Sports Shorts Cont.

Women's Basketball Team

Douglas College Women’s Bas-
ketball team opened their season on
Saturday Oct. 9th with a pair of wins
against Grad teams from the ‘80’s and
‘90's.

In the first game against the ‘80’s
grads, Douglas started slowly trailing
15-7 as they had some trouble finding
their shdoting range.

By halftime Douglas caught up
and led 31-27. All Royals scored as
they controlled the second half, winning
58-47. Robyn Knight led Douglas with
10 pts and former Royal All Canadian
Andrea Jackson led the 80’s grads with
13.

In the second game, Douglas
again started slowly trailing 15-8, but
had a 14-0 run to end the half ahead 43-
33. Douglas controlled the 90’s grads
in the second half, and coasted to a 77-
58 win.

Tracy Cavanagh led Douglas with
12 pts while Lana Evdokimenko had 10
for the 90’s grads. Royals newcomers
Janice MacKintosh, Joanne Blesch and
Tania Penafiel all had strong perform-
ances.

Douglas faced their 1st College
competition Saturday Oct. 23 against
Everett CC. Douglas dominated from
the start on offense, while Everett
started slowly. Douglas led early 15-2
but Everett got on track in the 2nd half
and stayed close before Douglas’s late
8-2 run to put the game away 79-56.

Mens Basketball Team
Starting Off Slow

It was a tough weekend for the
men’s basketball club team as they
played two heated scrimmages against
SFU on Friday and UBC on Saturday
morning, as well as scrimmaging
against the Douglas College Alumni
Saturday evening.

The club fell behind early in the
contest, but were able to cut the lead
near the end of the first half. In the
second half, the Alumni cruised to the
67-60 victory. The Douglas Basket-
ball Club was led by Vern Knopp with
14 pts and 13 rebounds. Tyler
Runquist led the Alumni with 17
points. Fatigue after playing their
third scrimmage in 24 hours played a
major role in the clubs loss. The club
also lost the services of Matt Holford
and Chad Caldwell for an indefinite
period of time. Holford injured his
knee against SFU, and Caldwell
injured his ankle against the Alumni.

DC Golf Team Wins
BCCAA Championship Title

The third tournament of the BCCAA
Golf Championships was conducted at
Rivershore and Eagle Point golf course. in
Kamloops, Oct.2-3.

Cariboo College led the field with the
team aggregate of 232 at Rivershore on
Saturday followed by FVC - 235, Douglas
- 243, and Malaspina- 248. However
Douglas bounced back at Eagle Point on
Sunday leading the pack with an aggregate
on 239 followed by Cariboo - 241, FVC-
250, and Malaspina - 252.

The individual aggregate winner for
the weekend was Chad Belbin of Cariboo

‘ with scores of 71 and 75. Mike Townsend

was low man for Douglas with scores of 78
and 78. Douglas still leads the overall
aggregate by 27 strokes over FVC.

The fourth and final BCCAA Golf

Tournament was conducted at the
Morningstar and Fairwinds golf courses in
Parkville on Oct. 9th and 10th. Douglas
College had an aggregate lead of 27 strokes
over Fraser Valley College going into the
tournament. On Saturday DC had its worst
day that coach Gert VanNiekerk could
remember and trailed UCFV by 10 strokes.
The scores for DC that counted for the
aggregate were:

Dave Townsend - 80

Steve Haldane - 82

Mike Longridge - 84

However, Douglas still held a 17

stroke lead over UCFV going into the final
round at Fairwinds. On Sunday Douglas
beat UCFV by 7 strokes to win the BCCAA
Championships for the third straight year by
a margin of 24 strokes

 

 

 

 

 

Douglas College's Men's Royal Classic basketball tournament Took place on OCT.14-16. Story on
following page. Tough Competition for Douglas Royals from the Medicine Hat Rattlers. Vern Knopp

Shoots for Two asRattlers Stand by Watching.

 

PHOTO:BETTY LOU HAYES