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Hamish Knox

 

The men’s basketball team
fought until the final whistle
last Friday, but the basketball
gods were against them.

At the start of the game
it looked as though DC was
going to bury MUC as they
opened with an 11-0 run and
hit 3-3 shots from behind the
arc. Royals were flying
everywhere as the team
crashed the boards and dove
for every ball that hit the
floor.

Both teams were
battling hard, at one point DC
forward Aaron Frampton had
to go to the bench after being
hit in the nose with an elbow,
and played the rest of the
game with'a bandage on his
face. “Aaron has only been
going at 70-80% lately. He
can't extend one of his
shoulders too high above his
head. To go out and do what
he did shows a lot of guts for
a 19-year-old. I’m really
proud of him,” said Coach
David Munro after the game.

The Royals built a 22-
10 lead on Malaspina before a
9 point Mariner mun cut their
advantage to 3 points.
Douglas did get into some
foul trouble in the first half,
putting MUC in double bonus
with 4:02 left; however, the
Mariners couldn't capitalize
on the bonus, allowing DC to
hold a 33-24 lead at the half.

In the first few minutes
of the second half, the Royals
couldn't hit a thing. Shots
that were dropping in the
first half, were rimming out
and being recovered by the
Mariners, who gratefully took

 
   
  
   
 
 
   
  
  
 
 
    
  
   
 
   

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advantage of the missed
opportunities to jump to a
40-36 lead. When asked after
the game about his team’s
shooting, Coach Munro
referred to the law of aver-
ages, “on any given day,
you're going to hit some and
you're going to miss some.
They [Malaspina] got hot and
we didn’t. They're one of the
oldest teams in the league
and we're one of the young-
est.”

Despite the overwhelm-
ing Mariner assault, the
Royals kept up the attack,
forcing Malaspina into

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tumovers and unwanted
timeouts with their trap. DC
eventually called time with
MUC on a 25-9 run, leading
51-41, but could not over-
come the 10-point deficit and
fell 72-59. “I'm not looking
at the result,” said Coach
Munro. “We only measure up
a loss if they [the team] stops
playing. And you could see
from the opening tip to the

“final play, they didn’t stop
[playing].”

 

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down of national top 5 teams, the Royals came out

ee OF top 58-52 behind Carrie Rogers’ 22 points and
aasxey Audrey Curran’s double-double—13 points and 12
ont rebounds. The men’s team, however, fell by 13, 72-

1 59, with Blair Chan-Kent and Scott Hill each hitting

"S for 17 points, the latter going 3\4 from beyond the
, arc.

After beating the number one team in the nation

/ on Friday night, the women’s team lost to the last

place Camosun Charges 75-73. Audrey Curran was
dominant in the game, notching a 25 point, 17 board

g double-double, while Carrie Rogers added 19 points and

10 boards to a losing effort. The men’s team bounced

back from Friday's loss and defeated the Chargers 71-
62, with Danny Elliot scoring 19, and Aaron Frampton
18 points for the Royals.

  

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