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rihappy‘with 85.5 per cent
By Mickey Place - v f, at any previous time, somebody had told us we’d be unhappy after a week in which Panther success was 6 out (a percentage 85.5) we’s have termed them crazy.
e soccer team.the pride of U.P.E.I., left for Montreal on day, hoping to get in a couple of practise sessions on the ». ccustomed artificial playing surface. However the weather , vented any such practice on the strange astroturf of the ‘ Gill field. .
n miserable weather (for both teams of course) the thers were in a scoreless deadlock until well into the second f when a free kick was awarded McGill after the ball took
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odd bounce and hit a Panther’s hand. The kick went wide ’
our defenders, took another peculiar bounce past a sur-
, sed Jean Louis Painchaud and that was the only score of - game.
i t was possibly the final game in the green and white 'forms for Frank Stromier' , Gary Polenz, Peter cDonald, Andy Cameron and Allan Stewart, although y are still eligible for intercollegiate play. Without Andy C. I 0 had so much to do with attracting outstanding players U.P.E.I.) next year’s team will be the first without a mber of his family First it was Ian, then Donald, then
a and Andy (twins). Another member is a year or two away.
i t is amazing to consider that the final game here drew a
ge crowd, sometimes estimated at 2000 while the eastern
al in Montreal was played before approximately 300, about
. t of whom were Panther fans who travelled up for the game
Islanders abroad who were on hand to cheer their team.
e are sorry they lost but we are proud of their 1983 season
. an 11 - 12 record is really an outstanding, one. The ther Basketball teams also travelled abroad and believe it not, won all four games played in a Mount Allison
ament. The Women’s basketball team won both games
1 “ch they played. .
A gainst the U. of Maine at Machias Tejene Allevne of the thers made both ends of a l on 1 foul shots with only a 0nd left to send the first game into overtime. At the end of first overtime it was still deadlocked and Aion Pettigrew
de two points in the f‘mal seconds of thesecond overtime to
e us a 89-87 victory. r
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n the second game, against the U. of Maine at Fort Kent , : out the game.
took an early lead and coasted to a 73-59 win.
In the first game Mike Morgan was high with 21 and he was _
~ tops in the second with 19. The University of Southern
2 ' u e is scheduled to host the Panthers on Friday. First league
me game will be against S.M.U. on 19 Nov.
women Panthers are at home toSt. F.X. on 11 Nov. ‘
e hockey Panthers started off their home season in
ercollegiate play in fine style by trimming Saint Mary's,
' and 5-4. Saturday’s game was a peculiar one.
‘= th clubs wielded their sticks like war clubs and Panther
nnie Clow’s face was cut. It was the only apparent injury. as felt to be unfair that Donnie got a double minor for ing a S.M.U. stick with his face. There was no S.M.U.
alty. Our goals came'from John Panasuk, Gordie Roche, ve Fulton and Darwin MacCuthcheon.
- though we won 4-0, we were outshot 34-16.
t was a different contest Sunday. S.MU. finally beat alino early in the opening session and they led 2-1 at the . It was 4-3 at the end of the second but we scored the y two markers of the final period for our second win. Our
came from Donnie Clow, Bob MacDonald and Albert
he While Ron Carragher banged in a pair. We outshot m 38.32. The two wins made a lot of Panther fans, 'cularly former players very happy. We do not believe I. in U.P.E.I. history we have managed two wins over .U. in as many days.
a matter of cruel fact there have been Panther players
. have been with the er managed a single win. ,. _ e team travels to Acadia for a Friday game and won’t t home until the next weekend when we’ll have St. F.X. the U. de Moncton here. e like'the new feeling the Soccer team game us with a AA championship. Let’s hope for another.
team for four years and
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1983 '
Panthers lose, heartbreaker to McGill
By Phil Stanyer he UPEI Panthers soccer team cannot be described as losers.
After Sunday’s narrow 1-0 loss to the McGill Redmen in Montreal, only the Panther’s first of the year, a shade of disappointment hovered over an unbeatean season.
For rookie head coach Gordie Wilson, it was a tre- mendous year that almost ended in a trip to this week- ends national final against Laurentian in Sudbury, Ontario. ‘
f‘We played well. We played them 50-50 all the way,” said Wilson.
“I said before the game that whoever got the break would win and they got the break, that’s it,” he added.
Wilson was referring to a hard shot from about 30 yards out that beat keeper Jean-Francois Panchaud in the 8lst minute.
The ball skipped twice on the wet, artificial surface, changed direction and slipped through his legs for the winning margin.
“It was a bad break against us. It could have happened either way,” said a dejected Panchaud.
“I saw the ball coming, somebody touched it, , it changed direction a few feet
. in front of me and the ball
was slippery so when it touched my legs it went in,” he added.
The Panthers clearly were not used to the artifical turf,
f and it was a distinct dis-
advantage for them through-
“The turf hurt, there’s no question about it,” said Wilson.
“The ball was skipping and scooting and with our control game it’s very hard to play on,” he added. 1
However, Wilson was also very positive about his team’s performance.
“The boys played super, they never gave up, they kept coming back and they stuck to their game plan all day long,” said Wilson.
Some observers felt the Panthers were outplayed in the first half and did not have a lot of opportunities to create good scoring chances.
“No! It looks that way,” said Wilson, denying the allegation.
“But then you look at
‘ every game, you look at the
game’s we’ve won and every— body says you played de- fence. But that’s where we
attack from, we attack from y
defence,” he said. . During the scoreless first
half, Scott Neil came very
close to scoring when he
stole the ball from a careless Redmen defender and almost put it past the keeper who
'was forced to make a diving
save well off his line.
Another good Panther threat came off the head of Richard Pierre-Gilles when he pushed Steve Polenz’s comer kick into the'keeper’s hands late in the game.
It should be noted that Panchaud played probably his best game as a Panther.
Twice the all-canadian keeper was injured in mid-air collisions but stayed in the game.
' In the second half he executed an incredible display
of bravery. With the Panther de- fenders caught up field,
Panchaud ran 50 yards out of
his net to knock the ball into.
touch and out of danger from the possession of a Redmen forward.
Time and time again, Panchaud was there to make the save.
Gordie ‘ Wilson had no regrets after Sunday’s loss,- only praise for his troops. “We played well. If we had /got the break we’d be cheering,” said Wilson.
Prince Edward Island can .
be proud of their Panthers; they gave the -maritimes a classy representative in Montreal and the team can only look to next year with optimism and a real sense of achievement.
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Could the Panther s hockey squad be the next in a series of UPEI champions? Photo: Blacquiere.
,— Om of the brave
(RNR/Cup) — Their record may not be all that impressive, but Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, is going on with its basketball program.
“Mellow MIU” as it’s known, has been playing basketball since 1975, along with offering courses like “the natural and invincible growth of order from the unmanifest source to the unbounded goal of life.” _
Perhaps there should be a course in levitation, too: the mellow ones took on William Penn last season and lost 115 to 18. Coach Steve Cooperman says, “Most of our games are legitimate basketball experiences. That one was a night of total
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