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’ MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO

- Bantams busted

TERRACE BANTAM: reps couldn’ t weather the Storm or

B10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Midgets zone magic

By MARGARET SPEIRS

. TERRACE MIDGET reps pulled off an

upset over Kitimat at the zones, and came as
close as it gets to Winning the whole event.
Coach Herb Goriak said the team had

‘beaten Kitimat once and tied once, but lost.

eight or nine times over the scason.
His players were down 3-1, after Adam
Gillis put them on the board. With five min-

utes left, Gillis put another past the posts and.

two minutes later ‘Tristan Murray tied it up

. at three.

At the. one minute mark exactly; Willie
Ginka scored the Winner_in a game Goriak
said was “one of our better games.”

‘Later: that evening, the team lost 4-2 to

Smithers after a back and forth game. -
“In the final game against Smithers, a:

three-all tic ended regulation time.
Willie Ginka found the twine twice and

- Tristan Murray scored a single. . n
After the 10 minute overtime, nothing
» their job from the captain to the goaltender,”

_ had changed.

The rules stated the teams would play

. with a full team for two minutes, then each

sometimes can’t seem: to °
_ play with them either. »

team would play with one less player for two

minutes and continue losing one player until

‘both teams | were one-on-one.

The trouble with refs.

" HOCKEY

" REFEREES:

can’t play without them and CIHL.”

During the. River Kings-
Houston game Jan. 15, Ter-
race goalie Burny Carlsen
discovered his net not quite ©

the service they provide the

He added the league is
.working with the BC Ama-
teur Hockey Association to
hold a clinic this summer or
fall to provide training. for

After four-on- four, then three-on-three
and two- -on- two, the score still remained
tied.

At one-on-one, the Smithers player slid
around Taylor Quinn and scored on a break-
away for the win.

Goriak described it as “A ‘great game
with some of ithe finest hockey I've ever
coached.

“Everyone on the team played the best

they could be,” he said.
“It shows how good everyoné on the team
can be when they focus on hockey and work

“ethics.” —

‘He said his team felt challenged as Smith-
ers and Kitimat are’ excellent hockey teams
who always win or come in second.

Goriak ‘said the entire team, could be
named the star players. . .

“You can say that went from the young-
est player to the oldest player on the tzam. It
was one of those games where everyone did

he said.

“You hate to-lose at any time, but when.
you sit back to look at it days later, you
sure feel pretty blessed to coach a game like
that. ”

easiest thing to do is identify
a problem; ‘the real challenge
lies in finding a solution.
“Clearly . Mr. Carlsen
feels that something should
be done about the referees.

in its correct place after
Houston scored its third goal
and then won the game 5-2.

The refs aren't

While I am not ‘convinced
yet-that this is the case, I
would ask Mr. Carlsen and

tame ‘the Lions.

Terrace toppled 8- 2 to the Kitimat Bantam Lions and fost
- 4-2 tothe Smithers Bantam Storm at zones. > .
Although leading 2-1. going into the third, they couldn’t
‘score when they had the: ‘opportunity, coach John Amos
said.
Kitimat went on to smother ‘Smithers and win the right to
«vs. represent the zone in the Bantam AA Provincial Champion- ;
oo ships here March 19 to 25. ;

Terrace qualified automatically as host,

“Amos said Kitimat*came to zones to play and will be a 7
. formidable opposition at provincials. oe

“We're hoping they’ re. in 1 the. other division,” . Amos said :

about Kitimat. “ .

questioned the refs on the
placement of the net, which
had been knocked out of po-
sition during the first period.

. He said there aren’t any
“marks on the ice to ‘show the
net’s - ‘position and_ that., the
posts were two- inches off at
the time ‘of Houston’s third
goal. » foe
“The refs aren’t up to

Go.

aaa

‘o After the game, ‘Carlsen _

speed ° in ‘the, league right:
now. and I hope. Bob Love -

up to speed in the
league right now

and | hope Bob Love ©
. helps clear it up for —

next year. —

in

existing and would-be refer

ees and linesmen..

“The CIHL does, not cur-.
rently have enough, referees '
to service all of the league,” :

he said..

~, Terrace bantams: failed to make proviticials last year, but .
half of Amos’ team gained experience playing.at the Peewee
” provincials. He remains positive about this year.  *

“Everybody ‘starts with the same record: and the same

chance,” he said.

“Sports Menu

i March 12.and-13 oo . .
‘Come out to Shames Mt. to watch snowboarders and ski-
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helps | clear. it up for next

- been complaints about refs

‘stand behind our referees

local referees they can.draw,
from. They are left to import
referees from other commu-
nities. This ‘increases their
costs significantly.”
While he couldn’t speak
directly.. to . the. incident

year,” hesaid, =,
Central. Interior Hockey
League (CIHL) president
Bobby Love said as long
as hockey’s existed there’s

being ‘ ‘incompetent, terrible,
biased, etc.”

“There will, always be
these sentiments when you
have a winner and loser,” he
said by email from Smith-—
ers, " ;
“As league president, I

and ‘linesmen and applaud

Local zone team ends
-up one rock shy of win

“Many t teams do not have

THE BC Senior Men’ s.Provincial Curling

zone.

"Our zone team,’ the Maksymetz rink
from. Kitimat, finished with a 1-3 record,
‘and all their final scores differed by only
one rock:

- In their first game, Kitimat came back
from a 7-0 deficit to win 8-7 over the Rick
Pughe rink from Royal City.

‘In their second game against the McTa-

: mat rink once again played it close.

six-all, but couldn’t go the distance, losing
8-7 after 10 ends. . ;

Championship wrapped up early { for our —

Maksymetz scored two in the ninth to go

“vish rink, also from Royal City, the Kiti- .
~ .Down 3-0 after the first end and 6-1 in —

the fifth, Maksymetz took two in the sixth .
and three in. the seventh to tie the game.

They met Vancouver's Giles rink for

their third game and went up 1-0 after the
first end. -

The lead alternated with each end ‘ex-
cept for ties of 2-2 after the third:and 5-5 _
after seven ends.

Giles added another in the eighth, -

up 7-6 but lost it in the tenth end 8-7.

With a record of 1-2 and facing elimi-
nation with another loss, Maksymetz met
Laface from Vernon Saturday morning.

Maksymetz’ rink lost 7-6 inthe 11th
end. Meanwhile, a southern BC team
swept to top spot. McTavish won the final
9-2 over Giles.

~ McTavish will represent BC in the Ca-

nadian Senior Men's Curling Champion-
ship in East St. Paul, Manitoba, just out-
side Winnipeg, later this. month.

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“anyone else to offer some-

solutions to their problem.”
Love said he’s heard pos-
itives and negatives about.

reffing around the league.
If a matter is serious,
a. complaint _
launched and the league
would look into the: matter

: by asking for differing opin-

ions and viewpoints. :

“Hockey is a fast«paced ©

gamé and things get missed.

The referees are human and.

humans _ make © “mistakes,”
Love, said. _
. “If a mistake was ‘made,

--my next question would be .
‘is this a consistent mistake. .
athat is being made?” If so,
then we could do something
about it.” es -

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