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CIS women's rugby Friday roundup: Dinos get first ever CIS victory
Photo credit Bob Frid, UBC
No. 3 Laval 107, Bishop's 0 Final
Trent 17, York 12 Final
Calgary 34, UBC 10 Final
VANCOUVER - The Calgary Dinos women's rugby team made
history in Vancouver Friday afternoon by recording its first CIS
victory, by a score of 34-10 over the UBC Thunderbirds at Wolfson
Field.
“It feels good,” said Calgary head coach Simon
Chi. “It's obviously something we've worked hard to
achieve. I'm really happy for the girls. They're the
ones who did all the work. Our goal this year was to biuild
on each performance so this is a good place to start. It'll
probably sink in, in a little bit. But it's just a
game. That's literally the way we treated this.”
The Dinos, in their third season of CIS competition, improve to 1-0
after going winless in its first two seasons while UBC drops to 0-3
in 2011.
“We didn't front up in the first ten minutes and that cost us
so that put us on the back foot,” said UBC head coach Lesley
McKenzie. “But definitely in the last 20 minutes of the
first half and then the middle 10-15 minutes of the second half, we
played the kind of rugby we want to be playing.
Unfortunately, a couple of individual errors and a couple of mental
mistakes are costing us points and then that brings the team
down. That's mental and tactical stuff that we need to
work on.”
The Dinos scored in spurts against the young Thunderbirds.
After Sylvie Mullen opened the game with a penalty goal in the 5th
minute, then the Dinos got two quick tries, from Jodie Hicks and
Lizzie MacKinnon, to make it 15-0, which proved enough for the
victory.
UBC's Paniz Pahlavanlu (Port Moody, BC) got her team back into the
game with a try in the 31st minute. She scored from just in
front of the try line off a quick tap that came after a
penalty.
A missed convert made the halftime score 15-5 for the visitors.
Calgary dashed any hopes of a UBC comeback early in the second half
with tries from Brynna Walker and Katherine Procyshyn in the 46th
and 48th minutes respectively.
Kayla Lissel added one more score in the 63rd minute to make it
34-5 for Calgary before UBC's Megan Hamm (Langley, BC), playing
with a broken nose, got a try back for the Thunderbirds.
“I keep having to remind myself that this is a super young
team and they're learning and sometimes they learn the hard
way,” said McKenzie. I'm upset with the way they played
because they're better than the way they've been playing. The
thing I need to remember is you don't get those mental calluses and
you don't get that scar tissue early. You get that as you
come into your own as a player in the next two, three, four years
that you play varsity.”
But McKenzie says there are lots of positives.
“We've been asking some of our strike-runners to get involved
in less traditional ways and you saw Tre Holness come through from
the blind wing and take it on the outside 40 metres away from where
the ball started so that's where we're looking to use the speed of
individuals like that,” said KcKenzie. “We're
getting good support runs from forwards outside of 12 and 13 and
we're looking for strike runners coming from our forwards as well
as our backs
UBC will likely need to win its regular season finale on October
15th at Victoria to make the Canada West playoffs. Calgary's
next game is also at Victoria. It will take place on
Sunday.
Source: UBC Sports Info
No. 7 Concordia 17, No. 8 McGill 7 Final
