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PORT The StarPhoenix Monday, November 4, 1996 SECTION EXTRA Burnaby skip rides winning streak to capture classic pretty even pace, but we never took that step I VK above. Twice Scheirich, hoping to blank ends, took nose hits for singles and she was constantly frustrated in her efforts to find ways for a steal as Owen's front end kept the house wide-open throughout. Scheirich'c second-place finish was good for $4,000 while Schmirler and Trowell each pocketed $2,000. Orsini and Edmonton's Simone Handfield each took home $1,600 for their quarter-final appearances. Schmirler, who hadn't lost until Sunday's semifinal, said she's finding curling fun again, after finding it pretty hectic the last couple of years.

The former two-time world championship, who already has an Olympic qualifying berth, said she's been mixing and matching her rink because of babies. "When God said go forth and multiply, he must have been looking at our rink," she said, because two members had babies last year and another is expected next month. "But I've found there's more to life than curling and I think our rink is playing really awesome. We're going to Nipawin (Nov. 14-18) and then we'll curl in Regina (at the end of the month)." pretty nice medicine for tired bones.

Owen, backed by former Canadian and world junior champion Marela Geiger at third, Sherry Fraser at second and Christine Jurgenson, sister of world champion Marilyn Bodough at lead, has been on a streak early in the curling season. The rink finished runner-up at an Olympic qual-ifier in Calgary three weeks ago and then lost out in the semi-finals in Kelowna two weeks ago. It's never too early to be curling well, Owen said, dismissing any concerns about peaking too early. "You have to learn how to win," she said, adding her rink hopes to find an Olympic berth. "That's what it's all about," she said, adding she hopes her string of excellence can continue when the rink appears in Regina's SaskPower Olympic qualifier at the end of the month.

The 1995 B.C. women's champion scored an opening two on Scherich in the final and then kept the upper hand throughout, as Scherich's front end of Sandra Mulroney and Judy Leonard showed consistency problems. "They got the deuce and never gave us a chance to get back in it," said Scheirich's third Colleen Zielke. "They made every shot never flashed one." "We weren't quite as sharp," as they had been in earlier games, including a 7-3 victory over Regina's Cathy Trowell in the championship semi-final, agreed Scherich, "and we were always having to play catch-up." Down 5-3 but with the hammer in the 10th, Scheirich came within a measurement of tying the By Doug McConachie SP Sports Editor It took B.C's Kelly Owen three tries to get it right, but once her foursome did, they were unstoppable. "Sometimes you get on a roll," Owen said, "and you just get curling right." The Burnaby, skip rode the momentum to five straight wins including Sunday's 54 championship victory over Saskatoon's Sherry Scheirich in the Park Town Hotel Ladies Classic bonspiel at the Nutana Curling Club to pocket $6,000 in first-place money and boost her rink's earnings to more than $14,000 in just a month.

After losing her opening game Thursday to Regina's Sandra Schmirler ((Peterson) and then a 'B' event qualifying game to Edmonton's Shannon Orsini, Owen was down to her final life when she advanced out of the 'C event to the championship. In a quarter final rematch she bounced Orsini li-3 then turned up the heat by dropping Schmirler 7-1 in six ends to run up against Scheirich. The Saskatoon rink was undefeated, having won four games in the 'A' event in qualifying for the championship semi-final. "We curled seven games (four Saturday and three more Sunday) but sometimes it's better to be curling than laid off," Owen said. "Four was a bit much (on Saturday)," she said, but the $6,000 is Trowell, who gave up three to Scheirich early in their semi-final and then never recovered, said aside from that game, her rink of Karen Daku, Karen Inglis and Keri-Lynn Schikowski curled well.

"We're not curling in as many bonspiels. We're not going to Nipawin but will curl in the'Sask Power we're trying to concentrate on peaking at the right time." Kelly Owen game but her raised takeout of an Owen stone was a fraction short. "We had strong games throughout (the bonspiel)," Scheirich said afterwards. "We kept at a SPORTS EDITOR DOUG McCONACHIE Phone 664-8231 Fax 664-8262 PLAYBILL EI HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL -Gh Is Play-offs: St. Joseph's at Evan Hardy; Aden Bowman at Walter Murray.

Both games at 6:30 p.m. Boys Playoffs: Marion Graham at Aden Bow man, 6:30 p.m.; E.D. Feehan at Evan Hardy, 8 p.m. LOCAL -I. STALLIONS RIDING INTO TOWN The new Saskatoon professional baseball franchise will be nicknamed the Stallions.

Rye Pothakos, the club's general manager, announced that the logo and theme for the upcoming season will be introduced at a media conference in the latter part of November. HILLTOPS FUND REACHES $8,020 Many thanks go out to the Saskatchewan Blue Cross MSI, who donated $1,000, Dr. Mike Slo-bodzian Ian Brand Art Wiggins ($100) and Fred Catterall Anyone who donates more than $10 will be entered into a draw for a remote car starter compliments of Hot 93FM. Photo Stop Film will donate $1.50 for every roll of film developed. The Saskatoon Hilltops have reached $8,020 of the $30,000 they need to travel to the national junior football championship next weekend in Oshawa, Ont.

Donations can be made at any Bank of Montreal location in Saskatoon. INTERNATIONAL mm LESCHYSHYN TRADED TO CAPS UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) The Washington Capitals obtained free-agent forward Chris Simon and defenceman Curtis Leschyshyn in a trade with Colorado for for Inferno Michael Laughlin Jr. crawls away from his flaming auto after he hit a turn dur- third-degree burns on his hands and first- and second-degree burns around ing a qualifying race for the Jiffy Lube Miami 300 Saturday. Laughlin sustained his heck.

Story on Page C10. (AP) Riders season ends on sour note ward Keith Jones and two draft picks Saturday. The who announced the trade during Saturday night's game with the New York Islanders, sent their first-round draft pick in 1998 and a fourth-round pick in either 1997 or 1998 to the Avalanche along with Jones. Jones, a right winger, had two goals and three assists in 11 games for the Capitals this '-tiS Leschyshyn "Personally I'm satisfied but I wish the team had done better," Mimbs said. Barrett said team success is key.

5 "My role is to help this team get to Hamilton," he said in reference to the Grey Cup game. "I'm having a lot of fun." Notes: McLoughlin's went over the 200-point mark for the seventh time in his 10-year career Anderson is the seventh Stamp to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season and the fourth rookie after Hugh McKinnis (1970), James Svkes (1978) and Gary Allen ilSlf A 4 111 dt if (1986). Argonauts 47, Tiger-Cats 14 HAMILTON Robert Drummond and the Toronto Argonauts saved their best for last Saturday. Drummond scored a club-record four rushing touchdowns as Toronto completed its regular season by throttling the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 47-14 for its record 15th win of the season. Drummond also tied the club mark for most touchdowns in a game.

Lions 35 Riders 24 The B.C. Lions ended their frustrating CFL season with dog tags hung around their necks. And they won, thanks to tailback Cory Philpot, who rushed for 156 yards during a 35-24 victory Saturday night over the Ottawa Rough Riders. Tha Ana tnaa wroi'o nriwiHpH hv By Stephen Ewart of The Canadian Press CALGARY Veteran quarterback Danny Barrett is starting to get a lot of questions about why he isn't the Calgary Stampeders starter. Barrett came off the bench Sunday to throw three third-quarter touchdown passes, sparking the Stampeders to a 46-23 victory over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Barrett maintains the backup role to Jeff Garcia suits him fine. "My role is to be ready to play," said Barrett who hit Kelvin Anderson and Allen Pitts on scoring strikes of 18 and 30 yards, respectively, in a 40-sec-ondspan. He- later connected on a 45-yard touchdown pass to Travis Moore, Barrett's 11th of the season (all relieving Garcia) and 132nd of his 13-year CFL career. Barrett 34, has also played with Ottawa, Toronto and British Columbia. He took over from Garcia to start the second half atMcMahon Stadium in the final game of the CFL's regular season.

Calgary coach Wally Buono had planned to give both quarterbacks some work. Garcia completed 14 of his 22 passes for 130 yards and one interception as Calgary trailed 13-9 at halftime. Barrett was 12 of 15 for 241 yards and no interceptions, guiding Calgary to a 24-point third-quarter outburst Buono agreed Barrett "right now has a hot hand" but he says he has no plans to change starters. "To be fair to Jeff, we had smoothed things out by the time Danny came in," Buono said. Barrett agreed.

"Jeff did a good job of getting us some momentum in the second quar- Leschyshyn had five assists in 11 games for Colorado. Simon, who is one of two remaining unsigned NHL players (Bryan Smolinski of Pittsburgh is the other), earned a Stanley Cup ring with the Avalanche. A noted tough guy, Simon picked up 16 goals and 18 assists last season, along with 250 of his career 555 penalty minutes. "We are happy to add an experienced winger who will bring us even more depth up front," Colorado general manager Pierre Lacroix said. "The two draft picks will certainly be important to the organization's future success." Leschyshyn, 27, was an entry draft pick of the Quebec Nordiques in 1988 and third overall.

Simon remained unsigned after a lengthy holdout He was Philadelphia's second choice and 25th overall in 1990 and came to Quebec as part of the Eric Lindros trade in 1992. Jones was Washington's seventh choice in and 141st overall in 1988. FLABBY FOREMAN RETAINS TITLE URAYASU, Japan (AP) He came, he fought and he won. George Foreman got the job done, making it look almost easy, even at age 47, defeating unknown challenger Crawford Grimsley by a unanimous decision Sunday. But he delivered little else in the 12-round heavyweight fight to defend his fringe IBA and WT3U titles.

There were no edge-of-your-seat moments. And that famous Foreman knockout punch never came. "The main thing is: George Foreman was here," Foreman said after the fight In the most, publicized of several undercard fights Sunday, HIV-infected heavyweight Tommy Morrison beat Marcus Rhode. Rhode was knocked down three times in the first round, ending the match after just one minute 38 seconds. The bout marked Morrison's comeback since announcing in February he had tested positive for the AIDS-causing virus.

MMWMM CP Riders quarterback Marvin Graves (9) has trouble eluding the grasp of Stamps Rodney Harding Stadium in the division semifinal. Saskatchewan led 13-0 on CFL rushing leader Robert Mimb's one-yard rushing touchdown early in the second. Mark McLoughlin's three field goals were all the offence Calgary could muster in the first half. McLoughlin added three second-half field goals and to capture the CFL scoring title with 220 points. Mimbs, who didnt even start the season on the Roughriders roster, gained only 12 yards on nine carries, but finished the year with 1,403 rushing yards.

ter," he said. "We had three good drives in the second quarter but we just didn't get the ball in the end zone." The victory gave Calgary a 13-5 final record and first place in the West Division. Saskatchewan finished with a 5-13 record, tied with B.C. for last in theWest Calgary has a bye to the West Division final, which will be held Nov. 17 at McMahon Stadium.

The Stampeders will face either the Edmonton Eskimos or Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who meet Sunday at Commonwealth head coach Joe Paopao in a light-hearted appreciation for efforts during a 5-13 season. "Our guys tried hard, gave it their best," said Paopao. "Some days it's not your day at the office. "We had some growing pains, but we always tried hard. Nobody laid down despite the rocky road." The yardage gave Philpot his third consecutive season.

The import tailback from the University of Mississippi finished with 1,024 rushing yards. I.