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16 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Skaters stand tall at sectionals Two Snow Valley Skating Club skaters took to sectionals in Parksville earlier this month and said it was a great learning experience to prepare them for more competition next year. Mariah Carvalho and Kendra Brousseau were the only two skaters from Kitimat who fit the conditions for attending the sectionals. They say they’ll take what they learned to improve their performance for next year. “It was a good skate, I think I did okay,” said Kendra. Head Coach Cynthia Medeiros said that competitions are good for local skaters because locally there just isn’t the opportunity to see higher level skating. The skaters in Parksville, by comparison, are from all over the province and in the top flights of their division. Skating performances are done twice. They
start with a short skate where they do three jumps, two spins and some footwork sequences. Then they follow later with a longer performance that is a bit more flexible, said Medeiros. She added that the two girls did better in the short skate than they did in the long one. Kendra competes at the novice level and Marriah is in the pre-novice category. Competitively this is the end of the season for them. The sections were a qualifier to go to higher levels like nationals but with Kenda in 19th place and Mariah in 52nd they are happy to just come home and make sure they shine even brighter the next time. And it’s certainly not to be considered a loss. Kendra revels in the opportunity to meet people and friends, while Mariah said the highlights for her is just being able to perform in front of a much larger crowd.
Demons scorch Rupert Submitted The Kitimat Ice Demons spoiled the Prince Rupert Rampage’s belated home opener with a great two goal bounce back from trailing 3-1 with two minutes left in the second period by scoring twice in 90 seconds and going on to clinch the affair, 5-3 in the third. This was a fast, hard hitting, but essentially clean game, with few penalty calls, only one minor each in the third period when a great goaltending duel took place between Keano Wilson in the Rampage net and young Tyson Craven, again between the posts for the Ice Demons. Both goaltenders made some saves that the crowd really appreciated and actually applauded, along with the groans from both sets of fans. The Ice Demons out-shot (14to-5) and out-played the Rampage in the first period but could not beat Wilson. The closest to a goal was a post hit behind Craven on a long shoot in from centre. The Rampage began to get their skating legs in the second period and were quick to answer an opening goal that put the Demons ahead by Derek Wakita, coming to take a pass back from Kory Finn to beat Wilson high. Terry Whelan also assisted.
the puck from close in on Wilson, who had no chance. Terry Whelan got his second assist of the night on the play. The clincher goal came at 17.41 with a nicely combined passing play that saw Derek DeLisser appear to finish with a hard shot (Jon Aiken, Dave Venman) but DeLisser said afterwards Terry Whel-
That was at 3:55 into the period and the Rampage scored the tying power-play goal (D. Wakita, high sticking) at 6:39, on a passing play finished off by Tom Robinson (Kory Movold, Greg Sheppard). Motivated, the Rampage got two more goals quickly five minutes later when Kory Movald slid a cross crease pass from Tom Robinson behind Craven to give the Rampage the lead. They made it 3-1 on a defensive lapse that sent Sid Spracklin in alone on Craven three minutes later. Craven made the first stop but Spracklin heft the rebound into the net at 14.40. The third period was mostly all Demons, except for a couple of surges by the Rampage, which were met by good defensive blocking and about four exceptional glove grabs by Craven. Demons took the lead at the 8.16 mark on a goal by Dave Venman moments after he returned to the ice after a two minute unsportsmanlike penalty and a 10 minute misconduct for arguing too strenuously with the referee in the second following the third goal by the Rampage. Venman picked up the pass from Mildenberger at the Rampage blue line, deked the defense and roofed
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Mariah Carvalho, left, and Kendra Brousseau stand on the ice at the Kitimat Ice Arena after their trip to Parksville.
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