start. B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, December 27, 2006 i A look back at the individual and team - sports highlights from the first half of 2006. _ January THE TERRACE River Kings kick off the | _ year with a 6-4 win over the Steelheads in: - Smithers. ; eeoee. Shames Mountain. finally opens 14 of "its 28 runs Jan. 13, its second latest open- ing in its 16-year history. - ay x ee _ Sixteen Northern Taekwondo students . _- win 37 medals at a meet in Prince Rupert -to qualify for the: BC Winter Games. a (OOOO. Wade. Flaherty is named ‘the starting, _ “goalie for Team Canada in the American’ ., Hockey League All-Star Game based on . fan votes after:a stellar-season that saw” ‘him place in the top five for wins, save percentage, . goals against average and shutouts. ae eo oe oe o of The Caledonia Senior boys basketball . team takes third place in a Prince George 7 tournament to start the year. - Jag Aujla and Jared Stephens are.’ Se named to the All-Star team. oOo Ringette teams score at the Gold Pan Tournament in Quesnel. The Mcnugget.. oe Bunnies win three of their four ‘games. + oO OOOO 7 Squash player Morgan Evans wins the Men’s A division at the Ball Buster Tour- .° « Nament in Smithers after taking time off © . from the Sport. at February THE River Kings lose their final game of . the regular season against the Kitimat Ice Demons 7-2. . oOo The Ladies Valentine’s Bonspiel celebrates 50 years with, a banquet and special events, including a. tribute. to - long-time club supporter Vesta Douglas, who passed away just prior to the event’s , de a ad Wade Flaherty wins the Top Goalten- der Award in the skills competition and is named co-MVP of the AHL All-Star . game before a home crowd in Winnipeg. eee JODY Kucharyshen, right, and her rink, including Stephanie Haddad, left, MARGARET SPEIRS : -2006 YEAR IN REVIEW “ 638-7283 J iy§ / VESTA, DOUGLAS, ‘seated front left, (above), ‘one of the founding members of the Terrace Curling Club and the Valentine’ Ss Bonspiel, poses with friends Lyn Apolezer, Rose Thomas, Norah Jacques, Marie Beckley, and Jan MacKinnon, seated, just prior to the 50th Valentine’s Bonspiel. Douglas passes. away the Canadian Gymnastics Championship. 1 Local rinks sweep the events at the _51st Legion Bonspiel. . The River Kings beat the Smithers Steelheads 3-2 in the final playoff game to advance to: the Kal.Tire Cup against, the Kitimat Ice Demons. Oooo? Northern Winter Games athletes bring home four golds, one silver and three’ - bronze medals. ooooe Special Olympians host their first re- gional curling qualifier for the BC Spe- _cial Olympics Winter Games. Two local rinks finish in second and third places. March | " PEEWEE Rep ‘hockey finishes in third place at zones after tying Kitimat 3-3 and losing 5-0 to Smithers. e9OOd The Raincoast Petite B ringette team wins its second consecutive gold medal at the Sweetheart Tournament in Kelow-- na while the Junior B ringette team wins silver. eee The Nisga’a girls basketball team wins a gold medal at the Grade 8 girls . basketball zones while the Skeena Junior Secondary Grade 8 girls win bronze. ; ~ 20900 The Skeena Junior boys basketball team places second at the zone champi- onship. , . oto The River Kings’ quest for the Kal Tire Cup ends with an 8-1 loss to Kitimat. oO OO. Caledonia wins the Senior Boys AAA Basketball Zone Championship in front of a home crowd over Smithers 64-56 and place fourth in the A event at the 50th Valentine’s Bonspiel. Doug Brewer poses with the car he races on the speedway at Brewer Day, a special day in honour of the automotive teacher, who retires after 33 years at Caledonia. | 65- 60 in the best-of-three tournament. 5 a a Thornhill Junior girls basketball team wins the Junior Girls B Basketball Zone Championship 38-29 over Skeena Junior and 29-25 over Houston Secondary. . A ee Skeena Junior Grade 8 boys basket- ball team wins the zone championship over Prince Rupert Senior Secondary in overtime. eOoeoe The Skeena Girls Junior B basketball team wins bronze at the zone champion- ship. 5 a i a oe _ The Northwest A zone! team brings home gold in the 4x50 metre girls relay at the BC Winter Games. ooo _ Figure skaters bring home six medals at StarSkate provincials. Kelsey Minhinnick wins gold, silver and bronze. Junior bronze, dance pair’ ‘Alex Lissimore and Jorden Hendry win silver in their first time at provincials. Hayley Lessard wins gold. Jamie Penner wins bronze. eo? Terrace snowboarders top their cat- egories at the fourth annual All Sea- sons Slopestyle Competition at Shames Mountain. Jeff Rushton wins the Men’s Open, Lee Miller wins the Boys 14 and under _and Brittany Majeski wins the Women’ S Open. OOO Oe Terrace figure skaters win the team trophy for the second consecutive year at the Kla How Ya interclub competition in Prince Rupert. The team wins 23 gold, 26 silver and 26 bronze medals. Ooo? Patricia Cisneros dominates the Men’s ’B division during the St. Paddy’s Day squash tourney at the Kiva at Northwest Community College. Eric Turner wins a special trophy for most dedicated and valuable player. . OOOO Stephanie Haddad’s rink. including curlers’ Emily Wright, Tamlyn Tabata and Jordan Sparks, wins the A event at .the Kitimat Junior Bonspiel: Jordan Johnson and his teammates Doug Swank, Kendra Mouland of Kiti-. mat and Kyle Gunter win the B final. , A ee John Evans scores three bonspiel victories: the Legion Bonspiel A. event, the C event at the Steelhead Bonspiel in Smithers and the A event in the Men’s - Marine Bonspiel in Prince Rupert. April THE MIDGET Reps net third place at the Penticton Spring Break Classic hockey tournament. oO Kayla Brinkac returns with a silver medal from the Western Canadian Gym- nastics Championship after becoming the ' first“local-gymnast ‘in a decade to com- "pete in the event. $ooee Sarah Ridler competes at the National . Aboriginal Hockey Championship in Quebec. te a a ad . The Ring Wraiths score silver at the | provincial ringette championship after going undefeated through the round rob- in. Team captain Alexa Grant is invited to play at the Ringette Western Champi- onship on Junior Division Team BC and brings home a bronze. OO OOd Shames Mountain Corporation’s gen- eral manager Gordon Russell retires after eight years. oe oooee The ,Petite C ringette team places fourth, at provincials — not bad for a team that moved six of its 12 players up from "the novice level to play older and bigger Opponents. " - May KIM MacDougall completes the. Rome .City Marathon and raises $6,000 for diabetes research as a member of Team Diabetes, a squad formed by the Canadian Diabetes Association. . _ She-races for her father, who was di- agnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Oooo Thornhill Junior athletes dominate the competition at a zone track and field meet in Smithers. Several athletes and relay teams place in the top three. OOOO Terrace Peaks gymnasts top the Aloha Invitational meet in Smithers. OOOO Tan Humphrey is named the new gen- eral manager of Shames.Mountain Cor- poration. Humphrey rises to the posi- tion after 11. years with the business in various roles such as ski patrol director, _lift operations manager and manager of mountain safety, a ee a Jessica Ames ‘stands out among the athletes at the Skeena field meet, winning ‘triple jump and long jump to qualify for provincials. e ° ooo The stock car season opens with close . races. Dave Reinhardt dominates the Pro-. Stocks, winning five of six races. Loren Fell and Margo Fleming drive to victory in every Thunder class race. . a a ae Wade Flaherty sits out the remainder of the Manitoba Moose’s run through the AHL playoffs after suffering a groin in- jury. ; ; Oo Oode ' Midget Rep player Ryland Macdonald wins the Ler! Trudeau award for dedica- tion and discipline after being chosen unanimously by the Terrace minor league : ‘night before the bonspiel begins but event organizers unveil a Plaque | in her honour at the club as s planned. (Below) Kayla Brinkac wins silver at the Western hockey coaches. OoFOoe Skeena Junior Grade 8 athletes win: their first banner in five years at the | zone track and field meet. June DANIS Bachek places ninth in heptathlon "among young B.C. athletes‘at the track and field provincials in her first year doing the multi-sport event. OOo Doug Brewer, auto mechanics teacher at Caledonia Senior Secondary, retires af- ter 33 years and is honoured with Brewer Day,.a day i in his honour during stock car _ season. He races a hit-to-pass car against other drivers at the speedway. - . ad Three junior and senior high school athletes — Bert. Fawdrey, Jessica Ames ~and Brandy Yagelniski — score personal bests at the B.C. ‘provincials in Burnaby. OOO The Under-14 Kermodes girls soccer team advances to the Youth Provincial A- Cup Championship, B.C.’s most competi- tive level of the sport, for the first time. Terrace sends eight teams to the soccer _provincials: U-12 girls and boys teams, U-13 girls, U-14 boys and girls teams, U- I5 girls, U-17 boys and U-18 boys. . “OOOO - Les Sinnott becomes vice-president for youth soccer with the BC Soccer As- sociation, the first time a northerner is ' elected to the position.