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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