Michelle’s nationals taken out

Michelle Hendry of Terrace and her Canadian women’s na- - tional basketball team has been eliminated at the world cham- pionships in Maylaysia.

After winning their first two games in the three-game _ preliminary round, Canada lost four in a row.

They started with a 74-56 vic- tory over Brazil, then edged Japan 75-69, Their final round- robin match was an 86-53 loss to the Russians.

From there they moved on to the medal round play.. They opened with a 95-70 loss to United States. .

In game two Bulgaria beat them 65-61. In the last game they needed a seven-point win over Cuba te advance to semi- finals. However, they lost 75-69 to the Cubans to wind up their quest.

Telkwa wrestler wins gold in Winnipeg

Very little information was.

available from the recent Western Canadian Games at Winnipeg. However, we did learn that Telkwa wrestler Cam Johnson won his 72-K weight class.

He brings home a Games’ award of excellence the equivalent of a gold medal. He’s a member of the Simon Fraser University wrestling team, and competed for Smithers high school in his early years.

Charity golf to benefit hospital

Terrace’s fourth annual in- vitational charity golf tourna- ment is coming up on Sunday, August 26 at the Skeena Valley Golf Club.

Co-sponsored by the Inn of the West and Mills Memorial Hospital, proceeds go to the R.E.M. Lee Hospital Founda- tion.

The entry fee of $60 per player

- provides 18 holes of golf in a two-ball alternate-shot format. It also includes lunch, dinner and awards.

Grand prizes are trips for two to Vancouver courtesy of Cana- dian Airlines International, and a trip for two anywhere in Air -B.C,'s system.

The entry deadline is August 1 at the Inn of the West.

TERRACE’S PATHWAYS STUDENTS challenged their Kitimat counterparts to a scrub softball game last Thursday at Clarence Michiel School. Besides the opportunity to get out in the fresh air after a hard day learning academics and doing. lifeskills training, it was an opportunity to encourage speaking out, socialize and share experiences.

Windy Quebec ride for Mike

The winds were a steady 60 to 70 kilometers an hour and gusted to 95 at times. The course was a series of rolling hills with an outward-and-return route

- from Mont Joli, Quebec.

But it didn’t really bother Ter- race’s Mike Christensen, who

admits that road racing is the

Strongest part of his bike racing ability.

Out of 125 riders that started the national trials on July 21,

Local youth to baseball. tryout camp

One of six Terrace teens who recently attended an Atlanta Braves youth development camp in Prince George has been asked to join the baseball team’s travelling camp crew at Oliver and help with youngsters” tryouts.

Wilf Wilson joined them ’ this past Sunday and will be

with them for several days.

Other boys making the trip

to Prince George were Bryan Fick, Gary and Jeff Peden, and Mark and Brent Neeve.. Discussions have been held concerning a Braves camp in Terrace next year, but nothing is definite so far.

only 25 finished the demanding 180-K race — including Mike with a 22nd-place finish. Only one other B.C. rider finished ahead of him.

‘It was Mike’s hour of triumph and it solidified his berth on the B.C. team.

"We hit speeds of over 90 kilometers an hour on the out- bound leg,’’ Mike told us. ‘‘The tail wind was tremendous. “Coming back it was an equally Strong head wind and 15-K speeds were the norm."

Mike said that’s where most of the riders dropped out in this opening event of the national championships. His effort was his most pleasing so far in his young career,

Next day was Mike’s least favorite event — the criterium. As with the road race, 125 started but only 36 finished.

Mike found himself lapped and eliminated about one-third the way through.

‘After that tough road race on opening day, I just didn’t have the strength to keep up in the criterium.”’

This past weekend, Mike was busy.

On Friday and Saturday it was training time at Seattle’s Veledrome. Then on Sunday it was the B.C. time-trial cham- pionship at Matsqui.

In the near future Mike plans to take in a four-or-five stage race at Dawson Creek beginning August 4,

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