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March 6, 1981

 

The Other Press

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- Douglas College men’s and women’s volleyball teams
hosted a tournament , Saturday, in New Westminster.

 

The Douglas College
mixed curling team capi-
talized on some key ‘‘mis-
takes’’ by opposing skips,
and went on to capture first
place in the Totem Confe-
rence’ championships, Feb
21, 22, in Kamloops.

The Douglas rink which
consisted of Dan Walker,
skip, Sue ‘McCurdy, lead,
Donna Lawson, third, and

Tom Armitage, second,
went undefeated in five
games.

 

by Greg Heakes

 

Their victories came a-
gainst Malaspian 10-2, Col-
lege of New Calendonia Il-4,
Capilano 8-6, Caribou 6-5
and B.C.I.T. 6-5.

‘‘Capilano was our tou-
ghest opponent. We knew
that if we could beat them,
then we could win it all.’’
said Armitage, who is a
second year physical educa-
tion student.

Armitage along with
Walker helped lead Douglas
to.a second place finish last
year. They as well as
McCurdy are regular play-
ers at the Tunnel Town

Curling Club in Tswassen.

Lawson, who is in her
second year at Douglas,
practices regularly in Co-
quitlam.

Douglas had a relatively
easy time disposing of
Malaspina and New Calen-
donia in seven and eight
ends.

‘‘Malaspian wasn’t that
bad, but we caught them off
guard early and ended up
blowing them away.’’ ex-
plained Armitage.

The Capilano game saw
Douglas go two extra ends
to 12 (the average is ten).
The crucial moment came in
the ninth end with the score
tied 5-5.

“Their skip gambled by

. trying to get a bundle of

points. It backfired on him
and we got one more which
basically sewed up the
victory ’’ said Armitage.

Douglas’ other break ca-
me’in the ninth end of the
final game against BCIT.
Armitage felt the BCIT skip
made a glowing error in
trying to get an extra end.

‘““We thought we would
beat them handily but they

- Mixed curling team makes
it to Western Canada finals

were very strong.’’ he said.

‘‘The (BCIT) skip made a
mistake when he tried to
force another end. He
thought they could hit eve-
rything we threw, but mis-
sed and we ended up get-
ting two points.’’

Douglas -was © unaware
that they had already clin-
ched first place until the
BCIT game was over.

The team was plauged by
financial problems in get-
ting to the tournament and
ended up having to borrow
$500. from the student coun-

_cil to go.

The next stop for them is
the Western Canada finals,
March ll, 12, 13, and 14 in
Prince George.

 
    
  
 
 

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you jumped

into something
more demanding
than a car pool.

 

Rese comer.

‘The Canadian movement for personal titness.

John Lussier wishes he
could have traded his teams
play last weekend, with the
way they played the pre-
vious weekend.

After playing what he
described as ‘‘the best
they’ve played individually
all season’’ The Douglas
college volleyball coach saw
his team’s playoff hopes
ended after they became
victims of their inconsistent
play during Saturday’s
tournament at New West-
minster High.

 

by Greg Heakes

 

Saturday’s games were
the final of the season for
Douglas and _ virtually
knocked them out of the
playoffs. It. was a sharp
contrast from the previous
weekend when it looked like
they would have no. pro-
blems making the playoffs.

The Douglas players were
on cloud nine after their
impressive victories over
Okanagan and Selkirk Col-
leges. ‘‘We played very
poorly, we thought we had a
playoff berth guaranteed,
but we gave it away this
weekend.”’ said Lussier.

“Overall, we’ve had a
pretty good year, but we’ve
consistantly played up and
down. - down at the wron
time. The guys are really
dissapointed,’’ he added.

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es dashed

The key mateh tourna-
ment for Douglas turned out
to be their final match

against B.C.I.T. They won
the first game but lost the
next three.

If Douglas had won the
match they would have
captured the fourth and
final playoff spot.

Instead, they finished in a

tie for fourth and B.C.I.T.
was awarded a slight edge
because they had one more
regular season victory.
B.C.1.T. had 31 wins and 22
losses on the season, while
Douglas finished with 30
wins 22 losses.

“‘We stuffed the hell out
of them in the first game,”’

said Lussier, ‘‘but after
that, everything broke
down.’’ -It was not the

customary play of Douglas
who had built-up a reputa-
tion of being a comeback
team.

Douglas also lost _ three
straight games to both Roy-
al Roads and Langara.

In their second match of
the day, they took Malas-
pina to a gruelling five
game limit before losing.
Malaspina and Douglas had
been battling for third place
all year.

“It was a tough match,
the differance was the final
game when it was tied 12-12
and we missed two serves in
a row.’’ said Lussier.

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by Greg Heakes