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Under ordinary circum— ‘ stances reporting Pan- ther athletic activit- ies as two won & two lost would not give us great pain. Sad to relate that however on' this occasion,. itf. is with great regret "’ that we record these figures. We came so close to a full & glor— iOus weekend, one game we should have won & the other loss was a really fatal blow.

ON the brighter side We may recount that one of our wins was

so thrilling. . .we' can't remember a game of any kind that, was - more exciting &\ which we held our bre- ath so long & often as in our Soccor win I, ‘ in the semi-final game against Saint Mary's on Saturday. It was 0-0 at the end of 90/ minutes of regulationv‘ time, le-l after our __ uphill struggle in

30 minutes of overtime & then 4—3 in the shootout to which 7 playoff soccer teams resort to decide a winner after an over- time tie; Along with other Panther fans we. were ecstatic &, ~ .. pinning/the Score back to Charlottetown, We could" just shout ex--~ uberantly into the mouthpiece "We won, ' . we won, We won! 1" ‘ During part of "the game we felt quite frustrated as we had two very good friends SMU rooters sitting beside u‘s & we could not feel it appropri- ate that we should give full vent to our emotions. It may come as something of a". surprise to some of» Our aquaint’ances that we

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We even have a son with a SMU degree but we hope he has more sense than to root for then. He won't in oUr presence anyhow!‘ In the first half of this game it appeared that the g Santamarian would swamp us as they forced the p play throughout & only

' the outstanding play. of

Jean Francois Painchaud

' kept them off the score—

board. They- did put the ball into the net twice

, but the linesman called

both plays \ offside after

-;'the usual jubliant antics

by their players. We were really impressed by

‘ their behaviour; after -« the rulings,— the'areewere i, /

discus— : ac- cepted the decision ‘without protest. Would

no arguments & n

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player might follow their example! The end of reg- ulation play found both teams scoreless but 3le scored in the opening min- ute of overtime play as one of their players used his head to deflect one past, Jean Francois.

SMU continued their pres-

.suresandseemedtobe

heading. for the same 1-0 win that they had over us in 1981, with a little

‘ over minutes tOf"go,

Scott Niel, who had been

, closely guarded through

out the game, out taced'

' an SMU defender and, frem

. a narrow angle booted one

, between their goalie and

the post. The overtime ended one to one and the

, teams went into the shoot- out finale. ‘Cary Pclenz scored, SMU scored, Steve Polnez. . .hot buscuit Painchaud made a sensation- al dive in stopping an SMU corner kick andwe led 2—1. The SMU

managed a stop on Glen Smiley's‘ hard shot and

2—2. Andy Cameron booted a low one in & Painchaud (we think) deflected a high one that hit the c cross bar and bounced out to make it 3—2 & Mitch Murphy had the chance to end the long struggle and extend the UPEI season! . . it all depends on his shot! He drove it, stuaight and true into the lover left _ hand corner, a shot on which the defender had

no chance and the game was over! Happy Panther fans crowded onto the fields to ccngradulate the players and to wish '

‘ them well in the fol-

lowingday. Readers may not—agree with us when

' we believe. that hockey

might well borrow this system of a shootout to decide tie games. ' We-Can't imagine goal“ keepers favouring this such a plan. However we believe we have seen too many hockey games where, in the third per- iod, a team decides to play for the single . point that a tie gives them & uses delaying & boring tactics to stall for a deadlock. In the Soccor system there is no advantage & WE think . that they too should use this play in all their games. Certainly there, were no bored fans leav— ing the stadium in the final minutes of satur— days game. We have ‘nc- explanation for Sunday's 2-0 loss to UNB. Per-, haps it was that there are many players on our team that were not used to playoff pressure but

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the. steam that drove our boys on Saturday. Suf— fice to ‘say that on that day & on that “field, even the most prejudiced Panther fan (we should be COunted as such) would have to admit the better team won. Still we were in it until the middle

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Jean Francois performed miracles &, on a couple of occasions. we apeared to have the UNB goalkeep— er out of position only to shoot wide. They too should have been tired

as they had alsowon an uphill overtime strug- gle against Dalhousie

the previous afternoon. We feel our team should he proud of their showing

& we don't like to single out. any player(s) for

. praise as they all

played well. HOwever, we do feel that Jeafi.Francois Painchaud was the out— standing player of the four teams we saw in three games and had the team missed the last ferry on the way home we would not have been surprised to learn that he walked across the water of NOrthumber— land Strait! Thus ends the season for soccer. Six players, Painchaud, Steve and Gary Pclenz, Scott Neil, Glen Smiley and Mitch Murphy were chosen for the mythical A.U.A.A. All Star team and the latest standing in the even more mythical mational standings puts us in fifth place... the highest ranking we have ever enjoyed. By graduation we will lose Gary Pclenz, Tommy Hogan, Larry MacAdam and John MacRae. With eligibility remaining can't you guys come back in 1983 for additional courses??? In Hockey, in Fredricton, we won 10—6 over St. -Tm:mas on Saturday and led 4-1 after two periods in Sunday's game only to have the roof fall in on us as the Tammies (winless since the season before last) rallied to tie the game up at the end of the third and scored the winner in the last minute of overthme for a 5-4 win. Inasmuch as points are going to be hard to get in this league this season it was a bitter loss. However, imagine what a happy feeling the S.T.U. rooters must have experienced after their ong famine. we haven't

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