14 — THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Friday. March 26. 1982 Hot streak for Pistons By The Associated Press Coach Scotty Robertson of Detroit Pistons isn’t thinking about the National Basketball Association playoffs just yet...but try him in a week or so. The Pistons won for the sixth time in seven games Jim Thursday night, edging Phi­ ladelphia 76ers 100-98 on Terry Tyler’s short jump Coleman shot with two seconds left, and moved within one-half SW1TCHEROO-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD: The game of idle Atlanta for the passage of exactly one year and a change-of- sixth and last Eastern Con­ nationality ccrtainly have made extraordinary al­ ference playoff berth. terations in the personality of Glenn "Chico" Resch. the gabby goaltender who was born in Moose Jaw. In other NBA games, Gol­ Sask. den State Warriors nipped Within a matter of hours after becoming an Amer­ Utah Jazz 107-105, Denver ican citizen, Rcseh was giving an emotional display Nuggets trounced San of patriotic fervor which would have brought tears of Diego Clippers 129-117 and approval tumbling down the marble cheeks of the Houston Rockets downed Statue of Liberty. Bubbling with love for his new Portland Trail Blazers 108- country, Resch was proclaiming loudly that he 95. scarcely can wait for the opportunity to go to Finland to be goaltender for Team USA in next month's The Seattle SuperSonics World Hockey Tournament. play host to the Houston Can this be the same Chico Resch, who 12 months Rockets at 11:45 p.m. today ago. offered some very feeble excuses for refusing to on KIRO (cable 7). represent Canada, the land of his birth, in a World The Boston Celtics play Hockey Tournament at Stockholm and Goteborg? Citizen photo by Dour W c llrr host to the Philadelphia In April. 1981. Resch begged his way out of accom­ Ted Moffat, 1981 Kelly Cup winnin^skip releases rock during first-round (>-.} win against Kevin Smale. ’76ers at 11 a.m. Sunday on panying Team Canada to Sweden. He ducked out of cable 7. the trip on compassionate grounds: telling Team KELLY CUP CURLING Canada general-manager John Ferguson that he felt obliged to devote some time to his wife, who had been deprived of his sparkling company since the New York Islanders traded him to the Colorado Rockies KNIGHT on March 10. You need luck and skill to win The reunion of Mr. and Mrs. Reschwas idyllic but, by MARK ALLAN empty sheet of ice and played their 2 a.m. here eight of the past 10 years and feels he has LOWBED TRAILERS 1789 Ogilvie St. within a few days after wiggling out of the Team Sports Reporter draw about three hours early. a shot at winning the world’s largest curling Canada assignment, Chico was rushing away from Prince George, B.C. "You can curl well and qualify, or curl lucky Curling continues non-stop until about trophy3 a third time. 564-9433 home, again, to appear as a color-commentator on a.m. Sunday, because melting snow on the Curlers reached the 32s of the A event by the Hockey Night in Canada telecasts of the Stanley and qualify, but you have to do both to win.” roof of the old building has leaked through the noon today and will have 16 rinks left in A by 10 Cup playoff games. That’s how 1981 finalist Gerry Peckham ...... sees the Kelly Cup. which began Thursday at ceiling and ruined the draw by leaving two tonight. Resch’s television appearances kept him on-the- sheets unusable. road quite frequently between April 8 and the conclu­ the Prince George Golf and Curling Club. Eight rinks qualify from A and eight from B sion of Stanley Cup competition on May 21. Peckham. who lost to Ted Moffat 4-3 in last In other notable early games, Moffat edged for the single-knockout playoff. Meanwhile, the most popular color-commentator year’s final, was one of the first skips to win Kevin Smale 6-5 and former Prince George Play resumes Sunday at 8 a.m. and the final on the Canadian television network during the regu- two games in the 62nd annual 86-rink event. curler Fred Kapphahn of Edmonton downed day’s competition starts at the same time lar-schedule of 1980-81 had been Don Cherry. Peckham struggled to an opening 5-4 win Sid Clarke of Langley 6-5 in one of the better Monday. But, Alan Eagleson persuaded Don Cherry to give against Bernie Pratt, then dumped Ron Sales games Thursday. The championship draw, plus the B, C. D up his financially-lucrative television appearances 7-2. Peckham and Sales somehow found an Clarke, the winner in 1978 and 1979. has been and E finals are Monday night at 8:30. to go to Sweden as Coach of Team Canada. Cherry went willingly to coach his country’s team — and I EXHIBITION BASEBALL DOESN’T MIND COLI) INVENTORY SALE doubt that he was paid any fee. above travelling- Malaspina The garter snake can sur­ expenses for himself and his teen-aged son. who went vive even if its body temper­ along as an assistant to the team's equipment- wins easily ature drops to 4.4 degrees X-C RENTAL SKIS (No Wax) Boots. $*711. $ Q A manager. Jack Stouffer. Reggie's recovering CALGARY (CP) - The Celsius. Poles & Bindings, set ......... I l l " v U The ridiculous irony of the situation was that Chico opening day’s play at the Resch — who declined to represent Canada in hockey by Associated Press nings as Boston Red Sox shut out Mon­ Canadian Colleges Athletic — was paid handsome fees for appearing on Stanley DOWNHILL CAO/ flEE California Angels didn't bother send­ treal Expos 8-0 and ended a seven-game Conference basketball Cup television. And. Don Cherry, who normally DEMO SKIS. ...DU /O urr ing Reggie Jackson to a doctor. They let losing streak. Boston scored seven runs championships Thursday SPRUCE would have been appearing on those television shows him find his own cure for his latest bat­ in the first three innings off Bill Gul-split the 16 teams into A ttO / during the playoffs, was over in Sweden, devoting lickson. championship and consola­ NORDICAALL ACE ting slump and Mr. October enjoyed a three weeks of unpaid service to the hockey cause of Toronto’s Willie Upshaw hit his fourth tion rounds. CITY boots..... 40 A OFF lovely March afternoon. Canada. Jackson had gone 0 for 14 since his first home run of the exhibition campaign as In the men’s division, Having avoided recruitment by Team Canada in spring home run last Friday. But on the Blue Jays downed Kansas City 1981, Resch then had the temerity to loose-lip some Dawson College of Mon­ HOCKEY Thursday, he slammed a tie-breaking Royals 5-1. treal defeated Red River DOWNHILL & X-C... ,J40% OFF public criticism of Hob Ramage. his young Colorado three-run homer in the third inning, plus Cleveland Indians made it eight victor­ Community College of Win­ teammate, who had accepted an invitation to play a run-scoring single in California’s six- ies in a row when Chris Bando drove in SCHOOL for Canada in Sweden. 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The uprising the spring as the Braves nipped Texas ing U.S. Citizenship, Glenn “ Chico” Resch. has gary defeated Briercrest A pril 3rd gave the Angels a 4-1 lead. Rangers 4-3 on a run-scoring single by Bible College of Caronport, undergone a change of heart, with regard to an Anyone that registers lor Rufino Linares in the 10th inning. Sask., 80-70; and Seneca GUNS. .... ...10% OFF athlete's obligations to his country. It leaves me “ I haven’t been hitting the ball hard,” the up-coming '82 Hockey College of Toronto defeated quite misty-eyed. said Jackson, who leads the Angels this Niekro surrendered an unearned run School at Pine Centre Mall spring with eight runs batted in. "It gets in the first inning and an earned run inhost the Mount Royal College is eligible lor a draw on 1 fifth. In 20 innings this spring, his earned83-69. session ol Power Skating SCOPES... 1.10% OFF to the point where it bothers you. worth $80.00. _ _ "I'm happy for this day. I like to hit two run average is 0.45. In games in the cham­ or three homers in the spring just to let Steve Carlton held Minnesota to three pionship round today, Daw­ Also Available B.C. Cup skiing myself know I’m getting there.” hits in six innings and Mike Schmidtson College will play Malas­ Spruce Kings AMMO.