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hosting
triple AAA
semi-final

Triple ‘AAA’ semi-final pro- ff

vincial playdowns for Minor
Hockey’s juvenile and peewee

divisions will be held here this §

weekend at the Terrace Arena.

Both divisions play a best-of- : a

three set.
Terrace juveniles take on the

north-central reps (likely Prince :

George) with games scheduled [iam

for Friday night at 8:15, Satur-
day night at 8:15, and if needed,
Sunday at 12 noon.

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peewees also meet the north-
central winner (again likely
Prince George) in games
scheduled for Saturday morning
at 9 o’clock, Saturday afternoon
at 4 o’clock, and if needed, Sun-

. day morning at 9 o’clock.

Also scheduled for triple

‘AAA? playdowns this weekend —

are Terrace Inland Kenworth
bantams and Fort St. James in a
three-team round-robin. final at
the home of the north-central
division winner.

Provincial finals for triple
‘AAA’ teams have peewees at
Fort St. John, bantams at
Kelowna, and midgets at Ter-
race. Finals run during the
school spring break.

Ladies curl

Prince Rupert’s annual tadies
bonspiel attracted only 29 teams

this year, including four from-

Smithers and three from Ter-
race,

When it was over on the.

March 6 weekend, the top win-
ner for the 36th annual event
was the local rink skipped by
Sharon Valentinuzzi. She beat
Rusty Blanes of Terrace 9-5 in
the ‘B’ event final, and also won
the grand challenge with a 5-1
win over Norma Graham of
Smithers. :

‘A’ event was an all-Smithers
final with Janice Himick of
Smithers downing clubmate
Graham 10-7. Rupert rinks skip-
ped by Cory Atchison and
Sharon Carlson were third and
fourth respectively.

Third and fourth places in ‘B’
event went to Jenny McLean
and Sigi Carpenter, both of
Rupert,

Veteran Judy Marineau came
back to beat Nancy Doll of
Smithers 9-8 in the ‘C’ event
final. Sue Comadina was third
and Jean Billing fourth.

Another all-Rupert final was ©

‘D’ event, where Pat Jensen edg-
ed Wendy Atchison 7-6 in an ex-
tra end. Third and fourth were
Jackie Shepperd and McLean.

Last week's hockey contest between the tou

cae

ring Montreal Old P

ros and the Terrace Timbermen oldtimer’s team

Terrace Review — Wednesday, March 16, i988 9

drew a fuil house of all ages at the Terrace Arena.

~ Montreal Old Pros give -

They came to show fans how
the game of hockey should be
played, and although the ancient
legs lacked the speed of days
gone by in the National Hockey
League, the youthful zest was
still there, together with spark-
ling passes, stick-handling and
shooting.

It was the Montreal Old Pros
last Thursday night at a packed
Terrace Arena for a game of
hockey against the Terrace
Timbermen Oldtimers. The
score favored the visitors 9-7,
but that was only a small part of
the contest.

Under the guidance of the |

former great Maurice ‘The

Rocket’ Richard, who no longer
plays but handles the officiating,
they offered some gags, auto-
graphs and souvenirs.

Youngsters and many young
adults weren’t even born when
these guys were in their glory
days, but that didn’t matter.
More than 200 waited in the
main lobby after the game to
pick up an autograph on
everything from pictures to
athletic jackets and arm casts.

One fan even brought old
NHL photos of Frank Mahov-
lich's playing days and got
number 27 quite excited in look-
ing them over and signing them.

As for the game, introduc-
tions brought about the first
gag, The Rocket was last to be
recognized, and the Old Pros
paid homage to the NHL’s first
§0-goal scorer by getting down
on their knees and bowing
several times in Richard’s di-
rection.

It took Montreal only 50
seconds to score the first goal.
Chuck Lefley banged it in on a
pass from Bob Nevin and Jim

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Johnson. Montreal added three
more goals before the end of the
period — all of them scored by
Chuck Arnason.

The Timbermen had two first-
period goals from John Taylor
and Sev Piattoni, making the
score 4-2 going into the second.

The Old Pros tallied three
more in the middle stanza off
the sticks of Mahovlich, Lefley
and Johnson. Terrace had one
legal marker from Bob Cooper.

' They also counted two more on

the scoresheet from Minor
Hockey’s atom division young-
sters who replaced the Timber-
men to start the second period.
With the score 7-5 for Mon-
treal entering the last 20
minutes, fans saw some of Eddie
‘The Entertainer’ Shack’s antics
as the game drew to a close.
One stunt had referee Richard
use Shack’s large proboscis to
measure an illegal Timbermen
stick. The penalty was to make
Terrace’s Rino Michaud take a
penalty shot with a mini-stick.
On another penalty shot by
Terrace, the Montrealers ail
tossed their sticks in front of
the player as he went to shoot.
Later, defenceman Bill White
feigned an injury, Shack poked
his nose in and was sprayed by
water. White took off with
Shack behind, hoisting a large
water bucket. Fans thought it
would likely contain confetti —

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but it was the real stuff, with.
which Shack drenched the
Timbermen bench as he skated
past.

Goals in the third period went
to Montreal’s Gary Peters and
Johnson, plus Terrace’s Frank
O’Brien and Harold Cox.

Only one penalty was called.
Richard fingered Mahovlich for
30 seconds for missing the open
net with his shot.

The complete roster of Old
Pros and the teams they played
for in the NHL is as follows:

Frank Mahovlich (Toronto,
Detroit, Montreal), Eddie Shack
(Toronto and assorted teams),
Ab MacDonald (Chicago), Billy
Harris (Toronto), Chuck Ar-
nason (Montreal), Gary Peters
(Montreal), Bob Nevin (Toron-
to), Jim Neilson (Rangers),
Chuck Lefley (Montreal), Jim
Johnson (Philadelphia), Gary
Smith (Vancouver), Noel Price
(Detroit), Bill White (Chicago). |

The Timbermen roster was
Gary Schatz, Rod Hunter, Les
Thorsteinson, Brian Kennedy,
Brian Miller, John Taylor,
Larry Krause, Harold Cox, Rino
Michaud, Gerry Martin, Frank
O’Brien; Bob Cooper, Sev Piat-
toni, Ken Olson, Grant Casper,
Rick Letawski, and Joe
Whitney.

_ Marc Verault managed Mon-
treal while Jake De Jong man-
aged the Timbermen.

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‘No’ for Ho
at finals

Christine Ho’s attempt at
becoming B.C.’s only double
curling champion this year fell
short at the provincial junior
ladies tournament on March 7,

Ho, the Prince Rupert
youngster who had won the B.C.
high schoo! girls title only one
week previously, lost out 6-4 to
Colleen Hannah of Vancouver
in a sudden-death final at Trail.

Ho, Hannah and Tracey Fryer
of Victoria all posted seven-win
and two-loss records in the
round-robin portion of the
series. a

In a coin toss decision, Han-
nah won and received a berth in
the final. Fryer and Ho had to
play a semi-final for the other
berth,

, Against Fryer, Ho was down

6-4 in the ninth end. But Ho
came back and beat Fryer 8-6.

In the title match, Hannah
made a last-rock takeout to
count two for the win.

Ho had elected to count one
on the ninth end to tie the score
at 4-4, instead of blanking the
end and trying for two points
and a win coming home.

She tried to freeze her last
stone against Hannah’s rock in
the 10th, but was heavy. This
left Hannah with a wide-open
takeout for two and she didn’t
miss.

Hannah, who had defeated
Ho 7-6 in the round-robin,
represents B.C, at the Canadian

- junior championships starting

March 26 at North Vancouver.

Kermodes up |

It’s Caledonia Kermode boys
crack at a provincial senior dou-
ble ‘AA’ high school basketball
title this week at Vancouver.

They opened play today
against highly-ranked North
Delta in this 16-team modified
double-knockout series.

Should they win, they’d meet
either North Van’s Sentinel or
Port Alberni Thursday night. A
loss would have them play one
of the aformentioned teams
Thursday morning.

In order to win this series, you
must beat four opponents.
You're guaranteed a minimum
of two games. Last year, Prince
Rupert Rainmakers represented
the northwest zone and were
eliminated in two straight
games.

Over the season, Kermodes
never cracked the top 10
coaches’ rankings.

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