te er tear tbe PAGE AG’ = ee ey % : ; i “Ht took the Skeena Tsimshains: only. three games to cop first :place in the regional finals here last weekend and a place in the line-ups for the provincial finals tobe held in Kelowna on the 14, 15 and 16 of this month. Led by Claylon Williams, who was voted the Most Valuable Player of (he Tournament the jocal boys took on and over: came threats from the Central Celtics of Dawson Creck, the Prince George Lakewood Lakers and, in the final hard- . fought game, the Frank Ross ‘representatives, also from Dawson Creek. Their -first game of the tournament sel (he pace as they took on the Celtics and when the final buzzer sounded the Tsimshains were up 72-42, Clayton Williams led the scoring for Terrace as he scored the first Lwenty of his eventual ‘Tsimshains no. 1° By Jim Proctor 64 polnt weekend, Saturday afternoon the Tsimshaing were back, this time against another Central Interior powerhouse, the Lakewood Lakers of Prince George, Dante Stival, who has provided a lat of scoring power throughout the year, was high man in this game as he dunked’ 28 points in a relatively easy win, Clayton Williams came through with 22 points in the winning effort. In the final game the Tsim- shains went up against the highly rated-Frank Ross enory from Dawson Creek. For most of the game the point spread was rarely more than 3 points as neither team would bow to the other, In the fourth and final quarter the Tsimshains lost high-scoring forward Dante Slival as he picked up his fifth foul, but a series of fast breaks, ending with scores, enabled the Tsimshains to maintain a slim’ lead and at the final buzzer ’ Skeena had 66 points to Frank ~ Ross’ 58, Despite his early . removal from the game, Dante Stival was high point getter with 28, Clayton Williams again dunked 22 points. . The Tsimshains and the Frank Ross team will both travel to Kelowna for the * provincial finals and both have tobe rated with more than a fair chance of finishing high in the final standings there. The Lakewood . Lakers ~ finished third in the tour- nament, with the Central Celtics infourth, Williams Lake in fifth, Chandler Park of Smithers sixth, Fraser Lake in seventh and Kitimat winding up on the bottom cof the final standings When ‘the, awards were the herald Kermodes put all ore The Caledonia Kermedes are putting everything on the line \his weekend in Lhe inest im- portant games of Lhe season, The zone final tournament +. promises to be the closest and ~ year. - B:00, CEES TE EON OTTERS Hea ceeie best basketball in Terrace this Anyone who atlended Zone Finals in Rupert last year will remember hew close the games were, 60-58, 74-70, both In 4 favour of Rupert. Kitimat in the opening pame al The last lime these iwo on line _ By Greg Ross leams met’ the difference, in score was 110 paints, 131-21. Friday sees Rupert (8-12) take on Kitimat. ‘they also demolishedKitimat the last time they mel. -Fer obvious reasons. it is' safe lo presume that Terrace and Rupert will bein ‘the finals. Friday evening al 8:30 has the Kermodes clashing with. the Rainmakers, and ,anyone knowledgeable with ri The . to. pament " begins . North-West Basketball will f= Thursday fight when the know thal.no ‘winner can be SKermodes (4-11) lake on determined until’ the final buzzer. Kegardiess of who wins this gameithere will be another ees ” Wednesday March 6 3:30-4:20 - 12 and Under 4:45.5:45 - General Skating Friday March 8 “saturday March ? as DISTRICTOF TERRACE _ PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT Skating Schedule 12-2. General Skating (Pre- Schoolers: Free) 9-1lam - General Skating (Pre- Schoolers FREE). Te 18-9:15 + Students & Adults : ' : | 5315-7 « General Skaling AN tant AE rere Sunday March 10 $:30-7:30 - Family Skating 8.10 . Adults Oaly Monday March 1 10:45-34n00n - General Skating (Pre- Scholars FREE} Tat Tuesday March 12° 7:30-9:30 - General Skating SESE MSRM R rh td Tickets now available far the Capilano Winter Show March 22: & 23 at the Terrace Recreation Centre, Terrace Arena Monday to Friday 9- 72 noon, 1-5pm. For more information please Saturday afternoon at 2:00 In this best out of three series. If ‘the winner of Friday nights © game wins Saturday afternoon, the champlonship is theirs. But if Terrace wins Friday night and Rupert takes Saturday afternoon, a fina] will be. held Saturday night at 8:39 with every thing al stake,” . Tf youre interested come out this weekend. The Kermades will appreciate the support. Lacrosse meeting _ All Terrace residents -In- |. in.he minor lacrosse — terested league are: reminded ‘of, the - annual general meeting being cheld-tonight. The meeting will “gel under.way at’8 p.m, in the Seniur ‘Citizens - Reon of ' the Terrace. Arena. and will be responsible for election of of- licers ‘andthe laying of the vroundwork for the upcoming season, The final standings tor senor basketball. tegms in British’ and, based on the opinions of 15 coaches from throughout the province there is not one ‘top team in the province but two. The Oak Bay Bays who have ‘dominated. the = ratings Douglas Rams who came ‘on received number one ratings. - Which means that this year's provincial ‘senior AA~ cham plonship, which the Kermodes shoot for this weekend with zone and as exe)ting as ever before, In third place. are ..the Kamloops ‘Red . Devils.. They've held that place tor. most of the season.’ The North Della Huskies maintained: (heir et GEES ES EGER Ct plione 635-2042. pth i fourth place rating and: the, in| calching some. of the best - basketball in. Northern -B.C.,. ‘Columbia have? been relased . throughout (he-year and the Mt, - . strong from ‘third place. both . finals here, should be as close . elsewhere), |” TERRACE, B.C. ’ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, wa "THE. HERALD, ' handed out Chaidler Park and Williams Lake. both received recognition, the Smithers team as the most sportsmantike and the coach and team of Williams Lake picking up the most In- spirational player trophy, a rare occurance. the Caledonia Kermodee girls senior basketball team had litle trouble taking the : zone firial last :.weekend, winning ‘three straight to take the tile, and earn the right to travel to the’: provinclal -finals - Coquitlam later this month, One of the team members The Tsimshains, who have shown considerable basketball ability and finese throughout the season will get their test of fire at the provincial finala. The local, boys: have handled, all - opponents but two this year, and the majority of their wins have been quite convincing, On their, way to the regional finals last weekend, they not only knocked off all competitors from. this area, but in tournament play earlier this season met the — second and third rated teams on Vancouver Island, winning both - games. ~ SPORTS MARK HAMILTON ‘Ronda Monsees had an ex- cellent weekend, scoring 65 of the team's 136 points. , "The .-Kermodees - faced -. Kitimat first time out and won the. game. by a four. point - margin, 37:33. Ronda topped thelist here,as she did inallthe ~ Kermodee games, with an ‘18 point ‘out-put. Avis Agnew contributed 11 peints.to the girls game, “The second. game cf‘ the tournament saw Kilimat at it again, this ime against Prince Rupert and Rupert emerged | victorious. Terrace got their firat shot al: Rupert the next Lime. out and again, four points was the winning margin, the Ker- modees scoring 51 polnts to the Rainbird's 47, Ronda scored 19 points in this encounter wilh team mate Shelley, Wilcox adding eleven to the total. : Rupert and Kitimat met égain and this lime it was "Semi-Finals Kitimat coming up on top as they won thelr only fame. of the ‘tournament 38-35: The final game had Terrace ard Prince Rupert back on the court ‘and the game was anything but a repeated of thelr first meeting. ‘The Kermodes took the four peint margin from the firat game and more than tripled it as they trounced the yirls on the way ; s “Rainbirda 48-33, Ronda’ again dunked 18 points, Debbie Dakin came through with. ten for the Kermodees. : Avis Agnew and Ronda Monsees were both chosen to the first all-star team and, as well, Ronda with her efforts earned designation as the zone's Most Valuable Player. . The PNWHL. Play-Off Picture - The Houston: Luckies came out of last weekend's first round of play in the PNWHL with a solid 2-0 lead. in their best of five series. The Luckies took, the Burns Lake Braves $-1 last - Pee wees, juveniles | split northern matches _ ..A moment in history li fast approaching. . On Friday, March 15 at 9:30 - p.m, the dirst- ever Oldlimers Hockey game will gel. under way al the Terrace Arena with Terrace and Kitimal facing off in whal promises to be a slow moving three periods of hockey action. .. The Skeena Band will profit irom the game because that's where the proceeds go. The money raised will-go Into the coffers of the Band's travel fund ~ whieh will pay for, among other things, a Wrip to Expo ‘74 for the Skeena Gold Band where they will perform for the World Fair audiences. Admission is a mere! dollar for ‘ peuple of all ages. THE STARS; Douatd,: who edohn | is: organizing the Terrace” team... popped into the Herald office: the other day with a partial line- Snowmobilers paras Bob Crist! ~ of. Terrace Equipment gave away some money Monday but the people on (he receiving end had te werk for it. And work they-did, riding snow-mobiles three hundred miles cross country in the an- . nual Smithers to Prince George Snow- Mabile Race, © Before the fourteen ‘Terrace entrants in the event left town Mr, Cristl, manager of Terrace Equipment Sales, let them ~ know that there would be merchandise prizes for the first, second and third Arctic Cal snow-mobiles from Terrace to eross- the finish line in the race. . ’ Added fo Lhat were the various trophies and honours fram ether sources and the racers tad prelly good incentive. -The race was run over. lwo days and when il was all over more than one Terrace driver had brough a little fame.in for the rest of us. , Ray Skoglund, well Kaown local snowmobiling enthuslast finished fifth in the 0-400 ¢.c, . Pleasure class picking: up a beauliful trophy. There's also a: - strong possibility that he'll Bick Two tied i in final standings Hope Mustangs jung on lo 5th 7 place, . came Crom ninth place over-all to take sixth spot while the sixth place leam of. two weeks. ago, - -the Vancouver Tech Talismen, . trapped ‘lo seventh. Del dropped from eighth to ninth, The. Templetan = Tilans dropped out of the ratings and - heir spot, lenth on. the Hst; was. iB. laken by the MEI Eagles, The © -Tilans and the Rutland Voodoos also’ received vates'in the poll. ' The provincia finals will: be held ‘in Vancouver, at"lhe Pacific Colosseum, from March | 20-24. . Representation for-this - zone will be deelded ‘here this weekend, (See ; artiels Ve eres ““Hairy’ Davy, ak Phe The North Surrey Spartans. ‘The ff rook [Hilltoppers drupped from seventh lo eighth. and the . Wesl Vancouver Highlanders. A moment in history” on March 15. up for ‘the Terrace. team, The waster _ Staggers -- the imaginalion. . there'll be such near greats of the hockey world as Jolly Joe “araso, Joe the Jitney Whitney, Franlic Fred Marsh, that’ old smoothy Sandy ‘Saudahls ‘and many more, Even Terrace . Mayor Gordon Rowland. ap- pears on the list ard a reliable informant says that Gord will make a rare public appearance wilhout his curling “broom. Ulbe: names appearing on the nol-yel completed roster are Curly, Casey, Gordon ‘Gump’ Hamilton feom the Herald and, of course, John Donald ‘bimeelé. _ Far, slow: paced ‘action. ‘and ; aspired’ aniles” that's” a ard get ‘td beat th Herald will'carryt raither ~-pinvouditeniéuts’ concerning ‘the fortunes of the Terrace leam as. * prety: they work-out for thelr coming malch with the Kitimat ‘Old up a new snowmobile courtesy of Arclic Cal for being one of the very few racers over fifty to finish In the money. — Although Burga.. Anderson finished well done in‘ the standings for her class, her time for the gruelling lest “of driver : and machine, was good enough for Unird place over-all in the women division,” That earned Burga an attractive,. trophy, a little fame, and a two piece woolen snow suit from Bob. - Christ's. Terrace: “Equipment | Sales.’ . Another Terrace, racer picked -up $100 dollars worth ‘of mer- chandise from | sixth in. his. division and first among the Terrace Arctic Cat drivers. Il was Sonny Vienvenu who has ‘a-habil of falling into unusual situations. This time it was no different and on the first day coming out of a rather light - lurn his’ handle-bars broke. _Sonny, nof one lo ery over spilt milk. or: broken handle bars, finished the first sectfon of the race . (48 .miles)’ wilhoul any handle bars. That fealwon him Terrace. Equipment Sales as he finished - Timers, March 1 Mel cs | named coach ‘The Herald has learned shortly before going lo press - that the above-mentioned Terrace Old-Timers team will - ~ be coached by “non other than ‘Gentleman’ Mel Motz, the _nicest guy on two skales,: Speaking Jo this. reporter Mel . . ‘assured Terrace residents that - by the time the team hits the ice ey Sth at:9:30 p,m, they'd “wage any” Bu “he Terrace’ . ‘league. ** “ wee pup,” he added.” considerable. fame among: ‘the “contestants ‘and’ press. al (he. other end of the line, Sonny’: also receiveda little help in the. race,. the cost of his gas and oil being absorbed by Mir. & Mrs. Al al . Toovey, The second Terrace diver to cross the tine driving an Arctic , Cat was Phil Dumont and for his: ‘efforts he was awarded a $75 certificate for merchandise- al. Terrace Equiprrent * Sales... Third, across ". certificale. Of the faurteen racers thal’. left Terrace lo cumpete In the’. . race only four failed to finish. Other. finishers. were - “Ed Schafhauser on a Ski-Doo, Rene Lucier on a Arctic Cat, Larry Anderson on. a: Aretie. Cai, LaVelne Fredticks ona Polaris . . and Ed Munk, alse viding an ‘Arctic Cal.’ The four who didn’t: make it (he full three hundred miles iwere Danny O'Brien ona Ski: Doo, Bill Roy on a Yahama snow machine, Herb Quasl piloting a Rupp snowmobile and Garth ardner ona Polaris. - NORTHWEST SPORTSMAN _ANNUAL WINTER ALL WINTER SPORTS EQUIPMENT | NOW 20% OFF - twice been defeated ‘to skate bt east tat —_ if we tik een “Maybe even as fast as pee . was.: ‘RayLaChance and his: ride‘on |: an Arctic’ Cal merited hima a. $50 - ‘Thursday evening and then hammered them §-2 Saturday fer the lead. In the western semi-tinal, the picture is not quile as clear as the Smithers Totems and the .. Kilimat Eagles split their lwo Suvenila “and pee wee representalive teams from .” lucky. Playing a team thal has. Terrace travelled-to Stewart last weekend for a series of games.. When it was aver Lhe pee wee’s had won two decisive matches and the juveniles had decisively, , The pee wees from Terrace look Stewart 11-2 the first time « “out and then turned around and northern» hammered _ their + also” a - * poured salt on the wounds - encounters, The ‘pagles ¥ won the first 6-5: In over-time-and then went dawn to defeat 6-3. in the second’ outing, Both series resume this week with the lwo winners meeting. for the league’ ch tonship. counter-parts 13- a “, The juventiles’ weren’ tas competed in Stewarl’s . com- mercial hockey league they wound up on the wrang end of an. 18-3 score in Saturday's game and then the Stewart boys Sunday with 220-2 victory over the locals, .. There will be Stewart leams in Terrace this weekend for hockey action. CAN ACHAIN SAW PUMP WATER? ‘Terrace Equipment » 4539 GREIG. Sales Ltd. PHONE, ca56in4 “ask your dealer about THE PIONEER 1200 Z with add-on- versatility _ This one cant . 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