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The Kermodes are going to the B.C. soccer finals. The Kitimat high school |
Rowdies soccer team, winners of the Northwest zone finals at Terrace recently,
won't be gaing to the finals starting in Kamloops tomorrow. The team's coach

passed on the honour to runnerup Caledonia due to a mixup in communications
through B.C. high school sports organizers. Clarification of the reasons came too
late and Kitimat was left out in the cold when it attempted to regain the berth, .

Thornhill volleyball boys
best in Prince George tourney

Thornhill junior boys came
back from Prince George on
October 27th weekend with a
championship, an All-Star and
an MVP.

They had cleaned up at the
annual Johti McInnes School’s
Pumpkin Pound Around junior
high school volleyball tourna-
ment,

The 10-team series had com-
petitors playing in two, five-
team round-robin sections to
start, with the top two in each
advancing to semi-final action.

Thornhill won all four of their

round-robin matches to move

into the semis. There, they met

their arch-rivals from Terrace’

Skeena junidr high where they
eliminated the Tsimpseans in
two straight games in their best-
of-three playoff,

“Next was the host McInnes

boys in the final, where Thorn-

~~ hill’s Tritans won all the marbles
ona 15-9, 15-11 effort. .

.” Phornhill’s -Brétt: Kluss won

the. Most: Valuable Player

- award, while teammate Kurt

.. Muller was a First All-Star.
Skeena’s Matt. Soules also

cracked the First All-Star team. *

On the girls’ side, Thornhill
did not do well. They wound up
fourth in their five-team, round-
robin pool. Skeena’s girls,
however, almost won this
10-team division.

Skeena came through with a
Second-Place showing in their

pool and moved into the semi-
finals. There they knocked off
Maple Drive to move into the
final against Dr. Kearny of Fort
St. John. ,

A loss to the northern team put
them in second. Skeena’s Marsha
Postuk made the all-star team.

~Timbermen win
with shoot-out

The ‘Terrace Timbermen pro-
vided thrilling windup action in
winning ‘B’ side at Prince
Rupert’s season-opening,
10-team oldtimers hockey tour-
nament on October 27th
weekend.

First they won their threée-
team, round-robin section with a

10-3 victory over Hudson Bay |

Lodge of Smithers, and a 6-4
win over Rupert Puckaneers.

. That put them into the ‘B’
side final against Hazelton.
Hazelton had also scored two

‘round-robin wins — = 4-2 over

Smithers 45’s and 5-2 over
Kitimat Golden Oldies. |

In the final game matchup,
Timbermen and Hazelton
played to a regulation 2-2 tie.
Terrace clinched the title in the
shoot-out portion to go into the
books as 3-2 winners.

‘A’ side, with only four teams

in round-robin, saw Houston
Hobblers advance to the final

against Rupert Wrinkles. It was
strictly ‘no contest’ as Houston
won 10-2. oe

The ‘A’ side playoff for third
and fourth places had Kitimat
merchants defeat Smithers
Drillers 9-6.

Scores of all games can .be

* found in this week's scoreboard.

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