INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / JANUARY 30, 1990

 

 

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Douglas Women’s basketball
team split a pair of league games at

' home the weekend of January 19-
21. Friday night Royals were in a
see-saw battle with first place
Malaspina. After leading at the half
29-27, Royals offence sputtered
along with the defensive rebound-
ing, to allow Malaspina a 64-56 vic-
tory. Crystal Caldwell led with 19
points followed by Melissa Wilkin-
son with 11 points.

On Saturday the Royals faced
off against a large and aggressive
Cariboo team. Everytime Royals
opened a lead, Cariboo kept com-
ing back with three point shots or
from the foul line. By half-time the
Royals had built a 6 pt. lead 44-38,
but quickly let Cariboo back in the
game before pulling ahead again 40-
49. Royals had not learned their les-
son from the first half, and
continued to send Cariboo to the
line, allowing them to come back to
within 3 with 10 seconds left.
Royals denied the 3 point shot, al-
lowing Cariboo a 2 pointer with
under 5 seconds to play. Royals
held the ball out of bounds to run
out the clock and defeat Cariboo 68-
67. Top scorers for Douglas were
Lorraine Denis with 27 points and
Crystal Caldwell with 21 points.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

On Thursday Jan. 18 Douglas
College beat Trinity Western
University (ranked 4th in CCAA)
83-75. At half-time the score was
TWU 43, Douglas 29. Douglas had
a great second half coming back
from a 14 point deficit. Top scorer
was Fred Appolinario with 23
points and he also added 5 assists.
Dave Gill and Ted Vanderwall both
added 16 points.

Friday, Jan. 19 the Royals
played Malaspina at home. The
half-time score had Douglas ahead
44-29 with the final score being 83-

Athletics Update

77 in favour of Douglas. Dave Gill
netted 24 points and 4 assists while
Rory Brown added 16 points.

Saturday, Jan. 20 the Royals
played Cariboo College, at’ home
once Half-time score was 40-
32 for Douglas and they held the
lead to win a close 67-66. Taras Mas-
lechko made a last second despera-
tion shot for the ’s win. Rory
Brown had 17 points and Ted
Vanderwal added 12 points.

Douglas College men currently
sit in second spot in the BCCAA
standing with a 3-0 record. TWu are
first with a 4-1 record.

BADMINTON
Following are the results of the
Cariboo tournament:

1. Douglas 5-0
2. B.C.LT. 4-1
3. 3-2
4. VCC. 2-3
5. Cariboo 1-4
6. C.B.C. 0-5
The team standing after 3 even
are: .

1. Douglas 16
2. V.C.C. 12
3. Malaspina ye
4. B.C.LT. 7
5. Cariboo 2
6. C.B.C. 0

Cariboo College hosted the 3rd
tournament of the badminton
season, in which Douglas College
finished in first place with a perfect
5-0 record. The Douglas team put
On quite a show by winning 24 out
of 25 matches in the team event.
The result puts Douglas College in
first place overall with a 4 point
lead over V.C.C. In the team event
Douglas was led by Sian Deng, Kel-
ley Wong, and rookies Trish Schell,
Sharon Halpin and Mike Boyd, all
finishing with 5-0 records. Peter
Chen and Darrin also
finished with perfect 4-0 records.

The second half of the tourna-
ment was the individual event
where Douglas College again led
the way winning 4 out of the 5
events.

Men’s singles

Winner: Peter Chen (Douglas) —_-
Runner-up: Wesley Fong (V.C.C.)
Women’s singles

Winner: Sharon Halpin (Douglas)
Runner-up: Jodene Eldstrom
(V.C.C.)

Men’s Doubles

Winners: Noel Leonin & David
Tjahjadi (V.C.C.)

Runners-up: Lacy Bujdos & Ken
Cooper (B.C.L.T.)

Women’s Doubles

Winners: Trish Schell & Kelley
Wong

Runners-up: Cindy Wotherspoon é&
Terry Gelinas (B.C.LT.)

Mixed Doubles

Winners: Sian Deng & Corey Grant
(Douglas)

Runners-up: Andrea Lindner &
Dennis Lessard (Cariboo)

A very good tournament by the
Douglas College team. The next
tournament is at Douglas College
on Saturday, February 17. Come
and support the team!

WRESTLING

At the Highline Community
College on January 20 the Douglas
College team tied Lower Columbia
C.C. 27-27, defeated Clackamas
C.C. 29-27, defeated Yakima Valley
27-22 and Big Bend C.C. 29-15. In-
dividual results were as follows:

Cory Kwak 3 wins, 1 loss
Selwyn Tam 2 wins, 1 loss, 1 tie

Walter McLean 2 wins, 3 losses
Scott Austin 3 losses
Sonny Gill 2 wins, 1 loss
Mike Roselli 2 wins, 1 loss

John Melling 2 wins, 1 loss, 1 tie

Next wrestling meet Jan. 27 at
Clackamas Community College. #

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