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There is absolutely no
truth to the rumour that
Mark White was seen at
Douglas College on Monda

 

by MARTIN HEMERIK

 

January 30th wearing sun-
glasses and handing out
autographs to everyone in
sight, although he certainly
was entitled to do so as he
hit a 16 footer with one
second left in the game as
Douglas defeated Malaspina
83-81 at Nanaimo last Sat-
urday.

Brian Englund netted 25
points, his personal best so
far this season. Grant Rose
and Dan Glavind scored 19
and 16 points respectively.

The team is on a roll. The
week earlier they posted a
pair of victories over Cari-
boo.

On January 20th they

“came out gunning for a

victory over the Chiefs but
had a harder time than they
expected.

The game was tight all
the way through the early
stages until Dave Reiter
broke it open for Douglas
with three steals late in the
first half. From there they
managed to amass a 13
point lead and led 39-26 at
the half. They easily held on
in the second half to defeat
the Chiefs 65-56.

The next day told another
story as the Royals had to
come from behind with
three and a half minutes to
play in the game.

In what turned out to be a
season of different heroes
for each game, Steve Mitton
had two steals and a blocked
shot on defense and Grant
Rose made some pressure
foul shots to enable Douglas
to pull yet another one from
the fire.

One of the most important
statistics. of the game was
that the Royals held Cariboo
off the scoresheet for those.
crucial last three and a half
minutes. Steve Mitton had
19 points, Brian Brown sunk

14 and Grant Rose had 10.

» Volleyball Tourney a Big Success

_ Douglas College this past
weekend hosted a Totem
Conference Volleyball tourn-
ament with eight different

by MARTIN HEMERIK

 

colleges competing.

Much. like Douglas bas-
ketball teams the men’s and
women’s volleyball have
made substantial improve-
ments, notably the women,
who finished third in the
round robin tournament.

Their coach was acquired
from VCC after they cut
their volleyball program.
The Douglas women have
responded. well under his
tutelage. Team captain Sha-
ron Taylor and Donna For-
sythe, Melanie Pion and
Cathy Warall were the not-
ables but more importanatly
the team is strong all
around.

The men have almost all
the tools necessary to be one
of the better teams in the

league, however, they lack
two important fundamen-
tals, one being the cause of
the other: self confidence
and communication. There’s
no question as to whether or
not they have the talent.

There were a few of the
players which proved that
now all they have to. do is
put everything — together.
The only two low lights of
the tournament were Eldon
Worobrief, the Okanagan
Athletic division and the

 

Malaspina Men’s Volleyball
team.

The final men’s match
was televised on cable ten
so it was set up on the full
court. The game which fea-
tured Okanagan was then
moved to New West Senior
Secondary. Worobrief then
said his team would not play
there. He gave no grounds
other than he likes to raise a
big fuss. This is the same
person who was charged
with using an_ ineligible

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Royals Continue Domination —

player on the basketball
team when he knew full well
of that player’s ineligibility.
His. team finally showed up
at the high school late. and
were promptly blown out by
Fraser Valley.

The other lowlight came
when the Malaspina team
picked a fight with the
Douglas College men’s hoc-
key team at the Saturday
night social. —

| guess slap shots and
spikes just don’t mix.