Early team BIGHORN pix
In photo above: Jim Zakall, Paul Johnson, Randy Conley, Mark Seidler, Doug Kapalka, Blair Chapman, Bryan Brimacombe, Dean Keller, Pat Murphy, Brent Feist, and Doug Bennest
List of local hockey players playing against the retired Montreal Canadian team:
#1 Dave Malmberg
#3 Larry MacFadden
#4 Shawn Christian
#9 Tommy Gabriel
#10 Jeff Ashe
#11 Mike Johnson
#12 Brian Brimacombe – went to Sweden with group of Bighorns
#15 Jim Stanley
#16 Mark Weinrich
#17 Mark Seidler
#19 Bernie Martine
#22 Dean Schaffrick
#29 Mitch Fritz
#30 Dave Wood
#35 Tom Fortune
#44 Bryan Coles
#55 Ryan Smallwood
#71 Norm Card
A bit of history:
Oliver Super Valu Bighorns Started around 1973-75 by Wally Brogan and Kerry Gibson with players –
John Kesselring
George Taylor
John Surovy
Sandy Pascuzzo – looking for correct spellin’
Jim Sabyan
Brent Feist
John Echlin
Terry Jartus
Team then sort of tailed off a bit when Gibson and Brogan got too busy with store. Ron Brimacombe (father) and Willy Feist (father) kept the interest up. I came back from Vancouver in 1977 and got us into the North Okanagan hockey league for 3 years. That League folded. 7 of us kept playing for the Vernon Cougars for 2 years.
Finn-Air approached me and * Blair Chapman from OK Falls about getting a group together and touring Sweden and Finland for 2 weeks.
Group of 25 left last week of November 1984. One of the adults – William Good Bennest. We played 7 games overseas.
History by Doug Bennest
Back to the game locally. All tickets sold out January 11th and Oliver Parks and Recreation Society marketing the game and the program.
Thanks to Paul Johnson for the picture names.