A 34-13 pasting by the visiting Ottawa Gee-Gees marked the Gaels’ fourth loss in a row, after opening their season with a promising two wins. Youth up to Grade 12 were given free admission to the game
with a donation to the Kingston Food Bank and the team racked up an estimated 200 pounds of food
for the charity.
When it came to racking up points, however, the Gaels had less success.

The gods of baseball were as fickle as the gods of weather as the men’s baseball team split a double header against the York University Lions on a chilly Saturday afternoon last weekend.
Lefty pitcher Mike Arsenault got off to a strong start in game one, allowing only one hit and striking out two players in the first inning.
Several players had base hits for Queen’s in the first inning but York’s defence consistently denied them the chance to score.

It seems impossible that a football team could be leading a game with zero seconds remaining on the
clock and still lose, but that’s exactly what happened to the Golden Gaels last weekend.
Last Saturday night, the Gaels’ fell to the Waterloo Warriors 14-13 at University Stadium in Waterloo.
A last-second touchdown from Warrior quarterback Jon Morbey capped a thrilling see-saw battle in which the lead changed hands four times and twice in the final two minutes.
The Gaels have now dropped two games in a row after winning their first two.

In his first meet of the season, Contributor Robert Kitz outran a field of 142 competitors to take first place at the Western International cross-country meet last Saturday, becoming the first Queen’s student ever to win the race.

The Queen’s men’s rowing team kicked off their season in high style last weekend with a medal haul of six gold, seven silver and five bronze. The varsity and varsity development crews competed last Saturday in Ottawa at the Head of the Rideau regatta.

Brett Gibson has had a tough couple of weeks. But he couldn’t be happier about it.
Gibson, the new head coach of the men’s hockey team spent the last weeks of summer and first weeks of the school year deciding on the roster for this year’s team. He said the quality of the 52 players who showed up to camp made for some difficult decisions. A higher level of overall conditioning is one of Gibson’s mandates for his new team.

Despite Saturday’s 32-0 loss to the second ranked Western Mustangs, women’s rugby head coach Beth Barz said things are looking up. Western scored an unconverted try early in the match followed by a penalty kick just before the half.

Queen’s women’s lacrosse team burst out of the gates this weekend opening their season with three straight wins in two days of competition.
The first game of the season was against McMaster and the Gaels won 11-2. Queen’s was up 6-1 at halftime with five different goal scorers.

At face value it appears simply that a 2-0 football team was brought back down to earth by a stronger Lancers squad after gaining momentum and excitement that they didn’t deserve. But let’s observe what this game truly showed us about the team: the good, the bad, and most importantly, why nobody should pay any attention to the bad.

The women’s field hockey team opened their season on a high note in Guelph last weekend, coming away with a win and tie.
In the opening game against the Guelph Gryphons, fine play by veteran goalkeeper Nicole Ross, a fourth-year student, allowed the Gaels to play to a scoreless tie against their OUA rivals. Third-year nursing student Michelle Mattiacci, centre-defense, also played a solid game.