By Mickey Place We'll start with 'i‘. the nest successful...
‘ cur.Volleyba11 team ' started off the season
style by tak- I.
ing a pair fran last year's divisional
winners from'St.F.X. In.
the first contest on Friday night,the‘ team the first game 11-15 but rallied to win three straight. 15-3,15-10,and15—5.Qj1 ’ Saturday X nearly wal- loped us in three ‘ straight as they took ' the first two by 15-11 scores and the. third game went into extra pts. before we to‘ pull it out 16~l4. (Whew, ,that was/ close) was no stopping the Pantherettes as they won by 15—5 and 15—4 scores. This gives us . .a 2—0 record and puts us in a tie for first place with MIN and Acadia. No hone action is scheduled until ‘ 5 Febuary and they play, in Acadia, ‘on 4. and 5 of December. The Iady'Basketball Panthers flew off to . _ St. John's where they split a pair with Menorial. The high . scoring Beothuk Sis— ' ters(?) Cwent on a ~ scoring ranpage in the Saturday game and led by 20 points , at one stage of the game. Our heroines managed ’ to" struggle back but were un- able'tocatdn up and W out 68-57 with Colleen fissiter . leading _'the way Jforf ' -‘ us with :a and 20 ‘ day's game was a different story as \ we jumped to a quick lead and led 33-26 at the half. The Menorial girls rallied ‘ fastinfthe final .-' 7’ session cone close , but Cathy Chandler‘s - two baskets during f the final critical . Imments {saved up the game for uses we Won 64—55. This por— ‘ tion of the schedual 7 is hard for us as the girls: travel again a. this weekend to the
60' Panthers GO 1!
mainland where they- will play St. F.X.
'- on Friday and Dal on
Saturday. '1hey—'ll closeoutthe senes— ter at hone on ’4 arxls Decenber when they
‘ play hostess to
mnctm-and S.M.U. 7' The Basketball _: » Panthers (male edition)
.hadarelaxing
weekend as they cut-- classed the visiting
‘. U of’Maine team
frcmPresque Isle in ‘ two games ‘that gave the Panther bench great opportunities for action. Our team
,was so nuch better »
than theirs as our potatoes outclass their Aroostook Valley ones! In I Saturday's gane we led 43-36 at the half and coasted to
' a 93-74 win as Chris
Sunner's 16 goints was high for us. On Sunday it was‘ 62—39 at the half and 120—6? at r; game's cpd.._ Bruce Can'pbell led the UPEI
, squad'with 21.. We were
particularly intri- gued with the. actions of "lizorne as he jmnped md'waved his arms to frustrate the Maine'players when they were trying to get the ball into play from the side- lines! The fun is over for our boys. after their success-
‘ - ion of emibition
games and they'll , start the earnest ‘ action on Friday night inAntigonish as they Open the leaguewith a gene
. against X(WhO have
already beaten them on a neUtral court) and then trave on, to Halifax for a‘ gane ‘ with Dalhousie.‘
' team, after ,
winning '5__ ina row nade it 6 in their first game against
a tough U.N.B. Red Devil team but had a bad first period in the second game and dropped back from the
league lead to v "a tie with the pesky
Momt Allison In the first game we played very well. . . scoring goals in- each of the first two periodsand Won 6—3, Perhaps we ran
“out of gas after two orperhaps, as we
thought at the time,
we were. just taking it easy as the Red Devil in the third period tested Avaljno Gomez in'the Panther nets with no less then 13 lmswcessful shots while we got nary a one on their net. V Single goals cane from
' John Butler (a real
- "Picture" goal) harry
McKenna, Gary Trainer. Doug mrrie while- Norman Beck con- tributed two to the cause. In Saturday‘s game the first period was a Panther disaster as U.N.B. put four pucks behind Avilino Gonez with a reply from the Panthers.
This we did not believ- . e was possible. .. but
it happened! The second period was eveu,as J Terry McKerma blasted in one of his patent- ed slap shots to make
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JOCK TALK _ it 1-5 and we owned "1 the third as Dougie Currie got one and dependable Trevor Crawford flipped in
a pair but our rally .fell one short as we lost 5-4. Nextaction
will be on Saturday night at 7:00 when _ the two teams sharing first place will be in a head-on collis— ion. We expect there will be a big.'mnt- igent of Mount A. fans cross Northunber land Strait to witness
the battle for the
‘ league lead. We trust
there'll be enough Panther Rooters there to drown out their noise. Go Panthers 60!! With the National Finals in the Marit-
' jmes this year winning
the division seems more mportant than ever.
SPEAKING OUT .
Dear Editor of "Sunshine" ' Writing in regard , to ny' letter of Nov. 10,
- 1981,.in "Speak out In Sports" on Balance or Dishonest.
In, the universities ‘
. in the Atlantic region
_ regarding basketball. Many people have said there is a lot of Facts and Truth to what you say. Why change the system. My reason is — .we are not ba'ck in the sixties or seventies when'money was flowing around to help give education to students. Students who excell in sports alway have received sone help from the university. Because universities can get a lot of publicity. It is
'nicetohaVeagood
basketball team not at r
. this price, by winning at all costs. 'lhere is no end to this kind of
- thinking in Atlantic university Athletic Departments heads to ne as a tax payer. .
It is very dishonest to the universities in the Atlantic region in. basketball particularly over the last 25 years in P.E.I. Whatvljam ‘ trying to express the shortest way take football today 5 universities ' play the game teddy; ' Because of the costs and because we needed imports "to win at all costs - other sports will go the
same way. Our schools and high schools in the
- Atlantic region have been inproving for years in basketball, why not try and help our younger students in the future in the Atlantic region to develop and to look forward to playing.
Take hockey and soccer at UPEI. I congratulate the coaches because
we have many Islanders playing on both teans. ,, 70%“ or mare, of the boys that play hockey and soccer in school and
- highschools have some— thing to look forward to and the publicity that they will give UPEI. Basketball can still get the sane publicity and oonpetitio'n and will be just as keen with ‘ our own Atlantic Players and tuition on other benefits that is rightly 4 theirs will go to them.
I would ask that the Student Body at UPEI further this cause to have the university set up a conmittee on this . subject of basketball.
'Andwhy I am calling' the University dishonest, and why I am saying . you will be paying more for yoUr tuition,
' beCause Of Some peoples '- ambition at your expense. Win atallacosts. ,
'I‘harking you for your tine,
Maynard Macmillan