B16 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 17, 1998

Ruggers keep win streak alive

BY DAVID D. HULL THE NORTHCOAST Rugby Union featured two matches Saturday June 6 at the North Wes! Community College.

In the opening contest, the Terrace Northmen domi-

nated the Prince Rupert

Scamen in the ranning battle for supremacy in the league, winning the game with a convincing 31-12 score.

The Northmen have been practising diligently on their second and third phase ball control and (heir efforts paid off big time.

Rucking and mavling are two methods of gaining con- trol of the bail alter a tackle has occurred.

The former when the ball is on the ground and the ob- ject is to push over the ball and feed it back with your feet (rucking).

The latter is when the ball is held in the arms and a series of strong grappling is required to get possession of the ball and feed if out (mauling).

Northmen player coach Ken ‘Keen’ Mansfield was very impressed with his lads’ efforls and declared the game the best per- formance of the season.

“We played very dis- ciplined and controlled rugby. We managed to keep possession through second and third phase play and feed the ball to the backs, culminating in some im- pressive trys,’’ he said.

“The boys have been praclising very hard the past few weeks and their efforts

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“The boys have been practising very hard the past few weeks and their efforts have been rewarded.”

have been rewarded.”

The Northmen led 20-5 ai the half and went on to add an additional 11 points in the second half while the Seamen were held to a meagre seven points in the final stanza.

Mike Homeniuk, Doug Wilson and Steve Evans were among the dominaling point leaders for the Northmen, Skip Cronk was the outstanding Seamen for Rupert.

The second match had the Prince Rupert Swallows playing the as yet unnamed Terrace women’s (Northwomen?) squad.

The game was all Terrace, with the larger more experi-

enced Rupert ladies being held scoreless while Terrace chalked up 12 points.

Terrace’s first try came after a series of strong for- ward play putting Cynthia scoring her. first try’ of the season and her career. “Trish <Gair narrowly missed the conversion.

The half finished at 5-0, -

The second half was closely contested but at the final whistle the coastal ladies were held. scoreless and Terrace managed a fur- ther seven points with a try and a conversion.

Terri streaked 50 yards, fending off two Swallows with straight arms to score under the posts.

Trish Gair potted the easy conversion to give the Ter- race squad 12.

The Sunday game, Terrace 2 at Smithers, was post- poned to an as yet un- determined later date.

This past week Terrace |

“travelled to Rupert for a

first-ever Friday night match as part of the Seafest celebrations in the city of rain(bows).

Sunday had the Smithers Camels making the long trek to the coast to take on the Seamen. Details in next weeks edilion.

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Girls vs. boys

READY FOR THE GAMES: Tarrace's zone 7 under-14 girls took on the select under-12 boys in an exhibition game Saturday. For the girls squad it was a warm-up for the July 23-26 B.C. Summer Games in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows.

Drivers heat up racing season

DRIVERS GOT another chance to show their stuff al the speedway Sunday, June 7.

John Cloakey once again put on a good race, winning the A Hobby trophy dash. Gord Klassen took the heat in the class, leaving the main to Phi] Truscott.

Klassen also made a good run in the B Hobby, taking both the heat and the main. Darcy McKeown kept him from a sweep, though, finishing first in the dash.

The C Hobby saw Debby Reinhardt race to a win in both the dash and heat while Vicki Johnson came up with the win in the main.

Street races were shared more evenly.

A Street was divided between Len McArthur for the dash, Lyle Miner for the heat and Joe Botz for the main.

Rick Lundrigan took the B Street dash,, while Jeff Barnett won the heat, John Algor was the first to see a finish in the main.

The women of C Street also shared their races, With Krista Pires taking the dash, Kim Burrill taking the heat and Koreen Al- gor taking the main.

The Bomber class wasn’t nearly as fair, with Kevin Pongracz in car 117 sweeping the As and Claus Wolnowski using the same car to sweep all three rounds of the B.

The sponsors race saw Duncan Archer leading the Hobby stock, Simon leading the Street and Dave Materi coming out on top of the Bombers.

The next race of the season will be on the June 20-21 weekend.

will be instituting “summer hours” effective Monday, June 29th through - Friday, August 28th, 1998 inclusive.

Hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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