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Pa B4 — - Terace Standard, Wednesday, May 15, 1991

"pete Soverel's been around.
twenty-seven he found
himself in. Vietnam with 1,500
men and $0 naval assault: craft
under: "his: command. In_ his

~~ 13-month tour: he'd awarded

hundreds of purple’ hearts.
‘Runnin’. up ° those: jungle

_Wivers with’ brush growing up to
-and. over: the banks, not

-@tound the'next _bend was real
* Serious business,” says Petein a

_phlegmatic: drawt.

«‘Almost

-everyone I-knew in Nam was
“wounded, maimed or killed.”

After his stint in the police ac-
tion’ to end. all police: actions,
Pete spent: the next quarter cen-
tury travelling the world with
the U.S;-Navy, On those trips

‘his shotgun and fly rod were

always near by. -
. In Norway, _ Pete sampled

some. of the world's premier

Atlantic salmon fisheries,
" “The Norwegians had built’
wooden platforms out over the

| challenge

. this weekend for the western

[i

q wood ‘says. the entry forms
are hot off the press and at [-

‘licipated for the top male

| deadline is June 24,

SPORTSCOPE- |

‘Karate

EIGHT LOCAL karate com-
petitors are off to Richmond

‘Canadian championships
and B.C. provincials.
- Terrace’s Chito Ryu-style
_karate club is to send three
seniors and five juniors.
Black’ beltCalen McNeil
and brown belts Ron Leves-
que and Dan Warner are the
Seniors going down, Juniors
competing include: Deb
Casey (blue belt), Darcy
McKeown (green belt), Troy
‘Gagnon (orange belt), Mat
‘Merrill (orange belt) and
‘Margo™ MecKeowst?tyellow
belt)... sore ;
“At last year’s provincial
championships, the Terrace-
Kitimat team brought back a
large- share of the medals.
McNeil last year sparred his
‘way toa silver medal ‘in the
kumite fighting event,
defeating three B.C. team
members en route, Casey cal-
_lected'a silver medal ‘in the
age 13-14 kuntite event and
picked up a bronze in the in-
dividual forms competition.

oo
The big
event
INTEREST IS already
building -for Terrace’s
Skeena Valley Ti rlathton this

summer. <,
Organizer Dale Green-

ee heer gh :

least’ 60.’ triathletes . from
around the province already
say they’re planning to.come
‘for the July 14 swim- -bike-
run. .

“We're already way. ahead
of last year,” he said.’

A team from Ketchikan,
Alaska is expected to come,
and Greenwood hints there
could be some big name com-
petition from Vancouver this
year. -

That's because the nor-
thwest event no longer con-
flicts with any other events,
‘after a southern B.C. race
i switched: ‘to a different
weekend. |

The route is to be the same
as last year, centred around
Water ‘Lily’ Bay on: Lakelse
Lake. Te

A. $1,000 - purse - is: ‘ati

and. female triathletes, as
well ” “as . numerous other
prizes. mo

: The demanding, course will

swim, a 40-kilometre - cycle
and 10-kilometre run. Entry |.

‘s Last: year’s Skeena Valley
Triathlon saw Quesnel’s Neil
McColl win * the: gruelling
northwest race: with -a.two-
hour‘ first place finish. Colin
Parr was. the fastest: ‘Terrace | |
triathlete, finishing. a

“connois:

feature -a--one-kilometre |.

with an expert Atlantic salmon

angler named Grunwald,”’ Pete .- a
‘elates, ‘The river was too fast .*

and too déep to wade. I walked”
to the end of the pier with my °

“nine-weight rod. Grunwald

pointed to the white water surg-

ing over the, rocks. at, the tail of. .
=. “the pool. ” "
knowin’ if-there’d bea firefight .

Phere,’ he: ‘aid,

into'the standing waves. It skip-
ped across the surface, and. was

_ taken in a big swirl.” © ©

A wistful smile crosses Pete's

face. “The salmon took off. like,

a bucking horse and ‘went. over
the edge into the rapids. It:-was:

over . quick, Then Grunwald. t

stepped up to the edge’ ofthe

platform: with his 16-foot: “two-','@
handed rod,’ continues Pete. * —
‘You don't have a big enough |

gun,’ he said. Then he pulled an

awful lot of line off the reel and
punched it-out into the heavy
water. After 4 few casts another

eur

river.we ‘fished. I was fishing |

. ‘swim [ "
‘your. fly there.” I threw my fly Brera .
huge salion'cs came surging up to .

aay

| fe sxetna, |
angler
PY Rob Brown -

Eric's .fly:, Then it. was war.

“There. was no way» Grunwald
Was going to-let.that:fish over:
the iedge, His 30-Ib leader. sizzl-"
ed through ‘the: ‘water. The big:
rod was bent over like a hoop. It:
took a long while and a lot of.

arm: ‘wear, but he: finally Ww stl

In Tierta el "Fuego,

PORTS NE

ete.
fished for: silvery sea-run brown.” .
trout.
“They weren't native to
Argentina,” he told me. “Some:

European fella brought: some
browns over in . barrels’ and -

dumped °’em
Didn't do much goad for the in-
digenous species, J-expect, But
those trout: decided. they : liked
the sea. They -started ' behavin’.
like salmon, ‘Now they’ re as: big
as salmon and just as strong.”

“Sdn the twilight: years. of - his
“ navy career,-Pete was a top ad-

visor first to Jimmy Carter —

in: the rivers. -

another avid. flyfisherman © —

and later to- Ronald. Reagan.

. One of his last duties in thie lat- -
ter capacity was to. put together

and “overse “the aft ‘charged

with : the investigation into the,

Iran-Contra scandal,

Pete's’ dream. was ‘to fellre

_and fish full time, Unfortunate-

ly he can’t quite do that as the

. | family: business is involved: in
- the large scale development of.
“an island in the Bahamas. Pete.

flies there a couple of times each
month, When: the -business is
over he fishes for the. exotic
species . that. prowl: the. marl.
bottomed, salt’ water flats;. ;-:
“The water’s about two ‘feet
deep, blue and. clear,’’ says
Pete. ‘‘Bonefish climb up over
the shelf and sniff arcund” ‘for
food, crabs and: stuff, on the
bottom. You pole around ona
skiff until you spot a school.”
“Once you find the fish, you
throw your fly ahead -of the

. nearest one and let it sink to the -

JEFF NAGEL 638- 7283

TERRACE STANDARD |

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WAYS TO WEAR IT: Third | baseman Michael Staveley experiments with 2 anew w glove on This first
day of T-ball last Tuesday at Elk's Park, where his team — the: No-See- Ums — took on the EMCO ©

give the Northmen a lead in the
McCleary kicked a successful:

Early in the second half i
hing through ‘nuierd
able fomip through the’ Cath

“make It 6-0 Terrace at the half. :

half. Wille.

‘Wilton, who mi

tan ‘the ball in.
‘Northman try for, oe
‘Running to the. comnej. meant'a long. distance
; converstort attempt, 2
protecting «his “three: for-thres Aicking » ‘record,
some ‘said. gal the abs

Camels get mauled

SMITHERS — [t was a long hard tide for the
Smithers Camels two weekends ago.

The rugby team was ridden hard by the Ter-
race Northmen, who posted their second straight
North Coast Rugby Union win of the season by
beating the Camels 16-0 in Smithers, |

-Smithers came on very strong,’' said Nor--
thmen spokesman David Hull: ‘crediting . the
“ tenacious Camels for a hard-drivih effort. .-

‘But sloppy defence by Smithers, ‘and Terrace's
ability to stymie the Camels: inside the: Nor-
thmen’s.22-metre line would decide the contest.

~ Graham Bayles scored his first‘of two trys for
Terrace breaking ‘into, the Smithérs'¢nd zone-to

. paydirt. That added another four, and McCleary
. made the conversion for-a 12-0 Terrace lead.
Tempers flared somewhat during the second |
half when a few Northmen objected to being hit
after the ball disappeared.
The heated exchange peaked with a few errant
punches being thrown. ‘Referee Glen Greene gave:
some. friendly: advice tothe. players involved, .
then removed them: froth. the game,
Terrace’s Mark MacLean —.a United Church
student minister who played a bit of rugby in
university — rounded out:the scoring when he
to'the corner to score the third.

final 16-0 tally.

d:this tIme McCleary —

gniment:.to,. Doug
aion

“TE -took that job: with: the enough you, :give:. 9
a understanding it would get ‘mea 7
‘, cotmmand on a battleship,” says.

Petes?

Soverel,

bottom: If you're yay the: .
creature. will mave in. bea eee

“twitch. ‘Ifyou! see the fish tip up:

gut: of the:

“didn’t get. much’ nti “to fish
lenty o of .

together but we did ae
time to talk. -

world for every kindof oe :

Pete,” F- observed:.i!‘Whal. was

the. finest experienc oo tapron:

east coast?” 5
egreetneading,””
““Steetheading Fight’
here. There is nothing finer than _
fishing your rivers for-summer- -

_Tun steelhead. Don't. let. it. slip
through § your hands like ¥ we did

in Washington,"

Back in

winter

TERRACE — Rod Philpot is

making a trip back into winter..

The 24-year-old Terrace
hockey player has just finished
a university degree in
Lethbridge and now he’s head-
ed for New Zealand to coach
hockey and teach school there.

Winter’s just starting down
under, so Philpot will have
several more months of white
stuff — and hockey — to look
forward to.

4 “It's hockey season there
“mow,’’ he said before flying
~ south on Sunday. ‘They're just

getting started,”? -
His job will’ be,as-a playing

or junior ‘B’: level’: “ vin

Local boxers
get more |

Auckland. There are about five

teams of that tevel in’the 1 north

island city, =. mo
“Hockey - still” growing
down there,” he said. “It’s not
really established yet.”?
Philpot just completed his
bachelor of arts and education
in physical education at the
University of Lethbridge, He
wants to teach physical. educa-
lion at a secondary school in
New Zealand, and through his.
coaching career hopes to bea ‘
to pass some Canadian flav
along to New Zealand hockey?
> “103° a place ~ I've . always

- wanted to go, and it allows me
coach at an amateur. hockey.
team — he describes it asa tier ae

to ‘combine the -three things “I

like’ ‘doing — hockey, (caching ;

and travel, moe

experience —

TERRACE — Terrace boxers
won'some and lost some at a
10-bout card’ in Kitimat two
weekends ago.

The May-4 event was the first
annual Aluminum City boxing
championships and local club
‘coach Jeff Dilley said the Ter-
race . ‘punchers picked up
valuable’ experience: and a few

wins as well,

Twelve- “year-old | ‘Buddy

Doane, of Terrace, dropped a

.3-2 split. decision to «Prince
Rupert’s Frank Russ; a ‘13-year-

old boxer inthe 115-Ib junior -

“A! division,

And Terrace's Jassi Gill, 1,
was also on the short end of a
3-2 split decision; losing to Alex
Alvarez in a close fight. Alvarez
shook up Gill in the first round,
bul ‘the ‘Terrace . boxer battled
back in the’ final two rounds,

“It was a ‘yock’em_ sock’em
Fight,'’ Dilley: commented,

“The crowd’ thought Jassi’ won :

*—'jt was that close"? ©
Darren’ Bell. got revenge’ ‘on
Prince Rupert's Brian’ Kohn’-—
who had beaten the £5-year-old
‘Terrace’ boxer | at’ the - récént
Qolden Gloves’ provincial cham-

‘Pionships. This time Bell‘won‘a..
‘unanimous. decision, over: Kohn,
who wag his teammate at the na-

:tlonals in | Sarnia: last: month,

;- “He put ona masterful Bie b
“ing exhibltion,!”-said Dilley, ad-—
,ding Bell’ was also named best

Darren Bell
B.C, Winter Games, This. time
Doane battled-to a convincing
4-] decision. :
‘Fourteen: “year-old Joey

Losier ‘won “a unanimeuis: deci.
slon. 125-Ib  divisiori win ‘over

17-year-old Murray: Sholty. of
-Fort-Fraseér: ‘Joey: just’ had 106
. Much power for:him and too.
much boxing experience," said |
. Dilley; He’ said Losier * could
have ended it in the third round,” .
~ but: he e Instructed, Losier to’ hold.

& 14; ar Terrace; ,
battled varlous obstacles: in-his,..
- first fight “to,‘ga° the | distance :
- against Prince Rupert's 16-year; oe
id ‘Bruce uellemin,® bet befdre ~~