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Royals Improve in Second

NWAACE Year

Cam Michael, OP Contributor

 

splitting a two-game set with Shoreline at Mundy Park.

This concludes the Royals’ second season in the
NWAACC, where Douglas finished seventh with a league
record of 4—20. The Royals, however, made big strides in their
overall record that saw them mark nine wins in that column.

This year the Royals found themselves leading in many
games against some top-seeded teams, but they could not
defend against strong hitting from the likes of Edmonds and
Everett. The Royals showed signs of what could be during their
only weekend at home, taking three out of four games against
the strong Bellevue squad and Olympic College. Unfortunately,
the Royals did not seem to have the same spark on the road as
they did at home. This led to them losing all 12 road games this
year.

Bright spots for the Royals this season were Byron Wong,
who finished with a batting average of .325, despite missing ten
games with a strained wrist, followed by Dan Boudreau (.309).
Kellen Gale led the Royals in homeruns this year with two, and
David Dick led the team in RBI, driving in 23 teammates. On
the mound, Dirk Dembroski was the top pitcher for the Royals
with an ERA of 4.50 followed closely behind by Dustin
McLoughlin who ended the season with a 4. he ERA and led the
team in strikeouts with 27.

The Douglas College baseball program vw sat move from their
current home at Mundy Park to the brand-new Queens Park
Stadium for the beginning of the 2005-2006 season, which
commences this September.

i he Douglas College baseball team ended their season by

june 8/2005

 

 

Darren Paterson, Sports Editor

ith Canada Day coming up and all,
I’ve taken some time to think up
: my top-five favourite Canadian

sports triumphs. Since I have a short memory
for these sorts of things, they’re all pretty
recent, but I think you'll agree that these were
all great moments for Canadian sport. So then,
counting down from number five:

5. Men’s National Soccer Team, 2000 Gold
Cup

Out of the blue, Team Canada rose up to grab
their first-ever major international title. The
win was credited mostly to Coach Holger
Osieck, who organized the team and led them
to victory. Not only did Canada win the tourna-
ment, but they also took home most of the
individual awards. These included the tourna-
ment MVP (Craig Forrest), the Golden Boot
awatd (Carlo Corazzin), and “Rookie of the
Tournament” (Richard Hastings).

4. 2010 Olympic Bid Team, 2003
Vancouver narrowly beat out Salzburg, Austria,
and Pyeongchang, South Korea, in the bid to

 

host the 2010 Olympic games. This is a tri-
umph that still affects us and will continue to
do so through 2010 and beyond. Vancouver
will grow, and Canada will gain the internation-
al spotlight, a glory we clearly deserve. (I’m not
overly patriotic! I swear it!)

3. Women’s U-19 Soccer Team, 2002 U-19
Women’s World Cup of Soccer

They didn’t win it all, otherwise they’d be rated
higher on this list, but they did capture the
attention of the world as they exploded on to
the scene and won silver on their home turf.
The ramifications of their accomplishments
were huge. All of a sudden soccer was massive
in Canada, and all of a sudden little Canadian
girls were clamouring to sign up for their local
soccer league.

2. Donovan Bailey, 1996 Summer Olympics
in Atlanta

This was huge. I didn’t even care about track
and field before Donovan Bailey blew away the
competition. He turned our country into a win-
ner by streaking past the field in one of the
oldest and most prestigious events in the
Olympics. Then he went on to further damage
the Americans’ pride by destroying them in the
4x100 race. And in stepping on American
pride, he raised Canadian pride to new heights.

1. Men’s National Hockey Team, 2002
Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

Can anyone out there think of another time
when our entire country rose such a unified,
deafening cry of triumph? The streets were
packed with screaming Canadians, and it was
glorious. I remember driving in a train of four
cars (two of them filled with people I’d never
met before that day), waving flags wildly
through the air to a chorus of cheers and car
horns. Canadians needed that win and they got
it, and it was the best sports triumph in our
country’s history.

 

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