“Wednesday, January 18, 1984

page 11

 

Douglas Basketball

Their Finest Hour

With skill, determination,
and aggressive play the
Douglas Royals Men’s Bas-
ketball Team took first place

by Martin Hemerik

 

at the third annual Cariboo
Classic. ‘
They opéned up the three
game round robin tourna-
ment against host Cariboo.
Cariboo had the choice of
who to play first. Having
beat Douglas earlier in th
season their choice was sim-

_ ple, or so they thought.

The Royals came out and
with blistering
tough rebounding and a
deep bench, beat Cariboo
easily 71-56. Indeed these
were the key elements in all
the games. Brent Hender-
son, Dan Glavind and Mark
White were just a few of the
players who came off the
bench and made outstand-
ing contributions.

The next game was a lot
closer. Selkirk came out and

jumped to an early 14 point

lead. Steve Beauchamp, the
Douglas’ coach and master-
mind, then altered the de-
fense to a 1-3-1 zone and the
Royals soon took the lead.
They led 31-22 at the half

and finished up the game

59-50. Steve Mitton led all
scorers with 15 points, Brian
Brown netted 10, and Dan
Glavind and Grant Rose
scored 8 points each.

The final game for the
championship against the
Northern Alberta Bible Col-
lege was a classic nail biter.
The lead seesawed back and
forth for the first ten min-
utes but then Douglas ran
off a streak of baskets and
led at the half 34-23.

NABC refused to falter
and with quick aggressive
play they came back and
with two and a half minutes
to play took th lead 46-45.
Douglas grabbed the lead
soon after and with grim
determination and_ clutch
foul shooting hung on to
preserve the victory and
take it’s first tournament
championship of. the year.
Brian Brown led the Doug-
las attack with 13 points.
Dan Glavind was next with
12, Grant Rose with 10, and
Brent Henderson and Steve
Mitton had 9 each.

Congradulations go out to
Steve Mitton who was voted
the Most Valuable Player of
the tournament and Grant
Rose who was selected to
the All Star Team.

defense, ©

The Douglas women also
collected their fair share of
hardware as they took third
place in the tournament.

In the first game the
scoring came form all over
with Carol Taylor netting a
whopping 21 points, Karen
Minato and Sheila Ham-
mond had 8 each. The score
was close throughout most
of the game but midway
through the final half Doug-

las reeled off a quick 10
points and stuck it out from
there for a 53-48 victory.
Their next game was a
complete blowout as the
Grand Prarie Wolves took
out their frustrations of a

.long bus trip by thrashing

Douglas 106-43. However it
should be noted that the
Royals easily outscored all
other Wolves’ ‘opponents.
Karen Minato had 10 points

 

for the Royal team.

In the final game to de-
cide third place Douglas put
on their best performance of
the season. The game was
tied after the first half at
31-31. Early in the second
half the Royals scored 11
straight points and never
looked back from there. Sev-
en different players figured
in the scoring. Kathleen
Knight scored 19 points, 11

of them in the crucial second
half, Karen Minato and Car-
ol Taylor had 14 points each.

As with the men, Richard
Norman, the | women’s
coach, accredited the team’s
success in the tournament to
aggressive defense, good re-
bounding and an outstand-
ing overall team effort. Con-
gradulations also go out to
Carol taylor who was selec-
ted to the Allstar Team.