ee ee oo Page B4 — Terrace Standard, a, Wednesday, July 29, 1992 SPORTS NEWS _ TERRACE STANDARD MALCOLM BAXTER 638-7283 Page BS Sports Menu ’ TONIGHT Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 10s - 6:30 p.m. Skeena Cellulose v AGK Surveyors v Carlyle Shepherd Centennial Lions y Shoppers Co-op v Copperside GIRLS - 6:30 p.m. Terrace Travel v Kinettes Pizza Hut v Tide Lake THURSDAY, JULY 30 Youth Soccer (Christy Park) . UNDER 12s - 6:30 p.m. Wildwood v Finning Bandstra v Cedarland Sight & Sound v Brady’s FC FRIDAY, JULY 31 | Slow Pitch ~ . TERRACE MEN’s SLOW PITCH league’s 16 team tourna- ment begins, winding up Mon- day, Aug. 3 SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 Tennis ‘ SMITHERS - OPEN tournament. begins with finals set for Mon- day. Equestrian , TIMBERLAND. HORSE SHOW: Totem Saddle Club event begins at the .-Thomhill © Community Grounds and continues through to Monday, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 Riverboat Days Mile. Open to all, the event is run-on Lakelse Ave, finishing at City Hall. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 Youth Soccer (Christy Park) UNDER 14s - 6:30 p.m. Bavarian v Terrace Builders Overupiteg ysouery [ae an SATURDAY, ucusT é cial Tennis Terrace Closed tournament -. Doomtown Duathlon Old Hazeélton’s ‘Skm- run-30km * cycle-Skm run for individuals or teams of two, Details from David Almwood at 842-5615, - The Terrace Standard of- fers Sports Menu as a pub- lic service to its readers and lacal. sports organiza- tions. If you have an. event planned, bring the details in and we'll add it fo the Menus: To make the following week's paper, submissions must be in. by 5 pm. Thursday, — vo rao oe in the recent Terrace Singles Open. Kotai in straight: sets, 6-1, 6-2.. streak this season. Singles Open. .. 2, 6-2, wast’ about to end his streak. as men’s champ at the tournament. LEMP E PEPE LLL LIL IPL LE IIL EL LILO ELL LE OL LE OOP EEN OL EAGLE RELEASE SEE RE Re ETERS HS KING OF HIS COURT, Defending men’s Terrace Sin ited maint higite ongithieievent with “crus The weather was hot and so was Richard Krieg] Playing on his home court, Kriegl wasted little time in the.men’s final, disposing of Kitimat’s Alex .. The win not only reversed the result of the pair’s previous. mecting, it also ended .Katai’ 8 unbeaten _ Earlier this year Kotai had” taken the men’s ‘singles title at both the Terrace, Open and Kitimat And the latter match had secn bin crush Kriegl 6- Krieg!, however, has. made the ‘men’s event at the Terrace Singics Open his own in recent years and ~ The victory made it- five years off the reel for him In other action at the Saturday, July 18, fourna- ari 4 eos gles Open champ Richard Krlegl (above) c con- tratetraight ets! ‘final match rout of Kitimat’ s Alex Kotal, : sR hes Kotai > ment, Terrace’s Fran Mann continued to prove ul stoppable on the ladies’ side by sweeping clubmate Erna Motschilnig in straight sets. Giving up just a single game in the first set, Mann found the going a little tougher in the second. The result, however, was never in doubt as she cruised toa 6-1, 6-3 victory. The win was Mann’s second ladies title of the scasont -- she also won at the Terrace Open in May. Diane Cey won the ladics’ consolation event 8-3 over Marilyn Earl in an all-Terrace affair. The match was restricted to a single set because of soar- ing afternoon temperatures. The men’s B flight final produced another Ter~ race win when Brad Holmberg defeated Kitimal’s Bob Tucceri 6-3, 6-3. Salurday. Next up on the northwest tennis circuit is this weekend’s Smithers Open which gets underway GOLF -Hanninen holes out in top spot Brotherly love extends only so far, and doesn’t include the golf ° course, Kitimat’s Roger Hanninen made that clear as he left brother Colin in his wake in storming to the 1992 Skeena Valley Juniors title July 18-19. Roger’s 5 over par 145 gave him a comfortable seven stroke margin over sibling Colin who also had a seven stroke advatage over his nearest pursuer, Ter- race’s Mike Vandermuelen. . Terrace's Scott Long filled out the top four with a 161 for the 36- hole tournament. Another strong performance came from local Kevin Fell who strolled to the best low net of 128, six strokes clear of nearest rival Younn Wilson of Smithers. Wilson, however, also had rea- son to be pleased with his per- formance. Although based on his handicap he was back in the first fight pack, his 134 was two bet- ter than the best net achieved by Diamond Local players will be taking on. ball teams from across the north this weekend in the ’92 edition of the Terrace Men's Slow Pitch tournament. Spokesman Ritchie Mallett said entry is limited to 16 teams and competitors from Prince Rupert to Prince George are expected to _ take part. ‘Teams will be split into two championship flight contenders,: Tertace’s Graig Lewis was an-. ather first flighter who lifted: his game when it mattered, recording. a 137 net while second fight gol-~ fer Rory Little of Smithers put to-. gether an impressive 138 to take : low net in his group. Terrace’s Matt Soules took fi ist Torch tally, | in net for the championship Aight with a sharp 136,~ Local entries swept the gross” top spots iu the remainiag flights with Long (161) taking the first, Nathan McAvoy (193) the second and Scott Rigler (214) the third. ° Mc Avoy, however, was: hard pressed to clinch his title, finish. . ing just a single stroke clear of clubmate Terry Smith, And making the event a truly international one was Japan’s Mori Orgoro whose 221. was enough to earn him second spot in third flight gross. For full results, . Scoreboard on page BS. sce the days here groups for the preliminary” round robin with play getting under way * Friday evening, July 31. Based on their round robin per- formances, Mallett said the teams would then go to either the championship or consolation side of the competition. The finals will take place in the’ carly afternoon of Monday, Aug. Torch Run tally in. The '92 running of the Law Enforcement Oficers’ annual Torch Run raised over $1000 for the B.C. Special Olympics program through donations and the sale of t-shirls. RCMP Cst. Jamie Practicante said. over forty Terrace, residents took part in the June 24 Copperside: 'pdtates-City Hall’ marathon, including members of local law enforcement agencies, the Skeena-! Valley Runner’s Club and special olympic athletes — The money raised will be used to support athletic training and competition, Students’ aid sought In an effort to revive the city’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission, the city will invite local students to get involved. The commission has been plagued with a shortage of mem- bers for the past year and recent advertising. campaigns to attract new members have failed to pro- duce any volunteers. Alderman Darryl Laurent, a member of council’s recreation commitiee, says | the city will now labeFET ask Caledonia & Se-\or Secondary - school and tatives to the commission. However, with both closed for the summer holidays, he pointed out a response could not be ex- Northwest Com-' munity College to name represen- pected until September at the care liest. The chamber of commerce © will also be asked to put forward a. member. TALL _ ORDER. with her legs being considerably shorter than those of mount Kid, Nikki Diana found the task of climbing aboard . a challanging one. She succeedad, however, and was soon off on _ her-first ever trall-ride,: Nikki. was one.of 13 youngsters taking part ina five-day training session organized by the Rec department. Sights and s It’s summer, The salinon retum abundant- ly and in their wake there is a whirr of activity. : From Oliver Creek to Khasiks more cars than ever before are crammed into the makeshift parking spots 1o- cated near the worn trails lead- ing to the gravel bars. The boat launches are full of pickups -- with and without campers -- trailers to trailer people and trailers to trailer boats. Guides shutile their clients from bar to bar or anchor in the current within casting distance of favourite hotspots. White corks show where natives are ; fishing too, At Tyee a pair of test boats’ make short sets, feeling the pulse of the runs so that fhe men charged wilh the stew- ardship of the fishery~ have | some foundations for their de- cisions. Seals hunt the river. Eagles, crows and gulls wait for an op- portunity to feed. on the fish leavings of larger predators. In Port Edward the scale of activity spawned by the sal- mon grows, Trollers, gillnet- ters, seiners and.a motley flo- tilla ‘of smaller’ craft push. through the waves-to and from the fi shing grounds, The sir smells of brine and. : ; Aish and the railroad; it is filled. The Skeena Angler by Rob Brown with the groans of winches, the beeping forklifis, the thuds of frozen fish hitting the bottom of aluminum totes. When I make the top of the gangplank a dackworker stops uilaoding headless salmon. “How many people on that boat?" he asks, gesturing toward the charter boat being used to transport observers of “the gill net catch and release program out into the fishery. "Twenly-four," 1 answer, "Ii’s too many." "It’s rated to carry 24 and the crew, I think." "It’s too many." he shakes his head from side to side then returns to his rock hard fish, as - the Minnow steams out ta the fishing grounds with very litle freeboard, | I walk up to. the plant to use . the phone, "Air’s nice around here when ihe pulp mill’s not running,” I say to a leathery looking guy - _‘who’s also waiting for ‘the “phone. . People gotta ‘have jobs," he says defensively, misinterpret. S ing my observation for a state- ment of position. "I miss ya honey," says the young man on the phone. Then he hangs up. While*the other fellow is phoning, I strike up a canversation with the young man. - He tells me it is his first time - fishing and shows me his badly swollen hand, infected where bacteria has climbed into small . culs. "] got pretty s sea Sick at first,” he says. Then tells me how he has a chance to chase tuna off the west coast of Vancouver ‘Isiand. The road to Road’s End in Port. Ed is a long series of asphalt swells. ©The Datsun and small, oversized camper bucks like a horse and com- plains about the journey in a whiney aluminum voice, Just past the Cannery Muse- um, I pull over to: examine a small victim of hitand run. —' It turns out to be a Stellar’s Jay. 1 pluck the soft shimmer: | ounds ashore 7 ing blue feathers. from Its hide ; 8 as a living Jay chatters at me from the brush at roadside. My thoughts shift from the | kind of trout fly I will dress with these soft hackles to wondering whether the road- side bird might be the mate of the roadkilled creature. I stow the small plastic bag of plum- mage in the glove compart- ment and continue on. The Cassiar piant is rotting. Lights are on in some of the offices. Notice of a union meeting summoning the brothers and, sisters to come . and hear Jack Nickoll speak is tacked toa door, _ At the waterfront a corpulent - gentleman is watching a fish boat sail off. The sun is hot. He wipes some sweat from his: forehead. : "Could I make some arrange- ments to place observers -aboard fishing boats from | here?" Task. "It would be hard. Some-~ times boats are here. They” come and they go." "Place could use a coat of: paint." He laughs - gently. "We’ re. going to demolish it." He _ pauses and = surveys .. the ' decayed remains of what was _ once a very busy place. "Let the place go back to it’s natural © sate. You want a cup of cof ee?" I say no, but thank bim. I tell Aim I've e things to do.