UPEIIPSun October 21, 1982
fl 25 Trevor Crawford and
Rick Cameron scored for us. Although admittedly Shorthanded we felt that these games showed we have a team that will be bery competitive in this, the best inter— collegiate hockey league in Canada. We played withour our regular goalie Avalino Ganez, (although standin Dave Reid [
armor? .aasK
The team travels to
St. John's where they will play Manorial in their last game of the
could not be blamed for the loss) and the rookie we are most anxious to see in action, Rob Mazzuka. Avalino had flu but is expected back this weekend, Mazzul'a wrenched a shoulder in practise and is not expected to play until the league opening in Fredricton
on 30 October. No small
up against Manorial (who are also struggling
By MICKEY PLACE
, for a playoff berth) a sweep would catapult . us into first place. Year' It Will be the
It is again Tuesday night and we are trying to listen to the World Series' game as we peck this out. We are quite aware and somewhat app—
final game for defensive stalwars Marlene
Costain and Jane Hogan - - who will graduate in
the spring. If the
Less than that could 'see us in a playoff— ‘earning second place or, and we hesitate to write it, the role of playoff
rehensive as we know
we will have to face the glowering Sun Editor as we are already over her 9:00pm deadline!
Our prediction of the
spectators at the games at Saint Mary's in the following weekend. Memorial will be no pushover for, we note,
crowded Forum on Saturday and Sunday is any indication it would seem that intercollegiate hockey is finally getting the recognition and
part of our personal injoyment can be attrib- uted to Scott Scantlbury of CHTN who sat next to us and practised calling
last weekend they trimed St.FX 3-1 and Acadia 4-0. Being optimistic we are
the game sans a microohone. We would like to comment
that, although the Forum was well filled for
Cards in six has cert- ainly gone awry but '—-that does not surprise
support we have long felt it merits. It is pleasing to note that they
us too much. Had we been around at the time we are quite sure we'd have Pm}, “PRSY .91} Goliath, David a patsy. Over the weekend our Soccer Panthers took a big, but not decisive step toward a playoff berth as they engaged in
a l - l deadlock with Mount A. Quite surprisingly we scored both goals! A play that has worked well for us all year back- fired disastrously." Using it our players boot the ball back
to netminder Jean Francois Painchaud who then gets a free kick and puts the ball into a safer zone. Early
in Sunday's game we seen to have mixed our signals and the ball, booted with vigour by
a Panther sailed, nay flew, past our startled and unprepared goalie. Such things can happen in the best of families! Quite fortunately Scott Neil evened things up for us early in the second half and, although we had the
making reservations
for a Halifax trip on the 30 and 3lst and we hope many Panther fans will do likewise. We would certainly like
to make first place as " our first game would be with the second place as our fist game would be with the second place team in the N.S. divisior, and we'd have a chance to get used to the astroth surface that certainly favours the haneteam SVIU. The
games here will -be at 2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. Be there.
Our Field Hockey team lost their chance for a playoff spot on Saturday as they dropped one to the Saint Mary's Belles 5-1 with high scoring Libby Baldwin getting our only marker. How- ever our women (I always start to write that forbidden word -"Girls") finished off their home season on a high note as they notched their third win of the season in beating Mount A 3-1 . as Elaine Foote scored twice and Della Gaudet
saw two well played and spirited ones which, although only exhibtion ntests, were played as though the League Championship- were the prize! Against big and fast Saint Mary's, Norman Beck started where he left off last year, scoring twice early in the first period with newcfxrers Jeff Lantz and Ted Kozab earning assists. SMU make it 2—1 in the second but, as the period ended Terry » McKenna bocmed in one of his snapshots to make it 3-1. As our four-man defense tired in the final period SMU tied it up and the game ended 3-3. The meaning- less S.O.G. statistics had us outshooting them 27-22. In Sunday's game against Les Aigles Bleu from the U. de Moncton, last year's national champions the story, but not the result, was much the same. It was 3~2 for us at the end of the first, 4—4 at the end of the second
but. sad to_relate. 8—4 for the Visitors at
both games, our team, playing well and Shorthanded, received very little vocal support in this their own rink. Anyone who has visited Monoton, for instance, when the Blue Eagles
are playing, would be strick by the contrast. When the Panthers play
in Halifax the "Islanders in exile" make much more noise than the seemingly apathetic fans do here. Those were not wakes on- Saturday and Sunday, they were damn good hockey games and we feel, would be '2 even more exciting if there were a little more noise! This weekend the team plays UNB in Alberton
on Friday, St.FX in Sumnerside on Saturday and will host "X" in the Forum on Sunday afternoon at 2:00. St.FX will be tough,after we tied St. Mary's 3—3, St.FX beat than 5-1. It appears there are no soft spots in'the league this year! Sunday will be a hare
day to make a choice. Will we see the Soccer Panthers (rated Canada's #9) making a bid for
first place or a playoff _spot or the "X" game at ' the Forum? May they
game's end as they scored four in the last ten minutes when our over—
better of the territorial once. This must be paly throughout, we had - ,enoouraging for hard
to Settle for a tie' working Coach Barbara - - . both Win. . .now if We are now in a very Mull 1y who is Slowly worked defense crumpled
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