Tag: 2023
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Summer Pahl making her presence felt
Jacob Smith There are few things that get me as fired up as seeing someone who seemingly takes as much pride in the defensive side of the ball as they do the offensive side. When you get that player who brings the passion and toughness it can energize a whole team, and the Warriors have…
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Analyzing the 2023 McMaster Marauders roster
Jacob Smith It’s been no secret what the McMaster Marauders women’s basketball team have wanted to do going into games. They put up the most threes out of any team in the OUA and last year they were third in percentage. You know going into a game against the Marauders that they were going to…
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Analyzing the Guelph Gryphons 2023 roster
Jacob Smith Whether you call it rebuilding or retooling, the Guelph Gryphons women’s basketball team is going through some substantial changes this summer. After a 16-6 season that ended with a quarterfinal loss to the McMaster Marauders, the Gryphons are losing 4 leaders and there’s going to probably be an adjustment phase throughout the 2023-2024…
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Gaels relentless to 3-0 victory
Photo: Queen’s University Athletics Jacob Smith The fourth ranked Queen’s Gaels women’s soccer team travelled to Oshawa this afternoon for a match against the Ontario Tech Ridgebacks. Ontario Tech coming off a record 12-0 victory over the RMC Paladins, came in at 3-1 and the Gaels 3-0. Queen’s had won seven and lost eight of…
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Forecasting the Windsor Lancers
Jacob Smith Under head coach Chantal Vallée, the Windsor Lancers women’s basketball team went 12-10 last season with a playoff loss to the Brock Badgers at home. They’ve made the playoffs every year dating back to before their historic championship dynasty a decade ago, and this year the goal is the same in a division…
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Ravens repeat? Looking at their 2023-2024
Jacob Smith The Carleton Ravens women’s basketball team swept the banners last season, taking the OUA Critelli Cup and the Bronze Baby U SPORTS national championship back to Ottawa to hang on the wall beside their 2017-2018 championship. In a stacked OUA East, the Ravens pushed past the 1-loss Queen’s Gaels to defeat them in…
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Give them the Lions
Jacob Smith The NFC North can be described as wide open with the departure of Aaron Rodgers and everything the Vikings lost on offence with Adam Thielen and Dalvin Cook going separate ways. Justin Fields will have to take a step forward for the Bears to contend in the NFC, which leaves one team left,…
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A Beginners Look at the AFC
Jacob Smith We’ve looked at the NFC, now let’s look at each division in the AFC. Contenders, bottom of the barrel, on the come up, everything from the Super Bowl to a rough time. Who better to tell you about each division (sarcastically) than me? Let’s get started with the talk of the offseason, the…
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Analyzing the current state of the Brock Badgers
Jacob Smith The Brock Badgers made back-to-back OUA championships in the 2019 and 2021 season taking a silver in 2021 and a OUA championship and national silver in 2020. Since the constant battles of Brock and TMU, other powers have risen to the top and Brock is left to find a new identity under new…
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Analyzing the current state of the Queen’s Gaels
Jacob Smith Last year there were two women’s basketball teams who stood above them all, and they met in the OUA and national championship final. The Carleton Ravens finished second in the OUA East division and won the OUA and the national championship, and the team that finished first in the division and met them…
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