U.P.E.I. SUN FEB 3 ]983

Panther fans can look forward to the coming . weekend with great inter est as the two basketball teams face old rivals in our gym while the hockey Panthers travel to Hali- fax and Antigonish for two most crucial games.We might point out that radio station CIMN "The frien- dly voice of the U.P.E.I. campus ...700 on your dial" will be carrying both hockey games.We don't know if their potential listening audience can be

all games, they have been campetitive and we expect that Dave will do his ut-

most to beat out his for- mer charges. Sporting a

5-2 record the Panthers are in third place behind St. F.X. & St. Marys. Bec— ause of irregular schedul- ing the standings in the A.U.A.A. are this year determined by percentages.

Once again the national rank

ings seem screwy & we are really puzzled! St.F.X. leading the league with .777 are ranked third. St. Marys with .727 is in sec- ond place in the A.U.A.A.

extended to the far reaches but is not ranked. Dal. , 4th of the gym but it might in the A.U.A.A. with .625 is be worth a try at the inter— 7th! It would seem that if val games or halves we could win two this week-

of basketball. We prophecy that the noise & exitement of the actual game time would make listening impos— sible but it is worth a try and we would suggest to the powers-that—be in

end, we should make the eel ect list. That honour after lv5th of Feb. will entitle any player to mail a letter to any place in Canada for 32¢. In their only game in the past week, the Panthers

the radio station that they had an easy time rolling ov

advise the gym officials how the games are going at appropriate times.

In men's basketball, Coach Nutbrown takes his Axemen here for the first time since he abandonned us for the more verdant fields of the Arropolis Valley. We like and res— pect Dave & we think most on campus share our sent- iments towards him. These feelings of course seem to increase our desire to beat him! We wish him every suc— cess with his new team. . . . . except when they PLAY THE PANTHERS! We expect Guy Mac Isaac, a former Panther, will be on the Acadia team. Due to injury, he didn't play for us last year al- though he was a student here but, due to the trans— fer rules, former Panthers Chris Sumner and Skeeter Mower are not eligable un- til next year. The Axemen have had indifferent suc— ‘ cess so far this season , With a .397 record but in

er the winless Mounties in Sackville by a 106—86 score. Curtis Brown lead our team with 24 while

Tejan Alleyne chipped in 17.

After this weekend, we will face a rather difficult schedule with "away" games at St. F.X. and S.M.U. on the 12th and 13th; Dal. and Acadia on the 25th & 26th. In betwenn we'll have tha -

all important series against

UNB (the tean we must play off for the play—off spot) on the 18th and 19th. Mount A. will be here on the 22nd We'll repeat our advise to all Panther fans that they should reserve 4 & 5th of March for the A.U.A.A. play offs in Halifax. Curtis Brown has promised us that the Panthers will be there and he has never lied to us yet! The Lady Panthers

found the weekend going pret

ty tough as they dropped a pair on their mainland road trip. On Friday night Dal. played superbly as they overwhelmed our team 72-34.

Why do expatriote Islanders always shift their peak ag— ainst us? Sue Betts led our

scorers . On Saturday it

was closer but we lost to Acadia. It was close for the first half as Acadia led 41—40 but we weakened under the Axettes pressure in the closing moments &

‘ we lost 78-66. Sue Betts

led our team with 25 while Dora Enman had 14. With a 3-7 record the lady Pan- thers are not enjoying as successful year as was hoped but it should be remembered that their leading scorer Coleen Rossitar has been sidelined for the season by an injUry and that two vet- erans players decided at the last moment to go elsewhere. Were it not for these unfor— tunate incidents we think the team would be in contention

for top spot. Fortunatelv new players have responded

well to the challenge. We hope the players will be encouraged by the large crowd that we anticipate will be on hand when they play Acadia on Saturday at 6:00 and at 1:00 on Sundaywhen ‘ second place Dal. will pro- vide the opposition. Most fan will stay for the men's games which will follow. Unfortunately Coach Donna Sears Volleyball team does no enjoy a very high profile on campus athletics & we were pleased to read Bob Gray's complimentary column in a rec ent Guardian which gave great praise to the play of all- star Jeanna MacKinnon. We must confess that we are not very enthusiastic over this game( We can't follow every-

thing!) but we feel welshould

remarkthat we have a great admiration for teams or play— ers who with little or no cre

dit or attention still persist

in their efforts to bring

credit to the university. They are just as much a U.P.E.I. as

the more popular hockey and

basketball teams that get all the publicity. This week they droped three to the Memorial

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Beothuks, 15-5, 15—7, 15—8. Wait till next year!

_ In hockey, the situation is growing desperate but there are still some rays of hope. Last week just after we went to press we learned that we dropped a most important game to Mount A. The team we MUST beat out if we have a chance at the play-off spot by a

7—4 after falling behin' d 5—1 in the first period. We fought back to a 4—5 score early in the third' only to have the Mounties get 2 later on. All games left on the schedule can be classified as "must" ones. During the COM 9 week we have "Away" games against Dal. , St.F.X. and Moncton. Over the weekend we looked very good in two exhibition games against the Charlotte— town Islanders, Intermediate "A" Champions. We won the first game 8—5 on Saturday night as the young Panthers turned on the heat with 4 in the 3rd period. The second game we lost 4—3 but, nevertheless, won the city title 11-9. We might note that 8 of our 11 goals were scored while we had a manpower advantage which would indicate that our power play is in high gear.In the first game,

Dave Reid, who gets lit—

tle opportunity to show

his skill performed well

as he faced 31 shots. In

the second, Avelino Gomez was called upon for 34. We won a cup indicative of the city title & defenceman Jeff Iantz was chosen as our out— standing player. We feel we should apologize to Avelino because in our haste last week we referred to him as Alfredo. . .so very sorry Avelino... we don't think Alfredo would be worth a

damn in our nets while we

have a very high regard for your abilities!

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