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by Jonathan D Chapman

ow can they be so fickle?
Fans are always complaining
“T can’t believe those

Canucks, they got so much high paid
talent, but they can’t win a game.
Those Canucks suck!”(No offense).
You hear these sorts of statements all
the time on the SkyTrain ride home

who.there favorite
baseball team was at

after the Canucks lose (something this point of the

that’s happening a lot lately). All season. They

Vancouver teams have this problem. would be sure to

The Lions have a horrible record and say the New

the Grizzlies are too young to ride York Yankees or

your hopes on. People always ask why the Atlanta

they watch such garbage, yet game Braves (the two

after game they come back to watch _ teams in the

the hometown team. World Series).
Why do people complain and What really gets

complain about our teams? A few me is when

nights ago, I came home after one of _they try to

my later classes, and my grandfather (a
faithful and devoted fan of the

Canucks) came storming out of his den,
; up in arms with their poor performance.

cover up the
fact that they
are being a

typical

He spent five minutes cursing and band-
swearing under his breath and went wagon-
back to his den, to continue to watch jumper.
the game. This after he vowed to never “I have
watch the Canucks again. been a fan

 

Basketball Volleyball

Women

Well, they might have heart, but the DC women’s basketball team
haven’t done so hot in their first couple of tournements, loosing
two of three games, and placing 5th in the Annual UCC
Tournement, and loosing three of four at the SAIT pre-season
tournement.

UCC Tourney (OcToBER 18-19)

Okanagan 76 Douglas 61

Top Scorer—Jasmine Foreman 18
Malaspina 63 Douglas 53

Top Scorer—Jocylyn Stendal 15

Douglas 72 College of New Caledonia 30
Top Scorer—Stacy Reykdal 20

SAIT Pre-SEASON TOURNAMENT

(OcToBER 25-26)

Medicine Hat 60 Douglas 52
Top Scorer—Jasmine Foreman 14
SAIT 79 Douglas 67
Top Scorer—Jasmine Foreman 16
Mount Royal 71 Dougals 60
Top Scorers—Jasmine Foreman 13
Janice MacKintosh 13
Douglas 69 __ Briercrest 52
Top Scorer—Jasmine Foreman 17
Douglas will next take on Whatcom
College on Friday Nov. | at 6:00pm.
Then on Saturday Nov. 2, Douglas will
host UBC at Burnaby Central Sec. at
6:00pm.

Men

The DC men roared into the Meet in the
Middle tournament in Golden ready to
prove that they were the team to beat, and
what do you know, nobody could. Pretty
impressive start for the men, who are
looking to improve on last year’s BCCAA
record. On Friday, October 25 Douglas
will host Whatcom CC at 8:00pm, and the
day after Douglas will host the Seattle
Blue Angels at 8:00pm. Please note that
Saturday’s game has been moved to
Burnaby Central Secondary.

MEET IN THE MIDDLE EXHIBITION
(OcToBER 25-26)

Douglas 60 Lethbridge CC 58
Top Scorer—Lee Cravan 16
Douglas 74 Grande Prairie 72
Top Scorer—Lee Cravan 16
Douglas 85 Cariboo 74

Tob Scorer—Bijan Jiany 20

Oh, those fickle fans!

Once the team starts scoring,
though, that’s a different story.
It is beginning to look like a
fan can only appreciate a
team if they are winning. If
you were to ask someone

 

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of the team for years.” Yeah, right, and

I drive on the left side of the road
(sarcasism intended).

For all you undecided fans out
there that haven’t chosen your
favorite team yet, stick to
Chappy’s three-step guide
for picking a team. First,
you will want to pick a
mediocre team with a
promising future in the

league. Then, watch a
§ few games so when
you are asked to name
: five players on “your”
« team, you won't
embarrass yourself.

Finally, try not to pick
* a team with ugly
jerseys (for instance, the

L.A. Lakers), so when you
wear the jersey out in
public, you will not look like

a fashion disaster.

But if you’re still going to
sit there and complain, why
; not go for the gusto? Why not
E put it down on paper and
submit it to the Other Press?

   
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
   
 
  
 
 
 
   
  
 
 
 
 
  
 

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Men

The DC men’s volleyball team is off to a strong, if not spectacular,

start this year. DC placed third in the King’s Challenge Cup
tournament in Red Deer, Alberta, held October 11-12. The next
weekend saw Douglas win couple and loose a couple in an
exhausting three day playing bing that saw them at home, in
Langely, at home again and then in Victoria.

KinG’s CHALLENGE Cup (OcToBER 11-12)
Douglas 2 Grant MacEwan | (16-14, 13-15, 15-12)
Mount Royal 2 Douglas 0 (15-8, 15—10)

U of Alberta 2 Douglas 1 (15-12, 13-15, 154
Quarter Finals
Douglas 3 Grande Prairie 2 (15-11, 12-15, 12

Semi-Finals

UofA3 Douglas 0 (15-10, 15-8, 15—11)
Bronze Medal Match
Douglas 3 Mount Royal 1 (15-9, 12-15, 15-9, 15—7) _

Camosun AT DouGias (OCTOBER a
Douglas 3 Camosun 0 (15-10, 15-8, 15-12)

Doucvas at TRINITY (OCTOBER 19)
Trinity 3 Douglas 0 (15-13, 15-8, 15-10)

NAIT at Douctas (Octoser 19)

Douglas 3 NAIT 0 (15-8, 15-5, 15-11)

UVic MINI-TOURNEY (OCTOBER 20) gy

UVic 2 Douglas 0 (16-14, 15-13)
Douglas 2 Malispina 0 (16-14, 15-11)
Douglas 2 Camosun 0 (15-10, 15-13)
Women

Camosun at Douctas (Ocroser 18)
Douglas 3 Camosun 0 (15-7, 15-6, 17-15)

Douc-as At TRINITY (OcTOBER 19)
TWU 3 Douglas 0 (15-10, 15-10, 16-14)

UBC Jv’s at Douctas (OcTosER 19)
UBC Jv’s3 Douglas 0 (15-12, 15-13, 15-6)

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DC third in BC

Rookie golf squad unable to capture
golf title for sixth consecutive year

It’s over.

After five years of ruling the links,
the Douglas College golf dynasty is
over. The team travelled to the
Nanaimo Golf and Country Club for
the final BCCAA tournament October
12-13, finishing the season in third
place behind second place University
College of the Cariboo and Camosun
College.

The young Douglas team (eight new
players and no returnees from last
year’s record setting team) couldn’t
keep pace with this season’s clear
champions, Camousun College.
However, they were scant strokes back
of second place University College of

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the Cariboo, and had hoped of
capturing second with strong playi
from the likes of Jarrod Boddy. Be
placed second in the individual
aggragate, with an average of 77
strokes per round, only two strokes
back of Camosun’s Craig Wikinso1

However, Douglas was unable tc
keep up to the strong team play of
UCC, and finished four strokes off
second. <>

Kudos go to the Douglas Colleg:
team of Boddy, Matt Kern, Dave
Byrnell, Mario O’Hara, Kurt
Dalphond, Scott Freeland, Kevin T
and Brian McFarlane.

Come down to the
rm 1020. Please.

Soccer

Douglas men’s soccer team was ranked third as of October 11, but
with three consecutive losses, they have fallen from playoff
contention The women, on the other hand, are still ranked third
provincially, and stand a good chance of taking the province. On
November | and 2 the women head for the University College of
the Fraser Valley and the provincial championship. Wish them
luck.

Men

UCC at Douctas (OcToser 11)
UCC 2

Douglas 0 =

 

Doua as at TRINITY (OCTOBER 25) |
Trinity 1 Douglas 0 ~

CAPILANO AT DOUGLAS
~(OcToBER 19)

‘Douglas 1 Capilano 0

UCC art Douc-as (OcToseER 20)
». UCC2 Douglas 0

DoucLas At TRINITY (OCTOBER
425)

Douglas2 Trinity 0

adminton

* The Douglas College Badminton
team travelled to Nanaimo to compete
in she first of four BCCAA regular season tourna-

   
   
  
 

_ ments at Malaspina University College. Douglas fared well as they

won two of a possible five events. Julia Chen, returning after a one s~
year absence, began where she left off, winning the Women’s

Singles title, while Jennifer Wong and Elizabeth Yeun took the

Women’s Doubles event. Douglas placed third in the 6 team field,

5 points out of first and two away from second place Malaspina.

BCCAA Tournament | (October 26)

Ist Langara

2nd Malaspina ae
3rd Douglas

4th Capilano

Sth BCIT

6th UCC

 

The Other Press October 29 1996