League finalists give good show by PAUL SMITH Sports reporter The North Cariboo Senior Soccer League had its ups and downs this year, but the 1983 season ended on a positive note Sunday at Rotary Stadium. After a clean, closely-fought 60 minutes of entertaining soccer, followed by another 20 minutes ol scoreless overtime, the Rheingold Kickers won the league playoff title with a 2-1 victory over City Furniture in a shootout. The game came to the 10th shot of the shootout, when Bert Houde beat Furniture goalkeeper Herb Chambers for the decisive goal and a 4-3 edge. “Because the rest of the league was so shoddy this year, we wanted to have a good game." said Kickers' Bill Maclver. who scored Rhein-gold’s only goal of regulation play. “And it was. We would have preferred a good loss to a sh-y win. “Now we can go drink some beer with those guys iCity Furniture) and have a good time.” The game had none of the violence or.animosity of the final game of the regular season between Labatt's Pastry Chef and Prince George Croatia. That game, which would have decided first place, developed into a brawl with eight minutes to play. As a result, both teams were banned from the playoffs, leaving the door to the playoff title open to either Furniture or the Kickers. The Kickers, who finished the year in fourth place with a 7-9-2 record. beat Farr Installations 4-0 in the first round, while Furniture, third at 7-6-4 in the regular season, dumped the Portuguese Football Club 2-0 to reach the final. Both teams had good scoring opportunities early in the game. Kickers’ goalkeeper Martin Briggs went down to block a shot on a breakaway on one occasion and teammate Houde knocked a left-footed shot off a cross just over the bar. Perhaps the best opportunity, however. came when Furniture’s Dave Kandola was left alone about four feet in front of Briggs, only to fire it straight at the 'keeper. Both teams showed good ball control and buildup, but it was the Kickers who struck first when Maclver, with his second goal of the playoffs, one-timed a bouncing ball past Chambers late in the first half. The Kickers immediately settled into their familiar defensive role and although Furniture held a territorial advantage, the team couldn’t get through to Briggs. But midway through the second half, off a set play, Danny Walls scored when the ball deflected to him alone at the right side and he knocked it into the open net. Regulation time ended tied 1-1 and neither team could score during two 10-minute periods of overtime. The crowd of about 100 was on its feet for the shootout. Furniture had missed twice in five tries and Rhein-gold once in four when Houde stepped to the 12-yard-line for his shot. He drove it low to the left side to give the Kickers the title. “We had lots of chances,” lamented City Furniture manager Ray Kandola. “But we just couldn’t put the ball in the net. “You can’t win if you can’t score.” The championship was the first since 1971 for the Kickers. Labatt’s has dominated the playoff picture for the past 10 years, winning seven times. Polarettes surprise by DAVE PAULSON Sports reporter When the second set of B.C. high school girls’ volleyball rankings are released Wednesday, the Prince George Polarettes figure to make a jump. The Polarettes. ranked 10th in the season’s first poll two weeks ago, upended the fifth-ranked Smithers Kanatas 13-15, 15-5. 15-5 in the title match at the Polarettes’ invitational tournament Saturday night. After finishing second to Smithers in the round-robin portion of the seven-team tournament, the Polarettes eliminated the D.P. Todd Trojans 15-13, 15-10 in the semi-final. Smithers earned a bye to the championship. The Polarettes were the only team to beat Smithers more than once during the round-robin, taking the best-of-three 15-12, 13-15, 15-1. PGSS coach Paul Wodchyc isn't surprised about beating Smithers. but expected a little more difficulty. “I didn’t know how we’d do in the final, but we handled them rather easily.” This was the first tournament of the year for Smithers, which is strapped financially and limiting its travelling. Todd, which also might make an appearance in the next combined A and AA poll, was third in the round-robin. while the Duchess Park Con-dorettes were fourth, Columneetza of Williams Lake fifth and Correlieu of Quesnel sixth. Nechako. a Prince George team of recently-graduated players, had its games count only as exhibitions to fill in and lost only to Smithers. The Polarettes started the round-robin with a 6-15, 15-6, 15-10 ’oss to Nechako, then beat Smiths s 2-1, swept two straight from Duchess, won two of three against Williams Lake, swept Correlieu and lost two Americans win Ryder Cup test PALM BEACH GARDENS. Fla. (AP) — Tom Watson won the clinching, final match but dramatic comebacks by Fuzzy Zoeller and Lanny Wadkins provided the keys Sunday to the United States’ one-point victory against a gritty European team in the biennial Ryder Cup golf matches. The U.S. won the matches 144-13(2 and were 6' 2-5' 2 in concluding singles matches Sunday. The Americans have 21 victories, three losses and a tie in the matches dating back to 1927. in a row to Todd. At another girls’ tournament in Mackenzie, the Kelly Road Runners won their first tournament of the year. Kelly Road topped the six-team tournament the hard way, finishing third after round-robin play behind host Mackenzie and D.P. Todd’s strong Grade 10 team. Mackenzie earned a bye to the final by winning the round-robin, leaving Kelly Road and Todd to battle in the semi-final, which Kelly Road won 15-8, 15-6. Todd had beaten Kelly Road 15-6, 8-15, 15-13 in round-robin play. In the final, Kelly Road lost the first game 16-14. but stormed back and captured the next two 15-6 and 15-7. “They’re finally starting to play together,” sighed Kelly Road’s first-year coach Josie Schmid, who starred with her twin sister Doris with Kelly Road’s volleyball and basketball teams the past two years. “I’m especially glad with the way they played in the semi-final and final.” Meanwhile, the Vanderhoof Vi-queens, B.C.’s second-ranked girls’ team, came close to making the final at a 24-team invitational at UBC in Vancouver. In round-robin matches, Vanderhoof beat Vernon, Highland of Co-mox and New Westminster, but lost to Mission and dropped another heartbreaker to a Winnipeg team 19-17, 15-13. If the Viqueens had swept Winnipeg they would have advanced to the final against top-ranked Mount Douglas of Victoria, but instead Winnipeg went to the final and lost, while Vanderhoof went to the game to decide fifth and sixth and lost to Oliver 15-2, 7-15, 12-15. “We played well against Winnipeg,” says Viqueens’ coach Reg Veysey, “but we just didn’t get the breaks when it counted. Then we weren’t really motivated against Oliver.” The Viqueens play host to Prince George girls’ teams this weekend, while most area boys’ teams are at Kelly Road’s invitational. In the only local boys’ action during the weekend, the Duchess Park Condors beat the seventh-ranked Correlieu Clansmen of Quesnel in the final of a five-team playday. The Condors, ranked sixth in the season’s first poll but left off the second top 10 last week, lost the first game to Correlieu 15-7, but rebounded to take the next two 15-10 and 15-8. D.P. Todd finished third, College Heights was fourth and Kelly Road, missing two of its starters, was fifth. B.C. CHAMPIONSHIPS Handball There’s 110 doubt. The 1984 B.C. closed handball championships will be in Prince George March 9 to 11. A presentation by Prince George Handball Association see-rctary-treasurer Jim Feragen at a B.C. Handball Association meeting Friday night 111 Vancouver secured the tournament for this city. PGHA president Greg Polis, who says he was verbally promised in January that Prince George would get the event, received a phone call recently indicating the BCHA “was having second thoughts,” in Polis’ words. “I hit the roof when I heard that,” explains Polis, who missed his plane Friday, subsequently missing the Vancouver meeting. finals here But Feragen made the presentation and Polis says, “there wasn’t any objection.” Polis estimates the championships, in Prince George for the first time, will attract about 100 of the province’s top players and organizers will likely have to book court time at Triad Racquet Centre, the Prince George Golf and Curling Club and the YM-YWCA. “We’re looking at the largest handball tournament ever in Prince George," explains Polis. "You'll see the best handball in B.C. here." The next tournament likely to involve Prince George players is a Bellingham, Wash., event Nov. 25 to 27, although Polis reveals the Prince George closed might be the same weekend. 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Citizen photo by DaVe Milne*. notched by Endean Prince George’s most celebrated 15-year-old hockey player scored the winning goal for his team in the Western Hockey League Friday night. Craig Endean, who only last April was leading the Chieftain Auto-par Kings to the Western Canadian bantam title, scored the Seattle Breakers’ fifth goal in a 6-4 win over the Lethbridge Broncos. The win marked the first time in three seasons the Breakers nave beaten Lethbridge in Seattle. Saturday in the B.C. Junior Hockey League, former Prince George Spruce King Carlo Calfa scored once for the Vernon Lakers in their 4-3 loss to the Summerland Buckaroos. Campbell Blair, who played last season with the Toyota Midget Kings, had one goal for the Penticton Knights in their 6-2 BCJHL loss Sunday to the Shuswap Totems, while former Spruce King Al Loring stopped 47 shots to lead the Nanaimo Clippers to an 8-4 win over the Cow-ichan Valley Capitals. Former Prince George resident Darrel Pederson scored once for Nanaimo. Olympic side beats locals by MARK ALLAN Sports editor Nobody was surprised and few really disappointed Saturday when the Canadian Olympic soccer team downed a group ol Prince George selects 4- 0 at Rotary Stadium. “I’d be very shocked at any local side that’s capable of beating a national team,” was the post-game comment of Bob Moynes, president of the Prince George Youth Soccer Association, which sponsored the Olympic team’s visit. “The final result was not unexpected but I think our side acquitted itself well,” Moynes believes. Organizers estimated a crowd of 700 took advantage of free tickets to see the game, partially financed by provincial government money through the Road to Olympics program, which makes the Victoria-based Olympic team available for exhibition games and clinics throughout B.C. Referee Glenn Docher-ty of Vancouver, who is a linesman for some North American Soccer League games, had an easy match to call, with botn teams sticking to hard but clean soccer. John Connor of the Canadian Professional Soccer League's Edmonton Eagles scored in the 25th minute from a scramble and Ed McNally of the CPSL’s Hamilton Steelers converted a nice, high cross with a header in the 33rd minute. George Pakos of Victoria Athletic beat Prince George goalie Gaetano Mauro in the 70th and 89th minutes, one with a leaping header to the short side and the other with a bullet drive high to the same corner. Prince George was kept almost exclusively in its own end in the first half, but pushed forward successfully early in the second. Still, goalie Dan Ferguson (Steelers) had to make only one save all game, when Dave Kandola tested him with a low, curling shot. Mauro made a good sprawling save in the 28th minute, but saved the best for last, making two outstanding saves in the waning moments. The final one, a high, leaping effort to tip the ball over the crossbar was especially noteworthy. Other Prince George standouts include Mau-ro’s Labatt’s Pastry Chef teammate Ed McLaren, who hustled constantly on right wing, and Vic Santos of the Portuguese Football Club, who made numerous hard but clean tackles in the first half. Prince George coach Jim Briggs, who admits the result “was no surprise,” praised Kandola and Art Renaud for adhering the best to the game plan, which was unfortunately rendered ineffective by the superior ability of the visitors. The Olympic team, which was without expected participants Terry Felix (injured knee) and Paul Nelson, both of the Vancouver Whitecaps, had NASL midfielders Larry Dill of the Montreal Manic and Jim Easton of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Head coach Bob Bear-park was in Toronto with the World Cup team, so assistant coach Brian Hughes was the acting head coach. _ Hughes, who says the game “went as predicted,” explains the team faces the same situation when it plays such an exhibition. “Whenever we play this type of game they (host selects) always rise to the occasion.” Actually, because of a recent decision by the world governing soccer body to permit pros to play in qualifying rounds toward the Olympics, Canada’s World Cup team will form the majority of our country’s Olmpic team for next year’s Games in Los Angeles. The team that played here Saturday, substantially the same squad that beat Bermuda 6-0 in Victoria and tied the same team 1-1 in Bermuda last spring in an Olympic qualifying round, won't be well represented in the next round. Only Pakos, Connor and Ferguson are among the final pool of 22 players announced Thursday by World Cup-Olympic team overseer Tony Waiters to begin the next home-and-home Olympic qualifying series against Mexico Oct. 23 in Victoria. “It was a bit of a disappointment Thursday," understates Hughes, who was nevertheless proud of his players for coming to Prince George and putting on a good show. “It was a credit to them. What they’re trying to do is show Torlv Waiters he made a mistake in his selection — and the only way they can do that is by playing well. “That's pride...they’re wearing a Canadian shirt and not many people have a chance to wear a Canadian shirt." CARING CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION ALI-CRAFT BOATS LTD. 215 1st Ave., Prince George, B.C. THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday, October 17, 1983 — MANUFACTURERS UF HIGH QUALITY ALUMINUM BOATS Introduces a new model for 1984 FEATURING: • 18 ft. long — 6 ft. 10 in. max. beam • 170 H.P. 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