Sports Grizzlies, Royals all come up shy by Miguel Strother NBA: Ona night that saw Shareef Abdur-Rahim achieve the inevitable by breaking the old franchise scoring mark of 1043, set by Blue Edwards in 95-96, in just more than a half a season (59 games), the Grizzlies again played hard but’ again came up short versus the Los Angeles Clippers. No doubt the team has shown major improve- ments, cutting their margin of defeat to less than 7 points per game, but the cubs keep coming up just shy. Anthony Peeler had a chance to tie the scrappy struggle at 83 but the shot never saw the rim. Final score Clippers 83, Grizzlies Eric Milner Photo 80. BCCAA Women: The Douglas College Women’s team lost a semi-final match in the provincial Kill, Kill, Kall: Men’s volleyball flies through the Provincials by Dave Dalcanale On Friday, February 21, the men’s volleyball team travelled to beautiful Nanaimo to participate in the 1997 BCCAA Provincials. Douglas entered the two day tournament ranked number one in BC witha 9-1 regular season record, hoping to repeat as provin- cial champions. Douglas’ stellar league record allowed them a first round by Friday night. The Royals faced a determined Camosun team in Saturday morning’s semi-final. Douglas prepared for this match for two weeks and wanted to send the Chargers packing in three quick games, and they did just that. Douglas bombarded Camosun with an unpredictable and blistering offensive attack, often leaving their opponents shaking their heads in disbelief. Darren Ettles was named player of the game for his efforts, which include 15 kills in the 3 game romp. The final scores were 15-6, 15-7, 15-3. Thus, the stage was set: Douglas would face Okanagan University College in the final, as OUC surprised the Trinity Western Spartans in the other semi-final. Douglas started horribly and dropped the first six points. However, the Royals regrouped and began to plug away at the lead and soon found themselves in the lead. A seesaw battle ensued, culminating in a 13-12 Douglas lead late in the game. The Royals then demonstrated their superior focus and determination by pulling out the final two points and capturing the first game 15-13. Douglas seemed to let up in the second game, and allowed OUC to build a commanding lead from which they could not return and wound up losing 15-8. Realizing OUC was not going to roll over and die, Douglas man- aged to regain their intensity and desire to play like the champions they are by jumping out with an 11-0 lead in the third game. From that point on Ker Kleindienst continued to pass brilliantly, Darren Ettles and Ken Kilpatrick remained unstoppable at offside and middle respectively, as Douglas rolled to the provincial championship for the second year in a row, winning the final two games 15-5 and 15-6 for a 3-1 match victory. Douglas players Alan Goodall and Ken Kliendienst were selected to the tournament All-star team, while Darren Ettles was chosen as tournament MVP. Also announced during the event were this season’s All- Conference squads. Douglas players Darren Ettles and Ken Kliendienst were chosen to the first All-Conference squad, while Cam Secret and Ken Kilpatrick received second All-Conference team awards. For the second straight season coach Brian Newman was chosen as BCCAA coach of the year. Now the Royals are off to the nationals in Montreal, Quebec from March 6-9. The team hopes to improve on their fourth place finish at last season’s champion- ships in Nova Scotia. The Douglas College Women’s volleyball team also travelled to Nanaimo on Friday to compete in the provincials. The squad took to the road early on Friday, even though they had a first round bi in the evening. The team had a one hour practice session that after- noon and they spent the rest of the day relaxing and watching the semi-finals to see who their opponent would be early Saturday morning. In the semi-finals, Douglas faced the TWU Spartans whom they had just beaten 3-0 in league play two weeks earlier. Nothing changed this time around as Douglas took an early lead and had control of the match the entire time, even though it lasted about 90 minutes. Douglas defeated the Spartans by a 3-0 (15-6, 15-11, 15-7). Leading the championships against their arch- rivals at the University College of the Fraser Valley. Douglas fought hard but was unable to avenge last year’s defeat and take a’shot at the National Championships. BCCAA Men: After a tough season last year and low expectations from cynics this year the DC men’s team showed some heart in the provin- cial championships, winning their quarter final match over Trinity Western 61-71. First year coach David Munroe seemed satisfied at the teams effort and proud of a team that struggled to find a consistent game all year long. The win gave the team the right to play against the home team Malaspina College in a semi-final match on Friday night. Standouts included Alex “Z” Zabouri who hit 8 of 14 from the field for 18 points and Blair Chan- Kent who came off the bench to score 7, including a key 16 footer at a crucial point in the game. DC was down by 4 at the half way for Douglas was “Player of the Match” Vesna Rukavina with 11 kills and 6 blocks, while Stacy Dupuis added 9 kills, 6 blocks. Other notables were Coralie Hiemstra (6 kills, 3 blocks), and Becki Kosinski (7 kills). With this victory Douglas would now face host Malaspina in the finals at 6 pm, with the victor representing BC at the CCAA National Champi- onships in Montreal in two weeks. In the final the Royals came out slow, they seemed very tentative and nervous. The Mariners took an insurmountable 14-3 lead. The Royals chipped away at the lead, but eventually took the loss 15-10. With momentum on the Royal’s side heading into the second game, Douglas could not take advantage. The largest lead the Royals had was one point at 7-6. The Mariners due to the strong offensive rebounding of TWU but made an impressive run in the third quarter to go up 48-40, a lead they would never relin- quish. With 2:23 remain- ing Andrew Willms of TWU cut the deficit to 1, but Royals forward John Fast answered the Spartans charge with a timely deuce and foul shot, upping the DC lead to 4 points with only 1:06 to play. The Royals iced the win at the charity strike giving Munroe his first play-off win as head coach. Unfortunately for the DC squad the Malaspina team had lost only one league game at home since 1992. Tremendous home court took over from that point, as Douglas succumbed to numerous unforced errors—taking the game by 15-7. The third game was never in doubt as the Mariners jumped to a 10-4 lead and cruised from that point to the third game victory by a 15-8 score. Leading the way for the Royals, once again, was Vesna Rukavina with 11 kills and 13 blocks. Coralie Hiemstra added 7 kills. “Player of the Match” Stephanie Perko set and varied a well distributed offense. Douglas also had two members selected to the Tournament All-star squad—Stephanie Perko and Stacy Dupuis received those honors. The All-Conference awards were also announced at the tournament with Vesna Rukavina and Stephanie Perko being selected to the first team, and Becki Kosinski selected Eric Milner Photo support propelled the Mariners to a win and a berth in the Champion- ship final while the Royals were bumped to the bronze medal match versus Cariboo. The results of the match were unavailable at press time. @ to the second. Douglas looks forward to next season with at least 5 members of © this season’s squad committed to returning and improving on this season’s results. In Badminton news, there was a provincial tournament February 22-23. The final league results put Douglas in second after a fourth place finish in the league. Douglas will be sending three members on the squad to the 1997 CCAA National Championships hosted by Fanshawe College in London, Ontario from March 5-8, 1997. Those who will be competing for a National title will be Jennifer Wong (women’s singles), Thinh Nguyen and Julia Chen (mixed doubles). » Classifieds — Jeane Cook 331-5412... S ofa March _ Mes segperttone Me Tues March 11 Federal benefits for — Douglas is offering workshops for oak nding | wesMareh (2 Westminster Friday Events will include all-day art : shows, reports on anti-stalking . laws, Wenlido, women’s a = . oe _ Conference. ‘Sh 12 March 4,1997 The Other Press