By Darrell Cole, Sports Editor

First of all I would like to apologize to all my read- ers for the absense of a Gem Sports page for the past month, and secondly I would like to welcome Matthew Beardsley to the Gem Sports Department. Matthew will cover Men’s and Women’s Basketball for the remainder of the season.

After defeating the Uni- versite de Moncton Blue Eagles last Wednesday in Moncton 4-3 thus clinching the AUAA’s MacAdam di- vision, ' the Panthers were probably looking foward to last weekends games against the Mount Allison Moun- ties Friday night in Sackville,

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SPORTS

Panthers Sweep weekend action

N.B. and then Sunday after- noon in Charlottetown.

On Friday night Dave Shellington, Randy Muttart, and Steve Fulton each beat Mt. A goalie Pat MacLaugh- lin twice as UPEI romped to a 9-2 victory over third- place Mount Allison. Greg Gravel, Ron Annear, and Kevin Skilliter rounded out the scoring for the Panthers who pounded the Mountie. net with 47 shots.

On Sunday afternoon the scene switched to the Ca- harlottetown Forum where penalty trouble in the third period almost cost the Pan- thers the game as the Moun- ties chipped away at a Pan- thers’ 6-2 third-period lead.

Intramural Hockey Update

Pay attention all you HOCKEY JOCKS. With the break just around the corner, we figured it was time to en- lighten you on the Intramu- ral Hockey Standings.

Marian Hall and Blan- chard are tied for first place with 16 points each. How- ever, Marian has an oppor- tunity to go ahead, as they have played one less game the 1 the Blanchard Squad.

In second place we find th: Business Society with 5 wins, 2 losses, and one tie for a 10 point total.

With 9 points chalked up, the Rulers are in third

place. They have 4 wins, 3 losses, and one tie.

The Soccer team is in fourth place with 8 points, followed the the Engineers with 7 and the Vet students with a 6 point total.

Don’t despair, Folks, we did not forget anyone. Bring- ing up the rear with 0 wins and 8 losses for a 0 point to- tal, we find the Arts team in last place.

Intramural hockey will cortinue better than ever af- ter the break, so keep it up, guys!

_ Attention sports fans

by Ian MacAdam

For the third time in as many years UPEI is going to host the Womens AUAA Basketball finals. Starting

Friday, February 26 at 6:00.

pm the number 3 team vs. the number 2 team, followed at 8:00 by number 1 vs, num- ber 4. The playoff game goes Saturday the 27th at 1:00 pm.

As of Monday, Febru- aryA 15, UPEI leads the standings with a perfect 12- 0 record with 24 points, ranked 6th in the nation, and is shooting for a National championship. UNB. is next with 10-2 and 20 points while Dalhousie follows with 9-3 and 18 points.

Acadia is fourth with a 6- 6 record and 12 points. Tick-

However they fell short as UPEI held on for a close 6-5 win. Dave Shellington scored two goals on Sun- day to continue his torrid scoring pace. Steve Fulton, Randy Muttart, Bob Giffin, and Brent (Tippy) Thomp- son also scored for the Pan-

thers. The Panthers

two remaining regular season

games are this weekend as the Panthers travel to Cape Breton on Friday night to play the Capers and on Sat- urday they travel to Antigo- nish to play the St. F.X. X- Men, in what verywell could be a preview of the AUAA Final Series.

Eight uating Panthers were hon-

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ored before the game on Sun- day. They include goalie Tony Haladuick, defensemen Mike Thususka, Kevin Skil- liter, Steve Fulton and Ron Annear, centers Greg Gravel and Don Clow, and winger Jeff Steffen. Trainer Kevin MacNeil was also honored for his years of dedicated service to the team.

Lady Panthers clinch first place

by Matthew Beardsley

The UPEI Lady Pan- thers clinched first place in the Atlantic “Universi-

ties Womens Basketball with a sweep of their weekend games at Memorial Univer- sity in St. John’s, Nfld. Fri- day night the Lady P’s also defeated Acadia.

The Lady Pan-

thers’ record now stands at a _

perfect 12-0. They lead the UNB Red Bloomers (10-2) and the Dalhousie Tigers (9- 3). Even if the Panthers lose their final two regular sea- son games at Dalhousie and St. FX they would still fin- ish just because of victories over UNB and Dal.

Friday night in Wolfville

the Landy Panthers scraped their way to a hard fought 59-47 win over the Aca- dia: Axettes. were led by Ria Bahadurs- ingh who scored 15 points. It was a tight gae throughout as the first half score indicated. The Panthers were up by a slim 24-22 margin. ; Also contributing for the Panthers were Tracey Bowie with 12 points; Janet Nichols 11; Stephanie Smith 9; Tracy MacEachern 8; Dawna Townsend 2; and Stephanie Knickle 2. Acadia was led by Jennifer Lloyd with 21 points and Diane Poirer with 12. Saturday, the Panthers romped to an easy 78-59 win. Leading the way for the Pan- thers were the two Tracy’s. Tracey Bowie led all scorers

The Panthers .

with 15 and Tracy MacEach- ern tossed in 13. Also scor- ing for UPEI was Nadaine Inman 12; Janet Nichols 11; Stephanie Knickle 8; Stephanie Smith 7; Dawna Townsend 6; Ria Bahadurs- ingh 4; and Susan Knickle 2. Sharon King led Memo- rial with 12 points. The Pan- ters led 46-27 at the half.

On Sunday,

- Tracy MacEachern scored a

season high 25 points to lead the Panthers to a 86-44 win of Memorial. Stephanie Knickle added 14 points for the Land Hoopstars,

Ann Marie Tobin led Meorial in scoring with 11 points.

Also scoring Sunday for UPEI were Ria Bahadurs- ingh 10; Janet Nichols 10; Tracey Bowie 8; Susan Knickle 6; Tobey Jones 5; Nadine Ina-. man 4; and Stephanie Smith 4. ;

The Lady Panthers next see action when they travel to Nova Scotia this weekend to play Dal and St. FX. The games will be meaningless in the standings for UPEI, al- though they could possibly

provide a preview of what is

to come in the AUAA’s.

The Pan- thers have played Dal twice in a row for the AUAA title and the two meeting again is. not all that unlikely.

After those two games the regular season is finished

Graphic /Brock Press

and the top four teams will advance to the AUAA’s to be hosted by the Lady Panthers at Alumni Gym.

This year marks the fi- nal season for four Lady Pan- thers, Tracy MacEachern, Tracey Bowie, Ria Bahadurs- ingh, and Janet Nichols, all of whom will be playing their final two games at UPEI. If you have not seen these four play yet, you owe it to your- self to come out and do so.

It would be a fine and fitting way for these players who have given so much of themselves to the University program to go out with an AUAA chapionship.

ets for the tournament go on

sale on Tuesday, February 23> at 1:00 in the Main Office of -

the Gym.

Cost for a tournament pass for the floor and stage is $12.00 for non-students and $10.00 for students. Rush

tickets for the balcony. for

the two games on Friday are

$4.00 for non-students and $3.00 for students. _For the

championship game on Sat-

urday rush tickets for non- students are $3.00 and $2.00 for students.

Last year the champi- onship was some of the best basketball played here UPEI so don’t miss it this year.

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