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* Season ends for junior Panthers

The 1989-90 season is over for
the Parkland Panthers junior boys
basketball team after being
squeaked out of a playoff berth in a
do-or-die game with Claremont
Feb. 8.

| Both teams had a record of three
| wins and four losses, forcing
| a playoff game for fifth place.
{ “Tt was a funny game,” said
coach Roger Pires. ~All together
‘we only played about eight min-
utes of really intense basketball.”
The breaks just didn’t go Park-
_land’s way, he said. With eight
seconds left, the junior Panthers
had the ball on the sidelines and
could have worked to tie the score.
But players couldn’t seem to con-
trol the ball and the game ended
with a 57-56 loss.
“Tt took us out of the playoffs,
which was our goal,” Pires said.
“T think they wanted it a bit more
than we did.”
: Jeremy Morrow was the top
= @ scorer with 24 points while Dylan
Gayler and Dale Hauser each
scored 12.
The team did improve on last

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PARKING

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Ald. Tim Chad warned against
“the spectre of signs every 10
feet’ coming to Sidney.

The new permit price takes
effect for March purchases. Open
parking at the Bevan and Second
lot is permitted from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m.

The changes come after council
learned earlier this month that a
system adopted in October had
failed. Limits were added then to
more street and lot spaces, and
council started selling monthly
permits for $20.

At first, 18 permits were sold.
But for January, the town had sold
just three by Jan. 2.

No permits were ever bought for
the 18 spaces at Bevan and
Second. And residential streets
started being used more, as the lot
sat barely used.

#@ = Council has left the option open
1o add restrictions to neighboring
residential streets later on.

Town staff can “just about iden-
tify’’ the cars that are regularly
filling the residential spots, Calder
said. He said the new system 1s
“not the be all and end all, but we
should give it a try.”

Said Ald. Ben Ethier, “It’s
impossible to please everyone, so
we're doing the best we can.”

Ald. Bob Jones said he doubted
the new rules would improve the
situation.

“T have a great deal of difficulty
with most of this,” he said. He
said some drivers will still refuse
to use the Bevan and Second lot,
because other spots — with limits,
but without costs — are closer.

“T understand the difficulty, but
I don’t know that this is the
answer.

“But I don’t have any solu-
iions.’’ So Jones voted in favor of
the recommendations.

Sealey said the town must also
look at allowing for parking of
larger recreational vehicles. She’s
had complaints from residents of
Mayne Island who can’t legally
park their vehicles in Sidney.

“They spend money in town as
well as people in small vehicles do
— in some cases, more money,”
Sealey said.

Time restrictions remain in
other dowtown parking spots,
"including the 74 in other town-
owned lots.

year’s record however, with a final
record, including exhibition, of
15-14, compared to 5-25 last year.
Despite the league loss the team
played well in the 12-team Arbu-
tus tournament last weekend —
winning the first game against
Esquimalt 68-52 with 27 points
from Morrow and 25 from Gayler.

In Game 2 the Panthers lost to
Oak Bay 64-50 despite 19 from
Morrow and 17 from Gayler.

In the third game the Panthers
almost blew a 25-point lead but
hung on for a 70-63 win over
Nanaimo’s John Barsby.

Gayler hit the hoop for 33 points
in that game while Morrow sank
17 points.

In their last tournament game, a
battle for fourth and seventh
places, the junior Panthers suffered
a 68-46 loss to Central.

Gayler got 10 points against
Central and was selected to the
tournament’s first all star team.

“I was very pleased with the
boys,” Pires said. “They demon-
strated a positive attitude and
worked as hard as they could.”

~ Wednesday, February 21,1990 — B

Meeting kicks
off slowpiich

The 1990 season of the Sidney
Mixed Slowpitch League is ght
around the comer and it promises
to be bigger and better than ever.

“This year we're looking at 20
teams at least,” league spokesman
Shannon Noyce said. “We can’t
take more than 2s because of
limited field space.”

The Icebreaker tournament, tra-
ditionally the first tournament of
the year, is scheduled for April
21-22 and will be kicked off with
a dance the night before.

But before that the league needs
a $300 entry fee from cach team
intent on playing.

The first meeting of the year is
Monday, March 5, at Club Images.
New teams can get old informa-
lion, from league president Paul
Noyce, and old teams can get new
information, from umpire-in-chicf
Harold Aitken.

_~ Last year the league featured 18

teams in two divisions. Already
about a half-dozen new teams have
expressed interest and the Icague
plans on allowing new tcams in on

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