4 | 4 | 1 Fot Pie % spies APA om re: a es wr cen tent i a eget i corre seestberanat BF Sadie pad eae bras tts apa eae am (he ny ae ie , ‘Terrace All Seasons Stéelers have a grasp on the zone seven ladies’ soccer championship and -don’t want to give it up. They won thé zone berth for the July B.C. Summer Gameson ) scoreless in regulation time.:Five playoff: at ‘Skeena school June'3 weekend in a:two-team grounds. a “With. Kitimat not bothering to enter,” it was Terrace against Prince Rupert in a three-game set. The gals opened with a 1-1 tie. . . ‘Then the Steelers won the next two games — 1-0 and 2-1 — to -¢linch the zone title for the fourth straight year. - Six teams competed for the ‘men’s zone berth at the Surrey. games, When the round-robin, semi-finals and final were over, it-was Terrace Skeena Sawmills the winner on a 3-0 decision over Hazelton. The semi-finals were worth the price of admission to any series. Both Greenville teams, ur in a row for -soccers’ Steelers. with scecathonmrs pr ale Hazelton and the Sawmills. earn- ed spots in the semis. The teams. the worst round-robin marks — Aiyansh and Canyon City —- were eliminated. - The Sawmill-Royals game was from each squad then went into a shootout, but changed nothing as each scored twice, missed the. goal once and had two of their shots saved. This brought on sudden-death shootout where Sawmills scored and Royals didn’t. : The other semi had Hazelton downing Greenville G.A.C. 3-0, but Greenville protested over use of ineligible players. [t took a. phone call to B.C. Soccer. | Association: headquarters in Vancouver to check Hazelton’s registration before. the matter was settled. The protest. was denied. All scores can be found in this week’s scoreboard. ONE tree aT, rar mrs ae Be, met Sa eae ee rise stat Pree APT. er eee ety iat ag lear Sage oe sf seestli Terrace Review — Wednesday, Fune 14,1989 13. Peemectie og ah ott eure Fh Terrace’s All Seasons Steelers women’s soccer team will represent the northwest zone at. the B.C. Summer Games — for the fourth time in aS many years. Terrace’s Skeena Sawmills men’s soccer team eliminated the zone competition June 4 and they'll be off to the B.C. Summer Games next month in Surrey. “Kermode boys’ coach attracted by Vancouver Island offer Phil Letham hadn’t planned to give up his teaching and coaching chores. at Caledonia Senior Secondary School this year, but he’s going now, , *“We hadn't planned to move, _ but | put out a few applications and felt if I got something ex- tremely interesting, I'd look into it,’ he told us. ‘Wellington _ (one of four senior high schools. in Nanaimo) came up with an offer just like I wanted, and it was just too good to turn down. ‘The building has just gone ‘into into senior secondary status from junior high.” Phil said he’ll more or less be starting from scratch, He leaves the triple ‘AAA’ Caledonia Ker- mode boys’ basketball squad in relatively good shape, with top. talent coming up from Skeena junior high. ‘‘Wellington played senior last year without any Grade 12’s, but they had a somewhat horrible season. I expect to. put ina three-or-four year building session before tiple ‘AAA’ results show up.’ This was. Letham’s seventh year here, His first season was at | Skeena, then he went to Cal high. Prior to this he taught at Lethbridge, Alberta for five seasons. — We asked Letham if.any year of the six spent at Caledonia stood out in his mind, “‘That’s a tough question,”’ he said. ‘Of course the last team you coached will always have the biggest memory, but I can remember each year as being unique and different to me. They’re all still vivid in my mind,’” Phil declined to offer his opin- ion on the best player he coach- ed in Terrace. ‘‘Too many,’’ he explained, . ‘*1’m extremely sorry to go — it’s a very sad time for me.’” He told us he was very emo- tional about it and felt he was leaving a lot behind. . -However, he has left Caledonia: with everything in place for incoming coach Cam McKay. things I had to have done i in my mind. “‘The program is in the best shape it’s been in a long time. Fund-raising is lined up, we have A ane rr ger SOE ELE ‘Tt was one of the- money in our account, we havea great schedule, and we have a great group of young players coming in to join our tremen- dous group of holdovers.’’ “It’s an ideal situation for Cam.”’ We wound up our conversa-— tion with these words from Phil. ‘I'm really torn to leave Ter- ‘race. I just think it’s a tremen- dous community all the . way through. First of all, the young- sters are of tremendous character, and simply put, it’s an outstanding community all roun Departing principal Bill Sturn _offered us some parting words on Phil’s work at his school, “I feel Phil Letham -is a special person and the athletes of Terrace were fortunate to have a person of his ability to set up and work with on the Terrace basketball program. “One of the highlights of my. career here as principal was the recruitment of Phil from Leth- bridge. He had extensive ex- perience in Alberta and felt he’d - fit in to our Terrace program. He certainly did,’’ Sturn said. Bs Babolat Fae care Fe NN in ov fanny icon ah RC ‘5 sae Picth sO RRR Christensen dusted by veteran biker Terrace’s deluxe bicyclist Mike Christensen was ‘Stana- ized’ at Prince George’s ‘*Tour of Prince George’’ races on June 3 weekend. Although he placed third in two of the three events, he was more fascinated in Olav Stana, a 34-year-old . cyclist that Mike _ feels is one.of the world’s best. The veteran Stana won every- thing and with relative ease. Stana was well out in front in the opening 90-K road race, where Mike was edged out of Two awards Terrace ladies’ Northern Stealers fastball team came home June 4 with the most sportsmanlike team award from the Hazelton ladies’ fastball tournament. Terrace. played four games — winning two and losing two. They beat Kispiox ‘George rider. second by another Prince The 15-K in- dividual time trial mext day wasn’t even close as Stana clocked 19 minutes, 46 seconds. The rumnerup finished at 22.15 with Mike in at 22.46. The last event was two-kilom- eter Cannaught speed duo, on “Cannaught. Park hill, Mike was beaten outin the second elimina. tion by... who else, Stana. This weekend he’s off to Quesnel for more racing. for Stealers 9-5 and Kitwancool 12-6. Their losses were 8-4 to ‘Hazelton’s Skeena ‘A’ and 7-6 to Prince. Rupert Rainettes in the seven- team double-knockout series, The Stealers’ Linda Black was named most player. inspirational Riverboat Race TERRACE ROTARY RIVERBOAT RACE AUG. 7, 1989 COPPER RIVER FLATS 1st Prize: $2000.00 | ; 2nd Prize: Weekend Trip for 2 to Vancouver including accommodation (Century Plaza Hotel Terrace Travel Canadian Airlines International Ltd.) 3rd Prize: Gas Barbeque Tickets: $3.00 each or Two for $5.00 Available From Any Rotary Member Hap aetie are pate aw fen aces eT wae rag te et