Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba My ii j ver East players celebrate their provincial Kaaa championship. Kodiaks taken to the limit River East Gle Lawn earn volleyball titles volleyball by Marvin Mcdonald sports reporter the defending provincial girls Champion River East Kodiaks girls and the Gle Lawn collegiate Lions boys each won their respective championships last night. River East took More than two hours to reclaim their provincial Kaaa title 3-2 Over the mennonite Brethren Hawks on scores of 15-12,6-15,15-13,12-15,15-13. On the boys Side Gle Lawn Defeated Brandon a Crocus Plains plainsman 3-1 on scores of 15-13,5-15,15-5,15-8 in a match delayed More than an hour by the closely fought girls Battle. A this was a bigger thrill than winning last years championship a said Laura Grubert the Kodiaks Captain. A a it a my graduating year and will hold special meaning for me and my the 5-foot-9, 135-Pound Grubert was named the players Choice by her Peers from the Kodiaks Hawks and the other two final four teams a the Vincent Massey trojans and the lord Selkirk royals. A we knew the Hawks would be Tough a Grubert said. A a we be beat them All year but All our games have been extremely she said it helped that four of the Kodiaks had played together since Grade to when they won the freshmen title. Grubert was referring to herself and teammates Larissa Puttaert Trisha Pateman and Lindsay Bergen. It was Bergen who was named player of the game for her Side while Hawks Middle hitter Naomi Taylor was named most valuable player chalking up a game High 26 kills. Kristen Schwartz a 5-foot-10, Grade to Middle hitter with the Hawks was named her teams player of the game. She served six aces. A was a team we knew we could win it a Grubert said. A it was close but we Kodiaks coach John Schmidt called it a team win. A everyone contributed and followed the Lead from our Captain. A Laura has been a great Captain for us a Schmidt said. A she leads by example and has helped us All Moose give thanks to their three Good lines by Ashley Prest sports reporter forgive the Manitoba Moose if they done to seem too excited about their Best Ever season or their Chance to be the Ihly a team. On a 13-game unbeaten Streak and a single Point behind the league leading Long Beach ice dogs the Moose Are concentrating instead on what it will take to stay on top. They get a shot at the top spot today at 2 . In the Arena in a rematch after fridays 4-2 win Over the ice dogs. A when i won the Turner cup championship two years ago with the Detroit vipers it was because we had three Good Strong lines. We won because nobody could focus on one or two lines they had to focus on All three lines a said Forward Patrice Tardif acquired by the Moose this season As a free agent. A in Detroit it was not always the same line that scored. I think we have that Here. We have three solid lines and it does no to seem to matter what night someone different Steps Tardif has centred a line with Jason Macdonald on his left Wing All season and started out with Ralph Intranuovo on the right Side. When Intranuovo went Down with a Groin injury on nov. 20, Rhett Gordon was moved to the right Wing and the line has been red hot since. Despite the fact that Intranuovo returned to the lineup for Friday nights game along with Centre Ned Brady Moose head coach Randy Carlyle opted to keep Tardiff a line intact. Curt Bowen who returned to action on dec. 2 after missing 17 games with a broken foot replaced Captain Scott Amiel out with a Groin injury suffered nov. 27 on a line with Bill Bowler and Scott Thomas. The third line on Friday night was Intranuovo and Sheldon Kennedy centred by Brady and it was a combination in which Carlyle sees potential. A your master plan is that we want to provide three lines of offence any Given time on the ice a Carlyle said. A if you Analyse teams that have had Success in this league Over the last two years and Long Beach being one of them they be always been Able to provide three lines of offence. That a what we re trying to Moose defence Man Michael Stewart said the club must continue Down the path they be established of playing with emotion but remaining disciplined especially against Long Beach. A a lot of times the referee Only sees the retaliation and we done to want to be sitting in the Box and have them kill us with their Power play. They be got some of the top guns in the league As far As snipers on offence and on defence a said Stewart who broke a scoring drought with his late first period Power play goal Friday. A but we be been playing like that All year a not getting caught in scrums just do our business and get out of with the injuries and players returning in the midst of Success Moose players have had a taste first hand of the level of play it takes for consistent Success in the Ihl. A Guys have had to work a Little harder. It the undefeated Streak Hasni to been easy a Tardif said. A Guys have taken advantage of the Opportunity to play when other Guys have been injured and now All the Guys Are coming Back and its Tough to crack the lineup. That a going make us a better Krista Barkman coach of the Hawks was proud of her team. A we knew they had beat us in our nine previous meetings but the games were always close. They were unbeaten All year and if anyone was going to beat them it would be in the boys final Gle Lawn blockers keyed on plainsman attacker Bryan Salvador and were Able to keep his kills to a minimum. A we knew he had Success hitting around the blocks in the semifinals. So we knew we had to Block him out of the game a said Glen lawns a Kevin Daciw who was named As the players Choice after the match. Mark Shepit was named the tournament map and was the player of the game for the Lions. Jarrod Small was the plainsman player of the game. Curling at play Downs takes Back seat to weightier issues into the Lead spot and everyone else dropping Down a position. Ironically despite losing their skips both teams have been posting wins. Win Charuka a rink went on to win their morning game yesterday 9-8 in extra ends Over Quinn who is the District one defending Champion three years in a Row. The loss eliminated Quinn. And More a rink a which came into the weekend seeded sixth a also continues to Roll in their bid for a spot in the provincials posting victories Friday evening and again yesterday afternoon 7-5 Over Pembina a Brenda Bay. More lost the a Side final last night 9-1 to Mamie Ross but those two teams will Hook up again in the a Side final at 11 30 . Today. No. 4 seed Jill staub and no. 9 seed Barb Spencer also lost in the a Side finals last night eliminating them. In addition to the Ross More game today Karen Porritt will take on Joanne Leslie Connie Laliberte plays Kim link Connie Shepell plays Joanne Pelletier and Megan Adams plays Lori Boudreau in the a Side finals. Porritt Laliberte Boudreau and Ross Are All undefeated and could win berths with victories in the a Side finals. A loss and those teams will have one final Chance for a berth in the a a final. Unseeded Tracy Ivanyshyn meanwhile emerged As a bit of a giant killer yesterday eliminating no.3 seed Janet Harvey with a convincing 11-5 win in the morning draw and then taking no. 8 seed Joanne Pelletier to the Brink of elimination in the afternoon draw before losing in extra ends. Ivanyshyn seemingly had Pelletier dead and buried after going up 6-0 in the first four ends but the St. Vital seeds fought Back and stole three in the final two ends to win 8-7. A a it a been a bit of Marathon a Ivanyshyn said noting her rink did no to get off the ice at wild Wood Curling club until Midnight Friday and then played three consecutive games yesterday beginning at 9 . In other action Elaine Jones saw her bid for a double berth quashed in the afternoon when she was eliminated by Lori Boudreau of valour Road 10-6. Jones already has a berth in the senior women a provincial play Downs next weekend and was hoping for a Longshot Scott berth to go along with it. A i did no to enter with any illusions of winning a Jones said. A a it a just Nice to get the tuneup and play competitively against the top by Paul Wiecek sports reporter the Curling at this weekends City and Rural District play Downs has taken a Back seat to weightier issues after two skips in two Days had to be hospitalized. During the morning draw in Thompson yesterday skip Witch Auk had to be taken to Hospital after she fractured some ribs in a Freak Accident during her foursomes game against flin Flonus Donna Quinn. Witch Auk sustained the injury when she tripped on some stairs along the end boards at the Burntwood Curling club said Sharon Thiessen Woods of the Mica. Win Charuka a teammates managed to quickly round up a spare a substitutions Are allowed in such cases provided the person sparing curls in the same District a and the game continued. The incident came just one Day after another skip valour roads Chris More checked herself into Concordia Hospital suffering what teammates say is pneumonia. A she drove herself to the Hospital and they hooked her up to an in right Karen Porritt rink undefeated away a said More a Lead Jan Benedict son. A a she a expected to be there until at least today a the More rink played their regularly scheduled game Friday with just a threesome and then picked up Heather Mowat of the Granite As a spare for yesterdays game with Mowat moving by Jim Morris Canadian press fog delays Knock Whistler out of race three strikes . Resort out world ski Boss a we have to follow reasonable facts. We tried it three years in a Row now really tried a heavy shroud of fog covered sections of the Dave Murray course yesterday making racing impossible. Thursdays training run was the first time since 1995 a racer had actually skied the course. If the world cup does no to return to Whistler it might not come Back to Canada at All next year. Hujara was Blunt in rejecting Lake Louise alta., As a possibility and Fis is Cool to the idea of returning to Panorama . Nick Wilson Alpine Canadas director of world cup events refused to say world cup racing is finished in Canada. A we have some challenges we be got to review and overcome a said a subdued Wilson. A a we re going to do that and that Sall i can comment on right now. Obviously we done to want to not be on the Calendar. We re going to exhaust All Peter Webb chair of the w5 group which organized the race was stunned by Hujara a comments. A a it a a Surprise to me that he was quite so Strong a Webb said. A my understanding thebe was an agreement with Gunther there would Whistler . A a death sentence was imposed on the future of world cup racing at Whistler yesterday when the opening downhill of the season was delayed again because of poor weather. Gunther Hujara menus chief race director for the International ski federation finally voiced what organizers feared All week when he said three years of weather problems makes it almost impossible for him to include Whistler on next years Calendar. A a we re at the Point we have to be honest. I can Only say its really in jeopardy a Hujara said. A it will be really Tough for me to come up with a proposal again to put Whistler on the Calendar. I can not propose it once organizers will try to hold the downhill today but a scheduled super giant race has been cancelled. Poor weather at the Pacific Mountain resort has wiped out the race the last two years. A if we have an event today it does no to change that fact too much a Hujara Kristian Ghedina plays with Coco after bad weather forced the postponement of the world cup race in Whistler yesterday. Dumps of Snow forced cancellation of races in 1988,1996 and 1997. Until 1996, Whistler races were held in late february or March when weather conditions Are More be no declaration at this Point. If we pull it off wed All sit Down in the Spring and talk about the whole thing and think it through Webb said it costs about $1.5 million to Host the downhill and super Grace. The group also spent $200,000 this year on safety equipment for the track. A a we re not ready to say the hell with it a he said. A we have too much at stake. We have too much invested in the Way of emotional there have been 14 world cup events in Whistler since 1975. Problems with either fog rain or heavy favourable. Three years ago Fis decided to open its downhill season in North America where fall Snow conditions Are much better than Europe. The european racers hate flying to North America often. They would object to any Calendar which schedules races in the United states before Christmas then a return to Whistler in Cyclone blast Wisconsin staff it was chocolate thunders kind of game with fast Breaks lots of running and some slam dunking. Those were the sentiments of coach Darryl Dawkins following his Winnipeg Cyclone so 125-118 Victory Over Wisconsin blast in the teams third game of the 1998-99 International basketball association season. It was the second straight win Over the blast lifting the Cyclone to a 2-1 win loss record. A we got them into a running game the kind i liked when i played in the Aba a said Dawkins. A we have an exiting team with players who can slam Dunk and never Stop running. Andrell Hoard led the Cyclone again scoring 33 Points. Kwan Johnson tossed in another 20 Points he also came up big on the Board snagging to rebounds. That was the same number of controlled boards that Sean Tyson corralled. A Darren Sanderlin had a Good game for us a Dawkins said. A the hit four three pointers at the right time for Sanderlin ended the night with 20 Points. That Home opener will be against Minot a magic City Snow bears at the Winnipeg convention Centre at 7 ;