INSIDE ae SPORTS MENU ¢ c2 2 "SKEENA ANGLER ROB BROWN FEW YEARS AGO [ set out to fish the Little Wideene River on a cold, wet October day. Kitimat River sal- mon ate pretty much finished at that time of year, but cutthroat trout that follow them inte fresh water are still around in good numbers, Unless you have a boat the quickest way. to the Wideenes is through Kitimat and.rorth on the Eurocan haul road, so 1 went that way. The river was clear and user-friendly that morning. I found some good trout in the pool under the bridge and piece of water in the next mile of river. devoured one of Mrs. Kriegl’s sandwiches and pondered what I mightdo next, _ The runs-of the fower Kitimat are broad and uninteresting, so I conceived a brilliant and ad- venturous plan; I would continue North along the Eurocan road, past the flats and Lake, then pick up Lakelse Main. From there I would make my way south to the lower Lakelse River with a few hours to spare. Just enough time to kill-a coho. _ [rattled off over the rutted road, I crossed the bridge over the Big Wideene, wound around a bluff then descended to a flal, marsh-infested part of the valley. Large alders crowded in on the road. With the mountains no longer in view the flat land took on a featureless, oppressive aspect. punctualing the monotonous landscape. "the road and nothing looked fanilliar, 1 glanced at ; a fhe; fuel: ‘gauge and-wondered why Thadn’t logked _qt.it earlier, The ‘needle showed the small tank was inder-half full, For, the first time 1 thought. : ~ about distance, but 100k comfort the diesel could |»: fake the truck over 40 miles on one gallon. ” T started to think about how cars run and how - depended upon the longevity of the weakest part 1 “of the llttle Japanese truck I'd treated so shabbily. _, Everything looked the same . but different. I glanced at . the gauge again and again. - a bridge.in it. Floods had undermined the footings ‘around. I felt disappointed but a little relieved at far I’d come, Kitimat on a Sunday, whether the truck might need a gulp of diesel and whether any of the gas stations there sold It L drove faster, the truck rattled louder. I drove for a. long time then stopped abruptly. White pieces of flagging hung from some trees. I hadn't seen any on the way in: I wheeled around and made: for the last intersection. Obviously, I'd atthe nextjunction. I did, but it wasn’t I repeated the process and found myself hurtling along another unfamiliar roadway. Everything looked the same but dif- ferent. | glanced at the gauge’ again and again. After splashing through a deep puddle I hadn't met on. the: way in, I stopped lo.consider my predicament. Steam rose from under the hood. I was alone, Darkness was a couple of hours away. There were no landmarks. | had @ quarter _of a tank of fuel, Karen knsw I was fishing; but “not where. There are probably 500 miles of old logging road in the lower Kitimat, none in use. The. valley had swallowed me up. I was lost. * [ set out again, One road ended at a gravel pit. Another in a swamp. I must have tried a dozen. - The last looked promising but in my unreasoning panic ridden state, I inexplicably spun around and drove back the way I’d come. toward. me, He was toad hunting for moose. I jumped out of the truck and waved my arms like a “You know your way out of here?" asked. \He smiled,"I was lost for two days in here “once,” he replied. “You. gotta -be-careful." He spoke with a thick Portuguese accent, He was _ ‘beautiful and he was wise.” ' ‘?¥ou folla-me," be said, interrupting his hunt- ing to turn and drive slowly through the maze. - Lrecognized the last road he turned ‘onto. It was two hundred: yards. farther. than'I had; ihen tured agentlé bend. [ pulled along side my guide.” : ‘. “That way. A short way," he said before: pulling ‘around and disappearing into ihe labyrinth, It was id but happy, , “onto, th Highway feeling stip at least-one fine specimen in every promising When I returned to the truck it was midday. I . Fluorescent | " orange: flagging were the only bright spots. It had been couple of years'since I first traveled ‘das break down and how my well” being _ At long. last T reached a iand mark. A creek with | - of the rotting span. Road’s end and no “way © having o turn back. I started to think about how . taken a spur, simply had (o rejoin the main track My saviour came bumping down: the ‘ord: ‘Lunatic: no reason to, ] was in the middle of road, . the last-one I'd tried and given up on. We drove - “a short way, a hundred ‘feel’ af’ most, 1 rolled out : EE ae KERMODES, 193: (Back Row, laft to right) Jacques LeBlanc (coach), Chris Janes, Tyler Allen, Fabio Franca, Neil Bothelo, Carl Goodall, Wilt Higginson, Jan Hendriks, Tommy Stark, My Erasmus (sponsoring teacher), and Nadeem Kajiji. (Front row) Kermode kickers set new standard for Cal THE BEST EVER! Caledonia’s soccer Kermodes came home from the Senior Boys ‘AA’ provincial championship basking in the knowledge they'd set a new mark for the school. Their fourth place finish is the highest attained ‘by a Cal team in any provincial championship in any sport. Going into the . tournament ranked 15 out of the 16-teams en- tered, the Kermodes were put to the test - immediately, drawing number two Templeton. “There: were lots of butterflies teachei-sponsor mu ‘recalled. - But.at the cans ae there was a lot of determined talk, he added, team’ members - reassuring ‘each’ other that if they maintained their poise, ‘‘kept their cool”, they, could do it. And they did, stunning the Van- couverites 2-1. “They were on a real high after that,’’ said Erasmus. *‘That really boosted their confidence.” It showed in their second game, against the Mount Baker eleven . from Victoria. With keeper Arron LeBlanc giving a good imitation of a brick wall at one end, Cal pul the boots to the hapless islanders 8-0. . Tyler Allen: and Jan ‘Hendriks | both hammered home hattricks en, | route tO being . the: team’s top .. SCOrers of the tournament. “Host team Cari High of Camp- : _ bell River were the. next to fall . ~ beneath the studs of the Kermode juggernaut. . : Ina tough, draining. game, the * Kerinodés | extended: théir un: beaten streak with a 3-1 triumph : that ‘left’ no-one -there that. this. ~ team was for real. ° Se Shay ‘Cal.’ were now just: one win, away from - the . championship game but found Langley, also un beaten, barring their’ way: Again the result was 3-1 but this time the Kermodes wele, on allel hile lties J The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 1, 1993 - a : Kermod ‘ ‘Corey Waldie, Luke Ginther, Curtis Bretherick, Arran LeBlanc, Aidan Sheridan, Scott Springer, Victor Furtado and Dimitri Filt- zikis. the wrong end of the scoreline. ‘Langley were just loo skilled,”’ Erasmus said. Too skilled for everyone, as it turned out, Langley going on to win the - title. ‘Thal sent Cal’ to. the consolation final, a playoff. ‘for third’ ‘and ‘ fourth,:.and -a date with Suther- Jand; the number one- tanked team .- at the start of the toumey. In* another: tough. maalch; ‘the. ‘couldn't . quite ° find | enough’ as utherland squeezed: a 4-3 win.” “championship. all-star team. ‘While’ the‘ fourth ’ place | naa. - Jeft no doubl'as tothe skills of the, -helm, guiding the: team to the Cal players, Erasmus said the dis- - _ ciplined, patient. approach to each” game‘ and excellent. team work . had-also. been big factors in the . - leam’s success. * »"“Byen when they got behind, And: the. Kermodes had mote: -Teason ‘to celebrate” when : mid: _Gelde Mictor, Furtado and goalie. named | to: othe - SECTION c MALCOLM saree 638-7283 ihey stuck to their game plan,’’ he said, working at creating chances and, when they came, making no mistake about putting the ball away. . Both on and off the field, he emphasized, ‘‘They wete a class steam,” -Erasmus said the result also reflected ' well. on.:-the.. Terrace - Youth. Soccer program, most of. the players having spent several years playing inits leagues. “FOOTNOTE: The Kermodes went: through three coaches on’ the ‘way to. their record setting. performance. Joe Duben slarted the season “off but other‘commitments-forced”"/ ° " _ him to give the job up.) ‘Blaine: Kluss’”then- took the “gone victory. ~/Unfortunately, he was not able lo make the. trip to Campbell River, Jacques LeBlanc stepping into the breach and taking over bench championships. - duties at the - A HATTRICK by Frank Wil- son and another four point per- ' formance from Simon Dodd . spearheaded Hazelton to top spot in the Norm’s Auto recrealional hockey tourney. But that result” had - looked against Kitimat’s Tricks.” ; In a physical opening.to the relenting pressure. came less than five minutes in when Farkvam side to open the scoring. double the lead failed a couple ~ Gaudet counted. fizzled two periods, power play opportunity. and Wilson getting helpers. Neither team could cash in on power plays during the re- - mainder. of the period, » Hazelton ‘surviving’ “a”. three were shori two men. But. Hazelton wasted - little time breaking the deadlock in "the second. - the rebound go out front to’ an Hazelton the lead: “four minutes” later O’Brien getting the" assists. unlikely early on in the final - The reward for that effort snapped’ a”: Ritchie pass high on the glove A chance for the Tricks..to-. _ of minutes later when a smooth — give-and-go. by Kerbrat’ ‘and - when | it But Hazelton hauled ‘them: § selves back into the game at. "11:55 of the 30 minute:first:of~ converting © ao minuté span during which they _ Kranz’s shot from. the left 7 “side was stopped. only to. have -.- “unmarked Wilson who happily. accepted the gift to give Kitimat” leveled the — ‘score — cwhel Paring took: advantage: of an: other ‘rebound, Rudledge and. all oe game, the Tricks kept-up oe. 7 7 ae Dodd found the: puck'in a: be: goal mouth melee and stuffed: S in-the equalizer, Cralg Smith’. ~~ ‘Hazelton refuse to be Tricked “THE TRICK was to keap the Tricks out and that’s just what the Hazelton: stopper did when it “counted. That, plus four point performances from Wilson money in the recreational hockay tournament put together by and Dodd brought the visitors top Nam’ 8 Auto etn team. “have the edge in the play for ‘-the- next. five minutes, : bul: couldn't turn attacks into, real. ihreats, ‘glose; “Hazelton broke stalemate “when - ‘shoyelled” one ‘at ‘fom ‘closé ange from Dodd and Kranz, : The Tricks having ‘failed ‘convert on a couple: of’ good chances, it.took a’ spectacular gave froin: their goalle io pré- vent, a Hazelion breakaway _ After: each side had corte ; But the ‘breakaway. was to _ work wilh 4: 40 lett... Applying .immense: _pessue in’ ‘search of the ‘equalizer, “a shoi t-handed: Kitimat. team left. t _ underlined: ‘how: the driving Beak With 1:06 lett, ‘Wilson com- pleted ’ ‘his: hattrick | on Dodd's “pass for a 5- 2 finaly. That" power. play . goal only expensive’ Tricks: lost. composure: aterly, another perially and hér.lo. put Hazelton in __ Kitimat: penalties - ‘had: proven, . _ three ‘of Hazelton’s ‘goals com- _ Ing with (he man advanlage, ~ n..an.-all-Terrace: ballle- to _ settle. oe ‘and fourth All Sea- ~Precibion » Back: ae 53 win. cover JHW secured then: Afth place, oe, ee .