The men’s rowing team made huge strides this year, claiming its first provincial championship since 2004 and one of the two OUA banners of the fall term.
It was a disappointing weekend for the Queen’s women’s hockey team as they lost both of their games and fell out of the top five teams in the OUA standings.
The men’s volleyball team lost to the defending OUA champions, the McMaster Marauders, in four sets on the road Saturday, but rebounded to beat the Guelph Gryphons in four sets Sunday.
The women’s volleyball team picked up their second win of the season Saturday at the Royal Military College, beating the RMC Paladins in straight sets.
Third-year forward Mitch Leger had a great weekend for the men’s basketball team, putting up 26 points and 10 rebounds in the team’s 72-67 win over Waterloo Friday night and adding another 26 points and 10 rebounds in their 97-84 loss to Laurier Saturday.
The Gaels had a rough road trip last weekend, dropping a 4-3 decision in a shootout against the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees before being demolished 4-1 in a heated affair on Saturday night in Montreal against the McGill Redmen.
The men’s basketball team started the season with a bang Friday. They beat the Waterloo Warriors 72-67 a team that was 6-16 last season—who defeated the Gaels 92-62 in the pre-season.
Last weekend Queen’s travelled to Oshawa to take on the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks, but despite 38 shots on goal they couldn’t put that puck in and dropped the decision 6-2.
Queen’s fencing team finished third in the quest for the Royal Military College Cup at the RMC Invitational last weekend, behind only the University of Toronto and RMC.
Toronto proved welcoming to the men’s volleyball team last weekend, as they picked up full points from their road matches against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and the Ryerson Rams and only dropped one set in the process.
The men’s hockey team had another set of mixed results on their road trip to Toronto last weekend, beating the Ryerson Rams 4-3 in a shootout Friday night but falling 2-0 to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues Saturday.
The 4-6 men’s lacrosse team watched their season come to an end on Sunday with a 10-3 playoff loss to the Trent Excalibur, who went undefeated this year with a 10-0 regular-season record.
The women’s basketball team opened its 2008-09 season Friday with a trip down the road to visit the Royal Military College Paladins, a team that hasn’t won a game since entering OUA competition in 2003.
Fairy-tale endings can be quite unpleasant if you’re the giant, as the Queen’s football team found out Saturday at Richardson Stadium when the heavily favoured Gaels and their perfect football season were cut down by the Ottawa Gee-Gees.
For the ninth consecutive year, the men’s rugby team will be featured in an OUA medal game this coming weekend in Markham thanks to their 19-8 win over the Western Mustangs on Kingston Field Saturday.
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