THE CITIZEN. Prince George — Thursday, February 12, 1981 — 15
 PRINCE GEORGE CONTINGENT SET
If your name is here, you're In the B.C. Games
  Having the B.C. Winter Games in Prince George hasn’t increased local participation appreciably.
  Prince George has named 164 athletes to represent zone eight in the third annual event here March 5 to 8. with almost 20 coaches, managers and other non-playing personnel included.
  Fifty-eight alternates have beeiuiamed.
  The number of Prince George qualifiers named after two months of zone playoffs is about the same as at Kamloops two years ago and at Kimberley last year.
  Quesnel and Mackenzie each have 14 athletes representing the zone.
  Prince George is represented in water polo for the first time.
  The men’s team has Ken Lipinski, Peter Vogt, Rick Brine, Gordon Flann, Dave Bulger, Jim Goodson, Andy Vogt, Larry Obst, Doug McMillan, David Fyles, Franz Wipfli, Kemp Hastewell and Peter Griffiths.
  Debbie McCaffray, Debbie Richter, Kim Ewert, Marlene Arscott, Diane Labbie, Shelley Dalke, Brenda Arscottr Leslie Fyles and Lynn Wood are on the women’s team, coached by Patti Town.
  Lyle Sitter, Jaswinder Kandola, Slavko Obranovic, Hubert Matte, Brent Pearson, Jasharn Kandola, Kurt Hawkenson, Marcel Bazinet, Darcy Bruce, and Lance Harris are wrestling qualifiers.
  Hawkenson, Obranovic, Pearson and Harris won medals at the seventh annual Northern B.C. Winter Games during the weekend in Prince Rupert.
  One of five Prince George weightlifters will try to become the first Prince George athlete to win three gold medals at three consecutive B.C. Winter Games.
  Miles Moonie won three golds at Kamloops and Kimberley and will be joined at this year Games by clubmates Tony Smith, Leon Couture, Danny Mowbray and Roger Blais.
  Another first for Prince George this year is in wheelchair volleyball, with Eric Thompson, Larry Wood, Harold Wade, Bob Hundle and Wayne Willerton on the team.
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The Ranch Bread Juvenile Kings play in boys’ hockey, led by coach Stan Polsom and manager Bill McKinney.
Mike Trick, Larry Yeomans, Ron Sawtell, Brian Mohr, Wade Hounsell, Larry Findlay, Cheyne Belcher, Roman Buksa, Brian Grantham, Randy Mackus, Barry O’Brien. Pete Sherba Jr., Shawn Walker, Mike Chartrand. Nick Honeyman, Art Marsolais, Laird Ongman, Steve Silver and Keith Watson are on the team.
Iona Jewell Buksa, Suzzanne Parent, Robert Bichel-bauer, Karen Lee Sharun and Shawn Lundquist are in figure skating, coached by Leslee Lehtimaki.
Qualifiers from the Prince George Speed Skating Club are Drew Staniland, Barbara Beaudry, Kathy Baker, Alan Marshall, Robert Dennison, Carol Dennison, Ruby Prichuk, Raye Miller, Dean Stavely, Amber Lee Salmon, Ann Marshall and Peter Blokker, who is also the coach.
June Cameron is competing as well as being a manager and chaperone.
Norma Chasse coaches a women’s rink composed of Diane Dalio, Ruth Wolsey, Daphne Penner and Cheryl Wood.
Lise Beaulieu, Jacquie Shanahan, Corina Luthi. Karin Andersen, Shelly Endean. Sharon McGougall, Audrey Wiens, Kim Pedersen and Kerri Scholten are coached by Robert Strachan in girls’ volleyball.
Coach Dennis Semeniuk leads Prince George women Ann McVey, Bina Buchignani, Judy Maida, Jean Corrie, Edna Stitt, Heather Semeniuk, Jean Pavich, Shirley
 Sevigny, Jackie Agostinis and Wendy Stephen in basketball.
Dave Lancelot, Lane Logan, Brian Cowden and Greg Jewitt are entered in racquetball, with Wayne Shrigley coach and Dave Hogan coaches Don Neal, Annette Isbes-ter, Lou Vertucchio, Linda Werbecky and Ron Lind in squash.
 Brenda Kula, Willie Weilmeier, Rosemary Winsby, Jim Kula and Dale Mclllmoyle are table tennis qualifiers.
Northern B.C. Winter Games badminton medallists Cindy Slonski, Alex Allison and Ken Chin lead a Prince George group in the B.C. Winter Games.
 Shirley Blatchford coaches the team, which also has Brenda Peacock, Jeanette Van Stolk and Sharon Fichtner.
 Darren Lindsey, Kelly Doucette, Cindy Skakun, Aline Bourassa, Ray Ohashi, Cynthia Sullens, Brenda Sturgeon. Greg McKenzie, Susan Lindsey and Cathy Stuve are local judo qualifiers.
 Skakun and Sturgeon also won medals last weekend in Prince Rupert.
 Karate qualifiers are Lance Odiorne. Niven Cowden, Robert Dow and Joe Papp, a double-medallist at the Northern Games.
Former Canadian gymnastics champion Phillip Delesalle coaches a Prince George contingent of Denise Clowater, Karla Schmit, Carol Conner, Tami Earl, Lana Hilde, Michelle Makelke, Linda Lilley and Kim Sandberg.
 Diving coach Ted Church has a group composed of Sean
Paulson, Darby’Jackson. Scott Morash and Susanne Bouchard.
 Prince George bowling qualifiers are Dianne Bourdon. Bud Livingstone, Kathy Dayton, Sharron Paulson and Carole Pitchko, with Norma Johnson acting as coach.
 Northern B.C. Winter Games silver medallist Gary Sum-merfield. Curtis Mann and Howard Koshel will compete in boxing.
 However, downhill and cross-country skiing qualifiers might not get a chance to represent zone eight in the
Games.
 Local ski operations remain closed, with a serious snow shortage and ski events will likely be cancelled by the end of the week, just as they were for the Prince Rupert
Games.
 Janna Cox, Paul Desroches, Brad Booth. Brenda Hod-son. Dean McDermott and Tracy Braet are alpine qualifiers and are coached by Paul Venner, while Irene Wend-land and Lauri Karjaluoto are cross-country qualifiers.
 Mackenzie is represented by a girls’ hockey team led by coach Andre Friolet and assistant coach Brian Marsh.
Team members are Lynn Thibodeau. Audrey Albers, Bernadette Duhaime, Rae Landry, Michelle Taylor, Sandra Currie, Karen Catchpole, Bonnie Friolet, Audrey Robinson, Corrine Zambuck, Sandy Bessette, Charlene Craig. Lorelle Grimard and Mary Ann Skoronski.
 Paramjit Powar coaches Quesnel weightlifters Jasbin-der Nagra, Devinder Nijjar. Parmjit Gill, Major Lidder and Ranjit Palak.
 Earl Olsen of Quesnel is on the zone men’s basketball team.
 Other Quesnel qualifiers include Barb Smetaniuk (figure skating), Sheila Heidt (gymnastics) and Steve May and Len Gamache (judo).
 Jim Ely, Erin Findlay, Matt Ely and Paul van Donkelaar are cross-country skiing qualifiers from Quesnel.
 About 2,500 athletes from all over B.C. are expected to compete in the Games, in 26 sports.
losing Delta
by MARK ALLAN Citizen SportH Reporter
 The B.C. Senior Hockey League was rocked Wednesday when the Delta Hurry Kings took a leave of absence.
     Hurry Kings’ owner Cliff Smith of North Vancouver claimed he could dress only nine players this weekend in Quesnel.
  He cited injuries, suspensions and other factors for his decision.
 The Prince George Mohawks took a leave of absence from the second-year league Dec. 28, because a critical player shortage left them unable to ice even 10 players.
  The league shifted to a double round-robin format for the second half of the Reason, but the Quesnel Kangaroos and Kamloops Cowboys are the only teams left.
 League president Bill Fowler of Quesnel says the survivors will likely play doubleheaders in Quesnel this weekend and in Kamloops next weekend.
  Cowboys’ owner Mike Mortimer meets with Quesnel officials this weekend to decide whether the final will be a best-of-seven or best-of-nine.
  The BCSHL champion plays host to the Western International Hockey League winner in a best-of-five beginning March 28, for the provincial senior A title and the Savage Cup.
  A disappointed Smith says he’s been having problems since the Mohawks withdrew.
  Delta was second to Quesnel with a 9-6 recbrd when the ’Hawks pulled out, but the Kings lost six straight games in 1981.
  Smith says playing Friday games in the revamped setup really hurt him, because many of his players didn’t want to or couldn’t get off work the extra day.
  “I had four or five guys missing each weekend.” He would have acquired more players, but he couldn’t.
   “If you pick up any more players, you’re not eligible for the playoffs.”
   The signing deadline was Feb. 9.
   Although Smith says he lost $20,000 this season and $18,000 in 1979-80, he insists money wasn’t a factor in his decision.
   The Hurry Kings have been drawing an average of 350 fans a game in the Sungod Arena, which holds 2,400.
   Smith leaves the league on a sour note.
   He’s unhappy about refereeing in Quesnel and “unfulfilled commitments” by the Kangaroos’.
   He claims officiating in Quesnel is atrocious, saying “people don’t like to pay for a joke.”
    Delta lost two players to suspension and another to injury when they visited Quesnel two weekends ago.
   Smith was reluctant to elaborate on the "unfulfilled commitments," but referred to gate equalization.
   Smith claims Prince George favored equalization early in the season when the ’Hawks were drawing respectably and the Kangaroos liked it then when they weren’t drawing well.
   He says when the ’Roos were drawing better later in the season, they changed their stance and opposed equalization.
   However, Smith says “hockey is in my blood" and he feels he’ll return to hockey next season.
   The league president says the leave of absence didn’t surprise him, because he knew Smith was having problems after the Christmas break.
   “It didn’t really surprise me; in fact, I was lucky he stayed in that long.”
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Canadians' fitness levels improving
  OTTAWA (CP) - In 1972, Canadians were taunted by a catchy, often-irritating federal advertising campaign about fitness.
   Commuters were told to jog to the back of the bus because that was probably the only exercise they would receive that day.
   The country was described
 as “The true north soft and free” and the average Canadian was said to be as fit as a 60-year-old Swede.
  But times have changed, Sport Minister Gerald Regan told an international confer-enceon winter recreation Wednesday.
  “Fitness has arrived in Canada,” Regan said, adding
 that there is a strong surge of interest in jogging, tennis, squash, racketball, softball and broomball.
   It is rapidly becoming a fitness movement, he said, characterized by loose organization of Canadians from virtually every walk of life.
   Sales of sport and recreation equipment including athletic
 footwear, canoes, adult-sized bicycles and cross-country skis have skyrocketed, he said.
   Quoting Statistics Canada, Regan said the number of Canadians participating in sport jumped 34 per cent between 1972 and 1978.
   But the Canada Fitness Survey, announced last week by
 Regan, will yield the kinds of comprehensive, up-to-date facts to help policy-makers and private industry make decisions about fitness and recreation.
    More than 40,000 people in 82 communities will undergo a series of tests and answer a questionnaire about lifestyle, health and fitness habits.
Mays falls
  HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Willie Mays collapsed while addressing 425 students at a junior high school on Wednesday, but the former baseball great was released from an area hospital within two hours of the collapse. Mays, 49, who does public relations for Bally’s Park Place casino hotel in nearby Atlantic City, collapsed from fatigue, said casino spokesman Rita Shade.
Canada Cup looking like all- Alberta tournament
  OTTAWA (CP) — Sport Minister Gerald Regan says he doubts the federal government will have $2 million to $3 million to spare to make the Canada Cup hockey tournament a coast-to-coast affair next fall.
   That leaves the door open for Alberta, which has expressed interest in holding the six-country tournament.
   Regan said in an interview Wednesday his department is responsible for fitness and amateur sport and he doubts it will be able to allocate funds to a tournament in which the players are primarily professional.
  The competition involves teams from
 Canada, the United States, the Soviet Union. Czechoslovakia, Finland and Sweden.
   Regan was replying to Alan Eagleson, Hockey Canada’s international chairman, who said Tuesday in Los Angeles that he needs federal support to offset rising costs and to make the tournament a coast-to-coast competition.
   With federal support, Eagleson said, the first day of the tournament could be held in Atlantic Canada, day two in Quebec, the third day in Ontario the fourth in Manitoba-Saskatchewan and the fifth in Alberta-British Columbia.
   If Ottawa doesn’t provide the money, Eagleson said he does not expect support for his crosscountry plan, leaving the tournament an all-Alberta show.
   Eagleson said he has a meeting scheduled with Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed to discuss the matter.
   Peter Trynchy, Alberta’s provincial parks and recreation minister, said Tuesday he likes the idea of holding preliminary games in such cities as Lethbridge, Red Deer and Medicine Hat. Final games could be played in Edmonton and Calgary.
   Trynchy said Alberta could offer the cities
 grants to help defray costs or agree to underwrite the tournament in exchange for a share of the gate.
   Eagleson said the 1976 tournament made a $3 million profit on revenue of $7 million. The teams played a single roundrobin competition with Canada winning the tournament with a 2-0 victory over Czechoslovakia. Most of the games were played in Montreal.
   This time the plans call for a single roundrobin, followed by sudden-death semi-finals between the top four teams. The two winners would meet in a one-game final.
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Sloppy win for Kings; need one more for first
by DAVE PAULSON Citizen Sports Reporter They didn’t do it with much flair, but the Prince George Spruce Kings moved within one win of clinching their second straight regular season title Wednesday.
   The Spruce Kings, with two regular season games remaining, didn’t have one of their better games, but still hammered the undermanned Williams Lake Mustangs 10-4, before a crowd of 411 in the Coliseum. The game was the only Peace Cariboo Junior Hockey League contest Wednesday.
   The last place Mustangs, with eight wins in 38 games, brought just 11 skaters plus two goaltenders, as five regulars couldn’t make the trip because of work commitments.
   A full Williams Lake lineup might have been a problem for the Spruce Kings, who were obviously uninspired remembering their 14-2 bombing of Williams Lake here two weeks ago.
   The Mustangs were outplayed during the first two periods, but weren’t really outmatched until they became noticeably weary a few minutes into the final period.
    Prince George led 2-1 after the first and 6-3 after the second.
   Affiliate players from the Toyota Midget Kings figured prominently for the Spruce Kings, as Dale Nichols, Kevin Scobie and Brad Martiniuk had eight scoring points between them. Nichols had two goals and one assist (and was picked the game’s outstanding player), Scobie had three assists and Martiniuk set up two. The trio replaced injured regulars Evan Hines, Harold Dawson and Ed Azzara.
   Alan Clarke led the Kings with two goals and two assists and Jim Dodds scored twice and added one assist. Don McLaughlin, Brad McLane, Dave Starnes and George Hafke scored singles.
 Scoring Lr Williams Lake were Les Ballai, Steve Charboneau, Brad Laird and Ross Burke.
 The Spruce Kings finish their regular schedule Saturday and Sunday in Dawson Creek, which plays the Grande Prairie North Stars in today’s lone game.
 Kings’ coach Grant Williams isn’t concerned his team might be sluggish in Dawson Creek after pounding the Mustangs.
 "'niey’re mentally ready. You can’t really look at things in a game like this (against Williams Lake) for mistakes, because they’re happening all over the ice. We’re not going to learn anything from this game,” said Williams.
 “But the confidence some guys get here might help carry us this weekend.”
 Mustangs’ coach Neil Beaman said his players were trying to conserve their energy for the final period, knowing they were going to play every other shift.
   “You know if you start working hard at the beginning of the game you’re going to get tired, so they tried to save their energy. But it doesn’t always work like that.”
   The Spruce Kings are four points up on the second place Quesnel Millionaires, who finish their schedule this weekend with two games in Fort St. John.
   Either one win by the Kings or one loss for the Millionaires gives Prince George first, but both are assured home ice advantage during the best-of-seven semi-finals, beginning Feb. 21.
   First place plays third and second plays fourth.
   Fort St. John is fourth, but trails Dawson Creek by just two points.
   If the Spruce Kings lose both this weekend and Quesnel wins both, the teams will be tied in points, but the Millionaires get first because they won five of the eight games between the’ teams this season.
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Dale Nichols, brought up to the Spruce Kings from the Toyota Midget Kings, scores one of his two goals, while Williams Lake goalie Rick Grosso watches helplessly.
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