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1 4 VICTORIA TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1979 iP But f'i '(J Junior Summaries GWL A Western Division Portland 53 35 7 11 317 204 il Victoria 54 23 21 10 234 227 56 New West 54 26 24 4 228 227 56 Seattle 53 14 29 10 211 252 38 Central Division Billings 56 33 16 7 309 215 73 Lethbridge 53 28 20 5 291 240 61 Calgary 56 22 29 5 284 307 49 Medicine Hat 54 11 36 7 210 364 29 Eastern Division Brandon 52 42 3 7 369 157 91 Saskatoon 54 17 24 13 301 309 47 Edmonton 57 14 32 11 225 322 39 Regina 54 12 37 5 225 378 29 NEXT GAMES: Tonight Billings at Calgary, Brandon vs New Westminster at Vancouver. EDMONTON 3, VICTORIA 8 First Period 1. Victoria, Lupul 37 (Morton) 8:21 2. Victoria, T. Robertson 15 (Lupul, Palmer) 11:02 3.

Victoria, Irving 17 (Jansch, G. Robertson) 18:00 4. Victoria, Jansch 13 (Irving, G. Robertson) 18:34 5. Edmonton, Blue (Levie, Biluk) 19:12 Penalties Blue 6:19, Palmer 11:26, Lang 20:00.

Second Period 6. Victoria, Adams 13 (Pederson, Shields) 9:06 7. Victoria, Smith 17 (Lupul) 16:00 Penalties Tennant 3:20, Robinson 6: 15, Jacobson 19: IS. ON TARGET, shot by Victoria's Greg Adams (18) linemates Barry Pederson (8) and Mike Shields (11) eludes Edmonton Oil Kings' netminder Gord Garbutt watch as puck nestles into net. Cougars won 8-3 to (30) during second-period action in Western Hockey extend undefeated record to six games.

(Times photo League game at Memorial Arena Wednesday. Cougar by Irving Strickland). Speedy Sylvie Sparks Quebec's Gold Sweep By ERNIE FEDORUK Times Staff A coach is never pleased. Now that Victoria Cougars are starting to exhibit some offensive punch, coach Jack Shupe doesn't dote on the good things. Satisfaction with the outpouring of goals was noted, passed over quickly, and Shupe dwelled longer on the gloomy technicalities of Victoria's 8-3 Western Hockey League victory over Edmonton Oil Kings Wednesday.

"Defensively, we played terrible," said Shupe, "and it cost us three goals." There was, indeed, too much laxity in Victoria's zone and the five-goal spread disguises goaltender Steve Amiss' importance to the Cougar cause. The redhead had to be alert, especially in the early going. He made several good stops of "sneaky" Edmonton shooting. Here and there, Amiss turned aside deflections and several long shots that did not appear difficult, but were on target and therefore dangerous. Shupe agreed that Amiss played strongly in a game dominated by offenses.

Stretching an unbeaten streak to six games and reclaiming a share of second place with New Westminster in the Western Division, the Cougar attack was sharpest in the free-wheeling affair before 1,621 fans at Memorial Arena. Wednesday's outburst boosted Victoria's goal production to 15 in the past two games. Contribution was balanced as all Victoria lines produced. Bob Jansch, benched in the last game for ineffective play, ended a 10-game scoreless streak with two goals and one assist. Gary Lupul, Torrie Robertson, Randy Irving, Greg Adams, Bob Smith and Barry Pederson each scored one goal.

Geordie Robertson recorded three assists while Irving, Mike Shields, Lupul each claimed two "helper" points. A major contribution to Victoria's attack was continuing improvement by the play of Cougars' point-men. Defencenian Scott Lang, for example, fired nine shots directly on the Edmonton goal. While some were too high to be effective, others created problems for the Oil King netminding and Lang was unfortunate in not sharing in Victoria's 22-point melon. Todd Morton and Mark Robinson also added zip to Cougars' attack from the points.

Cougars struck for the game's first four goals to enjoy period leads of 4-1 and 6-1, and the fast start was too much for Oil Kings. Edmonton coach Norm Ferguson was pleased with his team's attack, but felt weariness from playing a sixth game in seven days "showed" and was reflected in the Kings' play in their own zone. Cougars took seven and Edmonton drew four minor penalties but neither team was able to score a power-play goal. Lupul's game-opening score was the closest. The Victoria centre connected just as Steve Blue of Edmonton returned to the ice after serving the game's first penalty.

Cougars, undefeated in February, play their next game in Seattle on Friday and then return to Memorial Arena for a Saturday match with Brandon Wheat Kings. Wheat Kings, runaway leaders of the Eastern Division who have been beaten only three times, opened their West Coast visit by defeating Portland Winter Hawks, the Western leaders, 7-4 in a game that attracted a record 8,241 fans to the Portland Coliseum. In other games Wednesday, Regina Pats upset Leth-bridge Broncos 5-1 and Billings Bighorns tripped Medicine Hat Tigers 8-5. Rick Dudley Does In Seconds BRANDON (CP) For a few hours Wednesday, 16-year-old Sylvie Daigle owned more gold medals than all the other athletes at the Canada Winter Games combined. Then Penny Vilagos, a year younger and 10 pounds lighter than the 105-pound speedskating sprite from Sherbrooke, won the singles competition in synchronized swimming.

So Sylvie and the rest of Canada ended the day tied 3-3. Already a winner in Tuesday's 500 metres, Daigle sped to her second victory in the 1,000 and 1,500 metres. Nancy White of Montague, P.E.I., who took the silver Holness, Colby Top Times Tenpin List Susan Holness and Gary Colby came up as tenpin division winners during the 17th week of competition in the 16th annual Victoria Times BowIer-of-the-Week contest. Susan won women's laurels with a 214-196-224 634 series in the Breakfast Club League and Gary topped the men with a 232-236-177 645 series in the Wednesday Men's Commercial League. Both winning totals were rolled at Mayfair Lanes.

By Canadian Press Rick Dudley, returning to the scene of his prime, didn't take long to find the scoring touch for Buffalo Sabres. Reappearing with the Sabres after 2 productive years with Cincinati Stingers of the World Hockey Association, Dudley scored just 19 seconds into his first shift Wednesday night in starting Buffalo to its 2-1 victory over New York Islanders. He had averaged 35 goals per season with the Stingers, but the team's financial needs reportedly forced his sale to the Sabres. "I was kind of nervous coming back," said the 30-year-old left winger, whose tension was relieved when the sellout crowd gave him a lengthy ovation when he skated onto the ice at 1:02 of the first period. At 1:21, he batted in the rebound of a Danny Gare shot to put Buffalo ahead.

In other NHL games Wednesday, New York Rangers defeated Boston Bruins 5-1, Los Angeles Kings beat Detroit Red Wings 3-2, Minnesota North Stars dumped Vancouver Canucks 8-1, Philadelphia Flyers tied Toronto Maple Leafs 2-2 and Atlanta Flames skated to a medal in the sprint, was second both times. Her three silver medals gave her one more than P.E.I.'s team could manage in three previous Games. A victory in the men's metres by Jean Pichette of Ste. Foy and the synchronized swimming triumph by Vilagos, a resident of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, gave Quebec a clean sweep of Wednesday's four final events and five of the six gold medals awarded in the first two days of the Games. With Vilagos and her identical twin Vicky rated solid favorites in tonight's duet and three more speedskat- talk to Alexander and Bob Cool, another Victorian, who indicated previously he would like to sit out the year.

"I have tentatively agreed to talk to Nanaimo," MacNeil said, "and will meet with club officials at the WLA awards presentation in New Westminster, Friday. "It all came as a surprise to me," he said of the issue, "and really I have made no plans for the year." "Naturally, I will also talk to Shamrock officials," he added. ing events on the agenda, Quebec appeared likely to continue its domination of the medal standings for another day. Wednesday was a good day for La Belle Province in other areas. Its badminton and table tennis teams were unbeaten in five matches of round-robin play and the women's volleyball team, unbeaten in three starts to share the group A lead with British Columbia, was virtually assured of a semifinal berth.

But there will be no Quebec medal in hockey. Nova Scotia handed Gatineau Am-bassadeurs their second defeat, 5-4 and clinched a spot in the semi-finals along with B.C. Both had 3-0 records with one game remaining in the preliminary round while Quebec's record was 1-2. B.C. scored its third straight victory by defeating New Brunswick 8-3 with Victoria's Tracy Patterson providing two of the goals.

Eric Harvie of Calgary took a narrow lead over Ste-fen Elmitt of Vancouver in the long-course phase of the Alpine skiing slalom competition with a margin of less than half a second after the two runs. Two races over the short course will decide the medals on Friday. Alberta, Ontario and Quebec were unbeaten after five rounds in table tennis as Manitoba dropped out of the leading group with a fifth-round loss to New Brunswick. In badminton, Quebec defeated B.C. in a fifth-round matchup of unbeaten teams to remain tied with Ontario at the top of the B.C.

and Ontario were the group leaders in the preliminary round of men's volleyball, both with 3-0 records, and B.C., Quebec and Ontario had yet to taste defeat in women's volleyball. (Results on page 16) RANGERS CALL ROOKIE NEW YORK (AP) New York Rangers have called up rookie winger Don Ma-loney, 20, from New Haven Nighthawksof the American Hockey League. Nears Title Third Period 8. Edmonton, Levie (JacobsoOvT. Davis) 3:29 9.

Edmonton, Moskalvk (D. Davis, Barr) 4:59 10. Victoria, Pederson 24 (Adams, Shields) 10:38 11. Victoria, Jansch 14 (Irving, Robertson) 16:54 Penalties Jacobson 3. 58 Clue 4:29, Jacobson 11:36, Disciglk) 13:15, T.

Robertson 19:53. Shots on goal by Edmonton 16 13 114" Victoria 19 19 Goal Garbutt, Wiebe, Edmonton; Amiss, Victoria. Attendance 1,621. BILLINGS (8) Murray Brumweil 2, Cal Roadhouse2, Don Nachbaur 2, Lindsay Carson, Pat Rabbit. MEDICINE HAT (5) Steve Tsuiima 2, Lorne Osmond, Brian Keates, Mike Winther.

Attendance: 1,212. BRANDON (7) Ray Allison 2, Brian Propp, Brant Kiessig 2, Dave McDonald, Don Gillen. PORTLAND (4) Perry Turnbull 3, Bart Yachi-mec. Attendance: 8,241. LETHBRIDGE (1) Gord Williams.

REGINA (5) Greg Lvnott, Doug Wickenheiser, Darren Bobyck, Dean Solheim, Dirk Graham. Attendance: 1,047. fiJ Right -lq 4-4 tie with Chicago Bfack Hawks. Ric Seiling's third-period goal was the winner for Buffalo. Mike Bossy scored.

hi 45th goal of the year for-the Islanders. "It gave me a little chill to hear them cheer like that," said Dudley, seated in the locker he had occupied ing his two full seasons with the Sabres 1973-74 nd 1974-75, when he scored lj and 31 goals, respectively! It also was a fun night fon left winger Don Maloney on the Rangers, the brother ofj the team's captain, who scored a goal and set; up another in a 46-second span of his first period in the NHL. Maloney scored on his first NHL shot, beating past Boston goalie Gilles Kris Manery and J. P. Parise scored two goals apiece as Minnesota bombed Vancouver with 42 shots.

Mike Fidler, Mike Polich, Brad Maxwell and Tim Young also scored for. the North Stars. Ron Sedlbauer counted for Mel Bridgman's goal, with 4:51 remaining capped Philadelphia's comeback from a two-goal deficit. (Summaries on page 17) School Girls' League, start of playoffs, Mt. Douglas High School.

4. 8 p.m. Greater VictoraH'igh School Boys' League: Mt. Belmont. W.V 4 p.m.

Start of third annua). Victoria City Police Athletic Association junior high school girls' tournament, Belmont High School. HOCKEY 8 p.m. South Vancouver TSIaftd Junior League, Oak Bay TWOS vs. Saanich Braves, Oak Bay Recreation Centre.

8:15 and 8:25 p.m. South fstaOd Big Six League, Esquimau Maple Leafs vs. Juan de Fuca Merchants, Esouimalt Sports Centre; Victoria Athletics vs. Duncan Silver-Bark Blades, Pearkes Arena. FRIDAY I BASKETBALL 10 a m.

Continuation of 3t annual Victoria City Police AthleticAs-sociation junior high schooNirte' tournament, Belmont High SchooL, 5 p.m. Greater Victoria High School Girls' League, cemtinuaftorurf playoffs, Esquimau High Schodf. 7 p.m. Greater Victoria School Bovs' League: Oak 64.1 Parkland. 8 p.m.

Greater Victoria High School Bovs' League: Clarementet Reynolds, Dunsmuir at Speetrom, Esquimalt at Stelly's. HOCKEY South VancouveiJialid Junior League, Lake Coyytchen Baird's Trucking vs. Fuller Jake Flyers, Lake Cowichan 8 p.m. South VancouverisJhd Junior League, exhibition, (Esquimau Legion vs. Former feegton, Esouimalt Sports Centre.

CURLING 5 m. Start of British CdfurtiBia mixed playdowns, Racquet Cfpb-ot Victoria. VOLLEYBALL 8 6 p.m. Start of B.C. meois, jnd women's senior champioofciiips, McKinnon Gym.

PRIZE SHOOn South Vancouver Island RANGERS ZX Luxton Road invite you to a 71 PRIZE TRAP SHOOT February 17 and 10 A.M. until Dark. MacNeil To Talk To Timbermen Martin Third PRINCE RUPERT (CP) Flora Martin of Victoria won both games Wednesday to move into first place in the British Columbia senior women's curling championship and she needs only one more victory to wrap up her third title. Fry Wins WINNIPEG (CP) Barry Fry of Winnipeg defeated Bill Paterson of Portage la Prairie 6-3 Wednesday night to win the Manitoba men's curling championship. The top-seeded Fry, 39, a veteran competitor, has taken part in the provincial competition 12 times before, but had never come closer than runner-up.

FRIDAY- Do It Now, Eagle! TORONTO (CP) "Do it now, Eagle, while the players are still sizzling," called Bobby Clarke as Philadelphia Flyers worked out in preparation for the National Hockey League game with Toronto Maple Leafs. Clarke, captain of the Flyers and Team NHL in its recent Challenge Cup series with the Soviet national team, directed his comments at Alan Eagleson, the NHL Players' Association executive director. Clarke is president of the players' association. Clarke, of course, wants another shot at the Russians and Eagleson pulls the strings for such matchups. After the Soviets romped 6-0 over the best of the North American pros in Sunday's game to take the series two games to one, Eagleson announced that this fall's Canada Cup matches were off.

Not because the players were concerned about another embarassing matchup, but apparently because Eagleson and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association were unable to resolve their differences and consequently Hockey Canada was unable to line up a sponsor for the event. "You're damned right I want to play them again and so do the other players," Clarke said. "I'd prefer it to be soon while we still remember that 6-0 loss." He admitted the Soviets were "a great team, that's why we want to play them again." "They were gloating pretty good about it and it burned some of us. Late in the game (Sunday) when they knew they had us, that old Mikhailov (Soviet captain Boris Mikhailov) skated past our bench and went 'ha, ha, ha' out of the side of his mouth" BERNIE SPARKES meets old foes again gJ if fi'fS Martin downed Abby Bridgeman of Vernon 9-6, then stopped Flo Makepeace of New Westminster 10-1. Martin, B.C.

and Canadian champion in 1974 and 1975, has five wins and one loss. Tied for second are Bridgeman and Kay Gable of Prince George, with 4-2 records. Gable beat Makepeace 10-6, then doubled Dorothy Armstrong of Fort Nelson 8-4. Bridgeman came back in the second round to edge Carol Trueman of Vancouver 10-9. In other games, Connie Barker of North Vancouver defeated Armstrong 11-4, then took Gudrun Thompson of Cranbrook 11-8, and Thompson nipped Trueman 10-9.

Martin meets Armstrong, Bridgeman meets Thompson and Gable plays Barker in today's final round games. SPORTS MENU Ron MacNeil of Victoria Shamrocks has agreed to talk to Nanaimo Timbermen about coaching that Western Lacrosse Association club, but there will be nothing definite for some time to come. The Timbermen were given permission to approach MacNeil after scoring star Kevin Alexander of the Timbermen indicated he would rather not return to the Timbermen this year, and his brother Ken resigned as team coach. The Shamrocks, in turn, were given permission to TONIGHT RUGBY 1:45 p.m. International elementary school exhibition, Worth School (England) vs.

St. Michael's University School, Windsor Park. 3 p.m. Greater Victoria High School League: Mt. Douglas at Parkland, Claremont at Spectrum, St.

Michael's University School at Victoria. BASKETBALL 5 p.m. Greater Victoria High CHAMPIONSHIP OPENS Interesting Possibilities In Mixed Playdown ffy By BILL WALKER Times Staff The Seagram B.C. Mixed curling championship takes place at the Racquet Club this weekend and there are several interesting aspects to the eight-rink, modified double-knockout competition. First, skip Glen Pierce of the Golden Ears Winter Club in Burnaby, is going for a double a Brier berth and a national mixed final.

Not to be outdone, so is Lindsay Sparkes, third on the Bernie Sparkes rink. And right in the middle of that matchup is Ivan Carlisle of Port Al-berni who met both Sparkes and Pierce in the Pacific Coast Curling Association men's championship at Duncan two weeks ago, and is ready and eager to resume acquaintances. Pierce, who this week qualified as B.C.'s representative in the Brier at Ottawa, March 4-10, by winning the B.C. championship in a playoff over Dave Simpson of Vernon, defeated Carlisle in the PCCA final and Sparkes in the final of that event. He has a strong mixed rink with Debbie Orr at third, Bryan Longmuir at second and Marlene Neubauer at lead.

Orr was voted an all-star in the Canadian Mixed two years ago when she represented Manitoba. Longmuir is a former Victorian and Neubauer skipped her own rink in the women's provincial. Sparkes (Lindsay, that is) skipped her rink through the B.C. ladies' play-downs undefeated and has qualified for the Lassie national playdowns in Montreal, Feb. 24-March 2.

Carlisle, who defeated Sparkes in the final of the PCCA, but lost oul to Pierce in the men's A-B final, is back for a rematch with both, if necessary. Meanwhile, Sparkes (Bernie) should have it in for both Pierce and Carlisle as it was those rivals who knocked him out of the PCCA. Besides, he has a strong rink. In addition to his wife, Lindsay, at third he has Al Cook, who has been with him to two men's championships, at second and Dawn Knowies at lead. er, PCCA and playdown chairman Ken Larson, BCCA delegate Bill Leaman and Racquet Club representative Don Matheson.

Winner of the modified double-knockout tournament will advance to the Canadian championship at Prince George, March 18-23. Rink personnel: Barry Smith, Donna Robertson, Ken Christa Barnes (Kelowna) Dave Smith, Lorna Dopson, Darwin Dopson, Bonita Smith (Juan de Fuca) Ivan Carlisle, Eleanor Gulstene, Wayne Beskau, Trudy Beskau (Alber-ni Valley) Bernie Sparkes, Lindsay Sparkes, AI Cook, Dawn Knowies (Vancouver) Glen Pierce, Debbie Orr, Brian Longmuir, Marilyn Neubauer (Golden Ears) Tom Vogt, Janet Agnew, Jim Ross, Ann Baltimore (Nelson) Ernie Strasdin, Pat Strasdin, Bill Small, Pat Small (Prince George) Larry Wynne, Susan Wynne, Norm Hellyer, Jane Fiest (Salmon Arm) Then, of course, is the probable favorite. Barry Smith of Kelowna is the defending champion and has already proved he belongs. He has former B.C. girls' champion Donna Robertson at third, Ken Leavoy at second and Christa Barnes at lead.

Victoria's representative is Dave Smith of Juan de Fuca. He has Lorna Dopson at third, Darwin Dopson at second and Bonita Smith at It is their first provincial final but, local knowledge particularly knowing the Racquet Club ice which can be trying at times should be in their favor. Then there are the unknown rinks unknown here at any rate. But, like the others, they got here by winning so that's been the name of their game as well. Skips are Emie Strasdin of Prince George, Larry Wynne of Salmon Arm and Tom Vogt of Nelson.

First draw is Friday at 5 p.m. Draw times Saturday are 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.. if necessary.

Provincial chairman is Glen Harp.