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Karate kids shine at
provincial championship

The local contingent attending this year’s Spring Provincia] Ka-
“wate championships retumed home last week with two victories to
"Meir credit anda round dozen top four results.

"Tyrel Hill took top spot in the boys/girls Kata for 11 and 12 year-
“ald white-yellow belis ahead of teammate Babel Sanghera,

~Sanghera went one better in the girls Kumite for 11-12 years
- white-yellow class to pick up Terrace’s second win.

Jamie Janzen and Rosy Sanghera also made the placings twice in
girls 15-16 years, orange-green-blue, belt competition. Janzen took
_Second in Kata just ahead of Sanghera and the pair reversed the
~. Placings i in another two-three finish in Kumite.

In boys 15-16 years, orange-blue-green Ted Berlin picked up
« fourth piace in both Kata and Kumite,

The local squad's other successes all came in Kumite with Dustin
Schaffer finishing third in boys 17-18 years, Deb Casey taking
~ fourth among the 15-16 ycars black belt girls and Calen McNeil
© notching a fourth in adult heavyweight (80kgs and up) for black
“Delt men.

‘Adding to the medal haut for notthwesterners were. three
Kitimatians, Madud Brar and A. Desousa finished one-two in girls
~ Kumite for 13-14 years orange-green-blue belts while Kevin Mellor
took second in masters black belt Kata,

Kelowna trip is first
for Cal tennis teens

~ When Caledonia Senior Secondary’s cleven-strong lennis troupe
“arrives in Kelowna this weekend, they will be breaking new ground.

Coach Grant Holkestad points ont it’s the first time the school has
“sent a team to a provincial championship. Until now, the only
*toumament available had been the ‘AAA’ championship, an event
peppered with top club and tourney entries.

. However, the success of last year’s trial Interior high school event
= ” slaged in ‘Kamloops persuaded B.C.’s tennis authorities to in-
* augurate these Provincial ‘AA’ championships.
= Action gets underway Friday moming with Cal assigned a berth
. in-one of the two, four-team round robins. The top-two teams from

“each round robin will advance to Saturday’s playoff round to settle
"the top four places. The rest will play a consolation round to decide
~ fifth to seventh spots.
~ “Emphasizing the trip was no freeble, Holkestad said the students
_ had been busy raising money to cover the cost which even included
a $100 entry fee. To do that they’d undertaken a number of dif-
- ferent projects including cleaning up litter along local highways.

- ‘The students were grateful for the support the community had

given in their efforts, he added.

Carrying Cal’s colours at the provincials will be Chris Irving,
x Cathy Dickson, Alaine Fleischmann, Barb Kuzyk, and Tanya Booth
on the girls’ side plus Chris Wilkinson, Kelly Gingles, Jeremy
z Lafontaine, Eric Hernes and Matt Phillips for the boys.

Ringetters net awards

Four diners got more than just pizza when the Terrace Ringette

-Association held its wind up banquet. ‘

The occasion also included the announcement of award winners
ftom both the association’s teams.

, For the Petites under-11 squad,;Laura Commins was named -Most-

JAmproved Player.while Haylie Gordon got the Sports Gal awardi-- ...

“(For the Tweens, 16-under, Meta Zylicz picked up the MIP and the ©

Sports: Gal’ winner was J ennifer Smyth.

Oldtimers

Still

got the touch

The Northwest Oldtimers

_ spent the long weekend show-

ing they can still teach’ the

younger fastball generation a

thing or two, taking top spot in

the Terrace Chevron Juniors
tournament.

The Oldtimers solved the
slingy pitching of Hazelton
Bombers’ Danny Valachy ‘to
pound in two runs in the sixth

’ and hang on for the win.

Gaing into the inning,

Valachy had struck out eleven
and given up only one run on
three hits while the Bomber
bats had squeezed oilt single
runs in the fourth and fifth for
the lead.
_ However, back-to-back two-
paggers by Norm Zloklikovits
and Dollie Pianrolli gave the
Oldtimers a 3-2 edge.

Pitcher Denby Page then
retired six of the next seven,
fanning two, to ensure the vic-

~ tory.

The win was worth $1,500
for the Oldtimers while the

Bombers settled for-the- scoond: ”

~ place purse vf $1,000.,-
In the other money. game, :a
seven run fifth iining. explo-.

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sion powered the Terrace
Chevron Juniors to third Spot
and $500.

Coming into the bottom of
the fifth 2-0 down, the Juniors
strung. together eight straight
hits including triples by short-
stop Kent Hartness and pitcher
Brad “Boom Boom" Neufeld

. pul opponents Skeena
Hantiton into. a hole they
conldn’t climb out of,

Skeena tried to conjure a last
inning rally in the seventh but
came up short as the Juniors
snuffed out the: challenge to
take the game 7-5.

Leading the Juniors’ at the
plate was centre fielder Mike
Bennest who went (hree-for-
three, scoring ance.

Neufeld retired 10 batters in

recording the win.
Six teams took part in the
toumey including out-of-

towners Hazelton and Fort St.
James.

The Oldtimers and Juniors

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KICKING UP the dust, above, is Northwest Oletimer Nolan
Beaudry as he slides into third. Unfortunately, the Hazelton
Bomber infielder got the tag on in time before leaping clear.
Below, Richard Mason is just a blur as he sprints across the
plate for the Oldtimer’s first run. Two innings later, Mason
strode home ® again for what proved to be the game winner,

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