Tag: Women's Basketball
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A weekend with Laurentian
Jacob Smith Jason Hurley is in his fifth season coaching the Laurentian Voyageurs Women’s Basketball program and under his tenure a culture of initiative, family and care has grown and made the team one of the most unique. I recently spent a weekend with the Voyageurs women’s basketball program, going along with them on a…
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Undefeated versus the streak
Jacob Smith The Carleton Ravens are 9-0, the Ottawa Gee-Gees are 8-1. The Carleton Ravens are undefeated, the Ottawa Gee-Gees are riding an 8-game winning streak, the third longest in the OUA behind the two undefeated teams. These two teams meet twice a year, and their first tonight, comes at the end of the first…
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Voyageurs Vengeance
Jacob Smith The Laurentian Voyageurs women’s basketball team were left with a bitter taste in their mouth on Friday December 1st when they lost to the Nipissing Lakers, but their chance for vengeance sat 24 hours away. In the home-and-home series, Laurentian awaited the Lakers, and after a slow start, they powered their way to…
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Laurentian comeback falls short in North Bay
Jacob Smith The Nipissing Lakers fought off a fourth quarter push from the Laurentian Voyageurs to take a 77-71 victory on home court on Friday night. With key offensive rebounds and willingness to play through contact and fouls, they came out victorious to tie Laurentian’s record. Emilie Lafond opened the scoring for the Voyageurs with…
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Laurier: eight years of finding the same out of different
Jacob Smith Hear me out, we’re going on a journey. The Laurier women’s basketball team has done a better job than most, in my opinion, at recruiting what they’re losing, so they’re not really losing it, they’re just developing it again. They find players that develop into having the abilities of the ones that came…
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OUA women’s basketball power rankings – November 27
Jacob Smith Week four of the OUA women’s basketball season is complete. The pot was stirred, Guelph and Laurier came out of the weekend tied just as they were going into the weekend solving absolutely nothing, ranked teams won and lost and the meridian was painted red. Let’s get into some power rankings for this…
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Oluwatito Akinnusi’s not talked about dominance
Photo: Stephen Leithwood | Brock University Athletics Jacob Smith Brock Women’s Basketball got a win over the McMaster Marauders in their Paint the Meridian Red, Meridian Centre game on Saturday night. Going up against a sharpshooting, high scoring offence in McMaster, Brock had to get the upper hand in efficiency, and there were none more…
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Creating simple looks: Brock’s selflessness paying off
Jacob Smith The Brock Women’s Basketball team leads the OUA in assists per game, and they have the nations second and seventh leading scorers. Beyond that they’re creating opportunity for others, opportunity that is now being seized. The Badgers 18.2 assists per game have fuelled an offence where anyone can contribute if they know where…
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Setting up a divisional night
Jacob Smith Week four of the OUA season starts with two games we could look back on in February as games that had the largest impact on the outcome of the playoffs. The McMaster Marauders and Guelph Gryphons have home games this evening, hosting teams who they’re beside in the standing, with the Marauders able…
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An OUA women’s basketball tier list
Jacob Smith The OUA women’s basketball season is well underway. After five plus games from every team, it’s time for a quick analysis of where teams stand in the league. Let’s divide the league into four tiers, starting at the top. Tier 1 – Queen’s, Carleton, TMU The Queen’s Gaels, Carleton Ravens and TMU Bold…
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