This past weekend was a successful one for the women’s hockey team, with much of the credit belonging to goalie Melissa John.
John played an integral role in the Gaels’ wins over the Laurier Golden Hawks and the Waterloo Warriors. She saved a total of 65 shots over the weekend, allowing only one goal.

Super Bowl XLII, between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants, will be the most compelling in years. It will feature either the completion of the greatest season in NFL history, or its most staggering upset.
More than two months ago, when the Patriots were 10-0, I wrote in this paper they would go undefeated the rest of the way and capture their fourth Super Bowl in seven years.

The women’s basketball team suffered a shocking 68-63 defeat to the Ottawa Gee-Gees Tuesday night at Bartlett Gym, dropping their record to 7-11. It was only the second win of the year for Ottawa: their other victory came Jan. 25 against the winless Royal Military College Paladins.

It didn’t look good from the start on Tuesday night.

Seven-year-old Logan Stewart was a no-nonsense teacher Saturday afternoon.
“Please do the math problems on the board,” he said to a Journal reporter asking for an interview during math class in a classroom he built out of mats and benches with his buddy Peter Vooys, Kin ’07.
Logan is seven years old and has cerebral palsy. He gets around using a wheelchair.
This was Logan’s third year at the Winter Adapted Games.

The 1,500 spectators in attendance at Bartlett Gym on Friday night rose to their feet and gave the men’s basketball team a standing ovation at the game’s conclusion, despite the team’s 71-58 loss to the high-flying Carleton Ravens.
A regular Friday-night home game wouldn’t have drawn such a crowd, nor would a loss typically earn such applause—but this was no ordinary game.

The men’s hockey team still controls their destiny in their race for first in the division, but it won’t be as easy as they had hoped.
After a disappointing 4-1 loss to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues Friday, the Gaels retook first place in the Mid-East Division with a 5-4 shootout win over the Carleton Ravens Saturday night in Napanee. The Ravens are playing their first OUA season in 33 years.

This past weekend found the men’s volleyball teams from both York University and the University of Toronto feeling the sting of defeat in their games against the Gaels.
With two solid victories, Queen’s made strides towards both the second position in the OUA standings and successful team dynamics.
Saturday evening saw Queen’s take the 7-8 York Lions to a three-set victory—winning 25-14, 25-17 and 25-17—a feat outside hitter Jeff DeMeza said the team had been working toward.

The women’s volleyball team split their weekend matches against higher-ranked teams, making their season record 5-10. They pulled off a surprising four-set upset of the 8-5 York Lions Saturday night in Bartlett Gym but lost in straight sets to the 14-2 University of Toronto Varsity Blues Sunday afternoon.

The women’s basketball team had an exceptional weekend, winning both of their matches to improve their record to 7-10.
The Gaels took on the 3-12 Carleton Ravens Friday, emerging with a 69-64 victory after a phenomenal fourth quarter in which they outscored the Ravens 24-7.
On Saturday they faced the Royal Military College Paladins, beating their cross-town rivals 93-45 in a dominant performance.

Guard Simon Mitchell has been picking up the slack: he poured in a career-high 29 points on five of 11 three-point shooting in the team’s loss to U of T on Saturday.
Mitchell added 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists the previous night in the Gaels’ 77-69 victory over Ryerson.

It was a disappointing weekend for the women’s hockey team as they scrambled to a 3-3 tie against the last-place University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks on Saturday night.
The Gaels began the game slowly but quickly found their stride as they peppered the Ridgebacks’ net, outshooting the opposition by a count of 14-2 in the first 20 minutes. Forward Kelsey Thomson scored to give the Gaels a 1-0 lead into the first intermission.

It appears the Toronto Maple Leafs are finally starting to crawl out of the grave they’ve spent their season digging.

The Winter Classic, this year’s outdoor NHL game held in Buffalo on New Year’s Day between the Buffalo Sabres and the Pittsburgh Penguins, drew more than 71, 000 fans to the outdoor stadium. Amidst a media frenzy and much nostalgic writing about shinny games gone by, a vintage-clad Sidney Crosby cut through a few inches of snow to get a game-winning puck between Sabres goalie Ryan Miller’s pads.

The men’s hockey team slipping into second place in their division clearly didn’t sit well with forward Brady Olsen.
Olsen scored a natural hat trick to lead the team to a 3-2 comeback victory at the Royal Military College Wednesday night, avenging a shootout loss to the Paladins a week earlier.

The women’s basketball team dropped both of their games in Toronto this weekend. On Friday the team lost to the 2-12 Ryerson Rams 53-45, while on Saturday they faced the 11-3 University of Toronto Varsity Blues and lost a hard-fought game 71-56. In Friday’s game, the Gaels led 38-37 after the third quarter but struggled to score in the final 10 minutes, resulting in their first loss of the weekend. Head coach Dave Wilson said the game held no positives for the Gaels.