SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN Score board Biking Skeena River Challenge Century Ride Aug. 11 Home Time Senior Men 1. Peter Krause Smithers 4:14:35 2, Joe Nelson Prince Rupert 4:16:12. 3. Craig Richey Smithers 4:17:59 4, John Nelson Vancouver 4:18:48 5. Karl Severa Terace © 4:19:10 6. Jonathon Hildebrandt Terrace "$142:23 7. Ray Praught Terrace 4:67:34 8. Duncan Stewart Terrace §:17:33 9. Rudi Feters Terrace 6:16:13 Women’s Open 1.Mary Stewart Terrace 4:42:27 2. Tina Haskins Terrace 4:57:44 3. Lucy Praught Terrace 5:05:53 . 4. Crystal Thomas Terrace 5:32:13 Veleran Men re 1. Nipper Kettle Houston... 4:33:25 2. Dave Stewart Terrace 4:42:28 3. Dave Cater Terrace 5:00:08 Masters Men 1. Ron Lowe Telkwa 4:19:11 Junior Men 1. Skye Jones Hazelton 4:18:02 2. Michael Burns Hazelton 4:18:03 TERRACE'S under-13 girls soccer team touch hands with the Kitimat squad during Riverboat Days soccer action. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Riverboat Days soccer sees great competition CONTRIBUTED THE U14 girls soccer divi- sion saw exciting action at the Riverboat Days soccer tournament. ’ The Terrace U12 team, coached by Chris Lindseth and hot off their Provincial experience, came out strong against the Terrace U13 squad coached by Nick Kollias first thing Aug. 2. The Ul2s drew first Evans wins seventh Simon Fraser blood early in the game and scored one more to end the first half 2-0. The Ut3s came back strong scoring one goal and the momentum shifted in the second half. Despite more scoring chances, the Ul3s were unable to. drive the ball home and the younger team walked away with a well deserved 2-1 victory. In the afternoon, Ter- © race’s U13 team battled Kitimat’s U13-14 line-up, creatively assembled and coached by Terry Monture just three weeks before the tournament. Terrace continued its momentum scoring early in the game but Kitimat fought back scoring a goal. Terrace kept its stride and matched Kitimat’s forceful play with a goal in the Cont’d Page B12 “TERRACE STANDARD E Record seiter MARY STEWART flashes a smile midway through the Aug. 10 Skeena River Challenge Century Ride. Stewart set a new record for the fastest woman to complete the 160 km Prince Rupert to Terrace road race. “It was probably the hardest I've ever gone on 638.7283 a race like that,” Stewart said. “I’m thritled.” She finished the.race in just 4:42:27 — nearly 45 minutes before the next female com- petitor crossed the finish tine. More ihan 20 people took on the demanding ride. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Local hockey players headed to Junior-level training camps By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN SEVERAL local hockey players are lacing up the skates this week as training and evaluation camps for ju- nior teams take place throughout the province. One of those players is 15-year- old Taylor Quinn, a talented forward who played on the bantam rep team in Terrace last season and is already on a Western Hockey, League (WHL) team’s protected list. Quinn got noticed by scouts for the Alberta-based Medicine Hat Ti- gers earlier this summer in Trail. [t didn’t take long ta add him to their list of prospects on their 50- player protected list. “It was good = there were a lot of good guys there a lot of Junior B giuys there trying to make Junior A,” Quinn says of the Trail try-outs. “They were looking to take five to 10 guys from the 180 there to go back to the main camp.” Though not selected to play for the team it means Quinn is not eli- gible to try-out for any other WHL teams. He'll ,be attending the Tigers’ camp after going to the Prince George Spruce Kings (BC Junior Hockey League) camp Aug. 20-24. Fellow teammate Nick Lindstrom also attended the Trail Smokeaters evaluation camp with Quinn. And last year’s top scoreer for the bantam rep team, Bryan Hull, has been invited to the Swift Current BRYAN HULL, Solby Link and Taylor Quinn have their sights « set on high level hockey. SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN PHOTO Broncos (WHL) training camp Aug. 27-31. Colby Link, also a bantam player last season, is attending both the Prince George Spruce Kings (BCJHL) training camp Aug. 20-24 and the next weekend he'll lace up the skates for the Prince George Cougars (WHL) training camp. Last year’s bantams aren’t the only ones getting some attention at a higher level of play. Stephen Cullis, who played for the Terrace midget rep team last year, is headed to Williams Lake to try out for the BC Junior Hockey League’s Timberwolves Aug. 20-24. He’ |] be joined by former Terrace Minor Hockey player Josh Murray who played in the Sicamous Junior B league last season. And finally Corey Paulson, who played Junior B for the Columbia Valley Rockies (Kootenay Interna- tional Hockey League) last season is headed ta Quebec City to try out fot the Quebec Ramparts, who are part of the Quebece Major Junior Hockey League, which is equivalent to the level of play seen in the WHL. “] think it’s really good for Ter- race Minor Hockey that there are that so many kids going out, consid- ering we only have one sheet of ice and one practice a week,” says last year's bantam rep team head coach John Amos, “For them to get noticed is a real feather in their caps.” Heinricks off to in the country — By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN KIM EVANS has won pretty much every golf tournament she’s entered in the northwest since she was 15-years-old. And the 34-year-old mother of one did it again just two weeks ago picking up her se- venth win at Prince George’s Ladies Simon Fraser amateur championship. “From here, Kitimat, Rupert and Smithers, since I’ve been about 15, [*ve won at least 30 tournaments,” says Evans. She's not bragging. In fact, she says she finds it a little embarrassing sometimes, but it's true. And the wins come through nothing but hard work. Evans first picked up a golf club in Kitimat at the age of 10, “I was really lucky in Kitimat because at ‘the time there was a really huge core of junior golfers,” Evans recalls. By 17 she had developed some serious ta- lent and spent that summer in Vancouver under the guidance of famous golf instructor Jack Westover. “I spent every day at the golf course - that’s all I did was practice,” she says. . She went on to win the ladies B.C. Amateur championships in 1988 and 1990. She became a member of the Canadian Ladies National Team and reached her highest ranking — fifth in 1989. ‘In 1992 she went pro, playing on the Au- -. gtrallan Ladies Professional Golf Tour for two months. Later that year she tried -urisuccessful- ly to qualify for the big show — the Ladies Pro- fessional Golf Association. “I played dreadfully,” Evans recalls. “It all kind of culminated in this disastrous stint.” That’s when she moved back to the north- west. In 1997 she decided to go back ta being an amateur and after a two-year waiting period she was given her amateur status back. She won this year’s women’s open at the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club and blew away the competition at the Kitimat La- dies Open, winning by 29 strokes, She loves being back on the tournament circuit and says the camaraderie of the game ~' and yes, the competitiveness - keeps her com- ing back. She likes the Simon Fraser open be- cause the competition is stiff. “They have ladies capable of shooting 75 or better,” Evans says. “It's that much more ex- citing to go head to head with somebody.” Last year she lost the. tournament for the first time - by three strokes, “It actually felt good to lose, it was refresh- ing to lose.” This. year’s win in Prince George was a close one — by just three strokes after shooting 74.0n the first day and a disappointing 78 the second day. “I actually got the course record in my practice round I shot 68 - I thought ‘way to wreck a round,” This year was the first time she’s ever heard disparaging remarks about her winning streak, _A-woman at the Prince. George clubhouse made a catty remark about Evans winning. the open.again. When Evans apologised and | iden- KIM EVANS’ golf game is still red hot. tified herself the woman was understandably embarrassed. | “Sometimes I want to say to people ‘if you only knew how hard I’ve worked on the. golf course,” she says. “1 guess I call. it paying my dues.” Canadian armwresliting championships LOCAL athlete Al Hein- ticks is once again on his way to the Canadian Arm- wrestling Championships. The competition is in Moncton, New Brunswick Aug. 29-Sept. 1 and the Terrace man is shooting for gold. Heinricks, a para- plegic, is no stranger to stiff competition. He's been competing at the the provincial and national Je- vels for several years, Over the August long weekend Heinricks was in Kelowna at the B.C. pro- vincials, which he calls practice for the Canada- wide competition. “] came back with four trophies,” he says. He picked up a first place finish in the amateur - 198-pound class, second in _the amateur. 199. plus » pound class, second in the masters 199 plus pound class and a third place fin- ish in the 221 pound pro class, ' ‘ Heinricks credils his , success‘to old fashioned - hard work and a lifestyle free of drugs and alcohol. | « “It helps. me.deal with © all the impasses and stum- ‘ bling blocks in life,” he. says of living a clean life, ‘ “It’s so- important that young people see there's « so much more to life than going the wrong way.” He's hoping if he’s in the right frame of mind, he’ll be successful in Moncton. “The biggest roadblock - people have is. their own: mind,” Heinricks says. “If: they think they can’t make ; it they’ Il never try.”