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MORE THAN 40 rinks were entered in the annual Men’s Loggers Banspiel, held over the weekend at the Ter-
race Curling Club, The popular spiel attracts teams from all over the northwest. This year club manager Kelth
Melanson says he even had a team from Edson, Alta and one from Whitehorse. That's Paul Eisenhauer above

making a shot in a match that saw the Kirkaldy rink take on the Norum rink.

Caledonia awarded at

Swimmers spring into
long-course season

badminton Provincials

“ CALEDONIA’S badminton team

proved they could smash birds with
the province’s best last week,

The team was in Vancouver for

the B.c. High School
Champicnships, Apr. 4-6 where
they finished a very respectable
seventh and were heralded as the
fournament’s most sportsmanlike
team.

Cal was up against 15 other teams
that, like Cal, had won their zone
‘championships to qualify for the
event.

At badminton tournaments, two
schools at a time square off to com-
pete in what is called a ‘‘Tie.”’

The teams divide themselves into
girls and boys doubles teams,
singles teams and mixed doubles
teams, which play best-of-three
games against their opponents for a
total of 11 matches, For a school to
win, its team must win at least six
matches.

The provincial teams were divided
into four pools, and Cal’s first Tie
was against the pool’s top team,
Steveston.

Coach Dave Comfort says that as
expected, they lost that first match.
But no one expected Cal to do as
well as they did, taking Steveston ta
the wire and a very close 6-5 finish.

Cal’s second Tie was against a
tough Point Grey team. This was an-
other close one, but Caledonia came
out on tap 6-5.

“Our players elevated their play to
win this one,” Comfort says.

Of course, it’s also possible that
the Point Grey team, fresh from
their Sévenieen Inagazine
photoshoot, were too enamoured
with themselves to pay attention to a
little while birdie.

“In a sport with a very
high standard of conduct
and sportsmanship it is a

particular honour’ to.
receive such an accolade
from your peers.”

—Dave Comfort.

Cal’s record of one and one meant
that the team had to win their first
Tie the next day to advance to the
top half of the tournament,

After the opening ceremonies the
next moming, Cal took on Kelowna,

‘“‘Maybe the initial nervousness
helped get our team pumped, be-

cause when the smoke cleared it was
10-1, Caledonia!’ notes Comfort,
But Cal’s next Tie against last
year’s provincial champs, Camble,
would prove to be their toughest.
Much to the team’s surprise, they
managed to win four early matches.
Comfort says the squad had a

‘chance in two of the remaining

matches to win the Tie, but Cambie
proved too tough and Cal lost 7-4.

Caledonia was up against Craw-
ford Bay in their next Tic, a team
they had met twice before at the
Provincials.

**We had won both times so they
were particularly determined to fin-
ish ahead of us this time,’’ Comfort
says.

Cal ended up losing this squeaker
6-5,

After that exciting match, Comfort
says, Cal’s final 8-3 win against a
deflated Sir Winston Churchill team
proved anticlimactic, But he notes
that the best part of the toummament
was still to come, as in the closing
ceremony Caledonia was awarded
as most sportsmantlike team.

“Tn a sport with a very high stan-
dard of conduct and sportsmanship
it is a particular honour to receive
such an accolade from your peers,’’
says Comfort.

MORE THAN 200 swim-
mers from all over the
northwest converged in
Terrace two weckends ago
for one of the Blueback’s
biggest meets of the year.

The annual Sprint into
Spring meet is the first
meet'of the new season,
following the Provincials
last month. Times tradi-
tionally aren’t very fast at
this meet, since youths are
just returning to the pool
and many are practicing
their off-strokes.

But coach Mike Carlyle
says this year’s event had
a number of surprises, in-
cluding some 100 per cent
best times and even a
couple of pool records.

And he says it was a
great chance for the devel-
opment swimmers to show
off some of the technique
they’ve been practicing so
hard.

‘What a big difference
the technical part is
making to our competition
times,’’ Carlyle says, “‘It’s
very rewarding, especially
with the novice swimmers
where the improvement is
so quick and obvious,’”

Carlyle’s not talking
about swimmers taking off
a hundredth of a second

here ora tenth of a second
there.

going from a weak stroke,
where they’re just trying
to stay afloat, to a good
stroke and a strong kick
Tight to the end,’’ he says.

Carlyie also says it’s fun
to watch some of the
horinally strong swimmers
compete in their off-
events,

“You see kids with all
these pool records really
struggling,”? he
“Like Thomas Demetzer,
he’s got the ugliest breast
stroke you ever saw.”

Demetzer rocked in his
usual events, however,
taking top spot in the 13-
12 group. He also picked
up pool records in the 200
free and the 200 back,
where he beat his time
from the Provincials.

“That was totally un-
expected,’’ Carlyle says.
“Kids usually peak at the
Provincials.’?

A number of the event’s
younger swimmers were
competing for their first
time, including:
Baverstock, seven, Guy
Evans, cight, Adam
Simons, seven, Nicholas
Vanlierde, eight, and six-

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' Blucbacks is coming up
‘this weekend, when part

Mike Carlyle
year-old Matthew Stewart.

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. Bluebacks scored 71 per

cent best times, with the
development swimmers
leading the way with 88
per cent best times,

Swimmers who scored
100 per cent best times in-
cluded Sylvie Gour, Al-
lison Knoedler, Jeffrey
Minhinnick, Lucas Myhr,
Kyle Narzt, Henrietta
Relling, Lauren Simons
and Conor Simpson.

The next meet for the

of the team heads to a
meet in Prince George.

FIVE OF Terrace’s top
youlh hockey players are
heading south tomorrow to
compete in the Under-16
Best-Ever Cup.

The youths join other area
players representing Zone
Seven at the event, which is
being held in Osoyoos.

Some 160 of the pro-
vince’s top players, chosen
through the BC Best-Ever
program and born in 1983
will be there,

The tournament is a pre-
cursor to the Best-Ever
Under-17 program, which
identifies players for

SEVERAL TERRACE
athletes made their mark at
the Grst running event of the
season two weekends ago.
The Prince Rupert Half-
Marathon, Apr. 5, drew
competitors from all over
the northwest and one from
ag far away as Victoria.
Speedicst time of the day
went to Prince Rupert's star
ninner Bernd Guderjahn,
who. clocked in at an im-
pressive 1 hour 20 minutes

Provincial, Regional and
National teams.

Local defensemen Gary
Kerbrat and Marc Gagnon
join forwards Brian Rigler,
Brandon Cormier and Ryan
Hallam in representing Ter-
race al the event.

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LOCAL HOCKEY stars
were heating up the ice all
over North America this
year,

In addition to the per-
formance of the Best-Ever
players and other top
athletes playing for rep and

and 56 seconds. That was
good for fastest time in the
Under-40 category and the
overall singles. He even
beat all the team racers,

Second place overall went
to Terrace’s David Cater at
1:26:40. That time also gave
Cater first place in the 40-
and-over age group, 12 sec-
onds ahead of, Victoria’s
Bill Lee.

The third single across the
line was Kevin Kelly of

house tcams, several local
players had great seasons
elsewhere.

In Prince George, Ter-
race’s Dave Kozicr was
chosen as one of the B.C.
Hockey League's all-stars.

Kozier was the leading
scorer for the Prince George
Spruce Kings with 8&9
points, including 43 goals
and 46 assists.

In New ‘York, Wade
Flaherly has looked con-
sistenlly good this year as
the back-up to the Istander’s
Tommy Salo.

Terrace, who finished sec-
ond in the Under-4) group
at 1:28:35,

Another local, Adan
Neufeld, was third in that
group, while Dave Stewart
of Terrace was third In the
Over-40 group and fifth
overall.

The first female to cross
the lime was Michele
Andrews of Burns Lake at
1:42:15,

In the two-person teams,

Youths head to tough tourney

And in Mankato, Min-
nesota, defenseman Jason
Krug won the leadership
award for his performance
with the Mankato State Uni-
versity Mavericks.

Krug finished his senior

year at the university with

15 points from four goals
and 11 assists, including
two power play goals and a
short-handed goal. He was
one of only two defensemen
ever at the school to score a
hat-trick.

Just think what we could
do with a second sheet.

Local runners storm half
marathon in Prince Rupert

Terace’s baddest blonde,
Kathleen (where’s the Dairy
Queen?) Brandsma, teamed
up with Lyndsay Benedek
of Rupert to take first in the
female group at 1:49:22,

Nadene Smith of Terrace
and Stephanie Bellehumeur
of Burns Lake were third.

And in the mixed two-
person event, Terrace’s
Alexis Chicoine and Rolf
Aliens were fifth at
1:53:16.

JU-JFTSU athletes from Terrace brought
home nearly 30 medals from a recent
tournament in Williams Lake.

Some 21 local competitors attended the
Mar. 28 event, which also drew competi-
tors from Quesnel, Williams Lake and
Prince George.

Coach Shane Palahicky says it was a
good showing and a great finish as the
season winds down,

‘We've got a really great group this
year,”’ he says of the ju-jitsu club, which
has about 60 youths and 30 adult mem-
bers,

In the Kumite (sparring) event, Josh
Benson took silver in the Adult Open
class, while Gary Haugland won silver in
the 10-11 age group.

In the 12-13 age class, Curt Biagioni
and Chris Russell tied for the bronze. And
in the 14-16 group it was Tim Angus win-
ning gold, with Robert Wicki taking
bronze.

Meanwhile, in the 13-14 age group,
Steven Blagioni bagged bronze. Korey
Mann took bronze in the 8-9 year-old
class and David Penner won gold in the
7-8 group.

Terrace compelitors did even better in
the technical part of the competition. Kim
Macdonald was first in the 11-14 girls’
Kata. Alissa Gervais was second.

The 12-13 boys was a Terrace sweep,

Ju-jitsu athletes score
medals in the Cariboo

with Kurt Biagloni, Evan Palabicky and
Tyler Davidson taking the top three spols.

Tt happened again in the 13-15 group,
with Sleven Biagioni, Robert Wickie and
Tim Angus taking the top three, and in
the 10-11 group where Mark Biagioni,
Christopher Russell, Gary Haugland and
Paul Virriros took top spots.

In the two-person Kime no Kata, Gary
Haugland and Evan Palahicky teamed up
for gold.

The 13-14 group was all Terrace, with
teams of Alissa Gervais and Kim Mac-
donald, Kurt Biagioni and Paul Vistiros,
and Christopher Russell and Mark
Biagioni taking all three medals.

Finally, in the Imposed Movements
category, David Penner was third in the.
6-8 group. Mark Biagioni and
Christopher Russell were second, and
Paul Virriros and Kurt Biagioni third in
the 12-14 group.

Evan Palahicky, Kurt Biagioni and
Tyler Davidson were ali third in the 11-14
group.

The club just has one big event left —a
lournament here carly in May, After that
there will be a break until September.

Palahicky says he’s also trying lo geta
16-18 year-old group started. They will
be practicing on Tuesday nights starting
Apr. 14. For more information, call Shane
at 638-8406.

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