INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / MARCH 19, 1991

 

 

Three Teams

a off!

Three Douglas College teams
were headed for national cham-
pionships after winning their
respective British Colum-

82-81 decision.

The Lady Royals won in less
dramatic fashion, sweeping Fraser
Valley College in two lop-sided

Head For Nationals

0 record in team play while break-
ing a record by sweeping 30
games without a single loss. In in-
dividual play the following day,
Douglas won four gold

 

bia Athletic Association
championships. Royals
men’s and women’s bas-
ketball teams both travel
to Kamloops for the
CCAA nationals from
March 21-23, while the
badminton contingent
travelled to Quebec last
weekend. The women’s
volleyball team missed a
national berth by one
match, losing the final to
Trinity Western, while the
men’s volleyball team
earned a bronze.

The biggest nailbiter
came in men’s basketball,
in which an ailing Royals
squad was pushed to three
games by Trinity Western
before pulling out a 81-76
win in the final. Royals
played the series missing
high-scoring forward
Chris Vandermark hob-
bled with strained ankles
(Vandermark will play in
Kamloops).

“T think winning it
this way, relying on our
bench, was more satisfy-
ing,” offered Royals coach
Steve Beauchamp.

 

 

and one silver medal.
| Winning golds were
| Sian Deng (women’s
| singles), Darryl Yung
and Dak Ban (men’s
| doubles), Kelley Wong
| and Sharon Halpin
(women’s doubles),
| Peter Chen and Chan-
_ tal Jobin (mixed
| doubles) while Allan
| Mackintosh earned sil-
| ver in men’s singles.
| In women’s vol-
leyball, the Lady
Royals had to settle for
silver after spending
most of their season in
first place. Playing in
the B.C. championship
tournament at Trinity
Western, the College
was upset in the gold
medal game 15-13, 7-
15, 15-13, 16-14 by
Malaspina. The Royals
| had earlier defeated
_ Vancouver Community
| College 3-1 in semi-
final action.

The men’s vol-
leyball team defeated
BCIT 3-2 in the bronze-
medal game of the

 

In the final the Royals
accentuated a ball-control
offence and used the press
to keep fast-running TWU
off balance. Ted Vander-
wal paced Douglas with
20 points, while Dave Gill
and Vern Knopp each added 11.
Royal won the series opener 75-70,
led by Onkar Hayre’s 18 points.

The following game TWU suc-
cessfully completed a controver-
sial three-point play at the buzzer,
with guard Randy Ellis scoring
from the foul line to give TWU a

The Royals’ Ted Vanderwal puts up two of his
20 points in Douglas College’s BCCAA title win
over Trinity Western.

games. Royals took the opener 74-
53 and then cinched the title by
outlasting FVC 55-51.

Defending national champion
Douglas College continued to
show its dominance on the bad-
minton court when hosting the

BCAA championships on March 9-

10. The College posted a perfect 6-

BCCAA tournament at
Trinity Western. In the
first round, TWU had
beaten the Royals 3-0.
In other action,
Douglas College ad-
vanced to the finals in
rugby by defeating Royal Roads
17-6. The Royals now face the win-
ners of TWU-BCIT on March 27. @

 

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