The Douglas College Royals remained in tie for first place in PacWest women’s basketball with back-to-back wins over Columbia Bible College and Kwantlen Polytechnic last week.
Ellen Fallis came off the bench to score 17 points to lead the Royals to a 76-37 win over the last-place Bearcats at home on Friday.
Nanaya Miki posted a double-double in Saturday’s 61-46 win over Kwantlen to help Douglas improve its league-leading record to 5-0.
Miki scored 12 points on six-of-nine shooting and grabbed 13 rebounds for the Royals.
The Douglas women will be in Squamish this Friday for a first-place matchup against Quest University.
“They like to run a ton,” said Douglas head coach Courtney Gerwing of Quest’s high-scoring offence.
But with the stingiest defence in the league, Gerwing believes the Royals will match up well against the Sea-to-Sky school.
Douglas also remembers how Quest knocked them out of the provincials last year.
“Our offence is not predicated on one or two people, it makes us hard to scout and prep for,” Gerwing said.
The Royal men moved up to fourth place in PacWest hoops with a similar weekend sweep.
Kristian Hildebrandt scored 20 points, including four three-pointers, and Jacob Juras counted 19 points for Douglas in Friday’s 99-68 win over CBC.
On Saturday, Malcolm Mensah and Andrew Bacon both posted double-doubles in a 79-67 victory over Kwantlen.
Mensah tallied 17 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots, while Bacon had 16 points and 12 boards.
In PacWest volleyball, Douglas College landed its first big fish in women’s play.
After losses to conference leaders Camosun College and Capilano University back in October, Douglas got its first victory over a top-three school, upsetting second-place Fraser Valley 3-1 in the opening game of a two-match series last Friday.
Douglas won 26-24, 25-17, 19-25, 25-19 to chalk up a third win in PacWest play. The Royals dropped Saturday’s matchup 3-0 to remain in fifth place with a 3-5 record.
The Douglas men’s team had its six-game winning streak stopped by Fraser Valley, losing a five-setter on the road in a 15-10 tiebreaker.
The nationally second-ranked Royals got back in the win column on Saturday, blanking Fraser Valley 3-0.
The Royals take on second-place 6-2 Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo this weekend.
