Gaiters Tour of BC

Thursday at Victoria

BU               19    21    19    25   -   84
UVIC           23    25    26    18   -   92

3rd Year Forward Yassin Naji

We are not having major problems scoring points, but defensively we have things to clean up that will have a significant impact. It might be hard to believe, but the things that hurt us the week before actually improved. However, there was a drop off in other areas that were really exposed by the teams we played in BC as we were playing some good to excellent offensive teams.

In the UVIC game we were at our worst defensively despite giving up fewer points than the last 2 games. We struggled in transition at times and struggled getting matched up. Each time we had an issue UVIC capitalized.

Abdul scored at will on the fast break scoring 25 points. Dave Belanger was solid with 16 points & 7 rebounds. Joany had a quiet 11 points.

Friday @ #5 UBC

BU            11    25    24    32   -   92
UBC         24    31    22    22   -   99

2nd Year Guard Kasey Paul-Buzas

UBC dominated the first half on the glass and in transition. We struggled to score due to their defensive pressure. However, we did manage to figure that out a bit as the game went on. We actually played a pretty good 2nd half as we doubled them on glass and scored 56 points. However, any time that we had a chance to seriously threaten them they had an answer. That is why they are a top 5 team.

Abdul had 21, Alex Boisse 18, Yassin Naji 14, Dave 12 & Kasey Paul-Buzas with 11.

Saturday vs. #3 U of Alberta

BU            20    18    28    18   -   84
UA            17    35    29    30   -   111

3rd Year Forward Andrew Howarth

After a pretty solid 1st quarter the wheels fell of in the 2nd quarter. Alberta is explosive offensively (they scored 103 the night before) and we have the ability to be poor defensively for stretches...that is a bad combination for us. They shot 17-32 from the 3 point line and rode the momentum of the 2nd quarter for most of the game. We had opportunities  to cut into the lead in early in the 4th quarter, but could not capitalize and then they just ran away with the game.

Joany had 17 points to lead our scoring Yassin had his best weekend as a Gaiter scoring 11 points. Harvey Matou added 11 while Kasey & Andrew Howarth each scored 10.

Thanks so much to the Gaiter Alumni who showed up to see us play. Special thanks to Ian McLean, Jeff Szita, Herm Tesfaghebriel & Jordan Winnett for picking up team meals, as well as, Blair Shier for taking & supplying us with great pictures from the 2 games at UBC.

Next up is our 3rd game in a row vs. a top 5 team...#1 Carleton this Friday night at 8 pm at Carleton. The following night we play a very good Acadia team at 6 pm at Carleton. Acadia defeated McGill this past weekend in Calgary.
I will keep you posted.
Rod