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Royals Continue to Roll

Douglas College Athletics

 

The Douglas College soccer teams continue to roll as they
were victorious over the Kwantlen Eagles this past weekend.
The women’s team have started the season strong as they
continue to impress with a 3-0 record and sit tied for first

place in the league with last year’s National Champions, “a ne , es : better than Kwantlen and

Langara College. This weekend they took care of business by 4

defeating the Eagles by a score of 4-0. ie Langara. In your face
The men’s team had to grind out a 3-2 win over the high-

ly touted Kwantlen Eagles. Nearing twenty minutes into the ; B**C H E S |
game, Royals’ defender Junaid Rasheed, was assessed with a _ :
red card forcing the Royals to play a man short for over 70
minutes. Falling behind early, the Royals rebounded behind
last year’s national tournament MVP, Casey Wilson, who
scored the tying the goal on a free kick.

The goal was then followed up by returning midfielder,
Andrew Bowler, who put the Royals up for awhile until the
Eagles knotted the score once again at 2-2. With only five
minutes remaining in regulation time, fourth year veteran
Robby Toor, scored what was to be the game winning goal.
“Tt was a character building win,” said Head Coach Joe
Ormerod. “The boys really had to dig in to get this win.”
Both Royals’ teams return home this weekend in their home
opener against the Okanagan Lakers on Saturday and TRU
Wolfpack on Sunday.

 

 

 

Douglas Sports Cori
_ Calendar of Upcoming Gam

Men’s Basketball:
Home game vs. Alumni. Game takes place in New Westminster Saturday Sey
| 7:00pm.
_ Away game vs. WU Spartans. Game takes place in Langley Thursday Oct. 5 - 6
Away game vs. UCFV Cascades. Game takes place in Abbotsford Friday Oct. ¢

Women’s Basketball:
Home game vs. UCFV Cascades. Game takes place in New Westminster Fri

: 29 4:00pm.

’ _ | Home game vs. Alumni. Game takes place in New Westminster Saturday Se
] | : 5:00pm.

Away game. Capilano Tournament. Games take place in North Vancouver Frid:
Oct. 6-8.

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Exhibition Games Begin... |...........
= = Home game vs. TRU Wolfpack. Game takes place in Coquitlam Sunday Sep
And So Do Injuries aes

Away game vs. Langara Falcons. Game takes place in Burnaby Saturday Sept. 3

  

Stephanie Smith, OP Sports Editor 4:00pm.
Away game vs. Langara Falcons. Game takes place in Coquitlam Sunday O:

To my great joy, hockey pre-season exhibition games started this week. For some teams it has 3:00pm.
been a way to test out new players, to test the endurance of prospects, to renew rivalries, to test
out new line combos and for some just to get players back into game shape. However, some- Women’s Soccer:
times things go wrong. Wednesday night the Pittsburgh Penguins faced the Philadelphia Flyers | Home game vs. TRU Wolfpack. Game takes place in Coquitlam Sunday Sep!
in pre-season action. The Penguins were set to debut star forward Evgeni Malkin, a player the 12:00pm.
hockey world has been clambering to see. However, this highly anticipated debut did not go as Away game vs. Langara Falcons. Game takes place in Burnaby Saturday Sept. 3
well as it was intended to. 4:00pm. :

The Russian centre suffered what is being called an “upper body injury” after a violent col- Away game vs. Langara Falcons. Game takes place in Burnaby Sunday Oct. 1.

lision with team-mate John LeClair. Malkin had just finished making a pass to LeClair when

LeClair missed a scoring chance and crashed into the boards behind the net, taking out Malkin. | Men’s Volleyball:
Malkin catapulted over LeClair and lay unconscious on the ice for 3-4 minutes. He was helped Jr. Boys Tournament. Home games take place in New Westminster Friday —
up off the ice when he regained consciousness and seemed to be favouring his left arm. He did Oct. 6-7
not return to play the rest of the game.
“Malkin made a great pass but I caught an edge and lost my balance,” explained LeClair, of ‘Women’s Volleyball:
the injury. “It’s disappointing to see a rising star get hurt like that. Hopefully it won’t be too Senior Girls Tournament. Away game vs. Coquitlam. Game takes place in C
serious.” Penguins team-mate Sidney Crosby said, “It’s never fun to see that happen, especially Friday Sept. 29 and Saturday Sept. 30.
in his first game. Hopefully we'll get him back soon. He looked good out there, even on the MacEwan Tournament. Away games take place in Edmonton Friday - Sunday (

play he got hurt. He looked real comfortable playing at this level.”

 

 

4 @ THE OTHER PRESS SEPTEMBER 28 2006