THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Monday, July 16, 1984 — 15 SZALKAI WINS SECOND TITLE Weather plays P.G. Open tennis finals by DON SCHAFFER Sports reporter It was a beautiful weekend for tennis — maybe too beautiful. The biggest-ever Prince George open tournament was played in sunshine Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, two finalists had to quit because of muscle cramps and related injuries, while several others were hampered by cramps. Over 160 players formed the largest field ever in the event. The biggest disappointment was in the men’s open final, where 1982 champion Stephen Szalkai watched fellow Quesnel player Brian Lam bow out early in the second set with leg cramps. Szalkai was leading 6-3, 2-1 when Lam retired. “He played quite a few matches today in the heat and it was unfortu- nate he couldn’t continue,” Szalkai said. The 18-year-old Szalkai was the top men’s seed. Lam beat second-seeded Bruce Striker of Prince George in a semifinal. Ron Bellamy won the consolation final, beating Robert Lee 6-3, 6-1. Szalkai teamed with Williams Lake’s Carl Ponto to take the men’s open doubles title, beating Striker and Gerry Peckham 6-2, 6-3. Peck-ham, a former singles winner, played only doubles this year because of a back problem. Mike Gorvel and James Hopkins beat Al Riou and Mike Woodroff 7-5, 6-2 in the open doubles consolation. Quesnel’s Marty Duffy was forced out of the women’s open singles consolation final when she ruptured a right calf muscle early in the first part in set. Prince George’s Shirley Craddock was her opponent. Gill Nielsen of Saskatoon won the women’s open, a lengthy 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 win over Richmond’s Jill Peniuk. Nielsen, a former Prince George resident visiting friends during the weekend, was also hampered by the heat but managed to outlast Peniuk. “Oh yes, the heat bothered me,” Nielsen said. “I’m not fit and I’m not used to playing in this heat. I’m not used to playing full out at all, really.” Breeda Ball and Kim Rogers of Smithers defeated Nielsen and Ce-cile Podolski of Prince George in the women’s open doubles final. Last year’s women’s open singles winner Ulla Reidmann of Williams Lake teamed with Margaret Alexander to beat Pauline Batson and Craddock 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 in the consolation. Gerry and Judi Peckham won the open mixed final 6-3, 6-2 over Matt Cachia of Smithers and Ball, while Ken Murray and Rita Wathan beat Jim and Nancy Condon 6-3, 6-4 in the consolation. Mark Knechtel beat Doug Stra-chan 6-3, 6-2 in intermediate men’s singles. Clint Buhr and Tony Cable beat Peter Lee and Robert Lee 6-2, 6-3 in intermediate doubles. Linda Cook beat Ruth Olineck 6-2, 6-4 in women’s intermediate singles. Lorraine Taylor and Frankie Cowing of 100 Mile House beat Fazi Be-um and Olineck 6-2, 6-2 for the dou-les title. Peniuk and Dan Ernewein beat Williams Lake’s Kathy Alexander and Darren Rautley 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 in intermediate mixed. The men’s novice winner was Brad Curtis, who beat Starr Carson 6-4, 64. Terry Scrivner took the women’s novice round-robin, with Kathy Rucker runner-up. Quesnel’s John Schmitz beat Gorvel 6-4, 6-1 in the senior men’s final. Lome Kwiatkowski beat Whitehorse’s Mike Parker 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the 18-and-younger men’s final. Parker and Ken Koschzeck beat Derek Zral and Martin Weilmeier 6-4, 6-3 in doubles. Sean Jeffery beat Pat Smith of Williams Lake 6-3, 6-3 in the 14-and-younger singles final. Whitehorse’s Susan Demchuk beat Lana Cayniuk 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 to win the junior girls’ singles, then teamed with Alexander to take the junior girls’ doubles. Calyniuk and Deanna Johnson were runners-up. Other consolation winners were: Clint Buhr (intermediate singles); Mark Knechtel and Rob McCormack (intermediate doubles); Begum (intermediate women’s singles); Judy Johnson and Diane Jenion (intermediate doubles); Robert Parolin (novice singles); David Horth (18-and-younger singles); Troy Cairns of Whitehorse (14-and-younger singles); Wade Horth and Sean Jeffery (junior boys’ doubles); Betsy Rankin and Bill Trask (intermediate mixed doubles). Two special awards were presented Sunday evening. Sean Wiebe won the John Steedman Memorial award for exemplary conduct by a junior and Andy Szalkai of Quesnel was given an appreciation award by the club for sponsoring the open tournament for 25 years. HOURS: Mon. to Fri. 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Unit No. 4 - 3930 - 22nd Ave. 563-0547 24 Hour service. Phone 564-2729 With the purchase 41 of a curved windshield ^ Catcher Richard Antonenko of The Citizen all-stars is successful in this attempt to catch a foul ball near the fence. Citizen photo by Ric Ernst BABE RUTH FINAL NEXT Citizen gets another chance by PAUL SMITH Sports reporter The Citizen all-stars are hoping the third time is lucky at the provincial 14- and 15-year-old Babe Ruth baseball championship. The Citizen, which swept The Permanent Nechako all-stars two straight in the district playoff during the weekend, has been to the final of the B.C. championship the past two years and come up empty both times. But coach Ken Antonenko says the team has a good chance of breaking that record of losses this time. “I think we have at least an even chance of doing it,” said Antonenko, in his first year with the 14- and 15-year-olds. “I think it will be between Gordon Head (of Victoria), Trail and us.” Trail has traditionally fielded strong baseball teams and it was Gordon Head which defeated Prince George in the final of the provincial 13-year-old championship two years ago. The Citizen plays Gordon Head in the first game of the seven-team provincial championship July 25 to 29 in Victoria. The Citizen trounced Nechako 10-0 Friday behind the two-hit pitching of Andy Anderson in the opening game of the best-of-three district final. Klassic gets split in senior league The Klassic Auto Body A's got hot and cold pitching Sunday as they split a Prince George senior men's baseball doubleheader at Monty Gabriel Park. Klassic fell 8-6 to Labatt’s in the opener as A's pitchers gave up nine walks, but Klassic rebounded for a 14-4 victory in the second game as youngster Shayne Keays struck out seven and walked just one. Labatt’s scored four runs on a hit and four walks in the seventh for the victory in the first game, its eighth of the season against five losses. Winning pitcher Ken Hodgson, who relieved starter Marcel Bruce, earned the victory. Klassic opened the game with a five runs in the first but the A's were held off the scoreboard until the seventh. Gerry Gascon went two-for-fivc including a double and he scored two runs to pace Labatt's. In the second game, the A's scored three runs in the first and never looked back. Klassic tagged Bruce for 14 hits, including five straight in the first. Third baseman Ken Dyck went four-for-four with two doubles and a pair of singles. Wade Taylor went two-for-three, Randy Young two-for-four and Don Antrobus two-for-four. The split left Klassic five games out of first place at 5-8. Labatt’s is tied for second with the Joe Martin and Sons Cardinals, both two games off the pace. The Prince George Power Train Oldtimers meet the Cardinals at 6:30 tonight. Quinn Campbell drove in three runs, two with a triple in the first inning, and scored twice. Randy Potskin went two-for-three Friday and two-for-three Saturday in a 5-4 triumph to be The Citizen’s most consistent hitter during the weekend. Both his hits in the second game were triples. Nechako put up a good fight in the second game and led 4-3 before Kevin Ilett delivered the fatal blow, a two-run single to left-centre in the bottom of the sixth. Bill Canuel, who relieved Nelson Tolsdorf in the fourth, earned the win. Dan Drezet took the loss in the first game and Mike Todoruk the defeat in the second. Antonenko said his team let down in the second game and confessed The Citizen hasn’t been playing well lately, but says it’s part of a strategy aimed at preventing the team from peaking too early. “I think we’ll start peaking later next week. We’ve still got 10 days to go, and if you start bringing the along too soon you lose them. “Hopefully we’ll bring them to a peak at the right time.” Meanwhile, the Prince George Knights of Columbus all-stars are at the 13-year-old provincial championship starting Tuesday in Squamish. The Astoria Inn Astros are at the senior (16- to 18-year-old) championship beginning July 26 in Duncan. Franklin dominates junior 100 MILE HOUSE. B.C. (CP) — For the second year in a row, Brent Franklin of Vancouver has won the B.C. junior men’s golf championship. The 18-year-old shot a four-under-par 68 in Friday’s final round to compile a 72-hole total of 282, six under par. He won the tournament by 13 strokes. Stephen Watson of Quali-cum was second with a 295 total. The champion of the juvenile bracket for players 16 and younger is Marty Skoals of Vancouver, who totalled 303. Jim Harris led Prince George golfers with a 307 total after a 77 in the final round. Darcy Bryant shot 79 for 310 and Rod Cochrane 77 for 312. All three players finished in the top 20 and have been invited to the B.C. invitational this weekend. The first round is at the Pitt Meadows course and the second at the I’oint Grey course in Vancouver. Chris Kennedy shot 79 in the final for 313 and missed the cutoff for the B.C. invitational by one stroke. Sean Lofroth shot 83 for 328. Tobin Senum missed the third-round cut Thursday. Braves' move said stupid ATLANTA (AP) - After half a season of all-star pitching by Phil Niekro in the American League, owner Ted Turner of the Atlanta Braves finally has admitted he made a “dumb move” last year when he released the veteran knuckleballer. “The guy’s an all-star, he might even win the Cy Young, and we let him go,” Turner said Thursday. “In retrospect, it was wrong . . . a dumb move.” Niekro. 45, who played his entire baseball career with the National League’s Braves before being released last year, won his 12th game of the season Thursday night while pitching the New York Yankees to a 5-2 American League victory over the Kansas City Royals. His 1.88 earned-run average is the best in the league. QUESNEL REDI-MIX loir Two to softball fina Cariboo Hotel of Quesnel was first and Mackenzie Redi-Mix third in the men’s intermediate A softball district 12 weekend playoff. But both teams were winners and second-place Western Inn of Vanderhoof came away empty handed. The B.C. championship is in Mackenzie July 27 to 29 — so Cariboo Hotel qualifies as the district champion and Redi-Mix as the host team. Cariboo, which won all four of its games in the three-day, 10-team double-knockout at Spruce City Stadium, topped Western Inn 3-0 in the A-B final Sunday afternoon. Gerry Melnyk threw the shutout and Quesnel clinched the win with two runs in the bottom of the sixth against Vanderhoof, which was playing SLO-PITCH PLAYOFF its four straight game of the day. Vanderhoof finished the weekend 5-2. Earlier, Western Inn stopped Redi-Mix 1-0 in the B final in a game that was meaningless to Mackenzie but critical to Vanderhoof to see who would advance to the provincial championship. Western Inn blanked the BXL Blasters of Tumbler Ridge 1-0 in the B semi-final. In the A final, Quesnel outscored Redi-Mix 4-3. Tabor Lake Logging did the best of three Prince George men’s recreation league teams, finishing 2-2. After an opening loss, Tabor Lake won its next two before leaving with its second loss. CC Industries finished 1-2 and was eliminated by Tabor Lake. Pace Realty went out two straight. Western Stars win sp The Western Stars struggled in the early innings but stormed back to win the intermediate A men’s slo-pitch district title Saturday. The Western Stars edged Investors 8-7 in the A-B final of the district playoff and won a trip to Golden Aug. 17 to 19 for the B.C. championship. Western was unbeaten in three games at the four-team playoff at Kenworth Field, beating Six Mile Logging 6-5 and taking Investors 12-0 in the A final. Investors beat Six Mile 6-5 in the B final to gain the A-B final berth. In the final, Investors led 7-5 going into the bottom of the seventh after watching a 7-0 third-inning lead slip away. Western started the seventh with two singles and Gary Babcock drove in the go-ahead run with a double. Drew Anderson drew an intentional walk to load the bases, Ian Bishop drove in Gary Reed to tie the score and Babcock came home on a long sacrifice fly to left by Local team second at provincial final Prince George has won its first medal in provincial minor softball competition thanks to a second-place finish by the Cougarettes during the weekend. The Cougarettes won a silver medal at the B.C. bantam intermediate championship as they fell 18-11 to a powerful Kamloops team in the final. The Cougarettes. who dropped out of the Prince George Minor Girls’ Softball Association two years ago so they could remain together as a team (the PGMGSA has a dispersal draft every year), were 2-2 in the round-robin before downing New Westminster 13-2 in the semi-final. In the preliminary round, the Cougarettes thumped Vancouver Island 20-7 before losing to Maple Ridge 10-9. Prince George beat Richmond 7-1 and lost to New Westminster 10-3. 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Engine’s first run of the 14th and the winners capitalized on three consecutive errors by shortstop Chuck Buchan to score two more. Winning pitcher Bernie Henry drove in the last two runs with a single. Cariboo got two in the second and three in the third to beat Runners World. Bill Sador was two-for-two for the winners. Tonight, Boston Pizza plays Cariboo at 6, the Village Inn Pub Blue Moons meet the Auto Pvlagic Wizards at 7 and the Western Stars play Investors at 8. OPENING SOON FRED DETTLING AUTO SALES LTD. 1959 - 1st Ave. 562-9812 • Quality used cars & trucks • Consignments WE’LL BUY YOUR CAR OR TRUCK FOR CASH!! Drop in and see us today. red Dettling Bryon Kotch REGISTER NOW!