eae | SKEENAB Terrace Review — One-point zone victory The Skeena Tsimpsean boys squeezed into the Northwest zone junior boys’ high school basketball championship on February 23 weekend at Skeena |, junior high school in Terrace. Skeena drew a bye in the | opening round of the double- | knockout series that also fea- tured teams from Prince Rupert Booth, Kitimat, Nisga’a and | Port Simpson. Skeena opened with a 68-50 win over Booth, then won ‘A’ side on a 70-45 victory over Port Simpson. Kitimat, meantime, lost their opener 70-69 to Port Simpson. This meant Kitimat had to win three-in-a-row to get a shot at ‘A’ side-winning Skeena. . Kitimat went into ‘B’ side ac- tion by- eliminating Nisga’a 61-50. Next they thumped Booth out of the series on a 64-39 win. It was revenge time for Kitimat in the ‘B’ side final when they met Port Simpson again and won 69-40, The well-rested Skeena boys took Kitimat for granted and needed a last-minute goal to beat their arch rivals 44-43 in a thrill- ing finale. Coaches were asked to name one player as their team’s most valuable. All but Nisga’a did so. For Skeena it was Todd Ducharme; David Kotai for Kitimat; Jimmy McKay for Booth; and Peter Wesley for Port Simpson. Meanwhile at Kitimat, it was a three-team round-robin play- down for the junior girls’ title. Rupert’s Booth won the zone crown by beating Kitimat 51-35 and downing Terrace 70-63. Ter- race placed runnerup by beating Kitimat 59-54. Due to their zone victory, Skeena boys begin play today in the 16-team B.C, junior high school basketball champion- ships at St. Thomas More school in Vancouver. This series winds up Saturday. py BASEBALL AR BASEBALL NEWS Terrace Minor Baseball OYS OFF TC The Skeena Tsimpseans boys’ basketball team earned the a 44-43 win over Kitimat Feb, 23. The boys are scheduled to Wednesday, March 6, 1991 B3 a wee oo tight to represent the Northwest zone in the provincial finals with — bagin play in the championships at Vancouver today. Hendry’s Clan in North American finals It was a clean sweep to the finals for Michelle Hendry and her Simon Fraser University Clan women’s basketball team. Here’s what was publicized about the Clan in the Feb. 25 edition of “SFU News Release”’. The Simon Fraser University women’s basketball team have definitely created a lot of atten- tion for themselves as they ride high on a 20-game winning streak and have won 24 of their last 25 contests. The Clan finished their 1990-1991 regular season with a perfect 16-0 record, placing them in the record book as the first women’s basketball team in District 1 to go undefeated dur- ing the regular season. The Clan advanced to the District semi-finals over Feb, 23 weekend as they downed an ag- gressive sheldor Jackson Col- BABE_RUTH REGISTRATION SPONSOR: EVENT: DATE: TIME: Terrace Minor Baseball Registration March 1 & 2, March 8 &9 Fridays: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PLACE: Skeena Mall Everyone welcome, bring a friend and join us for another fun year of baseball. BABE RUTH ( BASEBALL BABE RUTH ( BASEBALL lege (80-52). The Clan were pac- ed by Michelle Hendry, who drained 10 of 11 shots from the field and finished with 27 points in only 20 minutes played. Hen- dry finished the 1990-1991 regular season as the District scoring average leader (24.0 pts.) for the third consecutive year and also led the District in field goal percentage with 68.3. This past week saw the Clan host Western Washington Vi- kings in the semi-finals. The Clan held a slim 39-33 lead at the half, mainly due to Hendry be- | ing held scoreless. Michelle came to life in the second half to pour in 23 points and lead SFU to an 84-72 win. Two nights later they went up against Seattle University Chief- tans for the district champion- ship. intact as they won the title once more on an 89-62 victory. Hen- dry had a 29-point night. She sat out most of the second half. This placed the Burnaby team in the 32-team N.A.IL.A, cham- pionship tournament starting tonight in Jackson, Tennessee. The Clan, by the way, is rank- ed number five among the 350 N.A.I.A. schools. Vanderhoof, Kitimat skate away with gold Vanderhoof and Kitimat skat- ed off with the gold medals at Kitimat’s annual Denholme- Whitesail Kinsmen minor hockey peewee house and rep team tournament on February 23 weekend. Vanderhoof won the house division by winning all three regular games, then beating Ter- race Rotary 10-3 in the gold medal matchup. In the playoff for house division “bronze, Prince Rupert downed Terrace Heaman 6-3. The rep team division saw Kitimat Kiwanis put their two- win, two-tie mark into the gold game against Fort St. James. Kitimat won 4-1. Houston won the bronze 6-4 over Terrace. Scores of all games are in this week’s scoreboard. The Clan kept their win streak 4s BRT IT WAS A GOOD MONTH. Special Olympics teams from the Northwest pulled off two gold medal performances in different parts of the province at the end ot February. The combined Prince Rupert-Terrace floor hockey team came home with a gold medal from a tournament in Prince George, and the Terrace bowling team secured their gold at the B.C. Winter Games in Duncan.