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Norman .is third in' scoring‘ in the AUAA basketball con- ference, with an 18.1 points ~

The Linden, New Jersey native scored 44 points and pulled down 20‘ rebounds in UPEI’s sweep of the now sixth-ranked Acadia Univer-I

Paula Edwards

the Panthers in a come-from-'

behind decision over the Axemen Saturday.

Paula Edwards is UPEI’s Female Athlete of the Week. Edwards scored 41 points and collected 21 rebounds, in- cluding a‘32 point perfonn- ance in UPEl’s overtime loss to Dalhousie University Tigers Saturday in. Halifax.

Edwards, a freshman Arts student at UPEI, is sixth in scoring with a 14.2 pts. per game average.

The Rookie forward from Toronto,- Ontario is a valuable member of the UPEI Lady Panthers’ squad.

Both Edwards and Tyrone Norman have each won the award once before.

Aion Pettigrew shows determination as he steals the ball from Acadia guard Gary Towel Friday night. Photo: Yorston)

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.Last Friday, the long- awaited contest between the Acadia Axemen and the UPEI Panthers was all it had been built up to be, with the Panthers running away in the second hald to trounce the Axemen 102-74.

A few days before the game, several Acadia players were interview on The Sports Network. Much to the “'sgust of the Panther players the Axemen claimed they had a definite advantage going into the games because the Panthers were without the services of Mike Morgan, who is recovering from a broken bone in his foot.

What the Panthers did to the Axemen Friday night was incredible. The game started out calmly enough — Acadia’s shooting guard Gary Towel hit four consecu- tive jumpers to give the Axemen a 16-11 lead by the eleven minute mark.

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In the next six minutes, Willock and guard Tyrone Norman combined for twelve points to help the Panthers to a38-30 edge.

The Panthers played well the last five minutes of the half, holding on to lead the Axemen 50-42 at halftime.

In the second half, there was little doubt about who

really came to play; as Panther Coach George Morrison put it, ‘ ‘The

Panthers were possessed.”

The first moves were made by the “new Jersey Con- nection” 6’2” Junior Tryone Norman and 6’3" Freshman Mark Roberts made-three hoops in a row, then Norman countered with three more to give the Panthers a 66-48 lead.

The Panthers never looked back as they shot a pheno— menal 67.7% from the floor in the second half, while

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holding the Axemen to a mere 50% with solid defense. Leading the way for the Panthers was Tyrone Norman with 24 points.

Willock scored 22 points and Mark Robertson shot an outstanding 80% on his way to a season best of 20 points, as well as tying Norman for rebounding honors with eight.

The Axemen were led by Towel and Rodney Martin, each with ten points.

UPEl’s second game against the Axemen was a classic. Down 49—46 at the half, the Panthers were having problems containing Acadia’s offense.

Gary Towel was 6 for 6 and AUAA scoring leader Chris Summer has twelve points.

Going into the second, it was time for the action to begin.

The “action” came from two areas — devastating de— fense and explosive offense.

The defense started from the moment the Panthers got on the floor and the offense came from Tyrone Norman.

Norman scored his first hoop of the half with 14.31 remaining in the game and the score 61-52 for Acadia. Two more baskets followed shortly after and then the explosion came at the ten minute mark when Norman received a technical foul for complaining a little too loudly when he thought there should have been a foul called.

From that point, Norman controlled the game. In the next five minutes, Norman scored ten points, had several key steals and picked up eight rebounds.

With four minutes remain- ing, UPEI’s defense exploded with four consecutive steals

Panther hockey stats

G A Pts. PM

Greg Gravel 33 18 5 1 28 Randy Muttart ‘ 8 23 31 21 Gordie Roche 17 12 29 36 Ron Carragher 17 14 31 44 Darwin McCutcheon 5 24 29 36 Albert Roche 16 13 29 58 Bob MacDonald 7 19 26 82 Jeff Steffen 6 16 22 36 Steve Fulton . 8 15 23 44 Rob Moffat 4 18 22 8 Danny Revell 9 10 19 16 Kevin Skilliter 2 13 15 35 Doug Currie ‘ 4 9 13 56 Garth Arsenault 2 9 11 27 Don Clow 4 4 8 11 Bob Hicks 2 5 7 25 John Popcock 3 1 4 19 Norman Beck 2 3 S 8 Todd Sutcliffe 0 5 5 0 Myles Grady 0 2 2 20 John Butler 0 O 0 0 Tony Haladuick 0 l 1 0 Dave Reid 0 0 0 0 Goalies Min. play shots saves G.A. G.A. Dave Reid 600 261 234 27 2.70 600 256 221 35 3.50

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capitalizing on all of them.

Trevor Willock gave UPEI a 71-70 lead with 3:50 to go, and the clock ran out.

The Panthers had wrapped up their tenth victory of the season!

Norman had twenty points with 12 rebounds. Tejan Alleyne had 16 points while Delroy Adams and Willock each had 12 points.

For Acadia, Chris Summer had 21 points and Sketter Morris had 17 points.

UPEI’s defense held Towel to a 2 point second half and ended the game with 14.

The Panthers are now in first place in the AUAA with a 10-2 record and will most likely move up in the rank- ings.

This weekend, the Panthers play in Halifax for a double- header against the Dalhousie Tigers, Friday night at 8:00

pm. and Saturday at 3:00

pm. See you there.

C/A U rankings

Men Basketball

UPEI Panthers (3) Waterloo (1) Winnipeg (4) Saskatchewan (6) Victoria (5)

Acadia (2)

Manitoba (8)

York (9)

Lethbridge (NR)

St. Francis Xavier (7)

Volleyball

Maintioba (1) Saskatchewan (2) Victoria (3) Calgary (4) Western (4)

York (5) Winnipeg (7) Dalhousie (8) Toronto (10) Waterloo (NR)

Women Basketball

Victoria (1) Laurentian (2) Toronto (3) Lethbridge (4) Concordia (5)

New Brunswick (7) Alberta (8)

McGill (6) Maintoba (10) Winnipeg (9)

Volleyball Winnipeg (1) Calgary (2)

York (3) Saskatchewan (4) Victoria (5) British Columbia (6) Dalhousie (7) Laval (8)

Ottawa (9) Manitoba (10)