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     Crunch time for Soccer and 
     
     Field Hockey Teams 
     
    
     The regular season is over for 
     
     one team and is winding to a 
     
     close for the other of UPEi’s Fall 
     
     sports teams. The Fieid Hockey 
     
     «cam squeaked into the playoffs 
     
     last weekend as they defeated the 
     
     ST.F.X. Xeties 1-0. The team 
     
     heeded into the weekend know- 
     
     ing that in all likelyhood the sea- 
     
     son would boil down to the game 
     
     against X. X played the UNB Red 
     
     Sticks and lost leaving the door 
     
     open for the Lady Panthers. The 
     
     Panthers could have wrapped up 
     
     a spot by defeating Saint Mary’s 
     
     ou Saturday but once again the 
     
     turi proved to be an advantage 
     
     and the Lady Panthers fell behind 
     
     early and were unable to catch 
     
     up. 
     
    
     That set “*&lt; stage for Sua- 
     
     cay’s encounter. The lady PAn- 
     
     thers urd put themselves in this 
     
     perdicament bv playing poorly 
     
     earier in the year at haome 
     
     agacnci. M,vying and losing iu two 
     
     games. Ail season long the team 
     
     felt as if they were aq much better 
     
     team than their record indicated 
     
     and fortunately had a chance to 
     
     make the playoffs going into the 
     
     final game. 
     
    
     The first half ended scoreless 
     
     and one half of field hockey would 
     
     mean the differnce between mak- 
     
     ing the playoffs and going home 
     
     finished for the year. The Lady 
     
     Panthers showed that deep down 
     
     they wanted it more and with 
     
     ten minutes left Heather Morri- 
     
     son scored the goal that put the 
     
     team in the playoffs. Record wise 
     
     the team certainly didn’t finish as 
     
     well as last year , but considering 
     
     the fact that they lost 6 players 
     
     including their key goal scorer the 
     
     team should feel somewhat vindi- 
     
     cated by making the playoffs. 
     
    
     Up next for the Lady Pan- 
     
     thers is their perennial nemisis 
     
     U.N.B. It was last year that the 
     
     Red Sticks put the Panthers out 
     
     of the playoffs, although it could 
     
     be said that the team was robbed. 
     
     Some very controversial decisions 
     
     were made by the officials that ar- 
     
     guably prevented the Lady Pan- 
     
     thers from advancing to the final 
     
     against Saint Mary’s. Many of 
     
     the players from last years team 
     
     feel as if they have some unfin- 
     
    
     ished business to take care of. 
     
     Over the years UPEI has played 
     
     UNB right to the neck only to 
     
     end up losing. That was the 
     
     same story this year as the girls 
     
     played their best games against 
     
     the Red Sticks and succeded in 
     
     coming away with only a tie in 
     
     three games. There is a saying 
     
     in sports that sooner or later the 
     
     numbers game will catch up with 
     
     you. Let’s hope that this is the 
     
     weekend that the numbers catch 
     
     up with UNB and the Lady Pan- 
     
     thers finally even the score! 
     
    
     BEST OF LUCK GIRLS, 
     
     SHOW UNB WHAT HEART IS 
     
     ALL ABOUT! GET THE JOB 
     
     DONE! 
     
    
     The other fall team the soc- 
     
     cer panthers are also alive in the 
     
     hunt for the playoffs. With two 
     
     games left the team needs to win 
     
     both games and have Mount Al- 
     
     lison loss to UNB which is most 
     
     likely. The Soccer Panthers re- 
     
     turned from their road trip last 
     
     weekend with ties against Acadia 
     
     and Dalhousie. 
     
    
     The Soccer team is unbeaten 
     
     in it’s last nine games and ap- 
     
     pears to be getting on a roll at 
     
     the right time. With any luck the 
     
     Panthers would have locked up a 
     
     playoff spot, but a lapse against 
     
     Mount A allowed the Mounties to 
     
     escape with a tie in a game the 
     
    
     Panthers dominated. 
     
    
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     This weekends games are sim- 
     
     ply put the most important 
     
    
     games of the year for the Soccer 
     
     Panthers. Mount A plays UNB 
     
     on Friday night so they will know 
     
     by game time if their season is 
     
     still alive. The Panthers defeated 
     
     ST.F.X 1-0 in an exhibition game 
     
     this year so that obviously is a 
     
     plus for the team. Saint Mary’s 
     
     tied X 2-2 last weekend and there 
     
     are reports the SMU team is un- 
     
     happy and may be suffering from 
     
     internal strife. 
     
    
     Hopetully Mount A will have 
     
     lsot to UNB and the PANTHERS 
     
     can still have a shto at the play- 
     
     offs. Do the team a big favor and 
     
     show up at MacAdam field Satur- 
     
     day and Sunday to cheer the team 
     
     on. They could really use our 
     
     support. Attendance at games 
     
     has not really been tremendous 
     
     this year so grab a friend and 
     
     go to this weekend’s games. The 
     
     team would really appreciate it. 
     
    
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