CIS women's rugby Friday roundup

Queen's 41  Toronto 29  Final   

TORONTO - Three tries in the last 10 minutes would be the difference as the Varsity Blues women’s rugby team fell 41-29 to the Queen’s Gaels on Friday afternoon (Oct. 7) at Varsity Centre.
 
With the loss, the Blues end the regular season at 2-3 and in fourth place in the OUA Russell division.
 
Down 17-12 at the half, Toronto’s Karla Telidetzki found a gap and sprinted 60 yards down the field to even the score in the 45th minute.
 
The two teams then exchanged tries over the next 15 minutes of action, until the visiting Gaels took control with three unanswered tries to take control.
 
Despite a last-minute effort from Toronto, the Blues dropped their third game of the season.
 
Telidetzki led the Blues with two tries, while veterans Lee-Anne Corrigan and Hannah Ehrhardt, as well as sophomore Rozhen Asrani each added single tries on the day. Emily McNally had two converts in the loss.
 
Andrea Wadsworth and Melanie Judges led the Gaels with two tries apiece in the win.
 
The Blues will now wait on results from this weekend to determine their OUA quarter-final matchup. The OUA quarter-final's begin next week on October 15. 

Source: Toronto Sports Info

Brock 44, Laurier 0 Final  

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The Brock University women's rugby team (2-3 Shiels Division) ended the OUA regular season with a 44-0 victory over the Laurier Golden Hawks at home Friday afternoon. With the victory, the Badgers finish in third place in the division and will take on the Waterloo Wariors in the OUA quarter-finals.
 
Leading the way for the Badgers was junior Misha Maric (Scarborough, Ont.) who finished with a game-high 14 points adding one try, three converts and one penalty goal. Maric finishes the regular season 7th in OUA scoring with 31 points, including a conference best six penalty goals.
 
Freshman Hannah Wilson (Trenton, Ont.) and junior Mariko Reilly (Pickering, Ont.) both contributed with two trys, while junior Kristin Fairbairn (Sarnia, Ont.) and freshman Meredith Janzen (St. Catharines, Ont.) rounded out the Brock scoring with one try each.

Source: Brock Sports Info

Waterloo 17, Western 12 Final   

No. 2 Guelph 106, York 0 Final   

No. 9 McGill 15, Ottawa 7 Final   

OTTAWA - Despite a strong performance, the Gee-Gees just could not find their way out on top in tonight’s battle with McGill and fell 17-5 in their final home game of the season.
 
In the opening half, the Gee-Gees struggled to contain the Martlets’ run and McGill opened up to an early 10-0 lead with two tries in the first 20 minutes. The Gee-Gees had trouble getting forward motion even with possession of the ball.
 
But the Gee-Gees regained their step and stood up to McGill, making it within yards of the goal area in the second half and stopping McGill countless times on the field. The Gee-Gees only points came in the last minutes of the game when third-year 2nd row Amel Hussain (Ottawa, Ont.) breached the goal area to score a try.
 
After the first ten minutes, head coach Suzanne Chaulk said the team “woke up and started playing rugby, playing great rugby. They were more mentally tough, they were more confident in their ability to problem solve.”
 
Chaulk also highlighted the performance of the rookies coming off the bench late in the game. “You can’t ask for more than [what they gave], they come off the bench and make an impact the moment they hit the field.” Rookie first-year flyhalf Jess Mainwood (Ottawa, Ont.) demonstrated this, converting on the Gee-Gees try for two extra points late in the game.
 
“I think this game for us was an opportunity for us to show how we can play as a team and the potential that we have. The rest of the season, I’m not sure that everyone believed that dream and bought into it and tonight was the night that we all bought into it,” said fourth-year prop Esinam Agbeyaka (Oshawa, Ont.), “We played for each other, we played because we wanted to play, we played because it’s a sport that we’re in love with; we’re rugby players.”
 
As their final home game of the season, the Gee-Gees celebrated the athletic careers of graduating players Agbeyaka, fifth-year 2nd row Hayley McKee (Alliston, Ont.) and third-year centre Janine McKay (Barrie, Ont.).
 
 The Gee-Gees will close the regular season at Laval (4-0 RSEQ) on October 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.

Source: Ottawa Sports Info

No. 5 McMaster 48, Trent 12 Final