I We s11ppose we should be halfway satisfied with a 4—4 split in games since we last laboured over these lines but it could have been so much better had fate been just a trifle kinder. In Women's volleyball, to which we concede we haven't paid sufficient attention, we dropped two close matches to unbeaten Acadia. both by 3—2 scores: The Panther defense clsoed in tightly around the taller and powerful hitters from Acadia with Cathy Sinclair, a freshman from Kensington , leading our players with her strong wavering serve and consistent defense. Joanne MacKinnon played her usual superb hitting and offensive games. Joanne suffered a 3 stitch injury to her lip and resembled a hockey player after the game. The losses bring the season's record to 3—7 and puts us out of ' contention for a playoff spot: However Coach Donna Sears and her players deserve - congratulations for the progress the team had made in its first year of competition. Next, “and final action, will be on 19 and 20 February when the Lady Panthers will hostess(?) the Mt. ‘KLlsicn squad. ‘

‘ The Lady Basketball Panthers played two terrific games as they split with mainland competition. night in Halifax they socred areal upset as they nosed out the Saint

. Mary's Belles 62—61.

We trailed by 3 with less that two minutes to go but field goals by Velvet Charters and Colleen Rossiter and ' foul shots by Cathy Chandler gave them the

On Friday

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lead they managed to retain. Next day in Wolfville we dropped a. close one to Acada (whom we had beaten on three occasions) 54-53 after we trailed by 12 with ten minutes to go. The girls play their last game this Saturday at

home game this

Saturday at 6:00 against Mt. Allison and have two away the following weekend against U. de ancton and UNB.Teams

in other .years may have had a better record but we feel our players should take pride in the fact that they have shown that they-belOng in this ‘league with its stronger competition. .

Our Halifax informant called us on‘ Friday night after the SW basketball game with the terse message "We wuz robbed" but we must concede his attitude is extremely prejudiced. He was most indignant over a latecall on Vinnie DePinto on a pass-out. Be that as it may. . we wonder why ANYBODY wants to be a basketball referee. . the final score was 94-91' as St. Mary's stormed from behind in the closing minute after we led 90—87 with aminute or so to go.

/

/ Chris Sumner was

fantastic with 39* points while Billy Redmond had 22. We ALB/DST beat

Canada "s number 1 team and the boys are confident that, if they meet again in the playoffs the decision will be reversed. Against Acadia we were somewhat listless after the emotion of the SM]. game but managed .a win 713-65 with Billy Redmond getting 24, ,and Curtis Brown 22. Next action will be here on Satuday against Mt. A. However ,‘ our attention must be

(

focused on the two games to be played in Frederic- ton the following weekend against UNB._ The top four teams make the play- offs, their position is decided cn a percentage basis. As we demonstrated on Friday night our _ team can play with any in the league, and being younger, can improve faster. . . anything can happen. AUAA playoffs are 12 and 13 March at the Metro Centre in Halifax with #4 playing #1, #3 plays #2. Next day the ‘ winners play at 3:00 p.m. WE EXPECT TO BE THERE. The CIAU's are in Victoria B.C. the following weekend.

In hockey a pair of big wins Beothuks from Memorial catapulted us into a first place tie with UNB and we have two games in hand. The first game on Saturday night was reasonably close as goals by Trevor Crawford, Gary Trainer, and Callie MacPhail gave us a 3—2 margin going into the third period but early

. goals by Norman Beck and

Steve Peters made it 5-2 and the Panthers appeared

\ to be content with things

as they were and did not

seem to press in the latter

stages. Sunday it was different.“ It may have been the example the Panthers were trying to set for the Minor Hockey League players, Who wer there by special ‘ invitation in the first period; for after yielding a "quickie" at

the ll seCOnd mark they

banged in 8 successive tallies. .. a feat the

equal of which we cannot recall in our many years of watching intercollegiate hockey. It was the kind of game we enjoy as

there were no suspenseful

moments as the Panthers

seemed to score at will

won 17-6.

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during the first two periods and led 16-2. They seemed to get - tired of digging the puck out of the net in the final stanza but still

All sorts of

records were broken. Norman Beck had 5 goals

and 9 assists while Doug

Currie (back frOm banish- ment) had a goal and 5 assists. ‘ Mt. A game on the 10th Acadia (ll-10) will be here on Saturday. SHOULD make the playoffs. _ The playoff schedule is odd. - The two top teams in each division, plus

twoWIIDCARDteams

After the

We

will play on 26-27—28 February at MOncton and The two winners

Halifax.

play on

5—6—7 March The National

Championships are in Monotonon ll—12-13-l4 March. Moncton is guaranteed a spot in these games even if they do not win the Atlantic section,

Should ancton win the

AUAA's the second place

finishers has a good chance of being in the

. CIAU's. You figure it out! McAdam Div. GP w -L T F A PTS UPEI‘ 21 14 6 1 106 72 29 UNB 23 14 8 1 119 103 29 MTA 20 12 8 0 114 97 24 MUN 21 4 17 0 77 158 8 STU 21 .0 20 1 64 160 1

WOMENS BASKETBALL Standings GP w L F A PTS DAL 11 10 1 927 557 20 UNB 11 9 2 806 640 18 SFX 11 8 3 669 618 16 SMU 12 6 6 769 772 12 UPEI ‘ 12 5 7 716 803 10 ACAD 10 4 6 526 591 8 MTA 11 2 9 635 774 4 MUN 12 1 11 596 889 2 'MENS BASKETBALL Standings GP w L F A AVG. SMU 11 11 0 1025 864 11.000 DAL‘ 13 9 4 1135 1027 .69: UPEl 1L 6 5 887 868 .545 UNB . 10 5 5 834 865 .500 SFX 12 6 6 996 937 .500 MTA 10 1 9 670’900 ».100 ACAD 11 1 10 '885 971 .090

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