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The Leader-Post Regina Feb. 8, 1988, 2 sPrt Lady Cougars suffer upset Schneider shatters dreams of returning Roundup By David Moser L-P Sports Writer WEYBURN The dream is over for one team and its just beginning for another. For the Kathy Fahlman rink, the dream of a return trip to the national womens curling championship ended with an abrupt wake-up call Sunday night. Thats when Michelle Schneider defeated Fahlman 10-0 in the A-B final of the Scott Tournament of Hearts provincial championship at the Weyburn Curling Club. Fahlman and Schneider both curl out of the Tartan Club in Regina.

Earlier in the day, Fahlman had forced a deciding contest when she beat Schneider 9-2 in the B-C final. But for the defending champi- ing 89-73 triumph in Thunder Bay. James Hillis and Darrel Deverni-chuk led Regina with 14 points each. Jeff Christiansen (13 points) and Robert Andrist (11) helped the Cougars compensate for an off night by Chris Biegler, who scored eight points amid foul trouble. When Biegler has only eight points and we score 89, it shows that the other guys are doing something, said Regina coach Ken Murray.

For once we had a good team effort. Regina's Richard Cohee added eight points and eight rebounds. Leslie Ragguette led Lakehead with 28 points. had to defeat Schneider twice in Sunday's playoff games. And that was a task the Fahlman rink was not able to meet.

They easily downed Schneider in the after-noon game, but any chance Fahlman, third Sandra Peterson, second Jan Betker and lead Sheila Schneider had of their dream becoming a reality crumbled in the evening draw. You would think wed do better, but it didnt work out that way, Fahlman said. Its one of those I-dont-knows. Maybe I wasnt reading the ice and I wasnt making any shots. It was just an all-around bad game.

The ice was not working for me, but what can you do? In that championship game, Schneider hit the scoreboard first with one in the first and stole a single in the second. She put the game out of reach with back-to-back three-enders in the fourth and fifth. After the loss (to Fahlman) we just tried to lift everyone spirits and put that game behind us, Schneider said. We had to put it out of our minds and think we had one more game to play. The loss to Fahlman was only the second time the Schneider foursome tasted defeat in the playdowns.

Before Saturday night, the team had put together a 14-game winning streak in club, city, southern and provincial playdowns. Sherry Andersons rink from Christopher Lake, the norths No. 1 qualifier, downed Schneider 6-5 Saturday afternoon in a B-Event Womens provincials Joan Herauf (left) and Michelle Schneider game to end the streak. But Schneider promptly put a three-game winning streak together with victories over Fahlman, Nancy Kerr and Lori McGeary, provincial champion in 1984 and 1986 to earn the C-Event berth. Weve been curling well, our morale has been up and everyone gets along well, said Herauf.

I always knew if we curled well there was a possibility we could win the province. Herauf was presented with the Marj Mitchell Award after the championship. It is given to the curler who best exemplifies the qualities of competitiveness, excellence in performance and sportsmanship at the championship. The Schneider rink will now play in the national championship scheduled for Fredericton, N.B., from Feb. 27 to March 5.

It may take a few days for the reality to sink in that the rink is representing Saskatchewan. We havent really thought about it, Schneider said. We didnt expect to win. We hoped to play well and show here. We never thought coming in here we were going to win.

Results in Scoreboard section. Womens volleyball By Rob Vanstone L-P Sports Writer As Canadas sixth-ranked women's basketball team, one would hardly expect the University of Regina Lady Cougars to lose to lowly Lakehead. Well, it happened. The Lady NorWesters defeated Regina 52-49 on Saturday in Thunder Bay, ending the Lady Cougars Great Plains Athletic Conference winning streak at nine. I was very disappointed, said Regina coach Sheila Beckie.

We didnt play very good defence in the first half. In the second half we did what we wanted to do. We got some good scoring opportunities but didnt finish them." Lakehead, winners of but four of 14 games, jumped to a 37-24 halftime lead. Regina battled back, but poor (13-of-23) free-throw shooting and three botched breakaway layups were fatal. Lakehead had a run of offence and got some confidence," Beckie said.

In the first half, they did what they wanted and we just followed them around. Thats frustrating, since defence has been our trademark all year. Vivian Kingdon led Regina with 14 points. Teammate Jackie Moore contributed 13. Julia Scott scored 19 for Lakehead, which lost 68-61 to Regina on Friday.

I really thought we came out mentally prepared, Beckie said. We were up 12-4 in the first half but they had a run of 10 straight points. At 9-3, Regina is second in GPAC behind Manitoba (11-0). Winnipeg is third at 6-5. Since the top three teams qualify for the playoffs, the setback to Lakehead did not damage the Lady Cougars post-season aspirations.

Maybe it will be a blessing in disguise, Beckie said. Itll get our heads back on properly and will help us in the long run. on, that was her lone victory in five games against Schneider in southern and provincial playdowns. The provincial crown should be just the beginning of the sweet dreams for Schneider, third Joan Herauf, second Laurie Kehler and lead Leanne Eberle. I'm not sure I believe it myself yet, said Schneider.

For any competitive curler, winning the provincial championship is a dream. Schneider won the A and finals of the three-event competition and Fahlman captured the B-Event. That meant that Fahlman The Lady Cougars extended Manitoba to five games, losing 15-5, 7-15, 15-7, 8-15, 15-8 to the Lady Bisons in a GPAC match at the of Physical Activity Centre. Manitoba won Fridays opener in three games. Thats the best weve played Manitoba since Ive been here, said fourth-year Regina coach Gord Bocock.

Manitoba entered the weekend ranked fifth in Canada. Regina was rated 10th. Laura Hale led Regina with 35 digs and 16 kills. Dawn Martin added 27 digs. Other notable performers were Margot Blomquist (12 kills), Chris Klassen (seven stuff blocks) and Marilyn Douglas (six stuff blocks).

Champs came out of nowhere Hockey Regina lost its second straight Canada West Universities Athletic Association game against Manitoba, falling 8-2 in Winnipeg. Brad Scott led 'Manitoba with three goals and teammate Jeff Beaudin added two. Brent Marinos! and Vic Stynsky scored for which was outshot 54-27 and trailed 3-0 and 4-2 by periods. Mens basketball The Cougars avenged Fridays loss to Lakehead with a convinc- so Schneider moved to skip, and Herauf and Kehler moved up in positions. What a difference a year made! The rink put together a 14-game winning streak in playdowns that included two victories in club, five in the city, four at the southerns and three at the provincials.

She won the A-Event finals at the city, southerns and provincials. The streak was snapped Saturday night when she dropped a 6-5 decision to Sherry Anderson of Christopher Lake in a semi-final game. But the team then went on to defeat Kerr, Fahlman McGeary to earn the C-Event berth. An 18-2 record in playdowns makes people sit up and take notice. Because they are the Cinderellas of the show here and through the whole playdowns, every win or every step through the playdowns was a plus for them, said Wood.

As a result, theyre not getting disappointed the loss in the Event didnt hurt them. On paper, the Fahlman and McGeary rinks should be winning and the Schneider girls should be paying their dues. It weighs on Fahlman and McGeary that these upstarts are suddenly beating them. With the provincial championship under its belt, the Schneider rink is off to the national championship in Fredericton, N.B., beginning Feb. 27 to March 5.

And, if the rink stays hot, the worlds are in Glasgow, Scotland, April 2-8. WEYBURN Win or lose, the Michelle Schneider rink was the No. 1 story of the 1988 provincial womens curling championship. Happily for Schneider, she captured the championship Sunday night with a 10-0 victory over defending champion Kathy Fahlman. We came to the provincials and took it one game at a time, Schneider said.

We played consistently all the time. The Schneider rink came out of nowhere in early January to set the Regina curling sorority on its collective ear. The public may not have instantly recognized the curlers names, but Schneiders personnel had the credentials to fill out an impressive resume. Schneider, 24, (nee Englot) was the 1983 provincial junior womens champion. Third Joan Herauf, 25, and second Laurie Kehler, 26, played with 1980 provincial junior champion Fahlman.

Lead Leanne Eberle, 21, was a very competitive local curler. But that was junior and this was womens curling the leap can turn into a gigantic jump in playing level. But the young rink fit right in with the veterans. Just ask Fahlman or Lori McGeary or Nancy Kerr they were all left at the wayside by Schneider. Heres what the Schneider foursome did to them at the provincials: beat Fahlman in the A-side final and the A-B championship game; defeated Kerr, a seven-time southern representative, in the A semi-final and a C-Event game; and downed McGeary, provincial wom Misener leads Generals en's champion in 1984 and 1986, in the opening draw and the final.

One observer who was impressed by the Tartan foursome at the Weyburn Curling Club was Ronda Wood, the Sask First elite coach. Wood was with Schneider in 1983 when she was at the Canada Winter Games in Chicoutimi, and at the national junior championship in Calgary. "Ive really just seen her off and on through the years and Im really impressed with her now, said Wood. She has learned a lot and calls a pretty steady game. These girls, when they went together, jelled they complement each other so well.

"You can tell on the ice, the way they work out there together, that theyve got full communications and are on the same wave length theres no friction. Schneiders first major venture into the Regina playdowns was at third with Brenda Sisson last year. That rink made its mark by losing all three finals in the city playdowns. Sisson bowed out to begin a family this season, Jim Misener, the leading scorer in the South Central Senior Hockey League, had six goals and seven assists as the Moose Jaw Fix Generals defeated the visiting Balgonie Bisons 19-5 on Sunday. Brad Varga had three goals and six assists for the winners, who also got three-goal performances from Clare Schwabe and Dean Braham.

Completing Moose Jaws scoring were Murray Hood, with two goals, Barry Ziegler and Brian Russell. For Balgonie, Ron Konantz and Perry Nordin each scored twice and Jeff Nordin scored once. In Sundays other game, the Fort Soparlo leaves team in a bind QuAppelle Lakers defeated the Weyburn Devils 9-4. 1 On Saturday, the Assiniboia Southern Rebels defeated Weyburn 7-3 and the Milestone Flyers defeated Balgonie 9-3. On Sunday, the hometown Lakers got goals from Trav Gibson, with two, Tim Hammond, Brent Bernhauser, Mark Raedeke, Mur- ray Raedeke, Rob Tudor, Dan Meyers and Darryl Gebert.

Reply- ing for Weyburn were Greg Button, Mark Schneider, Jim Onstad and Tim Burr. Assiniboias Tim Nickel scored twice in the victory over Weyburn. Also scoring for the Rebels were Darrin Lucier, Bryan Wilkie, Kevin McKinnon, Dave Venn, Kevin Silzer and Bill Hall. Scoring for Weyburn were Onstad, Button and Larry Patterson. In Milestone on Saturday, Scott Wray and Rene Lemire each scored twice for the Flyers, with single goals coming from Dave Downton, Allan Moskowy, Frank Wolfe, De- vone Sandvold and Eugene Diek- i rager.

Perry Nordin, with two goals, and Kevin Wudtke scored for Balgonie. By Nick Miliokas L-P Sports Writer HUMBOLDT Goodness gracious, what a time to be making roster changes! But Eugene Hritzuk didnt have any choice. And no one feels worse about that than Murray Soparlo. Hritzuk, who must win twice at the Uniplex today in order to go back to Saskatoon with the provincial curling championship, spent his Sunday evening scrambling to come up with a substitute for Soparlo, his secondman. Soparlo, a sales representative for Campbell Soup, is in Winnipeg today for a sales meeting, Dolphins do well Greg Streppel of the Regina Optimist Dolphins swim club placed fourth in the freestyle at the Canadian Winter Nationals meet in Edmonton on the weekend, posting a time of 15 minutes, 54.74 seconds.

The Dolphins Kristen Clark placed fourth in the 200m butterfly at 2:19.12. She finished ahead of fifth-place Donna McGinnis of Edmonton, who holds the Canadian record in the event. In the 800m freestyle, Reginas Marla Dowdeswell placed 15th with a time of 9:15.49. Men's provincials defeated Gary Bryden of Regina 4-3 in the final. He earned the winning point with a draw to the four-foot coming home, and shortly thereafter proclaimed that you hit for show and draw for dough.

Hritzuks fine draws notwithstanding, Bryden was his own worst enemy. He had opportunities for a deuce in the fifth and the ninth, and twice misplayed his shot, a draw and a hit, respectively. Bryden, always gracious in defeat, praised his teammates and opponents. The team played marvelously, as did Eugenes team, he said. We had them coming to us the entire match we were in control, we had momentum but I did not make my shots.

Seven flawless peels and a nosehit gave Anderson a 4-3 victory in the final, which required an extra end. Weppler got in trouble early, giving up stolen singles in the first and the sixth to fall behind 2-0, but he got a deuce in the eighth to tie and the two skips then swapped singles to send the match into overtime. Ironically, it was missed peels which had allowed Weppler to overcome the 2-0 deficit with his deuce in the eighth. A freeze to the eight-foot and a tap gave him the tie. Against the teams here, you miss a peel, it costs you a deuce, Anderson said.

What might have caused the problem in this game was maybe a little bit of excitement on the boys part, But they calmed themselves down and did the job in the extra end. All we wanted was one spot in the playoff round) and weve got it. Results in Scoreboard section. (emi OLYMPIC TUMBLERS Better performance Longer engine life Better gas mileage Come in for pricing and inspections with no obligations. an llth-hour appeal to his employer having failed to produce a leave of absence.

Were going to have to do some fast recruiting, Hritzuk explained. I am not happy about it, but theres nothing I can do except find a replacement. And, Ill tell you what, the replacement we get will be good." Mmm, mmm good, hopefully. There was no word, as of late Sunday night, as to who the replacement might be, but Hritzuk did mention the name of Nutana mate Ron Mills, a thirdman whose team was eliminated during the northern playdowns the previous weekend. Soparlo, as you can well imagine, was distressed to be the cause of a shuffle at such a crucial juncture and he was not blaming anyone but himself.

Its my fault, Soparlo said. I should've planned for this a month ago. I shouldve booked some holiday time. I didnt think that far ahead. Given a second chance say for the Brier in Chicoutimi, in March Soparlo vows he will not make the same mistake.

"As soon as we win this, he said, Ill be booking my two weeks off. In order to win this, the Hritzuk rink would have to beat Arnold Anderson of Prince Albert and then knock off Lee Weppler of Morse. Weppler won the A event Friday, Hritzuk the event Saturday, and Anderson the event Sunday night. The Hritzuk-Anderson game was slated for 10 this morning, with the winner to take on Weppler at 3 this afternoon. Hritzuk, who had lost the A final to Weppler, Guaranteed Workmanship and Parts The Affordable Choice" only with any purchase of Kentucky Fried Chicken While Supplies Last Elliot snaps provincial track record Dewdney Angus St.

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