; TERRACE snagged third in the first ever Bantam
Rep hockey tournament here.

April

; in 4 bantam rep tournament here.
: SNOWMOBILERS took part in the sixth annual
Memorial Ride in memory of Perrie Tumer and

Peter Dobler who died while riding on Copper

Mountain.

TWENTY-NINE: children from” Terrace’ Youth*

Bowlers bowled in a 7-1/2 hour bowling marathon,

TERRACE’S midget reps scored a perfect 5-0

record ina Hazelton tournament,

' LOCAL gymnast Eva Mateus and coach Kris
Fairless were selected for the Provincial team. It

was the first ever selection of @ Terrace gymnast to
Team BC.

CAL BOYS? and girls’ basketball teams scored
perfect 3-0 victories at tournaments -in Prince
Rupert and Quesnel,

_ TERRACE Bluebacks Swim Club finished first at
tourmmament in Prince Rupert.

GYMNAST EVA Mateus was selected to the
Provincial team in January,

February

WRESTLERS in Terrace had four first-place fin-
ishes at the Prince Rupert Invitational.

SKEENA GIRLS’ wrestlers came back with a
strong second place finish al the Zone
Championships in Kitwanga. ;

LOCAL artist Mark Hart finished painting a mask
for Terrace hockey hero Wade Flaherty of the San
Jose Sharks,

THE TERRACE Junior C ringette team took gold
at the Narthem BC Winter Games.

' SKEENA Wildcats grade eight boys basketball
leam went on a nine-game winning streak,

TERRACE athletes scored two gold, two silver
and a bronze at the BC Winter Games.

March

SOFTBALL coach Vic Buteau won coach of the

year. Jessica Lambright and Scatt Armstrong were
runners up.

GRANDMOTHER Sylvia Blount scratched and
won a trip to the Stanley Cup from a hockey card.

OUR SKEENA boys’ Wildcats basketball team
finished second in the zone after an impressive dis-
play in Prince Rupert,

THE TERRACE Skating Club came back from

Vanderhoof’s Nizutnee Interclub Competition with
38 medals,

BLUEBACK swimmers came back from the
Provincial Finals with cight medals.

CAL’S JOSEPH Dominguez and Linnae Bee won
basketball scholarships.

TERRACE’S Bantam Youth bowling team won
bronze at the Provincials.

OUR BANTAM teps took first place at the Port
Coquitlam Invitational.

TERRACE athletes won 69 medals at the Ju-Jitsu
Provincial Finals.

ab

vic BUTEAU won Coach of the Yaar,

MINOR Hockey president Brian Downie was
suspended for allowing midget players to take part

TANIA Millen won gold at the Iron Ore Classic

body-building competition in Prince George. Later

in the month she scored bronze at the Provincial
Champicnships.

TERRACE Peaks gymnasts took first place at a
toumament in Kitimat.

ED Ansemis won the Prince Rupert half marathon.

OUR NORTHMEN rugby team placed fourth in
their first-ever trip to the Provincial Third-Division
Championships,

TERRACE figure skater Stephanie Miller won
the BC Award of Achievement from the Canadian
Figure Skater’s Association,

ROSE PAUPST and Jim Weightman started the
Northwest Karting Association.

TERRACE TIMBERMEN beat the Northern
Motor Ina Okies to take the Oldtimer’s Hockey
League Championships,

NORM’S AUTO Refinishing took the Men’s Rec
Hockey League Championships, beating out Preci-
sion Builders Blues,

May

ED ANSEMS took first place in his age group at

the Vancouver Marathon. Ansems was 41st overall,
out of nearly 2,300 people.

TERRACE finished third at a big track meet at
Skeena School. Nearly 200 youths from seven
schools competed at the event.

STUDENTS FROM Terrace schools finished
fourth at the Northwest Zone Track and Field
Championships in Prince Rupert.

THE CAL girls’ soccer team won the Zone
Championships in Smithers, The girls ended up
11th at the Provincial Finals in Kamloops.

MORE than 100 people ran in the annual
Kermodci Classic Race.

TERRACE’S Bretton Overton snagged two sil-

vers at the Canadian Gymnastics Championships:"* - -

YOUTH SOCCER kicked off its biggest season
ever in Terrace.

THE TERRACE Open tennis tournament brought
top players from around the region to town. Matt
Cachia won men’s singles, while Kuong Anderson
took ladies singtes,

ED ANSEMS won the Prince Rupert half
marathon and came first in his age group at
the Vancouver Marathon.

June

SKATEBOARDERS l!ooked for a safe place to

grind, The dream of a skateboard park began to
look like a possibility,

THE BC Wheelchair Sports Demonstration team
visited Terrace schools to promote the abilities of
disabled athletes,

PARAGLIDER Brian Fell became a common
sight, soaring in the skies above the city after laun-
ching off Copper Mountain,

GYMNASTS Eva Mateus and Annie Wittkowski
scored big at the Garden City Invitational in Vic-
toria,

FIVE RECORDS were smashed at the Textace
Elementary School Sports Association Track Meet
which drew some 400 competitors.

SWIMMER Peter Hepburm went to England for
the World Masters Swim Championships.

TERRACE SWIMMERS raced to four meet
records at the Eurocan Invitational in Kitimat.

HUNDREDS OF competitors rallied at Skeena
Junior Secondary for the First Annual Terrace
Community Track and Field Meet.

THE BC Rugby Union refused to allow Terrace
to send a mixed-gender rugby team to the BC Sum-
nicer Games,

HOOP HOPEFULS converged at Cal for a sum-
mer basketball camp,

More next week

The second half of our year end in review

Sports feature will be published Jan, 8, 1997,

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