One Panther team took 
     
     a big step toward the 
     
     playoffs, another remained 
     
     stagnant or even slipped a 
     
     little, and the other con— 
     
     tinued its plunge to the 
     
     cellar. 
     
    

    
     The Basketball Panthers 
     
     on the strength of two 
     
     weekend wins ran their 
     
     record to four wins and 
     
     six losses as they edged 
     
     closerand closer to a 
     
     playoff berth. The win rec- 
     
     ord as it stands now repre— 
     
     Sents the most wins ever 
     
     by a Panther team in reg- 
     
     ular season play. With six 
     
     games left to play, the 
     
     Panthers, if they win 
     
     three of these, should make 
     
     the playoffs.‘ 1 
     
    

    
     Actually, three games 
     
     are all the Panthers 
     
     should hope to win because 
     
    

    
     “the two games against 
     
     Acadia and the one against 
     
     St. Mary's are going to 
     
     be almost impossible to win. 
     
     The Axemen.and Huskies are ’ 
     
     rated second and fifth res— 
     
     pectively in the nation; 
     
     don't give up hope on the 
     
     Panthers but don't bet your 
     
     life savings on them“ 
     
    

    
     The other three outings 
     
     will see the Panthers tack— 
     
     le the U.N.B. Red Raiders 
     
     twice at home and the Mt. 
     
     A. Hawks on the road. 
     
     These two teams will not 
     
     pose as much of a problem 
     
     as S.M.U. and Acadia but 
     
     the Panthers are going to 
     
     have to play their best 
     
     if they want to win and 
     
     earn that all important 
     
     playoff spot. 
     
    

    
     This weekend, the 
     
     fPanthers host the all 
     
     powerful Axemen who, by 
     
     the way, have our old arch 
     
     foe, former U.P.E.I. star, 
     
     John Dionisi, in the line4 
     
     up. This will be the only 
     
     chance-that the Panthers 
     
     will have to beat the Axe— 
     
     men. Very few gymnasiums 
     
     offer such an unhospitable 
     
     enviornment for visiting 
     
     teams as does our four 
     
     walled mansion. This type 
     
     of gym will give the 
     
     Panthers the only advan- 
     
     tage they will get in this 
     
     game So they better take 
     
     advantage of it. GAME TIME 
     
    

    
     IS SATURDAY AT 2:00 P.M. 
     
     SO BE THERE. 
     
    

    
     The Hockey Panthers 
     
     failed to gain any ground 
     
     in their bid for a playoff 
     
    
   
   
    
     Spot as they split two 
     
     weekend games: winning 
     
     over Mt.A. 3 —2 and 
     
    
   
   
    
     losing to Moncton 6 -3. 
     
     The Panthers on Friday 
     
     night played a solid game 
     
     even though at times they 
     
     had serious lapses in defe— 
     
     nse. The Panther threesome 
     
     of Billy Weytherbie, Tom 
     
     Hayward and Shawn MacIssac 
     
     provided all the scoring 
     
     punch with MacIssac with 
     
     two and Hayward with a 
     
     single. Weutherbie picked 
     
     up assists on all three 
     
     goals. 
     
    

    
     The Panthers were for- 
     
     tunate to hold on to 
     
     their one goal lead as the 
     
     Mounties came within a 
     
     whisker of tying the game. 
     
     With about thirty seconds 
     
     left Steve Van Diest made 
     
     a save on a Mt. 
     
    

    
     A. shot, however, the re— 
     
     bound got away. With Van 
     
     Diest away out of-position 
     
     and the whole net to shoot 
     
     at, Greg Wight got a bit 
     
     over anxious and rifled his 
     
     shot off the post. They say 
     
     that hockey is a game of 
     
     inches and that time, it 
     
     was proved true. 
     
    

    
     Sunday afternoon with 
     
     all its supposed stillness 
     
     and sanctity must have 
     
     forgot about Varsity Arena 
     
     as the Blue Eagles and 
     
     the Panthers played one of 
     
     the dirtiest, hard hitting 
     
     contests seen here in re- 
     
     cent years. Each team dis— 
     
     played its unusual talents 
     
     for sneaky, dirty tactics 
     
     right before the eyes of 
     
     the referee. Whether he 
     
     saw them or not remains to 
     
     be seen, but if he let them 
     
     play the whole game as they 
     
    
   
   
    
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     did in the first period 
     
     and a half, it might have 
     
     turned in to a reenactment 
     
     of Custer's Last Stand. 
     
     Despite outshooting the 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ Blues 47 — 40 over the 
     
    
   
   
    
     game the Panthers came out 
     
     on the short end of a 6 — 
     
     3 score. Brilliant goal— 
     
     tending by the Blue Eagle 
     
     goaltender in the last 
     
     half period kept the 
     
     Panthers off the score 
     
     sheet as they pumped shot 
     
     after shot. 
     
    

    
     This weekend is a new 
     
     weekend and this Sunday's 
     
     game is a new game so let's 
     
     hope that the Panthers can 
     
     put it to the X-MEN from 
     
     St. Ffix. 
     
    

    
     GAME TIME SUNDAY IS 
     
     2:00P.M. YOU'D BETTER BE 
     
     THERE!!! 
     
    

    
     The Lady Panthers are 
     
     on their way down to the 
     
     bottom of the heap as a 
     
     result of two weekend loss- 
     
     es. In those games the 
     
     Panthers played great till 
     
    
   
   
    
     half time, then they fell 
     
     apart. 
     
    

    
     They play a great 
     
     first half away and a great 
     
     second half at home. Maybe 
     
     this weekend they can put 
     
     it all together. If they 
     
     don't maybe they should 
     
     conSider switching. to a 
     
     neutral location,it 
     
     couldn't do any harm. This 
     
     weekend, the Lady Panthers 
     
     host S.T.U. Tommies for 
     
     two games on Friday at 
     
    
   
   
    
     6:00 p.m. and Saturday at 
     
     6:00 p.m. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Photo by: Lien Adams