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Richard O'Brien photos UW cage Warriors on the rise Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff The road to University of Waterloo volleyball Warriors Second Ontario Universities Athletic Association championship was one on which they had to make a U-turn or get lost on the way. Power hitter Dave Ambrose. a last year player with Warriors and an OUAA west all-star along with teammates Owen Jones and Jim Cooke as well as coach Rob Atkinson, blamed his team's poor start on a case of early jitters. "It.was a little bit of nerves," said Ambrose. "We're not used to playing in front of all these (several hundred) people and besides that it was a championship game." Warriors, the OUAA west division champion- ships, were hosting York Yeomen. champs of the OUAA east on Saturday afternoon and something was going wrong. Yeomen were in command from the start, winning the first game of the best-of-five event 15-7. They led 5-0 in game two before Warriors turned things around to eventually win in four games, 7-15. 15-10. 15-tt, 15-t1, s - If a 'A Bttel - l A W k . 'tl?, _ : I _ 1 F ' IC' W _ Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff Things are looking up, about seven feet up, for the University of Waterloo basketball Warriors as they prepare to play host to three other teams in a Canadian lnteruniversity Athletic Union tour- nament over the weekend. Warriors became Ontario Universities Athletic Association champions Monday night in Toronto with a 74-58 win over York Yeomen and seven-foot centre Randy Norris, returning after suffering knee problems for much of the season, was the game's MVP. Over the weekend, Warriors were In London where they won the four-team west division OUAA finals, beating the host Western Mustangs 71-66 in the championship game on Saturday after dispos- ing of McMaster Marauders 77-55 the day before. Norris played 27 minutes and scored " points to go along with tive rebounds and five blocked shots against Yeomen. Paul Boyce also had 16 points and Peter Savich was Warriors' leading scorer with 17. “It was just a tremendous team effort as we really shut down York. who are a very good offensive team.“ said Warriors coach Don McCrae. "York truly missed their all-star, Tim Rider." Rider, a 6-7 centre, is out for the season with knee ligament problems. _ - _ Stu idwinsey' scored 20 'roirttr,for Ymmon. 10 Turnabout's fair play for V-ball Warriors 'i,('i_"rl, t at am WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MARCH s, I986 - PAGE " Yeomen had little trouble going ahead by putting a hitter to the middle, but Warriors' weak serving made it easy for them establish their offence. '. "When we were serving too easy they could set up their offence pretty well," said Ambrose. "After the first game we realised we had to serve tougher or we wouldn't be here for long." Warriors came on to bring the score second game up to 5-5 and that proved to turning point. A “Upvdntil then (5-5) we were tentative," said Ambrose. "Once we got some serves and blocks we got into the flow of the game a little begun.“ . Coach Atkinson agreed with Ambrose that Warriors' serve had to be stronger and added that their blocking improved to help turn the game around. "Once we started blocking," said Atkinson, "they started to think. We finally blocked them enough that it started to affect their hitters' think, ing." _ _ It's the last season for Ambrose, as well as for team captain Tom Oxland. Ian Gowens, Cooke and Jones. The team leaves Wednesday, March 12 for the CIAU finals in Moncton. more than Mark Jones. ivNorrisr played about 18 minutes per game in the OUAA west division tournament and the win over Mustangs was u tough one. -- . . - "iiviuis'tangsr had ii week off and they were ready for everything we did." said Mchae. . . . Warriors had to come back from being down 51-47 in the second half as Rob Froese provided some scoring with three difficult jump shots and Tom Schneider scored on setups from Norris. - i/roese led Warriors with 18 points and Savich had 16. Schneider had 12 and Norris made I). _ Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks also made the trip to London, only to lose 87-75 to Mustangs on the opening night as guards Steve Forden and Bob Urosevic were unable to score as much as usual against Western's defence. Brian Demaree led Hawks with 17 points, three more than Rene Luypaert. who fouled out with about six minutes remaining to take some much needed quickness out of the Laurier lineup. Joe Syer added " points. This weekend the number three ranked Warriors open against Calgary Dinosaurs Friday at 8 after a game between McGill and Winnipeg. The champi- onship game. is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. with the mnner-up game starting two hours before that. In other regional tournaments across Canada, Acadia plays host to York. Western and University of Prince Edward island Manitoba hosts Toronto, Saskatchewan and Dalhousie while Lethbridge hosts Concordia. Victoria and St. Francis Xavier. Left, Tom Oxland (4) and Walter Hayes block for Uni- versity of Waterloo volley- ball Warriors. Far lett, Jim Cooke's hand is a blur an instant before spiking ball over the net. in the be the