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C2 The Edmonton Journal, Thursday, December 3, 1 992 ACAC ok wommemi hope tfor Sdomumy year, if nolt sunny Mp Phoenix visit no more for hoopsters CALENDAR ir- "We're trying to get comfortable with close games. That's something we have to overcome if we want to win. But we're glad to be 2-2 after the start we had. But it's really the defence that's been doing the job for us. Ooks coach Gregg Meropoulis FRIDAY HOCKEY: NAIT at Calgary SAIT, 7 p.m.; Calgary Mount Royal at Grand Pralrla, Had Daar vt.

Concordia at Agrl- Com, 7:30. BASKETBALL: Mount Royal at SAIT, Had Daar at Grant MacEwan (woman's gantas at 8:30 p.m., men's at 8:1 5.) VOLLEYBALL: Lathbrldga at Vermilion Lakeland; Grande Pralrla at Red Daer (women at 6:30 p.m.; men at SATURDAY HOCKEY: Mount Royal at Grande Pralrla, 1:30 p.m.; NAIT at SAIT, 7. VOLLEYBALL Letnbrldge at Lakeland (women at 11 a.m., men at 12:30 p.m.); Grande Pralrla at Red Deer (women at 1 p.m., men at 130); Mount Royal at SAIT (women at 8:30 p.m., men at 0.) MONDAY VOLLEYBALL: All-city hlgh-achool tournament at NAIT gym. TUESDAY VOLLEYBALL: All-city high-school tournament at NAIT gym. WEDNESDAY VOLLEYBALL: All-city high-school tournament at NAIT gym.

MARTY KNACK Journal Staff Writer Edmonton The NAIT Ooks women's basketball team will have to be con Christmas schedule against Red Deer at 8:15 p.m. Friday at the Mill Woods campus gym. The Griffins leave Dec. 12 for four games in Cuba against teams of junior national calibre and returns Dec. 20.

"I don't think any guy on this team would pass up this trip," said Griffins guard Darren Ross. Chauvin's Chris Hassall, who skipped his rink to the Alberta junior men's curling championship earlier this year, paced the NAIT men's team to a perfect 6-0 record in last weekend's ACAC fall regional bonspiel at Edmonton's Avonair Curling Club. Vermilion Lakeland was also undefeated in the mixed event, at 5-0, and MacEwan tied Camrose's Augustana University College for first place at 4-1 in the women's competition. High-school players from Edmonton and area will compete in the all-city classic volleyball tournament Monday through Wednesday at NAIT gym. tent witn a post-Christmas trip to Calgary instead of some fun in the sun.

The Ooks were planning to go to Phoenix for a tournament during the lengthy Alberta Colleges Athletic Con 1 "i Calgary Mount Royal. Three other ACAC teams Mount Royal Cougars, Red Deer and Calgary's SAIT Trojans will join NAIT, Fraser Valley and Cariboo from B.C. in the Jan. 2-3 tourney. Ooks coach Gregg Meropoulis hopes the event gives his players a much-needed boost to start the second half of the ACAC schedule.

"We're trying to get comfortable with close games," said Meropoulis. "That's something we have to overcome if we want to win. But we're glad to be 2-2 after the start we had." He was confident when NAIT won seven straight, including the conference's pre-season tournament, before losing back-to-back games to the Trojans and Cougars to open the league season. Post Michelle Dorval had 22 points in a 70-50 win over Grant MacEwan and guard Jodi Ross led the way with 12 in a 40-35 win over Red Deer as NAIT rebounded last weekend. Photos Ian Scott The Journal NAIT women basketballers Jodi Ross, above, and Michelle Dorval are a big reason why the Ooks sport a 2-2 record in the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference this season ward to post.

But Mero- six straight home games beginning poulis emphasizes that "six Jan. 8. or seven girls have led the team in different games." And "But it's really the de- fence that's been doing the The Gnfnns mens basketball job for us," said Meropou- team Wl11 try to improve its con- lis ference record to 4-1 before de- Meropoulis ference break that began after weekend wins over the Grant MacEwan Griffins and the Red Deer Queens. But the Phoenix trip fell through and the Ooks now are entered in a six-team tournament at vj Dorval has been the offensive He believes the schedule should parting for Havana next week, leader since switching from for- assist the Ooks in 1993. They play MacEwan will close out its pre- the new Savins 1993 Subaru Legacy is Marlins ink vet Polidor ROBIN BROWN LEE Journal Staff Writer Edmonton The Edmonton Trappers will welcome back a familiar face when they open spring training in Florida this March.

The Florida Marlins signed three players to minor-league contracts Wednesday, including ex-1986 Trapper of the Year Gus Polidor, and assigned the trio to Edmonton. Polidor, 31, played three seasons with Edmonton, accumulating a 295 batting average in 262 games and setting a PCL record for shortstops with a .986 fielding percentage in 1986. Polidor, a 12-year veteran, played the last two seasons with the Tacoma Tigers. Also signed was infielder Chuck Jackson, 28, and catcher Mitch Ly-den, 27. Jackson hit .260 with 10 homers for Oklahoma City in 1992, while Lyden hit .258 with 14 homers for Tidewater, last season.

Jackson is returning to the PCL. He spent 1991 with Calgary, hitting 15 homers with 85 RBI. The Marlins, meanwhile, announced the signing of a working agreement with the Single-A High Desert Mavericks on Wednesday, bringing to five their number of minor-league affiliates. And Ex-Trap Tim Salmon has been named recipient of the J. G.

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