ee] eee Sect Hockey | playoff format TERRACE — Nine teams will clash in the battle for the Ter- race Men’s Rec Hockey League playoff championship when the playoffs start Mar, 10, This year features a complete- ly different playoff format. Gone are the lengthy five-game series in the semifinals and finals. In their place is a double round robin system with single game finals that’s expected to provide more exciting playoff hockey, In the rec division the teams will be divided into two pools. The first-place team will be pit- ted against the No. 4 and No. 5 teams. The cellar-dwellers will be up against the No. 2 and No. 3-ranked teams. Each team will play the other two teams in their pool twice, for a total of four games. The top team in each poo! will then playoff in a one-game final for the championship, The final pool lineup could be in question right up to the final regular season games. Precision Builders leads the rec division with 44 points on a 21-10-2 record, but hard on their heels is All Seasons (21-12-1) with 43 points. Norm's Auto Refinishing holds onta third with 37 points, while Inn of the West is fourth at 36. Skeena Hotel has fifth place with 32 points, and Back Eddy Pub is last with 22 points. In the over-35 oldtimers’ divi- sion, only three teams will play off. That’s because the division- 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre freestyle. Senior provincials - TERRACE — A 16-year-old Terrace swimmer is the Bluebacks’ first provincial champion this - Denise Vanderlee won the senior women’s 200-metre butterfly event at the Senior Provin- ‘cial Championships and Western Canadian Championships in Vancouver, She was one of four local swimmers who competed there. _ *Everyorie swam really well, ”* club coach Bill Nash said Jast week. ‘'This was an absolute- ly huge meet — or actually two meets.’ ’ The other half of the Feb. 7-9 weekend was finals.”’ butterfly. . MEGA. MEDALS; Fifteen-year-old Denise Vanderlee won five medals in all three colours at the ~B.C. Senior Provincial Championships in Vancouver. She won gold in the 200-metre butterfly, silvers in the 400-metre individual medley and the 50-metre butterfly, and bronze medals in the swimmers triump Three i4-year-old Terrace competitors — Aimee Peacock, David Vanderlee and Jocelyn “year, Coxford — swam there. . This is the first time our club has ever swam at this meet and the first time any of our swim- mers has made the western championship Next up on the Bluebacks’ calendar is the ‘AA! provincials in Kelowna Feb. 21-23 follow- leading Terrace Timbermen — with 35 points on a 16-7-3 record with six games in hand over their nearest rivals — are away at a tournament for much of the playoffs. The other three’ mortal oldtimer teams will play a dou- ble round robin with the top dogfight between the Northern Motor Inn Okies (14-15-3) and ‘the Riverside ‘Auto Wranglers (13-14-5), both of which are tied at 31 points. Convoy Supply has the worst'stats in the league — 3-24-5 with 11 points and a 79/189 goals for and against Peacock and Vanderlee both hit best times ratio — and will have to there, but Coxford was the star of the show for Terrace, making it to the finals in the 200-metre sharpen their game to have a shot at making the final. “the Western Canadian Championships, with ed by the Feb. 28- Mar, 1 B.C. Winter Games o AlR ‘swimmers competing there from as far east as and on Mar. 6-8 they head to Victoria for the POLLUTION “Thunder Bay. ‘AAA’ provincials. + on Support Your Lung Association EVERYTHING PRE-INVENTORY SALE ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING IN STOCK iS NOW OFF \ Sale Ends Feb. 20 _— "BED, BATH & KITCHEN BOUTIQUE Skeena Mall — Terrace Bed & Bath ~— 635-3392 Kitchen — 635-4086 : TOLL FREE — 1-800-663-4962 Thurs., Feb. 27. . .9:30 am - 8:00 pm 2 Scotiabank 5 ps) RRSPs Time is getting. short. Our hours are getting. longer. ~The deadline for 1991 tax-deductible RRSP contributions is Saturday, “February 29, 1992. © We will be open for your RRSP business: Fri., Feb. 28... . .9:30 am - 8:00 pm Sat., Feb. 29... . 10:00 am - 4:00 pm ‘Terrace Branch ‘Telephone: 635-2261 two meeting in a one- “game ... ; oldtimer championship: final. J That would tend to indicate a LF te eS AS A ss ene ee Se