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Douglas Soccer Team Loses in Finals

Well folks, here it is. The semi-finals for the B.C. Community College Soccer Championship. There are,

by Stuart Woolverton

four Men’s teams and four Womens’ teams playing for the honor of being the best teams in the Totem Confer- ence. (Actuallly the anno- uncer awarded the trophy to “the best girls’ team.”’ Onto the important stuff. Douglas COllege, as four- th place finishers, took on Capilano, the first place finisher, Saturday after-

noon, and Cap did it to us again, although this time they had the assisstance of some pathetic refereeing.

Douglas came out strong in the opening minutes, and for a while it looked as if the game would go our way. But eight minutes from the kick- off, Capilano was awarded a penalty shot for a handball against defender Steve Har- tle, who was being prac- tically ridden into the ground by an opposing for- ward, which was not called by the referee. Cap scored on the penalty shot, by the way.

Cap scored a goal five minutés later, and from that point had almost complete control of the game, as it seemed that every time a d.c. player challenged for the ball, he would get called for something, which led to a Situation where players were almost afraid to go after the ball, for fear they would be called. Cap moved up 3-0 after another seven minutes, and only Don Lo- bo’s brilliant goaltending

kept the score from getting anymore lopsided.

Cap finished scoring just final

before the whistle,

ending it at 4-0, which knocked Douglas into the consolation round, and let Cap advance. As previously mentioned, the refereeing was extremely one-sided. Coach Chris must be com- mended for managing to keep his cool in the face of such a terribly handled game, in which two Douglas players were cautioned or yellow-carded. Commented Lucky Gill, one of the reci- ents of the ref’s attention: “it was like he was looking for me to do something anytime I went for the ball’’; this seemed at times to reflect on the whole team. Certainly with proper offic- iating, the game would have been much better.

After the game, all teams put in an appearance at Cariboo College’s ‘social (no alcohol involved, of course); then a great dinner at Fat Mel’s. Players on all teams met each other and got aquainted, and some are looking forward to seeing each other again (especially that team from Kelowna). Anyways, on to Sunday.

Sunday afternoon Douglas played host team Cariboo Chiefs. The same referee who was in charge of the previous day’s game was calling that one. During the first half, many of the Cari- boo players and coaches remarked that the referee was trying to make up for Saturday’s fiasco by calling it all one was for us, but it turned out that he was impartial enough to be ter- rible both ways.

Cariboo opened scoring 27 minutes into the game with a goal from a_ handball penalty. The resulting shot eluded ’keeper Lobo, and Cariboo went up 1-0.

Cariboo went up 2-0 on a penalty shot nine minutes later, and that’s the way it stood through the half-time. Paul Dicky had a chance to put D.C. back in the game, but was stopped on a break- away.

In the second half, play see-sawed back and forth with several opportunities for both teams, but none

capitalized upon until thegy%,

43rd minute of the half wherf

Cariboo clinched the game

with their third goal. Final score: 3-0, Cariboo College Chiefs over Douglas College (insert your choice of names). Don Chila played an outstanding game on de- fence, even saving balls

from going into the net when Lobo was down and out. The end result of all this was that, while finishing in four- th place in the tournament, Douglas College has come a long way in gaining some respectability as a soccer

‘team, and in any case, wait

till next year!!!

P.S.- Kudos to Don Lobo, who made the Totem Con- ference all-star team, and to Paul Dickey, who received an honorable mention — for the same team. Also thanks to Coach Chris for an event- ful (to say the least) season and hopefully more to come.

P.P.S.- For all those of you out there on the team who keep razzing me about not getting your names in the paper, here you go:

Don Lobo- goaltender extra- ordinaire; Don Chila- Dee fence; Steve Hartle- more defence and occasional goal-- tending; Baljit “Wal”? Mann- still more defence; Anders ‘‘Wanders'' Byork- /und- Sigge’s van and de- fence; Chris ‘‘Spewy II’’ Vanderhoouven- defence; Glen ‘‘Chuck’' Hayward- midfield and bad elephant jokes; Paul Dickey- we wont say what his nickname is- striker; Paul Piovesan- mid-

field, striker, and Ghetto blaster; «Dave ‘‘Dr. . K”’ Kuhn- defence, midfield,

wing, “‘I’ll take credit for it.”’; Rob ‘‘Babyface’’ Keep- er- wing and goalkeeper demolition unit; Rob ‘Smurf’ Smith- wing, jokes, and all around tall person; Bill ‘‘Hollywood’’ Liske- wing, suitcase, and left at McDonald’s; Chris “Big Bird’’ Hilliard- mid- field, missed the bus; Lucky Gill- striker, sweeper, knee; Eddy ‘‘the kangaroo'’ Alex- andre- midfield, wing, and lots of pictures; John ‘‘I can’t go’' Herscheid- mid-

field.