Third i in @ series

Ray was awoken by the whine
Of, a: ‘chainsaw. He Sooked ‘out .
- the, windshield. The trees. were
“nO. longer: bent. The ‘wind had.

ith'a blue baseball cap.and red
shirt. sawing through. the.
hich had fallen across the

able. reason, "Ray.
Lurge: to shave off half of
_ Steve’s moustache while his pal,
slept... fe, imagined Steve going
“through: ‘part. of the.day before
“discovering part of the hair on.
- his upper lip, fifty per cent of.
* his, first. moustache —~ his pride
“and joy’"— had ‘vanished, Ray.’
‘sniekered at: the thought then
“wonderéd. why he thought such
“thoughts, and if thinking
“thoughts like that was complete-
.-ly normal, Besides, he had no
‘razor and shaving cream

“stopped, There was a large man .

anyway.

The sawyer's helper threw a
piece of wood into their pickup. —
It hit with a resonant thud, .

‘Steve woke up too.

“Storm's .over,’? said Ray. |

laconically, “There? samancut-,
_ tingup ‘the tree. Look’s like,
we'll get-out of here. later
today." .,
. Steve ‘jooked grogeily out ‘the .
; window: “Why: later today?

There’ §.enough room to: drive
out now,” .

**We'll miss a day’s fishing if
_ We go, out now,” said Ray ina

tone indicating that any thought
of time stolen from the safari

for his:first wild steelhead was _
' "the steelhead remained elusive.
_It was dark again by the time |

the boys pulled into the Chinese

nothing short of sacrilege,
Before striking Out for the
stream once more, the boys

stopped to talk to the woodcut- .

ter. The older man was in-
trigued by the boys’ hardships,

**If it’s steelhead ya want, ya
oughta try the Copper,’ he said

an

"The skeena
ngler
bys Rob: Brown :

as his helpér nodded in agree-
ment, ‘It’s real good this time
of year.’”:

For the rest of the day Steve
dreamt of food and listened to

his stomach growl angrily. He

couldn’t ‘concentrate on his.

fishing. Ray could, though, but

restaurant adjoining the bus

_ stop.

As tipsy legionaires and an
assortment of transients. came
and went,

Steve and Ray

ordered up two heaping plates

of number four and a number
ten and woofed down spoonful
after spoonful of steaming
noodles. and chunks: of pork.

“With the bill came a plate of

fortune cookies. Ray swallowed
a cookie whole after extracting

the slip of paper: You’re doom-_

ed to be happy in wedlock it
read.- :

Later, in the motel room, Ray
wrapped uo more gaudy
steelhead flies while Steve wat-
ched Hallowe'en Part 4.

Before first light the boys

Terrace Standard, Wednesday, N November 4 1990 — Page 85

cruised past the sign warning

them to follow a logging truck

and were soon following the
Copper. The river looked

. especially barren and ‘cold to the

boys after the riches. of the
Lakelse. -They searched the
water for likely hotspots.
“Look out — there!"* yelled
Ray. ;

Steve's. nineteen- -year- -old
reactions ‘kicked in. He pulled
hard on the wheel. The truck
veered into the ditch as a giant
logging truck roared by.

The boys sat for a moment as

if struck.by lightning. After.
‘some deep thought, Ray,. with

numbing brilliance, suggested

they wait for and follow the

next’ truck, This they did and
were soon fishing the long runs
of the upper river.

It seemed as if there was a
smiling fisherman leaving every
piece of the river the boys walk-
ed into. They fished hard but

ivel

found nothing. In the distance

they heard the howl of chain-

saws and the roar of trucks. .

At day’s end, .fishless. and ,

downcast, the boys returned to

the. pickup, and rumbled. off :

toward town, At the. sharpest.
bend in the road they met their. -
second truck of. the day. : This: .

time there was no room and no

roar of a passing-truck, just the -

hasty sound of bending steel.
As. his dad. towed Steve's

mangled pickup back to. Prince:
George, Ray looked up from .-

the latest issue of. Salmon and.

Trout. ,
“Optics,’”’ he ‘said, “that’s

what we shoulda tried, Steve,..

You know those flies with bead

ar eyes? That’s what we'll.

iry next year, eh?” 2:

pleve looked at Ray’s glazed .

gaze then out the window.

jelcome to Houston, said the
toad sign, home of the world’s
largest Rod and Reel.

More
dugouts?

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

PORTS NEWS |

TERRACE STANDARD

— Page B7

-SPORTSCOPE;
Timbermen
- take three

THE TERRACE
Timbermen oldtimer hockey
team swept all three of their:

Rupert tournament...
The wins «gave the team
first place in the ‘B! division,
round robin at the 10-team
tourney. oO

The first game saw Terrace
hand the hometown Prince
Rupert Puckaneers a 6-4
defeat. Next they dealt a 10-3
blow ‘to Smithers.

’ Their finat game saw them
take a '2-2 tie with, the
HadeligisSkeena” “Oldtimers:

‘| on shootouts.
Next’ date for the
Timbernien is Nov, 17-18 in
Burns Lake, which will host
another regional oldtimers
tournament then.

In addition to frequent
tournaments, the team is

games at a recent Prince

and‘eke out‘a narrow victory |

OO ar

Hendry

hot

once again

TERRACE — Michelle Hendry
proved she’s back in fine form
on the university basketball cir-
cuit Friday by scoring a season
high 37 points to lead Simon
Fraser University’s thrashing of
University of Manitoba.

The SFU Clan’s 91-80 victory
over the Manitoba team was
their fourth straight win of the
pre-season and marked a depar-
ture from earlier games where

s the: ‘Clan’s 6-foot-two: Terrace

“centre ‘was-hounded by double
and triple coverage.

The team had heard about
Hendry — who made SFU
history last year by leading the
team to the semifinals of the na-
tional championships and being
named to the first All-American
team. But U of M's weaker

_ defences had to spread out even

Michelle Hendry

further to handle two hot new
rookies on the SFU line who
have been taking some of the
burden off Hendry,

That gave her the opening to
cut loose and sink 37 points in
Friday’s game — not far off the
Clan record 42 points Hendry
set last year.

SFU has won all four of its
exhibition games so far, knock- ;
ing off University of Victoria They're still - in exhibition
twice, beating University of games, with their first league .
B.C, by 20 points last Thursday game not scheduled watil: Nov.
and now with Friday’s win over 20.

University of Manitoba,

Hendry, now in her third
year, said the team is looking
strong again this year, with only
two of last year’s regulars gone
and impressive-looking rookies
stepping up to fill their shoes.

“‘It really seems to be coming
on," she said. “Everything and.
everybody seems to be working
OK. iad

playing in the newly formed
oldtimers’ division of the
Terrace Men’s Recreational
Hockey league.

With: a 2-4-1 record in rec
hockey action, the
Timbermen are in fourth
place in their division, five
points out of first — but
they’ve got three games in
hand over the leaders.

Karate trio

back in action
THE LING SISTERS of

norihwest karate fame are in

Mexico City this week to
compete In the all-style world

voennasers| |  Prardy wheelers

Kitimat’s Rassammee, ' HARD-CORE. MOUNTAIN BIKE riders y Chiron Kantakis don't quit when the weather turns nas-
Tanya and Lisa Ling won the ty. Local comrade-on-wheels Mike Christensen and Kantakis — seen here crossing Howe Creek
team gold medal in women’s after a. wet and muddy ride down a series of trails fram the bench — plan to keep their cycle train-
kata karate event. last month ing up until the white stuff makes it too slippery to ride.

at the Canadian champion
- Thornhill undefeated

pikers bag No. 5 ©

' They were hoping to pull
_ | off a‘similar feat at the Nov.
[3-10° international tourna-
ment in Mexico, which is],
drawing teams from about 80].
countries. The Kitimat trio is
among nine B.C. com-
petitors on Team Canada] TERRACE — Thorbhill’ 8 junior boys volleyball -
; representing the nation there.|)’ crew remains unbeaten following their fifth -
straight tournament victory at a ten-school nor-’
thern B.C. tournament in Prince George. ;
* The Thornhill Junior. Secondary. ‘junior boys -
‘team completed the: round: robin in: their: five-
team pool at the Oct. 27-28 tourney undefeated,
‘In first position j ‘in their pool, they: then: took
‘-on Skeena Jr; Secondary's squad, which was se

Local midgets put
Kitimat on ice

’ TERRACE — The Terrace
Totem Ford Midgets boosted
_ their tri-city minor hockey
, record ta 8-0 by defeating their
Kitimat rivals in two games over
. the weekend. -
The first game on Friday
night saw the Terrace midget _
_ squad blast in three unanswered
’ goals — courtesy of Terrace's :
. Dennis Bannister, Jared Ewart
‘and -Shane - Bourgoin — to
~ secure the 3-0 win.
But in the Saturday afternoon
. Tematch, Kitimat was out for
blood ‘and threatened to beat
 Tertace for the first time in four
. encounters so‘far this season.
Dawson Kelm and Jared
- Ewart. put Terrace on the
: scoreboard in the first period,
-to give ‘the team a 2-1 advantage |
heading -into the second. But

continued — with Jared Ewart,
Clint Prest, and Ryan Matthews
scoring to keep it close — until
with six minutes left in the
game, the Terrace forwards:
cranked up the power another
notch. .
That’s when they broke’ it
open on a goal by Jared Ewart,
scoring for the hat trick, and
another by Dennis Bannister to:
fend off Kitimat and assure
them of the 8-6 victory, © =|
“I'd like to have won it
sooner than we did,’’ said assis-
tant coach Emile Gagnon, who
noted the team in both: ‘games
- was pressed to come up. with
needed goals in the third period.
He said the team rarely loses
to Kitimat, against whom: Ahey
‘are now 4-and-0,0 9
‘The two games. on: the
‘weekend were warm-ups to. aS
major. tournament: the team’s’
going to this week in ‘Williams
Lake, ; ca
On‘ the peewee: ~ side. of
_ weekend action, itwas-a. dif-
WS ferent story.,’ Terrace: put-in a
1g rn perfortnarice, ‘but: fell. to:
the Kitimat péewees byja’'5-
score. last Friday night

against Skeena,’' Muller said, ‘‘And maybe D.P.
Todd. John McInnis was no problem.”

The team leaves today for the junior boys
volleyball provincial championships in Pentic-
ton, and Muller said Thornhill should have a
good chance. He noted the Prince George teams
Jost some of their older players this year, but ad-
ded he’s expecting tough'competition from the
Lower Mainland, They. return next week. ;

The Prince George tournament, called the
“Great Pumpkin Pound-Around”, also saw:
Skeena and Thornhill’s junjor girls in action.

Thornhill’s girls team finished fourth in their
pool, losing their games by close one- and two- —_Kitimiat. began to turn it around
point margins, oo ’. there,.and fired two more past
.. The Skeena junior girls: ‘Finished their round - Terrace goal tender Philip Brad-
‘robin secondand then beat out D.P. Todd — the. ford; : }
first place team in’ th opposing pool — to ad- 5 Not ‘about to let. it slip away,
vance to the finals i , Tettace’s Tim Link ¢ even-.

‘They faced Dr,:.Kearricy of. Fort St. John, 3
before losing to that:team in’ three games. Mar- inutes,
-sha Postuk was named a’ tournament all-star for - That:

~ Baja trip
gets started
' cond place-in’the‘ather pool, ' :
+ Thornhill took Skeena in three games, winning

TOMORROW IS the big day

for the Skeena ‘Hotel

Athletics, who are jetting off].

to’ Mexico for'a week-long],

thixed slo-pitch tournament. |" 45. -0, 12-15, atid 15-8, to advance to the’ final.

- | “Sixteen players from here} against the’ hometown, favourites — John. Meln-

- | are’ making ‘the’ trip. for the nis Jr, Secondary of Prince George.’

>: [combined ‘ball “tourney- "_ ‘The Terrace boys. finished:it quickly; mow ving
down the Prince George team 15-9, 15. 11 ta: ba
their. fifth consécutive tournament. win, this fall.

‘The victory follows. first-place. finishes :at

earlier tournaments in Aiyansh, Prince Rupert, .

7. vacation, About’ 50 other
Kitimat, and ‘Tétrace::

teamis are expected to play at
the open tournament.

Thornhill's Brett Kuss was. named tournament oe
MVP and. team captain Kurt Mullet:was natned

“The fun-style so ftball tour-
riarfient, — galled | the. -Mex-
an alléstar:: kechals Mut Soules ‘was also pitked
as an ai stars a
igsest:

pic, he

7 place | at San “Jose:Del Cabo,
: Mealco from Nov. 9 until the