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THE CITIZEN. Prince George — Friday, August 7, 1981 — 13 IN SOFTBALL AND GOLF W om en have sports spotlight this w eekend Two women’s events involving round, white balls top the In games earlier this season, Interior Warehousing de and a seat belt can participate in a Canadian auto slalom sociation play in Quesnel. list of Prince George sports activities this weekend. feated the Kamloops. Richmond and Victoria teams. final here. Meanwhile. Bencher Logging of the women's commer • The defending Western Canadian champion is the pre Interior plays the Plaza Blues at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at The Prince George Auto Sport Club stages the Northern cial league competes in Fort St. James. tournament team to beat at the B.C. senior B women’s Spruce City Field, while Vernon meets Victoria at Cawdell Interior section of a unique national competition being held • Prince George stock car drivers head south, as the softball final here. Park at the same time. across Canada. Yellowhead Inn Super Stock Challenge Series continues Prince George teams Interior Warehousing (which won In 9 a.m. games, Nanaimo takes on Graham’s at Spruce Names of local winners are submitted to organizers in with a Saturday night. Sunday afternoon doubleheader in the Western Canadian title two years ago) and Graham’s City Field and Richmond meets Castlegar at Cawdell. Saskatchewan and overall winners are determined. Williams Lake. Moving and Storage play host to seven out-of-town teams at Vancouver plays the winner of the Vernon-Victoria game All clubs use the same course routes. • Three Prince George baseball teams are among eight Spruce City Field, including Nanaimo Lincoln-Mercury. at 10:30 at Spruce City Field. Prince George’s slalom is Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Pine at a tournament in Smithers. which has basically the same line-up which won last year's • The 14th annual women’s Simon Fraser at the Prince Centre Mall parking lot. Registration is at 9 a.m. Labatt’s and Astoria Inn of the senior men's league, plus title. George Golf and Curling Club begins at 8 a.m. Saturday For more information phone Marilyn Hutchinson at 962- the senior Babe Ruth all-stars are competing. Other visiting teams are the Kamloops Plaza Blues, Cold and Sunday. 6874 or Martin Webber at 962-6103. % The Prince George Road Runners have an unusual stream Hotel ofVernon, theVictoria Breakers,Van Former Prince George resident Patty Grant of Kam • The 10-team season-ending women's slo-pitch tourna event at the Lakewood track. couver Vegetable Patch. Scarr Industries of Richmond and loops is the pre-tournament favorite, as she defends the ment starts tonight at side-by-side diamonds. The club begins its first 24-hour relay race at noon Satur Castlegar. title she won last year. The Analog Angels play Interior Brokers and Pay 'N day. with the event running non-stop until noon Sunday, “ They’re all tough at this stage,” says Interior coach Bob A field of 112 is entered in the 36-hole event. Save meets Northern Sportswear in the first games al the 10-member teams try to compile the most laps. Fortier, “ but Nanaimo has to be considered the toughest • A class for street machines is included in Sunday’s Kenworth Field ( men’sslo-pitch) and the men’s recreation • The Prince George Cycling Club has its championship right now.” drag racing show at North Central Raceways. diamond, both on Highway 16 West. race Sunday at Pineview Auto Wreckers. Play starts Saturday at 7:30 a.m., with games continuing The local show should have about 30 cars for competition Brampton Homes plays Excelsior Life and the Kal Tire The three-lap event starts at 1:30 p.m.. all day every one and one-half hours. in bracket one and two and the street machines class. Retreads face Sunrise Rentals at 10 a.m. Saturday, while • Prince George tennis players are expected to compete The women’s league diamond. Chuck Cawdell Park at “ We’re asking anyone with a street machine to come playoff champion NR Motors plays Tri-Co Concrete at in the Quesnel open tournament. 12th and Gillett, will be in use for 7:30 and 9 a.m. games out.” says NCR general-manager Gordon Schade. “ We 11:30. About six players from here will likely enter the two-day Saturday. want to make a point to them they’re not racing against Games resume Sunday at 11 a.m.. with the A-B final at 5 event. Sunday’s action begins at 9 a.m. and the A-B final is at professionals.” and one extra game, if necessary, at 6:30. • The Prince orge Pisces continue their summer 4:30 p.m. If another game is necessary it is at 6. Qualifying starts at 10 a.m. and eliminations begin at • Several Prince George softball teams are at Central swimming season with an important meet in Dawson The winner qualifies for the Western Canada final Sept. 5 noon. Interior tournaments. Creek. to 7 in Alberta. • Anyone with a driver’s licence and a car with good tires The Native Sons of the Spruce Crty Men's Fastball As The regional championships qualify swimmers for the B.C. finals in New Westminster Aug. 21 to 23. CANUCKS AND OTHERS G rant early pick FOR P.O. PAIR n h l beckons Celebrities playing ball A Dairpair of formerformer linemateslinemates from from their their Toyota Tovota I * in Sim on Fraser Midget King days have been invited to National Hoc by DAVE PAULSON rora Centre for the Handicapped) begins at 8. the by MARK ALLAN champion here, has a seven handicap. key League training camps. Citizen Sports Reporter Canucks will be there at 7:15 to sign autographs. Citizen Sports Reporter Others with an outside shot include Right winger Jeff Zilkie and centre Renzo Berra Some favorite sports personalities of Prince Heading the Canucks’ opponents is the team’s will attend the training camp of the Edmonton Oilers Defending champion Patty Grant of Lil Bullied of Sechelt (nine handicap) George fans are here this weekend. play-by-play announcer Jim Robson. Other mem and Nita Lane of Quesnel (10). and the St. Louis Blues, respectively, next month. Members of the Vancouver Canucks are here for bers are: Don Nachbaur, a local product playing Kamloops has a good chance to win her Zilkie and Berra were linemates in 1978 when the second straight women’s Simon Golfers have a practice round today, the second straight year for a charity softball game with the Hartford Whalers; Alan Graves, property of Toyotas competed in the Wrigley national midget the Los Angeles Kings; Renzo Berra of the Seattle Fraser golf tournament this weekend. with registration at 7 tonight. at Spruce City Field. final in Verdun, Que. Breakers; Jim Dodds and Brian Graves, assistant The 20-year-old Grant, who used to The field is expected to be 112, al The Canucks play a team comprised mainly of top Zilkie, 20, played the past three seasons with the coaches of the Prince George Spruce Kings; CJCI live here, returns this weekend to the most 10 fewer than last year and sev local minor hockey products Saturday at 8 p.m. Billings Bighorns of the major junior Western Hoc sports director Wayne Seaman; Greg Polis, for Prince George Golf and Curling Club eral outstanding competitors will be Representing the Canucks, in addition to popular missing. key League, while Berra, 19, has completed one sea merly with the Pittsburgh Penguins, New York to defend the title she won last year in Prince George native Darcy Rota, are Dave (Tiger) son with the W H L’s Seattle Breakers. Both were pas Williams, Harold Snepsts, Curt Fraser, Kevin Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Washington Capitals the 13th annual event. Two-time champion Susan sed over in the NHL’s entry draft in June. McCarthy, Bobby Schmautz, Dennis Kearns, Blair and Quesnel’s Erro l Rausse, playing in the Last year’s runner-up Laura McCleery of Kamloops (formerly of Zilkie becomes the second Prince George minor Washington organization. Iwasaki, also of Kamloops, is back, Prince George) and 1978 winner Holly MacDonald, Rick Blight, Gary Lupul, Gerry Minor hockey graduate to join the Oilers. Mike Winther was and Gary Bromley. Windmill pitching is not permitted, as the contest too. Wame of Richmond won’t be here. selected by the Oilers during the sixth round of the is purely for fun and entertainment. McCleery was third here last year While the game (proceeds of which go to the Au- Iwasaki lost by just one stroke in 1980 draft. Winther finished last season with the The cost is $2.50 for adults, $1.50 for students and $1 1980, but she has a six handicap and and Warne was fourth. junior New Westminster Bruins, after being traded for senior citizens and children 12 and under. Grant has a chance to become only Grant has chopped two off the five from Medicine Hat and Brandon. Last year's game, attended by a capacity crowd of the second back-to-back winner of the handicap she carried last year. Portland standout more than 1,000, raised about $3,000 for the Aurora “ I ’d imagine Patty would be the 36*hole event. Centre. The Canucks won 6-4. favorite,” feels tournament chair McCleery, who won in 1972 and 1973 The Canucks have a nine-hole golf tournament at 2 before moving to Kamloops, is the only signs with Toronto man Fran Heighington, but she thinks p.m.