aamatin Coach and ref 7 a ~ shortage cuts — Youth Soccer | Terrace Youth Soccer expects toreach the 500 registration mark this season, but they’re cutting - back on about four teams. ~ Last year they signed up 519 boys and girls, and according to registrar Bev Bujtas early registration figures leads her to believe they'll once again be the largest youth sport, participa- ‘tion-wise, in Terrace. It’s the lack of referees and coaches that could lead the organization to a cutback in the two biggest divisions — under-7 and under-10. ‘*We could get the officials if we paid them, but there’s no money in the pot for salaried referees,’’ she told us. ‘Youth soccer has always been a volunteer service. The on- ly way we could pay regular league refs would be to jack up the ‘registration fee by about ‘double. That way we’d get our whistle blowers, but we'd erid up iwth a lot of youngsters that - couldn’t afford to play.” Bujtas said they have referees ‘around town. However, they’re holding © their ” ‘hands out for money. A lot of young players leaving the league in late teens got a lot out of the game, but aren’t in- terested in putting something _ back into the game. “They couldn’t care less unless we pad their wallets.’’ -About 48 youths overall _[ would..be affected by a four- téam cutback. ..Youth soccer dropped the . under-18 group last year when those youngsters came up with a lethargic effort towards signing up. ‘“We had only four under-18s registered prior to season start. It was a similar situation from the previous season, so we paid fees back to these four boys and cancelled the division,”’ she said. — Out of the 178 signed up on opening registration day, only seven were girls. All were in the 11 and 12-year age group. ‘‘We’'d like to get a lot more for this age group, otherwise we'd end up with 11-year-olds playing against 16-year-olds.”’ Bujtas said if they could sign up about 60 girls, they could have a very active four-team division for these pre-teens. ‘But, even with the massive numbers expected to register, youth soccer cannot operate unless volunteer coaches and |. referees offer their services. if you're not greedy and have a keen interest in doing some- thing for youth soccer (or other minor sports, for that matter) Bev is the one to contact for soc- cer at 635-3719. Kermodes knocked out of Northwest finals Terrace Caledonia Kermode boys wound up an in-and-out basketball season’ on a dis- appointing note on the weekend when they lost the senior high ‘school Northwest zone triple ‘AAA’ championship in two straight games in a best-of-three final. a Prince-Rupert won the title at home, beating Kermodes 71-61 Friday night, then clinching the title on Saturday: with an 80-66 win. Rainmakers now go to Vancouver for B.C. finals start- ing March‘14. In the Friday game, Rainmak- ers got 18 points from the series’ most valuable player, Steve McKay. They also got 16 and 14-point efforts from Rupert’s ‘two all-stars, Jason Parnell and Ryan Leighton, — Kermodes were paced by Mike Parker and Jackie Brown each with 10 points, and Paul Manhas with 16 on Friday. In the Saturday game, McKay had 31 and Leighton 24 for the winners. Parker had 16, Manhas 14 and Brown a dozen for Ker- modes, Parker, Manhas and Brown were all named to the all-star No Whitehorse trip for Totem midgets The T errace Totem Ford mid- gets won’t be representing their ‘zone double ‘AA’ division at B.C. Minor Hockey provincial finals starting this weekend at Whitehorse. | Fort St. James won the zone playoff held at Smithers on March 3 weekend. It was a three-team .double-knockout series. with Kitimat as the third entry. The Fort boys started off with a a decisive 14-1 win over Kitimat. to Terrace followed up with a 6-5 victory which eliminated Kitimat. In their first meeting with Fort St. James, Terrace stayed close but still lost 5-2. The series- clinching contest was a 9-1 route by the Fort boys over Totem Ford. Alt that’s left for Terrace now is a possible trip to Kelowna for a tournament starting this week- end. Skeena Hotel Norm's Auto Refinishing Inn of the West . North Coast Wranglers — Convoy Supply - Northern Motor inn Okles TERRACE MINOR HOCKEY HOUSE.-LEAGUE PLAYOFFS — MARCH 3 WEEKEND NOVICE DIVISION _ Léglon 3, Doyle Blazers 2 Lagion 7, Long’s Logging 1 ATOM DIVISION - Saturday games — .Gentennial Lions 6, Kinsmen 0 Tilden 3, Dave's Plumbing 2 Sunday games — Tilden 6, Kinsmen 3 Centennial Lions 9, Dave’ 's Plumbing 1 MIDGET MINOR HOCKEY ZONE ' FINALS AT SMITHERS : Friday — Fort St. James 14, Kitimat 1 ‘Saturday — Terrace 6, Kitimat 5 Fort St. James 5, Terrace 2 Sunday — Fort St James 9, Terrace 1 Fort St. James wins the zone and travels to Whitehorse next week for B.C. finals. Terrace expected to compete in a tournament at Kelowna at the same time. TERRACE MEN’S BASKETBALL LEAGUE — MARCH 6 Skeana Hotel Masters 84, All Seasons 82 High Scorers: Jim Checkley 20, Shawn Moldenhauer 28 Road Maintenance 103, Ev’s Clippers 82 High Scorers: Wade Watson 27, Roland Barton 25 MARCH 8 — FIRST GAMES OF PLAYOFFS Road Maintenance beat Skeena Hotel Masters Ev's Clippers defeated All Seasons (scores not available for these games) TERRACE MEN'S RECREATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Geme Scores March 3 . Skeena Hotel 4, Inn of the West 3 Norm's Auto. Refinishing 5, North Const Wiarigties’ 3° March 4 Convoy Supply 2, Northern Motor Inn Okies 0 North Coast Wranglers 4, Norm's Auto Refinishing 4 March 6 Convoy Supply 6, Inn of the West 3 - North Coast Wranglers 8, Northern Motor Inn Okies 3 March 8 Norm’s Auto Refinishing 7, Skeena Hotel 6 Final standings Playotf schedule : Series A — Skeena Hotel vs North Coast Wranglers Game 1 -- Tuesday, March 13 at 9 p.m. Game 2 — Saturday, March 17 at 7 p.m. Game 3 — Tuesday, March 20 at 10:30 p.m. (if necessary). 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