pratensis i og Sea genta em cqutenen ieee apne oop Minor hockey may change age groups A change in minor hockey age groups made in. 1985 may be “reversed by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association: _ during its spring meeting in _» May. Age levels were increased one year to encourage older players ‘to stay with the game. The change was made with midgets in mind, The CAHA added one year to each group, making midgets 16-and-17 instead of 15-and-16.. - Other groups moved up. accord- ingly, The basic idea would allow midgets to play an extra year and get hometown schooling ‘before moving up to junior level, The B.C, Amateur Hockey ‘ -Association claims no evidence +H azelton wrestling Hazelton’s sixth annual ‘‘warm-up’’ wrestling tourna- | ment attracted more than 100 _. high school athletes on Dec. 12. Nechako ~ Valley of Vanderhoof provided six.of the 16. winners. in assorted weight classes, and amassed enough ~ points to capture the team cham- -pionship trophy. Smithers placed second with four winners, while Prince -George had three, Hazelton two and Terrace one. The Terrace winner — Greg Tashoots — also -won the award for. outstanding... “novice wrestler. ’ Todd Nessman of Smithers ‘was named outstanding overall wrestler. Prince George picked up the sportsmanlike team: trophy. Winners of all weight classes were as follows: 38 kilos, Greg Tashoots of Terrace; 41 kilos, Jared Gilbron- son of Vanderhoof; 45 kilos,. Jason Demeers of Prince George; 48 kilos, Travis Belrose of Prince George; 51 kilos, Ron Swanson of Vanderhoof; 54 kilos, Shane Atkins of Hazelton; 60 kilos, Jeff Weaver of * Vanderhoof; 63 kilos, Cameron Johnson of Smithers; 66 kilos, ‘Todd Nessman of Smithers; 70 kilos, John Shorter of Smithers; 74 kilos, Dwayne Eastman of Prince George; 78 kilos, Ian Meier of Smithers; 84 kilos, ‘Kevin Bird of Vanderhoof; 90 ‘kilos, John Olson of Vanderhoof; 90-plus kilos, Ron Peake of Vanderhoof. Skeena second The Skeena Tsimpsean junior ‘boys high school basketball team came up with a second- place finish at the eight-team - Williams Lake invitational tour- nament on the Dec. 12 weekend. Tsimpseans opened with an 80-47 win ‘over Prince George _ Lakewood, then downed Nor- Kam of Kamloops 48-46 in the semi-finals, In the championship game | they lost 60-46 to Anne Steven-- son of Williams Lake. Skeena’s Jacky Brown, Jinga Minhas and Paul Manhas all gained places on the all-star team. | En route to the tournament, Tsimpseans defeated Burns _ Lake 76-11 and Corrilicu of Quesnel 44-37, either pro or con on the previous change. © But BCAHA president Bruce Allison says more 14-to-17 year | olds are leaving home to play junior hockey in the face of pressure from part-time junior scouts, who tell them they only have one chance to make it. Allison says the junior leagues want the age groups back to pre-1985. One junior executive claims the increase damaged midget hockey rather than . helped it. He claims the midget division - used to be the premier division of minor hockey — now it’s bantam. ‘‘What they thought would be a great move for midget hockey has, in B.C. at least, backfired.”? . The junior spokesman: claims most good. players are bypassing midget and going into tier two junior. It’s been pointed out that the “resolution to reverse age levels . came from the strong Ontario delegation. Age groups for all levels now are as follows, . with pre-1985 levels shown in brackets:.. pre- Novice 6-7 (5-6), novice 8-9 (7-8), atom 10-11 (9-10), peewee 12-13 (11-12), bantam 14-15 (13-14), | midget 16-17 (15-16), juvenile 18-19 (17-18). Terrace Minor Hockey presi- dent Sharon Larmour concurs with the effort to go back to the other groups. ‘‘The main hinderance here is in novice, where we have youngsters six to nine- years.” “Larmniour ‘said’ a “Sato eiRHE” ratio would be more workable as the nines are simply too old for. the little six-year-olds.. These young ladies were among the medal winners for the Terrace Figure Skating i a recent competition held at Smithers. Minor hockey roundup | The Dec. 5 weekend was shortened to four games due to arena commitments, then was further shortened to three games due to road conditions, — The Totem Ford midgets host- ed Kitimat Legion Bomber mid- gets and beat the Aluminum Ci- ty gang 6-4 in the Friday contest. - Terrace got two goals from John Almgren plus singles from Mitch * Shinde, Derek Phillips, Ted ; “Taylor and Rod Epp. # The Saturday game had to be called off when poor road condi- ‘tions prohibited Kitimat from i ic- Zone curling. Prince Rupert teams won master’s men and mixed zone six curling titles at playoffs held on the Dec. 12 weekend at Rupert’s ‘curling club. Terry Ezaki repeated ‘as masters champ in a three-team double-knockout playoff against Oscar Hidber of Smithers and Orville Paisley of ; - Terrace. _ Ezaki had to beat Hidber twice.on the final day to win it. Ezaki goes to Prince George Feb, 24 to 26 for B. C. interior - finals, . In the five-team mixed series, Larry Gordon beat Glen Haupt- . man in an all-Rupert final. . Gordon stole one in the 10th. ‘end to tie it up, then watched Hauptman miss a final shot takeout to give Gordon the win in the 11th, Other teams were skipped by Ian Cullen of Rupert, John _Evans of Terrace and Don Brise of Smithers, Gordon now plays the zone five winner in Smithers on the Feb, 13 weekend, with the win- er advancing to the B.C. finals. Ken’s Trains & Hobbies -; C Box 371, Dover Road, Terrace, Bo. 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Broek and Scott Blanes scoring our goals. Game two saw. Terrace outscore Kitimat 7-6. Kenny ‘Lavoie and Devon Van Hulle each notched a pair of goals while Laderoute, Broek and Ed- dy Dollomore fired singles. . ~The Inland Kenworth ban- tams scored a pair of victories .over Kitimat Lions bantams. | The first game was a 7-2. win. with Shane Maitland’s hat-trick leading the way. Dennis Bannister, Clint Prest, Jared Ewart and Shawn Braid scored the others. _ In the 10-2 second game win, Garth Muller, Davey Jones and Doug Stewart all scored twice.. Bannister, Prest, Kyle Marshall and Mike Wiebenga added singletons: eg, The Prince Rupert and Kitimat series involving Inidgets and peewees were cancelled, - The midget series was turfed due toa three-team round-robin _ midget series at Rupert to deter- mine the zone 7 berth for the B.C, Winter Games in Dawson Creek in March. _° ; Kitimat Legion bombers won the berth by whipping Rupert 19-3, and edging Houston 6-5. Houston beat Rupert 12-3 i in the — final game. ‘Both’ Rupert and Kitimat peewees opted out of league play to attend a. tournament at Smithers. New Years Eve Come Celebrate with us at JEZEBELS Hats, Noisemakers, Balloons and Streamers ~ Snacks served at midnight Open till 3:00 a.m. Tanya ee eer