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The Herald, Monday, December 18, 1978, Page 5

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Tournament
champions

‘The Duchess Park Condors
from Prince George, win-
ners of the seventh annual
Kinsmen Invitational
Basketball Tournament held
at Caledonia Sr, Secondary

School on the weekend.
Front row, left to right are,
Karl Bush, Mike Suderman,
Brian Frenkel, and Ron
Jansen. Back row Ieft to
right, are, Gary Pawluk,

KINSMEN INVITATIONAL TOURNEY
Duchess Park is top team

The 7th annual Kinsmen
Invitational High School
Basketball Tournament was
staged at Caledonia Senior
Secondary Schoo! over the
weekend, with teams from
as far away as Vancouver
and Prince George com-
peting.

The-opening game of the
tournament, played Friday
afternoon, was a rather one
sided affair, the Caledonia
J.V.8 losing to a bigger,
stronger Dawson Creek
team 93-20.The second game
saw Prince Rupert . down

mats’ Mount’ vue The Caledonia, Rermodes:
Kitimat’s': Mount’ Elizabeth") od ard_place -in the’

team 71-59, and in the third
game, Duchess Park ef
Prince George, ranked 9th im
B.C., and the eventual
tournament winners, had
little trouble in disposing of
- Houston 110-17,

The host Caledonia Ker-
modes didn’t see action until
game no.4, in which they
defeated Magee of Van-
couver by -the narrow
margin of 54-52, rounding out
Friday's action.

Game 5, at 9:00 A.M,
Saturday, saw Kitimat
rebound from their earlier
defeat to coast to an casy b4-
31 vielory over Houston.
Vancouver's Magee was just
as impressive in game 6, as
they rolled over the
Caledonia J.V.s 87-15.

Game no.7 pitted the host
Kermodes against Dawson
Creek, and Dawson Creok
eked out a 68-60 win over the
home town Caledonia squad,
to drop the Kermodes to the
loser's side of the tourney. In
Game 9, fovered Duchess
Park got 2 tongher time than
they figured from Prince
Rupert, and barely defeated
them 80-78 to win themselves
a psot in the final.

Game no.) was a hatile
between Houston and the

Caledonia J.V.s for 7th and
8th spot overall. It was a
hard fought affair that

finally saw the Caledonia
J.V.s emerge victorious 46-

41, Game'l0, for 4th and 6th:

spot, was one of the most
exciting of the weekend.
Magee of Vancouver, and
Kitimat were tiled at the end
of regulation time, to set the
stage for an overtime
session. When the smoke
finally cleared, it was Magee

ending up ontop by a score of -

67-62, giving them 4th spot.

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tournament, but it took an
overtime victory over Prince
Rupert in Game t1 to‘clinch
it. “After 40 minutes of
regulation:time that saw the

“two leams: Betilocked, and-

an overtime: period, the
Caledonia Kermodes .were
finally triumphant over the
team from the coast city 87-
81.

The stage was set for the
final game to decide the two
top teams, Duchess Park
and Dawsen Creek com-
peting. The two teams
Stayed fairly even for the

|; first-part.of the. game, and

‘ were tied at 20 apiece at one“

Final game action

Saturday NHL roundup

Left winger Jean
Pronovost got Atlanta
Flames rolling against
Philadel Flyers, while
Montreal Canadiens added
toa couple of streaks with a
§-2 victory over Los Angeles

Pronovost, formerly with
_ Pittsburgh Penguins, scored
three goals to raise his
season's total to 11 and the
Flames defeated the Flyers
7-2 in a National Hockey
League game marked by a
brawl at the end of the first
period. One of Pronovost's
goals came with the Flames
playing a man short.
Elsewhere, the Penguins
shaded Vancouver Canucks
6-5, Boston Bruins beat New
York Rangers 4-1, Toronto
Maple Leafs defeated
Detroit Red Wings 4-2, St.
‘ Louls Blues tied New York
islanders 2-2, Bulfalo Sabres
downed Minnesota North
Stars §-2 and Colorado
Rockies topped Chicago
Black Hawks 5-1.
Provonost, who was traded
to the Flames in September
for Gregg Sheppard, was

injured earlier this season

and missed the first four
games of the season.
However nt ne Inst fow
weeks, he has been regaining
top form, giving the Flames
more scoring power.

The native of Shawinigan
Falls, Que., who celebrates
his 33rd birthday today, had
4 goals for Pittsburgh last
year for a career total of 316
in 10 years of regular-season.

play.

' Bob MacMillan added a
goal and three aasiats for the
Flames, who trailed 2-1 after
the first period, with
Pronovost scoring the only
Atlanta goal on a_ short-
handed effort, and took a 4-2
lead entering the third when
Pronovost scored two goals
at 15:54 and 18:08 of the

second,

Two fights broke out as the
players were leaving the ice
after the first period. Both
teams remained on the ice
for 10 minutes and referee
heb Harris handed out

ors and game on:
ducts to Dave Hoyda and
Bob Kelly of Philadelphia
and Willie Plett and Ken
Houston of Atlanta.

One of Philadelphia's
goals was scored by Yves
Preston, his first of the
Sea8Dn,

Yvon Lambert scored
twice in the first period to
propel Montreal past Los

Angeles.

Lambert opened scoring at.
3:300f the game, deflecting a
Mario Tremblay shot by
goalie Mario Lessard. Guy
Lafleur set up Doug
Risebrough 32 seconds later,
giving Montreal a 20 ad-
vantage.

Lambert seored an unas-
sisted, short-handed goal at
12:23 to make it 3-0.

The win extended the
Canadiens’ unbeaten streak
to nine games and their
unbeaten streak on the road
to seven. Montreal's Jast loss
.Was an 8-3 setback to the
Black Hawks on Nov, 25. The
last time the Canadiens lost
on the road was a 6-3 defeat
to Kings on Nov. 16.

Wayne’ Bianchin scored
the winning goal at 3:56 of
the last period to lead Pitt-
aburgh over Vancouver.

Kirk Stewart, Kent Stanley,
Frank Washington, an
coach Bill Cook, Duchess
Park beat out Dawson Creek
102-62 in the final game to
win the competition.

point. It was then that
Duchess Park turned on the
afterburners, and by half-
time had opened up a 46-23
lead, They kept up the
‘tremendous pace in the
second half, and by the time
the final buzzer went, it was
virtually no contest, as
Duchess Park had won
easily 102-62.

The results left the teams
in the following order: 1.
Duchess Park, 2. Dawson
Creek, 3. Caledonia, 4.
Magee, 5. Prince Rupert, 6.
Kitimat, 7. Caledonia J,V.s,

*»and 8: Houston. os
-- [addition ‘to ‘the team. -
standings, several individual
awards were given out,
mainly in the naming of first
and second AllStar teams.
Named tothe second All-Star.
fam were Joe Basso and
Alex Bill of Prince Rupert,
prien Frenkel of Duchess

rk, Frank Bassett of
Dawson Creek, and Wes
of Kitimat. The first
tar team consisted of
Caledonia's David Metzmier
end Jim Kellar, Dawson
Creek's Mark Videgain,
Dechess Park's Karl Bush,
amd Magee's Roy Hacken-
dori. The Most Valuable
Payer of the entire com-
gétition was Mike Suderman
@f the tournament winning
Duchess Park squad.

All in all, the 7th annual
Kinamen Invitational High
School Basketball Tour-
gament was reasonably
successful. Caledonia
Kermode coach Mike
freland summed things up as
follows, ‘I was pleased with
the way the tournament
went. It’s just a shame more
people didn't show up for the

es. I'd like to thank the
ce Kinsmen for their
time and tremendous effort
they putin in sponsoring the
tournarn
a

ent,” _ ;

Caledonia AN-Stars Jim Kellar

and David Metzmier

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