Basketball update

Women excelling, men struggling

Ask Jane Anti how the basketball
team is doing this season and her answer
will vary, depending on whether you’re
referring to the women’s or the men’s
team.

The women are on a season-long (so
far) hot streak, undefeated in league play,
trouncing some opponents by margins of
over 60 points, and hoping to earn a spot
at the nationals. “Our best team ever” is
how Anti sums them up.

The men are “an extremely nice bunch
of guys” in a “rough and tough league.”
With only two returning players, they’re
going through a rebuilding year, and are
struggling in the league, with only one
win So far.

Antil, UCFV’s athletic coordinator,
attributes the tendency towards stronger
women’s teams to the fact that women
come from all over the province to play
at UCFV, while the men’s team tends to
draw mainly from the immediate area.

The women’s coaches, particularly
Mike Hind, are the key to the women’s
success, according to Antil. Hind, who
works for Basketball B.C., is a “very
good recruiter” and has brought in
players from Prince Rupert, Victoria,
Vernon and throughout the Lower
Mainland. One standout player is
homegrown, however — Tracy
MacLeod, who hails from Abbotsford,
was named to the All-Canadian team last
year. There are also two players from
Langley, two from Mission, and three
from Port Coquitlam who played for
Hind at Terry Fox high school.

The women have lost only once this
season, to Skagit Valley Community _

College in exhibition play. They’ ve
beaten Vancouver Community College,
their closest rival, in an away game, and
have easily overcome Douglas,
Okanagan and Capilano. They host VCC
on Feb. 7 at the Clearbrook Community
Centre at 6 p.m., in what should be their
toughest remaining league game.

Anti thinks the women have a “pretty
good chance” at winning the B.C. college
title, which would earn them a shot at the
nationals in Toronto.

“We’ve had teams with stars
before, but this team is truly a
team. Everybody is a threat,”

— Jane Antil

UCFYV teams have been silver
medallists several times at the B.C.’s, but
this may be the year they earn gold.

““We’ve had teams with stars before,
but this team is truly a team,” says Antil.
“Everybody is a threat. We have four,
five or six players scoring 10 points each
some games. They’re solid, no matter
who’s on the floor.”

The men’s team started off slow in
league play, but earned its first league
victory Jan. 17 against Okanagan
College. They lost the next night against
Capilano, but played very well according
to Antil, and held them to a 114-106
score. The men are coached by Tom
Antil, Jane’s husband.

In a warmup exhibition season against
mostly Washington colleges, the team
found out that “they cannot compete
against two-year junior college teams,
but they can hold their own against the

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four-year bible colleges,” Antil says.

Antil terms this season a “learning
one” for the men, and hopes to see a
strong cohort of players return next year.

“They do have talent, but they’re
lacking in experience in this conference,
she says. “Their first three league games
were against the three toughest teams,
and that shook their confidence a bit.”

Two recent developments may help
bring athletes to UCFV and keep them
here. Becoming a university college
means that they can now play for three
years instead of two (the two-year
colleges balk at letting them play for
four). The addition of a two-year
physical education program, planned for
next year, is also enticing for athletes,
Anti says. “There are 25 people on the
wait list for the two P.E. courses we’re
offering this semester.”

Antil dreams of a gym on campus,
which would help draw more students to
Cascade games — the audiences are
mainly family and friends now — and
also be used for P.E. classes and for
general recreation..

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(Catch the Cascades!

Men’s and women’s
basketball.
Clearbrook Community
Centre.
Fri. Jan. 31

Cascades vs. Malaspina
Fri. Feb. 7
Cascades vs. VCC

Women’s games at 6 p.m.
Men’s games at & p.m.

ha Pe