Ramee * { ( Page4, The pl March 5 1904 herald — Laliberte rink, women 's ‘curling champs . CHARLOTTETOWN ~ «CP) — Defeat is a cloak _ Beldom . worn by Nova .. Scotia's Colleen Jones, . The - Halifax skip, _ Canadian women’s curling . champion in 1982;’saw her dream for a second title - evaporate in the 11th end in . her battle against Connie Laliberte of Winnipeg. Alter the Manitoba skip drew to the button around a . Nova Scotia rock on the ‘eight-foot circle, Jones ‘ attempted a similar shot. But as-her final stone ap- proached the house it picked * up something on the ice and veered onto her own rock, “It picked up something, I “don't know what,” ‘said Jones. “The rock might have been out too far "anyway, it’s hard to say, “It took a nice dive.” - It was a win she wanted badly, ‘Y would have loved to have “been a- two-time Canadian champion, " agaid the 24-year-old radio Sportscaster. “4 would have loved it. “ts really, really, really very devastating. 1 know itsgoing to haunt me, like it ‘did in 1980 (when ‘she also lostin the final), for a whole year or, uhtil you can get: back again. You know it' 'g real hard, This |s the pin- nacle of women’s curling.” BELOW PAR -- What Jones, a flerce competitor, found hardest to accept was her belief that it might have been a championship she lost more than Laliberte won, ' sel Imow I didn't play ” she said of the final Saturday that drew a crowd of 1,200 to the Charlottetown : Forum. “Ihit and rolled out too much. “Luckily, © Manitoba during the first five ends, * wasn't having that spec- tacular. a game either. That's a disappointment in itself — you -go home and you know you didn’t do your ‘very best and you have to live with that all summer. . Those shots, you'll keep replaying them time and time again andask yourself, ‘Why was I overthrowing everything?’ ; “If you could go home and say, I couldn't have ‘done “any more, I'd probably be a’ lot happier, But I can’t say that.” . Laliberte, 23, a curling Pro, and ‘sisters Corinne {Peters).and Janet (Arnott) and Chris More rebounded with 10 consecutive vic- tories aftéy they dropped thelr opening two games. ’ “T wanted to win this ever since I started curling four years ago,” said Laliberte, “It was a goal of mine to win the Canadian one year and NT Eee I've fulfilled it. bg “I'm just thrilled, Hd Ike “to take on the world ‘now. " OFF TO SCOTLAND“ Laliberte gets.” that “op- portunity Mareh ‘8: when her rink represents’ Canada at Perth, Seotland Laliberte avercaine some ° misses in the early . ends when she had trouble: with her draw weight. “At the beginning of. ‘the : game, my team was curling ..’ well but I wasn't making the - ' key shots. If I. chad” made them, instead of being | down’ ‘al, we'd have: ‘boen: “P by ° one, Ay though: I was ‘ihrowing okay, I just-had trouble with . my draw weight. Chris said - to me, ‘Connie; this Is not | the game to have & bad ‘Bame. This Isn’t the time.’ “I thought, ‘Ot: no: ve” ‘Bot to concentrate,» more.” 1 -thiought, ‘Ps oily: $1,. we could still score a deuce.’ _ 1 wasn't worrled.”’. The. game turned’ in the Seventh end when the _ Manitoba ‘skip ‘took’ out & Jones's shot. rock: and fi . counted three to take.a 4-3. - lead, which held until Jones tied thé match in the 10th. © What aided Laliberte in her quest for the title was her ability in each ‘of her victories “to -deliver the clutch shot under: pressure, - “T° wasn’t’ nervous. or ; worried after: the two losses. - I think when you play ‘other ‘sports in ‘front of. crowds, you don’t get as tense.” Laliberte was sélected by her’ peers. and a four- member: committee. as the all-star skip. Joining her on the all-star team were lead “Laurie Carney of B.C, and second Chris Gervais and third § Gillian Thompson, bot of Saskatchewan. Nordiques challenge Sabres. for first: place. Quebec Nordiques ac- ’ celerated thelr challenge . for first place in the. ’ National Hockey League's Adams Division by taking three of a possible four points from’ the division- leading Buffalo Sabres . during the weekend. ' ‘The Nordiques, unbeaten _ in their last five games, tled “the Sabres 1-1 Sunday night in Buttalo, N.Y., after posting a 4-2 win Satirday in Quebec, moving to within - Seven points of the Sabres - and to within five of second- place Boston Bruins. Hartford Whalers aided Quebec’s cause, beating Boston 6-4.Sunday after tying ‘the Bruins 3-3 Saturday. ae 7 OILERS ROMP - so. Elsewhere Sunday, it .. was: Edmonton Oilers 6, “Montreal Canadiens 1; ‘Chicago Black Hawks 5, - Toronto Maple Leafs 4; ,- Vancouver Canucks 5, New “York Rangers 4; and New. Jersey Devils 5, Los ~ Angeles Kings 3. Other results Saturday: ‘: Montreal 3, Calgary Flames 1; New York Islanders 11, Toronto 6; Detroit, Red Wings 6, Winnipeg Jets 1; ‘Minnesota North Stars 6, Chicago 3; Washington Capitals 5, the Rangers 1; :St. Louis Bives = 4, ; Philadelphia Flyers 3; and ‘ Pittsburgh Penguins 4, Los* : Angeles 3, Whalers 6 Bruins 4° Torrie Robertson, known for his checking rather than his scoring, had the first three-goal game of his NHL career, including an empty-' net goal with 19 seconds left, to lead Hartford ‘to the home-ice -win. Richie Dunn, Tony Currie and Sylvain Turgeon, . with goal No. 35, also scored for the Whalers, while Boston got goals from Ray Bourque, Keith Crowder, * Rick Middleton, with No. 41, and Dave Donnelly, with his first NHL goal since leaving the Canadian Olymple team. — Ollers 6 Canadiens 1 In Edmonton, Wayne . Gretzky scored his 77th .and 78th goals, Glenn Anderson netted his 42nd and 43rd and" Mark Messier and Jaroslav ’ Pouzar added singles as the Oilers manhandled Mon- treal. Bobby Smith was helped by a deflection by'an Oiler defenceman to get the Canadiens’ only shot, past goaltender Grant Fuhr. - Hawks 5 Leafs 4 Toronto's glimmer of playoffhopewasdimmedin - Chicago as the Black Hawks ‘ bounced back from a 4-1 deficit with four unan- swered goals in the final period. Troy Murray scored the tying goal at 12:41 and the winner at 19:04, Jeff Lar- mer, Bill Gardner and Sat. Mar. 3 $2,442,803” THE 6 WINNING NUMBERS WIN IN ANY ORDER ZACK POT Carried Over BONUS NUMBER IES 70 5 our OF 6 + ONLY PRIZE CATEGORY oy NO.OF PRIZES PRIZE VALUE ~ JACKPOT SOUT OF 6 WINNING: NUMBERS WN CARRIED © | OVER WIN OF6 + BONUS! 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Detroit and St. Louis each have 59 and Toronto, winner of only one of its last elght games, is = last with 52. -Rick Vaive, with No. 45, Danny Daoust, Jim Korn and John Anderson scored ‘Toronto's goals ina span of three minutes 56 seconds in the first period. - Chicago Savard -recelved a match’ Penalty and aitomatic suspension for attempting to kick Leaf centre Bill Derlago during a. fracas,” The NHL must review the incident before Savard is allowed to play. again. Canucks 5, Rangers ¢ Vancouver Canucks are. finding New York and other .' National. Hockey League. Stops nice places to visit — - now that they can fly in and out at their leisure, Normally one of the NHL's worst road teams, ‘VICTORIA (CP) — Arnie Dobson is playing an un- familiar role, that of giant killer at the Canadian men’s curling championship. The New Brunswick skip, ii, crushed Jeff Thomas of - St. John’s, Nfld. &2: in a - second-round match Sunday night tofind himself sharing » top spot in the: 12-team, round-robin ~ competition with Mike Riley of Manitoba, both at 2-0. Dobson, the oldest player. - inthe Labatt Brier, scored a 9-3 upset of highly-regarded ’ Bernie Sparkes of, British Columbia in the afternoon | draw to reach his lofty perch. The veteran curler says - he’s not taking ‘his ently results too seriously. Asked if his placing after the first day of the week-long event waS & Sirprise, Dobsun . “I've never been. replied: here before {at the Canadian champlonships), Bo why should 1 'be. sur- prised?” SURPRISES EVERYONE But his win over Sparkes came as a surprise to almost everyone, especially . after the Vancouver side. toppled defending champion Ed Werenich of Ontario 6-4 in an evening game to coast into a fifth-place tie with the - Toronto rink, Alberta's Ed Lukowich aad Rollie Paquin of Quebec, all at 1-1, Ragmar Kamp of Nova Scotia and Gord McKnight's Northern Ontario cham- pions shared second place at 1-0, both drawing byes Sunday. Gary Bryden of Saskatchowan and Wayne Matheson of Prince Edward Island were at (-1, followed by Newfoundland and the Territories, both winless after two games. . Lukowich’s Calgary team rebounded from a. first- round 9-7 loss to Werenich and his Toronto Avonlea the old Garden, ' centre Denis. Dobson. ” Lachine, the Canucks are flying high . lately away from home. They won for the. fifth time ‘in their last eight Toad. games Sunday night, edging New York Rangers. ‘5-4 on Rick Lanz’: 's power-play § slap « Shot with 7:44 left. It was Vancouver's first Madison Square Garden triumph in in more than six years, . “We haven't - won since ‘but * thought. we deserved the win, 80 we'll take it,” said Harry Neale, Vancouver's coach-general manager. - It may have seemed that long, but, Neale was about a ‘decade off; The Canucks actually had , Gone. 0-0-2, mae This time, they did it the hard way, blowing a 3-1 lead ‘early: in the second period and then coming from behind on third-period goals by Patrik Sundstrom _and Lanz, "| Lanz’s 17th goal of the season came from the left point and followed Sund- strom's tying goal at 5:28 as the Canucks. extended their” “lead- over: Winnipeg in’ the Smythe Division to three points. The loss was the Rangers’ third in.a row and prevented: them from taking over second place in the Patrick , Division. PACES RANGERS | Nick Fotiu paced . the Rangers with his fifth and | sixth goals of the season. Devils 5 Kings 3 Pat’. Verbeek, Tim . Higains, . Mel. Bridgman, nm dan Ludvig end; Paul Gagne scored «for : New: “Jersey, while.” Dave ‘Taylor, “with ‘two, and Anders Hakansson © teplied for Los" Angeles; ” which has: virtually ‘eliminated | itself. from’ ‘playoff contention in ‘the Smythe Division by losing : "seven in a row. . plays giant killer foursome to Delmage of Yellowknife'9-4, Other second-réund * games saw Riley, of .Win- . beat Paquin, | of B85, while McKnight, of New Liskeard, * needed an extra end to: defeat Bryden 7-6 after the: Regina rink stole the nirith ‘and 0th ends. © : Other first-round results saw Kamp's New Glasgow crew edge Charlottetown’s nipeg, Matheson 7-6 and Quebec. edge Newfoundland 6-4. - ‘trip AL get worked up over “singe: Newfoundland’s ° .. .Jack McDuff won In 1976.. ; After the second draw, he was emphatic his bubble could explode, sa’ he preferred not to get excited. : “J yealize you can make a few (shots) and you can “miss a few,"’ said Dobson, a * curler for 21 yeara., “t's going. to happen anid” there's ‘not much’ I can do ‘ about it.” All. the. attention ‘isn' t going.to change his way ‘of ‘' approaching ‘games today ‘SPARKS CHATTER ~ But the talk of the opening . ‘day was the play of Dobson and his unheralded rink that ‘has Richard Belyea — the - “only one on the team with prior Brier experience — at third, Dobson's son, Mike, at second and lead Claude Moore. Dobson doesn't mind the unexpected exposure. « He sald he can't un- derstand why the rest. of Canada expects so little. from . Maritime curlers, 2 while admitting there has ‘been little for Maritimers to - against - Quebec.- and Manitoba, he said. _ “What T’'m doing out here * _ is attempting to curl well. If. ‘we get.a few breaks, it really ‘doesn't matter who we're. curling: he'd better, curl real good to beat us.” . VICTORIA, (CP} — Standings after the second round Sunday in the Canadian mon's curling : : ‘champiananins We Man. VV ae a ew was / Nees ooos Navratilova sings "NEW YORK (AP) — “]. fee] like singing, but I better- not,” Martina Navratilova told the record crowd ft Madison Square Garden, Then, disdaining her own advice, she began: “Star{ Spreading the news...” It had to be a tribute to the crowd — that beginning of the song New York, New York — because it Is no- news ‘Navratilova is the dominating . She ‘proved it agairi Sunday when she dominated. the world's second-ranked. .. player, Chris Evert Lioyd, ° 63, 7-5, @1 to win thé $500,000 Virginia Slims w+ eben aes ed a ere iee figure sin "women’s tennis, ; championship in the first best-of-five-set match played by women since 92, . Even .Lioyd was: im- pressed, * “T thought I had her on the ropes there in the second set, but she came up with, the great shots,” Lloyd said. “Whenever she had her back against the wall, she came up with an ace or big shot,” Lloyd admitted after ‘thé drubbing, which took one hour, 52.-minutes; “On the two or three big points that count, she was playing them. brilfiantly,” ‘Whatever Lloyd . tried, Navratilova had the perfect answer. ” fourth-place Jo: | _ Elizabeth ‘Kirchler,. Ellis Ross of Kitamaat Village ‘Haisia Braves ‘takes this lay up for . Kitamaat.as Richard Klein trails looking for a. rebound In the: semi- final contest of the Terrace men’s ‘senior B basketball tournament held at Skeena Jr. Secondary: ‘on the weekend. Terrace won. ‘this game 115- 76. . _ Podbor ski's vee ASPEN, Colo. (CP) — _ Steve Podborski’s: hopes of retiring. ‘as skiing's ‘World Cup downhill champion died in ‘agonizing frustration Sunday ° moments into the ” second. ‘last - ace of the season. The 1982 champion, who i is retiring after’ a race, this weekend ai” Whistler, BC. took a lot of air and nearly lost his balance on the first jump. That.” cost . him valuable time ‘and . ‘he finished in eighth place, 71- 100ths of a second behind. the winning: time of one -minute, 49.6 seconds posted by American Bill. Johnson. Austrians Helmut Hoeflehner. . and = Anton =:* Stelner thought they had a ‘He, for the tithe in ‘1:49.85 before Johnson, - skiing through light snow and fog patches. from the 19th starting position, flashed - across the finish, line. : -Podborskl, earlier this © _who = won West Germany, left the hill STE. ANNE- DE- BEA- UPRE, “Que: ‘(CP) — Twisting: her way. through the 39 gates of a World Cup Buper giant s slalom course at Mont-Ste-Anne on Sunday, Marina Klehl | of West: Gerniany didn't ‘ve’ rich thought to her time when . she had completed the 1,865, metres. : She glanced casually a the time clock, noting th result. But it was the shouts”. of her West teammates that: made her: realize .her -rtin ‘was out: ‘ standing.” At one minute, 9444 seconds, it was almoat a full second better than Austria's who finished second in 1:26.36, - Christin Cooper of the. United States placed third with a time of t: 35.61, For Kiehl, it was the continuation of the ateady’ progress she has made in- het two seasons on the . World Cup circuit. While she has placed in the top 15. only 10 thmes, in the lust two _ months she had a fifth place dew ei wid me ee em monn ae ere season. | at ' Garmisch-Partenkirchen, shape 8 Ho. saying he was disappointed _ with his inability, again, to one of the problems at the Olympics and one that has plagued him throughout his career, “Tt was a little slower up top because of the snow," Podborski. said.."I’'ma little '- disappdinted’ in the snow because I- couldn't really show my stuff.” ATHANS PLEASED ’ Gary Athans of Kelowna, B.C., finished 11th in 1:50.60. Todd Brooker. of Paris, Ont., was Mth in 1:50.89, ote Athans achieved * his second-best finish of . the " season by taking advantage ‘of a late start number. "When it’s slawer you can tuck more,” ‘he said, “In. some places where you're not supposed to tuck at all 1, was saying, ‘Hey, this is so. smooth I might as well to tuck.‘ I got In trouble in'a couple of places for doing that but it helped... : Johnson, In the’ downhill in France and another fifth ‘in the giant slalom at the: Winter Olympics. TES FOR SPOT, She moved into.a “tie for 10th , place - with .: Gerry Sorensen of - Kimberley, B.C. in the overall World: Cup standings with 100°. = paintl. “Inthe ‘giant’ alaloyn, atanglings, Kiehl ts tied for - fourth’ with 41 points, - downhill -and Super glant slalom ‘competition, Hess ~continues to lead the overall standings with 214 points, . seven more than Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein. “It's detinitely the best year since I’ve skiing,” said Kiehl, who recently won the West German - national: giant _slatoni: title. ° . There are only two super gient slaioms on the World Cup tour this year — Laurie Graham of Inglewood, Onit., won the first one in France last January, “month — in Sat handle fresh snow. That was — _ the technical’ part of - the “course, where his critics say . . sday,. + “much strength on the: one . ty “mistakes on the bottom.” - today for Whistler tp begin -training for the’ season finale, . Marina. Kiehl_ etest time the. Olympic , ewer than the leader, Erika ' German’. Hess ‘of Switzerland. , Following the weekend - been. ves call ” iy the 4 S di we ’ champion Sat doiwnhill? Yugoslavia, sald ‘it: ‘tucking’ that. vaut into seventh place -Ii‘ standings: That assures hit of starting in the first seed | next season. ‘He beat his opponents on he was too weak to be a champion. . “T just tried to tuck all the . way down,” he' said. “This isa turning course. and lately I've been turning very well.” ~ ; Turning - was a problem that Brooker, the defending chanipion here, was unable to-master, largely. because of a bruised right thigh suffered in a crash’ Thur “] didn’t have quite. as ‘side to’ make some of the turns and I made a few big ‘’ The downhillers _ leave NaS 45th, while Diana Haight of Fruitvale, B ., fell easly in her run. | face “T knew at the toply Il Akding= that well," : - Graham,’ "sald 4 ig tl this league, y you've ae tp be the best from top to bottom.” Kieh] proved. that by coping with icy patches and deep snow near the top of the course before. getting stronger through the ‘flat portions. She was. . not bothered by the tact’ the course . was ‘ somewhat chewed up by the skiers. who wert ahead of her, ‘almoat half the starting field of 73.