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92-93 Sports Year in Review

A Overview of the Douglas Teams and how they progressed this year to qualify for the BCCAA tournaments!

 

compiled by Elaine Leong

September

After an eight year absence, Douglas
College Royal’s Men’ssoccer team played
once again on Sept. 19, coached by Mike
Williams, defeating Trinity Western University
(TWU) in the season opener. DC’s Women’s
soccer team opened their season the same day
with a win over Cariboo. Sept. 12 and 13, the
DC’sMen’s Team also travelled to Abbotsford
to place 7th in the Fraser Valley College's
Men’s Soccer Totirnament.

The Women’s volleyball (VB) team hosted
their Fifth Annual Senior Girls Royal Classic
Tournament in which 20 teams participated in
a round-robin pool. Notre Dame won the
Championship Round while Little Flower
Academy took the Consolation Round of the
tournament. Thank you to DC Women’s coach
Dave Dalcanale for organizing a really good

Caledonia . Jason Baxter received an All Star
for his performance and Tournament MVP
Donna Furlani led the Women Royals with 53
kills and 28 blocks.

Oct. 17, after waiting for the official for
one hour, the Women’s Soccer team fought
hard for a 1-1 tie with #1 ranked Malaspina.
And on Oct.31, the women defeated UCFV 1-
Oina thrilling gut-wrenching game to secure
a play-off Lg in the BCCAA league. Jennifer
Alan, Paula Artsuo, Jenn Boone and Jackie
Laprise were outstanding. Coach Dan Jones
beamed in pride while submitting the weekly

into the records. The Men’s team were
eliminated from BCCAA playoffs and ended
their season as they lost to UCFV 4-1.

November
On Nov. 6 and 7, the Women’s Soccer
com in the BCCAA provincial playoffs,
asingle knockout format. Losinga6-O game to
VCC Langara was tough to take while playi
without goalie Laprise and in a torrenti
downpour. The

 

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attack against the Cariboo Sun Demons.

tournament.

Meanwhile, the defending Champion Golf
team won BCCAA Tournament #4, at
Cowichan Country Club leaving ee
Fraser Valley College,and Royal Roads Military
College in the dust.

October

The Golf team won the Gold Medal in
BCCAA Golf Championships as they went
into the fourth and final tourney of the year.
BrynParry of DC won theindividualaggregate
for the season.

DC’sMen’sand Women’s Basketball (BB)
team crushed Camosun College in the season
opener which led to a successful season for
both teams. The Men’s Team travelled to
Hollywood Gym in Kelowna and captured
first place in the Annual Halloween Classic
after defeating Sgt. O’Flaherty’s, Mount Royal
College and Medicine Hat College. The Mt.
Royal game will be remembered by everyone
as Mt. Royal coach Mark Hogan was e}
trom the game with three technical fouls. Chad
Caldwell was named to the Tournament all-
star team, Vern Knopp was named Tourney
MVP and six players on the team are noted by
coach Steve Beauchamp to have contributed a
minimum of 10 points eachin the tournament.

DC’s Women’s VB team won first place
honours in the Ogopogoo Volleyball
Tournamentin Kelowna,meanwhile theMen’s
VB team took second place in the men’s half
after being defeated by arch-rivals TWU. Inthe
season opener against Columbia Bible College
(CBO), both DC teams crucified the opposition.
Both teams maintained a winning streak as
they defeated Selkirk and College of New

  
  
 
 

Conference Player Penne Familusi played an important role in the Royals’

following day,
DC kicked off
against and lost
to Malaspina in
overtime 3-4, as
the team went
into a shoot-out.
VCC won the
Gold Medal,
Capilano- Silver,
Malaspina-
Bronze and DC
remained in
fourth place.
Outstanding for
Douglas: Artsuo
was selected as
the “Best
Defender” - one
of the highest
honours to be
earnedinBC,and
Jennifer Boone
was selected to
the BCCAA All-
Star team.

The Men’s
BBteam travelled
ly to icipate in
the Cariboo
PeCollege
+ Tournament. The
Royals came out
quickly to win
against
Okanagan 88-74,
but lost a crucial
game to Big Bend to capture third place.
Caldwell was named Tournament All-Star.

DCcompetedin the BCCAA Tournament
#2, with Aleem Mawji & Corey Loken in
Men's Doubles, Evy Miki & Rachel Shiu in
Women’s Doubles and Dak Ban & Tosca
Lueks in Mixed Doubles. However, the team
placed second behind BCIT and in front of
Malaspina, Cariboo and VCC.

December

 

Badminton: DC had first place results to
win the BCCAA Tournament #4at VCC. Loken
inMen’s Singles, JuliaChenin Women’sSingles
and Ban & Chris Trenholme in Men’s Doubles
all won their respective results. Meanwhile,
Miki &Shiu placed second inWomen’s Doubles.

Rugby: DC travelled to University of
Victoria (UVic) only to lose 25-0. The Saxons
were an older and more technically sound
= than the Royals. The Royals were rusty

a winter layoff. Coach Mike Collins was
glad for theexperience and is optimistic thathis
team will not be 2nd to UBC this year.

Both BB teams enjoyed a winning streak!
The Men’s team approached all league games
with only their best efforts and skills as they
creamed every league opposer by more than 20
points per game. The Women Royals are also
enjoying their ownstreak that was marred only
by a2 pointloss63-65 to UCFV. Still the women
are ing with fine physical skill.

The VB teams started the second half of
their league season on the 22nd, taking a
“hazardous” bus ride out to Castlegar which
wasclaimed tobea traumatic experience by the
Men’s team. Both teams were ready and able to
beat Selkirk and CBC easily. AtBCIT, the Men’s
team continued to play exceptionally well,
beating their hosts in a short 3-game match.
Though the womendid win their gameas well,

it was a “sluggish” Sap Sips
The the Futsal Men’s Soccer team
took pride, as they were lead by Nick Tassone,

and defeated Malaspina, Capilano and BCIT to
capture a 4-1-1 record and 2nd place.

Fe

TheBadminton team Championships were
once again captured by Douglas College.
Malaspina played host in this tournament.
Home-court advantage was not enough of an
advantage for the Mariners as DC and BCIT
(Silver Medalists) had topped them as well as
VCC and Cariboo College. Chen, Trenholme,
Shiu & Miki all won Gold Medal honours,
meanwhile DC teams Lueks & Mawji and Ban

* & Michael Co won silver medal honours.

The Men’s VB team managed to defeat
VCCand Malaspina (who had beaten DCbefore
Xmas) into 2 easy 3 game matches as well as
CNC. Against TWU, DC did not fair too well
but they never got down on themselves and
demonstrated outstanding teamwork and
technical skillsincrushing Okanaganina “must-
win” game to secure a 3rd place standing for a
spot in the playoffs.

The Women’s VB team did not show as
much promise as they continued to play with
poor performance and a complete lack of
teamwork/ mental preparation. Judging by
their mistakes ie. poor floor coverage, it was
obvious that they stopped thinking once they
gotontothecourt. Thelosses to TWU, VCCand
CNC brought 6 losses to the record and a 24
point tie with Malaspina. On the 27th, both
team took it out on the BCIT courts. Mariner
captain Lorena Marshal cameoutwith powerful
jump-serves to give Malaspina not only the
edge, butalsoa fourth placeberthtothe playoffs
and suddendeath tothe Royals’ season. Though
the Royals did not qualify for the BCCAA
finals, Furlani was still selected as part of the

BCCAA All Conference Team.

The Women Royal Hoopsters creamed all
oppositionin their 2nd half oftheleagueseason
including a 15 point win over UCFV to gain
home-courtadvantage. Inthe Semi-Finals, the
Royals beat 4th ranked Cariboo Sun Demons
in the best 2 out of 3 games, setting themselves
up against UCFV again. At this time Woods
wasonceagain chosenasan All Canadian,and
Familusi & Knight were selected to be part of
the BCCAA All Conference team. Meanwhile,
the Men’s team had netted 2nd place behind
Malaspina after a disappointing loss to the
Mariners. Crushing UCFV in the Semi-finals
once again set the Royals up against the
Mariners. Knopp was chosen as an All
Canadian, Caldwell was selected for the
BCCAA All Conference team and
with the other various teammate: Padvaiskas,
Hayre, Chris Vandermark,... they

March
defeated those Mariners in two games out of
the three.

The finals were held on March 5-7,
where both hoopster teams used full court

in their hard fought games. The Women

won the firstand third games in the “best 2 out
of 3” playoff format against the UCFV.

Both teams went on to Regina (Men), and
Briercrest Bible College (Women) in
Saskatchewan.

The Men’s team tooka disappointing loss
from the Humber College Hawks of Ontarioas
the Hawksstole the CanadianCollege Athletics
Association title with a 60-53 win. ite the
loss the Men still attain Silver Medals but
coming close to the Gold can bring a big let-
down.

The Women’s BB team played without
Woodsas she sustained leg injuries just before
the tournament tipped-off. After losing 73-67
to Lethbridge Community College, the
took on the Southern Alberta Institute of

Technology’sLady TrojansintheBronze Medal
game. Knight and Familusi brought in 17 and

19 points respectively to attain a 71-63 win.
Bronze Medal Honours was awarded to our
team.

Nobody could stop Chen of the Royals
Badminton team as she won the CCAA Gold
MedalinWomen’sSingles for Douglas. Though
this was Chen’s first time winning thathonour,
it was the fourth consecutive time that DC had
won the Gold Medal in that event.(Refer to
photo and caption in this issue.)

With TWU hosting the BCCAA Men’s
Volleyball Finals, the Royals attacked
O on March 5, in a tough exciting
match making several comebacks after
Okanaganhad takenmoreleadsthannecessary
(2-12, 1-5, 1-5). The momentum in the game
shifted to the DC Royals and they sailed out
with a 3-2 count win. The following day, the
Royals were set up against the TWU Spartans.
Though the Royals did shut out the crowd,
they could not give enough competition to the
TWU to win that final match. Even so, the
Royals captured the silver medal Honours.

And finally, the DC Royals Rugby team
won the Provincial Championships against
the arch-rivals UBC Thunderbirds, March 17.

 

After suffering their first
seasonal loss against TWU, the
Women’s VB team defeated
Okanagan to get back on their
winning streak. ThoughtheMen’s
team wonanexciting competitive
gameagainst TWU they took three
consecutive losses as they were
crushed by VCC, Malaspina and
Okanagan. This is the half-way
mark for the teams. During the
semester and season break, the
teams took a social trip to San
Diego.
The BB teams the
league play with three wins and
one loss. Variations of team line-
ups for the Women’s team were
successful, particularly with
Woods, Penne Familusi, Celeste
Rivet, Jenee Lutz and Robyn
Knight on the Royals’ roster.
Meanwhile, Knopp, Caldwell,
Onkar Hayre and Justin
Padvaiskas stood out for the
Men’s team.

 

 

 

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