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The point in the standings may seem inconsequential to a club struggling at 1-2-1, but last Friday's 5-5 tie with WLU could be a very valuable point for uw Warriors at the end of the season. Many times the last playoff spot has been won or lost by that single point, and the fact that his club bat- tled back twice from two-goal deficits had to please Warrior coach Bob McKillop. "Yes, it could be a really big point for us somewhere down the line - and it's better than losing," said McKillop, whose club in fact overtook Laurier 5-4 by the mid, way part of the third period before being tied 30 seconds later. Warriors effort was a vast improvement over Wednesday's outing in Hamilton when they were shellacked 11-0 by Marlins. "After five minutes the game was scoreless, and at the Puck Warriors heading into crucial week By Rick Campbell Chronicle Sponu Editor A fired-up K-W Reivers senior women's basketball team rebounded from an opening loss to win consolation honors in the St. Mary's University Invitation tournament on the weekend. The tourney proved an excellent prep for Reivers' own tournament, which takes place this Friday and Saturday at Bluevale Colle- giate. Staked against Halifax Mid-town Magi- cians in their first game, Reivers fell behind the national senior 1981 runners-up 28-26 at the half and then lost 58-52. Karen Mason had 10 for the winners while Canadian Olympic team member Sylvia Sweeney, picked up by Reivers for the tourney. led all scorers with 17. Reivers had a decidedly easier time of things in their next game as they sidelined the host club 75-50. Sue Porter and Heather Tyler had 15 for the winners. Sweeney 12 and Diane Young had 16 for St. Mary's. In the consolation final of the six-team event, Reivers blasted New Brunswick Sen- iors 88-56. Yonna Sutton led all scorers with 27, Sweeney chipped in 23 and Tyler 16 for Reivers while Coleen Dufresne had 15 for the Seniors, third-place finishers at last year's nationals. Mid-Town won the championship with a 65-62 win over Halifax Red Foxx. In the upcoming four-team Reiver tourney, there will be three doubleheaders. Action starts Friday at 7 p.m. with Reivers against York Raiders followed at 8: 45 p.m. by Detroit Cobras against Montreal Voyageurs. Double- headers begin again Saturday at 10 a.m. with the concluding game at 5: " p.m. . Reivers play Detroit at to a.m. and Montreal at 5: 45. A formula has been devised to determine a champion in the event of a tie in the round-robin competition. which is sponsored by Mr. Stereo. 'Cobras sire two-time defending cham- pious. Reivers grab consol honors 5:02 mark they had a 5-0 lead," said Mckil. lop about the landslide. "They scored on five of six shots." Friday's cross-town rivalry didn't start off much better as Laurier jumped into 2-0 and 4-2 leads before Warriors tied it up at the end of the second. Stu Ham- mond's third period goal for Waterloo was offset by Laurier's Paul Roantree. "Still I thought we gave up three bad goals, and by that I don't mean goaltend- ing, I mean team goals tagainst)," said McKillop. "But the troops are playing im tense hockey, and I'm happy with that." Don McClean had a pair of goals for the winners while others went to Blair MacAr- thur, Dan Blum and Hammond. McKillop. who was worried about the of feet of Wednesdayls hammering heading into the Laurier game, reported that three players. John Vander Griendt, Hector Coutu Warriors head into one of their most cru- cial weekends of the season with games Thursday at Brock and Sunday in Windsor. "There's no doubt we have to get four points this weekend for sure or we can kiss a playoff spot goodbye," said McKillop. and Bill Hodgson all suffered serious inju- ries and will be out for an extended period of time, especially Hodg- son (shoulder) and Coutu (broken knee. cap). no mm " I. 200 FRANKLIN um. COME! or HTML!!!) HWY. " I HWY. #%, mm ALL “NOW! OPEN Ar 0 AM. FOR VOW CONVENIENCE 'tttatttttqtrttgOtt0a+e "At-"Rtt.tl.Ntutt"etttttt0t-tttittt CONESTOGA HALL SOUTH “MERE CENTRE Despite being only 5'5" in stature, Jennifer Russell continues to play one of the most prominent roles on the court for UW Athenas and her contributions last week earned her female athlete of the week honors. Basketball sophomore Paul Van Oorschot was the male athlete. At 6'5" Paul has averaged 12 rebound per game for Warriors so far as well as 14 points per. Warriors will count a great deal on him in this week's Naismith Classic. 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