Last weekend, the Queen’s rowing team raised $2,600 at their third annual Row-A-Thon. The money
will go towards funding therapy for Jack, the three-year-old autistic son of an alumnus of Queen’s
rowing program.
Team members brought five rowing machines into the JDUC Thursday afternoon and rowed in
hour-long shifts. The team rowed continuously from 6:30 p.m. Thursday until 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Think back to a time before the plans for the Queen’s Centre, before the Jock Harty Arena, even before the Golden Gaels were the Golden Gaels. Think all the way back to March 10, 1886 when, with only a cut down rubber lacrosse ball and a frozen lake, seven Queen’s students and seven Royal Military College cadets met on Lake Ontario for the first hockey game ever played in Kingston.

The men’s and women’s squash teams returned from the provincial championships at McMaster with two fourth-place finishes. The men were up against the Western Mustangs in their semifinal match.
Western has won the provincial championship for 23 straight years. “Western is always a strong team; they get the very best players coming in,” head coach Eugene Zaremba said. “Realistically, we were looking to go into the bronze medal match reasonably fresh.”

The Queen’s women’s basketball team put their fate in someone else’s hands after they split their
home games on the weekend. The Gaels beat the Carleton Ravens 58-54 on Friday but lost 56-53 to Ottawa on Saturday. The loss to Ottawa puts Queen’s two points out of second place.

Thanks in large part to the stellar play of Elizabeth Kench, the Queen’s women’s hockey team rebounded from a tough loss to defeat the Toronto Varsity Blues, ranked third in the province, last weekend …

The men’s and women’s Nordic ski teams concluded their regular season last weekend in Gatineau
with some outstanding results and a clear idea of what to expect at tomorrow’s provincial championships, hosted by the Nakkertok Cross-Country Ski Club in Ottawa.

The Queen’s men’s and women’s curling teams hosted the Ontario University Athletics Crossover
tournament at the Royal Kingston Curling Club last weekend, and the men’s squad grabbed third place
in the regular season standings and a spot in the upcoming provincial championships.

The Queen’s track team returned from the Dartmouth Indoor Classic with eight medals, a Queen’s record, three all-time top 10 performances and 17 personal bests.
But they have yet to have a single athlete qualify for the ational championships.

The women’s basketball team had their four-game winning streak snapped by the Laurentian Voyageurs in a 57-56 loss on Friday in Sudbury.
The Gaels started out strong, leading by 11 points at the half. But they had a rough third quarter where they were outscored 16-6. With eight seconds left in the game, the Gaels were down by three points, when guard Jessica Selinger was fouled.

For the first time this season, the men’s basketball team dropped two consecutive games, losing 66-56 to Laurentian on Friday and 84-77 to York on Saturday.
The Gaels went into Friday’s game after beaten Laurentian earlier this year by 10 points. Laurentian
came into the game with a 4-13 record. But it was the Gaels who got off to a slow start, finding themselves down by nine points at the half.

The Queen’s men’s hockey team had a disappointing weekend in Quebec, losing 3-0 to Université
de Quebec Trois Rivieres on Friday and falling 2-1 to the Concordia Stingers the following night.
The two losses put the Gaels only one point ahead of both Concordia and RMC for fifth-place with only two games remaining in the season.

While they are comfortably in possession of the final playoff spot, the women’s volleyball team has some work to do if they want to prove they can compete with the top half of their division.
After a stinging loss to the Western Mustangs last Saturday, the team entered what is arguably
the easiest part of its schedule with a four-set win over the Windsor Lancers.

The Queen’s men’s and women’s swim teams came back from the Carleton dual meet last weekend
21 first-place finishes in 29 events. In dual meets, two teams race head to head, so Queen’s was only
racing against Carleton swimmers. Gael Kyle Johansen said the meet was not a crucial one, but it
was a chance for athletes to qualify for the national championships. Swimmers qualify by meeting
a national time standard during the season.

On Friday, the sixth-ranked women’s hockey team challenged provincial leaders, the Laurier Golden Hawks, in a close game but couldn’t hold on for the win.
The team beat the York Lions in Toronto the next day. In Friday’s game, Queen’s got early goals from first-year forwards Kelsey Thomson and Becky Conroy, but Laurier battled back to earn a 2-2 tie.