z OVER THE EDGE : ; Foervaey a7 - - March 42, 2008 imberwolves on CFUR CFUR station manager Christopher Earl. TyLer CLARKE Propuction/PHaTo COORDINATOR The UNBC Timberwolves basketball teams have found a home on the airwaves. CFUR 88.7 FM, UNBC’s campus radio station, has been broad- casting live Timberwolves games Friday and Saturday nights for both away and home-games since January 18 of this year. CFUR station manager Christopher Earl was the man with the plan, and helped organize the broadcast’s creation. “Tt’s strange to be on campus and not be involved with campus ‘| athletics... We were in a closet on campus,” he said. “It seemed we were doing very little for UNBC. I wanted to represent the campus a little bit more.” Since beginning the broadcast of live Timberwolves games Earl has not noticed any feedback, in large part due to the fact that he hasn’t done any promotion for it. “Next year we’ll make a bigger deal of it. We'll be the Timber- wolves station... he said. With the basketball season pretty well over, Earl said that the test has been successful and the station is ready to begin broad- casting the upcoming season, beginning next November. The final task broadcast of this season will be the provincials, held | at the Northern Sport Centre February 28 to March 1. The men’s team did not make provincials, though the women’s team did. The first women’s game will be broadcast Friday February 29 at 1 p.m. and the two gold medal games will both be broadcast at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Saturday March 1, regardless of who is playing. UNBC athletic director Len McNamara said that they’d initial- ly been in talks with CFIS 93.1 FM, who do live broadcasts of Spruce Kings hockey games. These plans were at least temporar- ily dashed in favour of CFUR, in part because of CFUR’s online streaming audio. “This way, graduates of the university could get [the broadcast] * everywhere,” McNamara said. Other reasons include CFUR’s campus base, as well as its promises of stronger radio signals in the coming months. During the season, broadcast sports-announcing duties were performed by both Roland Zitrick and Kelly Sharp for home games, and former UNBC student Moe Hashim for out of town games. Currently, CFUR broadcast signals are relatively weak, rarely making it all the way down the hill from the university. This will all change some time soon, as the station is receiving a signifi- cant power-jump that will broaden the listener range. Ear! said that they already have all of the equipment, but are waiting on someone to hook it up to the library roof’s antenna system. “Everyone will be able to hear the games, no matter where they are in town,” Earl said. Currently, live-streaming broadcasts can be heard online on: CFUR’s official website, www.cfur.ca. This was sort of a way to work out the kinks,” * Anprew BaiLey SPORTS anD Ciuas Epiror The UNBC Women’s basketball team, coming off a tough physical win against the Blues, continued their perfect home record against the top of the league Camosun College Chargers on Friday. Fans at the event were given an excep tional evening, not just of intensely § ‘exciting basketball, but also terrific musical accompaniment provided by ; the DP Todd High School band, and ; a half time fighting display by iron- | clad members of the médieval club _Mike Gouchie provided the nationa | anthem ripe with northern twang let ting the Chargers know that they were | in T-Wolf country and no longer on the | top-40 streets of Victoria. Also letting the Chargers know that they were far far away from home was the incredibly vibrant and energetic crowd that created a huge source of en- ergy in the building for the T-Wolves to play off. There were fans painted green and gold, clad in team coloured togas and armed with all kinds of different noise making contraptions. I sat down with a group of these super-fans and met Pat Law, face painted and wearing a huge fuzzy green cape and gold head band. Pat explained to me that a core group of these super-fans go | to every game because “it’s fun, it’s amusement, it’s team spirit.” The stage was therefore set for a great experience Meas for any basketball fan, and the game did not disappoint in the least. After a shaky start the T-Wolves found themselves down by 10 points |: | at. the end of the first quarter but tre -mendous hustle and tumultuous effort by T-wolves guard Jaclyn Nazareno provided incredible momentum that motivated the entire team. Nazareno’s unfaltering stamina brought her to the free throw line twice in the last minute of the half hitting two of four and push- ing the Timberwolves to a 31-30 lead at the half. However, the momentum shifted again in the third which ended in a bad giveaway by Lindsay Anderson, al- lowing for an open Chargers lay-up, putting Camosun ahead by 54-48 at the end of the third. The fourth quarter started off just as the third had ended, Lindsay Anderson again was stripped of the ball and again the Chargers took advantage and nailed another open lay-up. With Camosun taking a com- manding eight point lead and seizing control of the game, the vibe of the Northern Sports Centre was wilting as the fans were quieting down. However, this was only a temporary state, the eye of the ec- stasy storm. Unwilling to submit to the Chargers scoring mo- mentum, Kady Dandeneau dished off a dart of a pass through a rapidly closing hole, kept driving to the net, recéived the ball back fought off defenders put the ball up, ripping through the paint Kady was able to grab her own rebounds twice and finally nail the basket putting the T-Wolves within six and awakening the now intensified crowd. Laurel Wallace Get To Know A UNBC Cus PRESIDENT Kyle Guy Model United Nations President President of UNBC Model United Nations for: 2 years, club executive for 3 and member for 4. Astrological Sign: Cancer Other Club Memberships: None that I can say I’m actively engaged in. Good at: Talking. Speaks: English and some Spanish. Likes: Beer, Politics/Law, Sports, and Women. (Probably in that order) Dislikes: Most Republicans, Social Conservatives, and Reli- gious Fundamentalists. Feels Like Doing Right Now: Going to the pub. Major: Political Science. Minor: International Studies. Number of Club Members: Over 40 registered, but probably only about 15-20 actively participating in club meetings. Purpose of Club: General- To cultivate interests in and understanding of international relations and global governance as embodied by the United Nations. Specific- To participate in a University level Model United Nations conference, and; to organize and host an annual high school MUN conference at UNBC this spring. Events last semester: MUNster Haloween party, McGill Model United Nations Conference (January). Events planned for this semester: 5th Annual UNBC High School Model United Nations Conference, scheduled for the 25th and 26th of April. Club Contact: unbemun@gmail.com Canning: Perfection ‘i the Playoffs UNBC T-Wolf listening in on Visiting Malasapina Mariners Strategizing. PHoro courtesy or Scorr BEATON pasketball land in the hands of Lind- T-Wolves call timeout huddle up down by only 1 point with just sec- the T-Wolves completely trounced the onds left on the clock. Paoro courresy or Scorr BEATON also had an incredibly strong 4th quarter as the team began to rally back riding on her shoulders and found themselves down by only two with two minutes left to play in the game. Then with only 54 seconds left in the game, the Chargers committed a san traveling violation which gave UNBC the z ball back. Not backing down under pressure Jaclyn Nazareno drove to the hoop, drew the foul, and nailed the shot giving her the opportunity for a three point play which would tie the game, although she missed the game tying free throw Jaclyn fought ex- tremely hard to win her own rebound forcing the ball to go out of bounds of a Chargers player. This created the ul- timate pressure situation. UNBC was down by 1 point with just seconds left on the clock and the ball in the Char- gers zone, the inbound pass saw the say Anderson behind the three point perimeter. Without flinching Lindsay nailed the basket com- pletely redeeming her earlier giveaways, putting the team up by two points, and winning the brand new butter award which T have created to honour the smoothest T-Wolf player of the weekend. The Chargers were completely crestfallen and were unable to create any kind of miracle come-back as the game ended with a 71-68 final score after a = free throw from Jaclyn Nazareno who found herself at the line to finish off the game. Not quite the high scoring 85-76 matchup that I predicted in Over the Edge’s last issue, but I' did predict the winning team correctly, however that’s not exactly hard when the win- ning team is the UNBC Timberwolves as they completed the regular season without a single loss at home. The day after this incredible victory against first place Camosun Chargers, Malaspina Mariners showing absolute- ly no signs of exhaustion from the day before. Vastly outsized by Malaspina, the T-Wolves were still able to play a dominant physical game which at times looked more like a Spruce Kings hockey game and at one point saw a Malaspina player carried off the court in very noticeable pain. Playing the post position for the T-Wolves, Soili Smith had an amazing game dominating a bumping match in the paint despite her obvious size disadvantage to the much lar- ger Malaspina players defending her. Although the Mariners were able to move the ball around effectively at times during the game, they never found their shooting rhythm and there- fore succumbed very quickly to T-Wolf dominance as UNBC won their last home game of the season with tremendous au- thority taking their perfect record at home into the playoffs which will be played here at UNBC’s home court. The BC- CAA playoffs will be held from February 28th to March Ist. Tickets to these wildly anticipated match ups are available at the front desk of the Sport Centre: Model United Nations president Kyle Guy (right) enjoying another sensational issue of Over the Edge with Sports and Clubs Editor Andrew Bailey. PHoro TAKEN BY HAAKON SULLIVAN