The ‘UPEI ‘SUN,Thursday,March 29,1979,page 8

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Hard—hearted Editor Maria just waltzed into our office insisting that, although the varsity sport season has been completed, we MUST produce a column. We feel that thisvis like beating a dead horse but, having received our early education in a convent school, we are most susceptible to feminine insistence.

While we think the best topic for our enforced scribbling might be a review of the different activities of the past season we also think it might be well to promote Bridge to a campus sport status and refer to the series of gates that have started, beginning with last Sunday night's activity in the Panther Lounge. Competition was good, the atmosphere relaxed and friendly, and, we thought, the standard of play excellent. Rcbin Clcw and Mati Kolga , walked off with top hon— ours while Peggy Arsenault was brilliant as she dragged herself ‘and partner (who played not a single hand) into secmd position. (Weren't we fortunate to draw her?) For those who might wish to while away a couple of . pleasant hours on a Sunday ’ evening we'll recommend a visit to the Panther ‘ lounge. (Sorry, nothing stronger than coke.)

To go now to the sports season just ended. We'll start off in dircnological order. . . .whid'l also happens to be the most successful two. In Harness Racing our Kevin McCarville was awarded the Canadian title as he won the final \event in Halifax in quite easy fashion. We'd guess that his closest carpet- iticn on the way to his win came right here in Charlottetown when he wm, at the wire ,..‘ from Freshman Bernadette Shea in ‘a thrilling finish.

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In Golf, UPEI darted past Acadia and Dalhousie in the final round to capture the Atlantic Intercollegiate Golf Championship for the first time since 1974. led by Jdm Neville's 75 and. lee Bramer's 76 our boys were two strokes better”, than second-place Acadia. These two, Dave Stevenson and Steve Dcwling all bettered their opening

’roundscore to snap Halifax

dominatim of this annual event.

In Football, we were 4—3r whidq was a big improvement over the previous year's l-6 but it was also quite frustrating as we came so close to having a really BIG year. In the three losses, we led St- Francis Xavier 14-0 at the half but werepnosed out 15—14 ‘ at the end. We fell ‘ behind Saint Mary's by 20 points 'in the first five minutes but rebounded and almost caught them as time ran out with us trailing, and pressing, 23—18. We dropped our game to Acadia 35—18 in a contest in which we were contenders all the way. Mike Lyriptd<is, Dal Desjardins, Hubert MacDonald (that's Socky) and Frank

Costa were mated to the All— ‘

Conference team while Mike was picked to play for the Canadian Colleges against

their American counterparts

in a January game in Florida.

Our moment of glory was somewhat dimmed by a dumb C.B.C. announcer who never did learn Mike's name and referred to our beloved institution as "'Ihe Univer- sity of PRINCESS Edward Island"!!!!!

Our Soccer team played well aid care close in several contests but were quite unsuccessful in the "Win" column. 'I'oo bad that more attention is not given to this excellent game. We watdmed only two games but fomd them ; interesting and exciting. Vincie will make it one of these years. We believe that the players really enjoy playing and morale seems excellent.

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In Field Hodcey our girls seemed haunted by ill - fortune as they ran up a 1-9—2 record. . . .dropping 6 of their 9 losses by me point. . ..five of these in overtime! Hard working Sandra Drysdale was picked as a member of the All-C(11— ference team. ‘

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In Women's Basketball, it was an outstanding year. Similar to the 1970-71 season (15-0) our'girls went undefeated in league play, piling up 20 successive wins before bowing out to the nationally ranked U.N.B. in the first game of the‘ — play-offs. Heather MacIean and Alyson Maxwell were

' chosen as All—Conference

players. Hermie MacNeill was honoured by being I picked as league Coadm of the Year. 7 J

In Hockey, we certainly. had a disappointing though extremely exciting year. We were 3-5 at Christmas but encbd up in 4111 place with a 10-9—1 record. We were really rolling in high gear when in January, for the second year in a row, both times in Monoton, David V'Ihelvbose" Cameron (not only leading the scoring in the league but also in». all Canada) was badly injured and knocked out of play for the season. In subsequent gates injuries followed to several other key players (e.g. Shane Turner, Harold Hay and others) but we still managed to limp into a playoff spot. Pundits gave us little chance against league winners, Saint Mary's but we confounded the experts as we topped our highly rated opponents in the first game , our best of the season. . . .possibly the best ever for UPEI, Brian. Ostroski's goal at 19.44 of flue second overtime period being the 5—4 winner. The next two were both cliff hangers, 2-)4 and 3-4...in the latter we led 3-2 ’ going into the final period but the legs just gave out as this series was played by UPEI with only 12 players against a fully . ' manned S.M.U. team. The invalids did not enjoy their spectator role. Brian and Wilfred MacDonald were chosen for the All Star team of the league. Wilfred was picked for the M.V.P. of _ y the league,,as wellyas the All Canadian Team and was rurmerhup for the M.V.P. in Canada! ' '

In Men's Basketball we had a terrific seascn.

With George Birger depart— - .

ing for Brandai late the summer, former great KBVin Faighrey, upm his a.PPOir‘lttrIent as coach, ' faced an almost impossible task as he started from

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scratch with no regulars returning from the previous year. With three coaches in three years it is difficult to establish

a program and it would

seem that, particularly

in a college as small as UPEI, planning is essential. Kevin reoruited Larry

MXhee, the most exciting

player we have seen on a/ Maritime court, Jd'm 4 Guilford and Ken Salter (after Xmas) all of whom Adding other area players KeVin quickly moulded a most out-. standing team that ended up ahead of pre—seaSm favourites, Saint Francis Xavier and Acadia with a league record of 11-5 and an overall record of 20—9. Wexwere ranked #10 in

’ Canada although finishing

ahead of the mo above- mentioned better ranked fives. .Since play ended there has been a*lct of Criticism. and discussim. . . . ad nauseum. However, we'd like to remember this as

a year when we finished second in the best league in Canada, when we were nationally ranked, wren we. beat St. F:X.";twice_:(’1’o. _ us that makes a GOOD season) , when we had the - best coach in the league, whenwe had (we thought) the best player in file league, when we had a player who led the naticn in scoring and whoxmade, not only the All Conference team, but also the All Canadian team.’.'..a--most exciting year...1et's ’ forget the rest and may our recollections be high.