Sports In Brief

Volleyball picks up silver

The men’s volleyball team finished second at the Queen’s/Royal Military College Thanksgiving Invitational last weekend. Queen’s went 4-1 over the weekend, defeating the Windsor Lancers, the McGill Redmen, the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and the York Lions but losing a hard-fought four set match to the Laval Rouge et Or in the final. Queen’s veterans Jeff DeMeza and Devon Miller were named to the tournament all-star team. Queen’s will begin their defence of their OUA title next Friday, with a game at Bartlett Gym against the Laurier Golden Hawks.

Field hockey defeats Martlets

The women’s field hockey team beat the McGill Martlets 2-1 in a close-fought match last Friday.

Queen’s dominated ball possession for the majority of the game but couldn’t score until rookie Danielle Denley broke through the defence in the second half.

Maggie Yeomans added a second goal for the Gaels. The team will play the Waterloo Warriors, the Western Mustangs and the York Lions this weekend.

The team has also been conducting field hockey clinics for local high school teams.

Twelve of their players will be instructing 40 high-school athletes at Regiopolis Notre Dame this afternoon. The final clinic will be held Monday at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute.

Golf prepares for OUA finals

The men’s golf team finished fifth at the Wilfred Laurier Invitational in Waterloo Tuesday. Captain Patrick Forbes led the team with a one-under-par score of 70, good enough for second place individually and only one stroke back of Laurier’s Steve Tsandelis, the tournament winner. It was his third top-two finish in his last five tournaments. Chris Abbott, Rich Colton, Darin Clark, Forbes and Mike Hossack will represent Queen’s at the OUA Championships next week. They will take on 11 other OUA teams at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club Sunday and Monday.

Grey Cup comes to town

The historic Grey Cup, awarded annually to the Canadian Football League champions since 1954, will be coming to Kingston for Saturday’s Homecoming game as part of the celebrations surrounding the 125th year of Queen’s football. The cup will be on display at the Homecoming Sidewalk Sale on Fifth Field Company Lane from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., and near the northwest concession at Richardson Stadium from 12:30 p.m. on.

The cup, which was donated in 1909 by Governor General Earl Grey, was originally awarded to the top amateur football team in Canada. Queen’s and the University of Toronto are the only universities to have ever claimed the cup. The Gaels won the cup three years in a row from 1922 to 1924, and recorded one of only six shutouts in Grey Cup history in 1923 when they beat the Regina Roughriders, who would later evolve into the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, by a score of 54-0. Queen’s first Grey Cup victory was at the first Richardson Stadium, on the site of what is now Macintosh-Corry Hall.

—Briefs by Andrew Bucholtz

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