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Female athletes recognized by annual WLU award
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All three athletes couldn’t believe it when they got the call last week saying that they were finalists for the Outstanding Women of Laurier (OWL) Award. Carmen Baker from the women’s rugby team, Doreen Bonsu from women’s basketball and Fiona Lester from women’s hockey were announced finalists for OWL, with the winner to be announced…
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Star netminder Daniels leaves big shoes to fill
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Fourth-year goaltender Ryan Daniels will not use up his final year of Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) player eligibility with the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks and signed a professional contract with the Central Hockey League’s (CHL) Missouri Mavericks. Laurier head coach Greg Puhalski will have his hands full recruiting this off-season to replace his Ontario University…
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Women’s hockey team stunned in semifinal loss
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Fiona Lester stood up tall, choked back her tears and spoke into the microphone. “I don’t know,” the fourth-year captain managed to get out, “I really couldn’t tell you. I think everyone played as hard as they could, but it just didn’t happen.” After coming back to tie the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) women’s hockey…
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Daniels signs pro contract
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For the second time in his hockey career, Ryan Daniels is heading to the CHL. Only this time, he’ll be a professional. On Tuesday it was announced that Daniels signed a pro contract with the Central Hockey League’s (CHL) Missouri Mavericks. Before Laurier, Daniels was a standout in a different CHL (the Canadian Hockey League)…
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Men’s hockey bounced
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In the second half of the season, the Wilfrid Laurier men’s hockey team seemed to figure it out. The Hawks went 9-3-0 after the winter break, defeating every team in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West division once at least once. But when it came to the post-season, Laurier just couldn’t keep it going. “That’s…
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Crushing 1-0 loss ends Hawks’ season
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Time wound down on the Wilfrid Laurier women’s hockey team’s season the first time when the Western Mustangs took a 1-0 lead in the series. And in the final five minutes of the deciding game three of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semifinal, the Hawks again saw the clock tick to the end. Except this…
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Women’s hockey forces game three
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LONDON, Ont. — The Wilfrid Laurier women’s hockey team faced elimination Saturday night as they travelled for game two of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semifinal series to meet the Western Mustangs. After a rough start to the series falling 2-0 to Mustangs in game one, the Hawks said they needed to get back to…
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Women’s hockey shutout in game one
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It’s not like the Wilfrid Laurier women’s hockey team hasn’t been here before. In an identical scenario last year, the first-seeded Hawks lost game one of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) semifinal to the Windsor Lancers 1-0. And Thursday night, the first-seeded Hawks lost in the OUA semifinal to the fourth-seeded Western Mustangs 2-0, and…
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Hawks bounced in OUA quarterfinal
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GUELPH, Ont. — The game had everything. In game three of the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West quarterfinal, the Guelph Gryphons and the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks left everything out on the ice. There were end-to-end rushes, questionable refereeing, physical hitting, precise goaltending, misconducts, a last-minute tying goal and an overtime winner. With the fifth-seeded…
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Gryphons come from behind to force game three
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They were just “standing around.” The fifth-seeded Wilfrid Laurier men’s hockey team came into game two of their best-of-three Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West quarterfinal against the Guelph Gryphons with a win in their hands and a chance to close out the series. But as head coach Greg Puhalski said, his team was just standing…
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