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Terrace

It took sudden-death over-
time to do it, but Terrace
emerged as champions in this
year’s 2nd Annual Indoor
Soccer Provincial Cup.

Held to third place in the
round robin, the 1 1-man Ter-
race squad put it together
when it counted, edging Kit-
wanga’s best and the defen-
ding champions 3-2, then
shutting out Port Edward 3-0
to earn a berth in the final.

That brought them up
against Kitimat, unstoppable
early on, until suffering a sur-
prise 4-2 defeat to Port Ed-
ward in their final round
robin game.

Kitimat ran into more
trouble in their playoff
opener, again meeting Port
Ed who this time slammed
the door on what had been

_ the most potent attack of the

tournament to squeak a 1-0
win,
Kitimat were quickly back

| on. track, however, taking
= their next two games to come

4--through the back door into
: the final.

- And once there, Kitimat
left no doubt their eyes were

-. firmly on the prize. Despite

being without sharpshooter
Mario Lagana — red-carded

: ‘earlier — Kitimat controlled

the. first half, scoring two
unanswered goals on the way
to. an apparently inevitable

. victory.

But it was anything but in-

“: evitable to Terrace who out-
J. worked their opponents in-

) the second half to take com- ss
: mand.

Having already’ narrowed

the gap to one, Terrace got a

break late in the game when a

. seemingly harmless lob off

the side boards took a

.$trange ' hop.’ Caught. - off
guard,

the Kitimat goalie
mishandled to push the ball

‘into his own goal for the
“equalizer.

That set up the overtime
stanza which saw Terrace in-

.tensify their attack, wave

after wave sweeping into the
Kitimat end as relentlessly as
breakers on the Douglas
Channel shore.

Having made a spectacular
save only moments before,
the Kitimat goalie was left
with no chance when Ter-
Rickie Fagan, an-
ticipating a bounce off the
back wall, wheeled and
volleyed in a single move to
ballaon the back of the net
with the winning tally.

While Terrace celebrated
the title and. $1700 prize
money, Kitimat consoled
themselves with the runner-
up’s $700 haul and tourna-
ment awards for top goalie
and top scorer. Port Edward
took home $400 for third.

SKED.” A’ Tetrace
player (above; inewhite) shields

_the ball from @ defender as the

home squad once again invades
the Kitimat zone. At right, Joe

Duben-.unleashes. yet. another.

blast goalward and, below, the
winners of this year's Indoor

‘Soccer Provincial Cup pose for

the traditional snapshot.

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 29, 1992 — Page C1

Classic run
date nears

Walk, jog, run.

All qualify you to enter the
Saturday, May 30 Kermodei
Classic, the city’s oldest such
event.

It’s humble beginnings were
as the Annual Spring Run back
in 1977 but the event has grown
year by year since to become the
largest in the northwest — more
than 180 took part last year.

Take note this is not just an
event for adult, competitive
runners.. The number of kids at
the Classic almost matches that
of adults.

Preferred distance for the
youngsters is the Ikm which
gets under way at 10 a.m. There
are age category ribbons, spot
prizes and refreshments follow-
ing the run. And every
youngster receives a parlicipa-
tion ribbon,

Juniors wishing to enter can
do so at their school or by show-
ing up at the Lower Little Park
starting line before 9:45 p.m.

High Noon is when the $km
and 10km runners hear the gun
and head out from the Inn of
the West start on a route that
takes them up on to the Bench
before descending to the finish
line at Lower Little Park.

Anyone wishing to take part

can register — and save money
— by doing so on or before Fri-
day, May 1, Do it by then and
the cost is only $10. Wait and
the bill jumps to $15. Either
way, entrants get a Kermodei
Classic T-shirt to take home and
a shot at the spot prizes. .

Turning to the more
elaborate prizes, Classic medals
will be presented to the top
three finishers in all 5km and 10
km categories. Framed Ker-
mode bear photos will also go to
the top male .and female
finishers in both the Skm and
10km events.

To event’s wind-up tales
place at the Inn of the West that
evening with a dinner and dance
beginning at 6 p.m. — tickets
$15,

For more information or en-
try forms, phone 638-8141 or
1-800-772-5555.

By the way, anyone out for a
record should not these times:
over 5km Kelli Maskiewich
(female, 20:44), Ed Ansems
(male, 16:55) and Paul Clark
(Wheelchair, 14:23) hold the
5km records.

Over 10km it’s Rose-Marie
Cheer (female, 40:49) and
Richard Harrison (male, 33:58).

Locals fare well
in jultsy meet

Local competitors in
Terrace’s annual JuJitsu tour.
nament fended off oppome
from northern B.C. and AlBerta.
to take five of nine gold medals
and two of three trophies con-

tested .at the Easter weekend

micet,

Turning in solid gold perfor-
mances were Matthew Gyorfi in
PeeWee, Bejay Gill in PeeWee
Junior, Randy Brown in Junior
and Dustin Haigh in Teens. On
the adult side, Sandor Komios
came out on top in the green-
blue-brown-black belt division,

Conrad Camphell went home

with the trophy in the Junior
Open category while Dustin
Haigh scored’ his second |
triumph taking the, Teen Open
division.

Referees for the competition
were Jean Galli, Shane

” Patahicky; Dean’ Sturko, ‘Dino

Roldo and Don Steinkampf of:
Terrace, Abilio Demelo and
Sykes Bryan of Kitimat and
Barrehead’s Phillip Gagnon,
Terrace’s Margaret Rutledge
and Gaston Desjardins were
scorekeepers for the events.
For full results,
Scoreboard on page C2,

see.

Big guns misfire

The Big Guns were spiked in
a recent Prince George
volleyball tournament, but team
spokesman Richard Kriegl says
victory was within their grasp.

Noting the calibre of com-
petition in the five-team tourney

was much tougher than found -

closer to home, Kriegl said the
Guns nevertheless answered the
challenge.

In the two-set, round robin
games, he said the team split its
first three before falling 2-0 to
the stronger of the two Prince
George entries.

Unfartunalely, those strong

performances didn’t carry over
into the playoff round. After
losing the semi-final to Fort St.
John, the Big Guns fell to the
second Prince George team in
the battle to decide third and
fourth spots.

“Those were probably out
two worst games of the tourna-
ment,’’ Krieg] added.

The season over, local
volleyballers are now turning
their attention to other pursuits.
However, they’ll be back an the
court in August when the Ter-
race league stages it’s annual
summer tournament,

Confine traffic jams on

A short time ago I drove

_across town and got stuck in

a traffic jam. .
I’ve been stuck in traffic
jams .before and this par-

_ ticular one was nothing com-

pared.to the jams of the Van-
couver rush hour — in the
end I was only held up a cou-

- ple of minutes,

Still, it was my first ex-

7 perience with auto conges-

tion in Terrace. Up until that
moment, I hadn’t realized
the irritating phenomenum

- had arrived here.

‘Probably folks from:
- Kitimat and the valleys of the
~ Bulkley and Nass who've

come to shop,’ I thought.

-But the congestion was there

the next day and. the next,
even during the middle of the
week and always after work
and before’ dinner, the time
‘of day that, since the advent
of the automobile, has come
to be known affectionately as
rush hour. ;

When friends confirmed

- Terrace has an emergent traf-
. fic problem and the majority

of these rush hour care
belonged to Terracites, it
struck me I’d been spending
too much time in the brush.

Soon after awakening to
the fact my town was grow-
ing, I dropped a friend off in
Thornhill, It had been years ©
since ['d been in the suburbs.
In fact the last-time there'd.
been no suburbs, just a scat-
‘tered few houses punctuated .
by the occasional. trailer
court. Now.there were new,
shiny vinyl-sided dwellings
everywhere.

The: next. night found me
prowling the dimly lit streets
of Copper Mountain looking.
_for the home of a ‘buddy. I
spent the better part. of an
hour squinting at - address
_after address. The last’ time
I'd been in the land under the
shadow of Copper Moun-

tain, I'm sure there were slill..
_ trap lines through it. Now, -
just as in Thornheights, there ~.
~» lower mainland: was mailed...
All this is symptomatic of:
growth and growth. is good
and bringeth economic voll.

were houses everywhere...
‘All this took the back to

“omy youth. on: the lower
“ mainland and memories of

‘The Skeena
‘Angler

by Rob Brown

the time when families drove

out to the wilderness of

Cultus Lake to holiday,
When bears and deer. were

regularly sighted in Burnaby. .
When Surrey was mostly

farmland and: women danc-

ing naked’ in beer parlours
would have occasioned an at-~

tack by the vicé squad and

made headlines. ‘across. the” :

nation...

And it reminded me of the.
“inexorable advance . of the:

subdivision and-of haw the

“a

being, sayeth the movers and
shakers throughout the land.

But, as we all know, the
problems associated with
growth are legion. As people
get more numerous, space

- gets less numeraus.. People

are forced closer together,

they start bumping, into one
- another and abrasions are in-
~evitable.

In fact, many
thinkers and reputable scien-

“tists have been arguing for.
quite some time that growth
is.the mother of all problems.

Since Gro Bruntland and -

her commission came to the

"= @bvious :conclusion that. to

sustain growth, growth must

city streets —

‘be sustainable, leaders and
resource managers the world
over have been scrambling to
determine how this is to be
qchieved. Mayber there is a
source of optimism here,
though we haven’t seen much
real progress yet,

Growth has a profound ef-

fect on our streams too, The ._

demand for living space leads
to the demand for and sale of
riverside real estate which,.
for many reasons including
flood problems and potential
habitat damage, is always a
poor idea.
More people also” in-
variably means .more - in-
dustry, more roads and im-
proved access to rivers. Im-
-proved access leads to in-
creased-pressure on fish and

wildlife by sporismen. To en- - >
-. streams the world over and it

sure. sustainability it is
necessary to impose clear,
easily understood regulations

; and. enforce them vigourous-
“ly. ;

The. Lakelse River, for eX-
‘ample, is an- extraordinary

. treasure. ‘There have been

_ population would be fighting

‘again, he simply re-enters the

don’ t come on- vated

many restrictions and
regulatory changes imposed
on the river in the last decade.
and a half. If we were still
operaling under the limits of
15 years ago, [ can tell you
with confidence the trout

for its life and it’s doubtful if
there would still be a viable
steelhead fishery.

One more spinoff of
growth in angling pressure is
the increased need it creates
for the practice of angling:
ethics. Qn crowded water it
becomes necessary to keep
moving downstream at a
steady, not-too-sluggish pace
so as to allow other anglers
an opportunity,

Standing: iin one spot
casting all day is unaccep-
table ‘behaviour on slamon |

is here too. If the angler
wishes to fish the same water

water at.the head of the run.
if. we fish in this manner,
we can ensure. traffic jams