For the second time this season, the women’s hockey team held the league-leading Laurier Golden Hawks scoreless for 60 minutes Saturday thanks to another stellar goaltending performance from Melissa John.
But this time it wasn’t enough to keep their playoff run alive: the Gaels’ 1-0 overtime loss in Waterloo gave the Hawks a sweep of their three-game semifinal series.

The Queen’s men’s basketball team faced the daunting task of stopping the Carleton Ravens Saturday night in the Ravens’ quest for their sixth straight national championship.
The Gaels were barely a bump in the road.

The best season in 25 years wasn’t enough to carry the men’s hockey team through the second round of Ontario University Athletics playoffs.

The Nordic skiiing teams competed in the OUA championships at Laurentian University in Sudbury last weekend. The men’s team finished seventh out of eight teams, while the women placed fifth. The Lakehead Thunderwolves won both tournaments, claiming their fourth consecutive championships on both the men’s and women’s sides. The Gaels were led by a strong performance from Julie McVicar, who finished seventh out of 39 skiers in the women’s five-kilometre classic. McVicar was the only Gael named to the 10-member OUA All-Star team.

It was a clash of Ontario volleyball titans Tuesday night: the two-time defending champion men’s volleyball team dropped the opening match of their best-of-three OUA final with the undefeated McMaster Marauders. The Gaels have one last shot at the OUA title and a berth at the national championships.

The women’s volleyball team ended their OUA regular season with two huge wins against the Lakehead Thunderwolves in Thunder Bay this past weekend.
The four-set and three-set victories clinched them fourth place in the East, vaulting them into the quarter-finals tonight against the top-seeded University of Toronto Varsity Blues.
On Saturday afternoon, the Gaels started out strong, winning the first two sets 25-14 and 25-22, but Lakehead roared back in the third set, winning 25-18.

The Gaels’s young lineup was up against the powerful top-seeded 17-2 University of Toronto Varsity Blues in the first round, and their playoff run ended in three sets as experience overcame youth.

Despite their higher seeding and home-court advantage, the women’s basketball team fell 67-58 to the Carleton Ravens Saturday afternoon at Bartlett Gym.

A chance to become three-time OUA champions, claim the Ontario title for the fifth time in eight years and lock up the province’s single berth in next month’s national championships was at stake as the Gaels took on the McMaster Marauders for the second straight year in the OUA finals Thursday night.
The Gaels lost that chance, however: they came up short against the undefeated Marauders and lost in straight sets.

The men’s basketball team got its playoff run off to a roaring start Wednesday night with a 75-57 home win over the York Lions.

The women’s hockey team’s playoff run is barely clinging to life following the team’s 3-1 loss Friday night to the top-seeded Laurier Golden Hawks.
They’ll face the Hawks in a do-or-die situation tonight at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Waterloo: if Laurier wins, they take the best-of-three series and advance to the OUA finals.