“Gentlement, we have a _ mis-
sion...we have the knowhow, we

have the experience...we have the
means and we have the will.’’

_ by Jim Chow

 

The mission was to win the Totem
Conference Basketball Champion-
ship Tournament held at BCIT. The
know-how was a direct result of
experience which came from playing
all season well enough to be ranked
as the number two men’s collegiate
basketbal team in Canada. The
means were: Marter, Bell, Sparling,
Perovic, McEwan and the rest of the
b-ball gang.

The will showed itself when Cap
took Douglas college 68-55 on Fri-
day and easily handled the main
threat; Vancouver Community Col-
lege (VCC) 84 - 75 on Saturday. This
‘clinched the Totem Conference and
earned the team their travel permits
to Montreal as BC’s representatives

in the National College Champion-
ships.
On Friday, the game against

Douglas was not without its mo-
ments. Cap went into it feeling
cocky and confident, looking past
the game as if it were a minor

formality for Saturday’s game a-;
gainst VCC. They can’t be blamed:

for their confidence as Douglas was
ranked fourth in the Totem Confer-
ence and Cap was number one.

The problem was that Cap did not
maintain their presence with any
authority on the court. Douglas led

or

‘Badminton is alive and well at
Douglas college. Robin Ryan and
company have amassed a_ very
respectable season.

The team competed in the Port-
land, Vancouver Island and Wash-
ington Opens. They also sent three
people to the Nationals in Montreal.
Tony Kho and Damian Chang
placed fifth and Linda MacPherson
_ placed seventh.

Douglas almost sent the whole
team to Montreal but lost the last
game in the Totem Conference

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for most of the first half . which
ended with Cap on top, 35-33. At
one point in the game, Cap players
realized that they weren’t as invinci-
ble as they thought and it took Tony
Bell to pull them out of that slump.

Douglas was up by one at 49-48 in
the second half when Bell was put
in. He made six baskets to lead the
way for Cap’s comeback and win.

It could be argued that the scare
Cap got from Douglas was the best
thing that happened to them. They
went into Saturday’s game against
VCC with the knowledge that there
was work to be done.

Cap jumped on the board quickly,
and decisively racked up 25 points
to VCC’s 6. They ended the first
half. on top 43-26.

Cap and VCC have faced each
other three times this year and Cap
won twice. The team that was
‘ahead, each time, at the half, won
the game.

VCC played a zone defense on
Saturday instead of their usual
man-to-man. This abrupt change in
tactics might have been a decisive

factor in their downfall. It takes time:

to become familiar with a new style
of play. This was evidenced by the
ease with which Cap scored when
they went into their zone attack.
The game became exciting late
in the second half when Marter got
into foul trouble and coach Neil
Chester decided to take him out.
VCC pulled to within four points but
Cap held them off and put away a
few more unanswered baskets.

 

Championship and had to settle for

second place.
Congrats to the team:

Shamir Amalani

Sheila Murphy

Serino Pepeira

Patti Corin

Steve Forbes

Bob Chapman

Roger Doucette

Min Lee

Renata Mills

Tony Kho

Damian Chang

ae

otem Conference

 

Coach Chester did not relax until
there was only 30 seconds on the
clock remaining and Cap was up by
9 with victory assured. Then he
ordered his players to let VCC shoot
unchallenged so that no Cap player

would foul. .

Mark Marter was the tourna-

Team of the Year

The team that almost took it all.
| The Douglas College men’s curling
| team came within a hair of winning
| the Totem championship. It came
| down the last end and last rock of
| the final game but Douglas ended
| up on the wrong end of a 10-9 score
| against Selkirk college.

| It was a game they should have
| won but some mistakes cost them.
| Douglas had the better team. They
| had been practicing for ten weeks
| off and on whereas a lot of other
| schools had twice that much practice
| time and according to Gert Van
| Niekerk,the Douglas coach, it hurt
I:the team a bit.

| What made the loss more dis-
| heartening was the fact that Selkirk
|.went on to win the gold at the
| Nationals!

| The team went into the Totem

_ | Conference playoffs with a strange

|set up in that Mark Jarvinen, the
I,skip, shot the third rock and Ted

| Stanyer the last. Usually the skip

I shoots last.

_ment’s most valuable player. Pino

Perovic and John McEwan made the
tournament all-star team.

_Cap will face Saskatchwan Tech-
nical College in their first game in
the Nationals. They would then play
against the winner of the Ontario-
Quebec match.

The Team That
Almost Took It All

This team was chosen unanimous-
ly by the Other Press Sports Depart- ~
ment as the Douglas college Team
of the Year.

Congratulations to the following
team members:

Randy Jones

Chris Wilcock

Mark Jarvinen Skip

Ted Stanyer Totem MVP

Other curling teams for Douglas
college:

Mixed

Glen MacNeil
Grace Cullen
Dennis Nutbrown
John Donefeld
Leanna Waddington

Women’s

Michelle Molgat
Susan lon
Yvonne Cavik
Manuella Kovarik