Coach Dan Van Os and his Caledonia Kermode girls’ ‘senior high school
basketball team expect to put up a good fight for the zone championship

this season. They posed for us last week in front of their Kermode

bear painting on the school gym wall, before winning a regional tourna-
ment here on the weekend.

- Caledonia Kermode girls ran
up four wins in a row to capture
their own five-team, round-
robin senior high school girls’
basketball. tournament on Dec.
16 weekend.

They alwo had Amanda
Campbell named as the tourna-
ment’s most valuable player,
and placed Krista Soules and
Rochelle Pelletier on the all-star
team.

Terrace girls and Kitimat boys
won zone seven bowling berths
for the B.C. Winter Games dur-

ing rolloffs at Smithers on Dec.
10.

In their five-game series, Ter-
race girls ran up a score of 4216.
to finish 141 pins up on runner-
up Houston (4075). Kitimat
placed third (4021) and Smithers
fourth (3815).

Members of the Terrace team,
under coach Darlene Elkiw, are
Dallas Provost, Lisa Haugland,
Linda Larson, Lorna Burkett
and Debbie Lebeau.

Kitimat’s boys ran up a score
of 4443 and beat out Prince
Rupert by 16 pins (4427). Ter-
race took third place (4115) and
Smithers came fourth (4020).

Members of Kitimat’s win-

Fi nifg team are Ken Gutknecht,
Steve Dielschneider, Jason
Brown, Ian Taylor and Zeffy
Santucci. Their coach is Barry
Taylor.

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Tefface boys’ team was com-

’ Other all-stars selected in-
cluded Michelle Missere and
Colleen Johnson of Kitimat, and
Lisa McKinnon. of Hazelton.

Kermodes started with a 51-22
victory over Hazelton Spartans,
then doubled up on Fort St.
James 48-24. ,

In game three they downed a
rep team from Skeena junior
high - (filling in: for cancelled
Smithers) 63-17. Their final

prised of Eric Hernes, Kevin
Pongracz, Jason Banville, Jason
Prevost and Darcy  Netzel.

‘Ketchikan

Ketchikan, Alaska’s three
girls’ high school basketball

teams won all three games Dec. .

11 against Terrace and Thornhill
opponents in after-school action
at Terrace schools. Kay-High’s
Grade 9’s downed Thornhill

46-19,

_ Kermode girls win
~own tournament

match against Kitimat’s Orcas
was a title-clinching 49-34 win,

Orcas had gone into the last
game unbeaten in three straight.
They had earlier downed Skeena
outscored Hazelton
62-48, and defeated Fort St.
James 56-22.

Hazelton’s Spartans managed
two wins — 56-32 over Fort St.
James and 46-34 over Skeena.
Skeena's only win was 44-33
over the winless Fort gals.

- Local bowlers roll on
— to B.C. Winter Games

They’re coached by Gary Edgar.

The B.C. Winter Games are at
Penticton from Feb, 15 to 18.

cleans up

Grade 9’s 33-22. Kay-High’s
seniors defeated Caledonia Ker-
modes 81-35. In Grade 10 action
against Skeena, Ketchikan also
came up with an easy win. The
score was 60-23.

Gordon Rink claims
mixed curling title

The Larry Gordon rink of
Prince Rupert won the zone six
mixed curling title at Kitwanga
Dec. 10 in a three-game double-
knockout playoff. The opener
saw Don Palmer of Smithers
beat Darcy Bruce of Houston.

-Gordon then defeated Palmer,

following which Bruce elimi-

nated Palmer. In the last game,
Gordon handed Bruce his sec-
ond loss to clinch the title.

Gordon now meets Brad
Clark of Prince George on Feb.
2. The winner of this zone five
and six clash goes on to provin-
cial finals.

Rassamee Ling named female
karate Athlete of the Year

Rassamee Ling, 21-year-old
daughter of Kitimat’s Dr. C.K.
Ling, has been named Canadian
Female Athlete of the Year for
the sport of karate.

She was named to the honor
recently at the national black

belt championships held at St.

John’s, Newfoundland.
Ling is Canadian women’s
champion in kata, which deals
with pre-arranged exercises.
While retaining her gold in

DRINKING DRIVER

kata, she teamed up with sisters

‘Lisa and Tanya for gold medal

performances in both team kata
and sparring.

Earlier in the fall, Ling won a
bronze medal in sparring at the
Pan-Am games in Venezuela.

Rassamee is a_ first-year
medical student at UBC and
hopes to represent Canada at in-
ternational events in Brazil and
Mexico next year.

.. WITHA

TRAE
Best

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| MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishes to all from the
Members of the Skeené Valley
Snowmobile Association

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