Making ani

mpression

Buteau draws

coach’s praise

ONE OF Caledonia’s top
athietes is now making a name
for herself at Malaspina Uni-
versity College,

A one-time familiar name in
stories of the exploits of Cal
teams in both winter and sum-
mer sports, Lori Butcau is
tearing up the badminton court
at the Nanaimo college,

Buteau’s strong doubles play
in the Mariners’ most recent
match helped the team finish
with a 5-0 result to go to top
spot in the BCCAA standings,
six clear of Douglas College.

However, Malaspina coach
Brent Dunlop says Buteau’s
real forte wiil be in singles,

“She’s got great condition-
ing and is very competitive,”’
he said,

Add to that her on-court
agility and Dunlop predicts
she'll be seeing a lot more
singles action over the rest of
the season.

The Mariners take to the
court again Jan. 14 when visit
third placed Langara. aCe

Cal girls need to relax

THE CHRISTMAS break will give the’
Caledonia senior girls basketball team time to
relax al home,

But coach Scott Stewart says they have to

* learn to do that on court as well.

They also need to improve their shooting per-
centage sharply if they are to be contenders at
the Feb. 25 zone playdowns,

That was clear from the team’s match ups
against Mount Elizabeth of Kitimat, particular-
ly in last Wednesday’s battle,

“They beat us soundly,’’ Stewart said of the
71-60 loss. ‘‘We didn’t play well,’’ he added,
noting the team shot only 27 per cent.

That was at least an improvement on the first .

meeting of the teams although ironically Gal
came out on top that time, if only just.

Kitimat led from the start but Cal turned it on
in the final three minutes, snatching a 55-54
verdict with less than 20 seconds left.

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Rookies Linnae Bee (15 pts.), Becky Heenan
(14) and Julie Gillanders (12) led the scoring
but as a team Cal shot 23 per cent, a figure
Stewart described as ‘‘atracious”’.

However, he emphasized, the season is still
young and Cal is on the whole an in-
experienced team,

‘*We’re a better team than Kitimat,”’ he said.
**We're just not relaxing out there.’*

Suggesting it'll probably take the team until
the half way point of the season to seitle down
and start to gel, he said things would change
once the squad got it’s defence working and
improved on rebounds.

,.. And there were some hopeful signs when the

.. feam-took on a senior women’s team following

the Kitimat loss, a 12 point victory for Cal.

Cal faces Kitimat for a third time Wednes-
day, Jan. 4, a warm up for that weekend’s
tournament in Quesnel.

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things in common, a trand Hay
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tournament, we had 49 people
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helping. But we managed to stick
together as a group and tried to
isolate ourselves."

That will be Hay’s challenge,
too, and if successful, he'll likely
gain the credibility to jump from
junior to pro hockey as Todd did
when he moved up from the
Peterborough Petes.

Like Todd, Hay has learned the

ropes in junior hockey for the
better part of 10 years. The two
not only share similar back-
grounds and coaching attrib-
utes, but philosophies as well.

“At this tournament it might
nat be the 22 best players that
make the team. We want the
22 players that make the best
team,” said Hay, echaing the
thoughts of Todd, who added,
“You have to try and stay by
what you think is right."

Words: of wisdom from two
guys who should someday
compare notes. If they ever gat
a chance to meet.

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that we've won four of the last

five tournaments, the pressure Is
on not to be the guy who lets it
slip."

Hay is very aware of that. He
also reallzes expectations are
heightened by the presence of.
nine players who would be in the
NHL if there was such a thing.
But having star players like Brett
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Jovanoski doesn’t guarantee a
a thing.

“A concern for us is that they're
going to expect a key spot and
our biggest test Is to get some of
them tc play roles they're not
used to,” said Hay from
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champion Blazers. “We're asking
9 these players to check their egos
at the door.”

At the ‘91 tournament, Todd
didn't have as many name play-
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knows what this year’s coach is
getting at. .

“Eric Lindros was really focused
f and wanted to prove himself bad-
iy but he started doing too much
and was overstaying his shifts.
We had to deal with that in the
middle of the tournament.”

He also had to deal with the
Canadian media and hordes of

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