After lukewarm results so far this season, the Queen’s wrestling team stepped it up as hosts of the Queen’s Open last Sunday, finishing fourth out of nine teams on the women’s side, and tying for sixth in a field of nine on the men’s side.

The women’s basketball team racked up two victories this past weekend, defeating a strong Toronto team 60-55 on Friday night, and then routing Ryerson 70-46 on Saturday. Jessica Selinger led the Gaels in points over the weekend, putting up 22 in the first game and 14 against Ryerson. “Most of [my points were] from the foul line,” she said.

WAG to the Rescue! was the theme for this year’s Winter Adaptive Games (WAG) organized by the school of Kinesiology and Health Studies.

After an outstanding performance against the Gee-Gees in Ottawa last weekend, the men’s basketball team lost a decidedly low-key contest 59-44 to the University of Toronto at home on Friday. They followed Friday night’s game with a 76-67 win over Ryerson.

The Queen’s dance team will make history this spring as the first Canadian team to compete at the
U.S. National Cheerleading Association and National Dance Association National Championships in Daytona Beach, Fla. The competition will take place April 4 to 8. In order to qualify, the team submitted a video of their performance.

In what could have been a disastrous weekend for the Gaels, the men’s team showed they can compete with the best in the nation. After a 3-1 loss to rivals the McGill Redmen in a jam-packed
Jock Harty Arena on Friday, the Gaels rebounded with a 2-1 victory over the visiting Ottawa Gee-Gees
on Saturday.

Katie MacKay was at the forefront of a strong showing by the Queen’s track and field team at the University of Toronto Classic last weekend. MacKay, a fourth-year PhysEd student, won both the shot put and the weight throw for a double gold meet. She had a throw of 11.34 metres in the shot put and
a 12-metre throw in the weight, an event similar to the hammer in outdoor competition.

It’s a wonder the men’s basketball team doesn’t have an inferiority complex. Between years of disparaging comments about their dysfunctional offence and mediocre showings, and their failure to ever crack the national top ten, no one would blame them for getting down on themselves.

The women’s volleyball team accomplished a straightforward win in a roundabout way, using every player dressed in a three-set victory over the Royal Military College Paladins last Friday. But they couldn’t carry the momentum into Saturday’s game against the Ottawa Gee-Gees, losing in straight sets.

Without their leading scorer, the men’s basketball team lost to the Carleton Ravens 77-60. A day before, Mitch Leger score a last-second, game-winning basket to beat the seventh-ranked Ottawa Gee-Gees. Leger was hospitalized on Saturday, before the game against Carleton, complaining of abdominal pain. Head coach Rob Smart said the team consulted trainers, who were concerned Leger might have
appendicitis, before sending him to hospital.

Last weekend, the men’s and women’s fencing teams participated in the Carleton Invitational tournament in Ottawa. Sabre, which features a short, light sword, was a strong event for both the men’s and women’s teams.