REGULAR SEASON

EAST       WEST        
  York 12-0 38-4 Bob Bain Windsor 10-2   Paul Thomas  
  Carleton 10-2 17-12 Pat O’Brien Waterloo 10-2 22-11 Don McCrae  
  Toronto  7-5  7-8 John McManus Western  8-4   Doug Hayes  
  Laurentian  6-6   Mike Heale McMaster  6-6   Phil Tollestrup  
  Ottawa  5-7  9-16 Bob Butler Guelph  5-7   Doug Dodd  
  Queen’s  2-10  3-11 Tom Frood Wilfrid Laurier  3-9   Don Smith  
  Ryerson  0-12   Ed DeArmon Brock  0-12  1-17 Walt Szpilewski  
                   

Playoff non-qualifiers:

       Brock Badgers: Terry Rigg, Andy Fraser, Kelly Baker, Bill Shaw, Doug Fast, Scott Patterson, Norm Labbe, Jerry Mellander, Bob Houlden, Kevin Smith, Jim Stephenson, Paul Follis, Greg Peters, Greg Krar, Steve Myrie, coach Walt Szpilewski, assistant Paul Deeton

       Guelph Gryphons: Ron Hall, Shane Scott, Mike Hryb, Peter Smith, Rick Rusk, Rick Dundas, Michael Sesto, Tom Heslip, Keith Mantesso, Rob Barber, Peter Marcus, Roger St. Fort, John Amstein, Kevin Lohr, Vito Bommarito, coach Doug Dodd, assistant Bob Sharpe, assistant Henry Vandenberg, manager Fino Tiberi

       Ottawa Gee-Gees: Steve Huck, Rick Traer, Bob Seberra, Rene St. Fort, Pat Signorotti, Jim Kent, Jack Eisenmann, Robert Ashe, Phil Piche, Alix Adrien, Mark Hareljac, Mike Havey, coach Bob Butler, coach Cam Innes

       Queen’s Golden Gaels: Phil Moore, Jeff Folkard, Mark Gagnon, Jaime Pitfield, Rick Emmerson, Bill Brown, Mike Rowland, Bob Bennington, Ralph Doran, Jack Aubry, Rick Varsava, Mike Kirby, Steve Simmons, John Kutkevicius, Phil Moore, coach Tom Frood

Ryerson Rams: Rob Kimstow, Robert Jones, Dikran Zabunyan, Tom Mouharemis, Ben Kazinier, Jim Cocker, Peter Baxter, Jan Kon Oarek, Gord Simpson, Dan Tesic, David Tuck, Mike Vincent, Jeff Konderak, coach Ed DeArmon

       Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks: Fred Koepke, Larry Labaj, Gord Caldwell, Barry Atkinson, Bob Fitzgerald, Leon Arendse, Jim Horvath, Chris Heaver, Orval Clark, Pat Morris, Perry Tuccierone, Emil Labaj, Mike Horvatin, Peter Zwart, Pat McKeown, Bill White, Paul Jarjapka, Barry Brickman, Terri George, Jim Horvath, coach Don Smith, assistant Chris Coulthard

       In the West semis, top-seeded Windsor defeated 4th-seeded McMaster 83-68 after taking an 11-4 lead by using its full-court press to control the pace of the game. Windsor led 22-17 after one quarter and 44-31 at the half. Wayne Allison led the Lancers with 21. Stan Korosec added 16, Kevin Greenwood 16, Jim Molyneux 8, John Ritchie 6, Phil Hermanutz 6, Mike McKinley 6 and Vince Landry 4, while Brian Hogan and Jack Baird were scoreless. The Lancers hit 36-83 from the floor and 11-18 from the line. Lancers coach Paul Thomas told the Windsor Star that “overall, I thought we played quite well, although I did detect some laziness on defence at times. … I was worried at the start when Vince got hurt [pulling a hamstring in the pre-game warmup] but Kevin (Greenwood) took charge and scored several key baskets for us.” McMaster coach Phil Tollestrup said “their pressing hurt us. We wanted to get the jump on them and control the tempo but their press upset us. Their pace was too fast for our liking. Their press made us work harder to get the ball up the court, as you know, I only play five or six people. And let’s face it, this wasn’t one of our better games.” Tollestrup added that Korosec was intimidating in the paint and spend up Windsor’s offence with quick outlets. Allan White led the Marauders with 23. Marc Dubois added 21, Marty Kicul 11, Phil Tamborino 5, John Kuhlik 4, Brian Fuller 2 and Victor Dhue 2, while Scott Lind and Casey Kalvaitus were scoreless. The Marauders hit 28-68 from the floor and 12-16 from the line. The Marauders (coached by Phil Tollestrup) also included Scott Bryson, Tim Clutterbuck, Chuck Cochlin, Mike Holmes, Scott Lind, Albino Pierira, Mike Voelkner and Casey Kalvaitis.

In the other West semi, the 2nd-seeded Waterloo Warriors defeated the 3rd-seeded Western Mustangs 81-61 as Ron Graham scored 16, Pat Brill-Edwards 14, Seymour Hadwen 12, Leon Passmore 12, Doug Vance 10 and Steve Garrett 10. The Warriors led 38-28 at the half. Warriors coach Don McCrae told the Kitchener-Waterloo Record that “we used a lot of people tonight and they all contributed to the win. … (Western’s full-court pressure) upset us for a couple of minutes but we got straightened around with little difficulty. Normally, people don’t press us … I thought (Ron) Graham and (Doug) Vance did an excellent job of shutting them (Mustang bigs Clyde Adkin and Bruce Meikle) down.” Mustangs coach Doug Hayes said “give them credit. They deserved to win. It’s not so much we didn’t play well, but rather, they were much better. … They were more prepared for our zone this time. They have a lot of good shooters.” Clyde Adkin led the Mustangs with 15. Rob Niro added 13 and Dan Berry 10. The Mustangs (coached by Doug Hayes, assistant Bruce Patterson, trainer Nancy Jean Bell) also included Francis Moccio, Scott McLeod, Bruce Meikle, Dave Hale, Bruce Tomlinson, Jim Dowling, Mark Olman, Dan Borrelli, John McNeill, Bryan Gilvesy and John Hees.

       In the West final, top-seeded Windsor defeated 2nd-seeded Waterloo 56-44 after racing ahead 34-19 at the half. Wayne Allison led the Lancers with 19, including 14 in the first half. Stan Korosec added 11, along with 16 boards, Jim Molyneux 9, Phil Hermanutz 6, Vince Landry 3, Brian Hogan 2, Kevin Greenwood 2, Jack Baird 2 and Mike McKinley 2, while John Ritchie was scoreless. The Lancers hit 22-64 from the floor and 12-18 from the line. Lancers coach Paul Thomas told the Windsor Star that his troops surprised Waterloo with a 2-3 zone. “We dominated the game most of the way. … We’ve played better games. Our boardwork was the best part of our game tonight. Our changing defence caused them a lot of problems too. If we could only have capitalized a lot more on their turnovers, we could have been out of sight.” Waterloo coach Don MacCrae said the Warriors were hurt by poor shooting and Windsor’s boardwork. “I was happy when Windsor went into that zone defence initially. With Seymour (Hadwen) out of there (having sprained his ankle after only two minutes of play), it gave us a chance to re-organize, move the ball and get more comfortable. We had a very low percentage of our shots tonight but I guess their good defence had a hand in that.” Lancer Wayne Allison said “Waterloo had no inside game tonight and it was a heckuva lot easier with Hadwen out of there.” McCrae told the Kitchener-Waterloo Record that “it was simply a disastrous ending. We put on a horrendous shooting display and never really seemed to be in the game. When Seymour (Hadwen) hurt his ankle early in the game, it seemed to take the heart out of our guys. It certainly didn’t help our case. … I have to give Windsor credit because any time you shoot only 26% from the floor and are held to 44 points, the opposition has to be doing something right. I don’t know if they were forcing us to rush our shots but they seemed to be putting us in a bigger and bigger hole as they game went on.” Pat Brill-Edwards led Waterloo with 11. Doug Vance added 10, Tom Fugedi 8, Jim Commerford 7, Ron Graham 4, Seymour Hadwen 2 and Clayton Ninham 2, while Leon Passmore, Tim Harrold and Steve Garrett were scoreless.

In the East semis, top-seeded York defeated 4th-seeded Laurentian 93-66 as they continued their romp through the league. Coach Bob Bain was concerned that his Yeomen might ease up and fail to play with intensity. But the Yeomen held the Voyageurs to one field goal over the first six minutes of play as they took a 12-point lead. “In order to peak for games, you have to have some balance,” said Bain. “I believe we’ve had a trough and now we’re starting to move back up. Tonight, we took one step towards peaking and I hope we take another step against Carleton. I just hope we’re not looking ahead too much the nationals. This year, we’ve had a tradition of getting up for the big games and I hope the players consider the Carleton game a big one.” Laurentian packed the paint in hopes of preventing the Yeomen from getting the ball inside to centre Lonnie Ramati. But Dave Coulthard, Ted Galka and Ed Siebert blistered the nets from the perimeter forcing the Voyageurs to extend their defence. York promptly began pounding the ball to Ramati, who finished with 17 points. Coulthard added 13, Siebert 10, Peter Greenway 10 and Chris McNeilly 10. “We let up on Bennett in the second half,” said Bain. “He tried to take matters into his own hands and had success doing it for a while. They played us the best they could. We had a little trouble working some of the things we wanted to but the margin was what I expected.” Bain told The Excalibur “we had a tough time getting the ball to Lonnie at the beginning and had to rely on our outside.” Mark Bennett paced Laurentian with 19 points, including 15 in the second half. The Voyageurs (coached by Mike Heale) included Mike Mulvihill, Rick Pawlowicz, Don McRoberts, Wyatt Poser, Willis Woitowich, Don Jones, Rick Owens, Dave Robbins, Tim Orpin, Ken Schildroth and Mark Bennett.

In the other East semi, 2nd-seeded Carleton thrashed 3rd-seeded Toronto 98-72 after taking a 53-39 halftime lead. The Ravens were paced by Rick Powers 27, Tom Cholock 22, along with 19 boards, Pat Stoqua 17 and Brock Cowan 14. Carleton shot .640 from the floor, pilfered 12 balls and nabbed 45 boards. “All of us were disappointed that Rick didn’t make the all-stars,” coach Pat O’Brien told the Ottawa Journal. “Rick has had an outstanding season and he sure had a hot hand tonight. Unfortunately, Rick’s been playing in the shadows of Patty (Stoqua) and Tommy (Cholock). I think that’s part of it. But with Rick and Patty, I think we can play with anybody in the country in the backcourt.” Marty McCrone paced the Blues with 26. Frank Wenzl added 21. “We made a lot of mental errors,” O’Brien told the Charlatan. “We would just go to the proper spot on the floor and wait for the action to come to us without anticipating what was going to happen.” The tempo was glacial. “There were many reasons why we beat them,” said O’Brien. “But the main one was that they couldn’t handle our zone defence.  Every time we’ve played them this year they’ve had the same trouble.” The Blues (coached by John McManus) also included Bill Pangos, Hubert Smith, John Lam, Peter Hadwen, Matt Hadwen, Brian Hummel, Dave Calnan, Joe Tucci, Tony Braunstein, Dave Roth, Nabil Tadross, Randy Cook, Zvonko Pehar, Vincent Nycz, Bob Phillips and Brian Anderson.

       In the East final, top-seeded York defeated 2nd-seeded Carleton 84-70. York opened with a 9-0 run but Carleton rallied to knot the score at 21. York countered with a 16-6 run to take a 45-35 lead into the lockers. The Yeoman increased their lead to 72-49 with 10 minutes to play. When Yeoman coach Bob Bain pulled his starters, though, the Ravens responded with a 10-0 run. Bain called a time out, re-inserted his starters and York coasted to the win. “We’re really proud of the way we played, the way we came back.” Bain told The Excalibur that “there were times when we just threw up the ball and we gave up a couple of easy baskets toward the end.” Carleton coach Pat O’Brien told the Charlatan that “it would have been easy for us to sort of fold because the last time we came here they blew us out, and the guys wouldn’t and with five minutes to go we put the fear of the Lord into them.” York post Lonnie Ramati said the Ravens are “a streak team, streak shooters. That’s the type of team they are.” David Coulthard paced the Yeomen with 27. Ramati scored 21, while holding Carleton post Tom Cholock to 8. Rick Powers paced the Ravens with 23. Pat Stoqua added 18. Yeoman coach Bob Bain said “I really feel the difference (from the regular season 113-60 game) to a certain extent was just that Powers and Stoqua this time hit their shots and last time they didn’t. And they were shooting from places where we haven’t guarded people before.” O’Brien said “it’s difficult to talk about the game because York is so good. But I think the guys really put everything on the line. No, I’m very pleased. It’s been a good year.”

       The Wilson Cup final featured a frantic finish in which Windsor hit four free throws in the final minute to defeat York 80-78. Windsor had appeared in control early in the contest, taking an 11-4 lead over York, ranked number one in the nation and coming into the contest with a 34-2 record. Although York rallied to tie the game at 19 at the quarter, Windsor opened the second frame with a 16-4 run, leading to a 46-36 lead at the half, as 6-9 York centre Lonnie Ramati picked up three fouls early in the first half. Ramati fouled out five minutes into the second half but Dave Coulthard kept the Yeoman in the contest, eventually hitting three straight bombs after Windsor had retreated into a zone to lead York to a 67-66 lead. Windsor promptly switched back to man-to-man and the game was close to the end, when John Ritchie and Phil Hermanutz each hit two free throws to give the Lancers the victory. Pelech missed a buzzer beater to tie the game. The shot bounced off the rim. With Ramati sidelined for most of the contest, tourney MVP Stan Korosec dominated the board, nabbing 14 and scoring 21. Wayne Allison added 14, Phil Hermanutz 9, Kevin Greenwood 8, Vince Landry 7, John Ritchie 7, Brian Hogan 6, Jack Baird 2 Mike McKinley 2 and Jim Molyneux 4. York was paced by Coulthard’s 21, Pelech’s 19, Peter Greenway 12, Chris McNeilly 8; Paul Jones 5, Paul Layefsky 4, Ed Siebert 4. Ramati finished with a scant 5 points. Lancers coach Paul Thomas told the Windsor Star that “I think our guys are just starting to realize what they can do and what they have to do.” Thomas, was a graduate of Jimmy Rose’s program at Niagara Falls Collegiate, which dominated the Ontario high school scene in the 1960s. Thomas coached the 1952 Olympic team at the ripe age of 25, as well as coaching the Tilsonburg Livingstons to the senior A men’s title. He then coached briefly at the U. of Saskatchewan before heading south for 12 years to lead San Fernando State College. He returned to Canada in 1969? to assume the mantle at Windsor. Was coach of the 1974 World University Games Team, and president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches from 1974-1979. He was selected OUAA coach of the year in 1979. “Tonight, we beat the number one team in the country in a game in which we could have done a few things better.” Lions coach Bob Bain said Wayne Allison “was the difference in the ball game.” Bain told The Excalibur that “I thought it was doomsday for us when Lonnie fouled out. But we stayed together and hung in there. We missed a shot at the buzzer. We had two shots at tipping it in but it just wouldn’t drop. It was like there was a lid on the basket.”

The co-bronze medalist Carleton Ravens: Tom Cholock; Rick Powers; Pat Stoqua; Keith Kelso; Steve Sheehan; Chris Rodgers; Mike Tims; Greg Yeldon; Dale Roe; Brock Cowan; Rob Walkinshaw; Spencer Overgaard; Jim McSheffrey; coach Pat O’Brien; assistant Jon Love

The co-bronze medalist Waterloo Warriors: Pat Brill Edwards; Doug Vance; Tom Fugedi; Jim Commerford; Ron Graham; Seymour Hadwen; Clayton Ninham; Leon Passmore; Tim Harrold; Steve Garrett; Richard Kurtz; Tony Petrella; Rick Giommi; Matt Ross; coach Don McCrae, assistant Court Heinbuch; assistant Mike Visser; manager/trainer Rob Takimoto; assistant trainer Chris Rozad; statistician Leo Tobi

       The runner-up York Lions: Ted Galka; Ed Siebert; Lonnie Ramati; David Coulthard; Bo Pelech; Paul Jones; Peter Greenway; Chris McNeilly; Paul Layefsky; Ron Kaknevicius; Lester Smith; coach Bob Bain; assistant Gerry Barker

       The champion Windsor Lancers: Vince Landry; Kevin Greenwood; Jim Molyneux; Wayne Allison; Stan Korosec; Phil Hermanutz; Brian Hogan; Jack Baird; Mike McKinley; John Ritchie; Dan Katzmen (Katzmana?); Mark Korchok; Martin Ritsma; coach Paul Thomas; assistant Nick Grabowski