PAGE 6 THE HERALD, Friday, April 21, 1978 by Murdo MacDonald Commercial hockey in Terrace.ended the 77-78 season with its annual awards night banquet and dance last Saturday at the local arena, “High sticking’ was suitably replaced by “High jinxs". Players from all four participating teams celebrated the occasion by exchanging g: wishes following another season of good, clean hockey. All players “vowed’’ to Keep in good condition by remaining active all summer in preparation for next fall's “face- off’, Over 120 players, officials, fans and friends gathered to pay tribute to the team and individual [award winners, The banquet featured a sumptious catered meal. President Ray Tremblay presented the trophies on behalf of the league executive. The evening cluminated with dancing to a live band. - Mr. Tremblay stated that the annual general meeting of the league including election of officers for the upcoming season would be announced early next fall. He plans on stepping down after two consecutive terms as league president. Mr. Tremblay has been active in one capacity or another 5 of the league's 6 Terrace Hockey ends with flair years of operation. He was pleased to advise that the} eague ended up the season financially solvent. Tentative plans call for the addition of a fifth team. Following is the complete list of award winners: 1977-78 League Champions: Terrace Totem Ford 1977-78 Play-offs Winners: Terrace Totem Ford 1977-78 Scoring Champion: Bob Peacock-TTF 1977-78 Best Defenceman: Bob Peacock-TTF 1977-78 Most Valuable Player: Bob Peacock-TTF ior 78 Most Sportsmanlike Player: Jim Gustafson- 1977-78 Most Tenacious Player : Sean James-TTF 1971-78 Most Valuable player in Play-offs: Tom Farrow-TTF 1977-78 Most Improved Player: Dick Brown-Skeena ( This year the league added a new category to honour the most improved player on each team: Lynn Kraeling- Terrace Totem Ford k Hidber- Gordon and Anderson| Pete Nickerson- McEwen GM Dick Brown- Skeena Hotel By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oakland manager Bobby Winkles will settle for all the gray hairs his young, low-salaried A's will give him this season - .. if they keep winning. Manager Billy Mart of New York Yankees, on the other hand, probably is ready to tear out his hair over the periorm- ance of his veteran, highly-paid World Series champions, especially relief specialist Rich Gossage. The A's, who under owner Charles O. Finley have unloaded virtually all their players from the 1972, 1973 and 1974 World Series winners, were not expected to be contenders this year. n . But so far they have been the early-season surprises of the major leagues. ednesday,they raised their record to 8-3 and moved within one game of first-place Kansas City Royals in the American League West, beating Minnesota Twins 5 in 11 innings. “These guys. promised, they’dgive me gray hairs before the season was said Winkles. COMMITS TWO ERRORS The Yankees, AL champions the past two years, fell to 5-6, three games behind front-run- ning Detroit Tigers in the East Division, losing to Toronto Blue Jays 4-3. The winning run was scored on Gossage’s second throwing error in the ninth inning. ‘T’'m sick, I’m almost ready ‘to cry,” said the dejected Gossage, loser of his third consecutive game since signing a ™ {American League reported $2.75-millien, six-year free-agent contract Yankees after the 1977 season. In the only other American League game Wednesday, Ron Jackson drove in six runs with two ‘doubles and a_ single, powering California Angels to an 11-2 rout of Seattle Mariners. Two ames were rained out— Detroit at Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers at Boston Red Sox. Oakland’s brash A’s blew a 5-3 lead in the ninth when pinchhitter Rich Chiles singled in two runs, but they won the game in the 11th inning on a walk, a single by Jim Essian and ai orun- producing single by Tony Armas. Mario Guerrero and ' Essian, two of Finley’s bargain-basement ickups, each had four its and drove in tworuns for the upstart A’s. Dan Ford and Butch Wynegar homered for the Twins. Blue Jays 4 Yankees 3 Toronto scored the g Tun in the, ninth inning — when John Mayberry led off with a single, pinch runner Garth Iorg was safe at second on Gossage’s low throw to the bag on Rick Cerone’s bunt and lorg scored when Gossage fired Dave McKay's attempted sacrifice over the head of first baseman Chris Chambliss. _ New York's — Cliff Johnson had tied the score 3-3 with a two-run homernin the sixth. Angels 11 Mariners 2 Jackson delivered a two-run, two-out single in the third inning, a run- scori double in the seventh and a three-run double in the eighth. Swimmer’s schedule SWIMMING POOL SCHEDULE Effective April 3-June 30, 1978 Monday 11:30a.m.-1:0 p.m. 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. $:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. - $:30p.m.,-10:30 p.m. Tuesday 8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m, 11:30a.m.-1:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. Wednesday 11:30a.m,-1:00 p.m. 6:0 p.m.-7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.-B8:30 p.m. Thursday §:00 a.m.-9:00a.m. 11:30a.m.-1:0 p.m. §:30p.m.-10:30 p.m. . 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New England coach Harry Neale praised Zuke and MacDonald, for their success both as By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s not clear whether Dick Ruthven left his heart in San Francisco, but San Francisco Giants probably wish he had left is arm in Atlanta. The 27-year-old right- hander went to high school in the East Bay town of Irvington, a few miles from San Fran- cisco, and you can't ‘Candlestick Park home. Especially after he hurled Atlanta Braves to a two-mil 2-0 National League. baseball victory Wednesday and raised his career record to 8-2 against San Francisco. “T guess the Giants run into me when I'm going good,’’ said Ruthven, who only is 31-54 against the rest of the National League. “But ss don’t et especi ac up for the Gian i Ruthven, who had a no- hitter for six innings until Larry Herndon beat out.a high hopper to shortstop leading off the seventh, pi his masterpiece one night after m- mates Preston Hanna and Adrian Devine blanked the Giants on one hit, Before the shutouts, PublicSwim - Adult Swim WITHOUT Sports Shorts PORSCHE TRIUMPHS DIJON, France (AP) — Bob Wolleck and Henri Pescarolo of France, in a Porsche-935 Turbo, won the Dijon four-hour race Sunday on the Prenois Circuit, the third heat in the constructors championship Wolleck and Pesearolo completed 169 laps—642.2 kilometres—in the four hours at an average speed of 159.930 kilometres an hour. series, — . sacrifice fly. blame him for calling fl Atlanta pitchers had’ allowed 54 runs in eight games. . The Braves scored the only run Ruthven needed in the fourth inning on singles by Brian Asselstine, Jeff Bur- roughs and Biff Pocoroba an Dale Murphy’s we the seventh, Murphy doubled, advanced on a grounder and scored on Pat Rockett's sacrifice y. In his last appearance against the Giants, Ruth- ven pitched a three-hit 4-0 victory last Sept. 5. Elsewhere, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals traded two- hitters, with the Mets winning 2-0 behind Pat Zachry; Los Angeles Dodgers edged Cincinnati Reds 5-4; Houston Astros nipped San Diego Padres 2-1 and Montreal Expos scored four times in the ninth inning to beat Chicago Cubs 8-6. Mets 2 Cards 0 While Zachry was limiting St. Louis to second-inning singles by Keith Hernandez and Jerry Morales, Bruce Boiselair drove in both runs, with a sacrifice fly in the first inning and a single in the third as the Mets completed a sweep ? ‘sin - held San Diego to six hits Teac National Leauge _ of a three-game series. .Dodgers 5 Reds 4 Rick Monday drove in four runs with a pair of. . homers and unbeaten Tommy John scattered nine hits for his third vic- tory. as Los Angeles salvaged the finale of an important _earlyseason three-game series, Astros 2 Padres 1 Joaquin Andujar . home a run and in eight innings. The’ triumph was the Astros fourth in a row and sixth . in their last seven games _after an 65 start. The Padres dropped their fourth straight, all at home, where they have not won yet this season. . Expos & Cubs 6 His Valentine and > Larry Parrish delivered two-run singles in the top of the ninth inning as Montreal rallied for four unearned’ runs against Chicago relief ace Bruce Sutter. The Expos loaded the bases with one out on two walks and an error. After a force at home, Valentine singled and hed second-whenleft — fielder Gene Clines overran the ball. Parrish followed with another two-run single. penalty killers and of- ensive threats. Neale said the Oilers did not play as well before 11,924 fans as they hadin the second game at Springfield when they lost 4-1, . “But, obviously, neither did we.’ Edmonton coach Glen Sather disagreed with Neale’s assessment. He said the Oilers played “probably our best game since we got all those injuries." A key to the Edmonton victory was the con- ‘sistent play af defen- cemen Daye Langevin, captain Paul Shmyr and Ray McKay. They helped restrict the Whalers to 19 shols on goaltender Don McLeod, who earned his first playoff shutout. ROGERS FOILED McLeod’s best save came in the second period agains’ Mike Rogers when the nimble centre burst around the defence and got a hard shot away from close range. New England veteran Gordie Howe, who said he did not play well and was in one of the doldrums he - encounters at intervals through a season, said the Whalers played “a sloppy ° game, especially in our own end,’ ; —_ a ~ eS ~~ =a All three were inefficient Wednesday night, with McKenzie the target ofa series of heavy jolts by Langevin and Brett Callighen. eee Sather said the Oilers would try to ‘use heavy checks wear down Howe, Johnny McKenzie and Dave Keon, the RITE TERRACE AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL SOCIETY Annual Meeting ‘DATE: Wweinen, June 7,, 1978 TIME: = 8:00 p.m. PLACE: Lecture Theatre Caledonia Senior Secondary School The business Will consist of the election af members of & the Society, the election of the members to serve on the Hospital Board of Trustees, and presentation of reports 4 covering the year 1977. a in order to be eligible ta vote, membership must be purchased before Sunday, May 7, 1978. 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