Sports

A perfect 6-0 season and the guarantee of a quarterfinal match on home turf were on the line for the women’s rugby team Saturday against the Laurier Golden Hawks. Nothing was going to come between them and victory. And indeed nothing did.Continue...

Gaels football got their long-awaited second win of the season Saturday against the Waterloo Warriors and kept their playoff aspirations alive.

The team managed a gritty 26-18 win in Waterloo and improved on several of the problems that have been handicapping the team thus far.Continue...

Queen’s baseball entered their first playoff weekend on a high note, winning four straight games the previous weekend and hoping to continue the winning trend in the playoffs. The Gaels knew, however, that they were in for a tough battle against the Durham Lords, as they had split their last doubleheader with the Lords.Continue...

Dani Delaloye is the third Queen’s athlete since the beginning of September to be named OUA Athlete of the Week. The first-year varsity swimmer was spectacular at the team’s first meet of the season last weekend in Peterborough, bringing home three gold medals.Continue...

The Chicago Bulls set an interesting sporting precedent this week when they demanded that one of their players submit to a DNA test before signing him to a contract. Eddy Curry, the 6’11” centre drafted out of high school to become the Chicago Bulls’ leading scorer, has been reduced to a test tube.Continue...

The men’s rugby team is winning everything they touch this year, and on Sunday they recorded what may be their greatest success of 2005. The 5-0 first team, as well as the second and third teams, won the “Friends and Family Team Challenge” award as the team that raised the most money in Kingston’s CIBC Run for the Cure. As a team, they raised $13,887.54 for breast cancer research—up from $10,300 last year.Continue...

The Queen’s Golden Gaels men’s baseball team entered the first game of their doubleheader against the Durham Lords last Thursday fully aware that they were just beginning a baseball-packed few days. Despite playing five games in three days, Queen’s came out with a 4-1 record, ripping off four straight wins and showing the league that they could be a powerhouse in the playoffs.Continue...

Jennifer Held, a fourth-year life sciences student and midfielder for the Gaels women’s lacrosse team, was not only instrumental on the field in the Gaels’ three victories at McGill last weekend, but was an integral part in getting the team ready to play the University of Toronto, Brock and McGill. Held is not only a former OUA Rookie of the Year and OUA MVP but also an assistant coach for the women’s lacrosse team.Continue...

Excitement is building in Jock Harty Arena as the 2005-06 men’s hockey team takes shape. The roster will be similar to the one that missed the playoffs last season having lost seven players to graduation, but will have some new additions and—perhaps most exciting of all—a new look behind the bench.Continue...