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Sorensen Laurie Graham, Gerry skiing post orld Cup triumphs very aggressive. III 1 A vj1 i fl xX PUY-SAINT-VINCENT, France (CP) Laurie Graham and Gerry Sorensen combined for a shock World Cup double during the weekend as Canada's women skiers enjoyed their finest hour on the World Cup circuit in two years. Graham, a 23-year-old veteran of Canada's national ski program from In-glewood, impressed herself as much as the European establishment Sunday when she sped to victory in the season's first super giant slalom. Sorensen sorted out her early-season difficulties Saturday when she won her fourth World Cup downhill race, but her first this year as the Canadian women convincingly established themselves as medal threats at next month's Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo, Yugo slavia. Sorensen, 25, of Kimberley, B.C., followed up her gold medal in the downhill and added to her World Cup points by placing fifth in Sunday's super GS.

And Diana Haight of Fruitvale, B.C., her career interrupted twice in recent years by injuries, took ninth place Sunday as Canadian women dominated a World Cup Alpine event other than downhill for the first time. "In my wildest dreams I don't think I expected results like this," said Canadian women's coach Currie Chapman. "The Europeans seem dumbfounded by the whole thing. "They were asking us if we had done any special training at Christmas. I think it was just a psychological thing that the girls went after.

They were Chapman noted the last time Cana-da's women skiers had been as dominant at an international meet was the 1982 world downhill championship won by Sorensen with Graham third and Dianne Lehodey, now retired, fifth. Liisa Savijarvi, from Bracebridge, also cracked the top 20 when she placed 1 6th in the field of 1 1 1 starters. One hundred skiers finished the event that combines the tenacity of downhill racing with the technical requirements of a slalom racer. The main difference with the super giant slalom is that it is one run of the course usually a downhill track compared with two runs required for (Sorensen, page 28) UPI photo Laurie Graham cuts around gate en route to giant slalom victory Ifcrfal fxni Wfsi Pages 27-34 Business The Citizen, Ottawa, Monday, Jan. 9, 1984, Page 27t 535 with win iders ease: KeosKins esc ape I i i 'J 7 v.

4 i 1 4 Interceptions mark sinking of Seahawks L.A. Raiders 30, Seattle 14 By Peter Richmond Knight-Ridder News LOS ANGELES In the meaningless, drawn-out final minutes of a game punctuated by moments of high temper, Seattle Seahawks' running back Zach Dixon reacted with anger to an apparently clean tackle by Los Angeles Raiders' cornerback Mike Haynes. From two feet away, Dixon whipped the football at Haynes' chest. It was the most accurate Seattle pass Sunday, and the final of several Seahawk eruptions, on a dishwater gray afternoon before 88,734 in the Los Angeles Coliseum, hereafter to be referred to as Black and Silver Sunday. Sum up the AFC championship game in two words: Seattle Slewn.

Or Slain. The final score was 30-14, but it bore little relation to the flow of the contest. While Marcus Allen (154 yards on 25 carries) and Jim Plunkett (17 completions in 24 attempts) waltzed through the Seattle defence, while Frank Hawkins was scoring twice in the k- 4 Questionable penalties kill 49ers hopes Washington 24, San Francisco 21 By Gary Long Knight-Ridder News WASHINGTON The city's monument to pro football excellence was sinking in the loose sand of midfield RFK Stadium Sunday until Mark Moseley finally got a reasonably firm footing. Slipping and sliding on doctored turf, the Redskins' place-kicker already had misfired on field-goal attempts of 45, 34, 38 and 41 yards. With Washington carrying a 21-0 advantage into the fourth quarter, his miserable afternoon seemed no more than a footnote.

But Joe Montana unleashed a three-touchdown passing barrage within Vh minutes to lift heavy underdog San Francisco back into a 21-21 tie and place the burden of victory back on Moseley's shoulders. His last kick traveled 25 yards with 40 seconds remaining and produced a 24-21 final margin and Washington's second consecutive National Conference championship. Even that straight-on kick didn't "split the uprights." "No, it wasn't perfect," said quarterback Joe Theismann, the holder. "But it was good enough to get us to Tampa Bay." The Redskins, 27-17 conquerors of the Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII, will attempt Jan. 22 in Tampa to become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls since the Pittsburgh Steelers in SB XIII and SB XIV.

It took two controversial penalties to get Moseley into chip-shot range, and the flags, worth 32 yards on the climactic 78-yard drive, infuriated 49ers' Coach Bill Walsh and defensive backs Eric Wright and Ronnie Lott. i UPI photo Raiders Lester Hayes 37 scrambles after intercepting pass to Byron Walker but play called for interference. space of 3:11 in the second quar- ensured the Raiders a Jan. 22 ter, the Seahawk offence played date with the Washington Red- "The Curly Shuffle." After skins Super Bowl XVIII. playing near-flawless football Curt Warner, Seattle's rookie down the stretch, they gave up sensation, gained 26 yards on 11 five interceptions, mistakes that (Raiders, page 28) Riders lose Joe Pascale to Generals UPI photo Lawrence Pillers (55) fails to stop John Riggins as he puts ball ahead of him and dives for touchdown "It's too bad that a game like Brown in the third quarter, his this had to be decided on a cru- most important attempts were cial official's call," Walsh said, ones that prompted penalty flags, "especially on a pass that could On second down and 10 from not have been caught by a 10-foot the 49ers' 45-yard line, he Boston Celtic." dropped back, pump-faked, and Theismann finished with 229 then heaved toward receiver Art yards passing, but other than a Monk, who was sprinting in lock 70-yard scoring strike to Charlie (Montana, page 28) meetings attended by quarterbacks and receivers.

"He did a great job for us," said Brancato. When Pascale moved to offence, former Rider Wayne Giardino, director of player personnel, came onto the practice field to help coach the defence. "I'm not sure whether we're looking for two coaches or one," said Brancato. "Right now Wayne is back working in player personnel. He might stay there or he might come back as a coach." ers the past two years and with Montreal three years prior to that, is a native of Peckskill, N.Y.

He coached at Princeton University in New Jersey from 1977 until 1979. With the Generals led by Her-schel Walker, Pascale will have the duties of handling the linebackers. This season, Pascale started as Riders defensive line coach. A quarter of the way through the season he moved over to offence and conducted all the offensive Ottawa Rough Riders head coach George Brancato saw his winter shopping list expand somewhat on the weekend. Offensive coach Joe Pascale has left the Riders to join Donald Trump's New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League.

"It's a chance for him to go home," said Brancato Sunday night from Dallas where he is attending the annual coaches' convention. Pascale, who was with the Rid i VS ii Sports fans pulling for Ernie Calcutt So there is a great hole in the fabric of our sports community today, an emptiness. He had become a part of the lives of thousands and thousands of sports fans, and they prayed for him in churches all over the city yesterday, and therein lies the hope. He is strong and tough and he's only 52, and he has the prayers of many thousands of us, and the unlimited support of all those good people at his station. Football fans who watched the bowls last weekend, and the NFL this weekend, might have observed some inconsistencies in the officiating.

Last week in the college games, officials were reluctant to call spearing and a receiver almost had to be lassoed and hog-tied before they called interference. Yesterday when the Redskins beat the 49ers, there were two unfortunate calls in the late minutes, both in favor of Washington. Those calls help set them up for the game-winning field goal and color man John Madden, a knowledgeable and refreshingly candid commentator, said the two calls were "nit picking" for that stage of a championship game. And they surely were. After fighting back from a 21-0 deficit to tie it up, the 49ers were undone by a couple of questionable rulings.

Perhaps the Skins would have been able to sustain their drive and win on their own without the calls, but the pass interference ruling and then holding decided the football game. Canadian fans who are forever complaining about the calibre of officiating in the CFL, and pointing to the States as the source of all such virtues, might do well to remember last weekend, and this one, in American football. They' very good most, of the time, but they make mistakes too. In the first serious conversation I ever had with Ernie Calcutt, years ago, I told him: "You've gotta be nuts." "Well, I guess so," he came back, "but this is what I want to do." He wanted to be a sportscaster. He had a good job with the Met Life, he had been there a dozen years and he was on the way up big company, strong benefits, secure future, all that.

And he packed it in for the chancy business of sports broadcasting. He figured it all out, wrote down all the pros and cons and threw that away because it didn't fit what he intended to do, and came to his career conclusion based on the very best and only reason, in the final analysis: "This is what I want to do." Terry Kielty made him an offer, and Kiel-ty confesses he harbored some misgivings about doing it at the time. Not that he questioned Ernie's ability, but he said yesterday: "Here was a good guy who had worked hard and he had a nice, cosy future, and I had to say, 'forget that, come with You know, family, mortgage, car payments all those things, and he had it all under control, and I had to say, 'forget it. Come with And he didn't hesitate. He really wanted it." He grew up (and up, and up, around Centretown, Gladstone Avenue, banging around the playgrounds and a regular rink rat at the old Auditorium and he developed an extraordinary memory for sports things names and games and dates, and he liked to recall old series in the most minute detail, and in all sports.

He just loved games and the people in and around them. And so he slid into perfect pattern at CFRA and their long-standing policy of community involvement and contribution. That was a fundamental rule with the station's founder, the late Frank Ryan, and it i' tt Eddie tOk Jxi MacCabe came on down through the ranks to the late Tom Foley, to Terry Kielty and Ken Grant, Gord Atkinson and Don Holtby and all those guys, and as sports director, Calcutt was always available to lend his and the station's clout to any community venture. In recent years I have been sitting on the board of trustees of the Ottawa and District Sports Hall of Fame with him and he always came to meetings prepared, informed and ready to work. He was the voice of the Rough Riders for about the past 20 years, he did daily editorials and if you didn't agree, you had to admit his forceful presentation made his remarks particularly thought-provoking.

And if you i disagreed, and told him so, he'd laugh it off no arguments and say something like, "well, that's another viewpoint." A loyal friend, a good and useful guy and a big part of the Ottawa sports community, he was, despite his major image in the community, an unassuming big buy. And after all the years of consistent excellence, we come to take it all for granted. Until we hear he has been knocked down by a very serious stroke, paralysis, life-support systems critical. His condition stabilized over the weekend but there has been no outward signs of improvement. The extent of the damage has not yet been ascertained and so there is no prognosis yet, but ha is gravely ill.

John Major, Citizen Cross-country grimace: Some 295 cross-country skiers took part in races on the weekend at Camp Fortune-Ottawa Ski Club. Above, Cantley's Richard Weber grimaces after finishing second in the 15-kilometre race as friend Josee Auclair throws blanket over his shoulders. (Story, page 28).