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SPORTS

By Vic Renfro

The University of Prince Edward Island Panthers suf- fered the same problem as in last weeks upset loss to the Acadia Axemen; a lethar- gic offense. The d e fense

maintained its stingyness for giving up touchdowns but was gradually worn down in the fourth quarter.

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After St. Mary’s halfback F‘lorio returned the opening kickoff forty yards, but the St. Mary’s team failed to score, it was obvious the de- fense would yield little.

On the Panther’s second series of plays, hard-running Jerry ajeunesse ru mb 1 e d eighty yards, broke three tackles and set UPEI up for

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its only score. On the next play, ajeunesse burst in for the major.

Jack Sands intercepted a pass from Husky quarterback Jim Aucoin and the Panthers took control of the football on the St. Mary’s twenty-five yard line. The inconsistent offense started to roll. Don M u r r a y made a brilliant catch on a deflected pass thrown by Jim Foley. Lajeu— nesse and Foley each had a rush and picked up the first down. In the next two plays, Foley and Murray rushed for another first down. But two incomplete passes put the Panthers in a third down and ten yards to go situation. Mancuso’s field goal attempt fell short and the drive ended.

The hard-nosed die f e n s e forced St. Mary’s to punt and SMU was called for no yards on the kick. Two rushes by fullback Dick Yost picked up a first down. Tricky Don Murray picked his way through the St. Mary’s de- fense for another first down. SMU was called for grabbing the face mask and penalized fifteen yards. UPEI had a first down on the Huskies thirteen yard line. The Pan- thers missed the opportunity

to score on an incomplete pass, had minus yardage on a rush, and was forced to go for three points. Mancuso’s field goal attempt was block- ed and'grabbed rby lineback- er Ted Abercrombie. Aber- crombie brushed: off UPEI tacklers for one hundr eds

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touchdown. The exhausted Abercrombie is reported to have cried out, “Ye Gads”, when the play was nullified for an offsides against SMU. On the replayed third. down, UPEI failed! on a pass play and St. Mary’s took posses- silon.

Jim Foley opened the sec- ond half with a forty yard runback but the Panthers failed to move the ball as did the Huskies for several ser- ies of plays.

SMU got the ball late in the third quarter on their own twenty two yard line. Aucoin hit end Vic Dinardo for a thirty yard reception to the UPEI fifty-two. The run- ning of fullback Rick Konop- ka and halfback Reynolds Shepard brought the ball down to the Panther four yard line. As Aucoin faded back to pass on second down big defensive tackle Albert

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(Duh) MacDonald charged in and threw the quarterback for a six yard loss. The pass on third down was: batted down and the defense held again.

UPEI took control deep in their own territory and on an end sweep Folew was trapped in the end zone for a safety touch. UPEI still lead by a score of 7-2. I

The Panthers retained pos- session of the football on their twenty-five yard line. Don Murray burst through the SMU defense for twenty yards. The offense could not manage a first down and had to punt.

SMU sta r ted on their thirty—eight and quickly mov- ed to the UPEI thirty yard line. To start the fourth quar- ter Konopka scored on a long run from scrimmage and SMU had a 9-7 lead.

SMU held the Panthers and took control on their own forty-five. I ered to the UPEI twenty-five and Konopka scored on his second run. The convert at- tempt was no. good and the Huskies now lead 15-7. The final SMU score came as Konopka bulled in from the UPEI twenty.

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The first University of Prince Edward Island basket- ball team opened practice last week. The coach for the team will be the former coach at Prince of Wales College, Earl Nicholson. Also coaching is former St. Dunstan’s Univer- sity standout Len Sirois.

The basketball team suf- rferedi a big loss! when 6’6” Vic Chandler returned to Ot- tawa to attend- Otrtawa Uni- versity. Heading the list of returnees from the old SDU team is 6’5” Jim Fitzgerald, from Spring-town, Mass. In his freshman: year at SDU, Fitzgerald was an all-confer- ence center. He was second in the league in scoring and third in rebounding. He lead the league in field goal per- centage with 56.6 per cent. In his second year, Fitzger- ald was hampered by ankle injuries and slightly tapered off from his first years pro- duction.

In utilizing a big man like

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Fitzgerald, it is necessary for a team to have effective pas— sers in the backcourt. At- tempting to fill this role will be Bob Gray, from Jan Jose, California, and Paul Grillo, from Somerville, Mass.

Out of St. John, NB. comes two ex—Saints, Brian Lynch and Joe Sullivan. The 6’5” Lynch has all the tools to be- come one of the best reboun- ders in the league. Sullivan is one of the teams sharp- shooters. Sullivan threw thir- ty points last year against the Fredericton Caps who featured Little All-American, 6’7” Norman Ruther, from Texas A & M.

Ronnie White, joins the UPEI Panthers after three seasons with PWC. The 6’3” forward will give the Panth- ers added board strength and offensive punch.

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The UPEI Panthers will meet the St. Fraancis Xavier University X-Men, tomorrow at Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The Panthers will be seeking their first regular season win. The X-Men seem to be the team to beat in the Bluenose Conference. They are cur- rently in a tie for first place with the UN B Red Raiders.

The Panthers will be with- out the services of two-way man Steve Bednar. Bednar is one of our best linemen; he does his job with little fanfare or talking, and as all football linemen receive little credit. Bednar broke his jaw in two places and) lost two teeth while d eck i n g SMU quarterback Jim Aucoin. It

_was a good clean hit and just

one of the many freak acci- dents of football. All other systems are go and the Pan- thers can defeate the X—Men. Such a victory should not be necessarily termed an' upset, as the team is likely to jell and enibarass the three re- maining teams. I ‘

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