January 11, 1984

Sports Desk 985-2131

BLUES BASKETBALL
Men, women win

CAP COLLEGE Blues men’s and women’s basket-
ball teams each emerged as victors in Canada’s
largest coHege basketball tournament in a barn-

burning final.

“The Blues Invitational
basketball tournament held
at B.C.1I.T., Burnaby, last
week, attracted teams from
as far afield as Portland and
Calgary and provided top
notch play and _ entertain-
ment. :

To reach the finals against
Mount Royal, Calgary, the
Blues women downed
Medicine Hat 68-53 and U.
of Victoria 65-29.

Blues jumped into an early
10-2 lead, but by the half
Mount Royal had closed the
score 34-29, five points
behind the Blues. A
regrouped Mount Royal team
then pulled away by 10 to
take a 51-41! lead. What prov-
ed to be an exciting and well
played finish resulted in the
Cap women squeaking past
the visitors 65-63.

Top scorers for Capilano
were: Brenda Giesbrecht 14;

BLUES. FORWARD
Sean Campbell stretches
for the basket in the se-
cond half of a closely
contested 73-72 final
against Vancouver Com-
munity College. Cap
men’s and women’s Blues
both won their finals in
Canada’s largest invita-
tional college tournament
held at B.C.LT., Bur-
naby, recently. The
women squeaked by
Mount Royal College,
Calgary, by a score of
65-63 in their final.

Tricia MacDonald 13, and
Leah Ellis 10.

The men won their berth in
the decider against Van-
couver Community College
by eliminating Medicine Hat
in their opener 82-71, and
UBC 74-64.

In what looked like a
repeat performance of the
women’s finals, played
earlier in the day, Cap men
took an early 30-20 lead with
Vancouver C.C. closing the
gap to 30-24 by halftime.
Blues led throughout most of
the second half until sudden-
ly Vancouver burst into a
scoring spree, ‘evening the
score at 44 apiece.

During a see-saw battle
Vancouver went ahead 58-54
at one point, and with 34
seconds left to play, the score
was tied up 70-70. Vancouver
missed at the foul line with
less than 30 seconds on the
clock. Cap’s Mike Hind had
a chance with cighigpeconds
left; his shot went the rim
and Mark Marter rebounded

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it to score, but was fouled on
the play. The single foul shot
was successful to give the
Blues a 73-70 edge. Van-
couver was able to score in
the remaining few seconds,
but/to no avail as the Blues let
the clock run out to capture
the victory 73-72.

Top Blues scorers were:
Mark Marter 24 and Dave
Sidhu 23.

The victories for the Blues
will have a strong influence
on national ranking among
the 150 eligible Canadian col-
leges and should place the
Blues within the top 10.

All-star selections for the

tournament were:

Women: Brenda
Giesbrecht (Cap. Coll.); Deb-
bra Weedmark (Medicine
Hat); Claire Carder (Van-
couver Comm. Coll.) Colleen
Flanagan (Mount Royal),
and Leah Ellis (Cap. Coll).

MVP: Heather Wright
(Mount Royal).
Men: Kevin Hanson

(V.C.C.); Dave Sidhu (Cap);
Rick Willett (UBC); Bob Nit- -
tert (Clackamas Coll.,
Portland), and Dale Olson
(V.C.C,).

MVP: Mark Marter (Cap).

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