OVER THE EDGE —

March 12-March 26, 2008

Anprew Bailey

Sporrs ano Ciuss Eniror

After earning a bye during the
first round. of. the playoffs, the
UNBC. Timberwolves faced off
against’ the UBC-Okanagan Lak-
ers in the second round on Friday,
February’29". The Lakers had made
it to this. semi final game by dom-
inating Langara College 47-31 the
previous day. A huge crowd was in
attendance to witness the highly an-
ticipated matchup, including many
younger students from local middle
schools, as well as a few. members
of the super-fans clad in their usual
green and gold uber-spirited attire.
The Lakers also had fans in attend-
ance, which I noticed when there
was a roar from the crowd on the
other side of the gym after the first
Lakers basket, and also a huge “Go
Lakers” sign in the audience. It
all equaled out to be an incredibly
loud, tremendously exciting playoff
basketball atmosphere.

The Lakers immediately showed
the crowd why they had made it

to the semi finals by starting off

with an incredibly fast paced and

very tough style of aaa
basketball. However, |
all the quickness |©
and toughness in the | —
world cannot, and |
did not, contain T- |” =
Wolf forward Laurel |.
Wallace’s undeniable
scoring capabilities
and precision from
the suburbs, (beyond
the perimeter) nail- |
ing three pointers |
and drawing fouls |
despite an incred- |
ibly disciplined and |
well-coached Laker |
defense. The first
quarter ended with a
tremendous steal by
T-Wolf guard Jaclyn
Nazareno that led to
an open layup putting

Sports and Clubs
Wolves Drown Lakers with Fantastic Finish

ae cach other. Some-
how, the score
became 27-23 in
my absence with
.) UNBC still in the
lead. The Lakers
had not lost any of
their first quarter
toughness or fa-
tigued in any way
as they continued
to play a very tight,
physical style of
defense. Despite
being defended
by the tremendous
6 -foot frame of
Laker Forward
Meghan McGill,
Soili Smith (5’9”)
played a tremen-
dously impressive
second quarter

the score at 17-11 in T-Wolfs huddle up before taking on UNBC-Okanagan Lak- highlighted by

UNBC’s favour.

I missed the first
five minutes of the
second quarter because my hung-
over state required me to grab a
coffee from the concession, an act
which proved to be way harder than

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PHOTO TAKEN BY ANDREW BaILEy

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upon hordes of middle school stu-
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nailing a _ but-
ter smooth turn-
around jumper

from 8 feet out and continuously
dominating the offensive paint. This
helped UNBC leave the half with a
considerable 35-29 lead.

Lakers coach, Heather Semen-
iuk must have given a pretty Tony
D’Amato like speech (see “Any
Given Sunday”) to her players dur-
ing the half time break, because her
team came out incredibly strong in
the third quarter. Owning the of-
fensive boards, Laker players were
able to take 2-3 shots a possession
allowing them to chip away at the
T-Wolf lead. On the defensive side
the Lakers were able to steal the
ball away from UNBC players re-
peatedly and soon found themselves
actually leading in the game for the
first time by a score of 36-35. This
lead did not last long however as
Carlye Hicks, visibly frustrated by

UNBC T-Wolf putting on clinic for the kids during half-time.

her quiet first half, drew a foul and
hit both baskets to give the lead
back to the T-Wolves. Hicks then
came up with a huge steal and drew
another foul and hit 1 of the 2 shots
giving UNBC the lead by three
points. The score then jumped back
and forth with the lead flip-flopping
from team to team until the Lakers
were able to string together a few
solid possessions and close out the
quarter up by four with the score
48-44 in Laker favour.

The fourth quarter started, as
many quarters have started with the
Timberwolves this year, with Laur-
el Wallace nailing a three pointer.
This brought the Laker lead down
to one and energized the home
crowd which was beginning to get
extremely rowdy and anxious with
their team down in a must win game.
The Lakers never let up and their
stamina seemed un-wilting as they
played with tremendous hustle in a
fast pace game that at one point saw
Laker guard Kim Whelpton take out
a sponsor sign and fly into the crowd
after going hard for a steal. Finally,
with 5 minutes left in the fourth
and final quarter and down by five
points, the UNBC Timberwolves
remembered that they were playing
at home, and that they never lose at
home, and they began to completely
dominate the baffled Lakers taking
back the lead and never losing it
again finishing with a 62-56 victory.
Wallace was a huge factor in the
fourth quarter comeback and caused.
the crowd to completely erupt by
hitting the go-ahead basket. Carlye
Hicks and Jaclyn Nazareno also
had very strong performances dur-
ing the quarter as they lead the T-
Wolves into the gold medal game
on Saturday. Laurel Wallace was
named player of the game.

PHOTO TAKEN BY ANDREW Baltey