A» vNaA-wm —«-w.a , ‘ / - JOCK TALK By Mickey Place-‘ . , Hockey Panther's playoff hopes took quite a nosedive in Sackville on saturday afternoon, but they pro— vided lots of excitement to go along with Momt Allison's Winter Carnival. The boys trailed 2rl after , \ first period, 6-5 after the. second, but ran into trouble in the final stanza as the Mounties clobbered them with 3 unanswered goals. Stellar netminding by the Hane’team's goalie " Bob Daly, really was the difference between the teams, for the Panthers had the better of the terri- torial play as they out— shot the opposition 41-34., Gary Trainor, Trevor Crawford and Gerald Walker had singles for us, while Rory Beck had a pair. Next ‘ day, in Monoton, we fell to a 11-13 record for the year‘s league play as we_ dropped a close one to the Blue Eagles, still retaining their #2 ’ national ranking, by a 6—5 score. In. this game _ Shane Turner and Mike Devine each had one marker, while fast skating Harold Hay put the red light on three times- Each team 'had 37 s.o.g.'s. Since writing our last column and before the above games 3 the Panthers had one really big night as they demolished Les Aigles Bleu 7-2, giving the #2 Canadian team its first defeat of 1980. We don't like to crow too much, but if they are the #2 team in Canada, we An English Subtitle Duffy Amphi theatre Everyone Welcome Douglas had 12/. chESE + NEW . YEAR MOV'E‘ "GLORY or? SUNSET Organized by the Chinese Students Association“ Certainly looked as though . l , we_deservedthe #1 rating.. . particularly in the final period, which started off , with our boys leading 3-1 and ended with our, getting ’four, while the' crumbling visitors managed Only *1. In the game of hockey, upsets like this can happen when a goalkeeper gets hot, but, to our. surprise, we ‘ outshot them, 35-29 and certainly, on that night at least, looked like ' much the better team. We still have a remete chance for post season play, as we are tied with UNB and have three games remaining on our schedule. We go to ancton for a. Sunday game this weekend and will try to make them #5 in‘Canada. The following Saturday Dalhousie will be 'with us then we'll close out the season against traditional rival St. F. x. ‘on Sunday. Meanvmile the UNB Red A Devils go to Saint John's this weekend, where ‘ they take on the Menorial Beothuks in two games. We'd like to be optimistic, but we can't see them losing either of these unless they make a BAD : mistake and try out that Newfie Screech. . .it is " net likely, .but we can" ’ dream can't we??? The Iady Panthers played two good games against ‘ the Lady Beothuks from meorial U.‘ caning out on top 56—47 and 59-51. In the first game, we led at the half 28—15 and? coach Hermie used, his bench, for gainful ex— perience, as they coasted to their win. Kathy ‘ Chandler led our scorers With 15 while Sharon In the second game, Kathy again led the way for us with 19 while DaWn MacIeod had Saturday, February l6‘th, l980,'at-2 pm WEIDON’lLIKE‘TO ciaow . - - ** v- . - - - s , THEV'UPE'I SUN, Thursday,‘ February, 119.1980... paéIe'lRi fly-lullIII-ll-II-IIIIII-Ilug-Illll-l-I-lIglIlllIlIllIullIl-lilllllliiI—iilllIl-IllpiIn.Iilllplmqli-IIII-llillllll-glllIllle-I ' 1-5. These wins raised our season record to 12—2 and the girls go to Monctcn on Friday, where they are heavily favoured ' V to win. ' They'll be at 4 hone on Saturday at 6:00 .when they'll take on the league leading Mount Allison girls in the game ‘ that will decide the championships Gane time is 6:00 and we advise anyone Wanting a seat for this game to'be there early. We have seen both hare games with Mount A. this season and they‘ have been exciting fran Start to finish. A cheering crowd -’is bound to help the morale of our girls ," so let_'s give them a real boost! (he fault we have to find with CoaCh Hermie MacNeil. . .In the‘Panther Basketball ganes, the back row in the balcony can hear Dave Nutbrown as 'he gives instructions to his pl ers in‘ahuddileand we . appreCiate this courtesy. We can hardly hear» a word that Hermie says. . .hw can TooMUbH,BUTn.Z,- weekend. UPEI has ‘ had BETTER basketball teams than Dave Nutbrom's r - 1979—80 squad. We do not believe, 'however, that V UpEI has ever had any team that gave moreof itself than this dne..lOO% every can't ask'for more than v that! . _ ‘ Your friendly postman John MacKay, who also fills the role of hockey statiscian advises that we pulled a .bwboo'last week when we failed to recall an assist ' by a Panther goalkeeper. . We do remenber that svelte (‘?) Neil MacKenzie, who has filled the #2 spot as goalkeeper for several seasons, also, achieved this difficult feat in a game earlier this season! John too”, gave us another slight rebuke. .‘fwe'had not remarked that hard. working Bruce Hickey scored-his first goal of the season . in the Saint Thomas gameg We offer our hmnble apologies to these two . overlooked achievers . r they are just behind v positions"? j be here 'on Friday night at ,will make a Saturday ‘ These games will mark the makes him the high scorer up 1 to this date. We hope he'll m 124 we understand the strategy he's using when we" can't hear hint? ' The Basketball team is at 4—7, and still has a ' chance for a playoff spot as UNB, the Current holder of the last ‘of the coveted 1 St. F.X. Will 8:00 and a Mount A. game ‘ double—header, as the match will follow the girls game. final home appearance of both teams for this . season. We note that / Rick Millard has scored "‘ 289 points in ll conference games this season, which Takégaiml * pile the scores up over . WEEKEND MOVIE l . ‘MDNTYPYTHON AND Now FOR SOMETHING TOTALLY" DIFEER'ENI, ' ADMI‘SSION — $2.00 ,‘ ' . 8.00 pm IVN THE'DUFFY’ AMPHITHEATRE ?'