul shot TERRACE — Kurt Muller has demonstrated again the stuff that's made him MVP material for the Thomhill Wolves all § year, - - He was: the driving force behind: the Thornhill Junior Secondary -School junior boys basketball’ squad’s stunning zone - championships tourna- ment victory at Bulkley Valley Christian ‘School in Smithers two weekends ago. The, Wolves cruised their way to the final against Smithers Senior ‘Secondary and — trail- ing 50-49 at the buzzer — Muller was fouled by a Smithers player, The Thornhill team captain sank both foul shots with the time expired to clinch the team’s 51-50 last-second victory for the tournament title, “Muller was named tourna- ment MYP,.and two otfier Thornhill players — Brett Kluss © and Chris Tamas — were nam- ed all-stars.” The? ‘Wolves blew Nisga’a away 58-23 in their first game and: ‘knocked. . off: Hazelton Senior Secondary.53-40 to earn a bertlt In-the final... . Thornhill’ coach Ken. Pound . said his team was up by more than a dozen points in the first quarter of the final game destroyed in an earlier meeting this season, . - 4 . “Then' they stormed. back to. really. make a:gamé of it,” he Vs went up. by.- sald. ‘Then they went up ¥ Hazelton won the tournament, -.- about 10 in the third. quarier. But. we. matiaged: ‘ta scramble. back and. win with no. time left, AA . Kurt Muller; |; on the clock. It was awesome way to. end the season,” 2". He noted that. the school’s 3 zone ‘champion: basketball team. was essentially the s saie as their’ volleyball ‘squad - that ‘won ‘the zone championships earlier this. season, : ~AIt’s been’a really successful: year for us,’’ Pound sald. ‘I'm really proud of the boys.” ” ak woe Meanwhi e,. Tho hili's junior: girls were-doing battle at. a junior basketball. ‘tournament, against Smithers — a team they « in-Alyansh, } . They played to a 2-2 recotd, placing third out sof: the: five! teams there; © a - Thornhill’s Mag: Hugon was: named a tourndment. all-star.) Siete tae sn beating - Aiyansh in the’ final; _