7 SIR ANe LAST ISSUE 83 THE OTHER PRESS é s Re PAGE9 OT H Bo: .; Batt IR ESS Basketball: Back and Better The Douglas Men’s Bas- ketball team means business this year. They should easily better their fourth place by Martin Hemerik finish last year. The team has a good blend of rookies and seasoned rookies. On November 18 they opened the season against Capilano. Cap has one of the better teams in the country. They'll easily be ranked in the top ten nationally. Cap had the height ad- vantage with a 6’9’’ centre but Douglas retaliated with Steve Mitton who has picked up where he left off last season rebounding with re- newed vigour and anchoring the defese. Neil Chester, the Capilaon coach seemed confident as his team jumped off to an early eight point lead. The first half featured lightning fast basketball with non stop action and at the end of play Douglas trailed 37-34... Starting the second half Cap built substantially on their lead and with ten minutes to play led 59-44 but Douglas kept pounding away at their lead and with a minute 30 seconds left on the clock they trailed by only seven. In the next 60 sec- onds the Douglas Machine hit the turbos and managed to tie the score, gained control and call a time out. Neil Chester was by now an emotional wreck but he kept pretty quiet (probably because he had been given two technical fouls and ' would have been ejected for one more). With 30 seconds left to play one bad pass was all it took. Capilario took it down and turned it into two points with two seconds left to play. Against the Meralomas on November 25 it was Douglas being on the other side of a two point margin of victory as they beat the Meralomas, a team made up of univer- sity and college ball players ‘who had since graduated but kept up their basketball skills by playing exhibition games against lower main- The Douglas College wo- men’s basketball team, after a disasterous first first two games got back on track and by Martin Hemerik came from behind to defeat Fraser Vally College 58-40. The team, coached by Richard Norman, is the smallest (in stature) in the league but has the potential to be one of the quickest, which they amply proved in _the December 1 match. The defense tightened up considerably as the wonien played a more dominant and aggressive game in their own end. This was their main weakness in the first two games of the season in which they had almost 200 points scored on them ac- cumulatively. The absence of Sherri Crossweller from the lineup has definitely hurt the team but fortunately Carol Taylro is a returning veteran. She is the key to the offense as well as being a _ stalwart on defense. Karen Minato is the new player to watch. She's quick, agile, with good reflexes: and is exiting to Graphic. The Fulcrum watch on offense. Against Fraser Valley she led all scorers with 14 points. Sheila Slammond _ con- tinues to be the triggerman (person) on the offense, sinking nine points. The team has fight and land clubs. These guys are good, they beat U.B.C.’s varsity team just a week earlier. Grant Rose, Brian Eng- lund and Brian Brown played key roles in the Douglas victory. It was a physical game with arms and elbows flying all over the place. There was no question about the Merolamas’ skill, their shots were deadly accurate and their passes were right on the mark throghout the match. But in the end it was Douglas’ sheer hustle that earned them the victory. It was a very happy yet exhausted team that hit the showers after the game. The team is coached by Steve Beauchamp, a bus- ness major at S.F.U. , who has picked up what was left from last year’s squad (which wasn’t slim pickens). He has molded it into a_ machine that is going to roll over opponents this season. So for exciting basketball come out to their next game. Women on the Move spirit. With some polishing they could be a force to be reckoned with in the up- coming season. If the ru- mors are true about Sherri Crossweller returning to Douglas next semester, look out Totem Conference. Sr. B Tourney Over the past weekend Douglas College hosted a Women’s Senior basketball tournament among the local high schools. The New Westminster Senior Secondary grade 12’s took first place, North Delta second , Centennial third and Carson Graham fourth. NWSS grade 11’s were vot- ed most sportsmanslike All Stars 1st Team New West Sheri Taylor New West Angela Hutchinson North Delta Sara Haave Carson Graham Linda Buchanon New West Kim Phips | 2nd Team Port Moody Leslie Elsom New West 11’s Heather Baldwin Maple Ridge Cherrie Brown North Delta Jolene Harwood Centennial Karen White