by Matthew Beardsley

The UPEI Mens and Ladies Panther Basketball teams continued their win- ning ways over the week- end. The Lady Panthers re- mained unbeaten with a 60- 43 win Saturday night. It was its ninth straight win for the Panthers who lead UNB and Dalhousie who both have suffered two losses in league play this season.

Stephanie Smith scored 14 points to lead the way while Tracey Bowie and Tracy MacEach- ern each scored 12 to help the cause. Pauline London scored 17 points for UNB while Sue MacMaster also scored 7. The Panthers led 30-18 at the half.

UPEI assistant coach Karen Row-. ell said she and coach Dave MacNeil were pleased with the team’s effort on Satur- day, expecially that of the defence. “Allowing only 43

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points against a team like UNB says something about our defence,” said Rowell.

“MacEachern shut down MacMaster for us. Tracy has been coming up big for us over the past couple of weeks in shutting down our oppo- nent’s big players.”

Rowell said that Smith also played a strong game Saturday. “She’s getting stronger each game out.”

The Lady Panters have a busy weekent ahead of them with three games. Friday they travel to Wolfville, NS to play the Axettes and then they are off to Newfoundland for two games against Memo- rial on Saturday and Sunday.

The UPEI Mens Basket- ball team enjoyed a great deal of success on their trip to New Brunswick. They won both games from the UNB Red Raiders in the pro-

cess pushing their record to

9-2 in league play and 21-4 overall.

In the Saturday night game, Alonzo Wright got 19 of his game high 26 points to help the Panthers take a seven point 39-32 half- time lead. The half was lost throughout as its Red Raiders eliminated an early UPEI seven point lead to go ahead 18-17 midway into the first half. The lead changed hands until a Panther spirit with three minutes to go en- ables them to pick up their halftime margin.

The second half was all UPEI, as they gradually built up a 12 point lead, and with six minutes to go started to put the game out of reach by building up a lead that reached 23, as the game ended 88-65.

In addition to Wright, the Panthers saw Peter Gor- don score 21 points and grab 7 rebounds. Mark Roberts had 15 with 10 rebounds

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