(Y Royals on the hunt (¥ Which sport burns the most calories? ¥Y Inblood, tears, and bronze And more! The Chargers are back 1n town > Royals Volleyball face off against the Camosun Chargers Davie Wong who will have the difficult job of tracking Matthew Bower and Savana Walkingbear. 1 7 Sports Editor On the women’s side things, while the rivalry between MEN'S BASKETBALL very sports team has a rivalry—the BC Lions and Calga these two teams is evident, it is not as heated as the men’s *Y SP *"Y gary side. The Royals have been on a tear to start their season, INSTITUTION CONF PTS Stampeders, the Vancouver Canucks and the Flames, . . y first eh E h h and the Douglas College Royals Volleyball and the Camosun 80187711 their hist eight games. Even the one game they - did drop to the defending provincial champions (COTR) was LANGARA tC 8 Chargers Volleyball. These two legendary rosters have some af P dcould h, BP th P bad blood with each other, particularly on the men’s side. in five sets anc’ cou ave gone erther way. CAPILANO 4-0 8 No year was more heated than last year. The Chargers haven't been so lucky. They are 4-4 The Chargers beat out the Royals to a PACWEST to start the year and have looked questionable at times, VIU 3-2 6 Provincial Championship gold medal in a thrilling five sets, re rticwarly when they got swept by the CBC Bearcats in but the Royals got the Chargers back at the CCAA National t hake t ; “i head ithad . QUEST 22 4 Tournament, where they sent the Chargers spiraling out of € Royals have t ca vantage with a deep scoring bronze medal contention. roster. This year, you don't know who the ball is going to. It DOUGLAS 2-2 4 This year, things are a bit different for both teams. The could go out wide to Juliana Penner or Vania Oliveira, orit CBC Royals have almost a completely different roster, with new could be a quick strike from Vicki Schley, or it could even go 0-4 0 players, new staff, and even a new coach. The Chargers up the middle to Autumn Davidson. All four players have CAMOSUN _ o managed to maintain much of their old roster, and their had their games 1 the spotlight, and have shown that they staff and coach remained the same, but the team has have € abiity toh nish : fer f seemingly struggled so far to start the season. carne, Bie Snargers silver froma common , The Chargers were completely outclassed by the VIU problem of having a single attacking threat in Michelle WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Mariners, dropping two games to them in three straight sets. Zygmunt. While very skilled and definitely always a threat, They also dropped two games to the UFV squad, with both the Royals should have more than enough defence to lock INSTITUTION CONF PTS of those being 3-1 , her down. Obviously, as a former libero, Schley is a fantastic The Royal have also had their own struggles. After two-way player, and provides a filler option to different holes CAIPIILAINTG) +0 8 winning their first four, the Douglas College squad has on the court. Claudia Corneil has been nearly flawless as DOUGLAS 3-1 6 dropped the next four in a row. They lost both games to an a libero, acting as the Royals’ main defensive outlet. And a4: . Autumn Davidson can always be found where a block is VIU 7 6 ailing College of the Rockies team, and dropped both games : . . 3-2 against UFV. The Chargers beat COTR fairly convincingly to happening for the Royals, while also being a two-way threat. start the season, and the Royals may be looking at a David I think it's going to be 3-1 wins on both games this Cee a 4 and Goliath battle. despite both squads’ records weekend for them, and IJ think they have more than enough ners d : to take both games for sure. CAMOSUN 2-3 4 No matter what the records may say, the Royals vs. Both Roval ds will be plavi h hi | Chargers has always delivered exciting high-level volleyball. O81 Royals squad's will De playing at ome this week. 7 Should the Royals hope to win, they'll need huge games iden Oren ieee t ‘4. e © et sds 5 8 h from Justin Faester and Devon Dunn, as well as Johnson Yi, niday af © and’ ® p-m., and on Saturday af 1 ane’ 3 p.m. Bot CBC 0-4 o games will be played in the New Westminster campus gym. a a ad MEN'S VOLLEYBALL = INSTITUTION CONF PTS . VIU 8-0 16 ‘LAS COLLEGE UFV 7-2 14 er CAMOSUN 4-4 8 DOUGLAS 4-4 8 CAPILANO 3-4 6 COTR 3-5 6 CBC 0-10 o WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL INSTITUTION CONF PTS VIU 7-1 14 DOUGLAS 7-1 14 > CAPILANO 5-2 10 c $ CAMOSUN 4-4 8 wv 8 COTR 2-6 4 & 6 UFV 2-7 4 ® CBC 2-8 4 2 oa