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Sports C2 CALGARY HERALD Tuesday, October 15, 2002 CURLING City foursome cashes final cheque 5 CATTLE PENNING Millers picture perfect Family captures Shootout Koe beaten by Martin at B.C. 'spiel HUT BERNARD 1: ALLEN CAMERON Calgary Herald Kevin Koe's Calgary foursome came home with a $7,500 cheque after finishing second Monday at the World Curling Tour's Allied Windows Westcoast Classic in New Westminster, B.C. Koe, third Jamie Koe, second Scott Cripps and lead Mike Westlund were nipped 9-8 in an extra end by Edmonton's Kevin Martin in the title game. Martin's Olympic silver-medallists picked up $12,000 for the victory, their second WCT crown this season. Calgary's Mike Sali crew (third Eugene Doherty, second Josh Lamb-den, lead Mono Kumagawa) earned $4,000 in the same event by reaching the playoff round before losing 8-3 to reigning B.C.

champ Pat Ryan of Kelowna, B.C., in the quarter-final. At Regina, Wayne Middaugh of Midland, won the SGI Charity Classic by beating Guy Hemmings of Ste-Aime, 7-3 in the final. Winners on the women's circuit were Toni Fister of Maple Ridge, B.C., at the New Westminster event, Cindy Street in her home-town 'spiel in Regina, and Barb Spencer of Winnipeg, also in a home-town cashspiel. Albertanswin Alberta teams swept the medal podium at the sixth annual Ray King-smith Memorial junior bonspiel, which wrapped up Monday at the Glencoe Club. The eight-team event co-sponsored by the Canadian Curling Association and the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA) featured four Canadian teams along with two entries from the U.S., Italy and two from Japan.

Monday's gold-medal game pitted Alberta's curling reps for the upcoming Canada Winter Games in New Brunswick as Amanda Swicheniuk's Grimshaw quartet knocked off J.D. Lind of Calgary's North Hill club 7-4. David Hamblin of Winnipeg, a member of the reigning world junior men's champions, bowed to Edmonton's Jessica Mair in the bronze-medal game. In addition to the competition, the competitors took part in a development camp as well as learning off-ice training techniques. Schille clips Moulding Red Deer's Chris Schille shaded Darren Moulding of the host club 4-3 in the title game of the sixth annual North Hill Curling Club Thanksgiving Junior Bonspiel.

In the junior division B-event final in the Safeway-sponsored 'spiel, Tom Appelman topped David Hall of the Glencoe Club 8-5, while Brent Bawel squeaked past Steve Tersmette 5-4 in an all-Calgary C-event final. In the juvenile portion of the bonspiel, Charley Thomas of the North Hill club took the A-event title, 7-1 over Calgary's Lance Brault. Sarah Calnan of Lethbridge doubled Ryan Larsen of Sundre 4-2 in the B-event final, while Valorie Hamende of Calgary rocked Milo's Maria Bushell 11-1 for the C-event crown. CAMERONATHEHERALD.SOUTHAM.CA disappointed Bernard. "And we were so close it just took a dive.

"At the beginning of the year, to come second or first in a spiel is really good. But it's really hard to lose a final two years in a row. For anybody." Nedohin blew chances to make Monday's playoff round by losing in both the A-event and B-event qualifiers before eking out a win in Sunday night's qualifier and getting hot in the money round. "We've got a lot of improving to do, and we know that," said Nedohin, who, ironically, left King's squad in 1999 and was replaced by MacDonald. "This is a bonus to come out on top.

EXTRA ENDS: Both finalists are part of the National Training Centre program at the Glencoe Semi-final losers Terry Loschuk of Calgary and Darcie Simpson of Ottawa each earned $5,500, while quarter-final losers Shannon Kleibrink of Calgary, Penny Shantz of Kelowna, B.C., Anne Merklinger of Metcalfe, and Shelley MacDonald of Surrey, B.C., pocketed $3,250 Attendance for the weekend was up an estimated 50 per cent over last year's Autumn Gold Next event in the Alberta region Canada Cup qualifying series is the Parkland Community Savings Curling Classic Nov. 8-11 in Red Deer. The series wraps up with the Lethbridge Pot of Gold a week later. CAMERONAlffiTHEHERALD.SOUTHAM.CA From CI Charm: Joined new team in off-season Colleen Kidd, Calgary Herald Calgary skip Cheryl Bernard shouts instructions to her sweepers while Edmonton skip Heather Nedohin leans over for a look. -1 so, we're awfully excited about our future." Kwantlan Community College had scored two runs in the last inning earlier Monday to defeat Calgary 4-2 in the tournament's semi-final.

In that game, Les Lapointe took the loss after Morgan Bint, with a two-run double, had tied it for the Dinos in the fourth. The loss was Calgary's second to Kwantlan, which had defeated the Dinos 5-2 on Sunday night. In its earlier triumph over Capilano, Trevor Cairns had thrown a two-hitter through six innings and Travis Drader (two doubles, four runs-batted-in) and Jeff Williams (double, three RBI) provided the power. weekend meet with three gold, six silver and five bronze. Buckingham, defeated Commonwealth Games champion Sophia Cox of Britain in the 57-kilogram class.

Buckingham had beaten Cox in the final of last year's U.S. Open In women's 52-kg, Tan defeated Ami-nata Sail of Varennes, in the Dinos finish fourth Calgary Herald KAMLOOPS, B.C. The Calgary Dinos were beaten 3-1 by Capilano College on Monday afternoon for the bronze medal in the British Columbia Community College Baseball League's Fall Classic. Logan Campbell absorbed the loss for the Dinos, a non-varsity club team on campus that had bombed Capilano 14-3 on Sunday afternoon. Calgary finishes its inaugural fall season with a 6-10-1 record.

"In terms of programs, we were the youngest team in this tournament," said Dinos' manager Craig Burak. "But we played well and were competitive "She's a lucky charm." "I hope I'm a good-luck charm," replied a happy MacDonald, who joined the Nedohin team in the offseason following two campaigns as King's vice-skip. "I hope it carries on for the rest of the year, too." Nedohin's victory was worth $12,500 and 20 points in the three-event provincial qualifying series for a berth in next January's $220,000 Canada Cup inKamloops, B.C. Bernard, third Susan O'Connor, second Barb Davis and lead Karen Ruus settled for runner-up money of $9,500 and 15 points. As in last year's championship-game loss to King, Bernard was victimized by an early miss that put her behind the 8-ball for the rest of the game.

Bernard flashed an open takeout didn't throw that one very well," she said) in the fourth end that gave Nedohin an open draw for a deuce that would give her a 4-1 lead. But Bernard fought back gamely and had a chance to tie it in the seventh with a draw to the four-foot for three. But the draw over-curled and rubbed on a guard, leaving a count of two and Nedohin up by a point with the hammer in the eighth. The former world junior champ added a single point in the eighth and stole three more in the ninth, prompting handshakes all around. "Had we got our three in seven, that would have made the game," said a DWAYNE ERICKSON Calgary Herald There are hundreds of hockey pictures that adorn the walls of the old Calgary Corral.

Ervie Miller is in a couple of them. He used to play for the old Calgary Centennials in coach Scotty Munro's era. "I'm on the wall of fame over there with Scotty's memorial," said Miller, who was a right winger from 1968 through 1971. "I played a lot of hockey in this building." Miller doesn't play hockey anymore. He's a 50-year-old weekend cowboy.

But, on Monday night, he gave the Calgary Stampede people a reason to hang his picture up on the walls of the Corral again. Miller and his two sons Robert, 23, and Doug, 20, all from Okotoks, won the high-dollar Shootout that wrapped up the five-day Canadian Team Cattle Penning championships. They picked up $10,000 apiece for penning three head of cattle in three rounds in a total of 85.78 seconds. They take pictures of the winners of the penning championships. Somebody wondered if the one of Miller and his two sons might wind up somewhere in the CorraL "I never thought they'd hang my picture up there for hockey," chuckled dad, "so, you never know." The Millers went into the $70,000 Shootout final with a seven-second advantage on their closest pursuers after completing the first two rounds with a total time of 46.06.

All they had to do was play it safe and put together a mistake-free run and they did that. Seven of the 10 teams were faster in the championship round, but a closing 39.72 still left the Millers a huge five seconds faster than the runners-up. "This is the biggest thing I've ever won," said Miller. "My sons and I have been penning together for about 10 years and we've placed third, fourth in the Shootout before. It's a lot of fun, a real adrenaline rush." The Millers weren't only successful in the Shootout, they also placed deep in the Ten Class.

This time it was mom Jackie, daughter Lynsey and Doug. They went into the finals in the lead in that division as well, but settled for third. Meanwhile, another family with deep Calgary Stampede connections pulled off a coup of their own. Maurice Lemieux and wife Joanne, from Bonnyville, won the Open Class with Guye Lapin, of Swan River, and cashed second in the Ten Class with Greg Ainsworth, of Mayerthorpe. And Maurice and Joanne's 15-year-old daughter Ashley was on a team that finished sixth in the Five Class.

Maurice used to be on horseback at the Stampede as an outrider for the late George Normand, the highly-successful Bonnyville Bullet of chuck-wagon racing fame. And Joanne is Normand's daughter. "Yeah, this is more fun than winning a wagon race," Maurice admitted with a laugh. "We won a lot of races with George. But, this is our own." The Lemieux's carry a No.

3 ranking in the world of penning and their partners are No. 4s. Yet, their two teams stepped up into the Open Class, where all the No. 5 and No. 6 riders hold court.

"We just wanted to ride against them, we didn't plan on winning anything," said Joanne. "Consistency got us there." They averaged a tad over 21 seconds for the first four rounds and clinched the Open with a run of 33.69 seconds in the final. "That was our slowest time," said Joanne. But, it was the third best in the showdown and they won the aggregate with an eight-second advantage. MORNING Briefing Sports Editor Contact To contact Calgary Herald sports editor Tom Maloney, call 235-7578; associate sports editor John Down, call 235-8764; assistant sports editor Mike Reimer, call 235-7376; sports department fax 235-7313 or e-mail (text only) at: sportstheherald.southam.ca www.canada.com TVRadio TENNIS Noon (Ch.

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7) Global Sports at 11:30. Canadians win judo gold The Canadian Press LAS VEGAS Michelle Buckingham of Ottawa and Cynthia Tan of Vancouver each won gold medals to conclude a successful U.S. Open judo tournament for the Canadian team on Sunday. Canada earned two gold, three silver and two bronze Sunday to finish the SOCCER Callies miss out on bronze medal Ontario U-18 side burns Quebecers Burlington Flames claim national title thing," said Lisa. Most of the Flames have been together since the under-12 divisioa Monday marked their second victory at nationals, their first coining 1999 at the under-15 level.

The Flames were forced to defend their goal throughout the close game, bringing all players back on defence when the ball entered their zone, to block Quebec's equal scoring runs. On the boys side, B.C.'s Abbotsford Storm beat Quebec's Lac St. Louis Lakers 1-0 for gold after a long deadlock. Stringer Mike Riehl, 17, received a cross from winger Jason Flint inside the goalie's box, and one-touched a grounder past Quebec's keeper Patrick Sandrin, about 75 minutes into the game. "We knew we were going to win, we just had to be patient," said Riehl.

The tournament ended on a sunny Thanksgiving Day, welcome weather compared to the start of the tournament. Last Thursday, the event's opening day, games were cancelled due to snow. Calgary Soccer Centre staff had to bring out a John Deere tractor and worked to clear the fields until p.m. at night, after which snow fell again. Alberta didn't manage to medal.

The boys team, Edmonton Internazionale, and girls team, Edmonton Southwest United, both finished fifth. macgillivrayltheherald.southam.ca It was the team's third time in four years at the national championship, including a win in 1999 as the Calgary Celtic FSC. Nine members of the 25-man squad had been to nationals before. But gold didn't happen. They kicked off the tournament with a 1-1 tie with Ontario, with the Callies goal by Felix Napuri late in the second half.

The Callies won their following game 3-0 over New Brunswick, with goals provided by Cenek Patik, Noel Grisdale and Mike Howlett. They lost 1-3 to Newfoundland in Sunday's semi-finals, with Callies Jimmy Reyes booting the lone goal Randall said the Callies had trouble rebounding from the loss for the bronze medal game against Nova Scotia on Monday, in which the Callies lost 3-1, with Jimmy Reyes scoring the only goal. "It was hard for the players to get motivated," he said. "We just didn't play welL" Despite the results, Randall said it was nice to see such crowd support. The Callies played in front of about 5,000 people during their semi-final game on Sunday.

Randall added the Callies will be looking for donations and sponsors upon their return. Manitoba blanked Newfoundland 1-o in the men's final. LAUREN MacGILLIVRAY Calgary Herald The Calgary Callies shelled out loads of cash in a gamble for gold at the national soccer championships in Newfoundland over the weekend. The Callies fell short of their QUOTABLE goal, however, settling for fourth place af- ter losing 2-0 to 1 Nova Scotia in ItSalOIlg the bronze- way fa medal match Monday. COlTie tO "It's a long way 1 nsP to come to lose," 1VJ said Callies head coach Dave Ran- Callies coach dall.

Dave Randall The Callies, of the Alberta Major Soccer League, had to scrounge about $50,000 to pay for airline tickets, accommodation and food. Although the Calgary United Soccer Association, Alberta Soccer Association and Canadian Soccer Association all contributed funds, Randall said the team remains about $10,000 short on funds an amount it will have to settle after returning to Calgary. Prior to nationals, the Callies thought a victory was likely. LAUREN MacGILLIVRAY Calgary Herald The Flames won in Calgary. The Burlington Flames, that is.

The Ontario champions overthrew Quebec's Arc Lac St. Louis Lakers 1-0 on Monday at the Calgary Soccer Centre, capturing gold in the national un-der-18 girls soccer club championships. "I'm sorry, I'm going to be in tears," said Flames head coach Rick Casement post-victory. "I've got to call my daughter right away." Casement said he wanted to hurry and share the news with his daughter, Taylor. Taylor played her final season with Flames last year, and now plays for Illinois State University.

There was no doubt comfort for Rick in the fact that his niece, 18-year-old striker Lisa Casement, scored the game's only goal. Lisa zoomed in and dropped a shot past Quebec goaltender Sandra Primi-ano about 25 minutes into the game for what was to be the win. "I'm really fast and I go for every i.