B2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 25, 1990

Habinger unbeaten |

in Loggers’ Spiel

Kitimat’s Gary Habinger won eight games in a row to
finish up the 35th Annual Terrace Men’s Loggers Bon-
spiel with the best overall record on April 14 weekend at

the Terrace Curling Club.

He won all six of his ‘A’ event
games, plus both games in the
grand challenge playoff.

In the decisive contests, Don
Palmer of Smithers was the vic-
tim both times, Habinger. edged
Palmer 4-3 in the ‘A’ final and
knocked him off 8-6 in the
challenge finale. The challenge
earned Habinger a $265 cash
prize.

In the ‘A’ semi-finals, it was
Palmer over Dave Dennis 9-4
and Habinger over Bob Fields of
Burns Lake 6-1.

The final for ‘B’ event provid-
ed fans with the biggest thrill.
Ron Murphy ran up an 8-1 lead
after four ends against Jerry
Meek of Kitwanga.

But Meek didn’t quit. He
eventually came back to steal
one in the 10th to tie it up at
10-10 and send the contest into
overtime.

He stole three more in the
11th to count a 13-11 victory on
a tremendous comeback.

In ‘B’ semi-finals, Murphy

took out George Kozak 14-3 —

while Meek was taking care of
Smithers’ Gord Pratt 8-4.

Terrace’s John Evans won ‘C’
event. He defeated Tom O’ Neill
of Smithers 8-3 in the final. In
semi-final action, O’ Neill down-
ed Jules Perry of Prince Rupert
10-6, and Evans outscored Scott
Melimoyle 9-5.

Sandy Middleton won ‘D’
event on a 10-5 victory over Rob
Brown of Prince Rupert. Mid-
dleton took out Don Hunt of
100 Mile House 7-5 in one semi-
final, while Brown edged Glen
Baker of Smithers 5-4 in the
other one.

For ‘E’ event it was Larry
Rowe of Stewart counting a 6-5
win over Mark Flaherty of
Prince George in the title match.

Flaherty knocked off Henry
Rauter 5-4 in his semi. Rowe
bounced Wally Bridal of Burns
Lake 8-1 in his semi.

Sixty-four teams took part in
this season ending bonspiel at
the Terrace Curling Club.

Air Pistol shooter 24th

She didn’t come up to her per-
sonal standards, but Terrace’s
Ali Johnston still finished a
commendable 24th out of 40
female competitors in air pistol
at the world hand-gun cham-
pionships in Los Angeles the
first week of April.

Shooting against the best
from 14 countries, Ali turned in
a score of 370 out of 400. She
had hoped to place in the top

half of final standings. Now
back home, she’ll be practicing
hard at the Rod and Gun Club
for the Canadian National
championships at Edmonton,
July 14-21.

She currently holds down the
second best female placing in
B.C. and is, of course, a
member of Canada’s national

"90 RANGER

GARY HABINGER of Kitimat posted the only undefeated record at the annual Terrace men's
Loggers’ Bonspiel at the curling rink over the Easter weekend. He won all six games in the 'A’
event, including a 4-3 win over Smithers’ Don Palmer in the final. He also won the grand challenge
playoff.

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SPECIAL CONSIDERATION TO

pi ADRS ES ri ance.

LARRY ROWE’S foursome from Stewart shaded Mark Flaherty of Prince George 6-5 in the final

of 'E’ event during Easter weekend's annual men's Loggers’ Bonspiel at the Terrace Curling Club.

Games need

help from

Kitimat pool

The Terrace 1991 Northern
B.C. Winter Games organizing
committee has asked Kitimat
council for the use of some
facilities during the games next
February.

Specifically, they need

Tamitik arena and Sam Lindsay

swimming pool for several.

events,

Council referred the request
to Kitimat’s advisory recreation
commission for a recommenda-
tion,

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