Despite a raucous home crowd, the men’s volleyball team came away from the Royal Military College Friday night with a victory in three straight sets over the RMC Paladins. The Paladins’ supporters came equipped to intimidate the Gaels with an array of cowbells, airhorns, chants and other noisemakers, but their efforts were in vain as Queen’s prevailed 25-16, 29-27 and 27-25.

It wasn’t supposed to end this way.
On the heels of their best regular season since 2003 and primed for a long playoff run, the Gaels dropped their OUA quarter-final to the visiting Western Mustangs 27-19 on Saturday. The loss eliminated Queen’s from the playoffs and Western advances to face the University of Ottawa next weekend.

The Golden Gaels men’s rugby team sent a clear message to the their next opponent on Saturday afternoon with an authoritative 99-0 OUA quarter-final victory over the Trent Excalibur.

The Gaels’ fencing team hosted the Queen’s Invitational last weekend at Duncan McArthur Gym on West Campus and picked up two medals in the process.
Dimitry Balashov won gold in the men’s épée and Christian Petrozza earned a bronze in the men’s foil. The team also gave strong performances on the women’s side, with Joanne Ko placing seventh in foil, Laura Bartha placing seventh in épée and Stacey McDonald finishing 10th in women’s sabre.

Threes proved to be both a blessing and a curse for the Gaels’ soccer teams in their playoff matches Wednesday afternoon at Richardson Stadium.

The sun shone for the Golden Gaels women’s soccer team this weekend as they enjoyed a 2-0 victory over the Carleton Ravens, while the bad weather came in time for the men’s team to lose to the Ravens 2-0 on Saturday.

After climbing out of a seemingly bottomless 3-1 hole to win the American League pennant, the Boston Red Sox are primed to win their second World Series in four seasons.
The upstart Colorado Rockies have had to enlarge their bandwagon considerably after their undefeated playoff march to the final. But there are quite a few reasons why Colorado is simply no match for the Sox.

The Queen’s men’s hockey team took one of a possible four points this past weekend thanks to a 4-0 Friday loss to the Brock Badgers and a heartbreaking 3-2 shootout loss to the Guelph Gryphons on Saturday at the Memorial Centre.
The Brock game started out close, with no score through the first period.

The men’s volleyball team began their OUA title defence this weekend with a pair of close wins over the Laurier Golden Hawks and the Waterloo Warriors.
On Friday night, Bartlett Gym was packed with enthusiastic Queen’s fans who came to see the team’s home opener against the Golden Hawks. It was a patchwork Gaels’ lineup, as the team was missing key players—outside hitter Dan McCrae and libero Stu Hamilton—due to injuries. Rookie Joren Zeeman filled McCrae’s slot, while third-year outside hitter Pete Galbraith came in to take Hamilton’s place at libero.

Near gale-force winds and a physical opponent didn’t keep the men’s rugby team from finishing their season on an impressive note.

Mike Giffin is looking to build on his phenomenal weekend, when he broke several long-standing Queen’s football records in his team’s 45-0 pounding of the Waterloo Warriors.
On Saturday Giffin, the OUA’s male athlete of the week, rushed for 193 yards and scored three touchdowns.