This just in: The Queen's Golden Gaels women's soccer team, courtesy a 56th-minute goal by Katie Dalziel, is through to tomorrow's championship game after beating the York Lions 1-0 earlier this afternoon at the CIS women's soccer championship in Victoria.
This is brain candy, since it's not too often Queen's is in a CIS championship game in any team sport (we're an "academic school," supposedly). From here, it looks like the Gaels are gonna be up against it tomorrow. The UBC Thunderbirds (2-0 winners over Ottawa in the other semi) will essentially be playing a home game, and that program is traditionally one of the country's best, with a record four national titles. No matter. It's very infrequent that any Gaels team gets this far — last time I remember off the top of my head was the women's basketball squad finishing fourth at nationals in 2001.
Win or lose, coach Dave McDowell's Gaels have done a great job in getting to the gold medal game, ekeing out two tight wins with their star striker Eilish McConville, the Lisgar grad and CIS player of the year, drawing what can only be imagined as blanket marking. Dalziel has stepped it up, scoring in both games was her second in two games.
As for that "other" CIS football, this space is 30 minutes away from going a dismal 1-for-4 on conference championship Saturday, since the No. 1 Manitoba Bisons are down 23-15 at halftime to Saskatchewan in the Hardy Trophy game. (Wouldn't be the first time in recent history an unbeaten Can West team failed to navigate the league playoffs.)
(UPDATE: The 1-for-4 is official... Saskatchewan 32, Manitoba 15.)
It will be Laval-Acadia in the Uteck Bowl national semi. Here in the capital, the Ottawa Gee-Gees had one of their typically strong second halves, reeling off a 23-point fourth quarter to top Laurier 32-14 in the Yates Cup.
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