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By Mickey Place. Since our last perusal
of their activities, Panther
teams have won three times and lost twice, which 60% average is much better than our usual record. The Basketball lady Panthers took a pair, the Panther Basketball team split two and the Hockey Panthers lost the only game they played. It has been said (ad Nauseum) that when the going gets tough the tough get going and the Ladyv Panthers certainly went all out and rose to great heights as they took on the then league leading Mount Allison girls in
the match that was to decide the section winners. They came.on the floor exhibiting the same spirit that must have marked they
éentrance of the lions into ;
‘the Roman Coliseum as they .3 awaited the arrival of the 7 ij-éChristians for play.
teams played with this realization. Action, par-
“Iticularly in the first ten "
minutes, was on a plane
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eldcm attained in this level of play as both
V 'teams exhibited adroitness land skill that kept the on-
lookers in an uproar. At
the half we led 34—22, due » mainly to an unanswered ten point outburst in a couple
half. ated play in the second stanza and capped it off with an additional eight points in the final two minutes to achieve a con- vincing 68—44 score. All the girls played well, Dawn MacLeod led our scorers with 14 while Sue Betts garnered in 18 rebounds.
. The previous night the team
had annihilated a hapless U. de Moncton squad by an
82—37 score with Dawn Macleod
leading the way with 18. This weekend the girls travel toflNova Scotia, where, as section winners, they'll take on the top team of the #1 Section, Dalhousie. If our girls can maintain the same play that they showed against " Mount Allison, they could upset the highly rated - ‘ Halifax team. The Nbunt A. game was the last home contest on the schedule.
.we can look for great
things from this team nest year as only one player graduates. The word "Only" is a poor one in- asmuch as that‘player is
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of minutes midway during the Our side again domin—
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Sandra Drysdale, for four years one of our favourite UPEI athletes. Sandra has been outstanding. in both basketball and field hockey and has given a 100% effort in every game she has ”
, played. Good luck to you
Sandra. 901! In Panther Basketball a Saint F.X. team that appeared to be "On" seemed
We hate to see you
to catch our boys on a night
when they were "Off" or per— haps it was another example of a good "Big" team being superior to a good "Short" team for they seemed to
’blow us off the court as they coasted to an 89—57 win-
Their leading scorer for this game,Gil Green, must have kangaroo blood in him as he continually made leaps
high on the air to block or' - “check Panther passes so that
we yielded no less than 20 turnovers.
Rick Millard was our high scorer with‘ 23. For their
' final home gane of the
season, the Panthers out— 7» classed what seemed to be a rather confused Mount A.
j team by a 91—65 score after leading at the 1123le1: : 43—29. ‘ * was, again, Rick Millard
Our high" Sédre'r; “
While Bill
This was the final home appearance. of the team for this sea— son and also the last
ever for Bill Fanning, Colin MacAdam, Rick Millard, and the limping Ron StueWé, all of whom leave via the graduation reute. To 'say
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certainly the understate— ment of the year. The boys still have .a mathe- matical chance of a play-
: \off spot, but they must
win all three remaining games on the road. . two with UNB and the other against Mount A. :With the players he'll be missing next season, Dave Nutbrown- certainly
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faces a major and unenviable rebuilding
job. ' ‘
The Hockey Panthers travelled to the luxurious but inhospitable 'Iouis , Levesque Arena in mm on Sunday and nationally, 7 ‘rated #2, les Aigles Bleu skated away with a 7-3 ’ victory for their 31-31211 u successive win on home ice. - It was afar differ- ent game from the recent one here in which we walloped than 7—2. Mike Devine scored one for us while Trevor Crawford netted two. This loss pretty much ends our play— off chances, although we understand that only four of the six carpeting teams make the playoffs onrpoints While two are “Wild Card" choices. "Perhaps, if we win both games B’ig against this week's visitors M Dalhousie and'Saint F.X.- we might yet get a Bid-m. Even if the invitation might not be forthcoming, it would
' "still be fun to knock off
those two and so end the season with a l3-jl4 record. ' .As Will the final
of any 7 “Pamthbrgkthletic Team for
the season let's cram the forum and cheer than on for
two victories! We'd love
to end off our stories of UPEI sports with a happy ' description of a pair of Win51!
It always surprises us _ when we find that some peopledo read this column. Some even take us seriously! The surest way to find this out is to make a mistake. It has been brought to our attention that, duringhis illustrious goalkeeping career as a' Panther,
Ron "SnagS" McInnis was credited with at least- three assists. This info-
' rmat'ion, by the way, did
'not come from Snags, who
would be. much .too modest '
to correct us .4
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