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Edmonton Journal, Monday, February 19, 1996 D3 ruvo M5 Jones erases goose eggs for Nova Scotia Phillips takes one from Man. The Canadian Press gci i i I If i Scott, was ecstatic after her victory over Laliberte. "Thank God," said Jones, a mother of two and a sports and weather announcer with CBC radio and TV. "It's the first one for Nova Scotia in 13 games. It was sort of a superstitious thing." Jones was referring to Virginia Jackson's 0-11 record in round-robin play last year and an opening loss to B.C.

in the 1996 tournament. "To beat her (Laliberte) makes you feel like, "We're here and we Jones counted six in the ninth when she punched out a Laliberte shot with her final stone. "We were sitting one and two, but if I overcurl it I jam, if I thin it. can mess it up, even though it didn't lookmessable." Phillips, who went 5-6 last year, struck early against Manitoba with a four-ender in the first. Then, the office manager put the game away by stealing three in the fourth and picking up three in the sixth.

Bonar conceded after that. "If we play well and lose to teams that outcurl us, that's fine," Phillips said. "If we don't play well and lose, then that's disappointing." Other members of the Newfoundland rink are third Cathy Cunningham and second Kathy Kerr, both in their sixth nationals and lead Heather Martin, her third. Jones's team includes third Kay Zinck, second Kim Kelly and lead Nancy Delahunt. All have plenty of national experience, except for Delahunt, a rookie this year.

Thunder Bay, Ont. Colleen Jones of Halifax and Laura Phillips of St. John's, left their opponents shell-shocked at the Canadian women's curling championship Sunday. Jones, winner of the Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1982, scored six in the ninth end to whip defending champion Connie Laliberte of Winnipeg 13-6 in the fourth draw. Phillips, in her third straight women's nationals and fourth overall, bounced Manitoba skip Maureen Bonar of Brandon 12-2.

Entering Sunday night's fifth round, Ontario's Marilyn Bodogh of St. Catharines, Sherry Scheirich of Saskatoon and Susan Mclnnis of Charlottetown shared the lead in the round-robin standings with 2-0 marks. At 2-1 were Jodi Busche of Fort St. John, B.C., and Newfoundland, while Laliberte's defending champion Team Canada entry, Manitoba and Nova Scotia were all at 1-1. Alberta's Cheryl Kullman of Calgary was 1-2.

with Barb Hutton of Saint John. N.B., and the Territories' Debbie Scott of Whitehorse both at 0-2. Stephanie Marchand of Trois-Rivieres, was 0-3. In other fourth-round games Sunday afternoon, Saskatchewan beat the Territories 8-2 and B.C. topped Quebec 7-5.

Earlier at Fort William Gardens, Alberta bounced B.C. 8-2 and P.E.I, shaded Quebec 6-4 in a light third-round schedule. Jones, competing in her 11th Germans outslide Lueders in bobsleigh The Canadian Press Calgary German slider Christoph Langen took top honors for the second year in a row with Canada's Pierre Lueders hot on his heels Saturday at the world bobsleigh championships. The Canadian sled held a slim lead after 13 racers came down the run at Calgary's Canada Olympic Park, but the German powerhouse of Langen and brakeman Markus Zimmermann soared across the finish line in three minutes, 42.39 seconds. Lueders and brakeman Dave MacEachern said they were lucky to recover from a disappointing run Friday to claim the silver medal with their combined time of 3:42.85.

"I thought I was drifting away from the second corner, and I overreacted and I drove it into the wall," Lueders said as he endured bear hugs from the bulky German racers. "Hopefully, as we get older we won't make those mistakes anymore." The Canadian sled was definitely a threat, admitted Zimmermann. "I think we had a good run, but we knew Lueders had a good run as well," he said with the help of an interpreter. "We all gave everything we had." The Swiss pairing of Reto Gotschi and Guido Acklin landed in third with a time of 3:43.38. Chris Lori, Canada's other two-man mainstay from Windsor, finished ninth with Calgary brake-man Ben Hindle.

Lori who is kicking around the idea of retiring from the bobsled circuit said he's waiting to see how things shape up after this season. "Another career is something that I worry about every day," he said. "I'm just not sure what I'm going to do in terms of my decision to stay in the sport or not. We'll have to see if we can execute a plan for the next two years, or maybe we'll be finished. I'm just not sure." Earlier in the day, Calgary's Ryan Davenport surprised no one watching the skeleton races as he glided to gold at the world championships.

Davenport, 31, set a new Canadian track record of 57.41 seconds in his third heat, breaking the 57.61 mark he set on Friday. Then, after a weak push, Davenport reached a top speed of 121 km-h before posting a time of 57.67 seconds on his fourth and final run. Skeleton racers don latex suits and dive head first down bobsled tracks on sleds that keep their bodies barely five centimetres above the ice. Enduring massive gravitational forces, athletes reach velocities that would break even the most liberal Canadian highway speed limit. Davenport's combined time for four heats was three minutes, 51.15 seconds, with Austrian slider Franz Plangger taking second.

The Canadian Press Team Canada (left to right) third Cathy Overton-Chapman, second Cathy Gauthier and lead Janet Arnott look a little dismayed at losing so early in their fourth draw matchup with Nova Scotia at the Scott Tournament of Hearts in Thunder Bay on Sunday. The Nova Scotia rink of Colleen Jones beat the Canada rink 13-6 Broda goes from chump to champ not back to the way 1 was at tne water. "I've never had pressure like RAY TURCHANSKY Journal Curling Writer Calgary Manitoba third wins hot skills competition The Canadian Press Thunder Bay, Ont. Gerri Cooke, third for the Manitoba team from Brandon, won the hot shots skills competition prior to the first draw of the Canadian women's curling championship. Cooke, competing in her first Scott Tournament of Hearts, beat Winnipeg's Cathy Gauthier, who plays second for defending champion Connie Laliberte of Team Canada, 26 points to 14 in the five-skills event.

The unique affair started Friday and involved all members of each team in the competition. Each player attempted five shots a cold draw, raise, hit and stay, double takeout and a draw through a port each worth five points if completed perfectly. Other shots were worth four points, down to zero, depending on how the shot was made. beginning of the year." Part of the problem was switching to play second. "When I was skipping in mixed, it's different shots.

It's the finesse game, drawing around. I hate throwing peels (hit-and-roll takeouts), I like the finesse game. Today I threw 10 peels in a row. "At first I didn't think I was good enough to play with this team. Jules gave me a lot of friendly advice.

Don's the best second in the world, and coming in to replace him is tough. But Jules said to let Donnie and Kevin make the big shots and that's the way the whole year's been." Owchar went to work with Broda, holding the broom for hours of practice rocks. "He ran into a little slump," said Owchar. "He said it's the worst he's curled in 14 years. But he threw so many rocks he's got a Charliehorse.

He threw 1,500 rocks." this before. "It's the first time I've been to a provincial final." When Randy Ferbey left Martin's team in mid-December, two-time Brier winner Don Walchuk moved to third and Broda was recruited to play second. It came as a shock to the 26-year-old, who had been coached by Martin's coach Jules Owchar at NAIT in 1987-88 and 1988-89. "You didn't have many guys around," said Owchar, the fifth man on Martin's team. "It wasn't the start of the season and you had the whole population to pick from." Broda had looked longingly at pictures in his club of Walchuk winning the Brier.

"The first game I curled with them I was uncomfortable, curling with Kevin Martin," said Broda. "Then I kind of went into the tubes. And I was curling so good before I started curling with Martin. I'm still Shawn Broda went from being fitted for goat horns to being measured for a blue and yellow jacket that he'll wear at the Labatt Brier next month. After 10 ends the final of the Alberta Safeway Select men's curling championship was tied 5-5 between Edmonton's Kevin Martin and Calgary's Frank Morissette, and Broda was a prime reason.

To that point he had curled 63 percent, while his counterpoint at second on Morissette's rink, Gary Jensen, had made 85 percent of his shots. But Broda made a great double takeout on the 11th end to turn it around and allow Martin a draw to the four-foot for the winning point in the 6-5 final.1 "Pressure," said Broda later, his hand shaking around a paper cup of Explore the Book. i -f LJ tf i Bruce Edwards, The Journal Chad Brisson (left) of Manitoba lost when his corner threw in the towel after a second point was taken from him for holding the head of Alberta's James Red Iron at the Alberta Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament on Sunday in Edmonton 5b iL Fortress Mountain. Jim Schiman, 21, of Cranbrook, B.C., was looking to better his season's best of sixth after placing second in the semifinals. But he lost control part way down the course and slipped to ninth.

Catriona Le May Doan of Saskatoon seized a golden opportunity and won the 500 metres at the world sprint long-track speed-skating championships at Heerenveen. The Netherlands. Le May Doan, 25, clocked 39.64 seconds for her first international victory. Tomomi Okazaki of Japan was second in 40.01 and Edel Therese Hoiseth of Norway third in 40.10. Vancouver's Grant Connell and Byron Black of Zimbabwe rolled unhindered to the first title of their doubles career together.

They beat the Czech Republic's Karel Novacek and Jiri Novak 6), 6-1 in the final of the Dubai Open tennis championship at Dubai. United Arab Emirates. Frankie Fredericks of Namibia became the first man to run 200 metres under 20 seconds indoors, finishing in 19.92 seconds at the Lievin International meet at France. Pete Sampras is No. 1 again.

Putting his big serve to good use, Sampras easily defeated Andre Agassi 6 2, 6-3 to win the Svbase Open at San Jose, and regain his ranking as the world's top player. Sampras entered the match ranked No. 2 and Agassi was No. 3. The winner was assured of overtaking No.

1 Thomas Muster, who lost Wednesday at the Dubai Open. Pace Lindsay loses crown Kate Pace Lindsay finally surrendered her crown, but not without a fight as American Picabo Street claimed the world alpine ski championship downhill title at Sierra Nevada. Spain on Sunday. And With Isao Aoki's final round reduced to wreckage, Jack Nicklaus shot a 4-under-par 67 to win the Senior PGA Tour's GTE Sun-coast Classic at Lutz, Fla. Aoki, who began the day with a five-stroke lead over Nicklaus.

gave it all away with a 9 on the par-4 13th hole, and shot 77 to open the door for Nic klaus' ninth career Senior Tour title. Nicklaus finished with a 2-under-par 211, to edge J.C. Snead, who finished 1-under 212 after a closing 65. Jim Furyk. forced to a playoff when Brad Faxon eagled the last hole of regulation with a 45-foot eagle putt, won the Hawaiian Open with a birdie on the third extra hole.

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