Bear-baited > Men’s Basketball staves off hungry Bearcats Davie Wong Sports Editor eek three of PACWEST basketball action was never going to be easy for the Royals. At least, that’s what the statistics said. On paper, the Royals and the Bearcats matched up pretty equally this season. But in terms of individual skill, the Royals knew they had the one up. The individual skill was evident right from the start of the matchup. A couple of swift steals from Sheldon Derton lead to a pretty point lead for the Royals. A couple of baskets later and the lead grew even larger. At the end of the first quarter, the Royals had played themselves up to a g point lead. The second quarter was marked by continued dominance by the Royals as the Bearcats just kept playing themselves into trouble. Fouls started becoming an evident issue and the Royals just kept capitalizing on it. As it turned out, the team racked up a 17-point lead before heading off to the locker rooms at half. Had that been the entirety of the game, there wouldn't be much of a story. Good thing the Royals are known for creating dramatic stories with their games. The home team came out of their halftime break looking like a deer caught in the headlights. Those headlights happened to be the CBC offence, which managed to put up more points than the Royals’. It was a rough third for the home squad, and the Bearcats really started building some momentum. The fourth quarter was scary. The Royals went from holding a 17-point lead to being within 2 points of losing it. The Bearcats were enthused, and their energy was tangible. Every drive had life and meaning behind it, while the Royals were just desperately clinging to their lead, looking sapped and shocked. But the Royals’ strength has always been in their individual efforts, and Malcom Mensah stepped up when the team needed it most. Drawing multiple fouls on a variety of moves, Mensah just barely sealed the Royals’ victory. The win bumps the team to .500, with a record of 2-2. Their two wins have come on the back of strong first halves and shaky second halves. Needless to say, Coach Joe Enevoldson was not pleased his team’s display during the second half. “They outworked us. We got outworked in the second half, but we also won those games. We wanted to push us to .500.” Photo via douglascollegeroyals.ca a < S wv > @ a > 2 co a G . a ° Par) ° co oa Royals on the hunt > Women’s basketball wins big Davie Wong Sports Editor Wek three of PACWEST Basketball action featured the Columbia Bible College Bearcats strolling into town to play the Douglas College Royals. Right from the warmup, you could see a distinct difference in the teams. In particular, the number of players warming up was quite the differentiator. While 12 players and extras lined up for the Royals, the Bearcats had a mere 8. Although the depth of the Royals lineup wouldn't become relevant until later in the game, the skill gap between the two teams was evident right from the start. And | literally mean from the start. The Royals went on an offensive tear to start the game, racking up 18 points before surrendering a single basket to the Bearcats. The home squad would grab another 14 points on the quarter to finish with 32, while only allowing the Bearcats 8 points of their own. The second quarter was much slower compared to the first. While the Bearcats ramped up the offensive pressure, the Royals took a scale back on the scoring to take care of things on their end. As the game spun out of control, the players on the floor started changing. Slowly but surely, the Royals starting lineup was rotated out of the game. By the end of the first half, the Royals held a 35 point lead, with most of their bench playing. The second half saw CBC surge back into the game early. But after a couple of substitutions and a timeout to give Steve Beauchamp a chance to help his team regroup, it was like it never happened. The Royals never looked like they were even remotely close to losing control of the game. At the end of the third quarter, the Royals had 48 points more than the Bearcats, bringing down a total of 75 points. By the end of the game, that lead extended to a whopping 61 points, and it’s safe to say that the Royals had themselves a cushy lead. Final score: 97-36 for the Royals. The home team had more than their fair share of contributors, but none was more impressive than Simran Bir, who returned to her prime scoring form that she held last year. Bir had a nearly perfect shooting record, nailing 7/7 of her regular shots, 2/2 of her three-pointers, and 5/6 of her free throws, for a grand total of 21 points. Bir was also a distributor of the ball, dishing out 6 assists in her 21 minutes on the court. After the game, Steve Beauchamp took a moment to comment on his team’s dominant performance. “It’s nice to win, and certainly the score is a little one- sided, but the thing youre looking for as a coach is whether the team is improving on the things that they've been working on in practice. Overall, I was pretty happy with how the newer players played. Once they got over their nervousness they really started to come on. We've got some pretty experienced players on the team, and they've got big expectations. We're putting the time in and they're putting the work in, and I think you're starting to see it on the court.” Which sport burns the most calories? > Hint: It involves a hill Carlos Bilan Staff Writer hether you want to lose weight or just tone your body, doing sports is one of the best activities to achieve either results. But which sport burns the most calories in an hour? Before I answer the million-dollar question, I would first like to address key factors that influence the number of calories a person can burn while doing a sport. The first factor is a person’s weight. “Calorie burn depends on many factors, including body weight. For example, a person weighing 125 lbs can expect to burn approximately 475 calories after playing hockey for one hour, while a person weighing 190 can expect a burn of about 700 calories per hour,” wrote Renda Hawwa in a post on LiveStrong.com. The second factor is the intensity level a person exerts in doing a sport. It might seem like a no-brainer, but some people forget that this is one reason why the results can be varied. The American College of Sports Medicine made estimates on the average number of calories a sport can burn, which can be accessed through the site Nutristrategy. com. From the data, a person who weighs 155 pounds swimming freestyle for one hour can burn 704 calories when swimming fast, but burns 493 calories when swimming slower. The same concept applies with running: The faster you run, the more calories you burn. So which sport burns the most calories? It’s actually not a very popular sport, or at least not as popular as the standard mainstream sports. Uphill cross country-skiing burns an average of 974 calories an hour for a person who weighs 130 lbs. It actually makes sense, because walking up the slope to get to college already makes students catch their breath, so imagine skiing uphill on a steeper mountain. It isn’t the most convenient sport though, since it’s only possible to do when there’s snow. Another downside is how expensive it is and the limited proximity. Personally, I find swimming has been really effective in burning calories. Of course, this wasn’t Marco Polo or leisure swimming, it was interval training and sprints. I used to bea competitive swimmer, and training lasts at least two hours per day. I don’t remember what our target metres were ,but I can guarantee we were swimming more than 100 laps. So if you do the math, we were definitely burning over 1,000 calories going all-out. However, I can’t say that hockey, the heralded sport of Canada, is not an effective way to burn calories. It is an intensive cardiovascular sport, so I can imagine that you will definitely be breaking a sweat and could be shedding a lot of calories playing it. According to Nutristrategy.com, ice hockey can burn 654 calories an hour for a person weighing 180 lbs. Every sport is capable of burning high calories. It all depends which sport you find most comfortable for you and how you excel in that sport. In other words, the more enthusiastic you are, the more you are likely to exert more effort which in turn burns more calories.