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"The Caledonia Kermode boys’
senior high school basketball
team showed us why they’re cur--

. rently ranked 10th best in B.C.

when they downed arch-rival

Prince Rupert Rainmakers

100-87 in their: opening game of
the season at Caledonia school
Friday night.

And while Terrace truimphed
on the boys’ side, Rupert’s Rain-
birds offered evidence on whey
they are touted seventh best in
the. province with a one-sided
68-32 victory over the hometow
Kermode girls. °

With both sides now playing
under the new triple ‘AAA’ ban-
ner (a notch up on double ‘AA’
competition from past seasons),
the games attracted about 200
fans.

Games involving. Kitimat
Rebels and Orcas on Saturday
had to be cancelled due to the
teachers’ strike situation in
Kitimat.

The girls’ game was never in
doubt as the Birds ran up 24-4

lead at the quarter and held a

38-11 margin at the half. By
three-quarter time, Kermodes
* were down 31 points (52-21).
Even though they played
much better in the second half,
Kermodes weren’t in the same
class as coach Cary Dalton’s
Rainbirds. Terrace rookie coach
Dan Vanos expects improve-
Ment over the season from his
Kermodes. a
Nina Phillipson paced the

Birds with 17 points, Audrey.

Dennison chipped in with 14
while Joanna Vierra had 11 and
Susie Jarosch 10. Jody Cox pop-
ped in 14 for Terrace. Danielle
‘St. Thomas added nine.

Rainbords had 20 of the 31
fouls called.

As far as the Kermode-Rain-
maker game goes, it was Mike

Hogg’s night. The six-foot, six-

Shorthanded

girls lose

-The Kermode girls high school

basketball team lacked several

starting players on Dec. 4 week-
end at Prince George, which is
why they were unable to win any
of three games played.

The missing players happened
to be at the B.C. volleyball finals
at the same time. _

New coach Dan Vanos and
girls had to suffer through 4

69-25 loss to Prince George.

O’Grady Catholic, a 55-30 one-
sider to Quesnel’s Corrilieu, and

a 51-30 decision to Prince

George Duchess Park.

‘Exhibition.

hoop won

_by Kermodes

. Terrace Caledonia Kermode
girls fought off Hazelton
Spartleties to score a 43-36 ex-

- hibition basketball victory at Cal

-high last Thursday night. Ker-
_ mode's got a sparkling 24-point
effort from Jody Cox.

-bounds in Kermode’s victory.

_with the game, but coach Phil
_Letham subbed regularly and
-gave his rookies lots of floor
~ time.

From the start it appeared
that Kermodes would run away

The hometowners took a
31-18 lead at the half and were
up 56-43 by halftime. At the
three-quarter mark it was 83-69
for Kermodes.

_- John Favela was next in scor-
ing for the winners with 14
points. Rick Tolman with 20 and
Paul .Haffey with 14 topped the
visitors. Fifty-five fouls were
called —- 28 against Rainmakers.
' This week has Kermodes
travelling to Salmon Arm for the Ff
Treasure Tournament. . ao

They're stopping today for an .§
exhibition game at Vanderhoof,
Tomorrow morning they’ll play.
Corrilicu in the morning at
Quesnel and Columneetza at
Williams Lake in the afternoon.
Tournament play at Salmon
Arm starts Friday night. -

teams.

6-4.

Two all-stars and a coach — Kermode all-star players
Bruce Neid, left, and Garrett Hidber, center, sat beside
coach Richard Kriegl during Caledonia High School’s
assembly on Nov. 28. The entire team was honored for tak-
_-jng second place at the B.C. high school championships.

"Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 14, 1988 ‘9 |
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second —

The Terrace Inland Kenworth
Bantams put their nine-win,
one-tie record on the line Dec. 4
weekend at a six-team tourna- _
ment in Vanderhoof. oY

When it was over, Terrace had
suffered its first two lasses of the |
season. But they also won three
games and placed runnerup to
Burns Lake — a team they faced
three times. : a

In an unimaginative tourney: —
schedule, |
Kitimat and Burns Lake entries, - )
but none of the other three =~

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Terrace played -. |

They started with a 10-2 loss.
to the Lakers, then beat Kitimat
6-2. In game three it was Burns
Lake again and this time we won

Kitimat had its second turn
against us in game four and we
beat them again —- 8-4. The last -
game was a demolish job with
Burns Lake dumping us 12-1.

Meanwhile, the Bantam house
league’s Avco Jets won the
Northern B.C. Winter Games.
berth at home on the same
weekend. In a three-team
playoff, Terrace beat Kitimat
10-0 and downed Hazelton 8-5.

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