Saskatoon Minor Basketball

September 2013
to November 2013
Newsletter
SASKATOON
SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Field House 2020 College Drive Saskatoon, Sask. S7N 2W4
(306) 664-6744
saskatoonsportshalloffame.com Plaques of all inductees displayed at Field House
Jerry Shoemaker
Hall of Fame president
Builder inductee, 2009
Mike Linklater
Mike Linklater hits a pair of three-point baskets
in the second half as the University of Saskatchewan
Huskies basketball team pulls away to defeat
top-ranked Carleton Ravens in a semi-final at the 2010
CIS men’s championship in Ottawa. Huskies beat UBC
Thunderbirds a day later to win their first national title.
George Genereux
George Genereux, a 17-year-old student from
Nutana Collegiate with a brushcut, breaks 49 of 50
targets in the last two rounds to win the gold in
trapshooting at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
This is Canada’s only medal in the ’52Olympics.
I hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy the summer. On
behalf of the Board of Directors, welcome to the September edition
of our newsletter.
It is once again time to think of fall activities and that includes the
Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and dinner. This
year’s event will be held Saturday, Nov.. 2 at TCU Place.
This is our 28th induction.We extend an invitation to all past inductees and board members to attend and honour the inductees for 2013.
These inductees have made significant contributions to their sports
at many levels including local, provincial, regional, national, international
and Olympic levels.
The induction proceedings are a special event for the inductees, their
family members and friends. Please join us in making this an evening
for them to remember as we honour their accomplishments and
contributions to the Saskatoon sporting community.
Please remember that your support of our induction dinner also
ensures we will be able to continue to honour our athletes and builders
for their contribution to sport in our community in the future.
Tickets can be obtained at Al Anderson’s Source for Sports,
Olympian Sports Excellence or the Saskatoon Field House.
I hope to see you all there.
The Kentucky Derby
is called the most exciting
two minutes in sports.
Here are some
memorable moments
in Saskatoon sports.
Catriona Le May Doan
Catriona Le May Doan, with calf muscles like industrial pistons, wins gold
in the 500 metres in speed skating at the 2002 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
Because of the time change between Saskatoon and Japan, the race is shown
late at night on a Friday night in Saskatoon.
Joanne McTaggart
Joanne McTaggart runs a leg on the Canadian
sprint relay team in track and field at the 1976
Montreal Olympics. Canada is in lane 6 at Olympic
Stadium beside the Soviet Union in lane 7
and East Germany in lane 8. East Germany wins gold
and the Soviet Union bronze. Canada finishes fourth
for its best finish in the women’s 4x100
since the 1948 Olympics.
—CP/Canadian Olympic Committee
Chris Gervais hits a triple to left-centre field
in the fifth inning to drive in Pat Wegner
for the game’s only run. Saskatoon Harmony
Centre defeat Milverton, Ont., Suns 1-0 in Regina
to win the Canadian senior women’s softball
championship at Kaplan Field in Regina in 1978.
Fred Williams
Chris Gervais
Saskatoon figure skaters Leah Currie and Gayland Harder
win Saskatchewan’s first medal at the 1971 Canada
Winter Games in Saskatoon. Currie and Harder are
the last team to skate in the pairs competition at
the Arena. They receive first-place marks from all five
judges to take the gold.
Joyce
McKee
Rosa
McFee
Barb
MacNevin
Bud Curtis explodes off tackle for a 49-yard
touchdown, then scores another TD a couple of
minutes later on a pass from Bill Mathison.
The Saskatoon Hilltops defeat Notre Dame
de Grace Maple Leafs in Montreal for the 1958
Canadian junior football championship.
Sylvia
Fedoruk
Joyce McKee and her rink of lead Rosa McFee, second Barb MacNevin
and third Sylvia Fedoruk shake off a 20-hour flight delay in Winnipeg to go
undefeated in winning the first Diamond D Canadian women’s curling championship
in Ottawa in 1961.
McKee was raised in Asquith. Because the town did not have a curling league for
girls or women, she competed against men at the start.
Forwards Blair Chapman, Fred Williams
and Bernie Federko, who play on a line
together with the Saskatoon Blades,
are selected in the top seven picks in the
1976 NHL draft in Montreal.
Bud Curtis
Pat Fletcher
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Quarterback Dave Pickett runs for one touchdown and
passes to John Storey and Dick Chinn for two more as the
Saskatoon Hilltops defeat the Sooners 27-19 at Clarke
Stadium in Ottawa for the 1968 Canadian junior football
championship.
Doug Rudolph, who is playing with an injured
shoulder, is the leading rusher for the Hilltops.
Barry Reid is the top receiver.
Hilltops fullback Archie Thomson watches
the second half from the bench after turning
Barry
his ankle.
Mooney
“We had a dedicated bunch of players who
simply wouldn’t accept anything less than a title,” said Hilltops
head coach Al Ledingham. Assistant coaches
are Garnet McKee, Barry Mooney and Paul Schoenhals.
years ago
Pat Fletcher of Saskatoon birdies the
par-4 12th hole and sinks a long putt for another
birdie on the 17th as he wins the PGA Canadian
Open on the tightly-treed Point Grey course in
Vancouver. Fletcher is the professional at the
Saskatoon Golf and Country Club. He is the only
golfer to break par in the Open and is the first
Canadian to win the tournament since its start in
1914.
Diane Beckman, 15, of Saskatoon wins the female all-around
gymnastics title and Kim Grenier of Saskatoon is second at the
1979 Western Canada Summer Games in Saskatoon.
Also on Saskathewan’s team are Denise Hynd,
who is fourth, Donna Bacon, fifth, Candace Doell,
sixth, and Connie Lavertu, 10th.
Doell goes on to compete for the University of
Minnesota Gophers. Lavertu competes in track and
field for the University of Saskatchewan. She
finishes second in the 100-metre hurdles at the Candace
Doell
1990 Canadian senior track and field championships.
James Rozon of Saskatoon is on Saskatchewan’s team in men’s
gymnastics at the Western Canada Games. He competed in the
1988 Seoul Olympics and is inducted into the Saskatoon Hall.
years ago
Saskatoon sports hall of fame, september 2013-november 2013 newsletter
SANDERSON’S COACHING GOES FAR
Richard DuWors Jr. spent most of the summer of 1961 at the cattle ranch
of Lyle Sanderson and Lyle’s parents, Marie and Lerot, near Piapot
in southern Saskatchewan.
At the time, Sanderson was a student at the University of Saskatchewan.
Sanderson’s coach was Richard DuWors Sr.
Lyle went on to become head coach in track and field at the U of S for 35 years.
The Huskies women’s teams he coached in 1999-2000 and 2000-01 won the
Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship and are being inducted
into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in November.
Lyle is in the Hall with six other Huskies teams and as a builder.
Richard DuWors Jr. in 1961
Excerpts of letters from Richard DuWors Jr.,
to his parents in the summer of 1961.
June 3, 1961: Lyle and I did a pretty good 1.5 miles Wednesday. On Saturday we timed each other for
one mile on our track. The objective was 4:55. I did 4:54. Although Lyle beat me in 1.5 miles by 2 or 3 yards,
he ran 5:06 in the mile.
Lyle Sanderson in 1963
June 28, 1961: In track, I have not had a really hard work-out yet. It’s impossible to run anywhere on
level ground for very long, so we must run on stony hills. They are mostly moderately steep and very long,
with a few short steep ones here and there. Because of the hills, I don’t think we run very fast, but my legs
get very tired.
Lyle and I built a 220-yard track using his pace as a yard. I ran a half-mile and the time was terrible (2:41)
and the distance seemed so far that I paced it. We decided to build another track using a yardstick and string.
We have had no times on it yet, but once a few holes are filled in (assuming the distance is correct) it will
be one of the better tracks in the province. The ground is covered with shock-absorbing lichen. The lichen
allows spikes to enter easily.
When I got back to Saskatoon, I ran the best 880 of my career . . . 2:02.9. I was 15 years old.
Touching base with Hall inductees
M
California Golden Seals and six years in the WHA with Cleveland Crusaders, San Diego
ary Thomas was a competitive figure skater in
Saskatoon. She and her husband Bill, a Canadian junior Mariners and Edmonton Oilers. Gerry and his brother Herb Pinder Jr. won a bronze
medal on the Canadian team coached by Jackie McLeod at the 1968 Winter Olympics
skating champion in 1942, built a cottage on a lake in Michiin Grenoble, France. Both Pinders and McLeod are in the Saskatoon Hall. Other playgan 50 years ago.The family still owns the place. During the
ers who have had their number retired by the Blades are Brent Ashton (also No.
Memorial Cup this year in Saskatoon, Mary took a trip to the
7), Bob Bourne (No. 12), Wendel Clark (No. 22), Bernie Federko (No. 15) and
cottage. She was pulling her wheeled suitcase at the airport in
Brian
Skrudland (No. 10).Ashton and Skrudland are also in the Saskatoon Sports Hall of
Saskatoon when a wide-shouldered man came along and pulled
Fame.
the suitcase for her.“It’s OK,” she said.“I can do it.” He carried
the bag all the way to the check-in anyway.When Mary boarded
the plane he was seated up front.“He had a Red Wings jacket
Sarah Junkin is being inducted into the Hall this Novemon,” she said.“I recognized the face. Gordie Howe.” Howe is
Gordie Howe
ber with the 2000-01 University
a charter inductee into the Saskaof Saskatchewan Huskies women’s
toon Sports Hall in 1986 . . . Defenceman Chris Chelios, who
track and field team. Junkin competed
played 26 years in the NHL, is being inducted into the Hockey
in pentathlon and hurdles at the
Hall of Fame in Toronto in November. Chelios was a member
Canadian University Sport championof the Moose Jaw Canucks in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey
ship won by the Huskies.This sumLeague for two seasons, competing against the Saskatoon J’s at
mer, Junkin and Dean Bertoia, who
the Arena. Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame inductees who Chelios
is also in the Hall, were coaches
Sarah Junkin
played against in the SJHL include defencemen Peter Anholt,
Gerry
Heskett
is
in
the
Saskatoon
on
Saskatchewan’
s
athletics
team
Robin Bartel, Brent Hamilton and Arley Olson, forwards
Sports Hall of Fame with the Liners senior
for the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke. Que. SaskatchBruce Keller, Tim Leier and Randy Wiebe, and goalies
baseball team. This year Heskett bought
ewan won eight gold, 18 silver and 25 bronze in 17 sports in
Bob Dougall and Owen Felske . . .Also selected to the
personalized licence plate 29-14. That is the
the Games . . . Hall inductee Jim Baba was Saskatchewan’s
Hockey Hall of Fame this year is Philadelphia Flyers coach
score
from
the
1966
Grey
Cup
when
the
head
coach in baseball at the 1989 Canada Games in SaskaFred Shero.Among Shero’s players on the Flyers who won
Saskatchewan
Roughriders
won
their
first
toon when the team won silver. Baba is now director general
the Stanley Cup in 1974 and ’75 is former Saskatoon Blade and
CFL title.
of Baseball Canada in Ottawa.Among the national team’s
Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame inducteeOrest Kindrachuk.
Heskett gave the plate to his daughter
accomplishments with Baba as director is a gold medal at the
Adrienne.
2011 Pan-Am Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. Andrew Albers
“I
checked
to
try
to
purchase
the
other
of North Battleford was the winning pitcher in that Pan-Am
Lee Reimer is in the Saskatoon
two scores in the Riders’ winning Grey
final. In August of this year,Albers pitched his first Major League
Sports Hall with the 1985 Hilltops.
Cups, but they were gone,” Heskett said.
Baseball game, tossing a four-hitter for the Minnesota Twins in a
She was a trainer on the football
win against the Kansas City Royals.Albers is the first Saskatchteam.This year Reimer received
ewan player in the big leagues since outfielder Terry Puhl of Melville of the Houston
a Merit Award from the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic
Astros and Kansas City Royals from 1977-91.
Association (SHSAA), its highest honour. Reimer has coached
track and field, basketball, volleyball, badminton and football at
Aden Bowman, Evan Hardy, Mount Royal and Walter MurHall inductee Peter Anholt is general manager at the
ray Collegiates. Brian Thorstad, who is also in the Hall
Waskesiu Golf Course.The course is uprooting its signature
with the ’85 Hilltops when he played receiver and is now
white spruce lobstick tree on the first hole and replacing
a teacher at Tommy Douglas Collegiate, is the SHSAA’s
Lee Reimer
it with a new tree. “When you think of Waskesiu, people
choice as outstanding male coach of the year. for 2012-13.
often think of the lobstick or the lobstick tournaments,”
Hall inductee Mike Harrington was given a coaching merit award from the Saskatoon
Secondary Schools Athletic Directorate this year, while 2012 inductee Dale Yellowlees Anholt told Jeremy Warren of The Saskatoon StarPhoereceived a service award for his years as an announcer at high school track and field meets nix.“It’s not just a golf course icon. It’s a community icon.” . . .
. . . Greg Yuel, who is in the Hall with the 1991 Hilltops, is chair of the fundraising campaign Hall inductee Mark Tennant was on the technical committo upgrade Gordie Howe Park. One of the goals of the Friends of the Bowl Foundatee for volleyball at the Universiade this summer for the 16th time. The Universiade is
tion is to install artificial turf in Gordie Howe Bowl. Besides the football field, Gordie an international competition for student-athletes. The event this year was in Kazan,
Howe Park has five baseball diamonds, eight softball diamonds, a speed skating oval
Russia, with competition in 27 sports. Tennant first attended the Universiade in 1983.
and a hockey rink. Hall inductees Kelly Bowers and Doug Humbert are leading a
Also on volleyball’s technical committee this year was Hall inductee Melanie Sanford
committee from the Saskatoon High School Football League that is working with the
. . . Hall inductee Jeff Yausie is head coach of the Canadian team that finished second
Bowl Foundation to upgrade the football facility.
to the U.S. at the International Federation of American
Football women’s world championship this summer in
Vantaa, Finland.Ten players on Canada’s team are from
The Saskatoon Blades have been sold. Nate Brodsky became part owner of the
the Saskatoon Valkyries, also coached by Yausie.The
junior hockey club in 1976 and a full owner in 1980.The Brodsky family has been
Valkyries won their third consecutive title in the
with the team 37 years. The Blades were bought this summer by
Western Women’s Canadian Football League
Mike Priestner of Edmonton for a reported $9 million. Dave Struch
this season.The Valkyries were 3-1 in the
is the Blades’ new head coach after seven years as an assistant.
Gerry
Pinder
regular season, then defeated Regina Riot in
Lorne Molleken continues as GM . . . Blades have retired Gerry Pinder’s
the Prairie Conference final and Lethbridge
No. 7. Pinder, who is inducted as an athlete into the Saskatoon Hall, played
Steel in the league championship . . .Yausie
two seasons at left wing with the Blades from 1965-67. He won the league
Jeff Yausie
is linebackers coach with the Saskatoon
scoring title in 1966-67 with 140 points and 78 goals and was the first
MVP in the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League in Western Canada.
Hilltops.They are going for a fourth straight Canadian title in junior
Pinder played three seasons in the NHL with the Chicago Blackhawks and
men’s football.
Passings
Bob Beavis, 1934-2013, age 78
Bob’s son Cole is in the Saskatoon
Sports Hall of Fame with the 1996
Hilltops. Cole was a trainer with the
team. Cole is the team doctor with
the Saskatoon Blades.
Bob Beavis was a provincial trapshooting champion in Saskatchewan.
Bob was a member of the Saskatoon
Gun Club and Riverside Golf Club.
Jack Gotta, 1929-2013, age 83
Jack Gotta was a player, assistant
coach, head coach and general manager in the CFL. Ottawa Roughriders won the Grey Cup in 1973 with
Gotta as head coach.
Gotta played defensive back and
receiver for the Saskatchewan
Roughriders from 1960-64. He was
Saskatchewan’s head coach in 198586.
Freda Reeve, age 73
Jack Gotta
Reeve’s husband Glenn is in the
Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in softball. Son Jamie was a goalie in the WHL with Regina
Pats and McGill University Redmen, an assistant
coach and head coach of Saskatoon Blades and a
coach in Japan with Nippon Paper Cranes.
Sheldon Sperling 1969-2013, age 44
Sheldon played for the University
of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s volleyball team that won the Canadian
championship in 1987-88.
The Huskies were 14-1 in the regular season, defeated the University
of Calgary 2-0 in the Canada West
final, then went 3-0 at the national
championship in Guelph, Ont.The
Huskies defeated the University of
Manitoba for the title.
Sheldon grew up on a farm
and went to school in Young.
Sheldon Sperling
He was with the Huskies
in 1987-88, ’88-89 and ’91-92,
graduating with degrees in Phys Ed and Education
from the U of S.
Thank you sponsors
l Al Anderson’s Source for Sports
l Brian Mallard & Associates
l Cherry Insurance
l Great West Brewery Co. Ltd.
l Hunters Bowling
l Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon
l Realty Executives Saskatoon
l Saskatchewan Blue Cross
l Travelodge Hotel
Junkin’s summer adventure
High marks for Reimer
Waskesiu turns over new leaf
Blades change direction
Join the celebration
Bob Adams competed in decathlon in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. He coached Canada’s track and field team at the 1964
Olympics in Tokyo. He was a pole vault official at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. This fall, Adams is in Saskatoon for a special event.
The 30th anniversary of the Bob Adams Foundation is Friday, Oct. 18 in the University Club at the University of Saskatchewan.
THE
Athlete Diane Jones Konihowski and official Dennis Beerling are part of the short evening program.
BOB ADAMS
FOUNDATION The foundation supports Saskatchewan athletes, coaches and officials in athletics, including scholarships for student-athletes.
ARETE
To attend the event or donate to the foundation, contact Judy Peddle by Oct. 1 at 306 374-7647, email [email protected]
Saskatchewan Athletics and the Bob Adams Foundation hold their annual awards night Oct. 19 at TCU Place.
For a ticket to the awards banquet, contact Janine Platana at 306 664-6744.
Bob Beavis
Hall directors
l President Jerry Shoemaker
l Past president Ed Bryant
l VP Keith McLean
l Ken Gunn, treasurer
l Don Cousins
l Allan Few
l Mary Green
l Ian Mirtle
l Noreen Murphy
l John Neufeld
l Bob Reindl
l Ron Walsh
l Ron Woodley
Members at large
Gerry Heskett
Walter Mudge
Mark Tennant
Bob Florence
Good shot
Design a hole on a golf course.
What does it look like?
From Blaine Knoll: “Par 4. Dogleg left because playing a draw
is more challenging than a fade. A bunker is in front of the
green.”
— Blaine Knoll is a Hall inductee
with the Merchants softball team
and as a sports builder
2013 inductees
Induction banquet Saturday evening, Nov. 2, TCU Place
Athlete
l Tracy Duncan, rowing
l Frank Kurenda, trap shooting
l Dave Ostertag, athletics
l Donna Veale, basketball, softball
Builder
l Al Bodnarchuk, sports therapist
l Dean Dickson, football
l Loren Prentice, racquetball
l Sharon Tkachuk, athletics
Team
l Steve Laycock rink
l University of Saskatchewan Huskies
women's track and field, 1999-2000, 2000-2001
Sports organization of the year
l KidSport
Future consideration
Rower Tracy Duncan and racquetball coach
Loren Prentice are inducted into the
Saskatoon Sports Hall this year, becoming
the first representatives of their sport in the Hall.
Sports not yet represented
in the Saskatoon Sports Hall include
Archery
Auto racing
Bobsleigh,
luge, skeleton
Cycling
Freestyle skiing
Lacrosse
Rugby
Sprint canoeing
Table tennis
Triathlon
Water polo
Water skiing
Weightlifting
Yachting
To nominate an athlete, builder or team,
nomination forms are on the website
saskatoonsportshalloffame.com