Black Eye Gets
Embarrassing

by Martin Hemerik

The Saga of Ron Bartel con-
tinues (see Basketball Black
Eye February 9, 1983). Ron
Bartel is the ineligible player
who played a couple of basket-
ball games for Okanagan Col-
lege this season.

The Totem Conference rules
state that a player in the con-
ference,.may not have pre-
viously played three years of
college ball. Bartel used up his
eligibility playing for Trinity
Western which, coincidentally
,is where the Douglas
coaches, Ken Klassen and
Kirk Lundberg, go to school.
They and the team knew he
was ineligible.

In a letter to Neil Chester,
head of the Grievance Com-
mittee, Eldon Worabrieff, the
Okanagan Athletic Direttor
states ‘‘The coach of the
complainant, Douglas Coll-
ege, was aware of the concern
and the necessary facts as
early as January 8th, 1983 at
the Cariboo tournament at
which time the coach of
Douglas College spoke to the
player in question, Ron Bartel
and not the coach of Okanagan
_ College.”

According to my sources
Klasses did indeed talk to
Brock Tully, the Okanagan
coach on January 8th AND
January 14th just minutes be-

What Okanagan is driving at

is that they do not want the
games they beat Douglas
awarded to Douglas for the
simple reason that if they
were, Douglas would make the
playoffs and Okanagan would
not.

In the letter to the Grievance
Committee Okanagan says
“‘contact was made with
Douglas College to replay the
games but Douglas College

replied that they had a busy-

schedule and could not play
the game.”’

Even if we didn’t have a busy
schedule we do not have to
replay those games because
Okanagan keeps forgetting
that we did not lie to the To-
tem Conference about any of
our player’s eligibility and we
did not lie to the B.C. Basket-
ball Association. Heck, in say-
ing Douglas never talked to
the Okanagan coach they’re
even lying in the letter to the
Grievance Committee!

Apparently Okanagan is
attempting to cloud the issue
by getting the Kelowna media
in an uproar with, get this,
them toting Douglas as the
bad guys. Well, it wasn’t work
because Douglas has_ the
Other Press and a lot of high
ranking officials in the Totem
Conference who don’t like be-

ai Douglas played Okanag- ing lied to, on their side.
standings
Men
W E PTS
VCC 1l 0 22
CAPILANO 10 1 20
MALASPINA oa 3 14
DOUGLAS 7 5 14
SELKIRK 6 6 12
OKANAGAN 3 9 6
CARIBOO 1 11 -
ROYAL ROADS 0 10 0
Leading Scorers
pts g Pps
M. O’Rourke R.R. 138 6 23.0
_J. Deanna Doug 187 8 22.8
C. Clemens V.C.C 125 20.8
P. Johanson Okan. 187 10 18.7
G. Dakin. Selk. 103 6 17.1
- D. Klassen Okan 170 10 17.0
H Whyte Selk 88 6 14.6
K. Kelly Mal. 75 6 12.5
K. Reimer V.C.C 74 6 12.3.
M. McNamee Car 98 8 12.3

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_MARCH 2, 1983

 

Opening Debut Bombs

_ by Martin Hemerik

Well the home debut of the
Douglas College men’s bas-
ketball team was a classic nail
biter. The lead constantly
changed hands and was never
greater than six points. In the
end Red Deer squeezed out a
58-57 victory.

Once again it was a game
Douglas should have won.
They played Better than Red
Deer for most of the game but
once again inconsistency
reared its ugly head. The most
important element missing
from the Douglas attack had to
be Jon Deanna. In the first

half he was out to lunch for six

easy points and later fouled |

out midway through the se-
cond half. Although in all fair-
ness to Deanna he played an
excellent defensive game con-
stantly pulling in rebounds
and intercepting passes. In
fact it seemed almost as
though he switched places
with Steve Mitten who led the
Douglas scoring punch with 17
points.

Another difference in the
game was the well balanced
offense displayed by Red
Deer. Almost all their players
had at least six points whereas

with Douglas the majority of
the points came from three or
four players.

The game progressed quite
quickly in the first half due to
the fact that only one referee
showed up. Fortunately in the
second half another referee,
from a different league who
was in the audience, volun-
teered his help.

For an exhibition game the
turnout was quite good. At
one point in the game I coun-
ted over 50 people in the audi-
ence and most folks I talked to
enjoyed the match.