Coach Dan Van Os and his Caledonia Kermode girls’ ‘senior high school basketball team expect to put up a good fight for the zone championship

this season. They posed for us last week in front of their Kermode

bear painting on the school gym wall, before winning a regional tourna- ment here on the weekend.

- Caledonia Kermode girls ran up four wins in a row to capture their own five-team, round- robin senior high school girls’ basketball. tournament on Dec. 16 weekend.

They alwo had Amanda Campbell named as the tourna- ment’s most valuable player, and placed Krista Soules and Rochelle Pelletier on the all-star team.

Terrace girls and Kitimat boys won zone seven bowling berths for the B.C. Winter Games dur-

ing rolloffs at Smithers on Dec. 10.

In their five-game series, Ter- race girls ran up a score of 4216. to finish 141 pins up on runner- up Houston (4075). Kitimat placed third (4021) and Smithers fourth (3815).

Members of the Terrace team, under coach Darlene Elkiw, are Dallas Provost, Lisa Haugland, Linda Larson, Lorna Burkett and Debbie Lebeau.

Kitimat’s boys ran up a score of 4443 and beat out Prince Rupert by 16 pins (4427). Ter- race took third place (4115) and Smithers came fourth (4020).

Members of Kitimat’s win-

Fi nifg team are Ken Gutknecht, Steve Dielschneider, Jason Brown, Ian Taylor and Zeffy Santucci. Their coach is Barry Taylor.

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Tefface boys’ team was com-

’ Other all-stars selected in- cluded Michelle Missere and Colleen Johnson of Kitimat, and Lisa McKinnon. of Hazelton.

Kermodes started with a 51-22 victory over Hazelton Spartans, then doubled up on Fort St. James 48-24. ,

In game three they downed a rep team from Skeena junior high - (filling in: for cancelled Smithers) 63-17. Their final

prised of Eric Hernes, Kevin Pongracz, Jason Banville, Jason Prevost and Darcy Netzel.

‘Ketchikan

Ketchikan, Alaska’s three girls’ high school basketball

teams won all three games Dec. .

11 against Terrace and Thornhill opponents in after-school action at Terrace schools. Kay-High’s Grade 9’s downed Thornhill

46-19,

_ Kermode girls win ~own tournament

match against Kitimat’s Orcas was a title-clinching 49-34 win,

Orcas had gone into the last game unbeaten in three straight. They had earlier downed Skeena outscored Hazelton 62-48, and defeated Fort St. James 56-22.

Hazelton’s Spartans managed two wins — 56-32 over Fort St. James and 46-34 over Skeena. Skeena's only win was 44-33 over the winless Fort gals.

- Local bowlers roll on — to B.C. Winter Games

They’re coached by Gary Edgar.

The B.C. Winter Games are at Penticton from Feb, 15 to 18.

cleans up

Grade 9’s 33-22. Kay-High’s seniors defeated Caledonia Ker- modes 81-35. In Grade 10 action against Skeena, Ketchikan also came up with an easy win. The score was 60-23.

Gordon Rink claims mixed curling title

The Larry Gordon rink of Prince Rupert won the zone six mixed curling title at Kitwanga Dec. 10 in a three-game double- knockout playoff. The opener saw Don Palmer of Smithers beat Darcy Bruce of Houston.

-Gordon then defeated Palmer,

following which Bruce elimi-

nated Palmer. In the last game, Gordon handed Bruce his sec- ond loss to clinch the title.

Gordon now meets Brad Clark of Prince George on Feb. 2. The winner of this zone five and six clash goes on to provin- cial finals.

Rassamee Ling named female karate Athlete of the Year

Rassamee Ling, 21-year-old daughter of Kitimat’s Dr. C.K. Ling, has been named Canadian Female Athlete of the Year for the sport of karate.

She was named to the honor recently at the national black

belt championships held at St.

John’s, Newfoundland. Ling is Canadian women’s champion in kata, which deals with pre-arranged exercises. While retaining her gold in

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kata, she teamed up with sisters

‘Lisa and Tanya for gold medal

performances in both team kata and sparring.

Earlier in the fall, Ling won a bronze medal in sparring at the Pan-Am games in Venezuela.

Rassamee is a_ first-year medical student at UBC and hopes to represent Canada at in- ternational events in Brazil and Mexico next year.

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