Sports

A wonderfully maintained and tightly laid-out Amherstview Golf and Country Club played host to the Queen’s University Golf Team’s annual qualifying tournament. Brisk winds and treacherous pin placements combined to set up extremely difficult scoring conditions for Wednesday’s play-downs. The less then ideal conditions coupled with the grueling thirty-six-hole Medal play format of the event put the emphasis on course management and forced players to combine skilled shot making with a high level of patience and discipline.Continue...

Consistently retaining the ball in contact, the Gaels stuck to their regimented objective of smacking the ball inside for the first phases, a precursor to sending the pill wide for the try. Setting up their inside crashes was the mob of savage forwards, and center Matt Hodgson, who froze the Raven wing line with an array of side steps and spin moves. Team captain Geoff Phelan was pleased with his team’s attitude and effort.Continue...

Canada usually finishes in the same company as Bulgaria, Kenya, or Hungary in the final medal tally at the summer Olympic Games, so our national team’s presence at the quadrennial celebration of sport is rarely more than a peripheral blip on the radar screen.Continue...

Queen’s rugby never suspected that news of their assailing of both Dartmouth teams in a Friday exhibition would travel to Montreal so quickly.

After handing a pair of embarrassing losses to both New Hampshire Ivy League squads, the Gaels arrived at McGill’s pitch on noon Saturday in hopes of laying two more beatings on the Redmen outfits.Continue...

If the Gaels men’s lacrosse team starts this season like they finished the last one, then their chances at competing for the Baggataway Cup will have skyrocketed.

In ’99 the Gaels posted a horrible regular season record of two wins and six losses, placing them eighth in the Ontario University Field Lacrosse Association, barely good enough for the final berth in the consolation playoffs.Continue...

Bert Kea replaces Scott Mullin as head coach of the Queen’s golf team, a moonlight position he has adopted in addition to the assistant professional post at Amherstview Golf Club. Amherstview will host the 36-hole qualifier to determine the five players and two alternates, and of the two dozen or so who are expected to vie for the spots, Kea expects some new recruits might challenge some of the stalwart veterans.Continue...

When describing the Gaels women’s rugby program, head coach Peter Reid likes to say, “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but we’re getting there.”

It’s been three seasons since Reid began reconstructing the team from ruin, and while they may not have gained empire status yet, they’ve definitely shown improvement.Continue...

Out of fear of a pending scandal, the Chinese Olympic team announced Wednesday that the 170 expected to participate in the 2000 Summer Games will be reduced. The announcement came shortly after an international rowing official confirmed that seven of the 17 members of China’s rowing team were axed from the team for irregular blood levels. The decision was deemed by analysts to be proof that the country is screening its athletes at the risk of another drug scandal — at the world championships in 1998, a female swimmer from China was caught with the human drug hormone.Continue...