| POOL A | ONT | MAN | NFLD | Record | |||
| Toronto Estonia | —– | 75-65 | 112-68 | (2-0) | |||
| Winnipeg St. Andrews | 65-75 | —– | 100-63 | (1-1) | |||
| St. John’s Furniture | 68-112 | 63-100 | —– | (0-2) | |||
| POOL B | NS | ALTA | BC | SASK | Record | ||
| Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car | —– | 104-97 | 104-70 | 98-81 | (3-0) | ||
| Calgary Cascades | 97-104 | —– | 101-90 | 95-83 | (2-1) | ||
| Burnaby Bullets | 70-104 | 90-101 | —– | 99-96 | (1-2) | ||
| Regina Titan Homes | 81-98 | 83-95 | 96-99 | —– | (0-3) | ||
| Semi | Toronto Estonia 87 Calgary Cascades 75 | |
| Semi | Halifax Budget 95 Winnipeg St. Andrews 80 | |
| 6th | Regina Titans 114 Newfoundland 61 | |
| 5th | Burnaby Bullets 122 Regina Titans 91 | |
| Bronze | Calgary Cascades 80 Winnipeg St. Andrews Super Saints 71 | |
| FINAL | Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car 84 Toronto Estonia 81 | |
In Ontario playoffs, the Etobicoke Estonians won three-team tourney to capture its second consecutive provincial title with 86-81 win over Windsor Thompson Sport Centre and 98-86 win over the Ottawa All-Stars. The Estonians were led by tournament MVP George Rautins. In their win over Windsor, the Estonians led 45-39 at the half. But Windsor rallied to take a 73-72 lead with four minutes to play before the Estonians slowed the game to a crawl, regained control of the tempo and prevailed. Rautins led the Estonians with 19 points, including 14 in the second half. Trevor Briggs added 14, Val Pozzan 12 and Jamie Russell 11. Dave McGuffin led Windsor with 18. San Kaknevicius added 16, Phil Goggins 10, Gerry Conroy 6 and Rob Stewart 6. …………………………………………………… George Rautins scored 34 as Estonia defeated Ottawa. Phil Schlote added 20. Merv Sabey led Ottawa with 28. John Plaskacz added 14. …………………………………………………… Windsor d’d Ottawa 96-78.
In the British Columbia semis and Vancouver finals, the Burnaby Bullets defeated the Vancouver North Shore Mountaineers 94-90; 86-85; 94-90 (3g-0). …………………………………………………… In game one, Burnaby prevailed 94-90 as Ken Olynyk scored 25 and Neil Beiker 25. Steve Pettifer led North Shore with 22. …………………………………………………… In game two, Burnaby edged North Shore 86-85 as Bill Robinson scored 20 and Ken Olynyk 18. Steve Pettifer led North Shore with 23. …………………………………………………… In game three, Burnaby took the series with a 94-90 win as Bob Wright hit a bucket and two free throws for the Bullets in the final minute of play to pull out the victory. Neil Beiker led the Bullets with 22. Ken Olynyk added 20 and Bill Robinson 20. Dave Craig led the Mountaineers with 24. Steve Pettifer added 22.
In the British Columbia finals, the Burnaby Bullets defeated Victoria DataTech 71-85; 82-68; 93-73 (2g-1). …………………………………………………… In game one, Victoria prevailed 86-71 as Bob Burrows scored 21, Dave Mulcahy 20 and Jim Duddridge 17. Werner Spann led the Bullets with 19. Bob Wright added 15 and Rick Kazanowski 11. …………………………………………………… In game two, Burnaby dumped Victoria 82-68 as Neil Bieker scored 24, Werner Spann 21, Kim O’Leery 10, Bob Wright 10, Jon Bohn 6, Larry Street 5, Dave Crelo 2, Russ Pearson 2 and Rick Kazanowski 2. Bob Burrows led Victoria with 20. Dave Mulcahy added 16, Jim Duddridge 15, Ken Shields 11, Mike Gains 2, Gordon Hoshal 2 and Chris Hall 2. …………………………………………………… In game three, Burnaby took the series with a 93-73 win as John Bohn scored 20, Kevin O’Leery 16, Bob Wright 16, Werner Spann 15, Neil Bieker 14, Rick Kazankowski 5, Russ Pearson 3, Dave Crelo 2 and Larry Street 2, while Ken Olynyk was scoreless. Bob Burrows paced Victoria with 19. Ken Shields added 12, Dave Mulcahy 12, Jim Duddridge 9, Gord Hoshal 7, Mike Gains 6, Brent Mullin 4, Mike Bishop 2 and Chris Hall 2oHo
, while Brian Mackenzie was scoreless.
In the Alberta finals, the Calgary Cascades defeated the Raymond Union Jacks x-x; x-x; x-x; 67-69; x-x (xg-x). …………………………………………………… In game four, Raymond edged Calgary 69-67 as Phil Tollestrup scored 18, Gary Williams 12 and Don Yuill 12. Tim Tollestrup notched the winner at the buzzer. Jim Crawford led the Cascades with 14. Doug Baker added 13, Ian MacKay 12 and Tom Bishop 10.
In pool A play at the national tourney, held in Regina, which had an entry fee of $1400: …………………………………………………… Etobicoke Estonia defeated St. John’s Furniture of Newfoundland 112-68 with 17-point games from Phil Schlote, Jamie Russell and Trevor Briggs. Leo Buckle led Newfoundland with 24. Ron Tobin added 16. …………………………………………………… Etobicoke Estonia defeated the Winnipeg St. Andrews Super Saints 75-65 as Jamie Russell scored 18. Former Brandon U star Ryan Gray led Winnipeg with 16. Estonia led 47-31 at the half. …………………………………………………… The Winnipeg St. Andrews Super Saints whipped the St. John’s City Furniture of Newfoundland 100-63 after leading 56-33 at the half. Ross Wedlake paced the Saints with 26. Bob Town added 16. Ron Tobin led Newfoundland with 20. Brian Murphy added 14.
In pool B play: …………………………………………………… The Calgary Cascades thumped Regina Titans 95-83 as Tom Bishop scored 29 (while shooting .600 from the floor) and 6-5 forward Mark Estill 18. “Our game is to move the ball up court fast and as long as we’re doing that, we were in control and had things going our way,” Cascades coach Dick Vanderstam told the Regina Leader-Post. Wes Stevens scored 22 and Mike Frisby 17 for the Titans. Regina coach Dick Stark said “we did things out there that we haven’t done all year. We missed what should have been easy shots. We made mistakes. We fell down at times defensively … and pretty well all were things we just don’t normally do.” …………………………………………………… Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car defeated the Burnaby Bullets 104-70 as Mickey Fox scored 28 and Lee Thomas 25. Bill Robinson led the Bullets with 14. …………………………………………………… Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car defeated the Calgary Cascades 104-97 as Mickey Fox scored 34, Lee Thomas, 24 and Ed Shannon 22. Tom Bishop led Calgary with 22. Doug Baker added 21. …………………………………………………… The Burnaby Bullets nipped Regina Titan Homes 99-96 in overtime as Bill Robinson scored 29 from outside, gunning with 27 of those in the second half. Burnaby led 43-37 at the half. It was tied at 88 in regulation play. Regina was paced by Mike Frisby with 46, most of them inside. Frisby shot .520 from the floor and was perfect from the line. Mike Frisby told the Regina Leader-Post that “it would feel a lot better if we would have won. Actually, I’m not all that pleased with the way I played. I missed a lot of shots and I’m not saying that from a position of greed. It’s just that other guys, maybe someone like Tom Bishop from Alberta, would have scored 80 points if they would have had my chances.” …………………………………………………… The Calgary Cascades defeated the Burnaby Bullets 101-90 with Tom Bishop scoring 31 and Doug Baker 27, while Werner Spann replied with 27 for the Bullets. …………………………………………………… The Halifax Budget Rent-a-Cars thrashed the Regina Titan Homes 98-81 as Mickey Fox scored 33. Titan Homes led 51-43 at the half.
In the semis, Toronto Estonia clipped the Calgary Cascades 87-76. Estonia coach Harry Liiv said the key was his team’s ability to neutralize 6-6 Tom Bishop. Jamie Russell led Estonia with 23. Sharpe added 13, Val Pozzan 11, Trevor Briggs 10, Phil Schlote 10, Tom Kieswetter 10 and Kongats 10. Bishop led Alberta with 27. Doug Baker added 10, Crawford 8, Estill 8, Lathrop 6, Steveson 6, Oliver 6 and Forzani 4. “We wanted to keep Bishop down to less than 30 points and we felt if we could do that, we would be all right because we felt we could defence most of the other guys,” Liiv told the Regina Leader-Post. “We front Bishop all night and they tried to feed him all night and by the end of the game, he was stone-armed. Tough defence is our styles and it was the kind of game we had to play against them because they like to run a lot.
In other semi, Halifax defeated Winnipeg St. Andrews 95-80 as Mickey Fox scored 26, Shannon 23, Mickey Thomas 22, along with 13 boards, Seaward 8, Gallinaugh 8, Perry 6 and Cassidy 2. Ross Wedlake led Winnipeg with 24. Bob Town added 22, Stoesz 14, Gray 10, Ruppel 6 and Brinton 4. Fox scored 16 in the first half as Halifax took a 56-40 lead into the lockers.
In the sixth-place playoff, Regina Titan Homes took a 61-26 lead at half as they whipped Newfoundland 114-61. Mike Frisby led Regina with 28. Wes Stevenson added 16, Kim Renwick 16, Merv Prier 11, Johnson 10, Fogarty 9, Douglas 9, Brhelle 8, Pyne 5 and Prokopanko 2. Ron Tobin led Newfoundland with 16. Murphy added 15, Buckle 12, Barker 10, J Mahoney 4, Babstock 2 and Mahoney 1.
In the fifth place, the Burnaby Bullets stomped Regina Titan Homes 122-91. Titan Homes (coached by Dick Stark) included Wes Stevenson, Merv Prier.
In the bronze medal match, Tom Bishop and Doug Baker each hit 24 to pace the Calgary Cascades to an 80-71 win over the Winnipeg St. Andrews Super Saints.
In the final, the Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car Raiders prevailed 84-81 over Toronto Estonia. Estonia broke out early and stretched their lead to a 17-point margin as they capitalized on porous Halifax man-to-man defence and poor shot selection. Halifax moved into a 2-3 zone and closed to within 46-41 at the half by pounding the ball inside to ex-St. Mary’s star Lee Thomas and having Mickey Fox get hot from the perimeter. They eventually forced Estonia into a perimeter game and took the lead for the first time with 1:30 left in the game. Toronto coach Harry Liiv claimed with 13:39 left that the scoreboard was incorrect and that Estonia had a 3-point rather than a 1-point lead. After an 8-minute delay, the game resumed with one-point lead. “We were robbed out of two points,” Liiv insisted. “I was very disappointed in that they would have a young kid taking care of the score in an important game like this. We lost two points and they were big points.” But Liiv conceded that his team couldn’t solve the zone. “We couldn’t run against the zone and on top of that, we played poorly.” Val Pozzan scored 20 for Toronto, with Phil Schlote and George Rautins hitting for 15 and 14 respectively. Ex-Acadia U. star Ed Shannon scored 12 for Halifax. Fox bombed 33 while opening it up for Thomas inside. Tournament MVP Fox hit for 28, 34, 26 and 33 points in four games played. Fox hit a jumper with 14 seconds to play to give Halifax an 83-81 lead. On the following play, he hit a free throw. Thomas had 11 rebounds. “Lee started to settle down and relax when he knew we would get the ball inside to him,” Heaney told the Regina Leader-Post. “We were trying to go solo much too early in the game and that’s what got us into trouble. But when we moved into the zone defence, it disrupted the whole tempo of the game and took their running game away from them.” Fox said “you know, I think every player dreams about having a field goal to put the game away, so getting the chance out there really meant something. We could feel the momentum swinging to us at the half and we started to feed the ball inside to Lee and I started hitting from the outside. I felt the turning point was when we went to the 2-3 zone. It forced them to start playing perimeter basketball and that’s hard to do for 20 minutes with a lot of success.”
The all-tourney team: MVP Mickey Fox (Halifax); Val Pozzan (Toronto Estonia); Mike Frisby (Regina Titans); Mike Bishop (Calgary Cascades); Lee Thomas (Halifax Budget)
The bronze medalist Calgary Cascades: Phil Tollestrup; Tom Bishop; Doug Baker; Mark Estill; Tom Forzani; Jim Lathrup; Jim Crawford; Scott Stevenson; George Hardisty; Bill Oliver; coach Dick Vanderstam
The runner-up Etobicoke Estonia: Val Pozzan; Trevor Briggs; Jamie Russell; Phil Schlote; Sharpe; Tom Kieswetter; Kongats; George Rautins
The champion Halifax Budget Rent-a-Car Raiders: John Cassidy; Brian Heaney; John Gallinaugh; Mickey Fox; Fred Perry; Peter Halpin; Ed Shannon; Tom Hyland; Lee Thomas; Ken Seaward; Jim Collins; coach Bill Thow; assistant Brian Heaney