Parkland senior boys rugby
club scored a 7-0 win over

game last week. The win put
Parkland in a tie for sixth spot
with Mt. Douglas in the 10-team
‘division. Monday the two clubs
“squared off in the first round of
playoffs. .

- Wilson scored a fine — try,
- finishing off some excellent
foraging by Frank Vickery and
Jeff Mitchell. Tim Chad returned
- after being out several weeks with

: - Sidney men’s fastball league
"kicked off its 1981 season Sunday.
~with a tripleheader — and if
“opening day results are any in-
‘dication, games will be. igh
scoring this year.

‘lineup for «1981
br Painting ‘and Coast _ Projects.

disbanded “rand. Victoria

“Ambulance now plays under the i

ravelodge banner. -

: playoff:. champions ° Prairie Inn

Victoria High in the final league ~

Against Vic High, Morely .

‘in eight . games. ;
-.scored.a try while Aidan Mitchell -

= Two° new. teams: joined ‘the.
- ATTOW.._

: Last’. year’s Travelodge team —
~ strength of a -seven-run fifth
In.the opening game last year Ss

clobbered Arrow Painting. 15-4.
Nee De strong ise of Bill fe

an injury and added a penaity
goal.

Saturday a combined junior-
senior team lost a close 6-3
decision to a team from Ottawa.
in an exhibition game.

In other action, Stelly’s pulled
off the biggest upset -of the year

by holding Esquimalt to a 6-6 tie.

The single point was Stelly’s first
of the year — and to that point
they had scored only nine points
Mark Martin

kicked a conversion for Stelly’s.

Two new teams
m fastball league

14-3: win over Coast Projects.

. Graham Faulkner also collected.

‘three hits : for Hotel. ‘Coast
Projects’ Wayne Carlow hit three
for three including a pair of

os doubles ina losing cause. a
- Finally, rivals. Salt.. Spring

Salties and Harvey’s squared off

in the nightcap with the Salties *

taking a 10-4 decision. on the

inning. °

- Harvey’ 5 jumped te to a aquick 3-0
“Jead in the third inning when Don ~~

“Orr homered and was followed

by. a. two-run shot by. brother.

Terry: Orr.’ Salties tied the game,
inthe’ fourth inning and. went. =
».,alhead: to stay in ithe. fifth.

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THE REVIEW

EDMONTON OILERS didn’t make the
semi-finals but in ousting Montreal
Canadiens 3-0 and taking the defending-
champion New York Islanders to six games
in the quarter-finals they made the 1981
Stanley Cup playoff. But for the dash and
enthusiasm of the young Alberta team the
first two rounds would have been a dull
affair... the quarter-finals did, however,
produce a satisfactory result when three
power-play goals were the seventh-game
difference. for Calgary Flames against
Philadelphia Flyers. They who live by the

things change when hockey fans found the
Oilers and Flames, not the Canadiens and
Toronto Maple Leafs, carrying Canadian
hopes for Stanley Cup. victory... there
shouldn’t be any left after the next round.
The Flames are big and talented but they are
also a bit slow and often-appear too willing
to take things a bit easy. They’ll have to
skate against the speedier and fresher,
Minnesota North Stars...it’s incredible that

“The Sporting News couldn’t decide on the
NHL player of the season and decided that |
Wayne Gretzky, who scored a record 164.

points and was so far ahead of anyone else

that it shouldn’t have even been close, and
goalkeeper Mike Lint of the St. Louis Blues _

should share the honor. Liut must have
played well this season but the Blues did
allow three more goals in schedule play than

they did last season and owe their climb to.

second place less to goalkeeping than to an
improvement of 86 goals in their offence.
And it’s also true that New York Rangers
scored 32 goals in the six. gamesit took them
to knock the Blues out of the playof fs...Gary
Dornhoefer isn’t, it seems, going to be any

er

JOE HUDON is reported to have left for

California and it doesn’t seem likely he will _
*. drive -at Sandown this summer,. but Keith”
Linton and Clarence Gagnon are returning
after: an absynse a a year and there will be =

there was another reminder of how -

“This,” .he burst out en- .
: thusiastically during the fourth game of the
series between the Islanders and Oilers, ‘‘has

all the earmarks. of another tremendous”: |
-game.’” “Well, it was 4-4 at the time, but it.
was also about half way through. the third”

Pp period.. >. California

ment “iby writing the word : -
ber SHOWN ON YOUR

some quality newcomers...the oldest. har-
ness-racing driver in Western Canada is
George Beatty, who competes. on the fair
circuit in Saskatchewan. He’ll be 86 before

the year is out...there were 12,983 fans in.

Boston Gardens the night the Bruins and
Minnesota North Stars pegged the NHL
game record at 406 penalty minutes and it’s

- reassuring to note that the next time the -
~ ¢lubs met in Boston the crowd figures fer
~ two playoff games were 8,539 and 9,069..

was. also reassuring to read that shortstop
Rick Burleson is ‘‘very. happy”’ with the six-
year $4.65 million contract he extracted from
Angels. :

have ‘been. reminded, can do things to a

- club’s image. Their exciting 9-7 football in’

‘‘He’s' ‘very. com=-
_ petetive,”” agent Jack Sands. said about his .
~~ client, ‘‘and he wouldn’t be comfortable if
another shortstop. had’ a bigger con- -
tract.’’:..a: :4-12 ‘record, Seattle Seahawks.

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Wednesday, April 29, 1981

1978 and 1979 brought them four 1980
appearances on national television, this year
they’re on once - Monday, Nov. 16 against
San Diego Chargers...ex-pitcher Jim
Bouton, author of the blabbing ‘‘Ball

-Four,’’ is a man of many talents. He’s now

marketing a product called ‘‘Big League
Chew.’’. It’s shredded bubble gum packaged -
in a tobacco-style pouch, and the idea is to

’ sell it to- Little Leaguers so ‘‘They can chew

and spit just like the big leaguers. Strike
three.
.
WALTER HAAS, new owner of Oakland
Athletics, is surprised at his newstatus. ‘‘For

_years,’’ he commented, ‘‘I’ve been president

of the largest garment-wear (Levi Strauss)
company in the world but since! bought the
A’s . I’ve suddently become = a
celebrity.’’...then there is George Argyros,
the California developer who.is the new
owner of the Seattle Mariners. He was there
for the home opener, along with more than
100 fans. He didn’t take celebrity ranking
for. granted but walked through the
Kingdome shaking hands and leading ‘‘Go
Mariners’’ cheering, and wound up on the
dugout roof to join a fellow called ‘‘Bill The
Barber’’ in a rendition of ‘‘Take Me Out to
the Ball Game’’...Montreal Expos are off to

a fine start and maybe this will be the year —

when we find out if commissioner Bowie
Kuhn is man enough to watch Montreal
world . series. baseball © in his shirt
sleeves...Kuhn does have some funny ideas,
like believing it’s quite right for Milwaukee |

Brewers to pay catcher Ted Simmons

$800,000 just to agree to agree to being
traded by St. Louis Cardinals while ruling |

~ that club’s can’t include more than $400,000 ©

in cash to make a trade... and police-captain

= John Brown believes that Springfield Indians
of: the American Hockey League should.
offer free admission to off-duty policemen —

because they could lend assistance if a fight
broke out on the ice. And the 300 fans who |

. found parking tickets: on their cars after.a_
~ late-season game believe. that a point was.
being, made...asked how long he had been _

‘wearing it when he mentioned that a girdle

-- was hampering his swing, golfer Lee Trevino -
* replied: ‘‘Ever since my wife found it'in the»
oo glove eomiparunent. aa

: "pall a
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. “paniiad Panthers :
‘ff girls soccer... squad
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W Parkland |
4 well...and_ . held
1 Claremont .to. few

deflected a ball into
their own net for the
first goal of the game

for the first half,

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Parklind long to draw

game. when
Martin's. hustle
A she ran de
-erran(Claremont pass.

“The game appeared

y . when: Sandy. Griffey
a and. Linda. Martin
A showed good hustle
getting to a ball deep
in the Claremont end.

"and her: second of the

reached the
Claremont keeper,.
Good defence for

SMALL ANIMALS j Panthers victory, —

Panthers ~ played |
- Thurs. 10°68 | Edward Milne
yesterday .. (Tuesday)

Stelly’s.

fH upset this season in
ff Claremont) 2-1 April me,

q Claremont controlled. |

defended -

good scoring chances.
The Panthers .

and that goal stood up.
Butt didn’t: take ..

» even.‘ They picked up:

the pressure. and. |
managed to tie the. 00
Linda.

F resulted in-a:goal as.
down .an-

a and chided the goalie. -

to beheading fora tie.”

Martin picked up the-.
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