October 19, 1994 by Zac Kremler Had I not known, I would have said the Seattle Blue Angels were the underdogs in the final of the 10th An- nual Royal Classic Basketball Tourna- ment. The Seattle players all looked very tired, but focussed and ready to win. ‘ The Doug- las College play- ers, on the other hand, looked cool and confident during the pre- . game warm-up, with plenty of smiles to go around. Seattle won the tip and scored the first 4 points of the game to jump out to a 13- 11 lead. And then for the first time Douglas clinches second place right where he left off, with a nice turn around J and a sweet tip-in for 4 points to go along with he 4 boards, | steal and a couple of free throws. And again, as in the first game, Douglas was unable to come back. A very fatigued Oroghu was subbed out , and Seattle took complete control of the boards. A few sloppy turnovers did not help the Douglas cause. How- ever, this is to be expected from such a young team so early in the season. So not to worry! Fouls were about a 3-1 ratio against Seattle compared to Douglas, but the Blue Angels dis- played their dominance by still winning the game by a handy 17 points. Final Photo by Candice Lee in 4 games Douglas’s Idris Oroghu began to assert himself. The Royal Classic Basketball Tourney had six teams turn out to compete in the Douglas College gym last week- end. Our Royals took second place. score, Seattle Blue Angels 99, Douglas College The 6’8” center took control of the game, but unfortunately Douglas could not distribute the scoring. They went into half-time down 48-36, in spite of Oroghu’s 18 points, 6 boards and 2 blocked shots. Douglas was down by 12 points instead of the 4 that the could have been had they not turned the ball over twice in the last 4 minutes. Oroghu began the second half Royals 82. The second place finish must have been a good experience for the Royals, and hopefully they can build on such bright spots as Oroghu’s 26 points to along with Ben Mayan’s 19. Mayan was Mr. Consistency throughout the tournament, averaging almost 16 points per game. High scorers for Seattle in the final were Ron Vanderschaaf and Joel Duschene each with 22 points. Douglas pulls off win with minutes remaining by Marcel Martin It was a very close game well into the second half but the Roy- als pulled into the lead after a key strategical time out with about five minutes left in the game. The Royals saved an extra burst of intensity for the remain- ing five. All of a sudden, the play- ers began to pass the ball more efficiently and they took their level of play up a notch: This was definately the best performance for the Royals in the Royal Clas- sic Tournament. The first points were scored Douglas womenwin 3 out of 4 scrimmages by Marcel Martin The place was the Douglas Col- lege Gym. The event was the Royal Classic Tournament where the women were playing scrimmages. They won three out of four. At 4:35, the action com- menced. It was a well played defensive game with spurts of great breakaways. The first ten minutes was by far the most intense and exciting. I heard a per- son describe it as “peppy”. The opening jumpball was won by the Roy- als. Within seconds the UBC T-Birds had taken the lead, 2-0. The first foul shot was taken by , Janice MacKintosh; she sunk one of the two shots. With 8 minutes and 25 sec- onds left, Nicole Hiebert, raced down the court with the T- Birds chasing her all the way; she made her lay up and gave the Royals a one point lead. With 6 min- utes and 44 seconds left to play, the action started to heat up. After UBC had fouled and the Roy- als stormed down the court intensely, UBC recovered the ball and both sides exchanged the ball several times. At 6 minutes Carrie Gentleman scored to give the Royals a 7-4 lead. UBC came on strong at the 5 minute mark by scoring several baskets. The score was 8-7 for the T-Birds. At 4 minutes 42 seconds, the Roy- als managed to tie the score on a foul DC Women had scrimmages during the tour- nament as well. We know this isn't a photo of women, but, um, well, it's a nice shot, isn't it? shot. With 1 minute and 45 seconds left there was a cool play that involved good passing and a great shot by Douglas Col- lege. A last two points with 25 seconds left, made the score 16-12 Royals. At this point I was told that this was a scrimmage game so the other three quarters I took less notes. The second quarter saw many more turn overs on the part of Dou- glas College. Most of the action was over on the sidelines nearest the benches. Somebody from the Roy- als asked, “Which way are we going?”. A colleague of mine at the game said that Gentle- men played “with pep”. In the closing seconds UBC scored to win the quarter 11- 10. With 9 minutes remaining in the third quarter, I was al- most hit by a bullet of a mis- fired pass. Coincidence? Maybe. I overheard at the Royal’s bench that the team was playing with more in- tensity and with better de- fence. ' Although there were many long passes picked off by the T-Birds, the Royals won the quarter 18-17. There wasn’t that much scoring to see in the fourth. Douglas 2, UBC 0. Overall, I enjoyed cover- ing my first game. There was alot of running, passing, and “pep”! The Douglas Royals won 3 of the 4 quarters. * The Douglas College Men's Rugby travelled to Bellingham, and beat the Western Washington Squad 22-7 on October 16. Photo by Ken Spittle by the Royals. There was tight checking from both teams. Each team had their own flurries of scor- ing. In the first five minutes of ac- tion, Douglas College controlled most of the action. Despite this, once Douglas scored, their defence lacked enough defencive speed tostop the Trojan counter-attacks. The Trojans would simply pass the ball up the court and grab two points. All throughout the game an- nouncer kept mentioning P.J. Robertson in Trojan scoring. He was their best player. At the half, it was 35-34, for Douglas. In the second half, the Trojans scored first. With 17:14 remaining, a Royal dived into the SAIT bench. A time out was called with 11:45 to ‘go; I overheard the coach mention strategy involving player coverage and effective passing. The funniest moment in the game happened when a Trojan leapfrogged over a Royal. After two time outs in the last minute, Douglas won 70-64. The player of the game was # 40 Chad Caldwell. In the category of foul shots, SAIT scored 10 points on 20 attempts, while Dou- glas scored 22 on 37 attempts. Dou- glas made 4 three pointers, while SAIT had two.