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Sports in brief
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Daniels named OUA West MVP Star Laurier netminder Ryan Daniels was honoured with the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West MVP award, the top goaltender award and was named an OUA first-team all-star last week. This is his third all-star award and second time on the first team — he was named a second-team all-star last…
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Hawks invited to East West Bowl
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Despite a 3-5 regular season record and a first-round playoff exit in the 2012 season, the Laurier men’s football program will be represented by three players at the annual Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) East West Bowl in London, Ont. Third-year players Jeremy Deneau, Mike Massel and Tyrrel Wilson have been selected from WLU and will…
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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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Basketball teams eliminated
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Wilfrid Laurier men’s basketball head coach Peter Campbell looked back on the 2012-13 season after Wednesday night’s 81-75 loss to the Brock Badgers. “If you’d said in September that we were going to finish exactly where we finished last year with this team compared to last year’s team, you’d have said no way,” he said.…
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‘Experience’ year for WLU curling
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It was a year of learning for Wilfrid Laurier curling, as both the men and women’s seasons came to an end last weekend. From Feb. 14–18, the Hawks competed at the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) curling championships in Guelph. Both teams finished with a 3-3 record through round robin play and did not advance…
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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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Basketball season comes to an end
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At the beginning of the 2012-13 season, it was unlikely that the Wilfrid Laurier men’s basketball team would even see a playoff game, let alone host one. So Wednesday night, when the fourth-seeded Hawks hosted the fifth-seeded Brock Badgers in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) West quarterfinal, it was more a feat than an expectation.…
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