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College sports update

CCAA competition at Douglas
B College hit full stride in January
as the volleyball and basketball
teams moved into the meat of their
schedules and the badminton team
wrapped up its regular season. The
members of the wrestling team
are limbering up for their shots
at qualifying for the Atlanta
Olympics. Here’s a team-by-
team summary of Douglas
College’s athletic adventures in
the new year.

Wrestling

The Douglas College
Wrestling Club traveled to
Phoenix, Arizona over the
Christmas break for a training
camp and a competition. The
training camp paid off when the
club finished the Phoenix Open
tournament with its wrestlers
topping four podiums. Since the
Phoenix Open, the team has
competed in the Clackamus
College Open and the Portland
State University Open. The
Wrestling Club is now setting
out on the road to Atlanta ‘96.
On February 2, Douglas College
wrestlers begin Olympic trials
and qualification tournaments in
Thunder Bay, Ontario. The
winners will represent Canada in
Cali, Columbia at the Pan
American Olympic qualification
event.

Women’s Volleyball

The Women’s Volleyball
team ended the year ona
winning note by edging the
touring Medicine Hat Rattlers
three games to two on December
29. Picking up where they left
off, the team went on the road to
sweep both the Camosun Chargers
January 12 and Langara Falcons on the
13. After losing to the CCAA number
3- ranked Malaspina Mariners, the
squad came back to defeat the
‘University College of the Cariboo Sun
Demons January 27. The victory
guarantees the team a berth in the 1996
BCCAA Women’s Volleyball
Championships.

 

Men’s Volleyball

The Men’s Volleyball squad braved a

15-hour van ride and -30° weather to

compete in the Grande Prairie College
Tournament January 4-6. Overcoming
injuries and a shallow bench, the team

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Women’s Basketball

After closing 1995 with a close loss to
Western Baptist College, the Women’s
Basketball team hit its stride and defeated
the Camosun College Chargers on
January 14, Capilano College on the
19th, the BCCAA
number 3- ranked Trinity
Western University on
the 24th, and then posted
a double win over the
College of New
Caledonia on the 26th
and 27th. The wins
improve the team’s
BCCAA record to 9 - 4.

Men’s
Basketball

While the Men’s
Basketball team closed
the year with a loss to
Spokane Community
College on December
30, it recovered quickly
to defeat the Camosun
Chargers January 14.
The team has since lost a
couple against the
Capilano Community
College Blues and
Trinity Western
University, and traded
wins with the College of
New Caledonia Kodiaks.

Badminton
Tomomi Okhubo and

Kyoko Yamada won the

Women’s Doubles to

 

Point guard Lori Phillip of the Douglas College Women’s
Basketball Team in action against the College of New Caledonia
Kodiaks on January 26. The Royals defeated the Kodiaks in two
matches that weekend.

lead the Douglas College
Badminton team to a
fourth place finish at the
third BCCAA
tournament in Kamloops
January 13 and 14. At
the final regular season
tournament of the year - hosted by
Douglas College - the team slipped a spot
to finish fifth with Ohkubo and Yamada
placing 2nd, Michael Yang and Yoyoi
Koshimasra placing 3rd in the Mixed
Doubles, and Thong Nguyen placing 3rd
in the Men’s Singles. I

fought its way to the final where it lost
to Grant MacEwan in four tough games.
After dropping an exhibition match to
Camosun College January 12, the team
defeated the Langara Falcons on the
13th, the Malaspina Mariners on the
20th, and the University College of the
Cariboo Sun Demons on the 27th to
improve its BCCAA record to 8 - 0.