The Wilfrid Laurier University women’s basketball team picked up a win and a loss in their first two home games of the season this past weekend. In the home opener Friday night, the Golden Hawks managed to pull off an exciting 87-83 win over the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in double overtime. It was a high tempo game right from […]
This past weekend the Wilfrid Laurier University women’s basketball team travelled North to face the Nipissing Lakers and the Laurentian Voyageurs on consecutive nights. On Friday evening the Golden Hawks ruled both ends of the floor, holding the Lakers to 40 points while totaling 83 of their own. Fifth-year guard Nicole Morrison led the Hawks offensively, pouring in 21 points […]
The Laurier women’s basketball team opened their 2017-18 season Saturday afternoon with a 65-60 loss on the road against the Brock Badgers. Coming off of a strong preseason – where Laurier managed to win four of their six games – the team was looking to keep the momentum rolling going into the regular season. Unfortunately, the team started the game on the wrong foot, going down by eight […]
The basketball season is just two weeks away and as the date draws closer, Wilfrid Laurier Univeristy’s men’s team looks to finalize their roster for the new season. The team had an up and down season last year. Although they had a promising first half of the season, the inconsistencies and growing pains really started to show during the second […]
The time of the year has come where the season has wrapped up and school is over with. This marks the arrival of the tenth annual Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Women’s Basketball All-Star game. The game is made up of the OUA’s biggest stars, from the past season, with 10 university teams being represented to make up a total of […]
The Kitchener Rangers aren’t the only team that calls the Aud home. In their first year as a member of the NBL, the KW Titans are finding their way as the region’s professional basketball team. The National Basketball League of Canada, also known as the NBL, is a Canadian professional basketball league that was founded in 2011. The league currently […]
From 2012-15, Wilfrid Laurier University alumna Lee Anna Osei lead the Laurier women’s basketball team to the playoffs. Now, in her first year off the Laurier court, Osei was recently named one of the 150 black women who’ve made Canadian history. Osei talked about what an honour this achievement is for her. “It’s very humbling. I think it’s a testament […]
The Laurier men’s basketball team suffered a tough loss in their final regular season home game at the hands of the Western Mustangs. The Hawks were up 15-10 after the first quarter. But thanks to Western guard Omar Shiddo, Laurier’s lead did not last long. Shiddo scored a game high of 36 points, with 23 of those coming in the […]
The Hawks were out for revenge against Waterloo after they were upset by the Warriors earlier this month. Laurier responded well in the rematch and ended up winning by a final score of 82-75. The Hawks have now won two straight games and seemed to have found their rhythm after a rocky stretch at the start of 2017, where they […]
The Golden Hawks played host to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues on Saturday afternoon in hopes of getting back into the win column. For the Hawks, this game was all about containing the U of T offence as they are one of the top shooting teams in the OUA this season, lead by Devin Johnson. The Hawks came out […]
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