Sports in Brief

Controversy in the OUA

With the Queen’s football team’s playoff chances hanging on the edge, the OUA has added an interesting twist to the Gaels postseason hopes. The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks played the first three games of their 2010 season with an ineligible defensive end, David Mantoya.

Mantoya violates a new rule requiring players to exhaust their five years of eligibility in a seven year period. Montoya played for four years from 2002-2005. At 27 he has returned this year to attain a business degree. The OUA rules require that a team starting an illegible player to forfeit any games that they have used that player. The Golden Hawks benched him after their first three games. Currently the CIS has ruled that Montoya violated the eligibility rules and in accordance with OUA rules, the Golden Hawks stand to lose their win over the Toronto Varsity Blues. Montoya has chosen to appeal the case to a third party, the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada.

The OUA will wait for the appeal process to resolve before making anofficial decision, but it’s unclear how long the process will take. How this affects the Gaels still remains to be seen. As of Oct. 7 the Gaels have a 1-4 record coming off of their tough loss to Western. The Golden Hawks were at 3-2 and the Varsity Blues sat at 2-3, if the Golden Hawks are forced to forfeit they will fall to 2-3 and Toronto will move to 3-2. Toronto holds down the sixth and final spot in the playoffs without a forfeit. The ruling will certainly mix things up.

—Lauri Kytömaa

Women’s golf medals in Guelph

Casey Ward led the women’s golf team to their fourth consecutive silver medal at the Guelph Invitational. Ward shot a three-over par 75 to earn the individual silver medal at the tournament held at the Cutten Club.

The men’s team posted a combined score of 303 and placed sixth. The men’s top scorers were Sean Lackey and Matt Courchene who each shot two-over par 74.

The Gaels’ final event will be in Hamilton at the McMaster Invitational on Oct. 12.

—Kate Bascom

Queen’s recognizes student-athletes

Queen’s announced its CIS Academic All-Canadians and OUA Academic All-Stars for the 2009-2010 season. Queen’s has 118 Academic All-Canadian which ranks Queen’s fourth in the CIS behind McGill, Laval and Alberta. There are 107 student-athletes who earned OUA Academic All-Star status.

Student-athletes must earn an average of 80% or higher to earn this honour.

—Kate Bascom

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