. Bled di
. d everything right: for Boston

f Celtics except take himeelt -

Soccer
season

Sun and soccer combined

f for a great. day for hun-

BS dreds of parents, coaches

and players at the opening

m day ceremonies of the

Terrace youth soccer

association at Skeena field
on Saturday.

This year’d season opens
with 45 teams including
four girl's team and an

Munder 18° team from
Kitamaat Village.
The opening ceremonies
S included an introductory
parade of the teams and
their coaches. Miss
Terrace, Christine Tim-
merman, was on hand, to
officially open the season.

The teams filled the
remainder of the afterncon
playing exhibition games

mon the various fields at
Skeena.
Regular season ‘games
i get underway- next
Saturday at different fields
throughout Terrace.

‘Bird does thin

d . outof the game,

Bird had 23. points, 12
assists, nine rebounds,
three steals and two
blocked shots as the Celtics

opened their best-of-seven‘

National ’ Basketball
Association ” Eastern
Conference semifinal

against New York ‘Knicks

with an easy 110-92 victory :

Sunday.
But he was still in the

’ game with leas than four .

minutes left and Boston
leading by 18 when he

aggravated an ankle injury

he sustained last week
against Washington.
“Larry shouldn't have
been in there at the end,”
Boston coach K.C. Jones
said, “'f made a boo-boo.
“It could be very costly.!'

Bit after “conking - his

‘ankle in jee for more than

an hour after the game,
Bird anid it wasn't Jones's
fault-that he didn’t come
aut of.the game.

“KC, asked-me-if 1
wanted to come aut two or |

three times,” Bird said.
“But J] wanted to stay in,’

Dr, Thomas Silva, the
Celtics’ team physician,
sald he. expected Bird to
play in the second game
Wednesday, also in Boston.

In other second-round
playoff openers Sunday it

was: New Jersey Nets 106,

Milwaukee Bucks 100; and

‘Utah Jazz 10, Phoenix
Suns 95, On Saturday, Los ©

Angeles ‘Lakers defeated

‘Dallas Mavericks 134-91.

- The Celtics used a new

NBA playoffs

offence. designed to break
New .--York’s | pressuré-.
defence and also controlled
the offensive prowess of .
Knicks - ‘forward Bernard

King. |
Kevin Metiale, alx-foot-
10, who led. Boston in

‘scoring. with. 25 points,
six-foot~ :

guarded King,
seven, in . the. second.

- quarter and held him to six

points. King finished with”
28 points,

Boston centre’ Robert
Patish, who.had 19 points
and: 12 rebounds, sparked .
two Celtics surges. that.
gave them big leads in the
first half. .

Pariah had seven points

during 4 17-2 surge that -

turned a 12-10 New York
lead into‘a 27-14 advantage.

_ Was
Someone cheering for me,

Manitoba dominates
‘Canadian volleyball

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Prairie Blue of Winnipeg

.emerged as the: women’s

champion: after defeating
the University of Laval in
the finals of the Canadian
senior. volleyball cham-
‘pionships Sunday. ;

In the men’s play,
University of Manitoba

Bisons defeated Scarboro

Solars of Toronto,

Prairie Blue defeated
Laval 15-13, 15-11 and 15-4.
. Montreal Athletic
Recreational Club

defeating .-Game
15-4, 9-15, 14-16 and “15-13.

Vancouver Rucanor
Chimo was fifth, beating

of
Montreal placed third by"
Point:
Sporta of Vancouver ‘15-7, |

the Calgary Volleyball
Club 16-2, 15-2, 6-15 and 15-
3. -

University of British
Columbia women downed
Scarboro Solaré 15-8, 9-15,
15-10. and 1816, while
Edmonton Nova beat
Dalhousie 6-15, 15-5, 15-7, 8-
15 and 15-11,

ings. right in-

He then had six points and
. two assists in a 10-2 apurt
that made it 49-32 midway
through the second perlod.
It. was 64-44 at halftime
and the Knicks never got
closer than 18in the second
half... cS
Nets 106 Bucks 100
New « Jersey. wen. at

Milwaukee behind Darryl
Dawkins’s 32 pointa in the
other Eastern Conference
semifinal. Otis Birdsong
scored 13 points and Buck
Williams added 16 points
and 17 rebounds. Marques

. Johnson had 23 pointe and -
Junior Bridgeman. 20 for -

the Bucks, Milwaukee’s

Rookie had a

. WOODLANDS,
ten (AP), Veteran
“hometown favorite John
Mahaffey had a two-stroke
Jead-and the support of the
gallery.

But rookie Corey Pavin
had his wife Shannon and
their dog Webster, and that
enough, “I had

too,” said Pavin.
Starting the day two

" strokes off the pace, Pavin

fired a final round 68
Sunday to sweep past the
fading Mahaffey and win

his first Professional
Golfers’ Assoctation
tournament by one shot in
the $600,000 Houston Open
at Woodlands Country
Club.
_ Mahaffey blew to a final-
round 76 and finished in a
tie for sixth place at five-
under 279, Pavin surpassed
his final challenger, Buddy
Gardner, on the 14th hole,
where Pavin birdied and
Gardner bogeyed. °

Pavin's birdle put him 11
under for the tournament
but he bogeyed No. 17 and

_ America’s cup
popular challenge

PERTH, Australia (AP)

foreign yachts from eight

— Two Canadian yachts countries entered in th
pre among at least 21 17 challenge for the

America's Cup race when
Australis will defend

yachting’s mast . coveted ,

trophy fcr the first time.

The Royal Perth Yacht
Club, which won the Cup
last "September from the
United States, said Monday
the 21 forelgn yachting
clubs entered each had ‘to
pay an entry fee of about
$11,000.

“It’s mind " boggling,”

The Horald, Monday, April 30, 1984, Page 5

star guard Sidney Moncrief
was held.to 10 paints.

Jazz 103 Suns 100
Utah won its Western
Conference semifinal

. opener at home against

Phoenix as Adrian Dantiey
scored 34 points and rookie
Thurl Bailey added» a

Celtics win

season-high 25 against
Phoenix. Dantley hit'14 of
39 shots for the Jazz, the
Midwest Division cham-
pions. Walter Davis had 21
points and Alvan Adams 16
for the Suns. Larry Nance, —
averaging 16 points a game
a the playoffs, was held to -
ive,

wife and dog |

finished with a l0-under 274
total.

Gardner was second, his
best career finish, with a

two-under 69 for a 275 total
and erratic Buddy
Wadkins, the hole

leader, was third at 276
alter a final-round 70.
Pavin said his 25-foot
birdie putt on the 14th hole.
was a turning point in the
match, . ‘
Gardner's $54,000 payday
and second place finish
were the highest of his
career, He tled for second
in the 1979Tucson Open.

Pavin, ‘who finished

- second in the Phoenix Open

in his second pro tour-:
nament in January, earned |
a $90,000 first prize that
boosted his yearly earnings *
to $170,795, .

Nick Price finished with ~.
a pair of 69s for a 276 total ©
and $24,000 for fourth place .
and Doug Tewell, who had |
a 79 and 276 total, was fifth, ° "
worth $20,000.

Richard Zokol of Van-"
couver slipped to a 77 in his |
final round to finish with a ..

- 292 tatal, worth $1,045.

+

Local Sports Shorts

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Northman Rugby

The Terrace Northman Rugby team openéd thelr .
season with a game in Prince Rupert. .

The game was very close for all of the first halt with the .
score being tied 0-0 at the, half. ‘

The second half saw the Terrace pack dominate. Kelly
Backman and Jan Miscura made some outstanding plays
to set up -penalty kicks by Willle McLeary. McLeary -

scored on both attempts and Terrace went on to win 6-0.
The club will be in Kitimat next weekend for a mini-

a et emmodare Peter tournament and the home opener is set for May 13th.
“We thought if we'd finish :
with nine we'd-be doin
with nine we'd-be doing _ Tennis club
“This has just gone out of The sun has been shining and the new season for the .
all Eroportions." more Terrace tennis club is well underway.
challenges . might be Anew executive was elected at a recent. meeting, they .

are: Grant Holkestad (president), Bud Smith (vice- .
president), Karen Birkedal (secretary), and Sheila Caddy
(treasurer). Several directors were also elected to help .-
co-ordinate the new season.

The Kalum tennis courts have booked for Tuesday, |
Thursday, and Sunday evenings for-club membersuse.,In ..
addition Tyesday evenings from.§:p.m,.to 6 p.m.'have -
been designated for junior lessons. Club membership is -.
$20 (16 years and up), $5 (under 16 years), and $250
(junior with parent member). Junior lessons are §10
which includes club membership. For more information -
contact any executive member during club hours. For __
junior lessons contact Karen at 695-5607. ‘

The club is holding a ‘Get in the Swing’ fun tournament -

_on May 5-6th. There will be two events, doubles and mixed
doubles. All prospective members and all tennis buffs are
encouraged to attend. There will be prizes to the winners
and runners-up, Entry forms can be picked up on club
nights or by contacting Dave Burdett (tournament
director) at 635-5607, Entries are also belng accepted for

. the Terrace Open on May 19-21st. Entry deadline is May ©

received before the mid-
night deadline Monday.
The previous record for
foreign challenges in the
event was seven in 1983...
_. Offictals.”” declined.- .to--
name the. foreign: clubs,
saying not all of them
might be accepted if they
could not meet various
international racing
standards. A full list is
expected to be issued in
several days, Dalzielt sald.
Noel Semmens, head of
the state government
committee organizing the
defence, said entries from
eight countries had been
received’ including eight

ae

The sixth annual B.C. school sports milk run was held '
Friday at the three local secondary schools In Terrace.
Skeena Junior secondary school students (top picture) |
were an enthusiastic crowd as they set out to walk run-or
log 3krn to celebrate school sports and promote fitness.
tudents at Caledonia (middle picture) dropped coins In
an oversized milk carton, to raise money for the

“at iA TE ”

school,

disabled of 8.C., before they set offon their 3 km course.
Students at Thornhill Jr. Secondary (bottom picture)
had the option of roller skating the 3 km. Some of the
participants chose to run the course competively and be
timed but many of them chose 4 more leisurely route
and all were quite happy to be outdoors rather than In

entries from the United
States and four from Italy.

France and Britain both
have two entries and
Switzerland, West Ger-
many and New Zealand
each have one entry,
Semmens said.

The foreign yachts will
race each other to deter-
mine which one will face
the Australian defender in
January 1987,

16th.

The playoffs for the B.C, eummer games are scheduled
for May 26-27th in Kitimat. Entry deadline js May 18th.
Summer games format permits players to ‘enter in only
one event for the playoffs. Zone representative is Dorothy

Cheyne at 632-3871.

A tennis ladder is being tentatively set up for play

starting in mid-May.

Anyone interested in getting

their name on the list should contact either Chuck Cey at
635-3564 or Grant Holkestad at 635-3406.
The Terrace tennis club is looking forward to a fun filled

and successful tennis season.

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