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Two of the approximately 30 people who participated in the Polar Bear Dip at Ness Lake Bible Camp earlier this year hit the water. The dip was postponed from New Year’s Day after a fire destroyed the gym at the camp.
■ NESS LAKE BIBLE CAMP
Getting ready for the Polar Bear Dip Pledge forms now available for annual New Year’s Day event It’s been less than a year since the last Polar Bear Dip at Ness Lake Bible Camp, but plans are already well underway to welcome 2013 in with the traditional splash. The event, which is a fundraiser for the camper sponsorship fund, normally runs on New Year’s Day. This year, however, the Polar Bear Dip
had to be postponed after a New Year’s Eve fire destroyed the gymnasium at the camp. The new gym was opened in July, and visitors to the Polar Bear Dip will be able to see how much has been accomplished in the past 12 months. The 2013 Polar Bear Dip sees brave souls, many in costume (there are prizes for best cos-
tume, you know), leap into the usually frigid waters of Ness Lake. Trained rescue personnel are close at hand in case of problems, but usually end up helping the dipper scramble out of the water as quickly as possible. The entry fee is $20, but anyone raising more than $20 in pledges will have the fee
waived. Pre-registration is encouraged, with a free Polar Bear Dip T-shirt for the first 50 participants. More information and pledge forms are available online at www.nlbc.bc.ca. On Jan. 1, check-in will be held at the Welcome Centre at 2 p.m. There will then be a short meeting in the gym at 2:30 to judge costumes,
before the participants make their way down to the lake and hit the water. Spectators are more than welcome to come out, and there is hot chocolate and cinnamon buns provided. Last year’s event raised about $3,000, which is used to help families that would not otherwise be able to afford to send a child to the camp.
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Norm Goetken didn’t like the numbers he saw in July. “There were only four players signed up,” says the coach of the Spectrum Resource
Group Peewee Female Cougars rep hockey team. “I got busy recruiting.” He found a few more players locally, then remembered a spring team he had coached last year. “I was looking for a
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Coach Norm Goetken explains a drill to members of the Spectrum Resource Group female peewee hockey team during a practice in Kin 3. goalie, and there was a good one in Fort St. James. Her dad said, ‘Are you needing other players?’ and I just said, ‘Yeah’.” He ended up with four players from Fort St. James, one from McBride and two from Williams Lake. “The two from Williams Lake played for
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us last year as well,” Goetken says. “The girls from the Fort are really good at getting down here for our practice each week, but it’s just too far for them to come from McBride or Williams Lake.” This is Goetken’s second year with the team, but he’s coached a lot of baseball and hockey before. “This is my first time with girls, and I find they’re a lot easier to coach. They listen better, they’re eager to learn, and they’re like sponges when it comes to taking things in.” That makes not having his full team available for practices a bit frustrating. “The girls are getting a lot of ice time in where they are, but we’re starting to work on things like breakout plays, where they need to be here to work with
the rest of us. Sophie Davis is 12 and the team’s captain. She’s one of the Fort St. James players. “This is my second year with the team,” she says. “I’ve been playing hockey for about eight years. Until the last couple of years, I played with the boys. I just wanted to try a girls team to see what it was like.” A defenceman, Sophie says, “I like stopping people.” Unfortunately, at the peewee level, body-checking is not allowed and the disappointment is clear in Sophie’s voice when she talks about that. One of the other defencemen, Malena Pillipow, 11, also likes “stopping people”, but appreciates the lack of body-checking means you have to use other skills. “You have to know
how to skate backwards so you can keep up with them.” On the Nov. 17 and 18, the team was in Burnaby to take part in the annual Hayley Wickenheiser Hockey Festival. Prince George got off to a good start, with a 5-2 win over the North Shore Avalanche. The Cougars were up 2-1 going into the third and scored three times to put the game away. Cailen Saharchuk and Sophie Davis had a goal and an assist each to lead the attack. Their second game saw the Cougars fall behind 3-0 after the first period to the Vancouver Angels. Davis got one of the goals back in the second and Jordan McMillian scored early in the third to make it 3-2 , but that was as close as they got. The third game of the
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round-robin saw the Cougars play Meadow Ridge. Megan Goetken scored 14 seconds into the game to give Prince George a 1-0 lead, but Maple Ridge captain Mykhaela Johnson scored three straight to give them a 3-1 lead. Paityn Weil scored with about four minutes left to pull the Cougars within one, but that was all. After finishing third in the round-robin, the Cougars played Meadow Ridge again in the semifinals. Saharchuk scored in the first period to give the Cougars the lead, and Davis and Malena Phillipow scored in the second to make it 3-0. Meadow Ridge scored early in the third to make it 3-1 going into the last minute. With the goalie out, Meadow Ridge scored to make it 3-2, on a play where the Prince George net appeared to be off its moorings. The Cougars iced the puck with 20 seconds left, setting up a faceoff in their end. After 19 seconds of frantic action, Meadow Ridge scored with one second left to tie the game and send it to a shootout. The Cougars got the first goal in the shootout, but ended up losing 2-1 to lose the game 4-3. Wickenheiser came down to talk with the team after the game to raise their spirits. The girls had earlier had a chance to meet her and NHL Hall of Famer Bobby Clarke. Some of the players also attended a practice with Wickenheiser.
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In his second season with the Cariboo Cougars, Nathan Warren is rising to the occasion as the team’s starting goalie. He’s recorded shutouts in his last four BC Hockey Major Midget League games.
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He’s carrying a shutout streak of 241:46. When will it end for Cariboo Cougars starting goalie Nathan Warren? That’s anybody’s guess. But for now, the 17-year-old Prince George product is enjoying the ride. He was aiming for his fifth goose egg in a row on Dec. 1 at CN Centre when he starts for the Cougars against the Greater Vancouver Canadians. “I’ve been getting a lot of attention from it,” says the 6-foot-3, 175-pound Warren. “The boys have been bugging me in the room, especially when they score on me in practice. They get me going, it’s kind of funny.” But this run is no joke. The streak is a team and league record, something unheard of in the BC Hockey Major Midget League’s nine-year history. Warren hasn’t allowed a goal since the Okanagan Rockets scored on him with 1:46 left in the third period of their game in Kelowna on Nov. 3. The Rockets won that game 5-1, but the Cougars bounced back the next day with an 8-0 drubbing to split the road doubleheader. Warren was in net on Nov. 4, and another three games since: a 6-0 victory over the Thompson Blazers in McBride on Nov. 10, and 7-0 triumphs over the South Island Royals on Saturday and Sunday in Victoria. In those four games,
the Cougars outscored the opposition 28-0. No streak this lengthy is without close calls. Warren recalls a moment on Saturday in Victoria. “A shot got tipped from the point off the crossbar and out so I heard that ping,” he says. “I was looking at it and it was in the corner, so that was a good feeling.” The November shut-
outs have put Warren under the spotlight. But, as a second-year player, he’s no stranger to the Major Midget League. Cariboo head coach Trevor Sprague has noticed a change in Warren’s maturity since he joined the team for the 2011-12 season. “It shows in his practice. People should come out and watch
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Colby, Joel and Hayden Molcak are more than just brothers. Their horseplay has extended beyond the household. Grade 10 students at D.P. Todd Secondary, they suit up for the same Trojans teams in volleyball and basketball. As competitive athletes and teammates, the Molcak siblings challenge each other. Nothing uncommon for brothers, right? What makes these 15-year-olds unlike most sibling teammates is this: they share the same birth date. They didn’t come from the same egg, but they’re triplets nonetheless. Take a quick look at the Molcak brothers, and you’ll discover right away they aren’t identical. One obvious difference comes in height. Hayden was the last of the threesome born, yet he’s turned into the tallest. He stands 6-foot-4, about four inches higher than Colby, the shortest of the triplets. Colby is also the oldest, born one minute before Joel and three before Hayden. The brothers were born in Calgary, but moved to B.C. shortly after birth and lived their first few years in Kimberley. After about four years split between Prince George and Mackenzie, they returned to B.C.’s Northern Capital. At home, the Molcaks were raised by father Chris and
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