‘The All-Seasons “White Team’ took top honours at the Christmas annual Todd:Killoran
 friendship- atom hockey tournament In Terrace. After winning ‘A’ division with a 4-0 récord,
they: were declared winner over. runnerup Houston, who: posted 3-0-1. oe

‘Kitimat Wings managed to wind up third, behind the Houston entry, at the Christmas atom
Minor Hockey tournament. They edged < out All Seasons “Red” for the bronze medal.

Kitimat’s Thom Boys took second place In the youngest division of the Christmas atom
Minor Hockey tournament in Terrace, behind Kitimat CPU but ahead of Terrace's Long’s

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Weekend basketball -

action at Skeena —

. Skeena junior high school’s

Grade 8 basketball teams hosted .
inter-school playday on the week- |
end, with Nisga’a and Prince.
Rupert Booth dominating the.
girls’ side while Skeena and |.

. Rupert senior secondary topped :
the boys’ side. st op.

On the boys’. side, Thorabill

and Skeena played: three games:

while the remaining: five. squads
played only two matches. |
' Skeena had a two-win, one-loss

7 mark that included a 50-24 victory

over Thornhill and a 48-33 win.
against Kitimat. Their only loss
was 51-39 to. ‘Rupert senior sec-

- ondary. |

‘The Rupert gang also posted a
57-28 win against Nisga’a. - .

"Houston took it on the chin-in
both their games, losing 71-26 to
Nisga’ a and 26-24 to Thomhill.

_In other boys’ games, Kitimat
-outscored Booth 39-32 while
Booth beat Thornhill 41- 13...

For the six-team. girls’ group,

Nisga’a downed PRSS: 38-16.and

took Houston 56-14. Booth.also: :
. won twice — 46-23 over Kitimat

and 46-4 over ‘Houston,. 9.)
‘Kitimat downed Skeena 26-14

while Skeena whipped PRSS- ‘40. :

201 in the other two games.

Grade 8's all. play at Prince =

Rupert next weekend.

Biathletes compete

to represent Zone | 7

in Winter Games

A very successful biathlon race
was held on Dec. 29 at the

Omineca Ski Club trails to deter- -

mine who would represent Zone 7
at the B.C, Winter Games in Ver-
non, Feb. 27 - March 1. Nine
skiers took part, and four young

biathletes from Bums Lake and.

‘Vanderhoof will be travelling to
Vernon, Three others would have
qualified, but have chosen to take

‘part in the cross country ski com-

petitions at the Winter Games
instead.

‘In juveniles (12 years and.
under) Dominic Doglione placed —
first with a combined time of
35.04 minutes. In the boys’ cate-

‘gory, Chad Bergen placed first

with a combined time of 31,32, —

and Todd Strimbold. was second
with a time of 44.04, In junior
women, Tuppy Collard of Vander- .
hoof placed first with combined

time of 41.20, and in junior men,
Sean Rowell beat out Toby Pierce
by 14 seconds with a time of
44.55. The men’s category was

“equally exciting, with Chris. Paul-

son four seconds ahead of ‘Tony
Strimbold. _

Scoring was. s based on. the ski

time, with one penalty minute:
added for each target missed.
-Youngér skiers shot prone (lying -

down) wiih three stops at the
range to shoot five shots each

time. Skiers 17 years and up skied.
a longer distance, carrying their

rifles on their backs, and shot

‘twice prone and once standing for —
a total of 15 shots. The prone tar-

get is four centimetres and the
standing target 11 centimetres; at
50 metres these take a lot of skill
to hit, especially with your | heart
‘Tate fairly high.

Date set for basketball
free throw competition |

Contributed by ly
MikePanchuk == 5
All boys and girls aged 10 to
14 are invited to participate in the
local level of the 1992 Knights of

Columbus International Basketball.

Free Throw Championship. The
local competition will be held Sat-

‘urday, Jan, 18 at 10 a.m. in the.
: Veritas Gym, on Straume Avenue.

The International Free Throw

| Championship is sponsored annu-

ally by. the local K of C, with win-

‘ners progressing through local,
district, and state competition. .
International champions are an- .

_hounced by the K of C internation-

"al headquarters, based on scores.

from the state level competitions.

All boys and girls. 10-14 years old

ants eligible to paiticipate aiid com-

pete j in respective age divisions. .
_ Last year over 199,000 sharp:
shooters participated in 2,990.

local competitions, -
All contestants on the local
level are recognized for their par-.

ticipation in this event. For entry |

forms or additional information,
contact Germano Carrita at 635-
4649.

The Knights of Columbus is |
an international, Catholic, family, .
fraternal, service organization with -
“1.5 million members in: more than
9,600 local councils. In. 1990, |

Knights. donated 36.5 million

manhours and $94 million to char-
Atable, and benevolent. causes,

sporisoring programs to benefit

their church, council, community,
‘families and youth,