Show D. D EJ o. o t w H c c Ju l. l J I I SPORTS r ks i iBy By Eric Bresee Columnist Our Lady Bruin volleyball team was spanked by Nov 5 As dedicated journalists and with a short drive away Horizons Horizon's volleyball beat writer Charles Barnard and I made the trip to watch our Lady Bruins be spanked The match was not even close dominated in almost every aspect of the game As a result the Wolverines will waltz into our crib this weekend as the No 1 seed in the Regional Tournament However this experience at has left a bad taste in my mouth First of all many of you may know about the recently built David O. O MacKay Center It is much like our own Lifetime Activities Center except the seating arrangement actually looks like an arena They spent millions of dollars dollarson on this facility and it is a state-of- state the-art the facility and should be commended for that However dont don't you think if you have this great stadium you would use it Wednesdays Wednesday's game was played in this grungy high school-looking school gym It was a dive I was more impressed with North Idaho's gym and theirs is smaller than most high school gyms A game of so much importance deserved a better setting than that dungeon That leads me to another com com- plaint The sound system was horrible and that is putting it nicely It was wasso wasso wasso so bad my ears were bleeding Hey wigs big-wigs if youre you're going to play games in that hole feel free to add some bass to that joke you call a P PA system After the National Anthem I looked around the one side of bleachers in which the crowd was seated I 1 was in disbelief There was almost no one in the stands There were more people at the thelast thelast thelast last home game for the Bruins than at this game I 1 thought about apologizing to you the student body for ragging on you about your apathy But I wont won't At one time I looked at all the familiar faces and the Bruins fans may have actually outnumbered the Wolverine fans The last time the Bruins outnumbered the opposing teams fans was never A few more minutes passed and andI I saw something I have never seen at a volleyball game Cheerleaders Now why would a sporting event have cheerleaders at it Its It's a good thing doesn't have cheerleaders We do Oh Ive I've never seen them at a game in uniform Minutes before the first serve I screamed in horror A brown fuzzy creature emerged from a comer corner looking like a bad imitation of The Wookie his real name is Willy came out dressed in ina a green and gold uniform that made me think he was Sasquatch the mascot from the Seattle Sonia The game finally began and the Bruins began to lose The score was 2 10 with hammering the Bruins when I saw sawa a most peculiar sight Judd Morgan the vice president of student services strolled into the so-called so gym Now this got me thinking As I wrote previously I have been to every home volleyball game this year I remember a lot of faces at those games Never once do I remember seeing Morgan at a game Let me get this straight It is too hard to walk about yards from an office in the College Center to the LAC But driving 80 miles round trip through 15 1 construction construction construction con con- to support the Wolverines by paying for a ticket is not Now that makes sense As if that were not enough after the first game I noticed President Frank W Budd in atten atten- dance Excuse me but was this not nota a road game Are road games easier easi easi- er to attend than home games With so much of chy I fully expected Student Body President Marla Maria Kennedy to lumber into the arena Of course she She would rather read the Horizon I was also impressed with the fact brought their Dance Company in to perform at the game Im I'm just wondering Does have a Dance Company I haven't seen them at any games Dont Don't think I have sour grapes from the shellacking the Bruins took on Wednesday They were beaten by the better team that night I just made some observations |