November 25,1997 
     
    
   
   
    
     Panther 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Cadre 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Sports briefs 
     
    
   
   
    
     Panthers make winning their 
     
     mandate this weekend 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Billy McQueen 
     
     All Panther sports teams won last weekend. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The volleyball panthers played at home and managed to take two matches against UBC. 
     
     The made a jump in the AUAA ,and are currently placed sixth out of ten in the AUAA 
     
     rankings. 
     
    

    
     The hockey Panthers played at home last weekend as well, with most people ended up 
     
     talking more about the fight than the two wins. The Panthers beat Acadia 5-3 last Saturday 
     
     night. The Acadia Axemen were pretty frustrated after UPEI took advantage of several 
     
     mistakes. It was nice to see the Panthers playing like a team after several disappointing home 
     
     game appearances. The fight at the end of the Acadia game resulted in several players 
     
     receiving game misconducts: Dave Mitchell, Jeremy Pierce, Gerry Lanigan, Sean Rowe and 
     
     Jonathon Murphy. Murphy and Pierce were given 10 game suspensions and are in the process 
     
     of appealing the decisions. Team Captain Todd Walker is experiencing some back problems 
     
     and is unsure of his return. The Dalhousie game on the Sunday was just as intense as the 
     
     Saturday game with a Panthers win again 6-4. 
     
    

    
     The women’s basketball Panthers remain unbeaten this season. The girls won the 
     
     double header against UCCB last weekend 72-63 on Saturday and 78-61 on Sunday. The 
     
     men’s basketball team split their games against UBC by winning 84-75 on Saturday and losing 
     
     71-61 on Sunday. The girls command first place in their division while the boys are tied for 
     
     second place in the AUAA standings. 
     
    

    
     The men’s hockey team play at home twice this week Wed 26th of November against 
     
     Mt.A. at the Civic Centre and Saturday, November 29th against STU. The men’s and 
     
     women’s basketball teams play Dalhousie on Friday, November 28th at the Sports Centre. 
     
     Hope to see you at the games. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     Panther bench looks on at a recent brawl involving UPEI/Acadia 
     
     — photo courtesy of B. McQueen 
     
    
   
   
    
     Suspensions 
     
     and injuries 
     
     plague panther 
     
     hockey team 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Billy McQueen 
     
    
   
   
    
     A long list of suspensions were dealt after last week's 
     
     Panther hockey game between ACA and UPEI. The worries 
     
     for the Panthers now are obviously how this incident will affect 
     
    
   
   
    
     their season. 
     
     Those who were involved in the ACA game misconducts 
     
    
   
   
    
     were: Dave Mitchell, Jeremy Pierce, Gerry Lanigan, Sean 
     
     Rowe and Jonathon Murphy. All of these players were given 
     
     at least one game suspension, with Jonathon Murphy and 
     
     Jeremy Pierce managing to top the suspension contest with 10 
     
     game suspensions each. 
     
    

    
     Jeremy Pierce recalls that the fight initially started when 
     
     “they upended one of our players near the bench...and tempers 
     
     really flared because of an incident that happened in the second 
     
     period.” The main reason Pierce was disciplined was due to his 
     
     being the first to leave the bench in the brawl. Pierce mentions 
     
     that his teammate, Jonathon Murphy, was “tagged as an 
     
     instigator and aggressor in a fight in which he never took his 
     
     gloves off.” 
     
    

    
     The Panthers must now also deal with their top points 
     
     leader, Mike Harding, being suspended for three games after 
     
     the road trip to UDM. In addition to this problem the Captain of 
     
     the team, Todd Walker, is currently experiencing back prob- 
     
     lems. Hopefully, the remaining Hockey Panthers can pull 
     
     together a few wins while waiting for suspension appeal results. 
     
     Hopefully the boys will keep the suspensions down before they 
     
     have to start scouting the intramural teams for new players.