The men’s volleyball team ended their pre-season with an impressive silver medal-winning performance at the Queen’s Invitational this past weekend. Playing against university squads from Windsor, New Brunswick, McMaster and Western, the men faced stiff competition over the course of the three-day tournament. On Friday, the team had a solid opener, dispatching McMaster 3-1 (20-25, 25-19, 25-23, 35-33).

Men’s hockey opened their season with a heartbreaking loss on Wednesday. The team traveled to RMC to face the Paladins with head coach Kirk Muller behind the bench in a pin-stripe suit rather than his more familiar pads and skates. The Gaels lost 2-1 to their hometown rivals.

After seven weeks of OUA football, the Golden Gaels’ playoff fate comes down to a trip to the University of Western Ontario this weekend after a win last Saturday. The Gaels improved their record to 3-4 with a convincing 37-0 win over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.

The Queen’s mountain biking team finished off a stellar season at their final race of the season at Boler Mountain in London on Sunday.
The race featured teams from 15 different schools from across Ontario, and was staged on a highly technical and hilly course, said co-coach and rider Greg Edgar. The men rode three laps of the 10-kilometre course, while the women rode two laps.

A perfect 6-0 season and the guarantee of a quarterfinal match on home turf were on the line for the women’s rugby team Saturday against the Laurier Golden Hawks. Nothing was going to come between them and victory. And indeed nothing did.

Gaels football got their long-awaited second win of the season Saturday against the Waterloo Warriors and kept their playoff aspirations alive.
The team managed a gritty 26-18 win in Waterloo and improved on several of the problems that have been handicapping the team thus far.

Queen’s baseball entered their first playoff weekend on a high note, winning four straight games the previous weekend and hoping to continue the winning trend in the playoffs. The Gaels knew, however, that they were in for a tough battle against the Durham Lords, as they had split their last doubleheader with the Lords.

The Golden Gaels men’s and women’s soccer teams continued their winning ways this past weekend, going unbeaten in games against the Trent Excalibur and the Ottawa Gee-Gees.

Last weekend’s game captured in 60 minutes what the Golden Gaels’ football season has been like this year: so close, but so far. Mental errors in the third quarter were the deciding factor in the 43-24 loss to the McMaster Marauders.

Last weekend the men’s ultimate frisbee team swept the Canadian Eastern University Ultimate Championships in Toronto, winning their third consecutive title.
The men’s team dominated the Canadian University Series last season, winning the National Championships. Their repeat as Eastern Canadian champions gives them a good shot at another national title.

The men’s rugby team is winning everything they touch this year, and on Sunday they recorded what may be their greatest success of 2005. The 5-0 first team, as well as the second and third teams, won the “Friends and Family Team Challenge” award as the team that raised the most money in Kingston’s CIBC Run for the Cure. As a team, they raised $13,887.54 for breast cancer research—up from $10,300 last year.

The Queen’s Golden Gaels men’s baseball team entered the first game of their doubleheader against the Durham Lords last Thursday fully aware that they were just beginning a baseball-packed few days. Despite playing five games in three days, Queen’s came out with a 4-1 record, ripping off four straight wins and showing the league that they could be a powerhouse in the playoffs.