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PAGE 34 - WATERLOO CHRONOCLE. WEDNESDAY Richard O'Brien Chronicle Staff There's a saying that everything comes in threes and right now coach Don McCrae and his University of Waterloo basketball Warriors must be wishing it was 100 per cent true, Because if it was, Warriors would be the 1986 Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union champions. Warriors had consecutive come- back wins over Winnipeg Wesmen and Western Mustangs to their credit when they met Victoria Vikings for the CIAU championship Saturday afternoon in Halifax and they came within one point of erasing a 14-point deficit on the way to losing by a 70-61 score as Vikings took their seventh consecutive CIAU title. The night before, Warriors over- came a seven-point deficit to over- take Mustangs and win 69.67 and that earned them a berth in the finals along with Vikings, who had beaten Saskatchewan Huskies 78-70 in the previous game. McCrae saw his Warriors come within a point before the game became a free throw contest which Vikings won. At one late stage in the game Warriors were zero-for-six at the line while Vikings went six-for- six. "I thought we were as good as they were this ymar," said McCrao. "They were not as strong as they'w‘ been in Warriors run out of comebacks Vikings weather storm, take another title Shawn Way of the Waterloo major peewee Tigers goes for a rough ride over Rob Longelle of St. Thomas during Hub League playoff game last Wednesday at Waterloo arena. Besides seeing action in Hub League the past but they were able to come to the mark at the end. "It we could have made our share of free throws we'd get to the last minute and then I like our chances because we've got good players." Wayne Gowing returned home with his Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks hockey team after losing to Moncton Blue Eagles in a Canadian University Athletic Union regional playoff series in Moncton but his stay in Waterloo will be a brief one. Gowing has more airports to see and flights to catch as he is on his way to Edmonton Thursday for the ClAU hockey finals as a nominee for all-Canadian coach of the year honors. WLU is the only university to have that many coaches recognised in a single year. . Whether he returns with the coach of the year title or not, it has already been a remarkable year for WLU coaches with four of them named coach of the year in the 1985-M Ontario Universities Athletic Association. Gowing was recently named for hockey along with Chris Coulthard for basketball. Earlier in the season. athletic director Rich Newbrough was so honored for his work with the football team and Barry Lyon as soccer coach, assistant to'Dave ciutty) Knight for 16 years Lyon, in his sixth year as qoCCer coach. was honored for the first time while Coulthard was honored for the third time in his five years a', head coach For Gowinq, who has led the hockey Hawks for 13 years, it was the second time For Gowing. who has led the hm he had been named by the ljUAA Voting for coach of the year is done by Ontario university coaches of the teams involved in the various sports NewbrouRh is only in his second year as football head coach after serving as Hawks' Gowing nominee for CIAU coach of the year UP AND OVER Vikings' 7-1 centre, Cord Clemens, came through when it counted most with 27 points that included a 13-for-14 performance at the free throw line. Lloyd Scrubb scored 13 and Vito Paéquale added 12. playoffs, Tigers are also one of three Waterloo teams involved in OMHA playdowna along with the minor Bantam Warriors and major bantam Winterhawks. See stories on page 41. mum o-amn photo Paul Boyce scored 18 for Warriors and Peter Savich added 14. Randy Norris and Rob Froese each had 10. Friday, it took a late jump shot by Savich to put Warriors up 68-67 and, in a time out with just seconds remaining, Mustangs plotted to send Norris to the free throw line with the hope of regaining possession and getting the last shot. Mustangs, however, were confused by the fact that McCrae took Norris out of the game in favor of Froese and they fouled a Warrior player before the ball was inbounded, resulting in a technical foul that gave Warriors their final point and allowed them to retain possession. Despite the loss, Warriors ended their season on a high note. winning 13 of their last l4 games. They were 9-4 at the start of the season but something went wrong in the middle because their overall record was 25- 13. "We really hit the doldrums in the middle stage of the three stages," said McCrae. "The only reason we appeared to have an up and down season is we had a couple injuries (Norris and Savieh) right at the end of December and did very poorly in one tournament (for which) we were stoned at the front xteps of City Hall by the public." VWarrriors return next season with out Norris, Savich and Vilhelm Bog gild.