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By The Shadow

. The UPEI Men’s basket- ball Panthers continued their winning ways, last Wednesday defeating the Mount Allison Mounties 86-60 at Alumni Gymnasium.

The Mounties came out“ with a very deceiving trap defense, hoping to force the Panthers out of their regular offensive attack.

The two teams battled back and forth, with Mount Allison holdinga slight edge for the first ten minutes.

Once the Panthers got warmed up, however, there was very little to hold UPEI back.

40-27 advantage at halftime.

In the second half, the Panthers maintained their lead at twenty points with consistent shooting and solid defense. The final score was 86-60.

Leading the Panthers’ offensive attack was Tyrone Norman, with 17 points and 9 rebounds. Aion Pettigrew scored 15 points with 7 rebounds. Heading the re- bounding statistics was Mark Roberts with 10 rebounds.

Mark Hayden led the Mounties with l2 points.

The UPEI Men’s basket- ball Panthers split their week-

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The Panthers, who ac- quired the ranking after their two victories over the Acadia Axemen two weeks ago, held on for a 67-62 win over the Tigers Friday night, but lost 65-61 in their Saturday after- noon game.

The players did not seem overly affected by the loss Saturday, however. The general reaction seemed to be relief — although the number

one spot brings recognition,“ it also brings pressure —

something the Panthers would rather not have right now.

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who still poll the Panthers in the number one spot.

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mainly to the agressive Tiger defense.

Hower, in the dying minutes, the Panthers ex- ploded with several un- answered baskets to give them the victory.

However, the victory did have one crippling effect — Willock sprained his ankle, and his mobility was con- siderably affected by it, re-

. sulting in a mediocre per-

formance Saturday afternoon. The team as a unit has very little motivation to play, and ended up losing to the more aggressive Tigers’ squad.

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, led by Tyrone Norman with . 17 points. T.J. Alleyne and

Aion Pettigrew had 10 pomts each.

This weekend, the Panthers will be in Wolfville, Nova

Scotia for a rematch against the Acadia Axemen.

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Lady Panthers W in

By Nancy Ross

The Alumni Gym was‘the scene for some great basket- ball on Wednesday, Feb. 6.

Panther fans were treated to a double—header in which

both men’s and women’s.

teams were successful — the women over the non-ranked Mount Allison squad.

The Lady Panthers domi- nated the first half, for the most part. While UPEl’s offense was scoring, its defense Was having a strong game, holding Mount Allison to only 2 points to its 14, midway through the first half.

The team then picked up the pace even more in a relentless attack which fru-

strated Mount Allison’s players.

VUPEI’s defense thus far was working very well, hold- ing Mount A to a low shoot- ing percentage.

However, in the last several minutes of the first half UPEI’s defense weakened, and Mount A finally had an opportunity to score some points.

At halftime the Lady Panthers led Mount Allison 22-12.

During the second half, UPEI came on strong, domi- nating Mount A’s defense, but taking some question- able fouls which slowed down play.

The Panthers were victims of numerous turnoves, which again slowed their perform-

ance and accuracy.

Still, Mount A was unsuc- cessful in catching the Lady Panthers; the final score was UPEI 60, Mount A. 42.

The points were equally distributed among the Lady panthers in a total team effort.

Coach Dave MacNeill gave all his team members the opportunity to play. How- ever, it was obvious the team was not playing up to its potential; on several occasions performance was sloppy.

UPEl’s next encounter will be against the University of New Brunswick, currently ranked first in the AUAA. The game is Friday at 7 p.m. at the Alumni Gym, and will be the last game in regular season play for the team.

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